March Madness!

Doyle's favorite time of the year!  The time when he can watch one basketball game after another.   A time when he justifies sitting 3 hours plus in front of T.V. mindlessly.  This is March Madness!  We have a tradition of  filling in the brackets with our family. This year Anson and Sylvia's family and Beppe joined us.  Do I dare say that most of us really have no idea of the strength or weakness of the team since this season in our life.   We do not watch basketball games outside of our children's tournaments every Saturday.  In fact, the only information that I use is how they are seeded.  

Then there is our mother......I'm not sure she really understood what seeded means.  Doyle encouraged her to fill out the bracket with us.   He gave her teams to choose from and she would pick her team with confidence.  He realized after about the third one he read, she would always pick the second one he said.  Doyle tried switching which one he said first.  He then realized that she was picking  states that she liked or places she heard of before.  After the first games, she wondered how many more she had to choose from.  This is where it becomes funny.  After the first round, Beppe is way ahead!!!  She correctly picked the underdogs-- Siena, Wisconsin, Arizona, Cleveland State, Dayton etc.  There are eight of us within 30 points of each other, but Beppe is 30 points ahead of us all.  This is Madness!  

P.S. Next, Doyle's going to give her the Wall Street Journal and have her pick stocks!