Final four thoughts

When I wrote that I was "officially putting myself on the clock", I meant that I was going to start writing baseball related blogs for the foreseeable future.  However, for some reason I forgot that today was the final four.

Since I want to really get back into the habit of writing on a  regular basis I thought I would write some observations about the Final Four.

I want to be  sure to let who ever may be reading this to know that I am not a huge basketball fan. I don't feel that I really understand it  very well. So any observations are probably not as knowledgeable as they probably should be.

For starters, can I just say that Nike is getting way too out of control when it comes to uniforms.  Call me old fashioned  but I don't like to many variations of teams uniforms.  The Oregon football and basketball uniforms are the worst offenders of them all.  It seems like Nike runs the program and not its administration.

But today, when I turned on the first game I immediately was confused because  it looked like Syracuse was playing and I knew that couldn't be right because I knew Louisville was playing Kentucky.  Louisville's primary color has always been red as far as I am concerned.  I mean they are the Louisville Cardinals, right? As far as I know there are no orange cardinals.  I want to thank the announcers for telling their viewers that we did not have to adjust our TV sets.

I guess now a days money talks and traditions doesn't matter at all. I think that is a real shame.

For me there was a bit of a running theme throughout both games: Kentucky and Ohio State came on strong in the first halves and tried coasting through the second half.

Before Kentucky-Louisville began I really thought that Kentucky would win in a blowout.  I have a lot of respect for Rick Pitino and the Cardinals.  There are a lot of teams that would have "thrown in the towel" at halftime and phone it in during the second half.

Going into the Ohio State - Kansas game I thought the Buckeyes (my second favorite college team) was going to  the championship game.  Honestly, I saw the whole game but I just don't understand how they blew it late in the second half.  It's one of the few times like I feel I missed something in the game.  It didn't seem to me like Kansas was playing all that great but they got the win. Congratulations to the Jayhawks.

I'm not going to really try to pick the winner but I do think Kentucky is the best team I have seen all season.

For my Ohio friends and family;  sorry but I have been in Florida much longer than I lived in Ohio and I am smack dab in the middle of Gator country.  Go Gators!!!

Now lets get baseball season going.