Greetings from the sports desk located somewhere below the decks of the Good Pirate Ship RedState. Sammy the Shark and Karl the Kraken assure me they have been hard at work researching their brackets for the upcoming NCAA basketball tournaments …
Gentlemen, you and I have entirely different definitions of the word “research.”
Anyway, ’tis the season for roundball mania. For reasons unfathomable to everyone except the NCAA and Warner Bros. Discovery, owners of TruTV, there will be four play-in games taking place, two on March 18 and two on March 19, to get into the tournament as obviously an entire season of teams playing each other, plus a postseason conference tournament, was not nearly enough evidence to determine whether any given team warranted entry into the tournament of 64.
Here’s where it gets complicated. Two of the games will determine the…