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skinsmarydu

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10 minutes ago, Elessar78 said:

I don't see the connection but then again all we talk about is Duke.

Oh, I misunderstood.  Give me time to catch up with the time change.  RG was a crazy girl this morning trying to wake me up, she doesn't know about stuff like that, and I may have read something all wrong.

I haven't really been able to think straight since the Skins imploded.

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Elessar78

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16 minutes ago, TryTheBeal! said:

40 car weekend at the store.

VCU and March Madness.

Snowstorm gonna miss us.

Morning Jacket summer tour dates leaking out.

Got tix to the Caps game next Saturday.

 

Life is good, y'all...

you sold 40 cars in one weekend??

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4 minutes ago, TryTheBeal! said:

 

37 to be exact.  Did our first mailer promotion since October.  We typically expect 25-30 deals out of these things, so 37 feels real good!

Direct mail marketing is so underrated. People disrespect it as junk mail, but for the cost it can give great ROI.

 

 

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3 minutes ago, TryTheBeal! said:

 

37 to be exact.  Did our first mailer promotion since October.  We typically expect 25-30 deals out of these things, so 37 feels real good!

Direct mail marketing is so underrated. People disrespect it as junk mail, but for the cost it can give great ROI.

 

 

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Dont Taze Me Bro

Dont Taze Me Bro

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2 hours ago, justice98 said:

Worst time of year when everybody becomes a college basketball expert and tries to tell you why Wichita State is gonna beat Dayton.

 

 

1 hour ago, Elessar78 said:

Seriously. It's the problem with sports fans in general—there are a few degenerates that really know a lot about a lot of teams. But most fans are just regurgitating sports talk here. 

 

This is the best time of the year.  March Madness is great, imo.  Sure there are the casual fans that don't watch many games and there are the people that only watch the NCAA Tourny, but those peeps are the ones that make the total jackpot bigger (if you are in a pool w/money) and they never win.  

 

Then you got the homers that went to small colleges like Garner Web and have them winning it all, just throwing their money away.  And the ones that enter in 4 brackets that never win either.  And the peeps that pick every 12 seed to upset the 5 seed.  Or the guy that picks 75% of the first round as upsets. That's what makes it great, all of that stuff.  

 

I find it interesting looking at other people's predictions (total bracket), especially people that are fans that keep up with their team and watch a lot of other games.  It's all guess work, for everyone, even the experts.  But there is also that individual quest for the perfect bracket.  I'd be satisfied with a perfect first round, the best I've done with the first round was 26-6 or 25-7 (a long time ago).  

 

I always do a little bit of research too, especially the first round.  I look at the spread for each game and usually don't pick many upsets, and the ones I do pick aren't a 12 over a 5 seed.  Sometimes a 9 over an 8 or a 10 over a 7, depending on the spread, where they are playing, etc.  After that the majority of games is a crap shot anyhow.  I will look at RPI and some other metrics too, but it's all guesswork.  

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3 minutes ago, Dont Taze Me Bro said:

 

 

 

This is the best time of the year.  March Madness is great, imo.  Sure there are the casual fans that don't watch many games and there are the people that only watch the NCAA Tourny, but those peeps are the ones that make the total jackpot bigger (if you are in a pool w/money) and they never win.  

 

Then you got the homers that went to small colleges like Garner Web and have them winning it all, just throwing their money away.  And the ones that enter in 4 brackets that never win either.  And the peeps that pick every 12 seed to upset the 5 seed.  Or the guy that picks 75% of the first round as upsets. That's what makes it great, all of that stuff.  

 

I find it interesting looking at other people's predictions (total bracket), especially people that are fans that keep up with their team and watch a lot of other games.  It's all guess work, for everyone, even the experts.  But there is also that individual quest for the perfect bracket.  I'd be satisfied with a perfect first round, the best I've done with the first round was 26-6 or 25-7 (a long time ago).  

 

I always do a little bit of research too, especially the first round.  I look at the spread for each game and usually don't pick many upsets, and the ones I do pick aren't a 12 over a 5 seed.  Sometimes a 9 over an 8 or a 10 over a 7, depending on the spread, where they are playing, etc.  After that the majority of games is a crap shot anyhow.  I will look at RPI and some other metrics too, but it's all guesswork.  

 

When I was younger, I would get the Wash Post and USA Today (hard copies in those days), and would go through each team and each matchup analyzing them and breaking it down.  It was both simple fun and serious business all at once. lol  Deciding if senior guards and outside shooting trumped length inside, who's playing close to home, who's got depth, etc.

 

Suffice it to say, my bracket got busted before Thursday was even out. I did as many brackets as possible. Now I do one for giggles.  Just not as compelling to me as it once was for a number of reasons.

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1 minute ago, justice98 said:

 

When I was younger, I would get the Wash Post and USA Today (hard copies in those days), and would go through each team and each matchup analyzing them and breaking it down.  It was both simple fun and serious business all at once. lol  Deciding if senior guards and outside shooting trumped length inside, who's playing close to home, who's got depth, etc.

 

Suffice it to say, my bracket got busted before Thursday was even out. I did as many brackets as possible. Now I do one for giggles.  Just not as compelling to me as it once was for a number of reasons.

 

I think I'm only doing one this year.  I usually would do three total (2 brackets with one of my friends, one bracket with another friend).  The one friend I only enter one bracket on, I've won 3 times in the past (around $200+ depending on the total # of entries).  If I don't email/text him, I might be doing none this year lol.

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basically haven't slept in two nights. Body really feeling it. Two nights ago, drank too much and lost an hour. I don't sleep well after heavy drinking. Kid crawled in bed and disrupted my sleep further. Last night kid was freaking out so I slept in her bed—never comfortable. 

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Kosher Ham

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Call me a homer if you want...I like UMD's chances to make it to the sweet 16 at least. 

 

Brackets...I have a few options, but I am not compelled to do them this year. 

 

@TryTheBeal! , 37 cars...That's awesome. Keep that paper coming in man. I don't know if I ever told you this, my first  adult job was as an 18 year old car salesman. Worked at  VOB Nissan/Saab in Rockville. I was terrible at this job. Mainly because I was so young. Looked probably 14 at the time. I was lucky to sell 2 cars a week. I don't know how you guys do it, the hours are horrific. 

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for the life of me, I still don't know how so many new cars are sold in this country. I mean, I only buy used now—so I guess I'm that secondary market and the people I buy it from buy new. Most of my family isn't rolling in on a new ride every other year (although my inlaws seem to have a new used car every two years). 

 

 

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I hear ya.  Hubby tells me all the time that he'll buy me a new(er) car...but I truly love the '99 Monte Carlo Z-34 he gave me, that he bought brand new, and that just went over 125,101 miles this morning.  I sold the Saturn a couple years ago, so we don't have a back-up car anymore, but y'all know I've sung the praises of my shade-tree GM specialist mechanic...twa and springy have helped a lot too, can't forget them!

I wouldn't know how to operate a car with a friggin' TV screen in it anyway.:ols:

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First day back to work was brutal.  I gutted it out much as a could, but people could tell from how I was walking there was no way I was 100%.  Still having stomach pains and haven't had solid stool in several days.  I don't want to milk this at all, same time, I'm here, but I'm not here.  Working half days rest of the week, still on-call.  Could take until they take the drain out of me before I'm really back to where I was, so now its a game of patience and rest (It always was).

 

 

I've never done a march bracket.

 

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