Poor Bracketologists :(
Greetings all, I must say it is on a sad note that I bring you this blog today. Yes, like most of you, I’ve spent most of my day not at work or spending time with my significant other. That’s right, I wasted my whole day filling out multiple brackets, on multiple web-sites, hoping against hope that I came up with the perfect Bracket. Sporting News, Bodog, E$PN, Yahoo, Bob’s Bracket Site, and so on..I’ve been to them all, and have a variant bracket on each of them.
As I wasted my day away debating on whether to pick UT Arlington over Memphis, I couldn’t help but think about what the poor Bracketologist’s will do with their sad lives now that the brackets are actually set? I presume some will resume their janitorial duties at the local junior high school, while others might continue their progress towards a GED, while sadly some will just move back into Mom’s basement and call it a season.
What is a Bracketologist in the first place? Apparently it is a profession Joe Lunardi invented one day when he realized that he would never get laid, so he should probably just feed all of his sexual aggression towards sports. However, sports in general was like screwing the ugly chick down the block, everyone had been there and done that. No No No, that was not good enough for Joe, he was looking for a new angle. He needed the hottest girl in school, that’s right, Joe focused his sights on the NCAA Tournament and the Field of Sixty-Four, the proverbial “Hawtest Chick In School!”
So now Joe has a mission, and he figures if he can accurately predict who and who will not make the tournament days before the selection committee makes their own official selection, E$PN will pay him scad of money for this negligible “skill”.
Tags: bracket, yahoo
March 20th, 2008 at 12:19 pm
effbot isn’t a guy to toot his own horn, but he wrote the unicode regular expression engine for python, as well as (I think) the tkinter gui code, PIL, won some annual OSCON award, etc, etc…Anyway regarding the original post, all I can say is: You get what you pay for! Move along!
March 20th, 2008 at 1:09 pm
Yodel.
March 20th, 2008 at 2:00 pm
http://yhoo.client.shareholder.com/press/contact.cfm is the best I could come up with. There’s not a single phone number on their entire website!
March 20th, 2008 at 2:50 pm
loose change!!!
March 20th, 2008 at 3:41 pm
We need to get Ron Paul on the Daily Show. Sadly, that’s where a good percentage of the country gets all of its news.(I like TDS, but it is by no means a complete news source.. I like it when people go out and look at both sides of an issue)
March 20th, 2008 at 4:32 pm
Use google
Yahoo! Inc. 701 First Avenue Sunnyvale CA 94089 US 408.349.3300 408-349-3676 Fax- +1.4083493301permalinkparentYorn (2 children) [+]Yorn 21 points 10 months ago [-]If you call the number john_b lists, please be courteous, this is a corporate line. The secretaries here deserve respect, because they determine if your call goes to someone or not. Please state your name, phone number, and be willing to give them any other information about you. If you are a shareholder, mention so. I did and got a call back confirming someone would call me back later tomorrow.Also, if you’re friends with someone like the cofounder of Facebook, for example, you might want to mention that too.
March 20th, 2008 at 5:22 pm
I’ve been boycotting most of their services already, because I think they’re crappy. The only yahoo services I use at all are a couple of yahoo groups.
March 20th, 2008 at 6:13 pm
… and we’re working at taking the rest of the world with us. Seriously. I am not trying to be funny. The U.S. usage of the World Bank, IMF and WTO are forcing “American” values of neoliberal economic growth to change the rest of the world for our capital gain. By doing so the U.S. moves poorer nations towards industrialization and production, but in turn destroys resources and cultures that have enjoyed sustainablity for hundreds or even thousands of years. I say “American” values loosly, because corporate America holds different values than real Americans and the corporate values are what the organizations push onto others. Most (real) Americans will never know what effect we truly have on the rest of the world, because our media doesn’t show it (except maybe PBS, but you have to weed through the masterpiece theater’s), this critical self thinking is considered anti-national (un-American), and it is in corporate interest to keep these shamefull actions out of public view. If any global change is going shift opinion on economic growth, it will likely start from the thirld world (not my own hypothesis, but logical).By the way… not all of us Americans are lead by the proverbial carrot and/or drive SUV’s. In fact, it is impractical for most Americans to live without a vehicle. If it was possible, I would have sold my four-banger long ago. Furthermore, my generation of twenty somethings had nothing to do with the creation of the IMF and the World Bank, which have been and are still screwing up the world with their GDP ideology. So please don’t lump us all together even if you have good points about America in general.