Look Out For the Red Bull...

10:00a - Back @ Upper Deck, Glock and I meet up with Mews, LD and Godfrey. Everyone is a little groggy and Mews is finishing up a quick clean up job of the place. “If you gotta piss, just don’t leave any drops on the floor. I just cleaned in there.”

10:30a - Arrive at Joe's. Much darker than usual as we take our usual perch. Allison is taking care of us today.

11:15a - Games start again. Diskin and Bren have Albany picked to beat Virginia. Bren is just hedging his psychological bets - if UVA wins he'll be happy. If they lose he will have called it and his brackets will be in tact.

11:27a - Logan arrives to find 8 of us sitting here and proclaims, "There is something so comforting about seeing this."

11:29a - North Texas is hereby named The Green Showers and everyone is hoping they beat Memphis because Calipari runs a dirty program. Not to mention this has been a boring tournament so far with no drama so a 15 upset of a 2 seed would make our day.

11:30a - Tim: “So should we call Meghan so you can apologize in advance for your behavior?” LD: “No. She's got a big interview and the last thing she needs on her mind is Steve on Red Bull and Vodka pre-11:30.”

11:46a – Logan: “Two words: Shampoo Effect.”

12”00p – “We haven't hit half time on a single a game and Mews is already hopped up.” - Brendan

12:45p - Mews is working a dirty program on Allison and another waitress at the end of the bar. "The score is 12-0. And I've got the 0."

1:17p - UNLV and Georgia Tech are close. Bren proclaims, "I've got GT picked so those of you picked them too are screwed."

1:35p - With no one listening to him, Godfrey tells his sandwich, "Lon Kreuger started running a dirty program when he came to Illinois."

1:37p - Logan is now working his own dirty program on Allison. "So is this your first bartending job?"

1:45p - A phantom foul and a bogus 5 second call, both of which favored UNLV and subsequently led to their victory over Georgia Tech, leads to no other conclusion: Dirty Program in Vegas.

1:46p – “These beer pitchers are really slender at the bottom. Like me.” – BDM

1:50p - When asked whom among us is the 'creepy guy' in the group, Allison responds, “The guy at the end drinking Diet Coke (Godfrey). He's not really drinking much.” Lest I be tagged a creepy guy, I order another gin & tonic.

1:53p - Offended at that last entry, Bren threatens, "I'll put that broad's head through the granite."

1:57p – “Konold, no matter where you are in Jamaica, you're high.” – Logan

1:10p - Logan: “Wow, check out Mews rockin' the Salt N Peppa.” Mews: “What don't I rock?”

1:11p – “Just keep the Red Bull and vodka comin'. I got more where that came from.”

1:25p – Texas A& M CC is beating Wisconsin early. Godfrey is so excited and it's only 2 minutes into the game.

1441 – “We've just decided that Jim Callhoun is the Ron Zook of the Big East.” – BDM

1:02p - Upon seeing the Texas A&M CC mascot Godfrey asks, "What is that thing?" Bren: “It's either seaweed or herpes sore I can't tell.”

1:47p – Tennessee/Long Beach St. – 200 total points. Bruce Pearl runs a dirty program. Just look at that man tan.

1610 - Violins kickin' ass - Diskin

4:15p - Seany kicks a trash can out of frustration that if Creighton loses, he'll lose his 5th Sweet 16 and that ND was an elite 8 loss.

4:30p - Because we're sophomoric, we get Mews a shot of a whiskey called Dickel.

4:32p – “If I get sick, I'm blaming it on Dickel.” – Mews

5:17p - Me, Glock, BDM, Bren & Diskin are freezing outside the Upper Deck while Mew, LD, Logan, and Sean are sampling free shots of Irish liquor at the CVS and Jewel on Southport.

6:45p – “I got Dickel and a brumsky in the same day” - Mews

7:25p - Diskin is taught the difference between the sleeper and the stranger.

7:37p - Godfrey booed for Bruce Weber impression mocking Weber's mother's death.

7:41p - Illinois is doing everything it can to lose against Virginia Tech.

8:08p - Jim Mews, all hokey no pokey.

8:45p - The Schlitz Malt Liquor reel rolls. Roofus Thomas, The Bull and Wilson Pickett. All is right w/ the world.

9:20p - Logan sermonizes that Godfrey should always carry with him a milk crate, that way wherever he goes, he will be able to put it down and rise above the crowd and dispense his knowledge of Ilini basketball and Cubs underperformers. Now, these aren’t his exact words but it’s the best I could do from memory. The truth is no one knows exactly what he said but the room became eerily silent as he said it and it was quite genius.

9:57p – “Tantalizing!” - Rafferty. Finally this tournament is showing a bit of life.

10:43p - This tournament sucks. No big upsets. All 5 seeds have won. The highest seed to do anything is a six. Six is the new five.

11:15p – The games are a disappointment so we break out Guitar Hero II. People still have skills and Mews is clearly the odds on favorite to rock house tomorrow night.