spring vacation (part two).

as i finished writing my diatribe on spring training (below), i thought that i would try to cover the rest of the issues i wanted to discuss a little more expeditiously. so here is a laundry list of things i've wanted to talk about over the last few weeks:

• i was extremely disappointed with the NCAA selection committee's seeding of louisville for the tournament. how could a team that was ranked #4 in the nation...a team that won both their conference's regular season and tournament championships...a team that won 18 out of their last 19 games not be a #1 seed or at least a #2 seed. it was downright insulting that louisville was given a #4 seed and the committee should be ashamed of themselves.
• keeping on the subject of the NCAA tournament, i just wanted to mention how well i did on my bracket this year. currently, i am in the 97th percentile of ESPN's tournament challenge contestants, and it looks like (pending the outcome of the kentucky-michigan state game) my final four predictions were spot on.
• even though it is old news now, i wanted to mention (this one's for you tommy) how happy i was about the bengals' signing of rudi johnson. rudi is the best running back to ever play for the bengals, and it would have been shameful to "franchise" him just to see if the chris perry experiment works out. in my opinion, drafting chris perry was the only mistake marvin lewis has made in the past two years, but resigning johnson has rectified that. my last words on this topic can only be: RUDI! RUDI! RUDI!
• finally, on an entirely different note, i have nothing to say about this terri schiavo issue, and neither should congress. unfortunately, this very personal family situation has been exploited by the media and turned into a circus.

i think this pretty much covers what i wanted to talk about. i will be sure to have my login information with me next time i go home so i don't get this far behind again. oh yeah, i forgot, only 7 days, 19 hours, 3 minutes, and 45...44...43 seconds until opening day, as sean casey would say, "I'M PUMPED."