Ted Endures Some March Madness

Ted gets his nose rubbed during a commercial.

Last weekend was the first in this year’s NCAA Mens Basketball Championship.  I love March Madness, and Iike millions of Americans I’ve been filling out brackets for years.  But it does wear on the nerves, and last Sunday when Texas–which I had going to the Elite 8–couldn’t get the ball in bounds with seconds remaining and lost its third-round game, I may have shown some minor irritation.  Ted seemed to think so.

mr big was shouting
are you kidding me?
are you kidding me?
i’d been napping
sunday is the day i nap
it’s nothing dogmatic i just always nap on sundays
so mr big is shouting and i’m thinking
what did i do?
but it wasn’t me
it was the refs
the refs called some kid for 5 seconds
some kid from texas
and then some other kid from arizona
hits a lay-up and the bigster goes nuts
that’s it says mr big
that busts my brackets
i don’t know what that means except that it’s
sure tough to nap when somebody has
busted the bigster’s brackets
you should have seen him
humans are deranged
nothing had actually happened
i mean whatever had happened
had happened on tv
and as we all know
when something happens on tv
it’s not actually happening
it’s not in the room with you
you can’t eat it or get killed by it
so why care about it?
evidently humans see it differently
particularly the bigster who’s suddenly yelping
that his back has seized up and his mood is shot
and has me wondering if he might not bust my brackets
whatever they are
i can only say
i’ll sure be glad when
they’re done with this
damn tournament