Scott Adams, the guy who draws "Dilbert," has a theory in one of his books that people survive on pleasure units -- that we all get pleasure out of certain things, and that we arrange our daily lives to accumulate the number of pleasure units we need to get us to the next day.
My alma mater gave me a big old stack of pleasure units today.
Georgia didn't win -- they went down 73-61 to Xavier -- but they led most of the game, and they made an incredible run just to get to the tournament, and they made us proud. (Georgia basketball is not exactly a proud tradition -- we're the school that gave our basketball players quizzes such as, "How many points in a three-point basket?")
For so many of us, sports is a big source of pleasure units. It's almost better if you know that the score really doesn't matter in the scope of the real world; not mattering means you can cheer as loud as you want and scream at the refs and fall on the floor in a heap when your team makes the shot at the buzzer. Loving sports means letting yourself go. And not much in the world is more pleasurable than that.
The first set of games is over -- congrats to Xavier, Kansas and Michigan State. And congrats to those of you who had all three in your pool (which would be pretty much everyone but me). The next slate of games has already started. Sit back and enjoy.
Thursday, March 20, 2008
NCAA Liveblog 6: Pleasure units
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Well, a quick note from Indy: I'm damn proud of how the Dawgs played this post-season. But for that 5 min. stretch at the midway point in the second half, they looked like they were gonna advance. Great defense by Xavier (although I'm not sure about that 33-5 free throw discrepancy).
P.S. Nice reference to the "We beat Kentucky dammit" game.
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