I always feel REALLY shitty about my brackets, and my fears are usually confirmed within the first two rounds.
Ugh.
I’ve got one Final Four team on the ropes already.
Cal-State Northridge is ahead of Memphis with under 10 min in the game!
Nope. What do I need one for?
Nope. Not having an account, how would I know that? If I knew that, why would I be asking how to login?
How about after I asked three times how to login? Give him all the passes you want. As far as I’m concerned, he dropped the ball.
The same reason people should have a yahoo, google, cbssports, espn, etc. account - to have access to any domain-specific content they may need free but restricted access to, like challenges, contests, and other.
Because you’ve been on the internet since at least 2004?
That really doesn’t constitute a need to me.
So, not having a Yahoo account, never visiting the Yahoo site, and knowing nothing about Yahoo Sports, I should have somehow known about it simply by having internet access? How, exactly? I’ll need a bit more of an explanation. And while you’re at it, why don’t you list all the other shit I should know just by being on the internet. Thanks awfully.
And how is it that you, with your vast internet driven knowledge of How Things Work, don’t know that if someone asks a question three times he probably doesn’t know the answer?
Sorry - I’m not trying to be confrontational here. But it does constitute a need for you, since you desired to join the tournament challenge.
Yahoo receives 2 billion visits a month. Knowing you’re functional on the internet (as evidenced by being an active member of a message board since 2004) makes it a pretty safe assumption you’re familiar with Yahoo. You clearly bucked the trend on that one.
Sure. Google Earth is a great service. You’ll need a google account. You’ll also need it for Google Docs (an online Word, Excel, and PowerPoint clone). To be a little more generic, if anyone says, “sign up for this service” and directs you to a link, you can be about 98% certain that you’re going to need an account with whatever domain comes up.
You need to stop assuming that people pay attention to posters’ names, or keep a running tally of such things if they do.
That’s a bit of a tautolgy, isn’t it? I’ve never needed one before today. Should I sign up for every freaking thing out there on the off chance that once every 5 years I might need it?
I’m familiar with it. I have an idea of what it is. Why should that knowledge tell me anything about Yahoo Sports?
Or read the threads they post in, apparently. How do you even know it’s me that doesn’t have the Yahoo account?
I’m just going to repeat:
“To be a little more generic, if anyone says, “sign up for this service” and directs you to a link, you can be about 98% certain that you’re going to need an account with whatever domain comes up.”
If you wish to argue further, I’m sure there’s a more constructive arena for it.
And I’ll repeat. You said I should give him a pass because I should have known that, even after I repeatedly demonstrated that I didn’t. So, why the pass?
Did I win?
Because I had ID problems too with the password, it had to be in lowercase, so I’d give him a pass because your earlier questions seemed to be the same as mine- that there was a password issue.
The fact that your issue was you didn’t have a Yahoo ID wasn’t clearly communicated until you specifically pointed out that part. It just sounded like you were having pw issues. There is a difference between a “GROUP ID” and a “Full YAHOO ID”.
Your first initial posts indicated you were having trouble with the group ID, and it didn’t carry over well that it was the Full Yahoo ID issue bothering you.
Tis a bummer you couldn’t join (though even when you found out, you still had a few hours left to make a bracket), but yeah- I think Yahoo, Google, Hotmail, AOL.com are pretty much one of those sites that people take for granted. Now that wasn’t the case for you, but even so- you can’t please everyone, I suppose.
Oh, crap.
Eleven games in, and I have two brackets going.
My dope bracket is 8/11.
The other one, a little one with five friends, is perfect so far.
Rats.
14/16 Day 1
Crap, the one year I decide not to do any money pools…
Nevermind
The 16s are getting creamed this year.
Ugh, I’m done. OT losses by Florida State and Ohio State killed me.
At least I was right in my Arizona over Utah pick.
Why the fuck did Ohio State score their last basket with so much time left on the clock? They had the last shot! Even down one, don’t you wait until there’s 7-10 seconds left on the clock and then send Turner to the bucket?
Grr. I had my Bucks losing to the Cardinals anyways, but dammit, that pissed me right off.
I still stand by my predictions. They were correct despite the actual outcome of the games. It is the play of the games that has so often been incorrect.
Therefore, I appeal my low “score”.
Damn, great games tonight! Loved Siena over Ohio State though I had THE Ohio State in the Sweet Sixteen. A school with 3,000 beats a school with 50,000.
Not a bad effort so far for me, but I really should’ve checked my choices a little more carefully. For some reason, I had 6 (!) Big East teams going to the Final 8. Of course, right now, only West Virginia has spoiled that.
Anyone else wish CBS would stagger these games a little more carefully? Second night in a row two fantastic games come down to the last minute, simultaneously. How hard would it be to stagger all the games on a half-hour basis?