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Freedom from the Madness - March 20, 2008

For about 17 years I've been running a March Madness pool. It is a fun pool - rank the teams 64 to 1 and for each win you get the number of points you ranked the team with. For example the team you think will win the tourney gets 64. It does take a little more time to fill the brackets, and for many people who have played over the years, it was a little hard to understand. But for those who "got it", they said that it was much more fun than the standard "pick winners" type of pool.

But for years, the number of players has diminished, and my passion for NCAA Basketball, never truly there in the first place, has evaporated to next to nothing. Last year, somebody asked if I was running the pool again and I did.

This year, nobody asked. And as the first day of the tournament is completed, I have no interest at all. I do not have a single care in the world over who wins the tournament.

I'm free from the madness - and it feels good.

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