While I was strolling through the twitter commentary today I
had the following thoughts go through my mind:
“A lot of the Seattle sports commentators are pretty cool.
You know, it’d probably be fun to sit down and have a beer with one during a
ballgame. If I could do that, which one would I choose? Hmmm…”
Then I realized that the only way to really solve any real issue
(war, rock-paper-scissors, marriage) is through a tournament-style deathmatch.
I’ve come up with a field of 32 twitter accounts. They are
all people who I feel I might enjoy a beer with during a ballgame (or at least
come away a better person). None of these people are related to the major media
so people like Matt Pittman, Curtis Crabtree, even Scott Eynart have been
disqualified (Jason Churchill, despite his recent ongoing stint on Sandmeyer’s
show, is still in). These are people whose presence is solely in the online
sports world (as far as I can tell).
Also, I couldn’t get everyone I wanted into the field and I
didn’t have enough people to make a field of 64. If you were left off, don’t feel
bad. I’d probably still want to have a beer with you. It just means that you
lack a certain something that distinguishes you from the rest. Jacob Stevens
lacks heart. Matt Holt lacks character. Joe Flacco lacks elite-ness. Jared
Stranger lacks a functioning urethra (he’s got a method). Etcetera.
So we will vote, Tournament-style. I will be using www.challonge.com/BeerWithMe to
host the tournament. You will vote here via poll (I will use Sparklit polls on
this site) as to who wins their respective match-up. That winner will move on
to the next blah-blah-blah if you don’t get this or can’t figure out how it
works or are unwilling to look up how an Single-Elimination-style Tournament
might work then I got no time for you.
Without further ado, here is the field:
Zima Division
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(1)
Alex Akita
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(2)
Chris Crawford
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(3)
Kenneth Arthur
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(4)
Megan Shear
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(5)
Keith Myers
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(6)
Chris Sullivan
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(7)
Mariner Mandy
|
(8)
Harrison Crow
|
Spire Hard Apple
Cider Division
|
(1)
Jacson Bevens
|
(2)
Brian Nemhauser
|
(3)
Jason Churchill
|
(4)
Craig Johnstone
|
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(5)
Logan Davis
|
(6)
Peter Whitmore
|
(7)
Aaron Di Silvestro
|
(8)
Conor Dowley
|
Shiner Bock Division
|
(1)
Dave Cameron
|
(2)
Matthew Carruth
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(3)
Jay Yencich
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(4)
Marc Webster
|
|
(5)
Aaron Campeau
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(6)
Lonnie Mathis
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(7)
Rick Randall
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(8)
Paul Marsh
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Natty Ice Division
|
(1)
Jeff Sullivan
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(2)
Johnnie Peel
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(3)
Danny Kelly
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(4)
Scott Weber
|
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(5)
Nathan Bishop
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(6)
Lisa Gilmore
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(7)
Jon Shields
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(8)
Kyle Davis
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Challonge doesn’t do a straight NCAA-style bracket so it’s
all jumbled up. That means that if, say, Alex beats Harrison and Chris beats
MarinerMandy in the Zima Division, Alex wouldn’t be going against Chris in the
next round. This adds chaos and I can be down for that so WOO let’s roll with
it!
First Polls will be up soon. Stay tuned!
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