DHL Dan CCXCI - Sidelined

I wonder if Shank wrote the following stuff with any sense of irony:

It may be March Madness to the rest of the country, but around here we’re feeling a little left out, and other thoughts

Picked-up pieces while reminding you to say “thanks” to Chaim Bloom for Roman Anthony, Wilyer Abreu, Trevor Story, Garrett Whitlock, and Marcelo Mayer . . .

⋅ Ever feel like there’s a big party going on and we’re not invited? (like a certain pregame Super Bowl Breakfast in 1995? - ed.)

Welcome to March Madness, Massachusetts style.

Across America, college basketball is all the rage. Everybody’s got a bracket and every television in every bar features 10 college players running up and down some court in Oklahoma City, Fort Worth, Buffalo, or Baton Rouge. Bill Raftery is once again ubiquitous and the nation is agog at the skill sets of Sarah Strong and AJ Dybantsa. If you check anything on Google this week, you’ll notice the site’s search option features an image of a basketball rattling through a rim as the clock ticks down to zero.