The Century Mark

One year and seven weeks ago, this guy right here brought forth a new blog, conceived from boredom and dedicated to the premise that Minnesota sports teams are an absolute debacle.  This is the 100th post on a journey of ineptitude that began 14 months ago, and has gone as poorly as we could've possibly expected.  There have been very view highlights, which frankly should probably be expected from a blog called Loserville.  Fortunately there's little time to lament everything that went wrong over the past year plus, since the calendar has now turned to March, and the greatest stretch on the sports calendar is now commencing.

Tomorrow marks the beginning of the Minnesota high school hockey tournament, which kicks off a 12-week sporgy (yup, sports orgy, you're welcome for the imagery) taking us to the doorstep of summer.  It starts with what I like to call Hocktopia (hockey utopia, coining phrases left and right today), comprised off the high school tourney, WCHA Final Five and Frozen Four, all against the backdrop of NHL teams fighting for playoff seeding.  Throw in March Madness filling every weekend with great college hoops action, the opening of baseball season, and everything briding right into the NHL playoffs; frankly there's no place else in the world I'd rather be on March 8th than right here, right now.

Rest assured that much more will be said on each of these topics, save high school hockey.  My analysis on that one is short and sweet, with the fall of Burnsville last week, I have no big rooting interest.  Twin nemesi (not sure if officially a word, but like it better than nemeses) Edina and Eden Prairie are tops on the hit list, but unfortunately also the top two seeds.  Here's hoping for an upset.  Other than that, screw the private school kids.  Go Hibbing, Hermantown, etc., death to St. Thomas and Breck.  If they had any decency, they'd be playing Class AA anyway.

Beyond that, no in-depth thoughts to offer, it's a high school tourney after all, and my interest wanes when my school gets knocked out.  Plenty of time to look forward, so instead, let's take a look at where we've been:

Things all started with the most gut-wrenching Vikings defeat in recent memory.  Bad memory, but kind of a decent re-read, just to remember things can always be worse.

I ran down lists of the biggest douchebags and most famed felons in sports.  Both lists appear to be holding up pretty well, might have to re-visit them in a couple of months.

I went back and forth on the Twins all season, saving the strongest venom for Scott Baker.  Based on the reports out of spring training, I can see another round of this coming on in about two months, stay tuned.

I offered my opinions on some new sports acronyms you should soon be familiar with.

We all collectively tried to talk ourselves into a Vikings season that appeared to be unraveling in training camp.  Then watched as it came apart at the seams, again, and again, and again.

I ran down the state of the teams in town, right about the time a promising Gopher hoops season was crumbling.

Finally, the hated Packers won the Super Bowl, causing me to contemplate if this was as bad as it could get.

After looking back through that history, all I can say is I hope the next hundred posts have a lot more to celebrate than the first hundred did.  As always, Loserville residents are nothing if not resilient.