GREENVILLE -- Eager to get started on the 20th consecutive season of Grid Picks, the Grid Pickers hopped on a bus to Greenville.
"Since purple-and-yellow rednecks fill up Wallace Wade for the ECU game every time, we should just sell the home games to ECU," Kevin "is the" Lees "t likely person to win Grid Picks" stated curtly as he got on the bus. "It worked for Florida State."
"That's gimpy," Paul "ie dogs will make me look like Craig" Doran replied while cuddling with his Shav Country doll. He took the bench directly behind Lees and Dave "without Mart" In "I'm nothing" gram.
Driving by the bus in his minivan, Nick "all-pro" Christie was determined to beat everyone there.
Mike "rotten to the" Corey and Neel... um "it's" Jeste "too easy" arrived next. Corey was wearing his Michael Jordan No. 23 jersey.
"Paul" Tyler "Doran" Rosen came up next wearing his Juan Dixon jersey.
"I don't blame you guys," Evan "Seth" Davis said to Corey and Rosen. "Our players suck in the NBA. I told Boozer not to go pro. Now we even see our players get played in Coach K's Charity All-Star Game."
But Davis' frustration about Boozer's decision was nothing compared to the vitriol he directed at G reg "ular Joe" Veis, the sellout.
"Recess is good for you," Davis said. "Because there you can make all the racial slurs and typos you want and call it artistic."
Leading the Neophytes on board was Robert "I am" Samuel, who wrote more in his freshman year than Davis did in three.
Back at Area 51, Rolly "poly" Miller and "the man downstairs" Jonathan Angier were laughing about their impending victory this year.
"It's almost Miller time," Rolly cackled.
--By Buffalo, Ohio, Tulsa, La.-Monroe, Utah St., Navy, UConn, Arkansas St. and Idaho, the Division I-A teams Sports Illustrated predicts to be worse than Duke.
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