Like everyone else, I love the NCAA tournament and I love filling out bracket after bracket in hopes of winning some bragging rights or even a bag of Tootsie Rolls or something, but I probably am the worst ever at this particular spring pastime. I've got seven sheets in front of me and I'm not looking respectable in any of them.
Should have known this was not going to be my week on Wednesday, which happened to be "Seniors Run The Bases Day" at Ed Smith Stadium. Nice little promotion. Senior citizens get to run -- or walk -- around the bases after an Orioles exhibition game. I'm all for it. It's the kind of thing Bowie Baysox PR guy Tom Sedlacek likes to do, though he'd probably throw in a free season ticket for anyone who actually knew Jim Bowie.
So, after the game, I'm rushing down to the field to get some Postgame Dave and I come out of the concourse tunnel and -- as God is my witness -- I'm stopped by an usher who says, and I quote, "Sir, if you want to run the bases, you're going to have to go to the end of the line."