2009 YEAR END AWARDS PARTY!

CELEBRATION ALERT!

THE 2009 MARCH MADNESS IN HUNTINGTON ACRES YEAR END PARTY!

WHERE: At MAGIC MIKE & LINDA SAVAGE'S - 9581 E. Lake Cir.

DATE: SATURDAY - MAY 9, 2009
TIME: 7:00 PM till ??

BEVERAGES & DESSERT: Provided by the SAVAGES

PLEASE BRING A FUN APPETIZER!

AWARDS: Presentation of THE RED BULL JOSH WISE TROPHY to our 2009 Champ!
>Monetary awards to the money winners!
>Monetary award to our Lucky Sweet Sixteen winner!
>Presentation of the Rolling Rocks!
>Review of the 2009 March Madness in the Acres!

DANCING with LEW ALCINDY and DEB THE CHEF???

MOST OF ALL - A chance for everyone to get together and socialize!

RSVP REGRETS appreciated! 303-713-9911

SEE YOU THERE!

The Mailman

KICKING UP SOME 'HEELS IN THE FINAL DANCE!

MONDAY NIGHT'S GAME was Carolina blue with a relatively easy game for North Carolina. It did not live up to last year's exciting Kansas win over Memphis. The 'Heels trailed only 10 minutes out of 240 minutes of the tournament and had a double digit lead for over 150 minutes for the tournament. Domination!

THE SHINING STAR IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD for 2009 is MAGIC MIKE SAVAGE. The MAGIC man truly has the magic touch with his 5th Huntington Acres Title. Definitely Hall of Fame material. He now will have his name on all three levels of the RED BULL JOSH WISE TROPHY! CONGRATULATIONS!

UNC FOR NC!
> Six of the adults and five of the teens predicted North Carolina for the National Championship this year. $BILL, MBFGGG, MAGIC MIKE, DEB THE CHEF, THE MAILMAN, and KING JONAH had the 'Heels in the adult game. A TRAIN ADAM, DR. HOOPS, SAM THE EXTERMINATOR, STONE COLD JOHN and THE LONGHORN TYLER were clairvoyant in the teens division.

APOLOGIES TO THE ICEMAN - I fully admit to making an error in one of my scenarios that I put out last week on April 1st. I forgot to erase the championship game points for ICE for tonight's game scenario from my spreadsheet. As a result I falsely inflated the ICEMAN'S expectations for a win tonight no matter what. Sorry, ICE. I did not post a disclaimer, but - It was April Fools day!

SWEET SIXTEEN WINNER 2009 is COWBOY JOE GEORGE LANTZ. It's always nice to be a lucky, JOE!

FINAL MONEY WINNERS
FIRST Place - MAGIC MIKE SAVAGE - Wins $210 + $170 party fund = $385 total
SECOND Place - DEBBIE THE CHEF - She did it all herself! - $100
THIRD Place - THE MAILMAN - $65
FOURTH Place - KING JONAH WISE - $40

SWEET SEVEN
FIRST Place - DR. HOOPS ANDY GREOS
SECOND Place - SAM THE EXTERMINATOR GREOS

PARTY TIME
>We will ALL be able to enjoy a final celebration of the Madness in the Acres at the home of our Shining Star for 2009 - MAGIC MIKE SAVAGE. The final details will be provided soon for, hopefully, a Saturday in May. We can all get together for another chance to review the tournament, socialize with your neighbors, meet our Rookie players and of course see Magic hoist the RED BULL JOSH TROPHY once again! See you there!

A HUGE THANK YOU TO ALL OF YOU for playing again this year! I hope you enjoyed it! As always, please let me know if you have any suggestions on how to improve our contest. Please bring your ideas to the Party.

FINAL STANDINGS FOR 2009
Place - Points - Player
1- 101 - MAGIC MIKE SAVAGE - Yet another win!
2 - 97 - DEBBIE THE CHEF - No help from anyone! Great job!
3 - 90 - THE MAILMAN - Saved by the 'Heels.
4 - 88 - KING JONAH WISE - Surprises everyone and squeaks out some money.
5 - 87 - ICEMAN GEORGE BELME - Leads almost all the way, but falls short at the end.
6 - 85 - $BILL BRADY
-MARIANNE PENNY WISE
-President Obama
8 - 83 - MY BIG FAT GREEK GREOS GANG
9 - 82 - BIG ONIONS DOUG REISINGER
- THE LEGEND JOHN TAYLOR
11-81 - HOT ROD BILL BELLAMY
12-80 - HUSKY CASEY WISE
13-79 - LEW ALCINDY HUFFMAN
-RAM FAN JULIE REISINGER
15-78 - JEFF BUBBA GUMESON
-Seedings
16-77 - GADI BLING EISNER
17-76 - PISTOL PETER BURG
18-75 - BASKETBALL BOBBY BAIRD
-COWBOY JOE GEORGE LANTZ
20-74 - BIG HOUSE STEVE WOOD
21-72 - JAMMIN JEFF WISE
22-71 - THE PROFESSOR PATTI BAIRD
23-68 - SUNDEVIL JEFF BULL
-WOLVERINE JAKE BURG
25-67 - AND 1 ADAMZONA SWANSON
26-64 - DUNKIN DON RONYAK
27-63 - CHIP FAN JAN HUBERT
28-62 - BRUIN DALE HUFFMAN
29-61 - MARCY TIGER WOOD - Rolling Rocks on their way!
SWEET SEVEN
1-98 - DR. HOOPS ANDY GREOS
2-95 - SAM THE EXTERMINATOR GREOS
3-91 - STONE COLD JOHN LANTZ
4-87 - A TRAIN ADAM BURG
5-82 - THE LONGHORN TYLER SWANSON
6-73 - SOONER OR LATER A SOONER DAVID LANTZ
7-56 - THE BIG DIESEL SEAN BULL

See you next year!

The Mailman

SATURDAY NIGHT'S ALRIGHT FOR SPARTAN TARHEELS!

SATURDAY NIGHT resulted in the Spartans ultimately taming the Huskies, while the Tarheels had a much easier time with the Wildcats. Michigan has the opportunity to pack the stands with 60,000 people for Monday! Should be interesting.

SIXTY FOURTH GAME BUT NUMBER ONE IN YOUR HEARTS!
>We have had 63 total games in the tournament so far, leading to the most important game of the DANCE. Hopefully it will live up to it's billing!

ANOTHER - FIFTH - SHINING MOMENT!
>MAGIC MIKE SAVAGE clinches yet another March Madness in Huntington Acres Championship and we will see his name for the 5th time on the RED BULL JOSH WISE TROPHY! The UNC win cemented his victory no matter what happens on Monday night! Congratulations MAGIC! He will be continuing the tradition that he started in 1997 with a party at his house later in the spring! Further details will be announced later.

TIED UP IN KNOTS!
>ICEMAN GEORGE BELME and DEBBIE THE CHEF SWANSON will tie for second place this year. I think this is a first for both players to win money!

FOURTH UP FOR GRABS!
>The only position that still is uncertain is for fourth place with MARIANNE PENNY WISE currently in third, will hold on if MSU wins on Monday. If North Carolina wins THE MAILMAN will jump into fourth place this year.

BETTER LUCKY THAN GOOD SURVIVORS!
>The Sweet Sixteen drawing has had 14 of the 16 contestants eliminated. The two remaining contestants to be the LUCKIEST IN THE ACRES award are;
-COWBOY JOE GEORGE LANTZ - North Carolina
-ICEMAN GEORGE BELME - Michigan State

SWEET SEVEN WINNERS-
> As reported in the last blog DR. HOOPS ANDY GREOS has won the 2009 Sweet Seven division! Congrats Doc!
> SAM THE EXTERMINATOR GREOS wins second place this year! Great job.

SPARTAN SPOTTER!
>HOT ROD BILL BELLAMY was our only contestant who predicted a Michigan State victory on Saturday! Great job HOT ROD!

FINAL FOUR ATTENDEES -
>The Burg family is attending the Final Four weekend this weekend in Detroit. PISTOL PETER, WOLVERINE JAKE and A TRAIN ADAM are enjoying the festivities in Motown. Hope you are having a Blast!

STANDINGS AFTER FINAL FOUR SATURDAY!
Points
91 - MAGIC MIKE SAVAGE
87 - DEBBIE THE CHEF SWANSON
-ICEMAN GEORGE BELME
85 - MARIANNE PENNY WISE
82 - THE LEGEND JOHN TAYLOR
- BIG ONIONS DOUG REISINGER
81 - HOT ROD BILL BELLAMY
80 - HUSKY CASEY WISE
- THE MAILMAN
79 - RAM FAN JULIE REISINGER
- LEW ALCINDY
78 - KING JONAH WISE
- JEFF BUBBA GUMESON
- Seedings
77 - GADI BLING EISNER
76 - PISTOL PETER BURG
75 - COWBOY GEORGE LANTZ
- $BILL BRADY
- BASKETBALL BOBBY BAIRD
- President Obama
74 - BIG HOUSE STEVE WOOD
73 - MY BIG FAT GREEK GREOS GANG
72 - JAMMIN JEFF WISE
71 - THE PROFESSOR PATTI BAIRD
68 - SUNDEVIL JEFF BULL
- WOLVERINE JAKE BURG
67 - AND 1 ADAMZONA SWANSON
- Sports Illustrated
64 - DUNKIN DON RONYAK
63 - CHIP FAN JAN HUBERT
62 - BRUIN DALE HUFFMAN
61 - MARCY TIGER WOOD

SWEET SEVEN
88 - DR. HOOPS ANDY GREOS
85 - SAM THE EXTERMINATOR GREOS
81 - STONE COLD JOHN LANTZ
77 - A TRAIN ADAM BURG
73 - SOONER OR LATER A SOONER DAVID LANTZ
72 - THE LONGHORN TYLER SWANSON
56 - THE BIG DIESEL SEAN BULL

Later!

The Mailman

FUTURE STANDINGS!

THE TALKING HEADS on ESPN and sports talk radio have been predicting what the future holds on Saturday and Monday! I've put the eight possibilities through my trusty MAC computer to show the eight possible outcomes for our little pool here in the Acres. Hopefully this will help those players in the money know who they should be rooting for in each game!

PRIZE MONEY REMINDER
1st Place - $215 + Party Fund $170 = Total = $385
2nd Place - $100
3rd Place - $65
4th Place - $40
The Rolling Rock will go to MARCY TIGER WOOD this year. Prepare your thirst TIGER!

SWEET SEVEN - 1st and 2nd only
1st Place - $25 -WINNER - DR. HOOPS ANDY GREOS -will win in all scenarios! Congratulations!
2nd Place - $10 - SAM THE EXTERMINATOR GREOS - will not be surpassed as well! Congrats!

TIES - 1st place uses the tiebreaker. A tie for Second place will split the total money for 2nd and 3rd place ($165) - or $82.50 for each player. Third place ties will win $52.50 each. Fourth place ties will win $20 each.

EIGHT POSSIBLE OUTCOMES:
FINALISTS : NATIONAL CHAMP

MSU - Villanova : MSU
1 - HUSKY CASEY
2 - MAGIC MIKE
3 - HOT ROD BILL
4tie- ICEMAN and DEB THE CHEF

MSU - Villanova : Villanova
1 - HUSKY CASEY
2 - MAGIC MIKE
3 - HOT ROD BILL
4tie - ICEMAN and DEB THE CHEF

MSU - UNC : MSU
1 - MAGIC MIKE
2tie - ICEMAN and DEB THE CHEF
4 - PENNY WISE

MSU - UNC : UNC
1 - MAGIC MIKE
2tie - ICEMAN and DEB THE CHEF
4 - THE MAILMAN

UConn - Villanova : Villanova
1 - HUSKY CASEY
2 - PENNY WISE
3tie - GADI BLING and MAGIC MIKE

UConn - Villanova : UConn
1 - PENNY WISE
2tie - GADI BLING and HUSKY CASEY
4 - JAMMIN JEFF

UConn - UNC : UConn
1 - PENNY WISE
2 - GADI BLING
3tie - MAGIC MIKE and BIG HOUSE STEVE

UConn - UNC : UNC
1 - MAGIC MIKE
2tie - ICEMAN and DEB THE CHEF
4 - PENNY WISE

OVERALL SUMMARY
-FIRST PLACE SCENARIOS (out of 8) - HUSKY - 3; MAGIC - 3; PENNY - 2
-MONEY OPPORTUNITIES (out of 8) - MAGIC - 7; PENNY - 5; ICEMAN - 5; THE CHEF - 5; HUSKY - 4; BLING - 3; HOT ROD - 2; JAMMIN, BIG HOUSE, MAILMAN - 1 EACH

Next Update after Saturday!

The Mailman