Lalonde's Laughable List

  Frank Lalonde, short-time sports pundit and part-time gloveman for his local bar, shrugged off suggestions that Star Wars Emperor Ewing planned to eventually fill in names on the blank ballots which had been inadvertently sent out to 2011 participants.  "I can ALWAYS beat the odds..." proclaimed Lalonde from his secret location in the Starbucks at the corner of Pine and Hollywood.
  In a bold move, Lalonde declared a matchup between the #1 West seed and the #2 South seed in the Star Wars 2011 final...predicting that #2 would win the game, 66-59.  "It's a lock...you just have to look at who they're up against.  I mean, can you argue with logic like that." Lalonde told the capacity crowd of 3 in the janitor closet of Starbucks.

  Despite Emperor Ewing's statement regarding the blank brackets that "Someone will pay...we will be victorious...I can no longer sit back and allow Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, Communist subversion and the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids. " many news agencies have picked up on Lalonde's selections, with Reuters.com agreeing on how #4 will down #2 in the East.