Emperor Ewing Gives You The Final Four

Mark Ewing:  "Pull De Strings!"

The Emperor Talks Orange Ball

Guys, We have had ourselves one heck of a tournament.  You have had your powerteams, you have had your upsets, you have had your overtimes, you have had your double dribbles.  Let me tell you what is gonna happen next.

The East:  Ah the East.  The 1-Rolling Stones can't be stopped and 4-Jeff Healey isn't gonna change anything, except make us watch the whole game.  The Stones will WIN.

The game to watch, is 11-George Harrison Vs 02-Waylan Jennings.  I HAVE to see this game!.  I actually enjoy watching George Harrison, with his bright yellah Unis.  Harrison has ripped up 6-Wilco and 3-Belle and Sebastian, very impressive!  The Beatles and George Harrison both have had career years in Star Wars.  Give them the basketball!  While I want George to win, I have to guess his luck has run out, his brain cancer has returned and the Cloud Niners will lose by 3 to a sleeping, drunken giant in Waylan Jennings.
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The West:
  Ah The Old West:  1- Ian Hunter is tremendously good, he sill beat Lucinda Williams...hats off to Lucinda for her great win over 4-DriveByTruckers....she will be back next year after a fine showing.  Ian Hunter is gonna take the West. Unless he plays 'like Mott The Hoople"(T.Signore quote).

   I like 2-Nick Lowe to beat 3-Radiohead.  Nick Lowe took down 7-The Flaming Lips in 2 OT.  I was glued to the TV set.   On the way to work this morning, I heard Old Nick Lowe, and it made me smile.  I will be rooting for Lowe, but Ian Hunter is just too damn good.
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 The SouthEast:
  Ah the SouthEast:  Some good teams are coming out of the SouthEast.  The best team, 1-Keith Richards did not make it.  He was gunned down by 8-Bob Seger.   Operation Pants Down, orchestrated by Mark Ewing, perhaps worked a little too well.  No matter.  8-Seger has the tough task of playing a red hot 4-Beatles squad.  the Fab Four beat a good 5-The Cars team.  You know what?  I think The Beatles make the Final Four. Yes, The Beatles will make the Final Four!

   2-John Hiatt Vs 3-Ween:  Not much has been said about these 2 teams, both very talented, both very capable.  Tony has made Mormon jokes about Ween. They have quietly made their mark in the Star Wars, beating The Strokes and Jenny Lewis.  Hiatt, has been a nobody for some reason.  He beat an up-and- coming Lynyrd Skynyrd squad.   The match appears to be close.  I think Ween takes it.   But The Beatles will take Ween.
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The SouthWest:
  Ah The Bloody SouthWest:  This has been the most funnest bracket so far.  Tons of upsets.  Infidels raging about.  12-Paul Simon has been phenomenal.  Simon came in late, taking the place Captain & Tennille, who Tony kicked out.  Simon beat 5-Steve Earle.  Super.  Simon beat The Chemical Brothers.  Now, he has to play 1-Gregg Allman, perhaps the most powerful force at the Death Star.

 I want Simon, but Allman wins. Damn Gregg Allman.  Damn him all to hell.


  And I know we will all be watching the wacky: 11-Nora Jones Vs 10-Radioactive Chicken Heads.

 Tony is already nervous.  Very nervous.

 Not even the Spanish Inquisition knew Frank Lalonde would coach the Chicken Heads to victorys over heavy favorites 7-Mumford and Sons.  When Frank coached The RCHs to a win over 2-Kings of Leon, the public knew Lalonde had got his French Fry.   However, 11-Nora Jones is no upstart.  She won it all last year.  Written off for this year, she came in as just a play-in, and she beat Marty Robbins out of his spot.  She beat AC/DC.  Ask Tony: Mark predicted her win over 3-George Jones too.  Nora Jones sends Frank and his Chicken Heads home forever.   Fact:  Nora Jones has a 9-0 record the past 2 years.
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Mark's Final Four: 

1-Rolling Stones Vs 1-Ian Hunter

1-Gregg Allman  Vs 4-The Beatles

(Although I am picking Allman to take the SW, Nora Jones, with a good game, could send his ass home).
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1-Stones Vs Allman.   Yeah, the two best teams will meet up.  Tony will by buying Mark his Rolling Stones Box Set which contains all 52 Stones albums, a 6-DVD boxset of interviews and concert footage, A Keith Richards Stratocaster guitar, and a Charlie Watts Toaster/Oven.   Start It Up.
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