east village idiot

Time for more round 1 action in March Radness 2008. Today, we turn our attention to Manhattan with the Gotham Region.

In the first matchup, it’s Union Square versus the underdog Times Square. One is filled with fresh vegetables and skateboarding punk-ass kids. The other is filled with chain restaurants and tourists. This should be a cakewalk.

The 4-5 matchup pits two things against each other that can ruin someone’s morning: Slow Pedestrians and Meterologists. Sure, stupid pedestrians can enrage you first thing in the morning, but when the forecast calls for six inches of snow and you wake up to dry pavement, you want Sam Champion’s head on a platter.

In the next matchup, we see one of last year’s final four, Rats in Restaurants, who are old news next to this year’s latest media craze, High-Rise Cranes. Rats don’t kill, but cranes sure do. This makes me wonder: we know seven people died in the crane collapse earlier this month, but how many rats died? The world may never know.

Next up, it’s the latest craze in pricing everyone out of New York City: $1 Bagels vs. $10 Beers. Sure, $10 beers have been around for a while at places where you have to slip someone $40 just to get in the door, but now even divier bars are creeping dangerously close to $7 beer. $10 beer may be just around the corner, but $1 bagels are already here and out in full-force. Open your wallet wide and say ahhhhhh.

These matchups are in your hands. Fire away with your voting finger!

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