Pippin, Da Baller

Although he hasn't technically been a baller since he was six months old (oh happy day!), Pippin has now earned the title of "Honorary Baller". It's official, our dog Pippin won our NCAA tournament brackets. I have no idea how he did it. I had little to no faith when he picked Florida as the winner of the tournament that they would ACTUALLY win. When he picked LSU to beat Duke I asked him if he was sure. Sure, he picked Monmouth to win a few games, but he had TWO of the final four teams right, and I had one. In the end his score was nearly DOUBLE mine. Overall in the Yahoo leagues he ended up ranked 7,205. SEVEN FREAKIN' thousand!! He was in the 99th percentile!!! For perspective, I ended up 380,000-something and in the 60-something percentile, and I was third in my league! I'm not exactly sure how many people played overall in Yahoo, Good Morning America said 4 million but my math would estimate closer to 1 million. Either way, I'm asking Pippin what numbers to play in Powerball on Wednesday. He's already earned a lot more respect around here. I ask him what to wear for work, what we should cook for dinner, whether or not we should change long distance plans. He's not only our dog now he's our personal advisor.

Here's some video of how he made his picks. I told Brent the two teams matched up, in no particular order and shuffled about. Brent had a treat in each hand and randomly assigned a team to each hand. Pippin picked a hand and thus a team. I realize this video is shot sideways, I forgot to turn the camera (duh!) but you can still see Pippin's intense concentration and selection process. Each game took a while, so be glad we didn't film the whole thing! Pippin took this very seriously! Next year I'm going to have Brent hold a Thin Mint and Reese's Cup in his hands so I can do a better job picking MY teams.

Enjoy!