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Golfingdad Incredible Member

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You'd take whatever he offered. $125 M would make logical sense, but that'd be a wash as far as he's concerned.

At $100M the odds are in his favor BUT you're still making a ****ing hundred million dollars. I'd take $10M or more, and he could spare $10M like it's pocket lint. You can live off the interest of $10M in some pricy areas of the country and super-safe investments, after all.

Of course, I'd make sure it was $10M after taxes. ;)

P.S. For $1M? Please. You could easily sell your ticket to someone - a Las Vegas casino, perhaps - for way, way more than that.

I agree with all of that.

Additionally, I'd also take 9 million.  8 million.  7 million,  You get the idea.

My first instinct was 20 million, simply because he's making a killing, odds-wise, and it's beyond life-changing for me.  A complete win-win.  However, if Buffett decided he wanted to play tough, I'd still take donw to a million.

Oh, I know ... I'd say if you offer me 30 million, I volunteer to pay maximum taxes on it!  He would love that! ;)

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Golfingdad Incredible Member

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This Ohio State-Dayton game is incredible.  What a great way to start the Madness!

Yup ... except now my chance at the billion is already over, and there's only been one game!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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JetFan1983 Incredible Member

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Darn it, Kraft. Make that shit.

Anyway, can I join the ESPN TST league? My sure-to-be horrendous bracket deserves a spot in there.

It's really sad how consistently awful I am at predicting this tournament. But at least there's comfort in tradition :-)

Constantine

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Golfingdad Incredible Member

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Anyway, can I join the ESPN TST league? My sure-to-be horrendous bracket deserves a spot in there.

I'm not sure that anybody ever created one.

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JetFan1983 Incredible Member

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Quote:

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Anyway, can I join the ESPN TST league? My sure-to-be horrendous bracket deserves a spot in there.

I'm not sure that anybody ever created one.

Constantine

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David in FL Incredible Member

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My Badgers beat St Mary's school for unwed mothers, and OSU lost. Good start so far!

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3-Wood: Titleist 910F;  15* Diamana Kai'li
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My Badgers beat St Mary's school for unwed mothers, and OSU lost. Good start so far!

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Golfingdad Incredible Member

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My Badgers beat St Mary's school for unwed mothers, and OSU lost. Good start so far!

LOL ... yeah that was an ugly score. :(

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JetFan1983 Incredible Member

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So how'd everyone do yesterday? I lost 3, including one sweet 16 team (New Mexico State). Pretty standard start for me. The wheels should fall off any day now :-D

Constantine

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jamo Incredible Member

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So how'd everyone do yesterday? I lost 3, including one sweet 16 team (New Mexico State). Pretty standard start for me. The wheels should fall off any day now :-D

I got about half the games right. And Delaware lost. And Kenny Smith on TNT made fun of our nickname. Not a good day for me.

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saevel25 Incredible Member

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Lets check, I have two brackets going for money.

Not too bad so far. In the one bracket I have 3 losses, and the other I have 4 losses.

Both brackets are above 75% win percentage, that will do well for the ones I am in.

The biggest pick was N. Dakota State over OU. Oh Yea, I picked that one :-D

Matt Dougherty, P.E.
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phan52 Great Member

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If anybody went 16-0 yesterday (ND State? Really?) they are a better man than me. 11-5 but I haven't lost anybody that I have going to the Sweet Sixteen yet.

This stuff is crazy. I won my pool three years ago and almost finished last the next year. My wife went 13-3 yesterday and she hasn't watched a men's college basketball game since she was in college.

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Golfingdad Incredible Member

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If anybody went 16-0 yesterday (ND State? Really?) they are a better man than me. 11-5 but I haven't lost anybody that I have going to the Sweet Sixteen yet.

This stuff is crazy. I won my pool three years ago and almost finished last the next year. My wife went 13-3 yesterday and she hasn't watched a men's college basketball game since she was in college.

A guy on the radio this morning said that 0.17% of people on espn had a perfect bracket through yesterday.  Something like 19,000 out of 11 million.

I pretty much picked all favorites (except Arizona State over Texas) so I lost 5 games. :cry: However, my upside is the same as yours ... haven't lost anybody that was supposed to win tomorrow.

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A guy on the radio this morning said that 0.17% of people on espn had a perfect bracket through yesterday.  Something like 19,000 out of 11 million.

I pretty much picked all favorites (except Arizona State over Texas) so I lost 5 games.  However, my upside is the same as yours ... haven't lost anybody that was supposed to win tomorrow.

My co-worker said that 83% of the brackets from Buffet's 1 Billion dollar got taken out when Ohio State Lost. :-D

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Golfingdad Incredible Member

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My co-worker said that 83% of the brackets from Buffet's 1 Billion dollar got taken out when Ohio State Lost.

And I'm proud to be a part of the 83%. :beer:

I would actually expect that there are no perfect brackets left after today.  Certainly not after Sunday, but likely not after today either. ;)

You know what it is, right??? ...

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I didn't know about the buyout part.  That's interesting.  Yeah, yesterday was a bracket buster day for sure.  Probably the same today.


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