Day 4 - Monday, April 4
Championship Sunday! Let's get after it!
7:55 - Sinickal arises.
8:15 - Pepster arises and comes downstairs.
9:15 - It's time for Winning Time. Two episodes.
10:22 - Kev realizes the water is out. Property management group tells us it is due to some construction up the block, but should be back on in an hour or so.
11:29 - While on the front porch, Kev-O almost witnesses a shooting. A car pulls out of the Stab-and-Slam and almost hits a bicyclist that is clearly driving on the wrong side of the road. Guy in car yells, "Wrong side of the road" to the bicyclist, who dismounts and walks toward the car. A car door opens for someone to exit and Kev-O comes inside, "so he doesn't catch a stray!"
11:42 - Start walk to Acme Oyster House.
12:04 - Way too long a line at Acme Oyster House. We need to find somewhere else to eat. Lots of restaurants, but harder than you would think to find one. Some are way too busy, some are closed on Mondays.
12:37 - Sinickal asks, "How much exercise is too much. I am going to have to work off this exercise with some food!"
12:43 - A little wait at Crescent City Brewhouse. We want to check to see if the bar has availability so we go inside what is apparently not an entrance. Guy immediately rushes over and ropes-off the area in which we entered right behind us.
12:53 - Waitress with apparently some managerial authority is talking to the bartender about some problem table. She tells him what to do (take care of all his other tables/bar customers first, then go to the problem table - apparently they just jumped the waiting list and sat down on their own, so the staff said they would have to wait a bit to be served.) Waitress said, "We are not gonna get our panties in a bunch!" Saw that we could hear the conversation and looked at us and said, "We are going to need them for the rest of the day!"
12:58 - The shucker isn't working at Crescent City Brewhouse. So what started out at as lunch at Acme Oyster ends sadly with - no oysters.
13:08 - Boudin balls and alligator. Still Louisianaing it up!
13:39 - We decide the beer is not very good.
13:42 - Nobody is buying our spare ticket. We decide we should e-mail Coach K, as he doesn't have one for tonight!
13:56 - Will, a fellow member of Sinickal and Kev-O's golf club, joins us. He came in last night just for the Final game. He went to North Carolina and is decked out in Carolina blue.
13:44 - Kev-O asks us if we saw the bartender and the rooftop bar in the Virgin hotel on Saturday night be escorted out by management. We did not. Apparently the bartender might have been on something, and decided to get into it with a Duke fan. Twice.
14:14 - Apparently Tom Lennon is the bar manager at Crescent City Brewery.
14:26 - We explain Southwestern Central to Will. Kev-O is still flabbergasted. (This discussion lasts for quite some time0)
14:34 - Will decides he wants to try to get us actual coaching jobs at other schools.
14:37 - Will wants us to be on Last Chance U.
14:38 - Will is a great hype man.
14:39 - Kev-O still angry about Southwestern Central being in the northeastern panhandle of Oklahoma.
14:54 - Discuss the hog festival that was apparently in town this weekend. We think it might have had bacon and ribs, but we don't know because we didn't go.
15:35 - Will is energized talking about playing in a golf tournament with a former member of their club also named Silas. Apparently this Silas has some length in his golf game and plays at a +6. Will says, "Yes, I know that you hit that drive 337 yards! You know what is 337 yards away? Those people's yard!!!
15:38 - "You smoked the ball, yeah, but IT'S OUT-OF-BOUNDS!"
15:39 - Will is having some type of Nam-like flashback over this tournament.
15:43 - Leave Crescent City Brewhouse.
15:49 - Will heads back to his hotel, we continue to our spot.
16:15 - Back at the AirBnB, we still don't have water. Property Manager Nicole meets us at the property. She says she is there to investigate. Talks to the contractor down the street. It'll be one more hour.
16:40 - Pepster takes a 20 minute nap.
17:15 - Still no water. Gonna clean up as best we can, apparently.
17:37 - WE HAVE WATER!
18:00 - Head out into the mix.
18:04 - Carolina fan on one of the balconies yelling a little too hard at a Kansas-jersey wearing fan on the street. About the Carolina fan Sinickal says, "He was hitting it a little too early for a 8:20 tip-off!" Kev-O replies, "He looks like he will tell you his daddy is a lawyer!"
18:25 - Arrive at Bourbon House.
18:47 - Will rejoins us.
19:05 - Lady next to us puts salt and pepper in her cocktail sauce, for her raw oysters. Doesn't she realize that the cocktail sauce and the horseradish combined add the spiciness for the oysters. I mean, what is she doing! She hasn't even tasted it yet. Pepster is way too angered about this than he needs to be.
19:09 - Ambulance right outside the restaurant on Bourbon Street. Bartenders begin to ask, "what happened?" Kev-O says, "Coach K's back must be hurting again!"
19:22 - Start walk to stadium
19:28 - See a young woman in a tight pink dress on a corner of an intersection by herself. Nothing only looks about of place, but something seems amiss. The light turns in her favor and she starts sashaying across the intersection. And we see there is a guy on the other corner filming her walk. Damn tik-tokkers.
19:36 - Stopped by the light and another intersection and a guy with a microphone is preaching. As the light turns in our favor he gets to, "Jesus is the path!" We tell him that, "The path is right here," and continuing walking.
19:47 - Enter stadium. [Ed. Note - Entering the stadium was incredibly easy. I don't know if it was because they had a number of entrances to spread out the crowd or some other factor(s), but ingress both nights was quick and easy.]
19:55 - Arrive at our seats!
20:08 - Preservation Hall Jazz Band performing the National Anthem!
20:20 - Tip-Off; radio silence.
20:58 - Sinickal and Kev-O go to the bathroom. [Ed. Note - We don't always go to the bathroom in pairs, but stadium rules prohibit more than 2 drinks per person, so to buy 3 beers 2 people have to go in pairs.] While Kev-O is washing his hands, a guy steps up next to him and proceeds to wash his hands down to the elbow, like he is prepping for surgery. Another guy in ostrich boots and looks like he plays in a band says, "You are a thorough sumbitch!"
21:19 - Halftime performance by the Human Jukebox - the Southern University band. [Side note, during the semi-finals Kev-O thought it was a missed opportunity that the Southern band did not perform. Now we know why they didn't!]
22:39 - Dajuan Harris, Jr. stepping out-of-bounds is some Chris Webber-level mistake!
22:45 - Kansas wins!
22:47 - We change locations so we have: (a) a better view of One Shining Moment; and (b) easier egress afterward.
23:13 - One Shining Moment
23:18 - Make our way out of the stadium.
23:38 - Stop off at the Roosevelt Hotel Bar. There is 1 bartender. Place is relatively small, but packed. She is working, but there is no way she can keep up with this crowd.
23:42 - Sinickal jawing with a good-natured Kansas fan by saying, "At least we got to keep our trophy!" Kansas fan agrees this could be a good point. [Ed. Note - For those that don't know, Kansas is under investigation by the FBI and the NCAA for potential criminal charges and other violations. Sinickal's comments were spurred by a tweet he saw at halftime that read, "Bill Self is coaching like he wants to lose the game so that his championship doesn't get vacated next year!"
23:44 - Sinickal tells Kansas fans that they are going to have to return the nets also.
23:52 - Charles Barkley enters the Roosevelt Hotel Bar. People are gawking, taking pictures, trying to talk to him. All he is trying to do is walk to the bar to get a drink. Sinickal remarks, "I would go say hi but I actually know him. [Ed. Note - Sinickal does know him. They have played golf together several times and run in similar circles in Scottsdale.] Barkley immediately leaves because it is too crowded.
23:56 - Lone bartender yells to the doorman - "Don't let anybody else in!"
23:58 - Exit the Roosevelt Bar and enter Bourbon street for the trek home.
00:00 - See a guy wearing a shirt that says, "2-0 curveballs are why I have trust issues!"
00:04 - Sinickal strikes up some smack-talk with a girl wearing Kansas gear. He tells her not to get too comfortable with the trophy as the championship isn't going to last long. She says that she actually goes to Clemson so she is used to things not lasting long. Sinickal responds, "That sounds like an indictment of the men on your campus!"
00:07 - Enter Le Bayou for a drink, some A/C, and really because Pepster needs a break from all this walking.
00:18 - See a couple at a table decked out in Kansas gear. He is sweating profusely. Kev-O remarks that "This is supposed to be the best meal of their life. I wonder why the sauce is so spicy!"
00:19 - We decide they are just eating alfredo!
00:20 - Sign in the men's room warns of the dangers of drinking during pregnancy. THE MEN'S ROOM!
00:27 - Begin the sojourn back down Bourbon.
00:38 - "Who invited the guy from Street Fighter 2.
00:41 - Contemplating the 3-piece chicken from the Stab-n-Slab as we walk past NOLA Poyboys.
00:42 - Enter NOLA Poboys. No chicken tonight.
00:45 - Couple in line behind us in Kansas garb, so Sinickal starts talking about the possible sanctions and vacating the title - "We don't actually care, we just picked a team." She says that he actually went to Oregon State. Sinickal, "Oh, no wonder you need to pick a winning team!"
01:10 - Arrive back home, PoBoys in hand. Kev-O went with the shrimp PoBoy, while Sinickal and Pepster ordered the "Da Yat", which is a shrimp PoBoy smothered in gumbo! These hit the spot.
01:28 - Off to sleep!
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