Like many other sites on the intertubes, Deadspin has a NCAA Tournament Challenge that people can join and get the opportunity to win prizes and get one over on that one guy in the office who thinks they're a basketball junkie. Being a dutiful lemming, I joined this challenge in the hopes that I won't suck at this year's NCAA bracket nearly as much as I did last year. On Tuesday, an email was sent by someone in the Deadspin NCAA Tournament group to everyone else in the Deadspin NCAA Tournament group. This one email was only the beginning. Just before leaving for work, I cleared my email of all the messages that had come in during the morning. I have about a twenty minute commute to work. The picture displayed below shows just how many emails came in during that twenty minutes.
67. I received 67 emails during my twenty commute to work. Then I got to my job, set my phone to silent, and got to work. Four hours later I took my lunch break. Here is how many emails I received during the four hours between when I started work and my lunch break.
181. No, really, I received 181 emails from people in the Deadspin NCAA Tournament group. Another four hours went by and my work was done for the day. Here is how many emails I received during those four hours.
59. So the rate of emails being sent went down, but still I received 59 emails in four hours. I usually don't get that much in a week. Many of these messages were spam. Many of these messages were people bitching about Deadspin. Many of these messages were people bitching about receiving multiple emails. Many of these messages were porn. What I can say about all of these messages were that they were unwanted and I don't know how to stop receiving them. In fact, in the twenty minutes since I started crafting this blog post, I have received 22 emails from people in the Deadspin NCAA Tournament group. And, just after writing that sentence I received two more. I'm not kidding. And there's another. Please, STOP THE RIDE I WANNA GET OFF!!!
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