March is one of the best sports months on the calendar. You have the NHL and the NBA beginning their stretch drives toward the playoffs. The NFL is in the middle of free agency and gearing up for the draft. Major League Baseball is in the middle of spring training. Watch any sporting event on CBS and and you'll hear the amazing theme song for the Masters as they promote the first major of the year. And last but certainly not least, you have the NCAA tournament, which dominates the headlines for half of March and into mid-April. What a great time of the year.

There is one thing I hate about March though: dealing with these annoying tournament brackets. Oh my God, please make them go away. They are everywhere. People at work have them laying around, they are in every newspaper and on every website. The President of the United States is on ESPN making his predictions. I have to hear my annoying movie reviewer pick his wacky final four. Everybody wants you in their pool. People want to know who you have in your Final Four. Please stop. I can't take it anymore.

Why? Because nobody knows anything anyway. I cohost a morning show on a sports radio station in Washington DC. Our show was nationally syndicated at one point for three years on sports stations around the country. I looked through the bracket today and can honestly say I've seen 19 of the 64 teams in the tournament play this year. That means I have basically no clue about the other 45 teams in the tourney. Sure I know Baylor is everybody's sexy 3 seed this season. I know they are coached by Scott Drew, Homer Drew's son. But I haven't seen them play. Have you? Stop lying.

I know Old Dominion beat Georgetown and Mike Brey came on our show and said they were a Big East-like team. I haven't seen them play though. Maybe you saw them play Georgetown; I didn't bother. The average sports fan hasn't seen them at all. And I'm supposed to take you seriously when you tell me you have ODU over Notre Dame in the first round? You have no clue. You're just grasping because an 11 seed can easily beat a 6 seed and you think you need upsets in your bracket.

The upsets are so overrated anyway. More often than not the top seeds do the best. Number 1 seeds almost never lose in the first week and in the last five years they've made up half of all the Final Four teams and won all but one of the championship games.

Of course there are upsets though. How could there not be. The talent is more spread out in college basketball every year. The problem is you just can't predict who's going to be Cinderella in any given year How could you? But that doesn't stop everybody and their mother from trying.

Some guy called in our show this morning and said he does very well picking games every year and this year he's got Vermont, a 16 seed, beating Syracuse, a 1 seed. God Bless him, I love Mike Lonergan the head coach at Vermont. But a 16 has never beaten a 1. Never. I guess if you pick every 16 every year you are bound to be right once in your life. But if you started back in 1985 and picked every 16 seed until now, you'd be 0 for 100 at this point. Good luck with that Vermont pick.

That same guy has St. Mary's, a 10 seed, making it to the Final Four. The problem is that only two double-digit seeds have ever made it to the Final Four - LSU in 1986 and George Mason in 2006. Throw that dude's bracket in the trash.

My aforementioned movie reviewer doesn't even know how to fill out a bracket. That nerd legitimately filled his out wrong last year. And yet I have to listen to him crow this year that he has MD, MInnesota, Kentucky and Texas A&M in his final four. I guarantee you outside of Greivis Vasquez he can't name another player on any of those teams. He probably can't name another player in the tournament and yet he's going to fill out a damn bracket.

Sure, there are some people who know more than others. Seth Davis who writes for Sports Illustrated and works for CBS has probably seen every team in the tournament play multiple times. Even though he's a blind homer for Duke, he knows what he's talking about. A couple of guys at ESPN are probably very knowledgeable about all of these teams. I really respect Jay Bilas as an example. I'm sure there are a few other Hall of Fame-type writers like Jim O'Connell of the Associated Press who are knowledgeable and have first-hand knowledge of every team. But that's about it. I'd say legitimately a dozen or so guys know this field up and down. Everybody else is faking it. They have no idea.

And I know if you have a normal life and a normal job and kids running around your house, like I do, then you have no idea either. Just like everybody else. So do me a favor and take your bracket and recycle it right now. Put it in that blue bin by the trash. It's worthless to you and me and everybody else. Just watch the games and enjoy the action. We don't need this great tournament marred by so many awful brackets.