FullBach No Doubt in Week 3
For the 2nd straight week the Pick’em winner was decided before the Monday Night contest began, as FullBach’s 16 held off a valiant try by Ninbrugs 15. I’m sure many have noticed the entries with a ‘Bach” a spin-off half of Mike’s surname Rombach, pronounced Rom (like the ROM in CD-ROM) and the ‘Bach’ like the great German composer & musician Johann Sebastian “Bach”. Pretty clever. Mike has been a great addition to the Madness since joining 10+ years ago and arguably my Best Recruiter along with KSWAG. So Thanks Mike to you and the Bachs & Congrats on your week 3 victory. I’ll Venmo your payout shortly.
Honorable Mention in Week 3 with 14 – Dylan Tolley & LookHoosBach
I mentioned this before when Mike has won in the past so some of you might remember that we met freshmen yr at Shawnee HS (Go Renegades!) on the football field, not the classroom. Let’s just say Mike took classes in a different part of the school from where I roamed the halls. So outside of possibly having lunch, study hall or PE scheduled at the same time, the chances of meeting up were slim, but we’d always end the day bullshitting before, during and after football practice.
We had fun throughout our high school years, but like many of us once you graduate you just go in different directions and lose touch. Well you’d see each other at summer parties throughout college and have fun catching up, but then you graduate you focus on a career, then marriage and those ‘get togethers’ get spread over larger gaps. Now you’re bumping into each other at a party or some reunion every 5 or 10 years and you’d end up chewin the fat havin a good time and before you know it you’ve downed a handful of beers and its two hours later. You walk from the conversation thinking, ‘wow that was a good time, I should reach out more’, but for some reason you never do. That’s my friendship with Mike, who, I might add I haven’t seen in 10 or so years, BUT I took advantage of that last get together and mentioned the ‘Madness’. Since we’ve kept in touch more and Mike has been my best recruiter, adding 5 ‘Bachs’ to the Madness.
So, my friend, I’m looking forward to our next meet where I’m sure the conversation will be entertaining, and the laughs will be plenty.
Mike is a graduate of JMU (Go Dukes!) and then Harvard Business School and worked for some nostalgic companies along his luxurious career, two of them being Circuit City & AOL, remember them? Married to BeWriteBach and they have 5 kids, 4 in the Madness. Mike is now rubbing elbows with Governors Josh Shapiro PA & Kevin Stitt OK, talking energy as Vice President/General Manager NRG Energy. Totally engaged in helping the people with energy costs, you can read Mike’s ‘Opinion’ piece in the Boston Herald May 26, 2026 ‘Rombach: Bay Staters deserve a say in energy supply’
Cullenator Tip
You all know you can get ‘real time Rak Madness Scoring updates’ but did you know you can get real scoring while a game is in progress?
To access ‘real time scoring’ you need to open the ‘Cullenator’s pick sheet’ located in the upper right-hand corner, hamburger with check mark icon.
Once open, if the game is in progress a Red Dot will appear on the column header, next to Game label, ex. C4, for college game #4. If you want to see the current score of the game and the time remaining, click on it. Game details will appear similar to the sample pic shown from Saturday night’s game between Texas & OSU.
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eRak’s (Erik Rakoczy) and lovely bride Diana wed on Friday Oct 11th in a beautiful outdoor ceremony. The venue was charming, the weather gorgeous and the party that followed… a Rockin! Just a great time in NC. Although it was like herding cats, I managed to pull together the largest gathering of Rak Madness members since the pool began in the late 90s for a picture… see below. Great seeing Everyone! and for those of you who thought ‘MomRak’ was my second entry… well she’s real and pictured below. MomRak was in Madness heaven when she got to meet the crew Rubin, Zaversnik, Molino and the famous Will-I-Am Fergie-Son, yes the Will-I-Am that she’s been quietly cursing the past several years for winning too much. 
