ATLANTA — The Trib picked a good week to get rid of comments on our blogs, because most of you are going to rip me after you read this. Judging by the response from the folks in the Final Four media room after I revealed my plans for this post, I’m the type of heartless swine who would tell 4-year-olds Santa Claus doesn’t exist while plowing through a line of baby ducks in my ozone-layer destroying SUV.

Am I really that evil because I can’t stand “One Shining Moment?”

Surely, some among you are nauseated by the saccharine melody. Certainly, some of you who convulse when the synthesizers kick in and you hear Luther Vandross warble “You’re running for your life/you’re a shooting star.” There have to be a few of you who throw up in your mouth a little when CBS adds the trailing star effect to the basketball as it travels through the hoop.

It’s time to retire “One Shining Moment,” the song that plays over a highlight montage at the close of each NCAA Tournament. I love the highlights. I just can’t take the song. There. I said it. The Tribune’s Joey Johnston probably will fire up his blog machine and write an impassioned defense of the song, but I have to fight for what I believe in.

The finale of the world’s most exciting sporting event should not close with a tune that sounds like theme song to cheesy ’80s TV show starring Alex Karras and Bob Uecker as a pair of brothers who adopt a lovable multiethnic male and/or female scamp. “One Shining Moment” was perfect for Ronald Reagan’s “Morning in America” ’80s, but we live in an angstier age. I hear Rage Against the Machine is getting back together. Maybe those guys can come up with something.

“You probably want some rap song by Ludacris,” Chattanooga Times Free Press columnist Mark Wiedmer told me, scorn dripping from every word.

Then Wiedmer made a concession.

“The people who would enjoy [“One Shining Moment”] are probably already asleep when it comes on,” he said.

So what should replace “One Shining Moment?” CBS could choose a song based on the Final Four’s location. This year could be “Welcome to Atlanta” by Wiedmer’s buddy Ludacris or “Georgia on My Mind” by Ray Charles. If the Final Four is in Minneapolis, CBS could choose Prince’s “Let’s Go Crazy.” In Indianapolis, John Cougar Mellencamp’s “R.O.C.K. in the U.S.A.” You get the idea.

Or, someone could step up and provide an original composition. Maybe CBS analyst Billy Packer has a phone number for those guys in Rage Against the Machine.