So I found out on Friday that I will be a father to a baby boy in July. Probably the most exciting day of my life. I never thought anything would pass up the day I got the call from the Rangers, but last Friday beat it by a landslide. So take that Texas Rangers, you are nothing to me, oh wait I was nothing to you so techinically you won. Anyways, seeing the developing spine for some reason took my breath away. It has totally passed up the heart beat in the nascar race that is amazing sonogram things. Shake and bake. Shake and bake.

One day my child is flicker on the screen, now he has a spine. Simply the most amazing experience of my life. I did find myself wondering if it was appropriate to play beer pong and have a child. Not sure how that got in there during the sonogram, but my mind is wonderland. I think he would be cool with it. Daddy is really bad at beer pong so he would get drunk and make a fool out of himself and what child does not enjoy seeing their parents act like idiots. Plus he would could hear Brett say “Drano” and then we could both make fun of him and Brett would be outnumbered and have no comeback. mmmmm, I am sure children services would look down on it, but it might work. Might want to ask the wife before hand though so I will get back to you on that one.

On a sad note, this is the final year for Dodger Town. This truly saddens me. Baseball needs Dodger towns and its other historic icons. With Roger, Barry and their kind ruining the game, this place is baseball in its purist form. If you have not been, please make sure you go, well worth the trip. I will always remember Tommy Lasorda giving a speech to a bunch of minor leaguers and just hammerin away on them. You just don’t get that close to icons.

Also, Al Lang field in St. Petersburg is its final year. St. Petersburg has been the home of the Cardinals, Yankees, Mets and D-Rays. All time greats have called this place home. The Devil Rays are moving to Port Toilet next year and no team is set to take their place. Another iconic place looses out. Hopefully something will happen.

On the Devil Rays front I am excited for this season. Wathcing Kazmir, Shields and Garza should make more games interesting. My little league bullpen was probably deeper, but at least they made an effort. Plus no more Dukes and Young. They give cancer a bad name. Seriously, the D-Rays need to go meet with the Twins front office on how to build talent. Have you ever seen a bonus baby from the Twins act like an idiot? I think not. They play the game right. Hopefully Upton will continue with his positive transformation, if not, get rid of him.

All I got, going to Just Surrender on Tuesday with Brett, so we can let you know how sweet the show is. I am going to rate it a 8 out of 10 prior to going in. Might be a 10 out of 10 depending on the number of PBRs i have.

So the idiots that are Florida residents passed on Tuesday an amendment that will save the average home owner about $240 on their property taxes and allow them to bring their save the homes cap with them when they move. Talk about unfair systems. If I buy a house right now, I will see not of these benefits. I could end up paying 10,000 in property taxes and my neighbor with the same house could only be paying 2,000 What a world of haves and have nots. This is the biggest load of crap I have ever seen. How out of touch is our government. More correctly, how selfish and out of touch are Florida residents that they think this is a fix. Why not vote the amendment down and make your government actually do something. Oh wait, then you wouldn’t save $240 dollars. My question is, why am I being punished for 1) not buying a home when I was 5, 2) why are people punishing the schools and other social programs for $240 and 3) why do old people get to vote. Seriously, the elderly is this state are so out of touch. They do not have kids so they argue they should not have to pay high property taxes, well you did not put anything into social security when were young compared to what i am putting in, so why am I footing the bill for a system that will no longer exist when I need it. Call me an ageist, but that is a common theme in Florida with the retires. So bravo Florida you really are ahead of the times. I will go rent my apartment now.

So i went with the wife to a George Strait concert last night. Yes I went and I understand that certain individuals will now make fun of me. That person should remember he went to a Brooks and Dunn concert and went with a bunch of buddies and not someone he loves. So there. Anyways, obviously i was bit taken back prior to going. I have not listened to country since I was 12 and working in the hay field with my sister. Oh and the occasional pit parties with red necks. My wife loves George Strait and found tickets so we were off. I must say I had a great time.

I am starting to believe in the power of good music. There is so much crap out there today that it should not be considered music. It was nice to sit back and listen to people that 1. can actually sing, 2. can actually write music, 3. do not sing about bitches, money, shooting people or how crunk they are, 4. did not dance more than sing and 5. degrade a whole generation of individuals without them caring.

Seriously can someone tell me the appeal of this music (Rap). And if you say it is something you can dance to you are an idiot. What has happened to this genre of music I will never know. It used to have purpose and meaning and now it is a complete farce. This is coming from someone that listened to this music from 1996-2001, so you cannot say I am a rock biased individual. Anyways there is my two cents. Oh and watch out for red necks on country concerts they are everywhere.

Seriously this may be the greatest device ever. Now I am not a big tech guy. I instead choose to be friends with a guy who is a huge tech guy and I just sit back and reep the external benefits from him purchasing the latest and greatest. I have no idea why this guy is friends with me. Seriously what do I bring to the table. I am now lost when my computer will not work. Anyways, I got the iPhone before he did and he was so disturbed by the idea of my having the new toy before him that he went out and bought one. Yes Brett I know that is the only reason you did. No denying it.

The only reason I got one is because I have the greatest boss in the world. Well since getting it, I cannot put the thing down. Everything you want, it can do. I never understood why someone would need it until I got one. I think if i find the right button it might wipe my butt for me. I will keep you updated. Anyways, if you are thinking of buying an iphone do it. Well worth the money.

So apparently the “Devil” in Devil Rays has been sneaking into little kids rooms and eating them, so the organization has now been forced to change their names to Tampa Bay Rays. Wow that rhymes. Sound pretty good. Umm maybe not. How about we change every teams name to something that rhymes. Seriously say the new name three times fast. You feel that a complete idiot. Man I hate rooting for this team and living in this town. Worst baseball town ever. All people do is complain about the team complaint about the park etc etc. The organization is not much better and to prove their point they did this. And also they are talking about wanting to build a new stadium funded by tax payers. Ha, just a ploy to get to move the franchise. Hey Tampa Bay area. Growing up I had to drive almost two hours to go to a Twins game. Tampa fans complain about have to drive an extra 30 miles to go to a game. What babies. Oh well guess I will sit back and enjoy Devil Rays baseball while it lasts. And yes they are still the Devil Rays. Not a good name, but better that Everybody Loves Rays

Yes the man did censor me. Add that to the reasons why I hate Brett Nyquist. He and George Bush should hang out. I wish I had a band and then I could sing the “stick it to the man” song. But I dont, so I will not do anything. So here are some things that have my panties in a bunch.

1. our fearless leader shot down another bill that would have given 10 million dollars to education, but increased the Pentagon’s budget. Man what a great president. WAR WAR WAR WAR, I am starting to jump the war bandwagon. It is the only important thing to our government so I might as well embrace it. I have order three rifles and you will see me patrolling the streets of Tampa in the near future. 30% approval rating, really, who the hell is the 30%, oh yeah, the rich that have gotten richer under him and are not affected by his b.s. policies and the recession we are heading towards.

2. I HATE FANTASY FOOTBALL. Seriously is there anything more frustrating. Other than when the computer decided you will not win a football game no mater what you do. Here are mine and Brett’s WR. Steve Smith, Roy Williams, Chris Chambers, Derrick Mason, Ronald Curry. That is a good bunch. Oh wait Four of them have the worst QBs in history throwing to them. Oh well, is it baseball season yet.

3. Did I mention Bush sucks

Well this was shorter than I thought.

So I hate baseball and I hate all of you. First the Yankees and Cubs lose and all is right in the world. The Rockies win the NLCS and my life gets better. Then the Indians go up 3-1 and It looks like the WS of my dreams is about to happen. Then the stupid Indians blow it all a Willie Mays Hays to Jake Taylor. Come on. All of America except those stupid annoying Boston fans were rooting for you and you lay three goose eggs in a row. “Wild thing you walk everything” Way to make Bob Uecker proud. “one hit, we got one damn hit” “you cant say that on the air” “christ no one is listening”. Now i cannot go into a sports bar for the next week and a half because of those annoying Boston fans. Thanks a lot Indians. I hope you are happy. Cleveland does not rock. Maybe they should have put some vagisil on the ball.

So i have no rants about Bush today, so I have decided to create a list because they are fun. My list surrounds creating your favorite cd that reminds you have great period of your life. Could be the songs you listened to in 8th grade while making out with your arm or songs you listened to with your drunk idiot friends while going throught the taco johns drive thru (swear I have never done that). My list centers around the greatest basement in Duluth, MN. Of course that would be Mr. Corey Kemp’s basement. Oh the times we had down there. Nothing like playing beer pong, playing horse race, golf, poker for keg stands, dancing with the gorilla, throwing td passes to Joe Joe, Joe Joe breaking glasses and then blaming it on my (was not me Brett), three guys passing out on a twin bed with a pink blanket, People Under the Stairs etc etc. Man what times. Well here are a list of songs that remind of that time and would be a great cd if you wanted to burn one

1. Less than Jake “plastic cup politics”
2. Rufio “rRoad to Recovery”
3. New Found Glory “Hit or miss”
4. Mxpx “Rock and Roll Girl”
5. The MovieLife “Jamestown”
6. Fenix Tx “Song for everyone”
7. Fall out Boy “The Patron Saint of Liars and Fakes” (Side note did not want to put this on here because they are gay now, but they weren’t at that time)(this also makes my list for greatest drive to Grandmas with Brett)
8. Count the Stars “Better of Alone”
9. Blink 182 “Dammit”
10. Midtwon “Just Rock and Roll”
11. Rx Bandits “Analog Boy”
12. The Starting Line “The Best of Me”

I could probably go on for a while, but these are the ones that came to my mind the quickest. If any of you have been to CK’s basement, don’t be afraid to tell a tale. I know we all have them. Just remember the Gorilla went to AlBrook and fits into my lettermans jacket very nicely.