Tiger Bombers

I wonder if any of these young women on American Idol who rush up and kiss Steven Tyler know that he is going to be 63 in March.

You have to hand it to him; he can still get hot women chasing him around.

He can’t sing the National Anthem though. This much he proved before the AFC Championship Game last weekend.

I have only spoken of football once since I have been writing this blog for a year now. I do root for the NY Football Giants and am excited to see them in the Super Bowl for the 5^th time next weekend in a rematch with the New England Patriots.
The Giants beat the Pats in a regular season match this year and they are pretty much on fire. While Tom Brady has been a machine for his career, he doesn’t play defense and the Pats pass defense is one of the worst in the league.
That’s not to say that Giants secondary is the best either. They have been banged up all year long. But their pass rush is good enough to keep Brady on his toes. If the Giants can establish a run game, they’ll win. Otherwise, it’s anyone’s guess.

So yes, it’s been a year since I have been writing this blog now. It has actually reached into 43 different countries thus far and I haven’t said anything of importance or relevance yet except to talk about Haley Reinhart last year on American Idol and Christina Aguilera’s fluorescent hair.

The countdown is now underway to Spring Training in MLB. The big news of the week was that free agent Prince Fielder signed a 9-year 214-million dollar deal with the Detroit Tigers, who again become the favorite to win the AL Central Division. The Tigers did lose a key player in Victor Martinez for the year to an ACL injury. He is a .330 hitter who drove in 106 runs last year. Fielder isn’t quite the hitter that he is. But he is a great replacement. The move does make the Tigers stronger for many more years though and it clearly is a long-term plan that they have.
This will mean that the AL’s leading hitter, Miguel Cabrera, will need to move to 3^rd base. Who knows what that now means for Brandon Inge who was playing there. But that’s just tough noogies for him because any team would happily replace anyone they had with Cabrera if given the opportunity.

My new puppy, Sasha, is now 3 months old. In the two weeks that I have had her she has nearly grown twice her size. It’s sad in a way but she is still beautiful. Since I don’t have any work scheduled for about 6 weeks (another sad story) I do have plenty of time to train her and she is doing quite well in puppy school.

I have to say that I just wrote about two pages chronicling how this year has started off just where it left off for me last year. But I deleted it. It doesn’t serve much purpose. Let me remain positive.

On the MLB Network there is a new baseball trivia show. This is now the most awesome show in all of television. Currently, people outside of baseball circles are not competing, but that’s ok. I love baseball trivia and find that for as much as I think I know, this game is pretty tough. It’s played a little differently than one might think. It’s not a simple one question, one answer type of thing. There are categories which relate to lists of answers. For example a category could be named something like “Tiger Bombers.” Then the contestants will find out that they have to name as many Tigers who have hit 30 homeruns in a season as possible. Or it could be something like name the top ten all-time Tiger homerun leaders. It’s very tricky to do after one reels off the first few obvious ones.

For baseball fans, I highly recommend this show.

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Hot, Humid and Happenin

Yes, it’s been a while, hasn’t it? Well, I just haven’t been feeling very chatty. Besides, there really isn’t a whole heck of a lot going on in Baseball and I haven’t done a hypnosis show since December 20^th and don’t have one on the schedule right now until March 3^rd.

But American Idol did start again, the Bachelor is back on and I got a puppy so there are some things to say.

American Idol did feature a baseball player on its opening night though. Former St. Louis Cardinal pitcher Joe Magrane has a daughter who passed her audition and helped provide an awkward moment on the show.
Shannon Magrane, 15 years old and 6 feet tall entered the judges chambers in Atlanta and shortly thereafter brought her family in with her including her dad who currently works for the MLB Network. After busting out her song Idol judge and former rocker Steven Tyler said its “hot, humid and happenin, just like your daughter.”

It was too funny. I wondered for a moment if her father was going to throw a water bottle or something at 90 mph towards him, but he sucked it up and didn’t say a word. After all, his daughter was moving on to Hollywood. Everyone, even a former MLB player, can be bought.

I watch the Bachelor because I like to make fun of all of the desperate women who try to find love on a TV show. I do envy, however, every single dude that gets to play the Bachelor. He has 25 women at his feet and he knows pretty much that they all want him. This season the guy who is the Bachelor has a bumper crop of women though and I do like to try to predict who will be in the final four.
If you watch this show I’ll mention my final five. I’m having a tough time chopping down the last one because he is a self-professed fan of brunettes and the best one there is a blond.
So here it goes briefly…Courtney, Kacie B, Casey S, Emily and Nicki.

I hadn’t really been looking for a new dog yet but had been casually searching for Golden Retrievers online when I sent a link to some to a friend of mine to see. They were pure-bred dogs and I really was just window shopping. He wrote back and said, “don’t go that route, rescue a dog,” and sent me a link to Petfinders.com and a page which had Goldens on it. I immediately saw the cutest little puppy face I had seen in quite some time and saw that she was mixed with Siberian Husky, a breed I also favor.
I instantly sent a note and after a few notes back and forth I drove down to W. Virginia two days later to get her. I have named her Sasha. She has her own Facebook page already (Sasha Manlove) and since business is basically non-existent right now I have plenty of time to house train her and begin obedience training.

The move was a great one for me. The three months since my last dog Brother died was the longest that I have been without a pet since I can remember. It’s been lonely in here and now I am feeling a little better with her in the house.

That’s about all that I wanted to say except that I am doing a public show in Delaware for the first time this coming March 9^th at St. Marks HS in Wilmington. If you are interested in seeing my show just head over to www.firststatehypnosis.com for more details.

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