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A new driving range opend up near our house. I haven't been there yet, but they have a help wanted sign out by the street. It lists a couple of the open positions they have. One of them is for the position of "Ball Picker". Yes, I am five years old.
So the baseball players union didn't strike. I can't help but think that the agreement that was reached will be no good in the long run. I think a strike would have actually served them better. If there was an actual strike, I think the only way for baseball to regain the fans back would be to make some real changes in the way things are done. The agreement that was signed to avert the strike seems to me to be a rushed affair. Basically, a bland, solve-nothing, agreement that was simply made to avert a strike. Not to solve any of the festering problems. A band-aid on a puncture wound, if you will. The injury is deep, but the band-aid covers the surface. The glaring problem to be is the revenue sharing. The way it is outlined in the agreement (and to be fair, I just read a recap of the agreement on espn.com. I haven't actually read the official agreement) doesn't go far enough to help struggling small market teams improve their roster. These teams have trouble clearing money to sign top players. But because they are struggling, the only thing these teams are going to do with the money from the revenue pool is to pay off their debts, not to improve their lineup. If your choice as an owner is to pay a superstar and stay in contention, or to pay the payment due on your stadium deal and stay in business, you're going to pay your stadium deal.
I'm happy to have football back on TV. College football, Pro football, it doesn't matter. And, as usual, my alma mater stirs up a lot of attention and hopes in the media and then completely break down once they get on the field. Rutgers has been trying to become a big-time football school for a long time. And they just can't make the jump up to run with the big boys. Today they lost to Villanova, 37-19. Villanova!. Ru has been hiring and firing new coaches every year and the latest coach had made the most progress in keeping NJ playes in NJ. Usually other schools pick NJ high schools clean of top football prospects. Well, the players are in NJ, but they ain't winning. The coach, Greg Schiano is friends with James Gandolfini (who is a Rutgers grad himself). Schiano has gotten Gandolfini to make a number of commercials for the Rutgers football program that have been all over the local TV stations this week.
Bobby is begging for a computer. He's not yet 3 years old. His brother has taught him how to use a mouse and he is great at it. I thought Jake was advanced when he started using a mouse on my computer at about 3 and 1/2. Well Bobby is all over the computer. We gave Jake my old computer this past Christmas. Now Bobby wants his own. He's two, people! All of Jake's games that Bobby is playing are learning games, so I don't want to dissuade him from getting on the computer. But I think this might be just a little early. He ain't getting a computer.
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