Yay.......Summer school

Haven't blogged in a while and probably won't again for a while. I only have about 2 readers so not too many to disappoint...

So the wife and I were driving in town and she sees this car and immediately pulled out the camera. I love the color, orange looks tough on a car like that. For those not in the know..it is a Lamborghini and a beautiful one at that. I love supercars as much as anyone else, but I still wonder why anyone would spend a few hundred thousand on a car...ever. I know this car can go over 200 mph and that alone makes it unbelievably cool, but that is a lot of money that could be waisted by some person texting on their cell phone or changing a cd...if I had one (I'd sell it, but that's not the point) I wouldn't want to take it out on Memphis streets ever...too many bad drivers.

I would drive a Porsche 911 though..I'll very likely never come close to owning one so it doesn't matter, but I've always loved fine German engineering...so I would settle for a Volkswagen Jetta Turbo Diesel... Porsche owhs over half of Volkswagen so it's kind of the same, right?

One more thing....

Wednesday June 10 is my 3 year anniversary and I can't imagine how there could be a more wonderful and amazing wife than the woman I am married to. Thank you for 3 wonderful years and I love you so much. Here's to 80 more years together.

A New Season is Upon Us.....

Well, here we go again. It's the time of year where every baseball fan is optimistic about the season. We're all tied for first right now. The Reds made some moves I liked and didn't make some moves that all us Reds fans expected.

Willy Taveras...what can I say about him......well, he's fast...and he swings a little league bat. I see him as another "project" like Corey Patterson was last year. He cannot hit good enough to deserve starting, much less be the leadoff man. His career .331 OBP says that for him to say in the majors, he needs to contribute in other ways, like HR or RBI...which he does neither. I agree with the pundits who say that we would be better off with bringing up Drew Stubbs, former 1st round pick, and have him bat leadoff. He might have a lower batting average than Taveras, but he more than likely would get on base more often and play Gold Glove caliber CF. If they don't feel comfortable with that, then start Dickerson and Hairston Jr in CF, and Gomes in left.

My problem with the team, besides Willy, is the promise to get that All-Star caliber 3 hole power hitter. We needed to do what we did 10 years ago, sign a guy like Greg Vaughn, a clutch power-hitter who will knock in 100+ runs. Instead, we have to rely on Votto getting better, Bruce getting better, and Dickerson living up to the promise he showed last year. We are better defensively this year, and that will help, and we are loaded in pitching. We have 6 guys that should be in our rotation, but one has got to go, and it is likely Bailey will go down to AAA, while Micah Owings holds down the #5 slot.

NFL draft coming up soon. This is my favorite month, a new baseball season, the Masters, and the NFL draft all rolled up together. It would not surprise me at all to see Chad Ochocinco get traded on or around draft day. Houshmandzadeh left us, Ochocinco doesn't look like he wants to be here anymore, so we'll see. We have Coles in now to take Chad's place, Caldwell to take Housh's place, and then we couldn't rule out picking a WR in the 1st round, between Michael Crabtree and Jeremy Maclin. I'll try to break all this down as we get closer to then. What the Bengals need more than anything is a football person to he hired as GM and be allowed to make decisions for the franchise.

I've been really busy with school, so I haven't taken time at all to write on this blog. This time I've spent has gotten me much closer to graduation, which looks to be this December.

Read Ted Dekker, he is an amazing writer. Patrick Rothfuss, amazing writer and hilarious blogger. C Trent Rosecrans, the best blogger alive.

Maltzy