Great Valentine's Weekend - spent a nice night Friday with Tracy and the boys at Johnny's Steakhouse, visited the Joslyn Museum Saturday, had a family game night, watched Million Dollar Arm - good movie ( might bug real baseball fans a little), and got Caleb back to school today.  Love them all and appreciate that they all put up with me everyday.

New Grapefruit beer over the weekend - pretty good

Multiple sports thoughts today for the followers: 

Went to a local high school basketball game the other night - two evenly matched teams, one team worked pretty hard, made adjustments, and simply played the game.  Other team (the home team) kept whining about calls the refs did not make, (actually watched a couple players turn and look at the officials for a call as the other team took the ball down the court on),did not move well without the ball on offense and did not adjust to what they were being given. Guess which team won the game?  That's right - the 1st one.  Worst part - 2 of the players on the losing team are small college potential kids (D2 down), if I were a scout and was watching this game, I would not have recruited them based on how they acted, not how they played.

Current time of year sucks - NBA is not worth watching, NHL is not my thing, Sportscenter sucks, NCCA Basketball does not matter until tournaments start, etc. Baseball is just around the corner - local high school kids - if you are just getting started, you are already behind. 

Pitching notes today on Gamechanger - the importance of 1st pitch strikes. 

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We looked at top pitching staffs in Ohio and Texas. What did we find? Both have excellent first-pitch strike percentages.

Bored Netflix find of the week - Sirens, a comedy by Dennis Leary about an EMT department in Chicago - very funny, easy comedy to watch. 7/10

Daake and the Lemon Lime Smile

Thought we would repost this one for all of the followers. Please take a minute and watch http://vimeo.com/http://lemonlimesmile.com/
The link above is for a great cause - Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. Please take a look at the great work being done at Daake - they are so good at giving back!

New Beverage try last night at DJ's new location is West Omaha - had a great time with friends.

Red Hook - KCCO Black Lager - between a Guiness and Amber Bock with a sweeter taste.

Good beer - worth a try.  http://redhook.com/beers/kcco-black-lager/

 

For those of you with Direct TV - here is the Bourbontucky documentary I was talking about.  Audience Channel on Direct TV - find it, record it and sit down with a bottle of bourbon and watch it.

Love the sights and sounds of spring - even though winter hit us hard this week.
Tryouts start first week of March - are you ready?

For those of you that have watched Netflix original series House of Cards - a little reminder of the past - new season available on February 27th.  I will be out of town, but will binge the whole series after that weekend.  Looking forward to it.

I have been really busy and have not had time to post lately....... Ok, got that bullshit out of the way, so back to it we go.

Found some new things lately to share with like minded folks - the first being a nice website for news searches, music topics, sports, etc. Search anything recent. Try it out and see if you like it.

http://www.rightrelevance.com/

Second - need to give a shout out to Todd, Tyler, Petey Mac, Puss and Craig - this is the crew on Z92  - The Todd and Tyler Radio Empire - every morning for the last roughly 19 years.  I sincerely miss any morning I can not hear them live and am downright pissed when I don't get the chance to catch up on podcasts. Best radio show in the country - I have listed to others, nothing compares.

http://www.tntradioempire.com/ - live link and podcast info

You can also find them on the iphone app Todd and Tyler Radio Empire app - listen live and podcasts available there and on Radio League app on iphone.

3rd - want to give props to Big Dog Beverage in Elkhorn - not many small town liquor stores have this good of a selection of beers, wines, and liquors and post their entire inventory online for your search - http://bigdogsbeverage.com/

Last for this note of the day - Justified keeps getting better - love the show and recommend it to anyone who wants a reason to have a glass of bourbon while watching TV. Speaking of bourbon - if you have Direct TV - the Audience channel on Direct TV did a documentary on bourbon called Bourbontucky - worth the watching if you are a fan.