SOME UPDATES AND CELEBRITY APPRENTICE

I am getting ready for my World Series of Golf debut and going to Florida for business and boat on Friday. All in all everything is going pretty well right now.Here are a few updates.

 

- I am playing golf about once a week and I keep threatening to go hit balls. Hopefully I will work in a couple of days at the range before the 11th. I played last week and started out birdie,birdie eagle. The eagle was a drive on a par 4 that I hit about 5 inches short of the hole! That is the good news. The bad news is that even after that great start I ended up shooting 76. OUCH!!  That means that after taking 4 shots from par on the first 3 holes, I lost 10 shots on the last 15 holes. Not good. Hopefully, I will get it figured out.

 

-I am going to Clearwater ,Fl on Friday. I am meeting with a radio station down there to try and convince them that my show is better than the stuff they are currently running. I was on in Tampa about 4 years ago but things have changed since then and frankly my show has gotten better. I am on in a lot of markets and pay a minimal amount for most and nothing for others. It is a win, win deal. They are able to sell my show to casinos,car dealers and restaurants and I am able to get new clients that want to make money betting on sports. Everyone wins!  I am also going to take the boat out for a couple of days with the family why I am there. the Kentucky Derby is Saturday so it ought to be a good weekend.

 

- Little league baseball is going good. The kids are getting A LOT better and having a lot of fun. We are winning a lot of games and the group of athletes that are on the team are looking a lot more like baseball players. It is fun to see the light com on in some of these kids heads and watch them start to figure out the game. We still are not as good as the kids that came out of the trailer and went straight to the diamond ,BUT we are getting closer. I have also been watching some of hte other 10 year old teams play and I promise you we are having more fun then they are. Honestly, I am amazed at the serious mood of some of these teams. I walked up the other day and one of the teams from our area was up to bat. One of the kids was yelling at his mom, one was whining at his coach and NOBODY  was smiling. When I asked one of the boys what the score was  he said " we are only up 4 runs."  GIVE ME A BREAK!  Lighten up people. We have had a couple of the boys on that team inquire about maybe moving over next season. I don't blame them, I would hate to  go to a grumpy, dusty baseball field every night and not have any fun.

 

-Celebrity Apprentice- Joan Rivers has lost her f***##* mind. I know Annie Duke a little and have played hours of poker with her. It is a fact she can be a strong headed bitch but Joan Rivers has lost it. I would love to see her next concert in Vegas. She might think about extra security. Poker players are a strange group and when Rivers went from attacking Duke to attacking all poker players, I  could feel all of those half drunk 2-4 hold em players planning their next move in regards to the rivers family. It would be like saying "all golfers are stuck up losers" . There are a lot of poker players and most will take offense to what she said. Let me retaliation begin.

 

I am now on Twitter. I am not 100 % positive what that means and I am sure I don't know how to tweet but I am going to learn and will start sending out Tweets sometime in May. If you want to follow me on twitter, I would love to have you. I think it is under the fat jack so get signed up. I will be sending boat updates throughout the summer and free winners once the football season starts. Should be fun .

 

We had another winning week in the NBA playoffs. We are up 10 games in the last 17 days and people are AGAIN making money. If you want to join us, I would love to get you signed up. 

LITTLE LEAGUE BASEBALL, NBA PLAYOFFS AND MORE

Well, I haven't looked but I think it has been a couple of weeks since my last post. Like most people(parents) I have been very busy lately. As I look back it has been a bunch of little stuf that has been occupying my time...

 

1. NBA GETTING BACK ON TRACK- Most people know that after having a GREAT football season, my hoops selections have not been great. Now, there is no reason to jump off a house for my clients but most of them are use to really high returns in basketball. We made money in March after a really bad Feb. and April has also been good as we went 8-4 last week. Getting my selections back to a place that my clients and I are  use to has been a high priority and has taken some time and extra work. We are now doing good again and ready for a big playoff run.

 

2. LITTLE LEAGUE BASEBALL- My 10 year old is in his second season of baseball. I tell you this because baseball is one of the hardest sports to actually tell how your kids are progressing.I think he is coming along good. He is hitting the ball, playing first base and most important(for a 10 year old) having fun.  It is hard to tell where he stacks up with other kids his age because baseball has the biggest difference between the KIDS that have played a lot and those that are just starting out. Here is the problem. You have 2 kinds of parents/philosophies when it comes to little league baseball. First, you have the parents that for whatever reason, have their 10 year old in their 4th 5th or even 6th season of baseball. These parents,again, for whatever reason have had their kids playing little league baseball for most of their walking life. Although studies show that over 97 % of these kids that start playing baseball before 8 yrs old, will either end up getting hurt due to too much too early OR will simply burn out on the game and not play by the time they are even in high school, their parents are playing 15 to 20 league games and 2 to 10 tournaments / season and dont seem to care what the long term effects might be. The upside to this group is that by playing,sometimes 40 -50 games/year before they are 10, these kids are far advanced over the kids that are playing in their 4th or 5th game ever! And these parents ARE able to relive their unfulfilled youth thru their kids.

The second group are those parents that understand that TOO MUCH BASEBALL AT TOO YOUNG AN AGE LEADS TO INJURIES AND BURNOUT AT A VERY HIGH RATE. Unlike the first group of parents, this group consists of parents that either have ACTUALLY played baseball at a high level. (I have 4 friends that played in the major leagues and all of them agree with this blog opinion. ) or parents that don't care if their kid is ever really good at baseball. Find me a 10 year old baseball team that consists of mostly first or second year kids and I will show you a group of parents that are either REALLY athletic or smarter than most parents that dont care much about baseball.   This is the world we live in and it is taking some time for our kids to find their way but they are making strides and due to the good group of parents and the pretty well adjusted kids they are having fun while they are catching on to the game.  Don't get me wrong, I have friends, in fact very very good friends that are in the first group. They have spent every weekend for 5 or 6 summers at the baseball fields watching their 6 and 7 year olds try and chase down a title. They know how I feel and we just agree to disagree. It is like being an extreme Republican and having friends that are Obama lovers. You agree to disagree. It is ashamed that most of the parents in group one will spend most of their time now at the baseball fields but never be there when their kids are in high school while group 2 will most likely fill those high school bleachers.  I am pretty sure my son is not going to be a great baseball player but again, it is hard to tell just 12 games into his career.

 

Caytie Ross' 6 year old soccer team is on a 2 game skid. After getting off to a great start , scoring 5 goals in her first game of the season, and winning 3 in a row, we are now just 3-2. Now some of you may wonder why it is OK for my 6 year old to play soccer while I don't agree with 6 year old baseball. Well, their are about 100 reasons I feel this way but I guess the biggest is that I don't want my daughter to be any good at soccer!  My hope is the rule about too much too early WILL apply to soccer and she will hate the game before it matters. Have you ever met an actual soccer parent. It is one of the worse lives I can imagine. Soccer is painful to watch, they travel all over to boring cities that even if they were fun, you wouldn't get to do anything fun because you are knee deep in a soccer tournament. They play in all kinds of weather and think about it, if your kid is the best soccer player in the city, state or country you are rewarded, after years of following them around watching 1-0 barn burners, with them signing a contract with a team 1000s of miles away because nobody around here cares about soccer!!!

No thanks!

 

I am trying to play a little more golf. Most of you know that I have been invited to play in the World Series of Golf May 11-14 in Vegas. I found out this week that their will be 13 episodes of this event shown on CBS this summer. This has brought up the since of urgency on getting my game in shape. I did go out last week and shot 76 with a double so I am not as far behind as I thought. I will be trying to get out more over the next couple of weeks and then peak on May 11 th-14th. At least that is the plan.