Three Things

great topic,

favorite song:Carlos Santana Samba Pa Ti
2. travel:Hawaii Europe East Coast
3. Maui tacos
4.Beaches: Hawaii all of them
Favorite games Was at Barry Bonds hitting his 500th homerun with my son, Any Braves games I have attended just to look at my sons face as he got autographs from Chipper, maddux, Smoltz etc. A's games I went to with my dad as a kid

1) pina coladas
2) getting caught in the rain
3) making love at midnight, in the dunes of the cape

1) watching my kid play baseball
2) watching my kid play football
3) post-game discussion with my kid about his baseball and football games

1) favorite wines are all from napa valley - viader, silver oak, and zd.

2) favorite places - cancun, santa monica, seattle.

3) favorite movies - godfather, wizard of oz, the 10 commandments

4) favorite bb players - roberto clemente, reggie jackson, omar visquel

5) favorite actors - judy garland, humphrey bogart, charlton heston

6) favorite models - cindy crawford, elle macpherson, cheryl tiegs

Great! I'd like to combine some of these previous posts if I may.
1) Watching my kid play baseball IN HAWAII
2) Sand Therapy with my wife IN HAWAII
3) Eating Ahi Poke and drinking Mai Tais on the beach IN HAWAII

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Originally posted by ClevelandDad:
1) favorite wines are all from napa valley - viader, silver oak, and zd.

CD: GOLD...I googled them, it seems you can only get these wines directly from them...is this right?
or mayhaps you found them at bevmo? How did you find out about these wines?

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How did you find out about these wines?

BW - have been to napa valley many times and we tried them out. I think you are correct, you must either buy at the winery or online from the winery. viader is the best wine I have ever tasted. It is a mixture of french and california grapes. Silver Oak is a close second. Absolutely lovely places to visit. These wines are almost cost prohibitive to order in a restaurant however. You can obtain them for about half price at the respective winery.

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I know this has nothing to do with this baseball board,

Naw, I knew at least a few people would include baseball in their answers!

• Fav wines: Merlot, merlot, and merlot (But if I ever get to Napa Valley I will look up CD's picks!)
  
• Fav vacation spots: Sanibel Island, Fort Myers Beach, and any city with an outdoor MLB park.
  
• Fav songs: Sounds very mom-ish, but I most enjoy hearing new songs that my son is writing, even when they aren't quite ready for public performance.

Julie

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You got that right BW! Saw Randy Newman in concert last month...A one-of-a-kind storyteller.

Good taste Moose.

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Three fav wines:
ANY house wine in Italy...there are waaay more than 3

Three favorite things... hum?

1) Quiet Conversations w my son in the Deer Blind
2) Saturday morning coffee & conversation in bed w my wife (of course I get up first to get it)
3) Alone time on Moss Ridge. My favorite place on earth, remote spot on my family farm in NY, kind of like "Walton's Mountain".

Three favorite memories: day I got married, day my son was born, and day my daughter was born.

Three favorite movies: Caddyshack, Stripes, and Modern Problems

Three best friends: Hugh, Dave and Rob.

Three places I love to be: Home, ballpark, and lake

Three favorite songs: September by Earth, wind and fire. Take you there by Sean kingston. Aint no stopping us now by Mcfadden and Whitehead.

OK, I’ll bite….. My food favorites and I don't think I can stop at three;

Best Burger Place – Cheeseburger Cheeseburger, West Palm Beach Florida (Great People, BIG Burgers)

Best Hot Dog – Pinks, Hollywood, California (Chili Dogs from Heaven)

Best BBQ – Bubba’s, Eureka Springs, Arkansas (Pulled Pork Sandwich with Cole Slaw on it…. as it was meant to be)

Best Pizza – Doesn’t Exist (IMO, and yes before you ask, I am an American)

Best Steak – Paxton Chop House, Omaha, Nebraska (Get the Filet, You will be heavier your wallet will be lighter)

Best Chicken Fried Steak – Hammet House, Claremore, Oklahoma (Umm, extra gravy please)

Best Dessert – Cheesecake Factory, Down the Street (I’m partial to the Godiva Chocolate personally)

I know, I know, there are other kinds of food out there and Jenny Craig isn’t even speaking to me anymore. It’s OK though, I think I can get by on this list without too many problems!

"Ain't but three things in this world that's worth a solitary dime,
But old dogs and children and watermelon wine."

Tom T Hall

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At this point it's more of a wish list than anything else...

1). The smell of fresh sawdust in the morning.

2). The sound of pneumatic nailers on every street.

3). The sight of a smiling contractor as he is breaking the bands on his order.

Hey...a guy can dream can't he?

yea woody, i guy can dream. along the same thought's.

1) my office phone ringing for work,not a bill collecter.

2) contractors telling jokes again. they stop with hard times.

3) my back stiffening up from work,not the couch.lol.


maybe turning on the new's and seeing anything,anything but gloom and doom. i'd almost rather see the yankees win the world series...........almost.

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maybe turning on the new's and seeing anything,anything but gloom and doom. i'd almost rather see the yankees win the world series...........almost.

Bite your tongue 20Dad!!!!!

My 3 favorite beers:

1. Glacier Brewhouse (Anchorage, Alaska) - Imperial Blonde...for me no other beer even close

Imperial Blonde

2. For Bullwinkle, Moose's Tooth Pub and Pizzeria (Anchorage, Alaska) - Hard Apple Ale

Moose's Tooth Pub and Pizzeria

3. For baseball lovers, Pyramid's Curve Ball Kolsch

Curve Ball

This is a fun one.

Favorite Really Expensive Wines: Caymus Cabernet, Mollydooker Carnival of Love Shiraz, Staglin Cabernet; Archery Summit Estate Pinot Noir. Can't argue with Viader either. I have a '97 and a '98 in my basement if you want to drop by some time CD!

Favorite Moderately Priced Wines: L'Ecole #41 Cabernet, Mollydooker "The Boxer" Shiraz, Any of the "R" zinfandels (Ridge, Rosenblum, Ravenswood, Rabbit Ridge, Rafenelli, etc.)

Favorite Stuffed Pizza: Edwardo's Chicago.

Favorite Deep Dish Pizza: Pizzeria Due Chicago

Favorite Thin Crust Pizza: Aurelio's Pizza, Homewood IL

Favorite Ball Parks: Wrigley Field, PNC Park

Lease Favorite Ball Parks: Rogers Center, Fenway Park

Favorite Places to Visit: Chicago, Miami (leaving in four hours!), Seattle

Favorite Movies: Casablanca, Lost in Translation, Streets of Fire

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Originally posted by 20dad:
...contractors telling jokes again. they stop with hard times.

"Knock, knock."

"Who's there?"

"Not me."...

"Not me who?"

"Not me anytime soon."...

"Hey 20dad, not me soon either."...

"Same with me."...

"Not I."...

"Who you looking at 20dad, I'm not here."...

"Ease back down on that couch Mr. Concrete."...

"Dream on big guy."

My three favorite sounds:
1. "I love you Dad."
2. "Thanks Dad."
3. "Whatz up ole man?"

Favorite sights:

1. The sun as it creeps over a stand of mature oak trees penetrating the foggy mist of a serene Tennessee morning in early fall.

2. A Tahoe with an Auburn license plate that I hadn't seen in months coming down the driveway tooting its horn.

4. A 3X9 Leupold Vari XIII mounted on a .308 bolt Remington 700

Favorite Foods:
1. 2. and 3. Chicken grilled/smoked over a grill that I make.

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Originally posted by Fungo:
My three favorite sounds:
1. "I love you Dad."
2. "Thanks Dad."
3. "Whatz up ole man?"

Favorite sights:

1. The sun as it creeps over a stand of mature oak trees penetrating the foggy mist of a serene Tennessee morning in early fall.

2. A Tahoe with an Auburn license plate that I hadn't seen in months coming down the driveway tooting its horn.

4. A 3X9 Leupold Vari XIII mounted on a .308 bolt Remington 700

Favorite Foods:
1. 2. and 3. Chicken grilled/smoked over a grill that I make.

Number 1 fooled me, because I thought you were going to say:

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1. The sun as it creeps over a deer stand of mature oak trees penetrating the foggy mist of a serene Tennessee morning in early fall.

With respect to #3, I have the same scope mounted on a Remington Model 760 pump, 30-06.

With respect to the chicken, what type of "rub" do you use and is in the plastic bottle sitting on the left side of the grill?

Who carved "War Eagle" in that grill?

Bored so I will take a shot.

Favorite 3 songs.
Everlong - Foo Fighters
Simple Man - Lynryd Skynyrd
Dock of the Bay - Otis Redding

Bands
Foo Fighters
Weezer
Led Zeppelin

Movies
Dances With Wolves
Bull Durham
Family Man

Vacation Spots
Chicago
Cape Cod
Rocky Mountains

Baseball Players
Ted Williams
Roberto Clemente
Sandy Koufax

Teams
Boston Red Sox
Pittsburgh Steelers
UK Wildcats

Best things in my life
Wife and 2 kids
Being around baseball and coaching
Teaching

Foods
My steak and potatoes
Lemon meringue pie
Twizzlers

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what type of "rub" do you use and is in the plastic bottle sitting on the left side of the grill?

CD, Rub? -- I use Dale sauce and Grill Mates (bottle in left) most of the time in the Montreal Steak flavor but I do experiment. What's in the plastic jug?
Come to Tennessee and I'll show ya. --- Just joking --- it's water.

Justbaseball, I made a grill for an Auburn Baseball fan and used a router to create the AU logo and "Tigers". His grill looked so good I made one for myself. Welding and woodworking are just two my weird hobbies.

I love it! Can you make a "Cardinal (er, ummm 'Tree Hugger')" or "Bearcat" one? Can you even do a 'combo' grill???? And do you ship out-of-state?

Great Thread....

1. A windless day
2. The smell of my wife's robe.
3. Watching my boys play ball or my girls in a play.

Sounds

1. Strike three
2. Dad... what do think
3. The drag screaming from the fish of a lifetime.

Sights

1. Dogs working a field on a pheasant hunt.
2. 6-8 foot waves at any point break with nobody out.
3. A sweet report card.

Drinks.

1. Sapphire up with 2 olives.
2. Beer served at 34 degrees after the hunt
3. Margarita anytime

Smells

1. A brand newe glove.
2. BBQ anything.
3. First brats of the season.
3.

Here's some book's.

The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith

Synopsis: A pleasing novel about Mma (aka Precious) Ramotswe, Botswana's one and only lady private detective. A series of vignettes linked to the establishment and growth of Mma Ramotswe's "No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency" serve not only to entertain but to explore conditions in Botswana in a way that is both penetrating and light thanks to Smith's deft touch. Mma Ramotswe's cases come slowly and hesitantly at first: women who suspect their husbands are cheating on them; a father worried that his daughter is sneaking off to see a boy; a missing child who may have been killed by witchdoctors to make medicine; a doctor who sometimes seems highly competent and sometimes seems to know almost nothing about medicine. The desultory pace is fine, since she has only a detective manual, the frequently cited example of Agatha Christie and her instincts to guide her. Mma Ramotswe's love of Africa, her wisdom and humor, shine through these pages as she shines her own light on the problems that vex her clients. Images of this large woman driving her tiny white van or sharing a cup of bush tea with a friend or client while working a case linger pleasantly. General audiences will welcome this little gem of a book just as much if not more than mystery readers.

The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America by Bill Bryson

Synopsis: A travelogue by Bill Bryson is as close to a sure thing as funny books get. The Lost Continent is no exception. Following an urge to rediscover his youth (he should know better), the author leaves his native Des Moines, Iowa, in a journey that takes him across 38 states. Lucky for us, he brought a notebook.
With a razor wit and a kind heart, Bryson serves up a colorful tale of boredom, kitsch, and beauty when you least expect it. Gentler elements aside, The Lost Continent is an amusing book. Here's Bryson on the women of his native state: "I will say this, however--and it's a strange, strange thing--the teenaged daughters of these fat women are always utterly delectable ... I don't know what it is that happens to them, but it must be awful to marry one of those nubile cuties knowing that there is a time bomb ticking away in her that will at some unknown date make her bloat out into something huge and grotesque, presumably all of a sudden and without much notice, like a self-inflating raft from which the pin has been yanked."

Guns, Germs and Steel: The fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond
(Winner of the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction)

Synopsis: Although the book has raised a few points of controversy among scientists, it also has gained widespread praise. Some scientists argue against Diamond’s thesis that geography and environment are the most important factors in shaping the world as modern humans know it. But most critics praise Diamond for the task he successfully took upon himself, which was to answer a very complex question. In the prologue of Guns, Germs, and Steel, Diamond recounts how he became intrigued when his New Guinean friend Yali asked, “Why is it that you white people developed so much cargo and brought it to New Guinea, but we black people had little cargo of our own?” The cargo that Yali refers to is technology—tools as simple as axes; accessories such as umbrellas; and more complicated inventions such as computers, cell phones, and the Internet. After all, Diamond points out, a mere two centuries prior to his meeting Yali, New Guineans were still using stone tools. What factors caused this gap between the development of one culture and another?
Diamond searched for an answer by examining millions of years of history, mapping out the migrations of early humans from Africa to Eurasia, from eastern Asia to the Pacific Ocean islands, and from Siberia to the North and South American continents. He follows humans as they evolve biologically, and then he concentrates on specific representative societies to illustrate his findings.
To define the differences between developing cultures, Diamond emphasizes the effects of food production, writing, technology, government, and religion. Then he demonstrates, in his opinion, why the differences among various cultures occurred. More important (and one of the reasons for some of the controversy surrounding this book), Diamond concludes that it is ultimately geography, not biology or race as some other studies have tried to prove, that produced the cultural disparities his friend Yali had pointed out.

I want to play too:

My three favorite things:

1. The look on a kid's face when they get their first hit and running behind them down to first yelling "run", because they're stunned and still looking where the ball went.
2. The grin on a player's face when they make a great play and the crowd goes crazy.
3. Sitting on the first row by the right field foul pole at Turner field on Mother's Day with my family and the bluest sky, greenest grass and coldest adult beverage ever. There was even a breeze blowing that day.

Many mis-perceptions about us Northerners.

1) favorite wines or cocktail:
Some would think: Any screw top wine that fits in a brown paper bag.
Actual: Bloody Mary with Absolute Vodka- homemade TJ- pickled asparagus- Jumbo green Sicilian olives stuffed with a jalapeño pepper, and a Spotted Cow chaser

2) favorite places -
Some would think- Neighborhood 711, Walmart
Actual- Any lake, forrest, or ballfield

3) favorite movies -
Some would think: Brady Bunch Reunion
Actual: Pulp Fiction, Caddyshack 1, Godfather,

4) favorite bb players -
Some would think Bonds, McGuire, Palermo,
Actual: Yount, Molitor, Ryan, Kofax, Zink

5) favorite actors -
Some would think: HeeHaw cast
Actual: Pachino, Hanks, Travolta

6) Favorite Music:
Some would think: Any Polka, Hanna Montana
Actual: Zep, Floyd, Outlaws, Fleetwood, Eurythmics

In no particular order:

Belgian Beer

Sweetwater Lighthouses and Coastlines

The Hope of Opening Day

3 favorite teams
#1 sons baseball team Redsox
#2 sons baseball team Whitesox
Cleveland Indians

3 favorite foods
hotdogs
nachos
sunflower seeds
all from the snackshack

3 favorite smells
the snackshack
fresh cut grass
brand new baseballs