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     I  am  sure I know this  but I can't recall  off hand  why the  world series of college  baseball is played in  flippin  Omaha, Nebraska?  Who lives near there?  What a hardship for families  to have to  travel there for  3 weeks  to see the elmination rounds and then  go back for  the series.

   Can someone  clue me in? 

  I watched all 5 games on the road and the Stro's lost..................ergo................I will help the team and tune out  un less they are home!    

    You're welcome!

    Friends invited me over to watch the big game  Sunday and I was kind of  cool to the idea  cause I'm not  a huge fan of  either  team but then I started thinking about  the  winning  streak of the  Patriots  and I thought  hell yea, I'm going to watch. 

     Just wondering if anyone  out there is NOT going to watch the game  and if so  why not?  Post your  response  and I could  read  excerpts of your post  Monday morning during my live  webchat  from the news room.   

    Have a great weekend...........GO Patriots!!!!!!!! 

    Alright baseball fans,

 The day we have been waiting for since last year's  world series is at hand.  Monday is opening day at Minute  Maid Park?  Woo-Hoo, go   Astros.  Now I am not a sports reporter by any stretch of the imagination.  My old friend from KTRH  days  John O'Reailly said  you have to  "  speak sports  to report sports."  I unfortuanetly  don't speak sports.  I don't speak a lot of things  for that matter but I do know what I like. 

   So here's  the deal. I am live Monday morning at Minute Maid Park and I'm wondering what your thoughts are going into the new season.  I can tell you some of mine:

How does Biggio do it year after year?   Really , how does the man keep it up?  He still looks like he did years ago when he first stepped out into the Astrodome.

No worries about Brandon Backe since  I saw him at spring training  but how "  ready "  is he?

How does Morgan Ensberg reamin such a powerful  clutch hitter  season after season.?  Everytime we are down to the wire, he steps up, and  quite unassumingly knocks one out of the ball park.  What kind of concentration do you have to have to make that happen?  Plus  I hear he's a real  cut up  with the team. Funny he looks so calm and unfunny!

Who picks the great  music  the players walk up to bat to?  That stuff is great.  Where do they get their selection from?  That always gets the crowd going? 

And speaking of music, somebody up in the  broadcast booth has a huge selection of tunes to jam to.  The crowd is never too shy to get  a groove on. 

Any-hoo.....I could go on and on, but please share your thoughts  for opening day with me  and I will  try and incorporate your thoughts into the live interviews I have set up for Monday.  .

Also, check out  Dean and Rog  on 93.7 the Arrow and blog  down their topics Monday morning.  They always have great guests from the Astros  on. 

Oh, and one final  question....Milo Hamilton,  sweater  or jacket  opening night?