And We're Off

According to weather.com, it will be 57 degrees with scattered showers in Little Rock, Arkansas on Sunday. We'll let you know if they're right.

Yes, with an open heart and an empty head (or something) we three embark on our journey of Midwest sports miscellany that will eventually become [name our book] by David, Jason and Loren.

The odyssey begins Saturday, March 22, around 8:30am Central Daylight Time in Chicago, IL. And it will end at Wrigley Field in Chicago on Monday, March 31 at 1 pm CDT, as we usher in the 2008 Baseball season.

In between, we'll take copious notes, take endless megabytes worth of digital photographs, record hours of audio, and Benetti no doubt will eat his weight in things smothered with gravy. And we will blog.

Stay tuned to name our book to follow us on our journey. We'll post thoughts, photos, and sound bites from the road. Read, look, listen, enjoy. Then feel free to click on that shiny yellow button on the top right and become a part of our journey.

Our Itinerary:
March 22: Indianapolis, IN
Indiana High School Basketball Championships

March 23: Little Rock, AR
NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament Round 2

March 24: Memphis, TN
NBA: Nuggets @ Grizzlies

March 25: Nashville, TN
NHL: Blue Jackets @ Predators

March 26: Columbus, OH
NHL: Blackhawks @ Blue Jackets

March 27: Cleveland, OH
Smuckers Stars on Ice

March 28: Detroit, MI
NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament Sweet 16

March 29: Ann Arbor, MI
NCAA Baseball and Gymnastics
Mt Pleasant, MI
Boxing

March 30: Grand Rapids, MI
AFL: Avengers @ Rampage

March 31: Chicago, IL
MLB: Brewers @ Cubs

Welcome

And now a chance to have YOUR NAME permanently engraved in literary history...or at least that open book up there.

In March, we'll be traveling from Little Rock to Chicago for a week to explore sports and write about what they do for (to?) us. The end result will be the most hilarious book that's ever been written about sports (between March 23rd and 31st of 2008).

-Aaron Boone hits a home run to win game 7 and a Red Sox fan smacks a can of furniture polish so hard against the wall, it explodes.

-A Bills fan can't bear the world after the Music City Miracle and spends the next 36 hours sleeping.

-A California surfer has his leg bitten off by a shark yet still has season tickets to his favorite hockey team in San Jose.

-A man can remember each game of the 1954 world series, but can't recall his wife's birthday, which coincidentally took place while the Giants were sweeping the Indians.

Why? For What? Our journey is to find the answer to these questions. Whether we fail or succeed, we'll have a heck of a story to tell and many nachos to digest.

But, we have moderate to extreme difficulty naming chapters. So, we're going to call them by your names. As long as you're willing to fund our project. The 15 largest donors will be given chapter titles. Everyone else will be mentioned later.*

Also, the first donor over 300 dollars will have his/her name included in the book's title. How often do you have the chance to be the eponym for a section of a book? If your answer is more than twice per year, we are no longer friends.

So, send your donations to:
Nameourbook
2559B Owen Dr.
Winston-Salem, NC 27106

Or pay via PayPal by clicking on the shiny yellow button to your right.

Help us fill the space above. It's so empty.

-Jason, Loren, and David

* If interested in donating anonymously, please see "Curb your Enthusiasm," season 6, episode 2. That should kill any inclination to not be recognized