In the middle of vacation season

In The Middle of Vacation Season...

As many of my colleagues are currently on vacation (or will be shortly) it seems that anytime you want to get a hold of someone that they're on vacation. Also this got me thinking about the vacation we took to Austria in August 2006. So I decided to post a few pictures.

Interesting...

Barry Bonds Breaks Hank Aaron's Home Run Record

Barry Bonds broke Hank Aaron's home record on August 7, 2007 (story at Yahoo) in San Francisco against the Washington Senators. Mike Bacsik was on the pitching mound. You could say that Barry comes from baseball royalty being the son of Bobby Bonds, a distant cousin of Reggie Jackson (Mr. October), and is the godson of Willie Mays. Some people will say that this record is tainted because of alleged steriod use by Barry Bonds. Dan Wetzel
talks about how the new record is tarnished for this reason and how baseball has been plagued by steroid use since 1996 and has been largely ignored by the commissioner, owners, and the sporting world in general. He has also indicated how Barry Bonds isn't the hero that Hank Aaron was and still is. One of the problems with the media and celebrity age that we live in is that athletes and other celebrities are constantly under the microscope and it is hard for anyone to be a hero under all that scrutiny. It is also maybe hard to see a long-time record held by a legend of the game fall. Some records seem like there so far out of reach that they should never be broken, let along by mere mortals. Here is a column by Tim Brown he isn't as accusative as Dan Wetzel. Only time will be able to tell us how MLB history remembers Barry Bonds and his new all-time Home Run record and what will your average fan think of all this in 20 or 30 years.

Van Halen Going on Tour With David Lee Roth

It was announced at yahoo the other day that Van Halen is going on tour with David Lee Roth and Eddy's son on bass. The tour is currently only planned for the U.S. and given the history of Diammond Dave and the band, there is a pretty good chance that the tour doesn't happen or is cut short, but for Van Halen fans this is pretty exciting news. When searching on Wikipedia, there were 999 entries related to Van Halen including a discography, one on the band members, and so on. I haven't seen any statistics on this but amongst Van Halen fans there is a debate is to who is better David Lee Roth or Sammy Haggar. The Sammy Hagar era is often referred to as Van Hagar, Sam Halen, and others. For the Dave fans, this has to be pretty exciting. I have seen Dave in concert on his "Eat Em And Smile" Tour and I saw Van Halen with Sammy on their "5150" Tour and again on their "Monsters of Rock" Tour. I would love to see Van Halen with Dave. I hope that this really happens and that they're able to record together again. Van Halen was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on March 2007 Van Halen joined R.E.M as the latest inductees. In addition to Dave and Sammy, Van Halen was also fronted by Gary Cherone. For those of you that have been following the band's saga more closely then I, are probably aware of the rifts between Eddie and Sammy and Michael Anthony and how Sammy and the band parted only to tour together and part again. Dave has long been rumored to be rejoining the band several times and he did 2 songs with the band on their Best of Volume 1 and appeared with the band on the MTV 1996 Music Video Awards. So it would seem that we'll have to see if the tour and any new recordings follow.

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