If I Can Make It There, I Can Make It Anywhere

I know this is a big holiday weekend for everyone and most have been circling your calendars for Sunday. For those who do not know what is going on this weekend, it is my birthday. Yes I will be turning the big 24 this Sunday. I know many of you are planning on showering me with gifts and making special trips out to see me in Columbus, but I hate to be the barer of bad news but I will not be here for my birthday on Sunday I will be sitting in Yankee Stadium watching the Yankees take on the Mariners. I and some high school friends are making the trip to New York to see Yankee Stadium on Sunday and Shea Stadium on Monday before they tear down the stadiums at the end of the season. I will not be back into Columbus until Tuesday so you can call me to wish me a happy birthday on Sunday and you can send your gifts to me though I will not get to them until Tuesday. I will of course have stories to tell about my trip to the big apple, but until then enjoy the Pat Thompson Birthday Weekend (aka Memorial Weekend).

Happy Mother's Day!

I would like to take time to say Happy Mother's Day to my mom and my grandmothers. I would like say thank you to them for having to deal with me as a child, but since I was such a perfect child growing up they should be the ones thanking me for being such an angel...your welcome.

In honor of the day I have decided not to make one "Your Mom" joke all day. Let me just say this is very tough, but it is worth it to all the mom's out there, but the other 364 days are fair game.

LOVE YOU MOM!
HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY!!

Talk Derby to Me

Well I got to check off another sporting event I had to see before I died. Last Saturday I went down to Louisville, Kentucky to catch the 134th running of the Kentucky Derby. I do not know how many of you watched the Derby but if you did you probably saw me, I was the one guy in the infield of about 80,000 people at the fence of turn three and you probably could have seen me for about 2.3 seconds on NBC when the horses went by. I was the guy wearing a green shirt, and no I was not wearing a fancy hat. It is OK if you did not see me because you had a better view of the Derby than I did, let me explain with a photo essay:

This was a park we passed by on the way to Louisville it made us laugh alot.


Erica selling her hat to some guy for $20 and a Natty Light, good negotiating

Line to get in, only one line to pay with credit card, thanks Visa for not opening another line, took 2 hours to get in from this spot in line.

Jon, Tina, and I drinking our mint juleps. Those things are disgusting.


Rich kid showing off his money to the mass people below waiting in line to place a bet. I really wanted to jump security to punch this kid. This is why I hate rich people.

The mud bowl around in turn three. I would love to see the rich people in there.

And they are off!

There they go, I saw them for about 2.3 seconds.

And the fans are off, this is right after the big race, but they still ran two more races.

This was a fun trip and I am glad I can say I have been there before, do not know if I would do it again though, but we will see. If there was one thing I took away from the Derby it is that if you are a female and break your ankles they are going to kill you on the spot, so to all my lady readers out there be careful.

We Want a Pitcher, Not a Belly Itcher

So I did not want to bore everyone with my work but April 19 we had our Spring Football Game and we had a men's lacrosse game before it and we tried to break some attendance records. I am happy to say we got 29,601 to see the lacrosse game which was a regular game season attendance record and for the Spring Game we had 77,000 + which was an Ohio State record, even though we had a rainy day which held some people back but I will take it. Any way I wanted to talk about the Cincinnati Reds game I went to on Monday night. We got some good seats for free about 13 rows up from the Dodgers bench. Now with good seats like these and a few beers in you it only leads to some good old fashion heckling. Just to set the record I am in favor of heckling in baseball if it is in all good clean fun, I do not use swears but just fun heckling. So it started with making fun of Andrew Jones who used to be a good hitter for the Braves but when he got to the Dodgers he got so bad that he was batting 8th, just in front of the pitcher, that was an easy one. A few beers later it went on to other Dodger players all getting chuckles from the fans around us. Then I had a heckle that brought the house down (more like the few rows around me who thought it was funny). There was this Dodgers fan who was sitting front row and cheering like a good loyal fan was, but when you are in the opposing teams house you should expect some heckling. Here is a photo of him I took:



So here is the story, a foul ball came his way and he caught it and began to stand and cheer about how awesome he was for catching a foul ball. The fans around the area began to boo him once the boo's ended was my time to shine. Just when it was quite enough I yelled out, "Go back to your mom's basement to play video games" This got some good laughs from the people that heard it, I even got a high five from some guys around me. I thought it was so funny that I had to tell other people after the fact what I had said and now I am telling you way after the fact, but I still find it funny. It has gone down as one of my finest moments in life.

Million Dollar Idea

I want to pitch this idea to all you investors out there that want to double your investment:

If you had a time machine would you go back in time and invest in Google before it became big? Or maybe IBM? Or maybe even sliced bread? Well those opportunities are gone but this one is the next big one. While I was out at a bar drinking I was talking to someone who drove a fork lift and it dawned on me of the next evolution of the fork lift. What happens when you want to lift something, but you also want to dig something at the same time. Well the fork is used for lifting and a spoon is used for digging and what is the combination of a fork and a spoon? A spork. Once the spork came into my head I knew I had a winning idea. The Spork-Lift (Registered Trade Mark) is going to be the next great machinery with the combo to lift and dig at the same time. I put together a mock up of what the Spork-Lift will look like. If you are an interested investor please contact me for more information.

April Fools!

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Gotcha! Totally fooled all of you!

...OK I realize that I fooled no one and probably confused more people than I tried to fool. My first flaw in this joke was me telling you I got a girl pregnant. As people pointed out to me that for this joke to be possible I would have to A) Hit puberty and B) Understand how to get a girl pregnant. To my defense, I did take Health Class in high school so I know how it works and I have been noticing my voice getting deeper and me growing hair in places that did not grow hair before. The second flaw in this joke was the link I attached to it, most people were confused as why I would trick people into viewing Rick Astley's music video "Never Gonna Give You Up", that was pretty much my whole April Fool's joke was tricking you in to viewing this "awesome" music video. As the newest crazy going around the internet is called getting Rick Rolled, here is what the Urban Dictionary says about Rick Roll:


From the Urban Dictionary

Rick rolled: To be tricked, through any method, into clicking a link that takes you to the Rick Astley video "Never Gonna Give You Up".


Basically how I liked the Ghost Riding video I talked about in my post in the fall, but no one else really understood, this is the same situation. Basically I am a dork and that was the whole joke making you apart of my dorkiness. Now you realize how good of an April Fool's joke this was, so stop calling me a dork and appreciate my work.

Big News

Sorry I have been not keeping up to date with my blog about the Big Ten Marketing Meetings but the short summary of it in an equation is take 45 sports marketers add 2 nights of free food and booze from sponsors equals not remembering a whole lot. Though that story is not the bigger issue at hand. I have been tackling a big issue and did not want to mention anything until I knew if it was true or not but looks like it is. I have found out that I am going to be a father. I know this must come as a surprise to many of you as it has to me. I do not know where to begin but I think alot of you can put it together on how it happened. I posted a youtube video of me and the mother getting an ultrasound. Check it out:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yu_moia-oVI