Ed Icionsub

Found a poll on the local news web site about the coming cooler weather. They asked, “what are you looking forward to most about the upcoming fall season?”

Here are the choices:

• Cooler weather
• Trees changing colors
• College football
• NFL games
• New television shows
• Fall fashions
• Hunting
• Fall school break
• Daylight savings time change

August is already half over and school has started, but there is still time for the beach this summer. I was thinking that my summer is over, but the truth is that there are still 4-6 weeks of warm weather left and the beach is just a half day’s drive from here. So I think I’ll check the http://www.horizonmyrtlebeach.com web site and see if there are any late summer golf packages still available.

For the past several years I have used the internet to find the right Myrtle Beach hotel and golf package. I can find the package prices and check availability, then book my stay without having to call a long distance number and press 1 for this and press 2 for that and then be put on hold for 10 minutes waiting for a real person to write down what I want.

I have my favorites, but if those aren’t available when I want to go to the beach, then I can find the Myrtle Beach best hotels online really fast and get it done. And, to be honest, if I can save $30 – $50 by staying at a different but comparable hotel, then why not give it a try?

Came across a website to help hook up a beach resort and golfing at the famous Myrtle Beach resorts: http://www.grandeshores.com for a late summer getaway. I keep hearing from friends and coworkers about their fabulous vacations this year in Myrtle Beach. I’m really motivated to go there at least once  this summer, and I have a bad feeling that summer is evaporating with every day that goes by.

Finding a great Myrtle Beach hotel online is fast and easy. You can see photos of the hotel, the guest rooms and all the amenities of the property. Then you can shop for room rates and package deals that might include a game of golf – or two.

While looking for Myrtle Beach vacation deals, I found the Grand Shores resort. This is the place that is at the top of my list for my South Carolina vacation.

What a difference 40 years can make when it comes to our entertainment. When I was a kid, we had a black and white TV in the living room and we were allowed to watch just a few shows, most of them on Saturday mornings so my parents could sleep late and recover from their Friday nights. My dad would watch the local football team play – unless the game was not sold out and then we were blacked out from the local market.

Now we have cable with hundreds of channels and shows, and kids can watch any time, day or night and see an age appropriate show. And I can order sunday ticket and watch any professional football game that I want.

The cable sports shows have pre game entertainment, color and commentary during the games and then post game analysis and highlights. Some of the pre game panels are especially entertaining, with retired pro players and coaches sharing their insights with the audience.

My neighbors in the Pegram and Ashland City areas enjoy subscribing to Cox cable sports for their cable service provider. The available channels and packages are reasonably priced and installation can be ordered over the internet or by phone.

Alex Rodriguez hit his 600th career Home Run in tonight’s game vs the Blue Jays. What a great achievement!

Alex Rodriguez is the New York Yankees third baseman. His home run to
center field with two men out and a man on base in the bottom
of the first inning gave him 17 home runs this season and was the 600th for his career so far. The runs gave the Yankees a 2-0 lead in the game, off Shaun Marcum, pitcher for the Toronto Blue Jays.

What is summer without a good baseball game? I haven’t been to a game yet this year. Nashville does not have a major league team, but our minors team is pretty good, the Nashville Sounds. We are the farm team for the Milwaukee Brewers.

Interesting facts: of 826 Sounds players who have appeared in at least one game for the Nashville Sounds since 1978, over 500 of those players have gone on to play in the major leagues.

Also, 39 Nashville Sounds players who have gone on to the majors have been named to their league’s post-season All-Star unit.

Everyone is so worried about the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico spoiling the beautiful beaches of Mississippi, Alabama and the Florida Panhandle, that most people in Middle Tennessee have canceled their vacation plans for the Gulf and are looking for someplace else to go this summer. My answer to that is: http://www.myrtlebeachseasideresorts.com/!

For years we have been going to Myrtle Beach for a week’s worth of family fun. The very first time  went was in 1991, when the Nashville Ski Club had their spring convention there. We went for the convention and took advantage of the golf packages while we were there to play 18 holes every day at a different top notch golf course.

The wife loves the family atmosphere of Myrtle Beach, unlike some of the other beach communities that attract rowdy college kids and drunken brawls. We’ve always felt perfectly comfortable going to the beach and the many attractions with the kids – no matter what age they were at the time.

We’ll be going back to the beach before school starts in early August. I used www.myrtlebeachseasideresorts.com/ to find the right hotel and golf course package for my budget. We can’t wait to head East for golf and surf in a few weeks.

It tickles me to hear the baseball announcer on the Playstation video baseball games call out, “A swing and a miss.” It repeats the same couple of phrases about a hundred times each game. It gets to the point that “a swing and a miss” becomes a taunt that dogs you for days after you’ve played the game.

It’s so bad that now I hear it in my head when I’m watching ESPN or even the sport clips and highlights during the sports segment of the nightly news. LOL

Thanks to my parents, I was brought up a backstage brat and have always loved live shows. We used to go to concerts, plays, circuses, pro sports, and all kinds of live events as a family outing. I still do that now.

Often I will see an announcement for an event and know that i want to go. But I always check around for discounts and special deals. The less I pay for tickets mean the more shows that I can go see or hear.

The Cheap Tickets website is a good resource for PNC BANK CENTER TICKETS. I have their schedule bookmarked and there are some great shows coming up perfect for a fall getaway with me and the wife.

Usually when we go to New York together, I’ll get tickets to a play or concert to make her happy, then I get New Meadowlands Stadium Tickets to make me happy. It works out great.

Another favorite big city is Chicago. It’s faster to get in and out of the Windy City than New York, so if I can find cheap Chicago Theatre Tickets for her, then I might get a baseball game in the same weekend for me.