Now for something that is really important. I love the Green Bay Packers. I own stock in the Green Bay Packers. My office is a shrine for the Green Bay Packers. For 17 weeks starting in September, the world rises and falls on whether the Pack wins or loses. Last Thursday I was AIMing with my good friend Nate, who is not only a fellow die-hard Packer fan, but also the source of most of my analytic knowledge about the Packers (ok, so I'm a lazy die-hard fan). Anyway, Nate was telling me that the Packers are a mess. Then he backed it up with details: Ahman Green got his 3rd domestic assault incident, Javon Walker was a holdout, Bubba Franks hasn't signed and wasn't in camp, Al Harris was charged with sexual assault (never a big fan of his anyway and now I know why), the 1st round pick (Aaron Rodgers) doesn't help them this year at all. As further evidence he shared that the Vikings have added 8 new and better guys to their defense (not to mention getting rid of Randy Moss).

I asked my co-worker Greg, another huge Packer fan, if he knew all of this. He said he did and wasn't worried at all. When I told my wife what Nate said her response was, "I'm not going to share any of this with the children. I want them to have a good summer". Maybe I better have Greg give her a call.

More depressing to me than thinking about a bad year for the Pack is all the baseball that is between now and the start of the season. But at least it does allow the kids to enjoy their summer. Lucky for them I'm just the son of a die-hard Cubs fan.