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Dear Fans,

With 2008 in full swing, spring is finally here.  If you haven't started your new years resolutions yet, you may want to note the year isn't so new anymore..  Spring is just a few short months and then it's time to start thinking about sun, barbecues, camping, cold drinks, and being lazy. 

Does anyone else feel a drag or a sense of time slowing down when the Football season ends?  There's this period of time right after the Superbowl when I get this feeling of boredom.  Basketball isn't attracting my interest, it's cold outside, and everyone's saving all of their sick time and PTO for those vacations and camping trips that seem so far off.  This is when I really need a jump start or some extra energy to take my mind out of idle mode...or maybe I should just leave it there.

Everyone who knows me knows that my mind is in Baseball mode.  I coach a pee wee baseball league with my Uncle, and we're a week away from Opening Day.  Summer is my favorite season and luckily Baseball just happens to coincide with it.  The Major League season is starting also, and you all know I'll be watching every Braves game which will probly lead me to postpone leaving the house for any reason until November.  (Except to do the before mentioned summertime activities listed above...and to go to work).

The weather this weekend was a nice preparation of what we can expect in a few months.  However you know in the back of your mind, even in California that it's still only March....and some rain is probly going to happen between now and May. 

And finally, my brother Chris and his girlfriend Sarah are having a baby later this summer.  It's pretty exciting to be an uncle again....although I was hoping to be a dad first...I better get moving....

So I'll leave everyone with a song lyric that should put you in the mood for relaxing, living and most of all ENJOYING life and preparing for my favorite season....Baseball Season!

Go Braves!

Matt Berliner

Summetime by Kenny Chesney

Summertime is finally here
That old ball park man is back in gear
Out on 49, man I can see the lights
School's out the nights roll in
Man, just like a long lost friend
You ain't seen in a while
You can't help but smile.

And it's two bare feet on the dashboard
Young love in an old Ford
Cheap Shades, a tattoo and a Yoo-Hoo, bottle on the floorboard
Her favorite song on the radio
Sing along because it's one we know
It's a smile
It's a kiss
It's a sip of wine
It's summertime
Sweet summertime.

Temperature says '93
Down at the deposit and guarantee
But that swimming hole
It's nice and cold
BikINI bottoms underneath
But the boys heart still skip a beat
When them girls shimmy off
Them old cut-offs

And it's two bare feet on the dashboard
Young love in an old Ford
Cheap Shades, a tattoo and a Yoo-Hoo, bottle on the floorboard
Perfect song on the radio
Sing along because it's one we know
It's a smile
It's a kiss
It's a sip of wine
It's summertime
Sweet summertime.

The more things change
The more they stay the same
Don't matter how old you are
When you know what I'm talking 'bout
Yeah baby, when you got.

Two bare feet on the dashboard
Young love in an old Ford
Cheap Shades, a tattoo and a Yoo-Hoo, bottle rollin on the floorboard
Perfect song on the radio
Sing along because it's one we know
It's a smile
It's a kiss
It's a sip of wine
It's summertime
Sweet summertime....