Day 22. I took a Louisville Slugger to both headlights

When I was a child, and my father determined that it was time for his children to learn to swing a baseball bat, he came home one day with a red child-sized Louisville Slugger baseball bat. And he taught us how to swing that bat with the label pointed up so that we wouldn't break it.

Last summer, (I'm sorry, I'm really stuck in a Tennessee Road-trip rut here), I had the opportunity to visit the Louisville Slugger Museum and Factory in Louisville Kentucky.

I swung baseball bats that were used by Babe Ruth and Jackie Robinson. They took us through the factory and showed us exactly how the bats are made - ALL of the bats for Major League Baseball are made there. They showed us the special signature plates for each player's custom-made bats. They passed around a bat ordered specifically for A-Rod. It was all way cool!

But, being that I'm not an entirely huge baseball fan, my absolutely most favourite bat to be able to hang onto, the very first bat that was passed around, the bat that the tour guide handed straight to me, was one of the two bats that they made for Carrie Underwood after she released the song "Before He Cheats". So cool.

As a general rule, I stay away from anything related to American Idol. But Carrie Underwood, wow. I am convinced that she would have made it big without the aid of American Idol. What a talented artist!

I must confess that I am a subscriber of the Grand Ole Opry YouTube channel. And I just finished watching her invitation to join the Opry by Randy Travis:



And also her induction into the Opry by Garth Brooks:



It would have been awesome to be at the Opry with someone really well known performing, but alas, it didn't happen. (It was still way fun)

And then I got sidetracked watching a music video of one of her newer songs "Just a Dream". (I can't embed this one)

Talk about a depressing song! But, still amazing! Other than the fact that it makes me wonder why people put themselves through the whole relationship thing - I mean, we all know that one person of the two is obviously going to die first. That's not the kind of emotional pain I like to think about...

Anyway, Carrie Underwood - Good Stuff