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The Major League Baseball amateur draft is currently going on as I type this. You really have to be a big nerd to find it interesting since most of the names mentioned today will never be heard from again. Lucky for you, I am a big nerd, so I'm bringing it up right now. The main reason for bringing it up though is because I like to make everyone feel old. Nearly everything I do nowadays makes me feel old, and I like company. So consider this: Roughly half the kids who will be drafted today by a Major League Baseball team were born in 1989. Yup, 19-friggin-89. What exactly does that mean? Well I'll tell you. It means that:

- if a song from Van Halen or Bon Jovi came on the radio, they probably wouldn't know who it was. That's probably a good thing for them, so bad example.
- they don't remember when our current President's dad was the President. Another bad example? I can keep going.
- they've never paid for gas when it was under $2 per gallon.
- they only have faint memories of when Michael Jordan was a good basketball player.
- they've never gone to the movies and paid less than $8.
- they don't remember when Christopher Reeve was Superman, Michael Keaton was Batman, and we didn't have a Spiderman.
- they've probably never been to a baseball card show.
- they don't remember when Mike Tyson's Punchout had the best graphics of all time.

And finally, it means that there's a young kid who is 18 years old right now who will soon be signing his name to a contract that will pay him millions of dollars before he even puts on a uniform. Good gig if you can get it. I will now light myself on fire.