Mike Thompson

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About me

Gender Male
Industry Sports or Recreation
Occupation Group Fitness Instructor
Location Shillington, PA, United States
Introduction A journey into fitness with a former baseball player and wannabe nerdy meathead who is now dealing with a chronic illness - specifically, CIDP. Follow to learn, laugh, cry, and/or furrow your brow in a vain attempt to understand the situation.
Interests Baseball, Football, Politics, Local Economic Development, New Urbanism, Statistics, Sabermetrics, Books, Movies, Music, Kickboxing, Lifting, Procrastination, Landscaping, People Watching, Cooking, Games (both board- and card-related)
Favorite Movies Star Trek, Inglourious Basterds, Field of Dreams, The Boondock Saints, The Rookie, The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Supremacy, The Bourne Ultimatum, Behind Enemy Lines, The Italian Job, The Natural, Rudy, Pirates of the Caribbean, Old School, Team America: World Police, Super Troopers, Office Space, Airplane, Frequency, The Punisher, Ladder 49, Ocean's Eleven, Ocean's Thirteen, V for Vendetta, The Simpsons Movie, Vantage Point, Superbad, The Dark Knight, Gran Torino
Favorite Music Coldplay, Mat Kearney, The Killers, Snow Patrol, 3 Doors Down, Breaking Benjamin, Fuel, Our Lady Peace, Matchbox Twenty, Jimmy Eat World, Goo Goo Dolls, Chevelle, Foo Fighters, Avenged Sevenfold, Collective Soul, Something Corporate, Death Cab for Cutie, Dropkick Murphys, Fall Out Boy, The Postal Service, Dashboard Confessional, The All-American Rejects, The Bravery, OneRepublic
Favorite Books The Fountainhead, Catch-22, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, Freakonomics, Freedomnomics, Moneyball, 3 Nights in August, Catcher in the Rye, The Great Gatsby, The Prince, The Republic, The Secret History, Slider, The Last Best League, The Baseball Economist, Crazy '08, Manifest Design, Civilization and its Discontents, Holy War Inc., Underboss, Killing Pablo, Why You're Wrong About The Right

Why do you think honeydew is the money melon?

I don't. In fact, I don't think you'd miss out on anything special by not eating it. Now, cantaloupe... that's where it's at.