Your next American Idol (according to me)

It's been a while since I watched American Idol, especially since Simon Cowell left, the prospect of not seeing anyone get drilled at the auditions turned me off. It wasn't until recently that I began to find it watchable again. And it couldn't have come at a better time.

I watched the Milwaukee adutitions few weeks back, and that's when I caught my first glimpse of 17-year old Scott McCreery, a pitcher for his high school baseball team, and when I heard he did country, I had to stop and listen. When he started singing Josh Turner's Your Man, that Southern twang just caught you. Then he did Travis Tritt's Put Some Drive in Your Country, and that's when I knew this kid was special. Seventeen, and he sounds like Josh Turner, imagine him 10 years from now.

He's been easing his way through the competition, and needless to say, I have my candidate for the next American Idol. (And if it doesn't work out, the Phillies could use another arm down on the farm!)