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Player Profile: Justin Berg

Get to know the Iowa righty
July 3, 2009
Name: Justin Berg

Nickname: IceBerg

Favorite Music: Alternative and hard rock

Favorite Bands: Breaking Benjamin, The Used, Megadeth

Favorite TV show: Family Guy

Favorite Movie: Dumb and Dumber

Favorite Actor/Actress: Tom Hanks, Mila Kunis

Favorite Food: Chicken Alfredo

Favorite Professional Athlete: Joe Piskula

Favorite Team(s): Packers, Wisconsin Badgers, Chicago Blackhawks

Hobbies: playing guitar and drums, bowling and fishing

Person who taught me the most: My parents

Best Baseball Moment: Playing the first game in the new Yankee Stadium

If I wasn't playing baseball, I'd be: Going to music school or architecture

Position other than your own you'd like to play: Center field

MLB ballpark you would like to play in: Miller Park

Three people dead or alive I'd like to have dinner with: Kurt Cobain, Dave Mustaine and Al Capone

Best dresser on the team: Chris Linder

Foreign countries I've visited: Venezuela

Favorite vacation spot: Going camping on the lake

Best sport other than baseball: Bowling

I drive a: 2001 Acura TL

The best thing about my home state: Chris Farley and John Bradley

I'm afraid of: Growing old

Funniest Teammate: Jeff Stevens

Most intense teammate: Bobby Scales

For Christmas I want a: New suitcase

What reality show would you be on and how would you fare? I'd be on Nitro Circus with Travis Pastrana. I would give it my all, but probably come up short in the end.

My best Halloween costume was: My two brothers and I dressed up as the band Nirvana

My biggest pet peeve is: people that chew their food like a cow chewing cud.

If you opened my refrigerator, you'd find : Eggs, milk and lunchmeat

My hidden talent is: That I can make the sound effects for the video game RBI Baseball.

If I could have a superpower it would be: To fly

I never leave home without: My guitar and bowling balls

Would you rather be in the Hall of Fame or win the World Series?: Win the World Series

What is your favorite team city to travel to? Memphis because I like the stadium

What is your favorite thing (or place to eat) about Des Moines? The Hessen Haus. Das Boot!

What's your favorite board game? Risk

What did you want to be when you were little? An artist

What is one thing you can't live without? My music

Did you make a New Year's resolution? Did you keep it? To quit procrastinating. I'm doing OK!

What is the best prank you've ever played on someone? I threw all of Phil Hughes' stuff in water and froze it. He was not very happy when he walked in the next day.

Best advice you've gotten? "Don't take life to seriously. You'll never get out alive!" - Van Wilder

What's on your iPod right now? Slipknot