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Player Profile: Bobby Scales

Get to know the Iowa Cubs infielder
August 24, 2009
Name: Bobby Scales

Nickname: Scalsie

Favorite Music: Hip-Hop, R&B

Favorite Bands: Outkast, Dru Hill

Favorite TV show: Friday Night Lights

Favorite Movie: Coming to America

Favorite Actor: Gabrielle Union, Nia Long

Favorite Professional Athlete: Deion Sanders

Favorite Team(s): Atlants Falcons, Detroit Pistons

Hobbies: Golfing

Person who taught me the most: Parents

Best Baseball Moment: First start in the Big Leagues

Position other than your own you'd like to play: I play all of them

MLB ballpark you would like to play in: Any of them that are in the Big Leagues

Three people dead or alive I'd like to have dinner with: Jackie Robinson and President Obama

Best dresser on the team: Me

Foreign countries I've visited: Mexico, Canada

Favorite vacation spot: Any golf course

I drive a: GMC Yukon

My welcome the the Big Leagues moment was: Russell Martin taking me out at second base

The best thing about my home state: Weather, just enough season changes

I'm afraid of: Snakes, I hate them.

For Christmas I want a: Anything related to golf

My best Halloween costume was: Mr. T

If you opened my refrigerator, you'd find : Snapple Peach Ice Tea

What's your favorite place to eat in Des Moines? Palmer's Deli and Urbandale Cafe

I never leave home without: cell phone

In the International rock-paper-scissor contest, you'd throw: Paper! Paper cuts hurt!

What is one thing you can't live without? Iphone

What's on your iPod right now? K'Jon

What is the best advice you've ever gotten? Be your own man. Be man enough to admit when you are wrong.