By Alvin Alexander. Last updated: April 16, 2015
I don’t listen to a lot of counry music, but I like this song, “Use What I Got,” by Jason Aldean, because of its message: Don’t worry about what you don’t have, use what you do have.
I learned about this song because they played it when Jon Lester of the Cubs warmed up a few nights ago. (This is the Jon Lester who is now infamous for never throwing to first base to try to pick off a runner.)
In my case I always wish I had a memory. I describe my brain as having a reasonably fast CPU, but what feels like almost zero RAM. In school, for example, if we had open book tests I could always get an “A,” but if we had to memorize a bunch of things I was hosed.
So for those reasons I can appreciate this song: