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Get to Know Your Loons: Owen Jones

June 24, 2013

Full Name: Owen Gregory Jones

Hometown: Edmonds, Wash.

Residence: Edmonds, Wash.

Favorite movie: Dumb and Dumber

Favorite TV show: Modern Marvels

Favorite musicians: Eli Young Band, Zac Brown Band, Cross Canadian Ragweed

Types of music on your iPod: Country

Guilty pleasure movie: Sweet Home Alabama, I always watch it when it's on TV without fail

Most embarrassing song on your iPod: Starships by Nicki Minaj, actually there are many Nicki Minaj songs on there

Favorite actor: Jim Carrey

Last movie at the theater: 42

Celebrity crush: Kate Mara, but only in Shooter with that accent. I'm a bit picky on celebrities.

Dinner with three people, dead or alive: Jim Carrey, Paul Newman and Steve Jobs

Favorite food: Hamburgers

Favorite restaurant: Starduster in Independence, Ore. Best breakfast ever!

Farthest you've ever traveled from your hometown: Dominican Republic

Top three things on bucket list: Play in the Major Leagues, Learn to play the piano, Be a scratch golfer

Dream vacation: Lake Chelan, Wash. Done it plenty of times, but it's still the best

Favorite cartoon as a kid: Roadrunner

If you could be anybody else in the word for a day: Shaun White

Person who taught you the most: Dad and Mom, along with Dan "The Coach" Potts

If you could face one batter/pitcher:  I would want to hit against myself

MLB player you model your game after: Mark Buehrle

Favorite MLB team when you were growing up: Seattle Mariners

Favorite athletes in other sports: Russell Wilson

Best moment as a professional ballplayer: Getting to the championship with Ogden last year

Your "welcome to pro baseball" moment: Giving up a HR in Ogden last year and having to carry the pink backpack

First car: 1974 Volkswagen Beetle, it was sparkly blue

Dream car: Old Volkswagen Beetle with a Porsche engine, maybe still sparkly blue

Current car: Nissan Titan

Most rowdy Loon on bus rides: Miguel Sulbaran

Quietest Loon: Robbie Garvey

Most intense Loons during workouts: Pat Stover

Best dressing Loon: Julio Urias

Your BFF on the team: Scott Griggs

Loon most likely to be on The Bachelor or The Bachelorette: Jeremy Rathjen, who can turn down that hair

Loon that is always on their phone: Jose Capellan

Worst driver on the Loons: Geoff Brown

Best place to go in Midland: Chippewa Nature Reserve. Lots of great trails

Favorite city to visit on a road trip: Grand Rapids

Favorite thing to do on an off-day: Fish

Magazine subscriptions: Field & Stream, Salmon Trout Steelheader

Favorite video game, then and now: Tony Hawk Pro Skater II for Dreamcast (then); MLB: The Show (now)

First job: Bus boy at Anthony's Homeport in Edmonds, Wash.

Favorite subject in school: Economics

Actor that would portray you in a movie: Adam Brody

Favorite offseason activities: Fishing, seeing friends

Biggest fear: Bees, Plane turbulence

Best advice you've ever received: Be humble with everything and don't forget to laugh

Most underrated baseball skill that kids should learn: Babe Ruth is dead, so throw strikes. Be coachable.