I have terrible ping on any of the available servers. I live in Las Vegas so I'm not sure where these servers are located but I have gigablast and I am directly connected to the router. Can play any other game with excellent ping so I'm just curious why I'm having such a bad problem with bf2.

Had decent fun yesterday playing for a few hours despite the ~150 ping I was getting which was lower than some of the other servers.

Is it a me thing? Would like to scratch the itch to play this game a little bit more before I have to uninstall it again

Unfortunately higher pings are most servers for you. Most servers, as is lost soldiers, are EU based.
I'm on the east coast and still have about 100-150