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Matthew

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  1. Good to have a upbeat person like Pence on the team. It will be interesting to see the kind of personality the Giants will have this year, it seemed like Bochy liked the low-key, subdued player, over the flashy, intense, gregarious type, eg. Posey, Belt, Panic, Duffy, Crawford, et.al. The last two season they've been a very dull team. Hopefully they'll liven up a bit this year.
  2. With Head and Heart: The Autobiography of Howard Thurman
  3. Love the look of the book! I've always had trouble reading a facsimile of the first folio, I'm impressed you can make it through without any headaches!
  4. XTC: Oranges and Lemons. I think this is my all time favorite album! To my mind, it describes someone on their deathbed, looking back over their life, and meditating on its wonders and trials. Not so much a rock opera, but a looking back in kindness and acceptance of life and all it has to offer.
  5. Unbelievable, still find it hard to grasp... and his daughter also, plus a friend and her mother. What a sad happening. So many images going through my mind, but the one I keep returning to is this one:
  6. Grateful Dead: Dick's Picks Vol. 35 8/7/71 San Diego, CA & 8/24/71 Chicago, IL
  7. Porgy and Bess: Louis Armstrong & Ella Fitzgerald
  8. Duke Ellington: The Reprise Studio Recordings
  9. Blood Count. There are times when I'm jolted out of my complacency about Ellington, one of those occasions was when I listened to this yesterday.
  10. Inspired by Mr & Mrs. Duckworth: Duke Ellington ... And His Mother Called Him Bill
  11. The Old Ball Game: How John McGraw, Christy Mathewson, and the New York Giants Created Modern Baseball by Frank Deford
  12. Off Topic: I always hated Tom Landry for starting the practice of having the coach call the plays...
  13. Agree on Kapler, hardly anyone here in the Bay Area is okay with the hire -- his lack of response to the sexual harassment stuff as a Dodger, plus his being the puppet for the GM Zaidi, has pissed off the fans to no end. Bochy was probably the last Old School manager, he wasn't too keen on analytics and he didn't like the front office interference. Given that, it was time for Bochy to move on, it's a different game now.
  14. Just my opinion: I've never been impressed with the Mets managerial choices, they seem to be on the weaker side for a premier franchise.
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