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25 minutes ago, soulpope said:
In this case the model was Jerry Hall (at that time girlfriend of Bryan Ferry) and don`t think she appeared on another cover - nevertheless the Roxy Music cover art was usually graced with very good looking women ....
15 minutes ago, medjuck said:Mrs. Rupert Murdoch
Learn something new about this crazy world every day.... Money, the real aphrodisiac.....
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1 hour ago, gmonahan said:
On for tonight:
The Mother of Musical Movies. It seems just as fresh now as in 1933. I won't bother you with my love of the cast either, but I love, love, love, love, everyone who appeared in and everything about 42nd. Street.
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6 minutes ago, Dan Gould said:
I don't think that last bit is scuttlebutt, I think Theo has said directly that he's interested in an ownership stake. the rest of it is just silly guessing. And the Yankees should be about 100-1 they aren't hiring Theo to make baseball decisions.
So what are the odds current ownership puts their team on the market, for the Rangers or Indians?
To my mind, if it's part of ownership that Theo wants, rule out the big teams like Philly, L.A. or N.Y. as destinations. I could see Cleveland or a Tampa Bay being willing to sell to a group Theo leads. Cleveland might be the better option with a well established fan base, and he won't have to either get a new stadium, or a new city, (one or the other for Tampa Bay) both of which might hinder the baseball side of things. The normal course for team thinking of selling is to gut the team and then have the new group rebuild. All in all, it seems as if Cleveland is the place that would be number one on my list, a lot of upside to that situation. It's amazing to think, the guy is only 46, so ownership is probably his preferred mode in terms of the future, where he's overseeing everything. Don't know if Cleveland is for sale or not, Tampa Bay is always for sale, but money still runs the show.
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Last night I had Pliny The Elder Beer made by the Russian River Brewing Company. It was a great beer, highly recommended if you like IPA's
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Explosions in the Sky: The Earth is Not a Cold Dead Place
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I've been looking around for the non-profit I work for, and if you're willing to spend $500.00, you will be able to get a someone (there's a lot of independent contractors out there for this) to develop a solid site, and maintain it at a decent price (would suggest for your site an hourly pay scale, not monthly), or if you're capable, you can track it for yourself. As for free, I hate to say it, but Google's free website seems to work well. Word Press also.
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I don't think I've ever seen a Waffle House, are they in California? I mean, out here, there's not even 7-11's across from each other.
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Just now, JSngry said:
Not everybody can host a game show.
If Drew Carry can do it, how hard can it be?
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1 hour ago, HutchFan said:
Yesterday, my wife told me that Alex Trebek recommended Ben Mankiewicz as his replacement.
I think he'd make an excellent host of Jeopardy -- although I'd hate to see Mankiewicz leave his TCM gig. Always enjoy his movie intros and wrap-ups.
I wonder if Mankiewicz's high profile political opinions can hinder any prospect for the Jeopardy gig. Though, to give him credit, he's very professional in keeping the politics away from the TCM job, and I respect that in him.
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Not a good situation with La Russa.
I'm sure a lot of us have lived with / know an alcoholic, and this behavior can't be allowed to be swept under the rug. I looked up his first DUI in 2007, and found this paragraph:
La Russa said he had decided to plead guilty to the misdemeanor because it was in the best interest of all concerned.
“I accept full responsibility for my conduct, and assure everyone that I have learned a very valuable lesson and that this will never occur again,” La Russa said in a statement released by his attorney, David Roth. La Russa did not appear in court to plead guilty.
As part of his plea agreement, La Russa will serve at least six months’ probation, pay a $678.50 fine, complete DUI school and any recommended treatment and complete 50 hours of community service, according to state prosecutors. (source)
I'm sure all the usual formulas will be said again, lesson learned, isolated instance, etc., but this is a man with a serious problem, and needs to be addressed by the White Sox and MLB. My confidence that it will is not too strong though.
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One Soul At A Time: The Story of Billy Graham by Grant Wacker.
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3 hours ago, Dave James said:
A bit hard to follow at times, but it's Bogie and Bacall so who cares? Over and above the bookstore scenes, I'm partial to this swatch of thinly veiled dialog between Marlowe and Vivian Rutledge. The censors must have had a ball (no pun intended) deciding if someone was trying to do an end run around the Hays Production Code.
That's what makes The Big Sleep such a great film, the acting and dialogue are so great, that you don't care you never find out how Owen died, they asked Chandler, and he had no idea either!
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9 hours ago, danasgoodstuff said:
As good as this and everything else from this album is, the one he made the next day with just the rhythm section is even better, IMHO. It would be interesting to see them combined into a dbl album, maybe even mixing up cuts from the two days. An all blues by Lester compilation could be a revealing thing too.
I'd buy those in a second.
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It will be interesting to see if LaRussa's brand of baseball will still be relevant in today's baseball - for one thing, his "two for one" rule on hit batters won't fly. Still, if he has a good staff, I can see it succeeding, LaRussa is no fool about baseball. However if Covid-19 is still very active, I'd be concerned about him catching that illness, baseball's record on Covid is not that great. My big hope is that we don't begin to hear about "The White Sox Way", had more than I could take about The Cardinal Way under LaRussa tenure there.
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7 hours ago, ghost of miles said:
Dodgers In postgame interviews expressing their sense of relief and jubilation when Cash pulled Snell in the 6th. Did seem like too much of a rote “no third time through the lineup” mentality when Snell was pitching so dominantly and had not reached a high pitch count yet. But Rays’ lack of offense certainly put their pitchers in a tight spot tonight in general.
Just my opinion, but I think that call was made well before the game even started, I mean, who you gonna trust? your eyes or the computer? In today's game the computer wins every time. I thank the baseball heavens that Bruce Bochy always trusted his eyes.
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58 minutes ago, Brad said:
I thought you were a Giants and/or As fan????
*Sigh* It's complex, it's the opposite of David's story of Yankees love, so sit down kiddies and listen to my baseball fandom story.
I grew up in San Diego, and my first baseball memories is listening to Vin Scully, not a bad way to start, and his "it's time for Dodger baseball" is permanently emblazoned into my skull. I was a Dodgers fan before the Padres hit the MLB (they were PCL, and the first pro game I ever went to was Padres AAA team at Westgate Park, John Boozer - what a name! was the pitcher, and a group of fans behind me kept yelling "Boozer the Loser" throughout the game, I was hooked on baseball after that. I was all of seven. So when the MLB Padres hit the beach, I, of course became fan -- team number two that I followed.
I wasted a lot of my youth in the 1970s watching terrible Padres baseball. We lived a five minute drive from the stadium, so my parents would drop me off to go to a game on my own (different time and era) nowadays, CPS would be all over that! So, I was a Padres fan, but durning the 1970s and 80s, the Dodgers were a very interesting team be a fan of, and I even convinced my parents to take me to Dodger Stadium many times to see the Boys in Blue play. Dodger Stadium is a great place to see a game. So there I was, living in SoCal, fans of the two NL teams.
Fast forward to the 1990s, and I'm in Berkeley for six years, and I'm discovering that the two teams there were interesting and fun to follow; I mean, you had the Bash Brothers, the Roger Craig Giants, it was interesting baseball to watch, so, I became a fan of those two teams. For the A's, I could take the BART from Berkeley to their stadium, no problem. Going to Candlestick was tougher, but I made it out there. So, now I had four teams I followed and enjoyed.
Since then, I've spent more time in NoCal than SoCal, with that, the Giants are my main team.
So the Official Matthew Teams Rooting For Rankings:
1. San Francisco Giants
2. Los Angeles Dodgers
3. San Diego Padres
4. Oakland A's
That's my story, yeah, I know you're supposed to be a "one team fan", but life is short and baseball is fun, so what the heck!
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24 minutes ago, ghost of miles said:
Mookie Betts now the first player in World Series history to hit a home run, steal two bases, and score two runs in the same game.
Not that familiar with the Dodgers' pitching staff beyond Kershaw and Buehler--are they using an opener tonight, I take it?
Yeah, Tony Gonsolin is pretty good, about a K for every inning. Basically, the Dodgers feel if they can keep the other team to four runs or lower, they're winning the game. It'd be nice to see the Dodgers win, last Championship was 1988, I went to one of the Series games in Oakland (student in Berkeley at the time), of course, it was the only game the Dodgers lost. It was the game where McGwire hit the homer in the bottom of the ninth to win the game. What I remember the most about that at bat is that Jay Howell threw McGwire about five straight fastballs, and McGwire was on them, but kept fouling them off straight behind, but you could see he had it timed, and me and my friend (from the Valley, big time Dodgers fan) kept begging for anything off-speed, but no, Howell threw one last fastball, and it was gone. Lasorda always called Howell a brain-dead pitcher after that because Howell kept shaking off the curve from Scioscia. Sometime it pays to listen to you catcher!
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I think have the DH actually helped Roberts manage, I was deathly afraid that he'd tinker around and pull Urias for the ninth. Also, knowing anyone he brought in had to face two batters dampened the over managing that Roberts in notorious for.
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Dodgers live to see game seven. Like the Dodgers of old, three runs in the first, great pitching to hold the lead for the win. It'd be nice to see them win, but I don't have good vibes about tomorrow, this is where Roberts tends to go off the rails.
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21 minutes ago, Dan Gould said:
I don't know what happens but I am torn between my affection for Dave Roberts and Mookie Betts and my long festering suspicion of them as the NY Yankees of the west coast, throwing money all over the place just without, you know, the championships. Wait a minute - they ARE the NY Yankees of the west coast:
Gobs of money
No championships to show for it.
You're right! And as how the Yankees keep blathering on and on and on about The Yankee Way® , so the Dodgers keep on yammering and yammering about The Dodger Way®. Just win some World Series' before the blather and yammer please!
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These Dodgers, what happens to them in the post season? It always seems when things get tight, they disappear. I DO NOT LIKE THE WAY ROBERTS MANAGES EITHER, in big games he's frozen into some kind of predetermined game plan, and by heaven, nothing's going move him off that plan! Kershaw, come on, if anyone followed the Dodgers, you know that he should have come out after five innings. The idea of manufacturing runs has become a lost art for the Dodgers (and most teams), what ever happened to the idea that "little baseball" can win games? Lone gone in this day and age.
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Sending goods thoughts out about your father. May all be well.