tkeith

Alvin Fielder A MEASURE OF VISION with Dennis Gonzalez and Yells At Eels

Link will be posted today, hopefully. I received the discs last night and I have them with me at the office. If I don't get it done today, it'll be done tomorrow. Thanks, Al! I'll sit on my hands and try some decaf.

Don't want to jump the gun, but want to make sure I didn't miss the download link. Did I? Or should I just sit on my hands? Thanks in advance!

Who cares? If he can't, make him your fourth OF! I'd love to see somebody make him a two-way player.

Looking forward to it!

Quite right, and Pedroia already has it.

Youk really had the outstanding year of the two of them (which may hurt them both), but deep down, I'd love to see little Dusty pull it off. He batted 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th, and that's just off the top of my head. I wonder how many MVPs could make *that* claim.

Wish baseball would forget about this World Championship bs in March and open the season earlier, gosh, the season almost went into November! What a waste of time. I'm already looking forward to new season -- football stinks. I feel the same way. I used to love football. Just can't get into the pro game at all anymore. College a little bit, but not nearly as much as I used to. Pitchers and catchers will be reporting before you know it!! (except, not here anymore ... ... that's going to be weird.) Football has been awesome here in recent vintage, though truly, I'm a baseball guy at heart (and hockey, but that's tough to admit when the Bruins continue to be so damned marginal). This year, though, minus god at QB, I haven't been able to get into football... at all. Even though it's a great time to be on the Celtic bandwagon, I just can't stomach thugball. What the hell happened to the NBA? Give me the WNBA any day; they still play basketball.

The Cosmos Song Fate in a Pleasant Mood Discipline 27 Nuclear War as a listener, anything featuring a John Gilmore solo!

Al, it makes sense but I have some questions. For instance, I didn't do a hard disc on mine, rather making it available through a real-time player and/or download. Would this also be an option? I know some folks like the old-fashioned disc (alright, that's just funny), but in the name of being green, I'll submit that the online player is a viable alternative (now that I've got the S.O.B. working correctly!).

Bring it!

I'll respectfully disagree with Allen on his assessment of this band. Love Apfelbaum. I even liked Luminous Charms (which did not have the extended band). He's one of the few guys of his era that really speaks to me. LOVED the stuff with Don Cherry.

Wheat crust pizza with salad (on the pizza), cheddar, mozzarella, tomatoes, sauce and moose meat, cooked on the grill on a pizza stone. Oh yeah, baby.

This one was more of a brain-fart, but it's too good not to share. My grandmother took my father to see Count Basie's band when my father was in high school. At a break, she approached Sonny Payne and was chatting him up. She said, "Where's Harry Carney tonight?" My father tried in vain to turn invisible, after a furrowed-brow pause, Payne replied, "With Duke Ellington where he's been for the past 35 years."

The ignore feature, it turns out, is great for that. In fact, I've cut my reading time in half just by omitting one ranting author. Far out!

Thanks!

OH ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME!?!??!?!?!?!?!? Wakefield's option picked up Look, Wake was super reliable for 50% of this season and I love him for being a good soldier. But the writing is more than on the wall... I can only hope that he has a Schillingesque season -- all pine.

Agreed.

Agreed. But then there's lots Dan and I *should* agree on, but he's too busy being a prick. Oh... that's probably not appropriate.

Ah yes... overpay to keep him from the Skanks... that's always worked well. Well, I was fresh out of asshole powder, seems the bulk of it was shipped to Florida. As it happens, ye who can't be questioned, Teixeira came through the minors as a [very good] 3B, but that position was occupied in Texas by Hank Blalock. Either could have been moved, but since Blalock had played the position at the MLB level Texas opted to move Teixeira. Youkilis, though originally a 3B, is better at 1B. It's at least worth considering trying Teixeira out at 3B. Well, hate monger, as it happens, Lowell -- if you'd spend half as much time fact checking as being an asshole -- was one of the most solid Sox this season (compare his production to games played prior to aggravating the injury in September). But, keep talking -- you've never let facts stand in your way. You really ought to apply at Fox News. Perhaps you should get out more. Ah yes, that's it... because fielding average tells us everything. Hey, turd burglar, try having a civil conversation just once in your life. Congratulations blowhard, you're the first to make my ignore list.

Sure is. Quite an accomplished painter, too.

I brought it up in the MLB 2008 thread, so I'll start it here. My beloved Sox are toying with the idea of trading Mike Lowell (2 rings, WS MVP, carved from awesome stone) to make room for Mark Teixeira (0 rings, 0 MVP, unproven, higher taxes, not ready to lead... oh, wait... skip the part about the taxes). Don't get me wrong, I love Teixeira, but I don't toss a guy like Lowell aside (particularly when doing so will cost me several million dollars). Also, Teixeira is going to warrant a long-term, BIG money contract, and the Sox just got out from underneath one such albatross. I hope Theo is smarter than this. If they *do* make the move, I hope they'll consider moving Teixeira back to 3B, his natural position, and move Youk back to 1B, his adopted position, at which he is much better. That's the kick-off, I've got to do some work, now.

Yeah, apparently he's not familiar with the double switch. I have to say, strike 2 to Hinske was bullshit. Not only was it not a strike, I can't believe Kellogg made that call without even an appeal. Not that Hinske is a sure thing, but you hate to see that call at that point in the game/series. Phillies took it a game sooner than I figured, but that's testimony to two things: 1) how much the Sox series took out of the Rays, and 2) just how goddamned powerful the Phillies are. Alright, now that that's out of the way, who's going to start the 2008-2009 Hot Stove thread?

I find Darling's voice tough to get beyond... reminds me of Willie from the TV show Alf. Buck Martinez commentary in the series, his double entendres notwithstanding, was excellent.

This will ALL happen, just as soon as Theo rejects his contract offer and they rehire Dan Duquette.