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Big Al

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  1. I loves me some Veggie Tunes! Here's a CTI fave:
  2. The Rangers have not won a game at Fenway since last season. I smell another sweep around the corner. The announcer said something like the Rangers are 12-37 against the Red Sox in the last few years (I forget how many; I'm sure Dan will know).
  3. Big EYES, not big I's!
  4. You know, I think its completely ridiculous that you think no one knows about this. I knew about it by the time the streak reached about 20 innings, and read with great pleasure Joe Posnanski's column about this guy. We may talk AL East but we're not ignorant of baseball news from around the country. :rolleyes: I didn't know about it. Not all of us are baseball fanatics, Dan. You're constantly on this guy's back, and I don't understand why. It's not like he's Goodspeak or anything....
  5. I'm still bugged about that game. I would rather have had a 19-0 blowout than this collapse. Which was it: an awesome display of power by two teams with killer bats; or was it a pathetic display of pitching, one team whose pitching is better than what it showed last night, the other team the same shit I've come to expect from them over the years? Even the players are bugged about this one. I don't know what Coach Candygram is saying this morning (nor do I give a rat's ass), but the players are of the mindset, "How the hell do you bounce back from THIS one?" What good could possibly have come from this game that the eighth-inning collapse didn't erase (and these collapses are happening with so much frequency now, it's a wonder one of the batters hasn't gone apeshit on the bullpen by now). I don't know, either.
  6. I guess so.... ....or maybe he passed out after Youk's smash!
  7. Do I know my team or what? Thankfully, I was at home when I wrote that!
  8. Y'know, losing sucks as it is, but when you have the game handed to you and your offense claws and scratches its way to overcome the biggest lead ever seen.... a blowout would've just stung; this fucking HURTS! We didn't HAVE to lose this game. We had the lead, we had a groove, Madrigal was shutting them down, and then Ron W-asshat-ton makes yet another stupid-ass move... I'm just speechless. Hats off to the Rangers for once again overcoming their usual pitching woes and their incompetent manager who doesn't know how to WIN when it's given to him. Tonight's game is what the Rangers are all about: pretty good, but never good enough. Gutsy enough to mount a comeback, but lacking the killer instinct to finish the job. That was this game, that is this season.
  9. I think I can answer this: BECAUSE FRANCONA KNOWS THAT WASHINGTON, CLEARLY THE BIGGER IDIOT OF THE TWO, WILL PULL HIS RED-HOT PITCHER MADRIGAL WHO HASN'T GIVEN UP A FUCKING RUN TONIGHT, UNLIKE ALL THE OTHER RANGERS LOSER PITCHERS, IN FAVOR OF HIS USUAL LOSERS JAMEY WRIGHT AND FRANKIE FRANCISCO WHO WILL GIVE THE GAME RIGHT BACK TO THE SOX, JUST LIKE RIGHT NOW AS YOUK JUST CLEARED THE MONSTER TO TAKE THE LEAD BACK TONIGHT!!!!! That's why. And this is why the Rangers will never make the playoffs with Washington as the manager: he simply does not know how to nail the coffin shut. My hat's off to Youk tonight, the man is simply unstoppable.
  10. Oh yeah, and the beach volleyball has been exciting as well!
  11. I've actually been enjoying these Olympics a lot more than I thought I would. It just doesn't get much cooler than synchronized diving. I'd give every one of those divers a 10.0 just because I couldn't do that!!! And I don't care about the hype: Michael Phelps is unreal! I'm enjoying his quest for gold!
  12. Oh yeah, and thank God CJ Wilson is on the DL right now!
  13. It's only the 7th inning, so anything is still very possible. But, Madrigal is pitching right now and this kid is red hot right now. Of course, now that I've said that, I will have very likely jinxed him and he'll give up a twelve-run homer or something like that. The Rangers are winning 16-14 right now. If the Rangers lose this game, I'll walk home tonight!
  14. Ah hell, I'll play. What does the winner get?
  15. This just in: Paul Byrd traded to the BoSox for a player to be named later. Link I'm bummed cuz I was gonna go to his book signing here on the 23rd, when the Indians are in town. Still, the Sox will be here for a weekend series in September, so hopefully it'll get rescheduled to that weekend. What do you think, Dan? Guy closed out against the Yanks in the playoffs last year; think he can do it again this year? I didn't realize how old he was, but he seems to have really turned it around this second half, if that story is to be believed. SS1's gotta be dying right now.
  16. Likely so, but I gotta give him props for making the effort without bringing the session down. I agree that others (Cherry, Hubbard, etc) would've been more logical choices, but then maybe that's the charm behind this decision: how completely ILLOGICAL it was! The only thing stranger would've been to have Art Blakey on drums!
  17. I just searched this thread, did I miss this? I agree that the lyrics are completely trippy, probably the most psychedelic thing the Monkees ever did: My, my the clock in the sky is pounding away There's so much to say A face, a voice, an overdub has no choice And it cannot rejoice Wanting to be, to hear and to see Crying to the sky But the porpoise is laughing good-bye, good-bye good-bye, good-bye, good-bye Clicks, clacks Riding the backs of giraffes for laughs is alright for a while The ego sings of castles and kings and things That go with a life of style Wanting to feel, to know what is real Living is a lie But the porpoise is waiting good-bye, good-bye Good-bye, good-bye, good-bye Good-bye, good-bye, good-bye Good-bye, good-bye, good-bye Then there's this one, which was always my favorite hippie-type Monkees song: Darkened rolling figures move thru' prisms of no color. Hand in hand, they walk the night, But never know each other. Passioned pastel neon lights light up the jeweled trav'ler Who, lost in scenes of smoke filled dreams, Find questions, but no answers. Startled eyes that sometimes see phantasmagoric splendor Pirouette down palsied paths With pennies for the vendor. Salvation's yours for just the time it takes to pay the dancer. And once again such anxious men Find questions, but no answers. The night has gone and taken it's infractions, While saddened eyes hope there will be a next one. Sahara signs look down upon a world that glitters glibly. And mountain sides put arms around The unsuspecting city. Second hands that minds have slowed are moving even faster Toward bringing down someone who's found
  18. You're wanted by the police and my wife thinks your dead.
  19. Teagarden was waiting for me when I got home and BOYOBOY am I glad I changed my order! I'm not a big fan of Dixieland, but OH MY does this swing!!! Thanks again, guys!
  20. Speaking of overlooked, how about Donald Byrd's work on this album? He was waaaaay outta character on this album, and yet he held his own magnificently, IMO.
  21. That's alright. Based on what I've heard by the One O'Clock Lab Band on KNTU, I don't consider them to be jazz musicians, either. OH yeah, and another BIG vote for That's Where It's At! Cool cover, smokin' tunes, another one you can't go wrong with!
  22. From the Blue Note website: I believe it came out on LP sometime in the 70's. Wasn't it on the 2-LP set that had the unreleased quartet recording of Sam with Andrew Hill?
  23. I agree with that last part, but I believe Stanley was a strongly varied player! He fit right in with organ trios, piano trios, quintets & sextet small combos, big bands... heck, even his CTI stuff is a force to be reckoned with!
  24. I wish I could raid the JCS archives where I posted a comment about something like this eventually happening.
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