Aggie87

I don't think the topic inherently belongs in the Political forum, personally.

Is he here under another name? He's here under another thread.

The thing is, it's NOT junk at that point. The CD's are your legal license to possess the digital versions of the music. I know younger people consider it junk, but it's not. And I have no problem buying the used CDs that those people sell. It gives me the license to do what I want with them, that they have given up, regardless whether they possess MP3s of that music or not still.

If that happens - and that's a BIG IF - it's more a testament to Clemens' friends in high places than it is a delineation between how people feel about Clemens versus how they feel about Bonds. If he and Bonds are both guilty, they both deserve punishment that fits their crime - in the court of public opinion, in Major League Baseball, and with respect to U.S. law (whether that's perjury or whatever).

If you no longer possess something legally, how can you own a copy of it legally?

Where have you heard this? Granted, the RIAA will try anything if the idea pops into their heads. AFAIK, making a copy of something you legally own is your right if it's for your own use. If you try to sell the original later, that's your business. Is there a legal precedent I'm not aware of? I believe the right to make/possess digitial copies of a recording transfers with the CD. Otherwise, in theory you could sell me a cd, i could burn a copy of it for myself, sell the cd back to you for the same price, and yet I now have a "legal" set of MP3's, and that's clearly not the case.

There are a couple of vendors on the Amazon Marketplace who have it for less than $45, but not Newbury (theirs is $69). Thanks ! Except the cheaper sets aren't brand new. The Newbury set, like the other remaindered sets it's selling, is brand new and factory sealed, with a remainder mark through the bar code. Looks like I picked a bad week to ignore the fine print.

There are a couple of vendors on the Amazon Marketplace who have it for less than $45, but not Newbury (theirs is $69).

Top 10 Beatles: 10. Bernard Purdie (overdubbed drummer on Hamburg stuff) 9. Billy Preston (the Fifth Beatle) 8. Paul McCartney 7. Pete Best (2 yr stint) 6. Andy White (drummer on Love Me Do and P.S. I Love You) 5. George Harrison 4. John Lennon 3. Stu Sutcliffe (2 yr stint) 2. Ringo Starr ....and No. 1: Jimmy Nicol (drummer from 4-14 June 1964)

If you can do the Elbow River, I can do Columbia Macaroni:

If you change your name to JazzLobster you can stay. (We already have a JazzMoose, sorry!)

Claxtonola. So the internet says there's a record of the same name on the Nessa label, too. Weird. That one's a bootleg.

Manu Ginobili was on fire at Cleveland tonight - 46 points, and 8 three pointers. Lebron had 39 pts, but the Spurs won, 112-105. Parker's been out for a while, and I"m not sure when he's coming back. Spurs don't seem like the team to beat in the West right now, regardless though. The Suns, Lakers, and now the Mavs have all made pretty significant trades of late.

They do. But he signed this one.

Not in public, I hope!! ....just kidding!

Max Roach - I think it's the March issue:

Pettitte is admitting to additional HGH usage, this time in 2004. Looks like he's trying to come even more clean on the issue, for whatever it's worth. Pettitte admits using HGH in '04 WASHINGTON (AP) -- Andy Pettitte admitted using human growth hormone in 2004, saying it was supplied to him that time by his father, The Associated Press learned Wednesday. After the Mitchell Report was released, Pettitte said he used HGH for two days in 2002 while with the New York Yankees. Last week, the pitcher was asked to discuss drug use in both a deposition and affidavit before a congressional committee. "In that affidavit, Andy informed the committee that in addition to the two shots a day of HGH he took for two days in 2002, he also took HGH for a one-day period in 2004, shortly preceding season-ending elbow surgery," his lawyers, Jay Reisinger, Thomas Farrell and James Sharp, said in a statement. Pettitte pitched for his hometown Houston Astros from 2004-06 before rejoining the Yankees last year. Excused from testifying before a congressional committee focusing on Roger Clemens' alleged use of performance-enhancing drugs, Pettitte issued a statement through his lawyer minutes before the session began. "Andy had not previously mentioned this usage because he acquired the substance from his father, who had obtained it without Andy's knowledge in an effort to overcome his very serious health problems, which have included serious cardiac conditions," the statement said. "Andy did not want his father, whom he deeply respects and loves, to be brought into this matter and sought to shield him from publicity. In both cases, Andy used HGH in a misguided effort to recover from injury." The lawyers said Pettitte would speak with reporters when he arrives at spring training with the Yankees. Pitchers and catchers were due to report Thursday, but it was unclear whether Pettitte would be on time.

who else would be inviting us to goto wyntonmarsalis.org? xricci? Chris Hardbop Heaney?

Just read this while killing (er....loving) a few minutes at B&N. Nice writeup, Bob & Jim!

Huh?? It's important to stop steroids, period. Everyone knows and understands they are harmful - including the ball players. You seriously think they don't already understand that, and that we all need to become more educated about steroids before we actually *DO* something about them??

interesting... Rocker says he failed MLB drug test ATLANTA (AP) -- John Rocker claims he flunked a drug test ordered by Major League Baseball in 2000 and that he, Alex Rodriguez and other Texas Rangers were advised by management and union doctors following a spring training lecture on how to effectively use steroids. "Bud Selig knew in the year 2000 John Rocker was taking the juice," the former pitcher said Monday of the baseball commissioner on Atlanta radio station 680. "Didn't do anything about it." Rocker was suspended for the first 14 days of the 2000 season by Selig for making racial and ethnic remarks the commissioner deemed insensitive. The penalty, originally set to cover 28 days, was reduced by an arbitrator following a grievance. "As part of the disciplinary process, Mr. Rocker was referred to the confidential Employee Assistance Program," Major League Baseball said in a statement. "Any test of Mr. Rocker would have been conducted by professionals who ran the EAP. Those professionals were obligated to maintain the confidentiality of the result and to use it in developing a treatment and education program for Mr. Rocker. Further discipline was not an option legally available to Major League Baseball at that time." Rocker said that doctors from management and the players' association, following a spring training talk with the Texas Rangers about steroids and other topics, pulled himself, A-Rod, Rafael Palmeiro and Ivan Rodriguez aside. Rocker was with the Rangers in 2002. "Look guys, if you take one kind of steroid, you don't triple stack them and take them 10 months out of the year like Lyle Alzado did," Rocker said the doctors told them. "If you do it responsibly, it's not going to hurt you." Rocker did not identify the doctors. Baseball did not have a drug-testing agreement between management and the players' union until September 2002 and did not have random testing with penalties until 2004. Gene Orza, the chief operating officer of the players' association, declined comment.

Those things you mention (which are all degenerative) are not even in the same ballpark as performance enhancing drugs - and you know it. <inserting random, non-value added blank lines> You've made that clear that you simply don't understand why performance enhancing drugs are bad. Many, many times.