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As I said, I never did care much for that Pete Turner.....who is that fabulous art director???? Chuck, you are correct, they should be given much credit!!! m~

Never seen that before, that's some funny stuff!!! m~

I do like that image and the one on Oliver Nelson's Blues and the Abstract Truth....! Mark~

1) A losing record after April eh? Then that means they must have had a pretty good April. The played .680 ball in April (dare I say championship caliber ball) and went 66-70 the rest of the way. When you start hot you can get away with that if you're in the "right" division. Why were they hot? Well, they were playing with a lineup similar to the one you saw in the playoffs. Once May rolled around the injuries started steamrolling. 2) A worse record than the hapless Royals from "mid-June" on. Why mid-June? What is so magical about mid-June? Because mid-June is the end of a 4 game Royal's losing streak, that's why. Start from the beginning of June and the b.s. self-selected stat doesn't work. Also the "hapless" Royals were 1 game under .500 for Sept.-Oct. Or better than (gasp!) the Tigers too. 3) The losing streaks. Again, so what? Is there a losing streak qualification for a WS winner? Is there an explanation for the losing streaks. Maybe. Take a look at the team on paper: 2006 World Champion Cardinals Look at the top 4 starters. Hmm, where was Marquis for the playoffs? Where was Mulder? Probably a darn good thing they weren't around, but obviously the team had to adjust as the season went on. Saves leader Isringhausen went down too. Pujols missed about 3 weeks and probably came back too early. Eckstein played 123. Edmonds 110. Rolen was hurt too but played through it (as the above did some too.) However, once the playoffs rolled around these guys were healthy, and the bench was deep - better than the Big Red Machine or Earl Weaver's teams, to name a couple of past dynasties. I'm serious, take a look at baseball-reference. Now on the one hand the '75 Reds didn't need a super deep bench, but nonetheless, the Cards was better. (Again, I'm just talking about the bench, not the starters.) We know there are cases of teams with inferior regular season records that become world series champions, or get in the playoffs when teams with better records continue. It's been this way since divisions. You want a partial list of champions whose championship is tainted in some way? Wild card era '05 White Sox over wild-card Astros. 82 win Padre team makes playoffs. '04 Wild-card Red Sox beat 105 w Cardinal team. '03 Wild-card Marlins with 91 wins win series. Braves & Giants, each with at least 100 wins falter. '02 An all wild-card world series (though the Angels have 99 W, Giants 95) '01 116 win Mariners lose in ALCS. '00 87 win Yanks (worst of AL playoff teams) beat wild card Mets. '99 Best teams Yanks & Braves face each other again. '98 114 win Yanks win, but 106 win Braves falter in LCS '97 Indians, with just 86 wins (worst of AL playoff teams) go 7 games with wild-card & world champ Marlins. '96 Best teams Yanks & Braves face each other '95- With 20 games knocked off the season, the 90 W Braves beat a 100 win/.694% Indian team. Other years (partial): '90 White Sox (94 W) left out of playoffs to 88 W Red Sox. Mets same record as Reds but left out of playoffs. '87 85 win Twins beat beat up 95 win Cards. 4 AL East teams have more wins that the Twins. '85 Royals win WS with 3rd best win total in AL. '84 Royals make playoffs with 84 wins. 5 teams in the AL East have better records. '81 Reds & Cardinals have best full season record but neither makes the split-season playoffs. '80 Yankees (103 W) lose to Royals (97 W) in ALCS. 100 W O's left out of playoffs. '74 102 win Dodgers lose to a 90 game winner A's '73 82 win Mets push A's to a game 7. By my account the last untainted championship belongs to the Yankees in '99. (Sorry White Sox, but you didn't face "the best" in the 'stros.) With divisions, especially 6, teams with poor regular season records make the playoffs. One of these years we'll have a team with a losing record that will make it out of the 1st round. Maybe even win the whole damn thing. But surprise surprise, what matters is the October record. The Cards went 11-5 in the playoffs. No one else won 11, so they're the champs. Inferior record, inferior division, doesn't matter. Quincy, don't piss off the poor sport! He has the only stat books that count. m~

I think he was a pretty good photographer, for aught that I know, but his photographs all too often didn't match well with the music in the albums (rarely a problem with BN or Atlantic). I don't know whether Creed Taylor specified the kind of photo he wanted, if he just gave Turner a title or if Turner just produced a few snaps every so often and Taylor picked one. Very often it seems the latter. MG I agree, it's almost as if they looked through Pete's stock photography. That said, Pete is a great photographer, just not sure they (all) match up well with the music. Mark~

Haven't really been a big fan of Pete Turner for 25 years or so but may pick this up for the right price.....Anyone have it??? Mark~

...well, not tonight but BB King next Sunday night...Not a huge fan but the tickets came by way of my better half's father. Show is at Elliott Hall at Purdue University. m~

Here's a command for you....f*** you and your wife....poor sport! Enjoy the long winter! m~

Hey poor sport, the only truth is that they are the WS Champions. I can't believe you're making such a big deal over this......it's a dissagreement.....get over it; I don't care if you think you are right or ever if you are right......I don't care about you or your opinions. I am so far beyond the season and you; why don't you get a life and move on.....go take care of your wife! Put away the stat books and move on......the season is over!!! btw, you have not upset me....!

...you are a poor loser and a poor sport....why would I care what Tony Massarotti writes....who is Tony Massarotti and who is Dan Gould.....go spend some time with your wife! Give it a rest, the season is over and so is this conversation.....poor loser! m~

...put away your baseball stat books and go spend some time with your poor wife; get a life and get over it, the season is over, drop it!!!......... poor sport!

I'm pretty sure if I played the Vanguard, it would not be sold out on any night!!! m~

I think this is a Claxton image...I read a story about this some time ago....several kids were standing around asking them what they were doing. m!

Have a GREAT day, Chris

...bad day for retired sports legends!

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I was in LA a few weeks ago and having been intrigued by the image of Watts Towers in Harold Land's lp, "Harold in the Land of Jazz", I thought I would go to Watts to check them out. I read up on the towers before hand and very interesting story behind them. They are build from scrap metal with cement/wire mesh on them and then covered with broken bottles (lots of 7up and Squuit), sea shells, plates and maybe some other things. It took Simon Rodia about 33 years to build 17 different structures....one of them 100' tall......using no power tools or scaffolding!!! I read that during WW2, some people thought they were being used to communicate with Japanese subs . Anyway, I thought they were pretty cool to see....here is Harold's cover and a few of my images. Mark~

...and one with the Vanguard Orchestra. It was great hanging out with Michael.....had dinner at some Cuban joint and chatted about some of Michael's experiences....great player as well. m~

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Although these are not images of Micheal at the Vanguard, they are images I made of Michael playing with Frank Wess as well as one with the Vanguard Orchestra ealier this month in LA. m~

Dan, my team won more games than anyone did the past two years (2004/2005) and I didn't cry and insist on a rule change because someone (especially a lowly wild card winner) came away with the victory. Give them their due, they are the champions (even if you don't think they deserve it). Those who can (play), do and those who can't sit around and write about it, make preditiions that are meaningless and get shitty then their predictions don't come true. m~ Try not to be a complete ass, Mark. ...you truly are a poor loser, even months after your team has been eliminted. m~ It doesn't have a goddamn thing to do with it. And how do you get from my quite reasonable proposal to some bullshit about your team having the best record for two years running? What is that supposed to entitle you to, a free pass for winning a pathetic 83 games in the regular season this year? Your team sucked then, and deserves about 25% of the credit for winning now. Now go celebrate your world championship and kindly fuck off. Why resort to name calling when someone doesn't agree with you? You are a poor sport and truly a class act......no more free Red Sox photos for you! m~ Show me where I "resort to name calling". "Fuck off" is a command. On the other hand, "poor loser" and "Those who can (play), do and those who can't sit around and write about it, make preditiions that are meaningless and get shitty then their predictions don't come true" sounds a lot closer to "name calling." While you're searching in vain for "name calling" don't forget to shove your camera up your ass. That's another command, by the way. ...that's an observation....poor sport!