Brad

I’d call your dealer and ask him.

I got a kick out of the name of the Irons character: John Tuld vs Lehman’s Richard Fuld. I never read The Big Short but did read Charles Gasparino’s The Sellout. Pretty amazing.

Fantastic movie from Joan Micklin Street. When I was a kid being from Hester Street was not considered a good thing. When we misbehaved, my grandmother (and people of her generation) would say that “you act like you were brought up on Hester Street.”

I’m just getting around to reading the 2019 edition, commemorating the lives of people, some famous and some not so famous, who died in 2019. The Lives They Lived

Thanks for the recs. Perhaps I need to re-see 1917, give it another chance. I mentioned Westfront 1918. This is a great movie, showing the War from the German point of view. Speaking of which, Schlump by Hans Herbert Grimm, reissued in 2016 by New York Review of Books Classics, is a terrific book about the War from the German side.

I ordered it Scott

I have a few of his albums but, in all honesty, wasn’t familiar with this one. Thanks for the YouTube link. I need to seek this album out.

I just saw that Tony Fernandez, who was just 57, has died. He apparently had kidney issues and then suffered a stroke; his family elected to take him off life support. RIP. Wonderful player.

Paths of Glory doesn’t begin to deal with the ugliness of war. Guess we are watching different movies. Sorry, but the script in 1917 is weak. It’s just not that great a movie. The so called one long shot was gimmicky. Frankly, I was bored.

A Record Store Day purchase.

This is excellent, a semi fictional look at the collapse of Lehman Brothers. Just as good as The Big Short, which was a tremendous movie.

Disc 2.

Movie was ok, not as good as The Pianist.

This is a remarkable book about the horrors imposed on the Lithuanian people. The novel, which is told through the eyes of a 16 year old girl (and was meticulously researched by the author) recounts how she and her family are forced into a Russian prison camp and the privations they suffer, especially when they are moved to a second camp at the edge of the Arctic Circle. The conditions under which they lived are indescribable. It would be 12 years before they would be allowed to go home. Although the book is said to be fiction, what the Russians did to Lithuania is terribly true.

From the little I’ve heard, it sounds like the Astros press conference was a disaster.

Disc 2.

A classic that I haven’t listened to in years. Now listening to Disc 1:

I’m hoping against hope it’s just a trial balloon.

Baseball, in its infinite wisdom , is thinking of a new playoff format that must have been designed in Romper Room: MLB weighing major changes to postseason, including growing number of teams to 14 “MLB is considering a move in which each league would have three division winners and four wild-card teams making the postseason starting in 2022, sources said. The best team in the league would receive a bye into the division series. The two remaining division winners and the wild-card team with the best record of the four would each host all games of a best-of-three series in the opening round.“ After the regular season ends, “The division winner with the second-best record would select its wild-card opponent from the three wild-card winners not hosting a series. The division winner with the worst record would then choose its opponent from the remaining two wild-card teams. The final matchup would pit the wild-card winner with the best record against the wild-card team not yet chosen. All of the selections, sources said, would be unveiled live on television the Sunday night of the final regular-season games.”

You might find this interesting, 9 hi-fi tricks you might not believe affect sound quality (but they do) Here’s a discussion from the Hoffman forum about the article, https://forums.stevehoffman.tv/threads/sound-quality-how-far-do-yo-go.923901/#post-23055774

They are taking bids to that effect. As a result, the consideration is supposed to be higher. I think they realized that attaching conditions as they did with Cohen would result in no buyers or lower purchase price. The motivating factor to sell comes from the Wilpon family, not Fred and certainly not Jeff. The family doesn’t trust Jeff to run the franchise and Saul Katz wants a sale, and Katz, who is Wilpon’s brother in law, owns a significant share of the Mets (perhaps a majority).

Indeed and it was only $1! Now playing: