Brad

I have a feeling (no evidence, just a feeling) that the Mets GM talked to Cashman and that may have influenced their decision.

Before the series started I thought the Nats had a shot because they have better starting pitching and their pen, which was horrific during the regular season, started to pitch better towards the end of the season. The third game pitching matchups certainly favors them. However, teams losing the first two at home and coming back to win is not unprecedented. See the 85 Royals and 86 Mets. Some major ass kicking going on tonight.

Received an email from Rhino containing a link to a podcast with Tommy Stinson of the Replacements. Know there are some fans here. https://www.rhino.com/podcast

There were 20,000 available to purchase and excluding the people who had pre-ordered through the annual subscription, they sold out in less than a day. Impressive.

He should be fired, no if ands or buts. No excuses.

I think it was posted here.

For any Dead fans out there, Dave’s Picks Volume 32 is available for pre-order.

32 Jazz aka Joel Dorn reissued a lot of great recordings. This is one of them.

He just drips soul.

I have a Citizens watch that I like. I get a lot of compliments on it. One of my doctors mentioned Filipo Loretti watches, watches that look expensive but are not. They have some great looking watches. https://shop.filippoloreti.com/collections/mens-watches?customer_posted=true

Booker T., With and Without the M.G.s Booker T. Jones, Soul’s Ultimate Sideman, Takes the Lead at Last

The perfect peach. Grown by my wife.

I'm at a loss to understand why you would need a course on how to use Twitter. You register, follow people who interest you, make tweets and you're off. Just don't make any stupid tweets like the infamous Justine Sacco.

Good ones.

What do you want to do that you believe a book for? I learned by trial and error although my main focus was using Word.

Maybe they should hire Girardi back (although I hope he’ll wind up on the Mets). They almost won the 2017 ALCS, with less talent than they have now but were beaten last year and 2019 seems like a repeat. I’m not a Yankee fan but last night was embarrassing and made NY baseball look bad. I’d like to say Boone looked lost but what could he do.

Maxine Gordon has won an award for her biography of her husband, https://jazztimes.com/blog/dexter-gordon-bio-wins-deems-taylor-virgil-thomson-award/

I had the above album; in 1962 my Mother won it in a raffle when we lived in Brasil. Unfortunately, no idea what happened to it. I probably wore out the grooves anyway. This morning. A great way to start the day:

All the more reason why I had him do it

I recently replaced the cartridge because it hadn't been replaced in a long time. I brought it to the dealer I bought the turntable from as he said it's a bit tricky to do yourself.

I'm using the sleeves with clear plastic liners. If I purchase a record that has a paper sleeve I discard it in favor of the plastic liner sleeve. Of course, I keep the paper sleeve if it has some printed information on it about the record, etc.