Brad

Owners do try to maximize service time but ceasing to play after you’ve started the season? That’s a bit different and if enough players do it, will lead to cancellation of the season, if the season starts. That’s just sabotaging the season. You want to opt out before the season starts. Fine, but not after. I’m sure any such moves won’t go well with the public.

If you’re not going to play, announce it before the season starts. To quit mid season is gaming the system and ethically dubious.

America, where your rights matter more than anyone else’s. It's a shame when anyone dies from this but it’s also a shame when people can’t work together for the common good.

Dr. Michael Osterholm, the director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota, and who is frequently interviewed on TV, has said that the disease won’t level off until it has infected about 50-60% of the US population. That’s a scary thought. He has consistently counseled that we are only in the early stages of the pandemic; he likens to being only in the 2nd inning.

Game 7 of the 86 World Series on SNY!

Oh, take the bait You’re ruining the Forum’s fun Watching Grantchester on PBS.

Thanks for the link. I found it to be an odd list, with high rankings for what I, as an American, consider minor sports, recognizing that they might not be minor in Spain. As an example, ranking Carolina Marin (badminton) over Xavi or Ruth Beteia (track and field) over Iniesta. Sorry, that doesn’t make sense to me.

Dead.net is starting a GD Podcast. Here are the details and the first episode, https://www.dead.net/deadcast?eml=2020July9/5037381/6131962&etsubid=34395150

He does a great job with Jazz Profiles.

I definitely agree with the top 5 but I’m more interested in the 50 greatest sportsmen/women. Where does Raul and Ramos rank? How about Santana? My first Wimbledon was seeing him win. Nadal must be near the top, if not the top. What about Contador and Indurain?

Received my shipping notice too but I just ordered the vinyl.

It’s also a matter of preference, which is subjective. Just because 179 “experts” ranked them, that doesn’t mean we have to agree.

In a 2008 Rolling Stone survey of 100 greatest vocalists (as ranked by 179 experts), he placed 55th. 100 Greatest Singers of All Time

Like Dan and Mike, I think too much is being made about this (I find it hard to believe we’ve had two pages worth of discussion about it.) However, looking at the results of the poll, yes and no answers only, a majority are opposed, so far. If the trend continues, the better alternative would be a separate website.

No issues around here (New Jersey).

I just looked there and it doesn’t seem all that busy.

I’m sure you’re right about that other backup site. All I can remember is that there was one. I hope this place doesn’t die. If we fork over the money to keep it going, it shouldn’t, and my preference is definitely not FB. Perhaps we could create a backup site in lieu of using FB. Never heard of Jazz Talk. I was first thinking that was Lois Gilbert’s place but then I remembered hers was Jazz Corner.

Several years ago there was a backup site when the Forum went down so this doesn’t seem that different.

I’m in.

The approach the Mets are following which I assume is the same for other teams, Mets embrace 'new normality' at Summer Camp They're spacing out the time when players practice but if there’s a season that won’t be possible unless the players are physically separate in the stands. I imagine the dugout will only be for a few players and the coaches.

That Healing Jazz Thing on a Porch in Brooklyn “He was our heard-out-the-window Pied Piper, this saxophonist who signaled the arrival of evening by playing that haunting hymn “Amazing Grace.” He began playing in the depths of plague and loss in Brooklyn, those early April days when the wail of ambulance sirens was our city’s night song. It took several days of listening out our window in Flatbush for my wife, Evelyn, and me to slip on our masks and wander around the corner to Marlborough Road. Mr. Nathanson’s band grew by the day. Albert Marquès, a Barcelona-born Latin jazz musician and public-school teacher, began piping away on his melodica as his children, ages 3 and 6, danced and twirled on the sidewalk. The Haitian jazz guitarist Eddy Bourjolly came in from Canarsie, while Eric Alabaster, a retired teacher and drummer, and Mo Saleem, a Pakistani musician marooned by the virus, kept rhythm on drums and the dholak, a two-headed hand drum.”

Right now (including staff members who have tested positive), the percentage is 1.2%. Unless an entire team or two tests positive, I don’t see the season being stopped. At the very least, we haven’t reached critical mass yet.

Someone is actually selling one on Amazon, https://www.amazon.com/Whistle-Happy-Tune-Have-Dreamed/dp/B005GLL1ME