Brad

Wearing masks in warm weather, especially tight, confined areas, is not particularly easy so anything that brings many people together in arenas or outdoor areas ain’t a great idea. I have no objection to the 2B idea during the pandemic era provided it doesn’t becomes permanent. Baseball, unlike football, has no experience or rules governing tie games so I’m sure that was considered and rejected. Rule changes (within reason) that lessens lengths of games in this era should be encouraged. The 2B idea seems similar to the college football idea of starting at the opponent’s 20 or 25 yard line in overtime games.

I’m waiting for my new copy of Berlin Alexanderplatz to arrive so in the meantime I’m reading Abigail by Magda Szabo. I love all her books that have appeared in English. I came across this article about Moby Dick tonight. Worth a read. Melville’s Whale Was a Warning We Failed to Heed

Right. I was assuming — incorrectly— that it was the Ace reissue.

Perhaps you could write to Scott at Mosaic with your question.

Do you know if Ace had access to the masters or is this basically a needle drop?

I used to have a lot of them but I got rid of them. I discovered a few months ago I still had a couple left. They were well done and kept those. Not sorry I tossed out the others but I would have liked to kept a couple more.

Look at the bottom of this article. There’s a link that may be helpful. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/25/movies/ella-fitzgerald-just-one-of-those-things-review.html

Don’t have to worry about reading this. Turbo took care of it.

We have several KN 95 masks and after a few uses we wash them in soap and warm water. We do the same for gloves.

You might also want to post your question on the Hoffman forum. They have some very knowledgeable people over there.

Same here. Hopefully, the printing is reliable. Years ago, I had the Bird 10 cd set from Verve and two of the CDs were the same except the printing (but not the music) were correct.

For sure, the pitcher hitting is a goner and although I like it, the NL is the only league in organized baseball using it. At some point, the DH was going to become universal.

That’s a good point. I need to do that, thanks.

Yes, but if the sound is poor, I will pass on it or look for the lp. Note: just looked at Discogs and the original lp is $75 and up so I guess that may be a pass.

Sounds like a pass.

If you’ve got some extra money lying right now and need to clean it, this Financial Crimes professor, Moyara Ruehsen at Middlebury Institute, fact checks money laundering schemes from movies and TV.

Not silly. Impossible to predict what’s going to happen. Although I’d like to see a season, I have no idea what will take place.

Listened to this yesterday.

I didn’t vote in the poll because I don’t know — I don’t know if anyone does — what will happen.

The Roots of Canned Heat

I disagree. If they can start the season, people will watch. Since the Bundesliga has restarted in Germany, it has been very successful. The same in Spain, Italy and England, where football has also restarted. People are starved for diversions and there are no other team sports available to watch.

It’s a new reality, a chance for some unexpected teams to make the playoffs. Whether we will actually have a season remains to be determined.

Don’t quit your day job, that’s all I have to say.

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