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Here we go, Bautista's reaction to the whole thing: So, ok, he sent a message. He received a message in return, one which caught him by surprise, because, I guess, he thinks he's Joeybats Bautista and he's the baddest ass in town, who would dare challenge him? I think we're even now. I'm not gonna count Prince taking one in the leg afterwards, Prince was laughing about that. That was funnyball. Prince Fielder laughs. Nobody's waiting for Prince Fielder to make one wrong move. Hell, Prince Fielder's a vegan. I'm sure there's somebody somewhere who would love to eat Joeybats Bautista, literally. On a darker note, Timmy goes to the Angels. Now I can only sometimes pull for him. That's a drag. http://espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/15564685/tim-lincecum-agrees-deal-los-angeles-angels

I saw him in Vegas, January (or very early February) of 1982, and he totally kicked ass. I went in just to "see Sinatra", I came out a goose-bumped convert.

It's the syncopations, the kicks. And then how he'll set a riff, like a big band. Always putting his foot all the way up in it (colloquialism, sorry). Harmonies, he would open those up too, but the thing about his comp to me is the pure kick of it, the solid propulsiveness of where he puts his pocket. Even those little "broken" things he'd do, they always started right and landed right, he wasn't "in" the pocket as much as he was the pocket. Of course, in those days, he tended to play with people of whom the same thing could be said, so yeah, ubiquitipocket.

Well, ok, you've equated Jose Bautista with Liza Minnelli. I rest my case. And furthermore, who could Bautista hurt? With a slide like that? Seriously? Not the worst example of that type of thing, but enough to cross the line from, by your definition, jerk to bully, a line that is very easily crossed in general for too many. In other words, people been wanting to do that to him for a long time, but, you know, jerk, gotta live with jerk. But first time that line gets crossed to bully, hey, locked, loaded, and ready to fire.

The guy comped with the power and drive of an organist. If you couldn't swing with that under you, that would be nobody's fault but your own!

Buddy, Tommy, & Benny, they were bosses. You had a choice to leave or to stay. Bautista is an employee who brings his prissiness to the job as well as his skills, for better or for worse, and although his team seems to feel it's for the better a evidenced by their broadening use of the whinyass tactic, the man has obviously not endeared himself to a portion, perhaps a significant portion, of the baseball world. Event he people who are upset by the fight, how many of them are saying good things about Bautista? And how many are hedging their displeasure with some kind of "well, hey, Bautista, that slide, hey..." So yeah, sure, you really have no choice but to put up with it, except in a perfect storm of fuquitousness like we had this past Sunday. Then, hey, here comes the fist pie, mmmmmm, YUMMY! Although this is not the Kennedy assassination, Malcolm X's line about "chickens coming home to roost" scan be set to an appropriate scale and applied here. Or call it karma (which is why Odor needs to start looking at taking off JUST a little of that edge). Or call it good old fashioned Popeye vs Bluto. Whatever it was, it was. As an abstract occurrence, hey, no, don't do that. As a real-time/real-place/real-life event between those two people at that specific time, hey, play with fire, get burned. No way around that. And - if this is the worst example of attitude bulliness being met by individual violence we have this year...take it.

Never new about that PI record, need to hunt it down. It kinda fleshes out the notion that Thad & Mel also did a thing for the label. Wonder what else there was? RIP to one of the more delightfully boisterous voices of Ellingtonia Never new about that PI record, need to hunt it down. It kinda fleshes out the notion that Thad & Mel also did a thing for the label. Wonder what else there was? RIP to one of the more delightfully boisterous voices of Ellingtonia

Bautista is an attitude bully, not a physical one (although that slide leaned him ahead into that category). People sick of his shit, that's all. Consider this - if the participants would have been Odor & Edward Encarnation (to use the most frequently cited alternate choice), either the fight would not have happened at all, of else Odor would be being vilified nationally. That is was Bautista, and that many, many people are exhibiting some variation of, hey, you know, the guy got his, even while disapproving of fisticuffs in general and agreeing that Odor will and should rightfully be suspended and possibly also fined (also rightfully), should tell you a lot, if not all, you should want to need to know to better expertize yourself on the behavior of Mr. Bautista. It's like if somebody threw a pie at Mel Torme in the middle of a gig. No, you don't want to see that kind of thing, but don't tell me you're not gonna laugh about it somewhere, not because it was a pie, but because it was Mel Torme.

And there's this thing with unrepentant bullies, "don't give them anything to bully", well, yeah, that's Plan A, Plan B, and maybe even Plan C. But sometimes you stay out of the way but you end up in the way anyway. And then, hey, defending yourself is justified. More than justified, it's imperative. Ok, Odor is not somebody who goes out of his way to avoid anything, the guy's all in on every play, partially because lwast year he got sent down for a lack of spirit way out of line with the amount of talent he has. So he's..."driven". So yeah, he will engage on a challenge, that should be a known quantity by now. But Bautista is the Bluto of Baseball, so...boo hoo about Roogie punching Joey Bats, I's ok that it happened, I'm ok with any suspensions that result, and I'm ready to move on. A bully got his. If Odor does not learn to maintain, someday he will get his. This is how life works while we're trying to keep the peace, it never gets fully kept[t, except maybe in cricket, and I'll be damned if I'm going to start watching cricket. I am too old and life is too short. Pretty awesome that they got the DP call, won the boxing match, and took the game. Less awesome that they parlayed all the "emotional edge" that resulted into a 3-1 loss against Oakland the next night. Momentum my ass!

https://www.discogs.com/OJays-Lipstick-Traces-On-A-Cigarette-Think-It-Over-Baby/release/3241207 Interesting - produced by Tommy LiPuma and Joe Saraceno, arranged and conducted by Nick DeCaro, and the A-Side (a minor hit, I guess?), arranged by Harold Battiste, written by Naomi Neville. Harold Battiste had Sony Bono & Phil Spector connections, New Orleans still in the mix, right alongside Brian Wilson outflows. What an interesting confluence, all more or less in the interest of getting a hit.

And not just Bautista, really. If he was just one guy on a team that was otherwise cool enough, it would be, oh, that guy. But the Jays are really accelerating this culture of whininess and bitchiness. It extends to John Gibbons, he's a whinyass one his own self, and had already been tossed from Sunday's game, although that didn't prevent him from coming back on the field during the scuffle.

Yeah, this is nice enough, but not MegaBucks nice. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cq3lGjZxrqw

Oh, so he was talking about Odor's career, not Bautista's? Hey, all I can say is that I am principled enough to abhor one player punching another player in the face during the course of a game (of course, what they do in their private and/or personal times together is of no concern to me, some folks are into that, ya' know, not for me to judge) but I am in no way principled enough to do anything but LOL, LOTS of LOL at Roogie punching that...Bautista guy smack in the jaw at that specific time under that specific circumstance. Call me inconsistent (or worse!) but as a fan whose sole responsibility is to sit on my ass and watch the game (and admonish any youth I might come into contact with to not do that) hey, hell yeah I'll be inconsistent. Reality vs Theory, Reality always wins, as in this case did the Rangers. Odor does play hard, and he will want/need to fine-tune the focuses of his energies to a more refined plane than where they currently resonate. So let's start working on that. However, fuck Jose Bautista, and only a jury of his Torontonian peers might possibly convict Roogie for finally drawing some kind of goddamn line against that whinyass onewayer. If it's actions without consequences he wants, sign with WWE. Otherwise, beware motherfucker, beware.

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Where are you hearing this?

Have you heard any of the Bell stuff? Who's the producer, what bag are they working in? This one example on Imperial was, I guess, a B-side, and, yeah, if you bought/buy 45s at all, you know that B-Sides can be where the real fun is. it puts me in mind, of the things Irma Thomas did for the label with Nick DeCaro & JerryRagovoy, one "type" of song/production, another "type" of voice, and in the end, one marvelous sounding set of records, yet more fusion from the minds and souls and profit motives of American Popular Music.

I knew the O'Jays had been around before they hit on Philadelphia International, but I had never heard any of it and just assumed it was various local labels with good-enough songs and productions. No idea that they were placed into this soundworld, no idea at all. Found a compilation on Amazon called The Ultimate Collection covering the pre-PI stuff (a lot of it on Imperial, I think?), and AMG refers to it as something like "not complete, but essential". So, yeah, carpe-diemed all over that one, and am very curious about what awaits.

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http://www.lonestarball.com/2016/5/15/11679904/video-rangers-blue-jays-brawl-odor-bautista-texas-toronto Ok, seriously i was 100% unlooped from sports today, this was the first I'd heard of this, but all I can say is that afaic, Ryan/Ventura just got vaporized, and if Rookie ever runs for governor, he's got all of my votes.

Well, yeah, Windsor is just across the Rio!!!!!

Don't mean to be a smartass, but who is James Kaplan? And I guess, what is he going to tell me that will change the way I listen to my Sinatra records? Serious questions, both. I read the Friedwald bio, appreciated what was there, called bullshit where needed (which was often enough), expanded my collection exponentially, and feel as if I've gotten it now, with any growth that happens gonna come from within. But if I'm wrong, I'd like to know. Just remember, time. is short, and there's still buttloads of new (old and new alike) I feel like I've already shorted myself by not yet getting to.

An alternate universe of all kinds of waves, all kinds of tides, all kinds of VIBRATIONS. Think it over, baby. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1O-0Yh8cK-o&feature=youtu.be

Well hell. There was a person of true interest. RIP, exemplary.

Picked it up for pennies when all the old Muse CD inventory got Final Dumped and share your sentiments. Also picked up Scott' other Muse date, Great Scott with Buck Hill. I like this one better, but hey, Shirley Scott, always real, always true, always Shirley. Pick up an extra on the way home from work for that special someone who's waiting there for you. They'll thank you for it! Worth noting that both were produced by Houston Person, one of the harder working mans in show business, quiet as it's been kept.

Who is Kaplan?