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http://www.sbnation.com/mlb/2013/4/25/4265286/five-yu-darvish-pitches-gif-texas-rangers Why, so much math there, the fans need slide rules to figure out WTF that ball is doing!

Loving this set.

L.A. tenor player in Johnny Otis' orb...Jackie Kelso?

I grew up with the Toy Cannon, so...been there, done that, and actually kind of enjoyed it!

Yes, you will. It's a great set. Yes, I had heard 3 of the four albums individually over the years, and I always liked them more than loved them. But - hearing them as a set like this, you can hear the band grow from offering just really competent executions of some really unique charts to having a voice of its own and actually speaking those charts. and by the time you get to March Of The Tadpoles, there is an edge, a bite, if you will, setting in that the earlier albums don't always have. That's when you know you got a real big band, when you get one that bites. That bite matters, because Toshiko's writing is typically very dense and diffuse at the same time (if that makes any sense), and maybe it took the band that long to get it all into focus and find the music's inner voice, to get past playing these freakin' hardass charts correctly into actually being able to summon the spirits within and then commune with them. But they did, and then, hey, yes, please.

The correct answer is Sylvester Kyner. Everything else is a matter of interpretation.

They've been my doctor, my lawyer, my mother, my father...

But 'Higher ground' gets you Joe Henderson for real. 'Gambler's life' is just fast noise. Or so it seemed to me back in the day. MG PS 'Catch my soul' on 'Higher ground' has what I feel is the greatest Joe Henderson solo in an R&B bag. Oh crap, you're right. Funny thing is, I always confused those two back in the day as well. I'd be in the used bins, see Gambler's Life and snatchitup thinking, "OK! HERE it is, the Johhny Hammond side with Joe Henderson, FINALLY". Then I'd look on the back and..no Joe. DAMMIT. I must've made that same mistake at least five times over the space of about 10 years. And probably more than once never bothered to pick up and look at a copy of Higher Ground in the same bin. Everybody has their quirks for life. Apparently this is one of mine.

Ok, so I recently ordered the Pendulum Select b/c it's life was almost up, and I didn't want it THAT bad, but, hey, maybe it would be nice enough, right? So... The box comes in the mail, I open it up, and 'allo guvner wot's THIS, eh? It's the ToshikoTabackin set instead. Hmmm...what to do? E-mail Mosaic of course. And they are SO sorry, here's what they will do: Well hell yeah Fred, let me get 2-for-1.5 ANY day of that or any other week! So they ship Pendulum and charge 50% off, just as promised (more or less, the numbers are the same). And it got here. All is well now. Funny thing is, I'm liking the ToshikoTabackin set more than I expected (it's my first time hearing March Of The Tadpoles, and woahYAY-AH about that!), and the Pendulum about as much as expected. So the error worked in my favor both personally and financially, and hopefully to theirs in terms of Business Karma. So next time, tell'em Fred sent ya', because Fred RULZ.

They just don't know the technologicals, that's how.

Oh, speaking of official rules: http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/official_info/official_rules/game_preliminaries_3.jsp (emphasis added) Q.E. motherfucking D.

http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/official_info/official_rules/pitcher_8.jsp Now, if you can get a Howitzer that can pass that muster, hey, go for it!

So if i'm a paying customer that gives me carte blanc to do just anything I please...even if it ruins the enjoyment of the game for the other 45,000 paying customers? Both of our bad spellings aside - Seriously? It would be a lot easier to just say that you don't like the rule but it is what it is, maybe some day it'll be changed/modified/whatever. But instead,the argument is that Certain Rights (With Penalties If Exceeded) = Carte Blanche. Dude...

And oh btw - his Mainstream album is one nobody ever talks about, and that's too bad. It's not really "great" or anything, but it is a worthy endeavor.

Cameramen get paid to be there, they are employees. Players get paid to be there, they are employees. Fans pay to be there, they are customers, and the "company" of whom they are customers have given them certain rights, which they have eery right to excericse. By the same token, if they exceed their given rights, there are penalities. Totally fair. And totally American. The simple solution to this problem that does not exist (as well as to a safety issue that does) would be to put up a fine, see-through screen around all seating that could conceivably be entered into by a player and make it such a height that neither player nor fan could scale it. And then a player could lean into the screen and catch a ball that he might not have been able to if a fan had gotten there first. If it's your team that benefits, great. And if not, well, be careful what you ask for. And God Bless America, where People Can Still Make Crazy Happen. I'd not have it any other way.

So...fans need to obey rules that don't exist and respect rights that nobody has? If it was that important to MLB, they would but up screens or chicken wire or oversized pantyhose, or something to create The Line Ye Dare Not Cross Without The Express Written Consent Of Major League Baseball! But they don't. They figure that if a ball is in the fan's space (and the fan's space it is, as should be evident by the fact that a player cannot just jump or climb into the seats to catch a foul ball or a home run) and the player can get it by leaning into that space, good for the player, and if not, then good for the fan. (Let it be noted that the fan does not have that same right. so the primacy of the competition is stipulated to as is. But also note that "on the field" and "over the wall" are two distinct places.) Sounds fundamentally American to me, unlike hey, it's the player's ball even if it's two or three rows deep, part the waters and get outta the way. What is this, England, with a Queen and shit?

Driving is what's driving him. Seriously.

Sonny Stitts

Got the Lytle set in the mail yesterday & have been listening to it all AM. It's pretty damn good stuff, and Marvin Cabell is just icing on the cake.

Gambler's Life gets you Joe Henderson, if Joe Henderson is something you'd want to get.

Don't know if this is the original, but... And hey, here's Phil Woods!

$35.00? Really?

Then make a rule. Otherwise, Steve Bartman fucked his team, but broke no rules. We do follow the rules, don't we? And if that would have been a Marlins' fielder, he'd be a hero to this day, a True Cubs Legend. But oh well about that. Again - if you don't like a rule, that's one thing. But what fans "need" to do is a matter of opinion. What they can do is covered by some clear-cut rules, to be enforced by the umpires, using video replay technology if they choose. So whine all you want about what you don't like. But let there be no mistake - no rules were broken. None. So play ball, and just get over it.