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How hard would it be for somebody not of Andorran origian to get all the Yusef Lateef impulse! sides in one place before somebody of Andorran origin does?

Griping Gumflapping Geezers. Don't ever let it be said that I'm not here for those in need!

It's Bird and he sounds healthy enough. That's all I need to know, if even that.

Killer Joe Jose Feliciano http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jq7aSC-ezBk&feature=related Cheo Feliciano http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4Unt7OwkJc

Stringy

Is this the "edition" you have?

Charles Colin!

It's not gaudy if it's not embarrassing!

Agreed! Speaking of the Tournament, it occurred to me today that for the first time the headlines that I saw this week said, "Tigers win ALCS" rather than "Tigers win pennant". One more shoveling of the collective sub-conscious into the notion that you're only really a "winner" if you finish all the way on top. A lot of that going around these days, and there's only one way it ends up...beware, brother, beware.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V__esKMrhc0 Mislabled/mistitled, but still...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dBzcde8Knk

They will rebuild him. It's been promised. And I myself have not been to The Fair for about 20 years or so, but I think I will go next year, just to give a Howdy back to Big Tex. It's only right.

http://mlb.mlb.com/twitter/index.jsp?partnerId=aw-4706111875448660919-996#s=zito http://espn.go.com/mlb/playoffs/2012/story/_/id/8526051/barry-zito-nlcs-game-5-masterpiece-sends-series-back-san-francisco

Oh, ok then, wasn't sure!

Even in death, Big Tex extended his giant hand of friendship: Big Tex in happier days (NOT Happy Days!)

But that's Joe Zito, not Torrie Zito (or Totrre's drummer brother Ronnie)....although if you combine their first names, you have Joe Torrie, and taht is a baseball name, if not a correctly spelled one. Torrie Zito married Helen Merrill.

Here's what you should think: "My team now employs a guy who could only hit singles as its hitting coach". Almost as ludicrous as when the Mets recently employed a guy who used to routinely strike out 200 times a year as their hitting coach. Would worry about that part except for:

We can duet!

So this Zito guy...sucks? Not sucks? Confusing? Yes? Failing that, that busted play at second, I saw that that ball bounce off that base and I said aHA there's that Devilball coming out to play and this time it's Ricky-Rocky what gets to pay for it. But this Zito guy - loser who wins big game, winner who loses little game? Still confused, please advise?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Tex Big Tex turned 60 this year. With The State Fair Of Texas having an estimated annual attendance of about 2,500,000 - 3,000,000 people, that's a lot of times for a lot of generations to get to know Big Tex. Parents would tell their kids if you get lost from us, go to Big Tex. And then those kids would tell their kids that, and now their kids are telling their kids that. I know a lot of my fellow Texans who don't like a lot of things about Texas, but nobody who went to The Fair didn't dig Big Tex. Hew was there for you, always, and he was just goofy-loveable. Big Tex never hurt anybody nor did he ever piss anybody off. Big Tex transcended ethnicity, income, age. everything. Big Tex was cool, and he will return.

According to LTB, Big Tex is now fried - just like everything else at the fair.

They got the park right a long time before they got the team right!

Don't need domed stadium, team has learned to use the heat to their advantage. Work the counts, make the opposing pitchers work, watch them start to wilt, Rangers win games if their pitching holds up, which it has come to do. Holland, Harrison, Colby, Feliz, all those guys are acclimated to it and know how to work in it. Yu learned, just as he learns everything. Rangers had more injuries to pitchers this year than anytime in recent memory, and they still kept going ok. It was in the spring, not the Summer, that they had the series with Seattle where they let Seattle score touchdowns instead of runs. I still have nightmares about those games... No, it wasn't the heat itself that wore them out this year, it was the decision that giving rookies too many spot starts to give the regulars rest in August and, especially, September, was not the best choice given the ongoing dynamics of the division race. In retrospect, that was probably not the correct decision for both physical and mental reasons, but as hot as this summer was, last summer was more hotter more longer, and the team went to the WS for the second year in a row. Besides, The Ballpark as is is a glorious place to experience a game. Doming it would just suck, period.

The Rangers just hired Dave Magadan as their hitting coach, Magadan being the Red Sox hitting coach since 2007. Not sure what to think?

Is this related to Tebagging? I mean, I can see where it kinda might be...