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No, we have a wildcard game on Friday, against Baltimore. I suspect there will be drama.

No, not necessary. It will hopefully be a wakeup call to the players and the organization and the fans that magic should never be expected, and that if you want a dynasty, go rent some DVDs. Otherwise, you can play your ass off and still have some shit happen, some of which is under your control only until you realize that you need it to be under your control, at which point, hey, too late. That's baseball. Hell, that's life. Appreciate the hell out of it when it's good and don't lose faith when it's not.

Rationally, Scott Feldman + Roy Oswalt + Justin Grimm + Martin Perez < Neftali Feliz as a starter. Also, Ryan Dempster < Colby Lewis when push came to shove. Best option available, just not the best option, period. That would have been a healthy Colby Lewis Bottom line, Ranger's couldn't pitch, Oakland would not lose, and ther it was. Also, why you running these guys so hard Wash? Because Wash knows baseball, Wash saw the 012 A's looking and feeling like the 010 Rangers and Wash knows that if he don't keep his main guys in thee as much as humanly possible, there's a good chance that the As have the division title long before game 162. Hell, I started feeling it at least a month ago, and I know that Wash is more perceptive than I am. Oakland is the monster who you can't run away from because they're stuck on GO!!! At some point, there's no avoiding the inevitable. Emotionally, hey Josh Hamilton, FUCK YOU. It's been fun for everybody, but it's time to move on. Micahel Young, Nellie Cruz, you're both at the age where things change with your body. Make the adjustments of make the trip out of town. Rest of the team, hey, we love you because of your youthful energy and edge, but - don't ever think that magic is guaranteed. Use this season and learn that lesson very well. Don't get all old and jaded like "certain otehr teams", keep it fresh, but look over at the A's and you know EXACTLY how that felt. Now you know how THIS feels. Both feelings are always possible outcomes, so stop "expecting" them and bump it up another notch more to increase the odds of getting the favorable one. Exempt from all this- Adrian Beltre. Still a Superior Human Being. And Yu Darvish who IS going to be all that was hoped for. And Ron Washington, who...just knows the way baseball go, good and bad, and that all you can REALLY do is play the next game and platy it better than you did the day before. Oh, wait, we still have another game to play, against Baltimore. At home. And if we win that one, we get two more to play, against the Yankees. At home. But really, Jon Daniels is going to have an interesting winter, that's all I can say. And I would more more than OK with these barracuda buzzsaw A's just gnawing the legs off of everybody they play from here on out and just leaving blood and bone fragment everywhere.They seem to be very good at that, and unless you the one getting it done to you, it's pretty fun to watch. GO A'S!

I've seen that place. Ate at a Pakistani place in the same complex (not as good as I had hoped), We like Thai food quite a bit, already have a couple places in town we like, will have to give this one a shot. Thanks for the tip!

Which Thai place are you talking about?

Hey, so did I! Atmosphere, yeah, it's got that for sure. For me, Odyssey Of Iska has a lot more focus, but I can dig where you're coming from. I felt the same way when my On The Corner 8-track bit the dust.

I've still not drank the Mizell Kool-Aid as originally packaged...but it does make great sampling fodder, I've heard any number of examples of this, so....I don't know what to make of that, other than maybe a whole box of prunes is too much to eat at a single sitting, but if you eat one or two at the right time, good things can be made to happen. Maybe the Mizell BN output is a giant box of prunes, and it's up to us the consumer to make proper use of it. Or something.

That horse left the barn a long time ago I'm afraid. Exactly. Think of the implications of something that has a "mixed" demographic (and a relatively affluent one at that) not being "appealing" to media ownerships...would the converse of that then be that media ownerships prefer formats that discourage a mixed demographic and instead foster an insular one, or at least a generic one? This is like back in the day when you could go to a Cannonball gig and see all kinds of people turning out, and you'd hear Cannonball giving all of them something to latch on to. A wide net was being cast. Now it looks like a wide net is being frowned upon, or at least that the fish are being engineered to all be the same fish that fit the same one wide net. My concern is not Smooth Jazz per se, hell fuck Smooth Jazz per se, but rather the, like the man said, "middle" and what happens when everything is a "specialty" music except for the one big blob in the middle that is interchangeable parts that you can buy anywhere, but especially Wal-Mart, walk right in, sit right down, daddy let your mind...roll into a box and be put away for the collection. How is that good? Brrrrrr,,,,it's chilly in here...

This is the New Blue Note that the Newer Blue Note didn't want you to think of as Blue Note. And now, it's baaaaaaacccckkkkkk!!!!!

It still smacks of ignorance, though.

Ahem... Wasn't there a time when such concentration of ownership was illegal?

What's the draw for you here, Jeff?

What about that thing on "Groovin' High"?

Call me crazy, but the AL team that's looking like "all the pieces are coming together" at "just the right time" is Detroit...all that veteran grit and the hunger from almost getting there last year...dangerous combination, potentially.

And think about this - once analog information is all but replaced by digital in t, how easy will it be for Somebody to decide that They don't want people to know that any more and oops, where'd it all go? did it ever really happen? Must be a myth, this Armstrolington Parkertrane stuff, a bunch of ignorant superstition voodoo. The time will come when people who own there own data will be dangerous. Don't act like it ain't never happened, and don't act like it can't ever happen again. And say what you will about sampling, but also say that it's one possible way to send secret messages, to keep shit from disappearing completely. Not the object, but the idea.

Bottom feeders keep the waters fresh. Fact.

Royalties, etc, none. But there is the issue of allowing the physical product to still retain value in the secondary market, which helps to keep it viable as an "item" rather than a "concept". Secondary markets of several variety sprung from that, and I for one enjoyed having th4em there. To the extent that the financial can be linked to the moral, that's what I liked about a stong secondary market - more people could make some more money, period. And more money...etc.

Ah, no need for all that...but much appreciated, still.

(strong) O's v (strong) Rays running parallel to (strong enough) Yanks v (sucko) Red Sox is a damn shame of a way to settle a division race, although when they set the schedule I'm sure it didn't seem that way.

AWAKE!

Apparently so! West coast baseball, a losing game and the stresses that it creates, and an extra half-pill to get to sleep in time to go to work the next day...apparently there was an....INTERVAL at the computer! Think I better leave that extra half-pill alone. Jibberish posting is one thing, but god forbid I go shopping or driving or try to rent a car by phone and get the wrong number... I'm sure there was some poetry almost there, though...

That's very interesting. That passage you highlight from the liner notes stood out and remained with me as well when I first read it (albeit via the early 90's cd issue ). I often recall it in my mind when I think about things related to the music. Certainly the music isn't ambitious in the way so much Jazz was/is, but it ain't easy to learn to play either. It's still really the earthy side of Be-bop (or at least Babyface is - the music Hobsbawm had in mind might be from closer to the R&B spectrum perhaps? Who is Marlowe Morris MG?) Hobsbawm seems to be from an earlier generation of Left wing thinkers that I know not much about, but I am getting the feeling he was like a 60's Slavoj Zizek perhaps, in terms of being a kind of Left wing public intellectual. That quote made a big impression on me as well, but I feel somewhat saddened that such a basic recognition of the basic humanity of the whole thing inevitable became a political statement. Not saying that I don't understand why it was, but geez, people going out for drinks and dancing and having a boisterous good time to the accompaniment of music of a similar quality, that's a pretty basic human activity, It's pretty damn depressing to think that it took a "political statement" or whatever to see it as simply as it was.

It could happen. Oakland is playing "magic" baseball, and the Rangers aren't. Then again, all it takes is one good outing from either Harrison or Demspter and the offense showing up and that's that. And we had our weakest starting slot out there last night and only lost by one. So "logic" says that, yeah, we can/should win one of the next two. But that "magic" shit...that can be hard to beat. But...that's why they play the games, I suppose.

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