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Wow..I had no idea that The Sporting News had shrunk up so much...I had a subscription for a few years when I was a kid, and used to read it religiously every week, including the box scores. Oh well...

Ah, I see, Fireman Of The Year was awarded by the Sporting News (since 1960) and was changed to Reliever Of the Year. http://www.baseball-almanac.com/awards/aw_snfi.shtml

TMI!!!

Fireman Of The Year.

The Vulture

Maybe it was Steve Lacy talking about one of Monk's tunes. Could have been.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discrimination_based_on_skin_color

In and of itself, that's a good question about living your life in general, not just making your music. Plenty of ways for that to get weird and/or go wrong, but in and of itself...yeah.

Stud Poker, no doubt.

But Herbie Hancock still makes records. And has a book deal. And can improvise rather than riff. Win, Herbie Hancock. I actually don't mind Rockit at all. Don't really like it, but I've got no problem with Gadget Geeks playing with their new toys, nor with making unabashedly commercial music, not if you're upfront about it and do it like you mean for it to be done.

Thread drift on the O-Board? I'm shocked! Dude, this is the Herbie Hancock thread. Targeting different audiences and leaving other ones totally befuddled in the process should be expected! Now, what's this about benzadrine and Chinese food? I have more work to do and I'm hungry. Sounds like just what the doctor ordered (or will, if I can get the number to him).

We didn't take the left at Albuquerque, so Charleston is our second choice.

Second City/SCTV ruled. (still do?) Biggest regret I have is getting rid of a mid-60s compilation of their early stuff, a Mercury album called Second City Writhes Again. It was on that album where the snooty museum guide responds to the rather confident visitor's assertion that they didn't like a certain piece (after hearing the guide's oh-so pointy "explanation" of the piece's meaning) with a hearty, "well...YOU'RE WRONG." Every time I tell straight-up tell somebody they're wrong in a discussion of things artistic, I always have that bit in mind, and I always have to suppress a literal LOL when I say it. Maybe it's time to start trawling eBay for some old Second City Mercury albums...did some research once and there were at least two, maybe three, plus the compilation.

Reasons why tuna salad should be refrigerated overnight? Things you find in rejected fortune cookies? Parts of a car? What your boss says when you're getting a promotion?........PASS!

Things P.T. Barnum would say?

Hoyt Wilhelm. 50. I know, knuckleballer, reliever, didn't win a game after 1970 andpitched until mid-72. But those were consecutive seasons, and 50 is still 50, so...let's not forget, that's all I'm saying. But Moyer does my heart good, fersure!

hmmmm.... good point.

I'm totally ok with being a nation of barbarians. Not so ok with the disappearance of viable alternatives, though. Give me a viable alternative, and I'll most always be ok with the existence of to whatever it is a viable alternative. And how do you not like the $XX(X),XXX.XX Pyramid? C'mon dude, "Things A Shoe Would Say", that's the reals right there!

No doubt. Thad was always one of those guys who had the gift of sounding normal when in fact the music was anything but. As a player and as a writer. Lots of "funny notes", always. Yet totally logical ones.

whoa...that's opportunity with a capital OH!!!