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True. The variable with Stitt wasn't what he was going to play, but how he was going to play it.

Same here, and I was ass-deep in the heart of God's Team Land. Thoise Raiders were about as succinct a "fuck this shit" as could be had. Recommended reading as to how Al Davis earned at least the first part of all the slack he was given as the years went by:

For example - Dude, you can't take the liberty-- you don't have the chops! But like so so so much Sonny, your tongue/fingers move faster than your mind, both in the moment and later "repose." Again, I assert * Sonny's much ballyhooed "energy" and "combativeness" is often impotent rage at Bird and Lester/Hawk et al. * That even if Mark Stryker is correct-- and I take his advisements seriously and will report back if chastened-- that exceptional but slim % of Sonny's too vast output doesn't merit the attention of the lesser known (with respect to their own careers) grottoes of Clifford Jordan, Richie Kamuca, Billy Harper et al. * Tomorrow I'm going to see Ira Sullivan-- his album and that of Paul Geremia are the best white boy blues on Flying Fish * Correction: Earl Hooker was a HUGE innovator!! Pls don't be confused by ** his imitators ** and a confusing solo discography. * "The darker the berry, the sweeter the meat." -- Moms Mobley Useful?

Reread, please. It was only one white guy making any such "claim".

Mary Kay Murray The K Merry Clayton

Known about it since the day, but never have heard it.

Mr. Berkman made some comments in the off-season that certain individuals would like to see cause him displeasure before this season is over.

Looks like the Cardinals handled that for ya'...now maybe the Brew Crew can take care of Lance Berkman...JUSTICE!!! Objectively, though, that was a stunner, to put it mildly...and I do hope that Howard is ok longterm. That was a haunting image...and did I hear the notorious BooBirds afterwards? I hope not, that was a helluva game. As was the earlier one today. GREAT day for baseball!

At least two more games of Front Row Amy...I'm ok with that!

Not only is she actively watching the game, she appears to be keeping a scorecard! in-DEED! She's for real! http://deadspin.com/5835189/i+team-a-reader-wants-to-know-more-about-the-buxom-lass-behind-home-plate-at-miller-park http://deadspin.com/5835603/found-brewers-girl-is-front+row-amy-williams-and-shes-enjoying-getting-to-know-deadspins-readers

Q.E.D.

Not only is she actively watching the game, she appears to be keeping a scorecard! in-DEED!

Kay Starr Dusty Baker Rhodes Scholar

I'm more inclined to think that the only possible understanding of truth is partial, although, hopefully knowingly so, or at least as much as possible. For sure, though, the disallowance of a fluid ambiguity ain't gonna get you there, and The Truth (Partial Or Otherwise) About Sonny Stitt is nothing if not fluidly ambiguous... The longer I live, the more I realise that common people living willfully common lives is nowhere near as much a joke and/or waste as common people thinking that trying to live an uncommon live will somehow make them Uncommon People.

Yeah, I got that. I was just responding to your comment about the Yankees' staff not imploding against the Tigers. I think they would have against the Rangers. Maybe, maybe not...patience is not a constant with Rangers hitters, and they can be played because of it. They finally showed some consistent discipline in the last two games against the Rays, but...they're free-swingers by nature (save for Kinsler, mostly) & they gonna be what they gonna be. So your fears of a possible pitching implosion are/were based on a hitting mindset that, as much as I'd like to think was going to be there every time out, could just as easily be there as not. They're going to have to deal with the same discipline issues against the Tigers, and even more so against Verlander (and possibly Fister, and on a good day, Scherzer). But I like having the home field "advantage" in terms of their mindset, and definitely in terms of who pitches which game where relative to the likelihood of careless home run pitches. Knowing that under no circumstances will Colby Lewis, Derek Holland, or Matt Harrison have to pitch in Yankee Stadium until next year easily equals, if not exceeds, any anxiety about having to fave Verlander twice and having to play as many as three in Comerica. Whatever else the Yankees are having problems with, jerking mistake pitches out of their home yard ain't among them! Just how I look at it, and like all such speculations, meaningless to how the games will actually get played! Right now, though, I'm hoping that, if the Brewers win, the lady in the yellow top a few front row seats to the first base side of home is a season ticket holder!

Partial truth always makes sense.

Bolded emphasis added If I can take the liberty of reconpurposing "gin mill or strip club" into " blue collar Black social venues" (which I think I fairly can), then...there you have it. Condemnation for not meeting expectations which were never relevant - or in place - in the first place. I'm not a "big" Stitt fan, far from it, but to condemn him for not being something he was probably constitutionally (or shall I play clever hit-and-run-record-date-producer and say Con-Stitt-Tutionally) unable to be, much less desirous of, that seems to me to be just a little...silly. Stitt was a drifter, a gunslinger, a wayfaring stranger, etc etc etc., not a self-aware "artist". That's probably why a lot of people find him annoying, and also why quite a lot of people dig him so much. I think you should evaluate his work in the arena at least as much in terms of the arena as you do the work. It's an arena that is "relevant" to a lot of lives, actually, even if they are not "ours" in experience, aim, and/or outcome. Was his life a waste? Depends on what you consider life, and what you consider wasting it.

happy birthday!! happy birthday!! Yeah!

All the best!

Yeah, I got that. But we'd still rather play the Tigers and have home-field advantage. It might not work out well for us, but the consensus here is that it was the best available scenario. So where does he come up with this? That's just not the case, and seems like another example of looking at everything (or so much of everything) through a Yankee-centric lens. Him & Heyman are both bad about that. If you're a Yankee fan, you probably don't notice it. But non-Yankee fans do. Why not just write about how the Yankees' starting staff is in need of shoring up, this post-season being a good example of why? Why does it instead become that the Yankees would be the Ranger's "preferred" opponent when that is just not so? Hell, what we really wanted was for us to get Boston in the first round & for the Tigers to take care of the Yankees. That worked out pretty well anyway. But to think that any team with a home run-prone staff (and on any given day, ours can be that, starters & relievers alike) would want to play a series with the Yankees having home field advantage, that just does not make sense, not unless the Yankees' pitchers are at least as much home run-prone, which I don't believe they are. Hell they've learned how to pitch in that boom box, or at least know in theory how to.