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Yeah, I never bought the CD just because I didn't like that change.

Rosenthal says: Nobody I know felt this way at all. The ideal match would have been Yankees, opening in Arlington, but that was not an option (and this is another example of how winning just two of those ten or so mid-season games that we lost/fucked away for no good reason at all would have advantaged us now, here in the post-season. EVERY win matters!!!). Given how even our best pitchers can be little homer-nyphos at any given moment, keeping out of Yankee Stadium as much as possible was definitely a factor to consider. The Tigers are going to be tough, and as I said a week or two ago, weird stuff seems to happen to us every game we play in Comerica, but...Tigers with home field advantage was the preferred available opponent and scenario, make no mistake. Rosenthal is another one of those guys who can't help himself when it comes to seeing the whole of baseball through Yankee-colored glasses. Smart guy, just not without his reflexive "prejudices" (probably too strong a word, that, but "bias" is so overused these days...). Besides, Yankees pitching never really imploded against a hard-hitting Tigers lineup, wheras Tigers pitching did give it up pretty seriously against the Yankees more than once. Rosenthal's basic premise seems to me just one more reason to write about the Yankees. Fair enough, but don't just make shit up, ok?

Didn't want to play the Yankees w/o home-field advantage. Not exactly drooling at the prospect of playing the Tigers with it, but this is the best available scenario. Thanks again, A-Rod! And still peeved that the post-games on TBS & MLB are at least as much about "sad yankees" as they are "happy tigers". Let the winner have their night in the sun, please! Although to be fair, after having seen both happy tigers and happy rangers, happy tigers maybe need to bump it up a notch or three in order to compete with sad yankees! Ultimately, though, it begins on Saturday, in Arlington. Allow me to speak for the minority when I say in no uncertain terms, FUCK TEXAS-OU. We got baseball to play! It's an uphill climb. Always it's an uphill climb.

My original LP of Transition does have "Dear Lord". I have "Welcome" on Kulu Se Mama.

In Dallas right? At a rock club? I was there for that. Olinga! Small world! Yes, that was at Mother Blues, where I also saw Freddie King. Believe it or not, I caught that gig too!

Them squirrels can carry rabies, ya' know.

If this guy plays ball with the myth-makers, he helps them sell their myths under the guise of "heritage". What runs counter to the myth can't be sold (not now, anyway) so is of no use. They be everywhere, they do, these...people looking to get a leg up into the "heritage" business. Many of them probably even mean well. But it is the devil's work they are doing, constructing an endless circular hallway made of masks instead of windows.

Surfin' Bird Surfer Girl Sir Walter Raleigh

Don't like the blurb, period. It's like they're trying to sell a Geri Allen record to Scared White People.

Just got back from Southern Ohio, came back with 15 LPs from my wife's cousin's house, JD Sumner, Stamps Quartet, Hovie Lister & The Statesmen, all mid 60s to early 70s...more mixed emotions than I think I can handle...Implicitly Segregationist Christian & Hairspray Cornball comes through, but so does a deep Southern Soulfulness, and all just about equally...all I can think about is how "my people" could be so wrong and so right about life in general at the same time...I didn't ask to be put in the middle of all this, and would very easily let all the good shine and get rid of the rest faster than fast, but there it is. Answers a lot of questions, raises that many more... I will say this, though - Hovie Lister...he plays these 4 bar piano intros that sound - and damn near feel - like Horace Silver and then he's back in line. And his vocal arrangements, sometimes there's this one, just one, WTF chord...This guy..I think he led a life, if you know what I mean...

No.

Tell you what, the way the Rays always find a way within their budget...that's a damn fine organization with a real eye for talent. Just one or two more careless pitches by the Rangers in the last two games and the Rays would be the ones celebrating tonight. Much respect here! I feel their pain: http://espn.go.com/mlb/playoffs/2011/story/_/id/7059990/tampa-bay-rays

Mind if I add that to the repertoire (local use only)? That's a good one!

Yep.

Don't begrudge Lee going to Philly at all myself, especially since it seems that his family really liked it there as well, and his departure really did force Holland, Harrison, and OGANDO!!! (STILL!) to dig deep and, so far, find something good (mostly). and the money we didn't spend on him went to Beltre & Napoli, and good GOD how do you not like those two guys! JD ROOLZ! This has been the most exciting (and for me, gratifying, even if it all ends now) season in Rangers' history, bar none, and going to Spring Training not having Cliff Lee and not knowing how the hell we were going to compete without him (I mean, think about it - CJ, Colby, Harrison, Holland, and....Ogando??? Really???) has set the stage for the emotion and intensity behind every game played to this point (and how many ever more remain), and I know I'm not alone among fans in feeling that way. Wash & the players, they're not talking about it, it might not ever have entered their minds, probably hasn't, definitely shouldn't) but that's their business, and so far, they continue to handle it. So, no hard feelings against Cliff Lee here. But I'll tell you this - when the Cards beat him the other night, I cheered (even if it was at the hands of Lance Berkman, grrrrrr.....), not out of revenge, but just because it guaranteed that it could never again be said that the only time that Post-Season Koufax Cliff Lee ever lost a post-season game was with the Texas Rangers (said with knowing smirks). Now, having said that...Joe Maddon's post-game comments this afternoon were HOF-worthy worthy beautiful & Jim Leyland's pre-game comments about gingerbread were HOF-worthy truth. Sometimes you win - win big - even if you lose, and no matter what, a day at the ballpark is a day at work first and foremost. And if you're lucky, you and your wife don't have heart attacks from two highly stressful down-to-the-last-out cliffhangers in less than 24 hours. So far, so good. I'm talking only Gibson vs Williams. And letting Rickey Henderson handle all the baserunning. How many tickets can I put you down for?

I hear you, but what I mean by "influence" might be different from what you mean. I still contend that Parker, who is indeed very much his own man, and who doesn't really sound like anyone but himself, was influenced by Ayler. It seems to me that Ayler's music, even more than Coltrane's, pointed the way to create a jazz-based music without conventional tonality and regular pulse. That doesn't mean that I think Parker sounds like Ayler. Yeah, Albert was one of those guys who changed the idea of what "is" could actually be, if you know what I mean. You couldn't avoid him, if only by the possibilities he opened up hanging around in the background in some shadow somewhere, if not for you, then for somebody somewhere listening to you. He's just there, whether you want him to be or not. Denial is an option, but ultimately a fantasy, because it all ends up there anyway, sooner or later, resistance is futile, etc. All life is the vibration of energy, and prime Ayler was all about the vibration of energy. And once you split the atom, you can't put it back together.

If there can be "mad genius" about hitting a baseball, this was the one guy who definitely had it. Me, I'm a fan. A 162 game season of just Ted Williams in his prime batting against Bob Gibson in his...I'd get season tickets for that.

http://www.ducey.com/papa.html

No Prince Robinson, no Pete Brown.

Coltrane, for one.