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Last night, CNN cut to the DC ABC affilaite for about an hour...Channel 7, IIRC....very, very good crew in the studio and out on the streets, I though....good anchor, great meteorologist, relaxed but not too casual, concerned but not obsessive, who are these people? And what's the latest about the nuke plant in Maryland that went offline? Everything still ok?...

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You guys stay strong. It might get scary, but it will be all right.

I said that about the World Series, and I was right. About the ALCS, I was very pleasantly surprised. But that was last year. This year...we need to take at least two against the Angels this weekend, preferably sweep. Derek Holland decides to be an adult last night, digs deep & deals, the offense comes up big, and BAM, we're good. So tonight it's CJ against Santana (on short rest), and CJ, so far the stopper/ace/whatever of this staff, does he step up and deliver? No, he gives up four home runs, something he's never done. Ever. Hell, I can't recall the last time he's given up two in a game. Way to set the pace there, dude...I know he's more pissed than any of the fans are, he's that type of player, but...you failed to answer the call, dude. Gotta answer the call. At least get it before the answering machine turns on. So anyway it's 8-4 in the bottom of the 9th, we get the bases loaded with only one out, chase Walden, and David Murphy, who slammed last night and went yard again this evening, what does he do? Swings at low and away, hits into a dp, and BAM, game over. Couldn't even sustain a bases loaded, one-out rally. Once again, failure to answer the call. Hell, this one was being placed for you. No excuse for dropping the receiver when it's handed to you. At least say hello... Tomorrow it's Colby Lewis against Weaver, who's also pitching on short rest, but so what, he's still Jered Weaver, and Colby Lewis is...either really good or really bad. But the offense is completely inconsistent (and pretty undisciplined right now...you get the opposition pitching in this heat, you need to work those motherfuckers, not do them favors by swinging at the first halfway decent pitch you see, dammit), and against Weaver, if they don't strike early and hard, hey... The odds of that actually happening are slim and none, and although Slim hasn't left town yet, the cab's just about three blocks away. The two hopes I hold out are the return of Beltre, whose absence in the order has begin to be felt over the last week, as the rhythm of the order is starting to come up one man short more often than not, and that the Angels look down andrealize taht they've been playi9ngover thier heads for the last week. The former is pretty much guaranteed, Beltre, as I hear it, is going to a rehab assignment in Round Rock on Monday), but the latter is not really likely. The Angels are a good team, just not a great one right now, and they've got a mix of youth and veternas that could easily lead to them jsut keep on believeing, keep on playing, and keep on winning. Reality will strike them in the playoffs, but at leat they can make the playoffs.Plus, the Angels have a much more favorable schedule, and have had since last week. That's no excuse, definitely not, but if a team like the Angels starts to get hot, it's certainly not going to do anything to cool them off. The Rangers can reignite, but not unless and until they get their mental act together - and keep it together. I've been waiting for that to happen all year long, and it's only happened in spurts. If there's going to be one more spurt, it needs to hurry up and get here. All the stat-heads love to look at numbers and say don't worry, the Rangers are the better team, but I'm old school, and I believe that the team that plays the better baseball during the course of a full game is the team that wins the most games, not the team with the better numbers. Those two only sometimes parallel each other, and in a dynamic where the gap between teams is lower single digits, all it takes is a little blip here and there for the "lesser" team to win the division. It's a mostly young team, though, in an organization with no real "culture of winning" built into it yet, so when I say that I will consider just winning the division this year at least as much a triumph as going to the Series was last year, I am totally serious. But I expect some serious, sustained focus - and results to match - next year. Right now, we just need to get the "consistency of effort, consistency of results" imprint in place more or less permanently. The talent is definitely there, and finally (FINALLY) there's an organization that seems to understand that that's what needs to be done. But will any of them actually do it? Besides, the path to the WS this year leads through either Boston or New York. If we pick it up to the point to where we get there, I like our chances against New York better than I do against Boston, but not by all that much, which is to say that in either case, it will take a collective coalescing of the type that this team has yet to show itself to be predisposed for a Series return to occur. Right now, both are better, more disciplined teams who are delivering more better and more consistently to their potential than are the Rangers. Talk to me in a month, we'll see where we are then. Right now, I'm standing in the middle of The Race For The Top Of The AL West, square at the corner of Maybe & Probably Not, and the lights going both ways are flashing red.

Ii watch every game and...I don't think so. Winning the division will be a triumph itself. The Angels are playing over thier heads and the Rangers under theirs. At some point that shit gets embedded and it's too late. The starters are not keying up, and the bullpen "fixes" have been erratic at best. Next year, maybe feeling the sting of the results of underachievement, maybe. This year...I'm not really optimistic about seeing October. For real. On a brighter note, big congrats to Verlander on 20. Good to see some good news out of Detroit!

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Nope. Big Nick was in the chair for that tour. The rest(?) of the gig has been issued, but not this cut, apparently?

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Did anybody look here?

http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-life/entertainment/music/zen-of-glen-keeps-things-gentle-on-his-fading-mind-128518608.html Two under-known gems..

Yeah, I'm having a fantasy about something not making the trip...

Hmmm....maybe somewhere in Cincinnati there's hidden a treasure... Or not...

Valerie - about Walter's trio date mentioned above, did he make that with "the market" in mind just a little bit? It seems to be a little bit at odds with the rest of his output as a leader, that's why I'm asking.

Have people looked into the old King tape inventories? Didn't they buy Bethlehem?

Sitting here waiting on Irene, I'd probably go for it if it were possible. Yeah, I hear you...but in a;ll honesty, right now, where I live is no stranger to high winds, and we live at pretty much the highest elevation in the entire DFW area, so flooding would not be likely to happen, everything is graded to roll downhill, so right now, at this very second (106.1, heat index of 114, just waiting for the temperature to read higher than the FM dial goes...), I'd trade a few hours of Irene for some relief from this nonstop heat. Until, of course, I think about the possible hassles of dealing with the insurance company in case something goes wrong, like our neighbor's 30+ foot tall cottonwood tree getting blown over into our roof, which it probably would... Y'all take cover, stay safe, and take comfort in the knowledge that no matter how bad this thing actually turns out to be, it would only be worse if hail was involved...

How about two weeks of heat for one half of Irene? I'd make that deal in a second!

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Ah, I see...I grew up on the later Dragnet, haven't been that exposed to the old ones, just a few episodes here and there. But yeah, ok, THAT guy! Ok, who's this?

http://www.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/getForecast?query=75023 Every damn day for the last two months. And no rain, except for a few minutes Thursday AM. Must've been some fringe fallout from Irene.

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