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Dave Bush did indeed suck, but for just one inning and just for three runs. Nellie Cruz, 2-4, 2 runs, Endy Chavez, 4-4 , 2 runs, 1 RBI, now hitting .415, Feliz came in and dealt better than the night before, so all in all, another good win with positive leftovers.

The guy got around, and in quality company. RIP.

The question still stands. "Real" is a pretty quantifiable word. I'd like to know where and what the quantification is. I think it's the kind that Bob Feller threw. Now see, here's a man who knows how to answer a question!

Mungo Jerry George Gershwin Eddie Cochran

Yeah, it's Hank blowing over the Lionel Hampton Laurie tracks. Hamp leased Hank the tracks, cash money up front, no questions, no regrets, no paper, no names on or in the paper, the way that music should be conducted.

Al Roker Alla Rakah Rucka Rucka Ali

"REAL heat"? What does that mean?

Jailbait Roman Polanski Jimmy the Greek

Don't thank me, thank the great state of Texas and it's filthy, underhanded, blatantly criminal music industry. Approach with awe!

Ho Chi Minh Men at Work AFL-CIO

Marge Simpson Nicole Simpson Phil Hartman

Probably goes without saying, but an exhaust/emissions system does more than just vent out the bad stuff into the air. It also keeps the bad stuff from getting back up into the engine. I have had a car start to run rough & start to stall out completely because of exhaust/emissions problems, specifically a bad CC. Most of the times, in my experience, the check engine light is usually for some O2 sensor, something you can run with for a while if you really have too. But a CC ain't something to play with.

If it's jacked, I'd definitely replace it. A bad CC can fail more than emissions tests, as Peter suggests.

Dodds' talking is what's hooked me on that one. "Playing For the Benefit Of The Band" should be required listening - no, required memorization & absorption - for anybody who dares to play with other human beings. That's just about the heaviest explanation of what it means, really means, to make music with a group I've ever come across.

Yeah, and that's a bit of a surprise, really, considering what it involves...last summer, I stumbled across this really fine album from the 70s, Dreams of Tomorrow by Marilyn Scott. Great jazz/pop album. totally of its time in terms of how everything is just being mixed together w/o regard to what "should be", just...if it sounds good, do it, that type thing. And the lyrics are very "positive", at times "spiritual". Pretty strong stuff, really, and it put me very strongly in mind of Monday's trip. So I asked her if she was influenced at all by Marilyn Scott, and she comes back with a "WHO?" so I sent her some clips and she comes back all "OMG!!!! OMG!!!! OMG!!!! THIS IS IT!!!" Apparently there was one club DJ in Japan back when she lived there who played this album pretty regularly, and Monday says that she tried repeatedly to get him to tell her what it was, but w/no success. I guess it was like a "trade secret" for DJs if they copped some cool obscure American shit...rare grooves indeed! Well, anyway, when I found out how much that album had meant to her and how excited she was to reconnect with it, I told her I was going to order one for her from Amazon & she comes back no, no need to, I've just ordered it myself. This is all in the space of, like ten minutes worth of email exchanges, from getting the clips to the OMGs to her ordering the CD. I mean, she was really excited about finding this kind of "lost gem", something that she was always taken by but never knew the identity of, and then lost track of. After she got the album, I got a whole series of emails from the time when she was first playing it. It really excited her, and I can understand why, it's a really really fine album, and the two of them d seem to be vry kindred spirits musically and philosophically, so if you like Monday, I'd also suggest this Marilyn Scott album too, it's readily available these days. The songlist for Don't Disturb This Groove was pretty much set, but Monday made room for, and took the time to learn/arrange "Dreams Of Tomorrow" (not an easy song, btw, not at all) for inclusion on the album. Well, here it is, and now all of a sudden I'm being thanked for "song ideas", when hell, all I did was ask a question and send some clips. It was a happy accident that I was in the middle of. But I'll tell you what - Monday's is such a beautiful spirit that she went ahead and gave a shoutout anyway. Don't know that I deserve it, but I do appreciate it! As for Don't Disturb This Groove itself, I've only had two full listens to it, and I think it's pretty nifty, a lot more fully realized than her last covers album (the production is less rough, and she's in better voice, plus, I just like the song selection better). As with that album, nothing is taken at face value, changes are made and chances are taken, and the result is a collection of mostly not-too-familiar-songs revamped and revitalized, all of it pretty damn good, and in moments such as the re-imagining of "No Woman No Cry" as a slow, quiet, almost gospel-y moment of meditation,some moments of transcendence that equal that of her original music. Monday Michiru is one of the few truly original people in popular music today, and projects like this - an album of covers produced by a small, "boutique" Japanese label - are the opportunities she gets in today's marketplace. That she uses them to still twist, turn, and tweak all commercial expectations rather than succumb to & glorify them is but one reason why she's on my list of Truly Quality People.

Bottom line - this Roy C. Ames cat took some tapes that he never paid the players for, licensed them to Collectables, and then got sued because he was a proven slime ball. No matter, though, it is a damn fine album. No, I know none of these people, just some of their stories.

http://www.vinylrecords.ch/winter/Disco/royc_ames.htm This is a part of Texas musical historic, dude.

http://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/F3/201/654/642684/

Baby Dodds? Playing For The Benefit Of The Band?

Never mind Nolan Ryan, talk to Juan Marichal & Warren Spahn! I don't think that anybody's gone over 120 so far this year. If they have, it's only been by a few. Usually the eyes come out around 100, and if a guy is still going good, they let him keep going until the signs of unmistakable tiredness manifest. Even then, if a guy's got a CG or a shutout going, they give a chance to finish, to dig deep to see if there's alittle something extra there (mentally or physically). Occasionally it's blown up on them, but not more than just a few times. It would be a lot less, uh...intense of an experiment if the bullpen wasn't so damn dysfunctional (although some preliminary signs are forming that that group is beginning to get it together), but I can't say one way or the other if it will prove to be smart long-term. Looking back historically, yeah, pitchers were expected to go deep, and by god, they went deep. Psychologically, I think it's a great idea for your starter to take the mound with the mindset that he's in there and that the game is his until absolutely proven otherwise. Physically, we'll see. These are different times in terms of overall conditioning practices, and I really don't know enough one way or the other to say more than that. But I do like the idea, and I gotta say that our starters seem to really be taking to it in a mostly agreeable manner. Time will tell.

Does this mean that Cliff Lee no longer owes you one? No, that motherfucker fine gentleman still owes a debt, make no mistake, but as long as he repays it, we are cool. I never hold it against anybody for being a good businessperson so long as they do the right thing before it's all over and done with. And sometimes that takes time. Who knows? Maybe his businessaction resulting in the forced development of the starting staff from within, hey, maybe that might someday be enough to repay the debt. Maybe. Time is a funny creature, time is. But to the point germane - does Lebron owe anybody anything at this point, other than to play his best ball now that it's Clutch Time? Can't say that he didn't give Cleveland that, unlike the bastard great Cliff Lee.

I bet he will now...

I got a mono copy of Brubeck's Anything Goes out of a rack at a TG&Y. Records used to be everywhere. The young people today, they don't know...today, music is everywhere, but I'm not talking about music, I'm talking about records, about you going in with your mom while she buys a few spools of thread or with your dad while gets the front end aligned, and coming out with some sides, some good sides, and for not too many pennies. It's still too soon to know whether the omni-availability of invisible digital media is "better" or "worse" than the old paradigm, but it sure as hell was different. Majorly different.

Major buzz-kill: Matt Harrison scratched from tomorrow's start due to blister issues. Being replaced by Dave Bush. :rmad: Prove me wrong, bitch.