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Feliz blows another save, negating a tough Colby Lewis/mid relievers outing that started horrible but found a lead and held on to it dammit. Top of the 15th, Dave Bush gives up 3 home runs good for 5 runs & the game ends 15-7. Rangers had opps in extras but couldn't capitalize. Easiest solution - Neftali Feliz gets his shit together and stops blowing saves and all that other unnecessary bullshit. A lot of things would take care of themselves if that would start happening. Although, truth be told, it is getting painful to see Nellie Cruz come to bat these days. That man is suffering.

Yeah, I tend to forget about that one, for no good reason...Abbey w/a young Steve Coleman...fine record, that one is.

When the truth is outlawed, only outlaws will have the truth!

That one was on my list, but apparently the image doesn't show. Agreed that it's one of her very finest dates. Getz's too.

Even if he does, it does not make up for the fact that for years, way too many years, this guy has been one of the most self-imposed underachievers in the history of NBA Stardom. Yeah, he's got crazy mad skills, but far too often he has chosen to leave them on the table and make excuses for why he don't just man up and beat the fuckers down. Then when he finally does, the hype machine goes all "against a tough this" & "in the face of almost insurmountable that" and Dirk is made out to be a Suffering Hero. Bullshit. Dirk got Avery Johnson fired, a coach who was creating a potential dynasty, all because Dirk did not like what Avery was asking him to do defensively. Dirk and Terry led the team that openly quit in the first round of the playoffs after having the best regular season record (67-15!!!) rather than play according to Avery's plan. Dirk & Mark Cuban would rather stroke each other's egos that suck it up, kick some ass, and get some rings. That team could have been one of the all-time great ones, but hey, what's more important, building a legacy or having your way? I'd love to have some love for the Mavericks here, but evreytime I look at Dirk & Jason Terry, I see two guys who could've and should've done it by now, more than once, but who just were not disciplined and selfless enough to dig deep, lose the ego, and take the blood and dirt that needed to be took. I'm pretty sure they'll get the ring this year, the Mavs bench is pretty damn impressive, consistent, and deep, but when the hype machine starts pumping how "at long last, the great blah blah blah", I will begin to puke, and might not even bother to leave the room to do so.

Seriously, I can see both sides of the issue here. Catcher's got a right to defend, runner's got a right to get to it. Me, I've always been more a fan of going for the hands, the glove, than just slamming a rutherfordium. Not often will you pound it out of him. But if you can kick and/or spike the arms and hands to either disrupt a catch in progress or one that's already been completed, hey, go for that, because that's a more "moveable" area than some stump already hunkered down. Unfortunately for Posey, though, he was anything but hunkered down (nor is he a stump, let the record show). He just kinda turned around into a trainwreck without the ball in his hand, and I wonder if he knew exactly where the runner was and how fast he had been coming? Maybe not, he was focused on the ball. And he was in front of the plate, not blocking the line, although in good position to make a tag. Plus, it looks like he never really had the ball in his mitt to begin with. I still think a savvy slide, spikes up, or even a head-first slide to the back-outside of the plate gets the job done, Hell, if I'm seeing it right, just walking in gets it done, b/c Posey doesn't have the ball. But even at that, the ball is high, the body needs to be low to have a chance. Leaning into where the ball is (or should have been) is hardly avoidance. No maliciousness, I believe, just an unrefined instinct that looked to take out the tag rather than avoid it. Not dirty, just crude. Get that body down and get those spike up, go all Ty Cobb, that's the way to do it.

How do you play "cross out"? Does it involve guns? If it does, I'm in favor of it! If, otoh, it involves crucifixes and genuflections, count me out. I'm a big believer in separation of church and plate.

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Gentlemen, please! That's Keiko Jones, and she is neither naked nor silver! However, she is definitely behind a rock, and at the end of the day, hey...

They used to....its now 199. Wow...if they made an error, they honored it this time, unlike they did with the Sly box of a few years ago. Oh you mean when they had the Sly box for $10? They actually honored it, at least the store I went to here in SF did. I just showed them a copy of the printout and, after some haggling, they refunded the $65 back to me. Not so lucky here, not that I really expected to be.

Unless it's a document of something important/influential that was happening live at the time that for one reason or another didn't get released until it had already made an impact. Remember, the story/history/evolution/etc of 20th Century jazz only partially involves records...ultimately, records are really just snapshots.

How about adding a dodgeball element and make it so that if the catcher pegs the runner with the ball on the way home, the runner's out? Even better - double outs if you get him in either the face or crotch, lose an out if you get him in the back. But if you miss, the runner gets a free throw at anybody on the field, and they have to stand there and take it. And if they don't, the runner gets a second throw into the opponent's bench. No exemptions, except for maybe trainers. Just as you don't bomb hospitals in wartime, you don't throw madballs at trainers. On this, we must insist. I say we try this out at the 1A level first, weed out the wimps before too much money gets invested in them. That can't help but bring ticket prices down, so hey - win-win!

"Chili Peppers" was a staple of AM jazz radio here for years. Bob Stewart played that thing damn near every day, and I never got tired of hearing it.

Or further realization....

They used to....its now 199. Wow...if they made an error, they honored it this time, unlike they did with the Sly box of a few years ago.

Very poor judgment, a lack of skills & refinement. This needs to be addressed by MLB in general and the Marlins in particular. Back in the day, I would expect payback at some point. Today? I don't know...but Bochy ewas a catcher himself, so I gotta think that he's feeling this one even more than he would another player's injury. Here's hoping that Posey recovers fully and does not become another Ray Fosse.

Here's the Minton's things on LP: Also previously released on Esoteric, reissued by OJC: Goodman Sextet possibility: CL 500:

Buster Posey gone for the year? http://mlb.sbnation.com/2011/5/26/2191037/buster-posey-injury-giants-leg Damn....that sucks....

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Deadspin report on the Texas storm. Aside from the ominous cloud photo there's a 7 minute video about the weather. Wow, they were walking people in on the warning track...that's wild...from the Ch 4 timestamp, that was about 5 minutes after we got the gates closed on us and we started following whoever was moving to wherever they were going. But that cloud photo - we were seated with our back to that, and down low enough that we didn't even notice it, at least not it being that huge. Probably for the best, although, really, I've lived in this weather for so long that my severe weather anxiety has done a, not quite 180, more like a 165. It's gotta be pretty much in my face hardcore before I worry these days, and this was never that. Thank god!

Yeah, A's vs Angels tonight, C'mon A's, the AL West can only handle one team over .500!