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Pitchers. Bah.

That sucks!

Just curious, what type of setup did you play with that horn? Those old Martins were good horns and that's a good price. Somebody's going to get a good deal & hopefully the horn will go to a good home!

That's just weird.

RIP. A fine player indeed. When were the Senators ever called the Nationals?

Or Night Dreamer to Super Nova?

FOUND - The Inner Colby Lewis - complete game shutout, no-hitter for 4 1/3. FOUND - 12 Rangers LOB FOUND - A 4-0 win against a recently-hot-against-the-AL-West ChiSox in spite of the 12 LOB Finding can be so much more fun than looking!

Missed the Burning Bronx, did read the Berger-midwifed tome, but truth be told, I'll take all but the very worst of late-70s NYC over the very best of it today. Give me Honest Raunch over Corporate Clean any damn day. With Honest Raunch, you're free to make your own way, no matter which direction. Corporate Clean, not so much. Not nearly so much. Of course, it's not just NYC, it's the whole country, we're either too damn corporate or too damn stupid now, sometimes both, hardly ever neither. But NYC, as the self-proclaimed "greatest city in the world", hey, they do it better than anybody else, so let them have it, and that includes the latter-day Yankees, of which we've had that discussion before, so let's let that dog sleep in a laying down position.

Yeah, the end of yesterday's game was as chippy as a postgame can be, Cordero looked like he was ready to charge Dave Duncan in the dugout and wouldn't that have been wild! Plus, Cordro's post game comments, where he essentially called Duncan stupid, certainly didn't pour water on the fire. So keep an eye on these two as the season progresses, especially if the race stays tight.

Lots of standards on this one, maybe too many for it to hit the zone that this band usually hit.

Dude, that Bronx Zoo stuff was SO cool in it's time, hype you could believe in because you knew it was realer than it had to be, and especially realer than it needed to be. Plus, the reality was even greater than the hype! The team reflected the city, in a way which, well, I guess it still does reflect the city, but it was more fun then, the city and the team, hell America in general. I liked it all then. But like so much else that was fun back then, it's over now, sometimes for the better, sometimes not, but never to be confused with the way things are now, not by anybody with a clear head, and a good memory, clear or not.

If you want a "dark and lonely place" try being in the upper deck for one of the Twins-Mariners games in September. Tickets still available! http://purchase.tickets.com/buy/MLBEventInfo?pid=6970105&agency=MLB&tfl=Minnesota_Twins-Schedule-Twins_Schedule-na-x0

Yep. On Bethlehem.

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As far as real baseball drama goes, I'd keep an eye on the future Cards/Reds series...looks like their might be some genuinely bad blood a'brewin' there...

Yeah, well, when all the bodies get back, the question is this - what then? Especially with the pitching as unpredictable as it now is. And nobody's saying it yet, but I'm not so sure that the spring experimentations with Feliz starting haven't messed him up a little (or, god forbid, more than a little). In a perfect world, the young starters all mature enough around mid-july to lock in good enough to support the offense, and we play ball the way we are certainly capable of playing ball. After that, what happens happens. I think wethe division, but that really does depend on the pitching, which right now generates screams and night sweats.

Dan, I think you're letting the math get the better of you! Barring injuries, the Red Sox have the proven talent to hold up over the season, moreso than they Yanks, and until proven otherwise, the Rays. It might be that this year the AL East plays out like the AL West often does, where it's not uncommon to have a divisional winner circling around the 90 win mark.rather than the 100. But in the interim...how 'bout them Indians?

Not really boring, just that all the "drama" there is real enough if you're directly involved in it, but hell, we all got dramas of our own, and frankly, my baseball dramas of, say, which Matt Harrison is going to show up on any given day, or when is Elvis Andrus going to decide to drop in a totally boneheaded defensive f-up in the middle of a field of gems, and, oh, by the way, who's going on the DL next, or is it finally over, these are all things that matter to me significantly more than Jorge Posada's little baseball-male-menopause psychodrama (hey dude, it's over, or almost over - deal with it, ok) & whether or not Boston makes .500 last night or one day this week (of course they're going to get to .500, and of course they're going to become the dominant team in that division, barring some really weird shit, and that would be the big news for me there, when/if that happens). That's the beauty of MLB TV coverage - they know that every team has its own stuff going down and they report accordingly. There's still a tilt towards the Eastern Behomouths, not necessarily because that's the way it "should be", but just because that's the way it is, like it or not. Nevertheless,if you want real coverage of both leagues, that's where you go, and that's where you stay. As for Girardi, I think he showed himself to be a class act all the way, kudos to him for that and for being a fine manager in general. He's ok in my book, in all chapters, and anytime he's the problem I think you gotta ask yourself if maybe the wrong questions are being asked. As for Posada, hey, yeah, I know it's the "500 watt lightbulb of New York baeball" & that light's been on a long time, but bottom line - tens of thousands of men daily have to face the realities of impending-and-beyond middle age "adjustments", so he's hardly unique in that regard, and....I just think it's too much drama for the sake of drama in a world that seems to loves its own dramas being played out on a national-scale level. The stage is right there for them to use, with apparently no admission fee.

I'm thinking that at some point you should visit Texas for your birthday, just to see how happy it could really get.

Josh has been taking BP & it's been going well. Wash is already on record as saying that wehn he comes back, he'll be the DH for a week or so, which opens the can of worms as to where do you play Michael Young in the field every day during that span, because that cat's been nonstop doing it with the bat. Nellie was in a deep slump when he came out, so who knows where that leads. Me, I think he needs to see a hypnotist, b/c I think he's subconsciously haunted by that swinging strike three to end the WS last year. Is this chick still available?

After losing more than a few we probably should have won, it's so nice to have one go the other way. And I bet nobody feels better about it that Adrian Beltre, whose 3 run HR put the Rangers up on the board and out of an early innings funk, but whose rare defensive gaffe allowed the Angels to tie it up, and whose discipline at the plate (sic!) allowed hi to work a leadoff walk that eventually became the winning run in the bottom of the 8th. The look on his face once he scored told me all I need to know about this guy. Not taking the game seriously is not a character flaw for him. And now that we've finally won a series, I feel non-whiny in saying that the sooner we get Hamilton, Cruz, and ever Bourbon back, the better. David Murphy is a good player, but.... And to keep the reference going, if Endy Chavez is the answer, it must be a really jacked-up question, which, of course it is. Not to take away from the personal triumph that is his for making his way back, I'm just sayin'... Now we take to the road. Hope we can put some wins up against the ChiSox & KC, because we ain't ready for Philly, not this offense at this time, no way. But hey - moral victory and an actual victory in the same game, finally. SWEET!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9baSu2cC28&feature=related

If Bobby Valentine is the answer, that's one jacked up question.

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