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up. has anybody else ever noticed this weirdness?

Does Ron Carter get thrown by Charlie Persip's kick into the 1st A and turn the time around or does Persip turn it around himself, or both? I still can't be completely sure, but I'm leaning toward Carter being the culprit, especially since he drops out for a bar or so on the turnaround. Either way, it's Hank Jones (anybody wondering why the guy got called for so many dates, here's a prime example - skills and professionalism, simple as that) who brings it back into place by gently but unmistakably giving a chordal cue as to HEY!!! HERE IT IS!!! GET IT!!!. Payne, god bless him, just keeps on truckin' through it all like nothing weird is happened, but GEEZ LOUISE! At first I thought it was a sloppy splice, but then I counted bars, and, no, they're all there, but the temptation to count them with turned around time is really, REALLY powerful unless you're really focused on Payne. But if you force yourself to rigidly count 1-2-3-4 and pay absolutely no attention to the bass/drum hookup through it all, it eventually comes out even. Other than that, a pretty nice album. The one tune, "Yamask", that one's a cut above & should have been covered a few times by now.

Ron Washington flattered by kid's costume http://espn.go.com/blog/dallas/texas-rangers/post/_/id/4857584/ron-washington-flattered-by-costume

That's the type of thing that if the manager's instincts play out, he's a great manager, and if they don't, he's an idiot. OTOH, as much as I admire the "you're my guys, yesterday was then, this is now, just play baseball" approach, not just on this team but as a "life principle" in general, at some point loaded guns need to be held to the heads (and/or groins) of the entire Rangers bullpen and one or two need to be fired, just to set an example. Enough is more than enough.

He managed the 9th as well as he could... I would maybe have gone with Feliz once Wilson came out, but the dreaded Darren O'Day actually stepped up & delivered, and the to-this-point-beloved Derek holland caught the Series Jitters at the worst possible time, and everything else just...sucked royally. But I think Wash was thinking that a 2 run top of the 9th for he Rangers was doable, maybe even a 3, so you save Feliz for either the 9th or whatever extra-inning scenario transpires. Hindsight being 20-20, you can say it was a horrible decision, but dig - the horror all happened with two outs. You've got to think that somebody can just come in and get one - just one out. A manager has to have that trust, even if it gets betrayed on a Cesarian scale every now and then.

I think it was intended for jukebox play

Looks like the Rangers peaked when they won the AL Pennant. Good enough, really, the Giants are a great team clearly are peaking at just the right time, but DAMN do I hate to see them embarrass themselves like this (to say nothing of wasting a very nice start by Wilson). They're ready for Prime Time, just not Sweeps Week. And speaking of sweeps, right now, all I'm hoping for is a Game 5. Pulled the trigger on two tickets this afternoon. I'd like to be able to say that I took my son to the World Series...

Does that meant that Cliff Lee will be called upon to pinch hit?

Sal Marquez was in the NTSU 1:00 Lab Band in the late 1960s along with Lou Marini, Tom Malone, etc. He then went on Woody Herman's band for a while (playing on the Light My Fire album) before hitting L.A. As noted, he's on some Zappa things, most notably Wakka-Jawakka, iirc. That late '60s 1:00 band was not without it's "characters", if you know what I mean...

A (relatively) little goes a one way for me too, but....that little lingers on and takes on a life of its own...the substance and its implications don't need a large exposure/ingestion for them to work on me. I really, really think that one either "gets" it on its own terms or else...doesn't. Definitely one of those "it is what it is" things, and what it is definitely not is creating a typical "jazz environment" for "soloing", hell, that's the last thing that's going on there... I think I most enjoy Jamal's work in terms of a masterful arranger spontaneously tweaking the same chart every time its played, year after year. Obviously, you can't do that with an orchestra (unless you're Gil Evans and let people not play the parts, or encourage them to make up their own when they feel like it), but you can with a piano trio. And equally obviously, to me anyway, it takes discipline, focus, vision, and a helluva lot of pianistic and theoretical skills to do that in the way that Jamal does it.

Yea, whazzup with THAT?!?!?!?!?!

Trifecta.

Ya' know...we scored 7 runs, 5 of them after getting reamed big time. 7 runs can win you most games... for that matter. 5 will win you a lot... Again, it's going to come down to the character of the remaining Rangers starters, can they muster true quality starts from here on out, little to no room for error. The Giants have shown that if you don't, they'll eat you alive. So...Wilson, Lewis, & Hunter, whatcha'll got? Dig deep, now. And don't let me ever see Darren O'Day again, please.

Is there any question now that the Giants of the last 10 days or so are a significantly better team than the Yankees? They alos seem to still be peaking. Rangers might have already peaked beating the Yankees. But you never know, really. We've all seen enough baseball to know that today is not necessarily a predictor of tomorrow, although once a trend gets rolling...

The test is now going to be for the rest of the staff - now that Lee has not set the tone, which, if any of them, will? They all have greateness in them, but they also all harbor disaster. It's time to decide. Will the hitters bounce back? I like the way the came back for 2, even if that's all the more they get, a lot of teams, including the old Rangers, would not have mustered that. I like to win, obviously, but for me, sports are ultimately about character tests. And if is is the Rangers' fate to lose this series, I want them to lose it with character, not with shame. And if they win, same thing.

Darren O'Day is just no good. Period. I don't think it was the long layoff that affected Lee, I think it was just time for him to have an off night And boy did he... How much did the Yankees pay him to tank like that? Then again, maybe the Giants are getting all their Series runs in one game. A man can dream, can't he? Seriously, one way or the another, this will have to be a character-building night of humiliation for the Rangers. If it's not, then they're not the team I had hoped them to be.

You knew he was going to have an off game eventually...too bad that tonight was it... Rangers' resiliency gonna be seriously tested from here on out...

No shit. If there was ever a better synergy with Jimmy Hamilton than "Silk Lace", I've yet to hear it. I mean, that whole piece is just...beyond perfect. People who dig Horace Silver's more "advanced" works should check this one out. Hell, everybody (yeah, EVERYBODY!!!) should, it's that good a piece. And you can download it for SIXTY-NINE CENTS from Amazon!!! Save a trip to the turntable!

aka "Angelica" when played w/Trane... that whole Afro Bossa album is a severely underrated/overlooked (imo) gem. There's a sustained depth of melodic & textural development that the "lesser" suites don't always display. This one of the "lighter" pieces, but it's in no way "lightweight", not with the voicings used, some of which are very, very "out". Yet another example of how in EllingtonWorld a perfectly good (or even great) song can take on the character of an "orchestral composition" thanks to the inventive and wholly idiosyncratic Ellington/Strayhorn ear for individual tonal colors used in conjunction with "dissonance".

Check out Game 2 of the '65 series too... That '66 series and the '66 Orioles was a BIG blast, unless you were a Dodgers fan... talk about a team that captured the imagination!

"Inappropriate" might be too strong a word, but "irrelevant" might not be. Of course, if all irrelevant posts on all threads were deleted, there'd not be all that much left... Seriously, though, the moderators have established what seems to me to be a consistent patter in how they handle the threads in the commerce section. Like an umpire's strike zone on any given night, you may disagree with it, but at least you know what it is. Proceed accordingly, I recommend.

The guy's a deer hunter, eh?