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I don't know if Roy Wood is a sick genius or just a sick fuck, but dammit, that's one cat who never fails to make me smile!

Exactly. They were already moving the ball well, they jsut needed a little jolt to get over the hump. Going for it and making it gives them that jolt, maybe, and doesn't do any favors for a Steelers team taht up until then was looking stiff and uncertain. Miss it, give up some points, and you got reason to burn, and burn is what the Seahwks did not do at all yesterday. Hell, at the very least you go for the hard count, try and draw'em offsides, take a delay of game, and then punt. Do something to kick your team up a notch, get'em over that hump. Don't just say, ok, we're this close and we've been moving the ball on your ass, but y'all can have it anyway, here, take it back with our compliments. That's safe, but that's lame. Yeah, I'm obessing over this...

Thanks to the punt, Pittsburgh did get the ball, and they did score a TD! I see your point though, completely. But I saw Jimmy Johnson make the "4th & inches deep in your own territory fairly early in the game" move several times w/the Cowboys, and sometimes it worked, sometimes it didn't. But it never cost him the game. He'd not let it get to his players like that. I guess if you're not the type of coach/team to stare death in the face and laugh, then it's probably best not to pull a stunt like that. But those are the kinds of coaches and teams that I like!

All I'm saying is that Gene Krupa's drum break on "Don't Be That Way" at the Carnegie Hall gig was what decided that game.

Yeah! But at that point in the game, the battle was as much psychological as it was physical, maybe even moreso, and I still maintain that when that's what the game is, then that's how you gotta play it. Nuts? Yeah, sure, no question. But sometimes nuts (no "balls" jokes, please, no matter how appropriate!) is what it takes to win...

To me, she's a "good player" who doen't interest me at all. No "abandon" in her playing, and not enough of anything else to make for a compelling listen. I'd go if I wanted/needed a night out or just wanted to support live jazz, good reasons both, but not if I wanted to really get into the music.

I didn't quite have that feeling, but I did have the feeling that Seattle's head was up its ass pretty much the entire game, that they weren't going for the jugular like they needed to. And I gotta place at least some of the blame for that on Holmgren, as per the reservations I expressed here a few days ago. Tell you what, Seattle wakes up at any point in the game up until the 5:00 mark of the 4th quarter, and, yes, that could have won that game. This I do believe. For a team from a city with a Starbucks in every garage, they sure played a decaf game...

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Looked like about a (vertical) quarter (or less) of the ball eeked over for a split second. Probably...

Closest 21-10 game I've seen in quite a while... Refs didn't cost Seattle the game, you get penalized, you make it back, that's what a championship team has to do, but they sure as hell seemed intent on making it more difficult for them. Some very, uh..."nebulous" calls against Seattle. But in the end, Seattle had multiple chances to get it done and didn't capitalize. They weren't tough enough to do what had to be done. Pittsburgh didn't really impress me either, except in comparison to Seattle. I don't think that either team makes it back next year. I do think the Seahawks decision to punt on 4th and inches in the 2nd quarter was a bad one. Here you are playing a team that could easily put you away, and they've yet to find their focus. I say you take your chances on that play and go for it. You don't want to give your opponent the ball back and give them a chance to get something going, you gotta make them earn it. Field position be damned, if you make it, you continue to keep them off balance. Not "conventional wisdom" I know, but the one way that Seattle could have won this game was by not letting Pittsburgh get into anything resembling a "comfort zone", to keep them constantly discombobulated. The "psychological momentum" (if there is such a thing) was still with Seattle (at least it wasn't yet with Pittsburgh), and with that punt, they willingly surrendered it. Sometimes you gotta look common sense in the face and tell it to go fuck itself, and then go on ahead and prove your point. This isn't hindsight either. I was arguing w/Madden in real time. I'm never picking another Holmgren team in the Bowl again. Great coach, but I think he's just a hair off on the killer instinct thing, and sooner or later that kills you.

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I'd like to hear the R&B number as well. Is it up somewhere? I'm not as enamored of Rock Prince as many. He does it superbly, but the thing I dig most about Prince in general is the creative/quirky tricks in the songrwriting/arranging/production/etc, and to my ears, he does much less of that on the rock stuff. But DAMN does he sure find some gorgeous women!

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No shit. I keep waiting for TroyBoy to say "Hey look. More than half the reason I'm in here is number 88."

Contrary to the album title, NOT everybody digs Bill Evans, at least not unabashedly. I would be among those who have reservations. Always have, and probably always will be.

Well, I am! Que romantico! Don't know squat about'em though, so if you got something to add, bring it on!

Glenn Osser was a successful "commercial" arranger with quite a diverse RESUME. There was one other Hawk album w/strings, this time arranged by one Frank Hunter. It was originally called The Hawk & The Hunter, and is currently available as Hawk Talk.

Mystery solved!

Yeah, and he killed Randy. THE BASTARD!

This was in stock at DG yesterday. Now it's not. Gee. http://www.dustygroove.com/cgi-sys/cgiwrap...ni&issearch=yes

Oh, it's a sexual reference all right. Ever known any female junkies who took to turning tricks to support their habbit? Like I said, look at the cover photo.

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Skag=smack Look at the cover photo and draw your own conclusions as to the rest.