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A classic cover, imo, and a fun listen to boot! Their first two RCA albums were mono and have come into the digital realm sounding great in that format. One of my earliest memories of hearing classical music was my first-grase teacher sometimes playing it in class on one of those Stone Age school record players. The music kinda barked itself out of what speaker there was, which made it compelling, if ultimately boring (for a kid). I can imagine hearing that record like that, just barking it's way out of whatever king of speaker was around. It is a not unappealing thought!

Ken Rosenthal sounds labor-friendly One meeting, that’s all it took. One meeting with his new San Francisco Giants superiors, and suddenly Rafael Devers no longer was Rafael Diva. Funny how that works when bosses communicate their wishes and do not simply assume a player with a $313.5 million contract should do whatever they want. People skills. They might be baseball’s new market inefficiency. The Boston Red Sox never shared their intentions with Devers when they were trying to sign free-agent third baseman Alex Bregman, prompting Devers to initially balk at becoming a DH and then outright refuse to move to first base. The Giants related to Devers that only four teams entered Tuesday with a worse OPS at first base, or something to that effect. And voila! There was Devers, all smiles at his introductory news conference, saying, “I am here to play wherever they want me to play.” Including first base, where he took grounders before his Giants debut. “I don’t think it’s going to be too difficult for him,” Giants manager Bob Melvin said. “More than anything, the fact he hasn’t played in the field this year, we have to take our time working him in. It’s a new position. We’ll take it day to day.” Devers is not above reproach for refusing to do the same for the Red Sox, no matter how much he believes they slighted him. But here’s rooting for this trade to work out for Giants president of baseball operations Buster Posey, and not simply because he appears to have a better feel for players than Red Sox chief baseball officer Craig Breslow. Or even his predecessor, Farhan Zaidi, who made the same mistake with Brandon Crawford that Breslow did with Devers, failing to inform his incumbent shortstop that he was agreeing to terms with another, Carlos Correa. This deal is a referendum on teams that define players more as “dudes” — Posey’s word — than “assets.” A referendum on all the other fancy terms executives use, from flexibility to sustainability to efficiency, while hedging their bets and operating out of fear. A referendum on absorbing contracts that might not age well to do what every team should be trying to do — win.

Yeah, I saw that. Somebody wasn't thinking. Or paying attention! Or reading the co.ic strips!

If I had my daughters ?!?!?!?!?

The Willing Victims - I've Fallen And I Don't Want To Get Up!!!

I just wait for shit to show back up somewhere. It usually does, eventually. Tubi has some old Loretta Young shows that are...epic. I thought I knew what to expect, but boy was I underprepared. Apparently Slow TV (4 seasons) is now on Fubo, which is partially owned by Paramount. I don't do Fubo, that's for cord- cutters, so it's not free. Plus for me, there would be a lot of redundancy. But it's not gone.

Baby, I'm the utmost!

Bobby Dayglow - The Other Deaf, Dumb, and Blind Kid (Live!!!)

Perhaps the most consistent poster here. It's not like him to miss days like has happened. I do hope he's ok!

She still needs to learn to carry her own damn comb, though.

MLC returned to Grand Prairie this evening with a match (is it match or game?) between the two remaining undefeated teams, San Francisco & Texas. It was a slaughter by San Francisco. An ugly slaughter. Our inning was respectable, but San Francisco continues to look like the 1927 New York Yankees ...or whatever a cricket equivalent is. My son and I are going to a game on Tuesday. It's not against San Francisco, thank God, so we're looking forward to a nice evening, win or lose. Grand Prairie MLC is a good time!

That's a DAMN good record.

I use Pluto to watch some old sitcoms and game shows (currently The Drew Carey Show and 25 Words or Less) and TV Westerns (currently on Season 16 of Gunsmoke and almost finished with Wanted Dead Or Alive, Somehow this Classica thing got a push recommen,dation, so hey. I used to think that The Roku Channel & Pluto were more or less the same. There's certainly overlap, but enough of a difference to matter. And then there's Tubi, which has buttloads of early TV (like, EARLY) and other uber-niche type stuff. Like, I just finished all 4 seasons of the two-network, 2.5 premise Joey Bishop 1960s sitcom, which is nowhere near as shitty as today's online consensus will have it. It's a warts and all time capsule. All of this shit has commercials, but hell, this notion of commercial-free TV runs contrary to my upbringing!

Quatuor Ébène playing three Beethoven quartets on something called Stingray Classica, which I stumbled across on Pluto. A very pleasant surprise!

That Sunny Murray record is a highlight!

Southern Snow - Standing The Strain

All produced by Jo Zabilu.

Bookmarked for future listening, thanks!

Ima Linman - Snow Down South?

Not particularly gripped by this one, but Shubert has never really grabbed me outside of the Lieder. Probably my "problem"...

So...you pay for one month of Netflix, watch those few episodes, and then cancel right away. That's how you do that.

Caught this group twice a while back locally and were mesmerized each time. They've not been around here since and look to have kept climbing the ladder of success. I'm always up for a top-shelf interpretation of these pieces and Amazon has a dirt-cheap price (this complete set was just 10 bucks more than the Late Quartets set, so hey...). The second Dover record remains my "favorite" because of repertoire, but this is just such a fun listening band that if these are the records they make, then ok. But hey, check this one out: This is a good band and a GREAT record