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  1. Scott Dolan
    Yeah, Samardzija is a horse, but definitely a back of the rotation guy. He picked a pretty big fight with us last year, so I lost some respect for him. But he can definitely eat innings. Not a bad acquisition at all.
  2. Scott Dolan
    I wouldn't say "noticeable". Once you hit the, let's say, $1,000 mark the sound improvements become dramatically smaller and more incremental. Once you hit the $7,500-$10,000 range, you may as well just call it quits. After that you're adding grains of sand to an hour glass. If that.
  3. Scott Dolan
    And that's exactly what I occasionally use it for as well, Larry. Now, in my case I tend to use the iTunes store because their samples are usually 1:30 instead of the seemingly standard :30 that most other sites offer. That's usually enough to inform my decision, but sometimes I may need to hear more. I'd say I use Spotify, maybe, three times a year.
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    All for an audio system that may have a small improvement in performance over a $3,000, $5,000, $10,000, or $15,000 system. Kinda sad more than anything. I'm glad I stopped chasing the rainbow before I started pissing away big time bucks.
  5. Scott Dolan
    You'd better believe it.
  6. Scott Dolan
    Then don't use it. I don't, except on rare occasions. What they are doing is no different than what MANY apps and websites do. And if you don't give them your permission to do so, they don't. How devious.
  7. Scott Dolan
    They will only collect data if you give them permission to. The story was a bit overblown by the media, surprise surprise.
  8. Scott Dolan
    Greinke is a very odd duck. I knew he was all about the money when he left here. And he didn't really leave any friends behind. Not that he made many to begin with. A lot of people were shocked last year when he said he was rooting for the Giants in the World Series. Nope, that's just the kind of dick he is.
  9. Scott Dolan
    Greinke will be making $34.42mil a year in Arizona. Not surprising. I'm thinking Cueto will end up more around the $30mil mark with Price.
  10. Scott Dolan
    Dirty Bastard from Founders Brewing. 8.5% ABV. Warm and yummy.
  11. Scott Dolan
    http://www.allmusic.com/album/live-trane-the-european-tours-mw0000591728 It took all the live Pablo releases and mixed them down to mono which got rid of all the incredibly nasty phase shifting and stereo channel warbling/dropouts. Sounds a thousand times better than the original Pablo releases I had, which were Bye Bye Blackbird, The Paris Concert, and Afro Blue Impressions.
  12. Scott Dolan
    Ubuntu did a release for Android-based portable devices, but Apple does not support it. You can jailbreak an iPad and try to get Ubunta to run on it, but you'll simply end up with the most unstable tablet on the planet even if you're tech savvy enough to make it work. Ubunta is for laptops and the erstwhile netbook, not for the iPad.
  13. Scott Dolan
    No.
  14. Scott Dolan
    I understood it. When my son was an infant, the only way I could get him to take a nap was to crank up Coltrane's Live At Birdland. My wife would sit there and look at him in amazement and say "how can he SLEEP through this?!" As for this "new" edition, I'm not interested. The Deluxe version from over a decade ago is just fine. I'm out of the shelling out more bucks for the same shit I already have bait and switch garbage. Unless it's something that sounded pretty bad previously. Like The Olatunji Concert, for example. The Live Trane box is a good example of a release that GREATLY improved on the sound of the previous releases.
  15. Scott Dolan
    Wilson's barely have any HAF! I've heard they sound unbelievable, but even I wouldn't want such ugly fucking monstrosities in my home.
  16. Scott Dolan
    Wow, I'm sorry to hear things are back in play, Tim. Glad to hear you're doing better, Moosely. My best to both of you. I can't even imagine...
  17. Scott Dolan
    Oh, I agree with that 100%. They've reach a nearly surreal level.
  18. Scott Dolan
    Defensive catchers are a premium. Besides, he'll end up playing plenty.
  19. Scott Dolan
    He only played 67 games last year due to injury. Aside from that he's a former All Star who brings a lot to the table as a backup catcher. It's a very good signing.
  20. Scott Dolan
    The taxes in Florida aren't the best either. Even with homestead exemption we paid nearly twice in property taxes for our home in Plant City than we've ever paid here. And that was on a home valued at $35k less than our current home, and there is no homestead exemption in Missouri.
  21. Scott Dolan
    Not entirely sure, Dan. What I can tell you is that the place we rented when we first moved here was 3,000 sq ft on 10 acres, and he was selling that for $225k. Our current home is on a cul-de-sac at the end of town with nothing but Missouri farm land behind us. 2700 sq ft and we paid $135k. That same place in Plant City would easily cost twice that. You also have to keep in mind that owning property in mid Missouri is a huge difference from owning property on the I-4 corridor in central Florida. 10 acres in Florida is almost unheard of these days. Let alone on the biggest entertainment pipeline in the state!
  22. Scott Dolan
    In Missouri a place like that would cost, maybe, $200K. Maybe a little less. Yet another one of the upsides of moving here.
  23. Scott Dolan
    Hey, Jim. Were they Muscovy ducks? Those things are a serious pain in the ass. A non-native, and sometimes aggressive, species. They drop pools of shit everywhere they go. There have been eradication efforts there in the past. I personally don't care about them being there, but Florida has become a cesspool of invasive and dangerous species of flora and fauna. Burmese pythons in the Glades, Australian Pines along the barrier islands, iguana's on Boca Grande, Muscovy ducks pretty much up and down the Gulf coast... If you get down to the southern part of the coast where I used to live, it's nothing to see a flock of parrots/lovebirds/parakeets because of people releasing them into the wild. One day when I was on the deck of my father's house on Boca Grande I heard the familiar chirp of the Peach-faced Lovebird. Looked up and saw around 15 to 20 of them congregated on a power line. And there was an iguana that used to shit on his doorstep every night.
  24. Scott Dolan
    Lived there for almost two years before we moved to Missouri. Pretty laid back town, but you're on the I-4 corridor which pretty much opens up a ton of possibilities. Ybor City is just twenty minutes down the road, Tampa another fifteen minutes from there. The other way you've got the Walt Disney World resort about a half hour away, then the Orlando metro area, and even Daytona Beach isn't that far away.
  25. Scott Dolan
    Not really sure I can buy into the credibility of the award when Ned Yost wasn't even in the running. Before the season started the "experts" were saying the Royals would finish with 72-75 wins, third in their division, and not make the playoffs. Instead, they finished with the best record in the A.L., won their division by the largest margin in MLB, and took the World Series in five games. And he's not even a finalist?!
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