Scott Dolan

Not around these parts. I suffered through too many 100 loss seasons with the Royals. The fans of Kansas City haven't even experienced the playoffs in 29 years! This has been a very exciting run.

I suppose it's awesome watching it as an outside, but their style of play this year easily shaved 10 years off of my life...

Tigers shouldn't have been in the playoffs to begin with. How they beat the Royals for the division still befuddles me. That bullpen is one of the worst I've ever seen.

ALA pretty much nailed it. I'm not sure I had any as low as 228 kbps, but their sample rate is normally right up there with iTunes.

I dumped them a few months back when my rollover date inexplicably hit four or five days before it normally did, and I lost $18. Partially my fault, I know, but to hell with that nonsense.

You clearly stated that you see it as a live date. That really doesn't matter to me. It isn't. Speaking of faulty logic, were the studio sessions The Beatles recorded "live dates" because Yoko was sitting in the studio with them? How absurd.

No, they weren't. Even Last Date was a studio recording with in-house applause. But, Naima and Unrealized Tapes were both studio sessions. Naima and Unrealized Tapes is the same session, recorded in a radio studio. Right. Not a "live" date. What part of "studio" isn't clicking?

Scott Lafaro?

No, they weren't. Even Last Date was a studio recording with in-house applause. But, Naima and Unrealized Tapes were both studio sessions.

One of the great playoff games of all time, and the biggest win for my boys in 29 years, and I fell asleep in the 7th...

Nervous...

Working fine for me as well. I also "upgraded".

Congrats to my Royals for ending the historic 29 year post season drought! The division is still in reach, but not looking likely.

No, I'm not. I am not. Please ignore the fact that I work for the redundantly redundant department.

There's simply too much redundancy in place for me to worry.

I was shocked by Cousins performance.

I remembering searching for Naima and Unrealized Tapes on CD for nearly a decade, my own personal holy grail at the time. It was very unsuccessful until I found this boutique record store overseas (England, IIRC) that had a combo album of those dates called Complete Last Recordings. I remember the day it arrived in the mail. I just sat and stared at it for several minutes before I opened it. What a sense of accomplishment and satisfaction! And the music did not disappoint. Springtime is one of his finest compositions. Last Date is a fine recording, but the true last dates are much better, IMO.

Yes, he was charged with simple assault and entered into a plea bargain.

I'm not taking it harshly. I just find instant access, a majority of the time more than not, being looked at as little-to-no progress as laughable. And not only have I travelled quite a bit (just got back from Phoenix this past weekend), but I also live in small town Midwest and service is spotty all throughout this region. Drive 20 minutes down the road and you might find yourself in a dead zone. Drive another 10 and you'll likely have service. And along the way you'll pass many gas stations and fast food restaurants that offer free Wi-Fi. And most hotels 2 stars and up offer free high speed. The Internet may not be ubiquitous, but it's never hard to find. At least here in the States.

Sorry, Steve. That's just a foolish argument. Hi speed internet is, or used to be, advertised as "always on". So when it rarely goes down, you're going to point to point to it and call it threadbare progress? No. You're going to accept that shit happens. If your car breaks down you're not going back to the dealer complaining that automobiles are threadbare progress over horseback. Your music that is in the cloud is always there and always accessible where you have Internet. Which, in this world these days is pretty much everywhere, and anytime.

But it does work. That isn't up for debate. If you temporarily cannot access the Cloud, for whatever reason, it's just that: temporary. Your music is still there, and the second you're back online you'll have access to it. In the analog age you weren't going to have access to it until you got back home. That's an enormous difference. So yes, that is indeed progress. And lots of it.

Huh?

Hurt feelings is a personal foul, Matthew. Perhaps you never received that memo. Isn't it just pathetic what Goodell has turned this league into? And BTW, when you say the games have become unwatchable due to the penalties, I actually couldn't agree more. Remember the uproar over the flags in the preseason? Goodell sent one of his lackeys out to calm the fears. Welp. Here we are. Same bullshit, different season...

Didn't think that the refs could be worst than last year, but I was wrong on that count. The games are becoming unwatchable with all the flags. In the 36+ years I've followed the game, it would have never occurred to me that I might one day be defending the refs. But, their job is likely the least desirable officiating job in professional sports. The NFL rules are as fluid as any in all sports, and at all levels. And they have to constantly attempt to interpret and enforce them. May as well be trying to hold water in their hands. Not giving them a complete pass, mind you. Just trying to empathize with them considering how increasingly difficult that fucking idiot Goodell and his band of merry sycophants make their jobs.

How Philip K. Dickian of him! Seriously, that's a pretty cool prediction. One that can be viewed with 20/20 hindsight as "DUH!", but that's the beauty of 20/20 hindsight, right? One question. One thought. Question: If a company goes under, how have you lost your music collection? In the digital format we have the option to build so much redundancy into it, it's actually absurd. You can have a physical copy, a digital copy on your computer, a copy of that on an external hard drive, AND a copy of that in the Cloud! Imagine creating a comparable redundancy in the analog age! Thought: If you cannot "access the Cloud" for whatever reason, one would have to assume you aren't at home. Right? Because if you were, you'd simply slap on your record/CD/digital file via your computer. But, if you're away from home and can't access it, well, that's just like being away from home in the analog age. Is it not? A thousand pardons, brother. I'm not trying to give you a hard time, and I dug what you posted. I'm still just having a hard time seeing the downside.