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Have a great birthday, in Technicolor! (Or b&w, whatever you like.)

One day away from summer and we still haven't had an 80 degree day.

iPhone/iPod ap for $15. Give you the audio along with video highlights, so it covers the bases (urgh!) nicely.

Import CDs has it listed as Live In Hamburg w/ a release date of July 27. Price before shipping is $11.27. Link here. Kind of interesting that it's the same cover design except for Hamburg in place of Germany. This is the only site I've checked (thus far) regarding US sellers, so you might want to poke around elsewhere, or just order from the link that Claude provided.

Mickey Hart is with the band on 5-15-70 (he wouldn't leave until early '71, then returns for the last night at Winterland '74.) Also there were 2 shows on 5-15-70, so this set is not complete. Finally the bonus disc includes material from 5-14-70 Kirkwood MO. Pretty funky scheduling there boys. If one is allergic to pork there are some acoustic songs that might appeal, and The Other One and surrounding songs is a great slab of music.

There was some sort of server/database problem a few years ago that resulted everyone's post count being lessened. Your smaller tally is likely related to that.

The latest Roadtrips is 5-15-70. 3 "regular" discs this time plus the usual "act now for the bonus." Some prime Pig on here for the fans. This has long circulated w/ the New Riders sets too. It traded as 6 discs and I think the massive size kept me from digging into it compared to other shows of the era. (I know one doesn't have to play entire shows and I often don't, but for some reason it was intimidating to pick 1 of 6. I'd usually pop in the Dick's Pick instead.) While May '77 is famous, May '70 is no slouch either.

Forget politics, this is college football, and the article referred to Texas. Therefore this is religion.

How about everyone else in the state who has to deal with declining & underfunded services? The U is engaged in business beyond "the mission" and should be taxed accordingly.

I hope you didn't get the gift of clothes. Hope it was a great day.

Wow, Nava hits a grand slam for the BoSox in his 1st AB. 1st pitch too. I won't even Google it, but I think Bobby Bonds grand slammed on his 1st AB. Edit - Wrong, Bobby did it in his 1st game but not AB. 3 guys total for 1st AB, 2 very recently. Bill Duggleby (1898), Jeremy Hermida (2005), and Kevin Kouzmanoff (2006).

Just think how even trickier all this would be if you had to pay the talent on the field social security wages (rather than under the table cars, whores, & money)? I hope before I croak some college players use the social networking and assorted internet tools to come together and go on strike, preferably before the bowl season. :rsmile: Rah rah.

Ghost ship. The jam band scene has cruises and I've known a couple of folks who have done those. I'm too much of a germaphobe about Norwalk virus to ever contemplate a cruise. It's not just that, sorta the scenarios that were mentioned earlier. But hey, if this keeps Mosaic afloat I'm all for it!

So much of the talk has been about "justice." I'm not completely opposed to the idea of replay but I don't think the NFL model is great. (I don't believe that 72 second stat at all btw. NFW.) Posnanski addresses this with they psychology of the replay in the NFL and I've noticed the same thing. It used to be if a guy ran back a kickoff return for a TD (or some other big exciting play) you looked around for a yellow flag, look look look, and if you didn't see one then you celebrated. Now it's like an episode of Lost where you can't believe anyone is dead, cause they might come back in another dimension. There's the yellow flag, then the red one to get through. You wait for the start of the next play to be completely sure what you saw counts. Is "justice" served when you can avoid the red flag by going no huddle and calling a quick play? So in baseball anytime there's a questionable call and the manager of the hitting team is slow, have the pitcher throw a quick pitch. At least if you're going to follow the NFL model… Where review won't help much: A fair ball that is initially called foul. What are you gonna do, say "Ghost (not of Miles) runner on 1st would have made it to third, but the batter is too fat so he's only on 1st." A ball hit to an outfielder that is called an out when it's trapped. What happens here? Runners move up one? Two? Give the batter a "do over" from that point in the count? So that leaves it pretty much to plays at the bases, and even then it can get messy. There are those compound plays involving throws to one base and then another. So the ump blows one end of a DP and then there's a throwing error, now what happens? You get the idea. If you have the use of replay, do we allow "neighborhood plays" by infielders anymore? Part of the reason for allowing it is that a man's ankle & knee tendons & ligaments are deemed more important than an out in 1/162nd of the season. But if you want the precision of replays, why allow neighborhood plays? This is a diversion on my part perhaps and maybe not related at all, but perhaps so in the conversation of rules & justice. Here's an idea, rather than have the strike zone be tip of the penis to the ankles why not call it nips to knees, armpits to knees, whatever it actually is in the rule book? Just a thought. 1, 2 or 3 manager challenges is sloppy & half-ass. If you want to get it right you'll need a Sun King in the both who can press a button that blurts out the equivalent of "Hold on here Wilburrrr…" Which means outcomes you see that are the least bit close become a moment where you think "oh, this might be reviewed." So you'll get a partial attempt at fairly called game, but the price will be the pause of wondering if a play is going to be overturned (and perhaps if your team can "quick pitch" to avoid it.) A wrong call sucks, but (massive cliche warning) they tend to even out over a season, and at least you know when the ump says "out" the player is out, move on to the next play. I guess some have no problem with a challenge system, I just don't aspire to see my favorite sport emulate the NFL. If you want replay do it better, but accept the fact that it's baseball, and some things just can't be wrapped up neatly.

The good that's come out of this won't be adding another 12 to 15 minutes to games through instant replay challenges, it's that we learned what an incredible classy guy Galarraga is. Also extremely cool-headed. And smart. Had he complained his strike zone would be the size of a shoebox next week. Had he gotten the perfect game instead the reaction would have been "Who?" followed by "What's wrong with baseball with all of these perfect games? Bring back steroids & offense!" And there lots of material for parents teaching their kids. Authority figures are sometimes wrong. If Galarraga can control his temper after getting screwed out of the ultimate individual accomplishment for a pitcher, so can you you little rugrat. Nobody likes a crybaby, but everybody admires classiness & grace. And so on. And to say that instant replay hasn't hurt football at all isn't true. Given how unscientific ball placement is, and the fact that they still use chains (why not lasers hotshots?), and then they make the refs go to the side and look at some silly screen on the sidelines while in the elements… please! This is what you want for baseball? It's a process only lawyers could love. Do you want that for bang-bang plays at first and stolen base attempts for every blasted "ordinary" game? Just what they need in Cleveland and Kansas City in August, more time sitting around in the summer heat watching umps review calls while nothing happens on the field. Look for strategic uses by the likes of Tony La Russa to disrupt the starting pitcher's rhythm too. The loss on the record books of an individual accomplishment that is now more memorable because of the wrong call and did not effect the outcome of the game in the standings is not a good reason to "lawyer up" a game and slow down an already slow game. I'm tempted to say "perhaps for the playoffs," but now I can hear Buck in my head droning on (like I have) about the length of games and late start times, and how the poor children can't stay up to watch games because instant replay takes too damn long.

This situation is set up perfectly for a common sense solution. Personally while I like the idea of "justice" through instant replay the NFL's system bogs down an already slow game. As slow as baseball is, the last thing I'd want is instant replay challenges which would slow it down even more.

Yes to all of the above. Well maybe not the SC. Or...bring back the *. It once belonged to Roger Maris and he did alright with it. Let's bring it back for questionable ump called games and stuff. Pedro's perfect game that he "lost" in extra innings. Harvey Haddix too. Shore's relief perfect game after Ruth's ejection. Stuff like that sticks around even if it doesn't make the official lists. (Not sure if Shore's still is official or not, as I don't trust Wiki with our baseball heritage. ) Let me add the obvious - if I was a Tiger fan I'd be fuming. But right now I'm burned out on perfect games. Don't need another until 2017 or so. I'd rather see a horse win the Triple Crown (which was so commonplace 30 years ago.) Also when I read it was Galarraga I realized somewhere along the line I've combined or confused his career with that of Tony Armas Jr.

I could not disagree more. Bad calls are a part of the game. No doubt the bad call is a pisser, but hell, if you're going to audit the bad calls then do you turn around and audit the questionable ball/strike calls in the pitcher's favor? Perfect games have become downright commonplace so the pitcher may be better off folk-hero-wise getting screwed than having it counted in the books. Sort of a Harvey Haddix, without the extra innings. Baseball games are long enough as it is, throw in replays and we're talking 5 1/2 hour Yankee-Red Sox games.

Pretty amazing series between the D-backs & Dodgers. Dodgers sweep all 3 by 1 run and the past 2 were 1-0 extra inning games. A few of the favorable lifetime counting stats for Ken Griffey Jr.: HR - 5th RBI - 14th (between Ted Williams & Rafael Palmeiro) Extra base hits - 6th (tied w/ Rafael, Mays in 5th, Gehrig in 8th) Despite the long (though injury-plagued) career he didn't crack the top 10 in strikeouts as he finished 12th. Mike Cameron is ahead of him!, Alex & Manny right behind and should easily pass him this year. And who is behind Ruth for most home runs lifetime in the AL? Not Jr. His former teammate Alex is.

Well...thanks for the heads up as I was going to check out some shirts later on this week. As long as people blow their nose on the outside I stand a better chance of seeing it. If they're going for the inner collar region maybe not. The latter seems unlikely if it's on a hanger. Maybe I'll avoid green, tan and other "snot & booger" colored shirts though.

Although lifetime he's better vs. LHP he's certainly not weak vs. RHP. It's only June 1st. Unless there's an injury established players tend to revert towards mean performance. In other words, he's due, and with the short RF fence better to risk a double to left rather than a fly ball homer. Although almost 1/3 of a season feels like a lot it's not, and it's not like his May was that horrid (.280/.366/.475). Elsewhere the number of people who will claim they saw Halladay's perfect game just went up.

And it's a fun word to slur while you're celebrating. Both Hannibal MO and later their most famous resident Mark Twain were recognized on their sesquicentennials while I lived near there.

I wouldn't say it's exclusive, but it's probably the more common meaning. At least in the parts of the country that I've lived in. Usually when shrubs and (non-fruit) trees are involved it becomes "landscaping," although certainly "garden" may be used when it involves flowers too. Many times if the flower garden has a style it may be described as a Japanese garden, English garden, and so on. There are garden societies and garden tours where the word garden is used in a more English sense. I suppose the usage may determined by one's upbringing or which type of gardening is preferred. As a kid visiting relatives in Ulster I discovered "yard" has a different meaning. I was talking with an uncle & cousin (who were both avid golfers) about sticking a flag in the back yard and using a my dad's wedge to hit golf balls at the target. I could see my uncle was getting a bit upset, and finally he said "Well what does your father have to say about you scuffing his clubs in the yard?" I was puzzled, saying I only hit the balls off the grass. A little back & forth and finally we learned the difference between an English "yard" and an American "back yard" - the latter is mostly grass, whereas the former involves concrete. Much to the relief of my uncle, who thought a young barbarian was staying in his house. He probably hid his clubs anyway. Flowers or food, it's all good as far as gardening goes.

Returning to the Amerikin definition of the word in the subject line , I planted a few tomatoes yesterday as we're having a 2 day break from an ongoing unusual (even for here in the Willamette Valley) cool & rainy stretch w/ more on the way. Normally I don't mind waiting until early June to plant tomatoes & peppers but my poor starts were straining in tiny pots. Eating peas & various greens, poles beans are poking out of the ground, and garlic has rust because of the cool wet weather. Hopefully the garlic shakes it off if we ever get sun.

Nice to see you back! Saw the Suns-Lakers game in a bar last night people were revved up. Lots of Laker haters in the area from when Portland & LA were in the same division. You can redraw the divisions but not old animosities. There was one huge (both tall & wide) very vocal Laker fan, so the back & forth between him and the crowd was something else. As was the final 4 minutes of the game. I hope the Suns can take it to a game 7 and make it another exciting one.