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2 games in a row where the Mariners score 5 runs! They've had a 1968 offense so 5 runs feels like 10. Figgins still is under .200 (OBP barely over .300) but old man Sweeney is in "pure hitter" mode. I haven't given up yet though Texas looks very good, maybe even good enough to surprise an Eastern team as long as Kinsler and everybody is healthy. And Oakland is insane with the great staff they have. Anderson is coming back and aside from Mr. Perfect Game, Gio Goazalez may not be consistent this year, but looks like he could be seriously great by next year. How do they find these guys? So in the spirit of the board and reverse jinx mojo, it's over for Seattle, Ichiro is overrated, and Felix gets traded to the Yanks before August. (Diabolically rubs hands and books a hotel room in SEA for October.)

You'll face the Astros again in the 3rd week in June. Otherwise, who knows. Good point. They beat the Nats last night, though. I'm happy for It Should Be You as the Nats are looking good. Nice to have a fresh team to discuss here. Last time I paid any serious attention to them they were the Expos and had Larry Walker, Vlad and so forth. The vibe I get is sorta of like Tampa about the year before they broke out. It's a very weird thing to wrap your head around, but it could happen. Or at least as a wild card, given how tough the Phils are. (See Beri, I'm maintaining the Braves reverse jinx for ya.)

It sure is! Did I mention the Braves are back to sucking, and that they are a completely worthless sac of shit team, not worthy of wasting any time watching??? They should send that Heyward guy to the minors too.

Playing for Seattle is like a swig from the Fountain of Youth. Something else might be in the water as now Bradley has happy feet. He did a dugout victory lap during the game last night that's hard to explain, but it's better than having him pout. Dan's reverse jinx on BoSox is working very well.

This sounds pathetic, but I recall psyching myself up to face the record store clerk when buying my first acoustic jazz album 'Round About Midnight. I mean, it didn't have John McLaughlin on it or (gasp), any guitar at all! The clerk might laugh at me for buying old person music! Even more hilarious, the clerk was Zoot Horn Rolo (seriously, he was working in record store here in the '80s), though I didn't realize that till later, not being into Beefheart yet. He complimented me on my purchase.

It's careless friends who have dumb, easy, not-so-clever-after-all passwords for the account along with having your email address who pass along fun like this. Or at least some of the time.

I'll try this behavior in the bar tonight and see how well it works. I love the subject title. It sounds like it might get used as a strip in Pearls Before Swine.

Have a great birthday!

It gets tricky as a few songs were gestating from the time of the previous contract, however the album versions are from sessions on the new contract. You know the Stones, they never throw anything out, and if it can be used later, do so.

I just love that "Soul Survivor." I'm not sure if Keith doesn't know the lyrics yet because the lyrics aren't finished or because it's so new, or if it has pharmacological reasons. The extra disc has me from the start with the studio run through of songs before they went to the UK to record. I've passed on the other R.E.M. deluxe versions as I'm happy with my old murky LPs and have lots of live shows from the '80s so I didn't need the truncated live discs missing the fun covers. Sheeeeesh, they're such idiots - just pay up and let us hear "In The Year 2525" for Pete's sake! (Not that they picked a show with that...) Though I say "they have me from the start" I will wait for it to show up on yourmusic. And that's plenty of time to read about the likely horror of what's done to the album proper.

Remastering engineers are not always to blame, they're often just doing what the producers and/or artists tell them to do. True, especially the "resmastering" ones as (in my typo). Sounds like a title for someone who remasters for SACD, DVD-A etc.

The only reason why I bought the '94 Virgin CD was that my LP had a canyon going through "Soul Survivor." A hazard of living the album. I wish I had known about the Target extras disc. Although I certainly notice overly compressed remasters I rarely have the problems of "feeling fatigued." But this thing is so mid-rangey my ears were practically bleeding halfway through side 3 (if the CD had "sides.") Of murky recordings that have had light shined on them it didn't bother me with Bitches Brew as my LP copy wasn't great to begin with. With Exile I think I'll be sticking with the murk, though I suppose for kicks I may listen to parts of the remaster now & then, even if it sounds almost like (the horror) a Mick solo album production wise. R.E.M.'s Fables Of The Reconstruction gets a Deluxe treatment this summer. If they push the vocals too forward on that one may the resmastering engineer rot in hell. Of the extra tracks, my gawd "Follow The River" is horrendous crapola. Do you think 98% of written by Mick last winter? Ugh. "Title 5" is lots of fun but surely it predates even the earliest period where tracks are considered "Exile" material. Not that I really care as it's fun. Though I know they were trying to avoid heavily bootlegged stuff, it's a shame they didn't include the promo "Exile On Main St. Blues." But after having expectations raised too high upon the announcement and then lowering them after hearing 30 second samples, I'd say the end result was just about right for this.

You'll face the Astros again in the 3rd week in June. Otherwise, who knows. R.I.P. Lima Time.

Even the hopeful example brings up unpleasantness to a Red Sox fan: "Just like the 2010 Red Sox, the (1975) Reds were 19-20 after 39 games. The rest is history -- albeit one Red Sox fans would rather forget. Cincinnati finished with 108 wins on the way to the title." Of course if this year's Red Sox team ended up like the '75 Reds, both with a title and everlasting respect, I'm sure the fans could deal with the memories of the '75 series being brought up again.

Woo hoo! After making the cruel comparison The Kid gets a game winning PH single in the 9th!

You want to hear depressing. Vazquez in the Mariner DH spot would probably be an upgrade over Jr. 2010 Griffey .183/.245/.204 career Vazquez .207/.238/.247 Okay Yankee fans, I think we M's fans have topped ya in the misery dept.!

I can't wait for the new line of yellow plastic LIVEDOPED bracelets.

Yes, I gave that a spin yesterday. Pretty nifty, and worth trying even if you do keep up with the changes.

Thanks to a Starbucks comp she's on the charts.

Which means they're perfect for each other! (I don't get it either.)

85?? That's generous. I would say more like 80. There's a decent chance that the top four teams in the AL East will all have better records than the AL West winner this year. But remember the '73 Mets! After going through having a team with the best regular season lose in the first round I'd happily take the M's as the '73 Mets! Ever since that season some friends & I refer to losses by the #1 seed to #4 (or worse) seeds as "Marinered." As in the Dallas Mavericks got Marinered by Golden State. It sounds painful, and it is.

And when does it happen to him? In mid-May with the club doing well. If you're going to give one up, what better time to get it out of your system (and those things are almost as bad as kidney stones.) Let me do my Tim McCarver imitation and say "remarkable."

Nice? You think that walk off was nice? Just as I was thinking how nice the M's were winning games vs. the best team while on the road. I haven't given up on the M's as Figgins was stone cold for a period last year & magically hit his way back towards his mean. Which means if he can do that again he'll have to hit close to .400 for a month, and that'll be pretty cool. (Fingers crossed.) He did indeed do such a thing last year (perhaps the year before) - as a fantasy player I had him and you remember such nonsense (after all, normally I don't root for Angel players succeeding.) Tough luck Dodger fans with Ethier breaking a pinkie.

The Dow is up 359 points, so I guess the market liked the perfect game.

Congrats! And stupid me, I dropped him from my fantasy team a couple of weeks ago.