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Quincy

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  1. Used copies of Stan Getz's Serenity and Cecil Taylor's Looking Ahead! Sometimes nice things show up when you haven't checked the store in a month!
  2. But the last time I looked (a day or two ago), many of the jazz "New Arrivals" were classical... A "5 Star Classical Album" includes The Who's Quadrophenia. Well, it is a rock opera!
  3. HOOOOOOOOOOOOO! That's a great price! This is a case where I was ready to pay $20ish and not mind so much as it's high quality, but of course I don't mind saving money either. Thank you much for the tips - off to visit the BIS site to sign up.
  4. Whenever I see publicity pictures of them for some reason I think of the kids from Village Of The Damned. I can't help it, I'm too distracted wondering if there's some plastic protection on the legs of the pianos to pay attention to the music. (From what I've read this wasn't "green screened.") Not the best environment for pianos, though hopefully they weren't outside during the heat of the day.
  5. I intend to keep up. I have the first 5. Usually the online places are so good at telling me what I want based on past purchases, but I had to go out on my own to discover #6 was out. It's a terrific series.
  6. I'm so used to Dan picking up the slack in baseball posts. I like this series, and the game had some tense moments not necessarily reflected in the score. I'll be curious to see when Price can be used next given that he threw 42 pitches. Until mid-Nov. I'm the same age as Jamie Moyer, so I have a vested interest in him not embarrassing my age group. I he fails in that bandbox I'll disavow the age and go back to importance of the birth year.
  7. Yikes! I just had 9 emails informing me of classical titles that are no longer available. Glad I got what I got when the getting was good.
  8. As you know the All-Star Game decides home field advantage for the World Series. Kazmir pitched relief in the 15th for the win. Lidge gave up the winning run and took the loss. (Mel Allen voice) Now how about that!
  9. I think it was a combination of feeling he was spending too much time on the board, coupled with disgust about the tone of the board, namely a thread and some posts critical of Oscar Peterson that popped up immediately after Oscar's death. I think he found the timing (rather than the criticism itself) distasteful. I think I spotted him over at Hoffman shortly after he left here, but lost him amongst all of the Monkees threads and "DCC or MSFL Olivia Newton-John Greatest Hits" debates. (Okay, I made up the the latter, but you know how it is over there.)
  10. "Moby Dick"! Sorry. "Thank You" might work. I also like "The Ocean," and "Fool In The Rain" that have already been mentioned.
  11. You probably read it by now, but it was 200-1.
  12. Pretty happening times for organissimo. And well deserved!
  13. It's been a fresh blood kind of postseason for this decade. White Sox, Astros, Rockies, Angels, Giants, Diamond Backs and yes, the Red Sox were once fresh too. (But like fish & family...) It had been awhile for the Tigers & Cardinals too. Now the Marlins on the other hand, c'mon, 2 titles for those newbies. Argh. I happy with the matchup as both Phillies & Rays are playing good ball. The only way I wanted to see the Sox was if the Dodgers got in, just to watch all of that neurotic ugliness. That reminded of the Super Bowl where John Madden saying the Pats should take a knee with that kid Brady and try to win it overtime. I think Madden stopped by the time the Pats had crossed midfield. No more situational relief for Price - let 'em close! Then see ya in the rotation next year. Yes indeed! What a story. And darn it, add the Rays to Marlins & Diamond Backs of teams younger than the Mariners to make it to the World Series.
  14. Ever since that Matt Stairs quote it seems like I'm hearing more comments like this by announcers. The batter vs. pitcher numbers (which were small samples anyway) have been tossed out the window. Youk was 0 for 17 vs. Shields before the playoffs but has hit his ass hard in the playoffs. (Er...sorry.) There are other examples. Tough to hang too much on such tiny numbers. But one thing I'll be interested to see though is if Tampa moves Bartlett up in the order. He gets on vs. LHP and even has some punch and seems to be a better pick than Iwamura. For a team that is so quant-oriented it seems like a move to make.
  15. As far as I can remember The Clash but it was loud mostly because of venue & where I was at relative to the speakers. I think the most hearing damage I ever had from an event was at a local go-kart grand prix. I think the "winner" will be the posters who saw My Bloody Valentine on their recent tour as the band was supposedly playing at 130 db & beyond (and handing out earplugs as you walked in.)
  16. Hooray hooray! Happy Birthday!
  17. CDU sent me an email with a photo & description of the Jimmy Scott album yet alerted me that it was a new Jimmy Smith album.
  18. It's a good story, but that's all it is. It's "The Dreamsicle" story that's been used on Redford, Nicholson, etc. Sorry to be a poop.
  19. I'm not disagreeing with you, just pointing out that that's exactly what the Red Sox did in '75 when they moved Tiant to 6 and pushed Bill Lee to 7. I remember this because Bill Lee still complains to this day. There were a few days of rain though which allowed the rescheduling. I suppose if both starters still get adequate rest the thinking is that the better pitcher is more likely to take care of business in game 6 so in game 7 there will be more arms for the "everybody pitches" scenario. It didn't work so well in '75 however.
  20. Congrats J.H.! Fine looking team. Utley, Rollins & Howard get so much attention but that outfield is so solid! Game 1 is a week from today. So Cole goes again in 1? Nice to have the problem of will the players be rusted or well rested.
  21. Who says irony is dead? Any arrogance from the side of Red Sox fans had a basis in reality, that reality being the most successful team of the decade. The arrogance coming from Rays fans is based on a single season in which they've, by way of a couple of fluke victories, won anything only once. Oh for crying out loud. (Or just crying.) They've never won in their history, they have every right to have fun with it. And at least way out here on the West Coast I've heard nor read nothing about Rays fans that approaches the whining know-it-all "aren't we so wonderful" fucked up arrogance of the bandwagon Red Sox "Nation." To see the perfect Patriots lose a Super Bowl in such heart-breaking fashion followed by their post-Brady fall, and now to see a Tampa team that has done it right by building on homegrown talent and a terrific trade all while on a budget...well, it just doesn't get any better. GO RAYS! (And as long as your team doesn't go to Timlin, you're still in the thing.)
  22. The "visuals" of putting the surfer kid Weaver into the game in extra inning relief to save your season was classic. Uh, I guess classic SoCal. Jered still looks like an overgrown 15 year old to me. So Dodgers-Phils in the NLCS. I was going to say it makes me feel 30 years younger but I suppose it should make me feel only 25 years younger as I always forget about '83. I remember the SI cover of Rose, Perez & Morgan though as it sure looked strange seeing all those Reds with "P's" on their caps.
  23. Some knock Piniella in the NW because of the way pitchers were handled. Some also feel he should have won more with the talent he had. Personally I enjoyed his time in Seattle a great deal and was sorry to see him go. Had there been a wild card in '86 the Yanks would have won it. And he did a hell of a job with the Reds. Darrell was '75. It was McNamara in '86.
  24. He's on the roster but isn't starting. Pierre is on the roster as well. Some fans are already getting ahead of themselves saying he'll DH. Kent is on the roster but Torre has said he's only available to PH. I probably read too much into Torre's tone, but I heard it as "I don't care if you think you can field, I'm not giving up another 2 runs a game because you can't move or bend over." Andruw Jones is not on the playoff roster.
  25. They have Furcal for the first time since May as well, but the other key for the Dodgers was those experienced older players getting injured. The Dodgers scuffled when they were playing Andruw Jones, Nomar, Kent and Pierre. Notice that none of those old fogies are starting now. Adding Manny of course has helped immensely but having Ethier, Kemp, and Looney not have their at bats taken away by those other bums has made them a much better team. Hell, with Andruw in the lineup it was like batting 2 pitchers. Getting Kent off the field mean has improved the pitching so much you can easily afford a less powerful bat there. It was Kent who suggested a war between the older vs. younger players when Grady Little was managing. Had Little been so lucky to have had a similar rash of injuries with those older farts he may had better success.
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