Dan Gould

This was good but the best part of TWIB from the past aren't the familiar highlights and names but the guys you barely remember, or just now, Whitey Herzog without gray hair, and having just been hired by the Cardinals. Or the look at rookies making a splash ... Bull Durham (didn't even know he was with the Cards before the Cubs) and Jeff Reardon with the Mets, with about half of the beard that he would ultimately sport, and with 15 big league seasons ahead of him. I've probably mentioned this before but in 1983 my father took me to Vegas during my senior year for the NATPE convention (National Association of Television Program Executives) and introduced me to Mel Allen who was in the booth of whatever company was selling that show back then. I remember his enormous hands, and what I guess was a NY Yankee World Series ring. I was pretty much in awe and I don't think I put together more than 4 words while standing there.

Hey baseball fans, Fox Sports 1 is running classic "This Week in Baseball" shows starting at 11:30 am (ET).

Good piece on the TP shortgage: https://marker.medium.com/what-everyones-getting-wrong-about-the-toilet-paper-shortage-c812e1358fe0 If you’re looking for where all the toilet paper went, forget about people’s attics or hall closets. Think instead of all the toilet paper that normally goes to the commercial market — those office buildings, college campuses, Starbucks, and airports that are now either mostly empty or closed. That’s the toilet paper that’s suddenly going unused. So why can’t we just send that toilet paper to Safeway or CVS? That’s where supply chains and distribution channels come in.

Hard to believe there is no snip tool equivalent for Apple folks?

Thanks, are you on a windows machine? Because you could open that second photo and then use the snip tool to isolate the label and/or roll-off imprints.

Damn. Was just recently enjoying a live clip of him on one of those PBS oldies shows/fundraisers. RIP

The email from CD Baby mentioned the fact that they will continue to sell thru Amazon as a wholesaler. I guess though that means that Amazon becomes the gatekeeper. I'm guessing they haven't been offering the entire contents of the CD Baby website before.

Figured I should maybe plan on a monthly repeat of the poll until we're out of this ...

In this day and age services can be streamed so I have no problem with pastors suffering consequences for putting their community at risk. In Tampa a pastor turned himself in and had the temerity to claim that they practiced social distancing between families during the services. I saw the video on the news it was a flat out falsehood.

Forget "Ignore". I propose the banning of Bigbandrecord who is too stupid to exist. No one needs to read his idiotic conspiracy theories and he does not have any first amendment right to post. Frag him, mods or Jim A.

Wilton is where I lived from age 11 (1976) thru high school and beyond. Unfortunately by the time I was into jazz I was spending relatively little time there. My parents knew Dave and his wife though certainly not well - I never met him or saw him around town (though to bring this back to New Canaan, I did once see David Letterman jogging on Route 33 (Letterman lived in New Canaan)). Where in the area did you live Brad?

And now the predictive standings sites can run their simulations off of this simulation, so when some team in the strat-o league outperforms their run differential, we can see how they will probably fall back in the standings over such a long season.

http://shanghaiist.com/2020/03/27/urns-in-wuhan-far-exceed-death-toll-raising-more-questions-about-chinas-tally/ The implications of this for the accuracy of China's reporting is truly horrific.

https://www.mlb.com/news/jimmy-wynn-astros-great-dies-at-78 There are many here with more memories of Wynn than me, as my knowledge and interest in baseball really starts in the early 70s but I do recall that "Toy Cannon" was to me the coolest nickname ever when I first heard it.

I have inside information from Mount Sinai health system. Their modeling (not public info at this time) says 40 days to the peak in NYC. Maybe that is actually good if it is a flattened, but extended rise to the peak? Don't ask me for my source but I have no reason to doubt their info.

For the simple fact that when this first hit the news, Nancy Pelosi was encouraging people to go visit Chinatown in San Fran, as the number of people going there was noticeably down. Then, as noted above, the precipitating fact was that our favorite Chinese place was abnormally slow on what ought to have been a busy night and is now closed. Whether rational or not (and count me down for NOT), it is not surprising that Chinese restaurants might suffer at a time that a highly contagious, possibly lethal virus came out of China and severely disrupted life across the planet more or less.

I just tried to give an option for "not doing take out at all".

Thought of this poll when, two weekends ago, I placed a take out order at the only Chinese place we have ever tried after moving to central Florida, and at 7 pm on a Saturday night it was a "ten minutes" wait, not the normal 20-25. Now, 9 days later, I saw that they have a sign up that they closed on the 23rd and "hope to re-open" by end of April. I have to assume that is a result of demand, and not that the family has to self-quarantine due to exposure/diagnosis.

I'm thinking I should redo the poll every couple of weeks or each month.

Peanuts were salted and that was the only flavor that just barely came thru at about 10 percent normal strength. Still have a dry cough but that predated February illness.

If I want to eat, I cook. Been that way for a while. However this week will be a little different as we decided to conserve the meat on hand and she will be making her secret family recipe for Mac and cheese. Two notes about that: I had to convince her that her recipe needed ham to actually become a meal but I thought Mac and cheese came out of a box when I was a kid so this is pretty good compared to then. Correction, pretty *awesome* compared to back then. She just finished it and I just had a taste before it went into the oven .... With something new, those fried onion pieces on top.

My symptoms were way less severe ... Just the loss of taste was odd for me. Never anything bronchial, whatever it was.

Around the middle of February I missed several days of work with a pretty unpleasant flu (diagnosed By teladoc). Now I read that the loss or diminishment of taste/smell is a covid signifier and at one point I was starting to munch on peanuts that had essentially no taste. That lasted a couple of days I would say I also had the most hellacious coughing fits in which my throat would go into temporary spasm for 30 seconds or so. Never experienced that before. It's also true that shortly thereafter my office mates missed work, and last week right before we went to telecommuting, one of them may have had a relapse. So I am basically wondering if I actually had it. (My wife trailed me by a couple of days in her own experience of similar symptoms though I don't think she had a loss of taste.)

How do you stand?

Three months to 100,000 cases worldwide. 12 days to another 100,000. That thermometer data map I linked is now live: https://healthweather.us/ It obviously depends on the distribution of the products (they were supposed to be sending out some large number free to people to increase distribution) for true accuracy. NYC doesn't look so bad on their data which is certainly not where they are in reality. I heard that by Monday or Tuesday they might be out of hospital beds. Hillsborough county where I am looks bad but there's a trend in the right direction.