Dan Gould

Thanks gents. I posted for help in convincing myself that an orthopedist/sports medicine visit would not be necessary. At the current rate of improvement I don't think I'd have much to say come Monday. We'll see.

So on Thanksgiving when our guests arrived, King was allowed to be out and was a little out of control with elderly Aunt Judy and Uncle Bill. If we got him off of one, he went for the other. I made the mistake of trying to stop him by sticking my arm out but only got his chest in my palm, not inside my elbow where my shoulder and back might have been engaged. Instead his 70 pounds went thru my arm and the fulcrum was my elbow, which is now clearly strained. The question is how badly and I am wondering if anyone has experience in these matters. Such as, if a tendon were torn, what would the symptoms be? If I am pained but have 90% range of motion, probably no biggie? I found out this morning 8 cups of coffee was uncomfortably heavy in the carafe. On the other hand I offloaded hay using both hands but I wasn't trying to press it or anything ... shampooing, not so good. When the pain engages, its probably a 3 on the traditional scale. As always, thanks in advance!

So who knew Dex called himself Society Red? I don't think I ever heard that before starting on the book. Is it mentioned in the liners to Doin Allright?

that might have been the original reasoning (remember you be older than me ) but I think more recently its "Aaron wasn't unanimous so no one should ever be."

I don't think that's really conventional wisdom at all. I think what has happened is that some voters hold up Aaron, or maybe someone else, as someone who didn't get in unanimously, and therefore they will withhold their vote from X because if Aaron isn't unanimous no one else should be. They reap the notoriety that follows when everyone gets the same old stupid quote about why whoever didn't vote for someone. It happens every time a historically remarkable candidate goes in. Will this year be different? With changes to eligibility for the vote, maybe Mariano is the one. Or maybe not. Only takes one.

And Houston wouldn't include their number 2 prospect so they went with the yankees and their number one. When healthy Paxton is very good. And two years cost control is pretty good. But that health issue has to be in the back of your mind. I don't think the Yankees are necessarily concentrating on starting pitchers. They are going to let the markets develop there while working other things, then swoop in with some stupid offer. My prediction is 3 starters (I think they get their other two targets, Happ and Corbin) then they jump in last minute and get one of Harper/Machado. They need to snuff out Red Sox Century(tm) before it gets any further along.

It's Albany's New Alternative, ALT105.7 now. Wonder if they do the "two Christmas tunes an hour" thing ....

I trust MOO-KEY to correct them if MOH-KAY wants his name pronounced correctly. It obviously is pronounced correctly.

he's been in the league a few years has no one listened to any broadcasts?

Happy birthday comrade and congratulations again on glorious victory by pretty young fellow traveler. Average age of true believers in national legislature cut in half, numbers doubled! Vlad cannot live forever, when historical path resumes in Motherland, your work here will not be forgotten!

World Series MVP Steve Pearce re-signed for a year. All smiles here.

Well according to the listing this particular concert is new, I was hoping to get confirmation on that marketing claim.

I'd say set up a poll and find out how people interpret that. But the reality is that no one can draw any conclusion because you can donate off-line and it won't show. The only thing I'd change about the board-centric donate system is to eliminate the amount donated. No need for that info. We're all in this together, right?

Thanks for posting, that was great. Had no idea such a recording existed. I should dig out my transfer of the Clark/Gatemouth Brown collaboration.

Home page has a direct-to-paypal donate button.

If you'd like the board to be up in December, yes. Donation made. I bet we raise a good portion of 2019 now as well.

Or smell deeply from the ass of defeat, and walk away, quicker, while farting in their general direction.

If it's set to one article per month wouldn't you have to keep doing that over and over again? Every time you load a new article it tries to place the cookie and says "no more".

Defeating the Times cookies is not a big deal, when I clear out cookies etc I have a new set of five articles. I just find it easier to go incognito all the time. The Globe, on the other hand ... we need a middle finger smilie.

OH that's right were they forced to sell? Can't remember. I don't follow the Globe for Sox news, I do boston.com for Chad Finn and MLB.com otherwise. Hardballtalk if I want to aggravate myself. As to cookies dear Jim, I delete all such temporary ephemera to reset. The Globe don't care. It knows when it sees Incognito browsing and won't let you do it.

Right click the link and choose open in new incognito window (Chrome). Speaking of paywalls/free articles, I continue to find it amazing that I can defeat NYT's limit on free articles with incognito windows. I can only open five at a time now (used to be 10) but how come the Boston Globe, owned by the Times if I am not mistaken, is set up to recognize incognito windows and make you sign up/pay to see anything more than one article a month no matter what? I can't imagine why anyone pays for the Times yet apparently they do.

He charged you $6 for a blank cassette in 1978? Couldn't you buy a two-pack Maxell for about $4 then?