Dan Gould

And if you do think Die Hard is a Christmas movie, please show your work.

Sad to hear; each of his Prestige releases are very enjoyable, and I was very glad to pick up his late-career effort for a Japanese label. 3 copies available here: https://www.ebay.com/itm/JOHN-WRIGHT-WRIGHT-CHANGES-AND-CHOICES-1-JAPAN-CD-BONUS-TRACK-F25/272943035351?_trkparms=aid%3D555017%26algo%3DPL.CASSINI%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D41451%26meid%3D6b146207ff9f499081ef21619cc92148%26pid%3D100507%26rk%3D1%26rkt%3D1%26&_trksid=p2045573.c100507.m3226 RIP

Indeed!

Completely disagree. As far as I am concerned Blue Train is the only desert island (or buy ASAP if I lost everything) Coltrane disc. And by the way, KENNY DREW.

Stanton for Castro and two low minor leaguers? The fucking commissioner's office should investigate this as a fucking gift from a former Yankee to his old team. That's better than "for a song". That's a fucking joke. Don't tell me the fucking Red Sox couldn't have put together an equally 'enticing' offer. Big sloppy BJ for his old team. Fuck you, Jeets. When do the Cubs report? that's all I fucking care about now.

Read this report of a Matt Lauer roast from 2008 and tell me "no one higher up" knew about his behavior. https://www.villagevoice.com/2008/10/24/matt-lauers-roast-tom-cruise-katie-couric-and-3-hours-of-dick-jokes/

Even if they were only on the hook for the major league minimum, who would want to put Ellsbury on their roster? Those stats are replacement-level. By the end of the contract they may be AAA level.

My apologies to MG for not getting back into his BFT after my first post. Not sure if I'd have done any better but on the positive side his "pianists who should have made it but mostly didn't" is influencing one of my track selections for January.

My question to my Yankee fan friends is, did I miss something or did Girardi and Cashman have deep disagreements about roster or lineup construction? Does Cashman plan to manage the team remotely too? I'd think Aaron Boone doesn't need the money so badly that he'd agree to put his testicles in Cashman's purse, just for the gig.

I would have had a follow up: What did the band think of Brian Lynch? I don't mean musically. Anyone familiar with Brian's early album covers knows he wasn't quite as stylish as he is now. Now he sports the soul patch and nice clothes. Back then he looked completely like a very young, prematurely balding CPA.

Paul you've wanted Cashman fired since at least annual visits to the WS stopped. You wanted him fired when the roster was old. Now in the relative blink of an eye, the roster is mostly young (and talented) and you want him fired. Does he get any credit? Or is it now all about Andrew Miller? Or do you just hate the freaking guy and none of the rest matters?

Aaron Bleeping Boone? Not that I needed another reason to hate the Yankees, but, um, OK. I know there's a tendency toward managers with minimum or zero experience but this one seems like a real reach. Of course any incompetence or growing pains can be easily covered up with the fairly decent roster he inherits.

Regarding MP3s vs MP4s, I'm at a loss as to how that even happens in Thom's set-up. I've always been told to provide an audio CD-formatted CDR; he does the extraction.

Looks good but no labels over compartments or dividers in between to indicate where things are? If I had anything like that many 78s I'd want to know where to find what I wanted to hear. Though I guess if its alphabetized you probably know from experience where everything is, or where to look,, already. Carry on!

I was referring to discogs.com which is recently my go-to site for vinyl purchases.

Color me very curious. Love me some Amy; this one is not even listed on discogs.

But how obscure is it?

Color me curious by both the comments and the sample. Think I'll hunt these down. Thanks to you both.

I'll certainly give many to Mr. Cochrane.

How do you feel about Scientology?