Dan Gould

Updated with the only price reduction I'll do before putting it on eBay.

Yeah, except that I suspect a lot of people are or will be agreeing with me.

This shit has got to stop. And I think it starts with you, Allen. You didn't like couw? Who gives a shit? And yesterday you go after Hans, when he said not a damn thing about you? Until you convinced him this wasn't a place he needed to be, I'd dare say that everyone liked couw. I sure as hell didn't have mixed feelings about him the way I do with you, and Chris for that matter. But certain people here seem to think that if they aren't universally admired and every f-ing thing they say isn't accepted like it was chiseled into some stone tablets, are being victimized by "personal attacks" because of their "prominence". I call "bull shit". Get over yourselves. And stop this shit. Please.

Glad you enjoyed it, Harold, looking forward to your comments on Disc 2. Remember, the choice for cuts 1-5 is "Gene" or "Not Gene". You really aren't missing that much IMO. This track is the only one with B.B.'s vocals, the rest are basically fine recreations of original Duke arrangements, without the "name" soloists. Its nice, but it doesn't come close to the original recordings. What's strange though is that Ace put out "B.B. King Wails" and they added B.B.'s vocal tracks from the Count Basie and the Jimmy Dorsey LPs from this series - but no Duke Ellington. And I'm almost certain it would have fit on the disc.

If I may, I'd like to edit this message by adding: CUT THE and get back to music and the usually enjoyable goofs.

Not really fit for public viewing, but I'll direct folks to the second and third covers from the top of this page.

"If I Ever Had a Good Thing" by Johnny Adams Edit to note that it was composed by Tony Joe White, who also wrote "Rainy Night in Georgia". I never heard the man sing, but there ain't no way he does his own song as good as the one and only Johnny Adams.

Thanks, Hans.

I don't mean to start a political battle again but I missed it the first time since I have been blind to the Politics Forum for a long time. What exactly is the difference between American free speech and European? Without sparking a fight of course.

Earth to Dan, get off the ledge. Jim Leyland didn't have the deepest pitching staff in baseball last year. The offense will be fine (see Drew just hit a home run). The Red Sox going in this year are still the team to beat. When they go on a 2-22 run and are 20 games out of the WC then you can write them off. Teams that aren't expected to do anything that get off to bad starts need to worry. I think anything less than going 162-0 with the Yankees going 0-162 would make you happy. Whatever. The fact is that the team looked awful before Wake's remarkable day, and with the Yankees and Rays being so good, there is basically no margin for error to avoid being the "great" team from the AL East that doesn't make it to the playoff dance. Furthermore, if they don't get their act straight and find themselves, say, a Yankee-esque 11-18, who knows how this team will respond? Its the Yankees that have started slow and with Torre at the helm, kept their calm professional attitude. The Red Sox haven't spent a season chasing in quite a while. They've almost always started out strong then faded into the wild card (in 2004 they were mediocre until Nomar was traded and then got very hot).

not anymore.

I'm sure we can find a quote from Jim Leyland that "its only been eight games" last April. As for Dice-K, its obvious they knew something was up. The Globe says that Tito or the pitching coach told Masterson that he'd be called on first out of the bullpen and "to be ready". They knew going in that Matsuzaka was likely to suck donkey dicks.

Bobby "Blue" Bland - Call on Me & Ain't Nothing You Can Do (Warner-Pioneer Japan under license from MCA - 1990 reissue) This is a straight reissue of Duke 77 and Duke 78 on one CD. No OBI. Flawless CDs/inserts. Paypal or Money Order preferred. Foreign shipping to be determined. $16 including U.S. shipping. Now $12, until I put it on eBay.

How much more brutally incompetent baseball before we officially determine the 2009 Red Sox to be this year's version of the 2008 Tigers. And to top it off, it took two disastrous starts for Dice-K to go on the D.L. FUCK Bud Selig and the WBC with a white hot poker!

These are the three important posts here. You've got a declaration of the truth from Jim - in a final blaze of petulant glory, Chris picked up his toys and left, only after deleting whatever he could, but nothing has been deleted by an administrator. No one deserves any respect if that's how they treat the community. And whatever did happen, as Al points out, here and elsewhere, Chris has picked up his toys and left many times in the past. But before you know it, he'll ask you to be his friend again. edit to add that the "brother" references are to Administrator Use3D, Jim's brother who was deeply involved at the start of the board, disappeared for a long time and then recently returned.

Its complete bullshit. How does Watson determine that he intended to throw at him when four umpires decided that he didn't? And on top of that, he didn't hit him, and he gets six games! what if he had hit him? 20? This is complete and utter bullshit.

I am sure its very hard to deal with such a situation - a child far from the nest, scared out of her mind over unfounded charges - but it seemed fairly obvious to me that she'd be ROR-d or at worst, post a very small bond/bail. Now the question becomes how to refute the charges, and that comes from hiring a good attorney as HP has suggested. Is the victim the accuser/witness to the damage done to the car? Does the accuser have a relationship with your daughter that might make it seem that he/she would lie about it? I'll keep my fingers crossed that the lawyer you hire will get the job done right.

Well the first thing is that you should post comments on Disc 2 - you did download disc 2, right? Answers will come at the end of the month.

There is nothing on the Globe website to indicate Beckett was suspended.

Beckett said afterwards, "It could have gone anywhere". Which is certainly true - it happened to Lester in his first start, the ball went straight up and over the plate. A little lower, a little to the side, we'd be accusing Lester of head hunting? Probably not, because he doesn't have Beckett's reputation for hyper sensitivity or hyper competitiveness.

Have you ever seen someone retaliate for calling timeout like that in the same moment? I don't know how you do that. Watch the video. He goes back and forth, freezing the runner, looking in, he turns away - facing third base - and goes into his motion as the umpire jumps away. Did he intend to throw a high hard one and it happened to not count because the ump had granted time out? Everything happened at the same time - ump jumps away, Beckett is in his motion and throwing. If Beckett's pitch was a half a second later, I'd say yes, he did it intentionally - because he had time to alter the spot he was aiming for. But it wasn't. He went into his motion at the same time that the umpire was jumping away. I don't think its possible to make such an adjustment so quickly. Pedro is famous for retaliating against hitters who call timeout at the last instant. I never ever saw him do it simultaneously. Always later in the at-bat or the game.

No, RDK is just very slow in posting his answers. We do go by month, so I don't think anyone expected me to wait.

Sorry, I'm just a little surprised that after two week's time, such a small proportion of people have posted comments. Then again Mother always said I was impatient.

Is that really going to be the sum total of your commentary about two discs? Guess I didn't pick very well ...