Dan Gould

but I've gotten this message from Chuck more often.

Already 10-4, so let's call it 19-5. That sounds about fucking right.

And with the piece of shit bullpen in the game this early, what will the final be? 12-5? 15-6? And what are the fucking odds that the Rays will come back and complete their sweep of the Angels?

After this latest fucking debacle is their any doubt whatsoever that Wakefield was needed YESTERDAY and that Clay Buchholz should not be allowed to pitch a single meaningful inning the rest of the season?

They are available very inexpensively on Amazon. Also, I believe that at least the Chambers was reprinted around the turn of the millenium in that "Collector's Choice" series of reissues or whatever it was called where they reprinted some of the early CD titles which had fallen out of print. Well I never did check Amazon to see if titles are listed and at what prices. That's a pretty good reason. Guess I can plan on keeping those.

That makes some sense in terms of volume of sales, but does it keep you from checking the new lists? With the promise of an entire collection being placed for sale, I'd think that curiosity alone would keep the level of page views up. Good deal! I'll keep refreshing my browser in anticipation. <refresh> Not yet. <refresh> Nope.

All I'm saying is that they are mostly just hanging around the postseason chase; its not like he's put them in a great position. Mostly he's kept them in contention because without him they're nowhere, yet with him, they may make golf reservations in October anyway.

Up for more sales, and a few riddles, like, Check out the page views for the various threads: A-B: 1911 C-F: 2169 G-L: 1241 M-Q: 985 R-Comps: 603 Potpourri: 299 Extra Stupendous Sale: 444 I can't get over how page views peaked early on and then steadily declined - is this a function of the time of year, with more people on vacation? Did people lose interest once they got a peak at what was being offered? It really surprises me to realize that without a particular person in NYC, this sale would have been a resounding failure. Then there's this riddle: Why the heck is there no interest in two early 90s BN reissues that to my knowledge have never been out domestically since: Kenny Drew, Talkin & Walkin' Paul Chambers, Chamber's Music, which happens to feature Coltrane Is there no demand because CDRs went far and wide in the past? Are the blogs and b-t sites all over these discs? I can understand if people aren't so keen on TOCJs of Smithville or Sunday Mornin' - they've been out as domestic RVGs and aren't nearly as rare as they used to be. But I really figured these would go when first listed, and yet there they are, still.

Yes but what has he really done for them aside from keep them from falling even further out of the division race, and possibly out of the wild card, too?

Added a rare UK Jack McDuff two-fer (I have no idea how I missed it the first time

I'm up to date for the moment on PMs, but would like to call everybody's attention to the Special Weather Statement that has been added to the first post.

Quit yur bitchin! You won the game, you have one of the biggest leads of the season. You wanna talk infuriating? How about having your ace (in name only because he's pitching like 2007 was the fluke and 2006 is the reality) give up NINE FUCKING RUNS en route to a pathetic 15-4 shellacking at the hands one of the crappiest offenses in the majors, to complete a sweep at home and leave you with no wild card lead at all? That's fucking infuriating.

OK, its time to take one more whack at the prices. Will this be it? In all likelihood, yes. Every remaining CD is listed below Discounts have been applied to Mini-LP, Small Boxes and digi-packs. Take an additional $1 off all discs listed in the A to Compilations section Same deal as before for shipping - $2.50 is the base charge for padded mailers, if you buy 1-4 or so, expect to pay an additional $2-3. Otherwise, exact shipping charges will be quoted. Foreign shipping will be as quoted. Because of the discounts applied to the price of the CDs, Paypal users will be charged a fee of 3%. Paypal is still encouraged, but I'd like to minimize my losses, and really the fee isn't much to pass on but it adds up with the volume of sales. Jewel boxes are available in extremely limited quantities at an additional cost of $1 each. Please do not submit offers, this discount program is the approach I am taking to clear out the balance of my CDs. And before we get on to the list, a message for all package recipients of the past week and the coming few days: There is a missing set of Horace Silver inserts which I believe got stuck together and shipped to the wrong buyer. Please check your packages carefully and send me a PM if you find it. Thanks! TAKE AN ADDITIONAL DOLLAR OFF OF ALL PRICES IN THE A THROUGH COMP SECTION A Cannonball Adderley with Milt Jackson, Things Are Getting Better (OJC) $6 NOW $4 Presenting Cannonball Adderley (Savoy) $6 NOW $4 Cannonball Adderely, Somethin' Else (Blue Note RVG) $6 NOW $4 Eric Allison, After Hours (Fantasy) $6 NOW $4 Gene Ammons & Sonny Stitt, Boss Tenors (Verve) $6 NOW $4 Louis Armstrong, Satch Plays Fats (the older reissue in the "Columbia Jazz Masterpieces" series) $5 NOW $3 B Count Basie at Newport (Verve) $6 NOW $4 Count Basie April in Paris (Verve) $6 NOW $4 George Benson, Compact Jazz (Verve) $6 NOW $4 With Herbie Hancock on most tracks Art Blakey/Dr. John/Fathead Newman, Bluesiana Triangle (Windham Hill) $5 NOW $3 to hear Art sing! Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers, Live in the 50s (Jazz Band) $7 NOW $5 Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, Caravan (OJC) $6 NOW $4 Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, Paris Jazz Concert (RTE - Europe 1) two disc set $12 NOW $9 Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers Part 2 (Giants of Jazz) $5 NOW $3 Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers, The Art of Jazz (In & Out Records) $10 NOW $8 Art Blakey, The Sound of Jazz (Dureco Holland) $6 NOW $4 Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers, Hard Bop/Paris Concert (Collectables) $6 NOW $4 Art Blakey, Compact Jazz (Verve) (includes tracks from some of the Limelight albums) $6 NOW $4 Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, Mosaic (Blue Note) $6 NOW $4 Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, Indestructible (Blue Note) $6 NOW $4 Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, One for All (A&M) $6 NOW $4 Don Braden, Organic (Columbia) $6 NOW $4 Tina Brooks, True Blue (Blue Note) $6 NOW $4 Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, American Music, Texas Style (Polygram) $6 NOW $4 Charles Brown, So Goes Love (Verve) $6 NOW $4 Ray Brown-Herb Ellis, After You've Gone (Concord Collector's Series) $5 NOW $3 Ray Brown Trio, Live at Scullers (Telarc) $6 NOW $4 Ray Brown Trio, Live at Starbucks (Telarc) $6 NOW $4 Ray Brown/Monty Alexander/Russell Malone (Telarc) $6 NOW $4 Ray Brown, Producer's Choice (Telarc) $6 NOW $4 Ray Brown Trio, Some of My Best Friends are Guitarists (Telarc) $6 NOW $4 Ray Brown/Monty Alexander/Johnny Griffin/Martin Drew, Summer Wind (Kingston World) $9 NOW $7 Never saw this before or since but its an excellent session recorded in 1980, released in 1998) Tom Browne, Another Shade of Browne (Hip Bop) $6 NOW $4 Interesting record by a guy who made R&B/funk recordings, became a pilot then decided he was a hard bop player all along. Javon Jackson, Larry Goldings and Idris Muhammad are in support. Jimmy Bruno Trio with Scott Hamilton, Live at Birdland II (Concord) $6 NOW $4 Donald Byrd, Byrd in Flight (Blue Note) $6 NOW $4 Donald Byrd, At the Half Note Cafe Volume 1 (Blue Note, 1987) $6 NOW $4 Donald Byrd, At the Half Note Cafe Volume 2 (Blue Note 1987) $6 NOW $4 Donald Byrd, Fuego (Blue Note) $6 NOW $4 C Bennny Carter, New York Nights (MusicMasters) $6 NOW $4 Benny Carter All-Star Sax Ensemble (MusicMasters) $6 NOW $4 Benny Carter, Elegy in Blue, (MusicMasters) $6 NOW $4 Benny Carter, Harlem Renaissance (MusicMasters) 2 discs, $12 NOW $9 Benny Carter, In The Mood For Swing (with Dizzy) Musical Heritage Society (Jazz Heritage Club disc) $5 NOW $3 Benny Carter/The American Jazz Orchestra (MusicMasters) $6 NOW $4 Benny Carter/Phil Woods, My Man Benny, My Man Phil (MusicMasters) $6 NOW $4 Benny Carter, Songbook (MusicMasters) $5 NOW $3 Paul Chambers Quintet (BN) $7 NOW $5 Paul Chambers, Whims of Chambers (BN) $7 NOW $5 Ray Charles, Blues + Jazz (Atlantic) two disc, $12 NOW $8 Ray Charles, Ain't That Fine (Drive Archive) $6 NOW $4 Best of Ray Charles The Atlantic Years (Atlantic) $5 NOW $3 Sonny Clark, Cool Struttin (BN RVG) $6 NOW $4 Buck Clayton Swings The Village (Nagel Heyer) $7 NOW $5 Nat King Cole, After Midnight (Capitol) $7 NOW $5 Kenny Burrell with John Coltrane (OJC) $6 NOW $4 John Coltrane, Traneing In (OJC) $6 NOW $4 Ultimate Blue Train (BN) $6 NOW $4 John Coltrane, Soultrane (OJC) $6 NOW $4 Milt Jackson & John Coltrane, Bags & Trane (Atlantic) $7 NOW $5 John Coltrane, Coltrane Plays The Blues (Atlantic) $7 NOW $5 Harry Connick Jr, When Harry Met Sally (Columbia) $4 NOW $2 Harry Connick Jr, We Are In Love (Columbia) $4 NOW $2 D Jesse Davis, From Within (Concord) $6 NOW $4 Miles Davis, Quintet, (Giants of Jazz) $5 NOW $2 Miles Davis - Art Blakey's Jazz Messenger, Nouvelle Vague (Phillips) $8 NOW $5 Miles Davis, At Newport 1958 (Columbia) $6 NOW $4 Miles Davis, Kind of Blue (Columbia) $6 NOW $4 Miles Davis, The New Miles Davis Quintet (OJC) $6 NOW $4 Miles Davis, Volume 1 (BN RVG) $6 NOW $4 Lou Donaldson, A Man with a Horn (Blue Note) $8 NOW $6 Lou Donaldson, Lush Life (Creative Sounds - BN) $4 NOW $2 Lou Donaldson Quartet (Chiaroscuro) $8 NOW $6 Lou Donaldson, Gravy Train (BN) $7 NOW $5 Lou Donaldson, Blues Walk (BN) $7 NOW $5 E Frank Wess - Harry Edison Orchestra, Dear Mr. Basie (Concord) $6 NOW $4 Sonny, Sweets, and Jaws (Who's Who) (Eddie Higgins is on piano) $6 NOW $4 Harry Sweets Edison and the Golden Horns Live at the Iridium (Telarc) $6 NOW $4 Harry Edison & Charlie Shavers, Complete At Midnight & At Riverside Sessions (One of the Andorran labels) $8 NOW $6 F Art Farmer, Live at Stanford Jazz Workshop (Monarch) $7 NOW $5 Ella Fitzgerald, Pure Ella (Decca) $6 NOW $4 Ella Fitzgerald, These Are The Blues (Verve) $8 NOW $5 Ella Fitzgerald, All That Jazz (Pablo) $6 NOW $4 Ella & Louis Sings Gershwin, Our Love Is Here To Stay (Verve) $5 NOW $3 Ella Fitzgerald, The Intimate Ella (Verve) $8 NOW $5 Ella & Louis (Laserlight) $5 NOW $3 G Red Garland Revisited (OJC) $6 NOW $4 Jay Geils Plays Jazz! (Stony Plain) $6 NOW $4 Stan Getz and the Oscar Peterson Trio, The Silver Collection (Verve) $6 NOW $4 Dizzy Gillespie/Sonny Stitt/Sonny Rollins, Sunny Side Up (Verve) $6 NOW $4 Babs Gonzales, Voila (Fresh Sound) $9 NOW $6 Dexter Gordon, Gettin' Around (BN) $7 NOW $5 Dexter Gordon, Dexter Calling (BN) $7 NOW $5 Dexter Gordon, Those Were The Days (Moon) $8 NOW $6 Dexter Gordon, Doin Allright (BN) $7 NOW $5 Dexter Gordon. Daddy Plays The Blues (Affinity) $6 NOW $4 Dexter Gordon at Montreux With Junior Mance (Prestige) $6 NOW $4 Dexter Gordon, The Jumpin' Blues (OJC) $6 NOW $4 Dexter Gordon, Clubhouse (BN) $6 NOW $4 Dexter Gordon, One Flight Up (BN) $7 NOW $5 Dexter Gordon, A Swingin' Affair (BN) $7 NOW $5 Bennie Green Swings the Blues (one of the Andorran labels) $7 NOW $5 Bennie Green, Soul Stirrin' (BN) $8 NOW $6 Benny Green, That's Right (BN) $7 NOW $5 Benny Green, Greens (Blue Note) $6 NOW $4 Benny Green, Naturally (Telarc Jazz Promo) $6 NOW $4 Bunky Green Sextet (Fresh Sound) $8 NOW $6 Grant Green, Talkin' About (BN Promo) $6 NOW $4 Grant Green, Grant's First Stand (BN) $7 NOW $5 Grant Green, Green Street (BN) $7 NOW $5 Grant Green, Standards (BN) $7 NOW $5 Grant Green, Green Street (BN) $7 NOW $5 Grant Green, Idle Moments (BN RVG) $7 NOW $5 Grant Green, Sunday Mornin' (TOCJ) $12 NOW $9 Grant Green, I Want to Hold Your Hand (BN) $7 NOW $5 A Tribute to Grant Green (Evidence) $7 NOW $5 H Scott Hamilton with Strings (Concord) $6 NOW $4 Scott Hamilton, Radio City (Concord Promo) $6 NOW $4 Gerry Mulligan Meets Scott Hamilton, Soft Lights and Sweet Music (Concord) $7 NOW $5 Scott Hamilton - Bucky Pizzarelli Remember Zoot Sims, The Red Door (Concord) $6 NOW $4 Scott Hamilton Live in London (Concord Promo) $6 NOW $4 Tardo Hammer, Hammer Time (Sharp Nine) $7 NOW $5 Herbie Hancock, Takin' Off (BN) $7 NOW $5 Herbie Hancock, Maiden Voyage (RVG) $7 NOW $5 Roy Hargrove with the Tenors of Our Time (Verve) $7 NOW $5 Roy Hargrove, Family (Verve) $7 NOW $5 The Harper Brothers, Remembrance (Verve) $7 NOW $5 The Harper Brothers, Artistry (Verve) $7 NOW $5 Philip Harper, the thirteenth Moon (Muse) $7 NOW $5 Winard Harper, Be Yourself (Sony) $7 NOW $5 Live at the 1990 Concord Jazz Festival First Set (Gene Harris led the band) Concord - $6 NOW $4 The Best of the Three Sounds (BN) $5 NOW $3 Gene Harris, Listen Here! (Concord) $7 NOW $5 Gene Harris Trio + 1 (with Stanley Turrentine) $7 NOW $5 Niki Harris & Friends (Gene Harris' daughter and Madonna's long-time back up singer, most of the disc she is backed by her Father singing standards - and you'd never guess she's sung backup for Madonna) $6 NOW $3 Antonio Hart, For the First Time (Novus) $6 NOW $4 Antonio Hart, For Cannonball and Woody (Novus) $6 NOW $4 David Hazletine featuring Slide Hampton, Four Flights Up (Sharp Nine) $7 NOW $5 Joe Henderson, Mode For Joe (BN 1987) $7 NOW $5 Joe Henderson, In 'n Out (BN) $8 NOW $6 Joe Henderson, Page One (BN 1987) $7 NOW $5 Andrew Hill, Black Fire (BN) $7 NOW $5 Andrew Hill, Grass Roots (BN) $8 NOW $5 Freddie Hubbard, Open Sesame (BN) $8 NOW $5 Freddie Hubbard, Ready for Freddie (BN) $8 NOW $5 Freddie Hubbard, Hub -Tones (BN 1987) $7 NOW $5 J Milt Jackson Quartet (OJC) $6 NOW $4 Etta James, Time After Time (Private Music) $6 NOW $4 Etta James, Mystery Lady (Private Music) $6 NOW $4 JJ Johnson, The Eminent Jay Jay Johnson (Best Selection - BN) $4 NOW $2 Quincy Jones, Jump For Jones (Forever Music) $4 NOW $2 Clifford Jordan and John Gilmore, Blowing in From Chicago (BN) $8 NOW $6 Duke Jordan, Flight To Jordan (BN 1987) $7 NOW $5 K Wynton Kelly, Piano (OJC) $6 NOW $4 Diana Krall, Only Trust Your Heart (GRP) $6 NOW $4 Diana Krall, Stepping Out (GRP) $6 NOW $4 M Russell Malone, Look Who's Here (Verve) $7 NOW $5 Delfeayo Marsalis, Pontius Pilate's Decision (Columbia) $6 NOW $4 Wynton Marsalis, Thick in the South (Columbia) $6 NOW $4 Wynton Marsalis, Uptown Ruler (Columbia) $6 NOW $4 Wynton Marsalis, Levee Low Moan (Columbia) $6 NOW $4 Wynton Marsalis, Standard Time Volume 1 (Columbia) $6 NOW $4 Wynton Marsalis, Standard Time Volume 2 Intimacy Calling (Columbia) $6 NOW $4 Wynton Marsalis, Standard Time Volume 3 The Resolution of Romance (Columbia) $6 NOW $4 Wynton Marsalis, Standard Time Volume 5 The Midnight Blues (Columbia) $6 NOW $4 Wynton Marsalis, J Mood (Columbia) $5 NOW $3 Wynton & Ellis Marsalis, Joe Cool's Blues (Columbia) $6 NOW $4 Christian McBride, Gettin To It (Verve) $7 NOW $5 Christian McBride/Nicholas Payton/Mark Whitfield, fingerpainting, the music of Herbie Hancock (Verve) $7 NOW $5 $9 if you buy both Brother Jack McDuff - Hot Barbeque - Live (UK label licensed from Fantasy) $10 NOW $7 Jackie McLean, New Soil (BN) $7 NOW $5 Jackie McLean, Vertigo (BN) $8 NOW $5 Jackie McLean, Jackie's Bag (BN) $7 NOW $5 Marian McPartland Plays the Benny Carter Songbook (Benny guests) (Concord) $8 NOW $5 Jay McShann, Some Blues (Chiaruscoro) $8 NOW $6 Jay McShann, My Baby With the Black Dress On (Chiarusocoro) $8 NOW $6 Jay McShann, Paris All-Star Blues, A Tribute to Charlie Parker (Music masters) $8 NOW $6 Jay McShann with Duke Robillard and Maria Muldaur, Still Jumpin the Blues (Stony Plain) $7 NOW $5 Mulgrew Miller, Work! (Landmark) $6 NOW $4 Mulgrew Miller, Hand to Hand (Novus) $7 NOW $5 Charles Mingus, New Tijuana Moods (Bluebird) $6 NOW $4 Hank Mobley, Poppin' (TOCJ) $12 NOW $9 Hank Mobley, Roll Call (BN) $7 NOW $5 Hank Mobley, Peckin' Time (BN) $8 NOW $5 Hank Mobley, Hi Voltage (BN) $8 NOW $5 Hank Mobley, Reach Out (BN) $6 NOW $4 Hank Mobley, Straight No Filter (BN) $7 NOW $5 Hank Mobley, The Turnaround (RVG Promo) $6 NOW $4 Tenor Conclave Grand Central - A Tribute to Hank Mobley (Ravi Coltrane/Craig Handy/Billy Childs/Dwayne Burno/Cindy Blackman in the band) (Evidence) $7 NOW $5 Modern Jazz Quartet, For Ellington (East-West) $7 NOW $5 MJQ & Friends - 40th Anniversary Celebration (Atlantic) $7 NOW $5 Thelonious Monk, Brilliant Corners (OJC) $6 NOW $4 Thelonious Monk, Misterioso (OJC) $6 NOW $4 Thelonious Monk, Thelonious in Action (OJC) $6 NOW $4 Thelonious Monk, Epistrophy (Eclipse Music) $6 NOW $4 Thelonious Monk, Genius Of Modern Music Volume 1 (BN 1987) $6 NOW $4 Thelonious Monk, Genius of Modern Music Volume 2 (BN 1987) $6 NOW $4 Thelonious Monk, (Giants of Jazz) $5 NOW $2 Thelonious Monk, Live at the It Club Complete (Columbia) two discs, $13 NOW $8 Thelonious Monk, Paris Jazz Concert Volume 1 (Malaco Classics) $6 NOW $4 Thelonious Monk, Solo Monk (Columbia) $6 NOW $4 Thelonious Monk, Big Band and Quartet in Concert (Columbia) two discs, $13 NOW $8 Wes Montgomery, Boss Guitar (OJC) $6 NOW $4 Wes Montgomery, Full House (OJC) $6 NOW $4 Wes Montgomery, The Incredible Jazz Guitar (OJC) $6 NOW $4 Native Colours, One World (Concord) (Ralph Moore, Rene Rosnes led group) $7 NOW $5 Lee Morgan, The Procrastinator (TOCJ) $14 (rare CD with two BN sessions) NOW $10 Lee Morgan, Tom Cat (BN) $8 NOW $6 Lee Morgan, The Rumproller (BN) $8 NOW $6 Lee Morgan, Delightfulee (BN) $8 NOW $6 Lee Morgan, The Sidewinder (BN) $6 NOW $4 Lee Morgan, Standards (BN) $8 NOW $5 N Oliver Nelson, Blues and the Abstract Truth (Impulse) $6 NOW $4 David "Fathead" Newman, Mr Gentle, Mr Cool, A Tribute to Duke Ellington (Kokopelli) $7 NOW $5 David "Fathead" Newman, Fire, Live at the Village Vanguard (Atlantic) $8 NOW $6 O Harold Ousley, Grit-Gittin' Feelin' (Delmark) $7 NOW $5 P Eddie Palmieri, Palmas (Elektra-Nonesuch) $7 NOW $5 (Brian Lynch is in band) Charlie Parker with Strings, The Master Takes (Verve) $7 NOW $5 John Patton, Along Came John (BN) $7 NOW $5 Nicholas Payton, From this Moment (Verve) $7 NOW $5 Nicholas Payton, Nick@Night (Verve) $7 NOW $5 Nicholas Payton, Payton's Place (Verve) $7 NOW $5 Art Pepper Meets The Rhythm Section (OJC) $6 NOW $4 Oscar Peterson Meets Roy Hargrove and Ralph Moore (Telarc Jazz) $7 NOW $5 Oscar Peterson, The More I see You (Telarc Jazz) $7 NOW $5 John Pizzarelli, After Hours (RCA) $5 NOW $3 Marcus Printup, Unveiled (BN) $7 NOW $5 Marcus Printup, Nocturnal Traces (BN) $7 NOW $5 Marcus Printup, The New Boogaloo (nagel Heyer) $7 NOW $5 R Joshua Redman, MoodSwing (Warner Brothers) $6 NOW $4 Joshua Redman, self-titled (Warner Brothers) $6 NOW $4 Dizzy Reece, Comin' On (BN) $8 NOW $6 Barry Ries, Solitude in the Crowd (Double Time, with Michael Cochrane) $7 NOW $5 Marcus Roberts, As Serenity Approaches (Novus) $7 NOW $5 Marcus Roberts, Gershwin for Lovers (Columbia) $7 NOW $5 Marcus Roberts, Alone with Three Giants (Novus) $7 NOW $5 Marcus Roberts, Cole After Midnight (Columbia) $7 NOW $5 Marcus Roberts, The Truth is Spoken Here (Novus) $7 NOW $5 Marcus Roberts, Blues for the New Millenium (Columbia) $7 NOW $5 Marcus Roberts, Deep in the Shed (Novus) $7 NOW $5 Sonny Rollins, Volume 2 (BN) $6 NOW $4 Sonny Rollins Plus 4 (OJC) $6 NOW $4 S Wayne Shorter, Night Dreamer (BN) $7 NOW $5 Wayne Shorter, Speak No Evil (RVG) $7 NOW $5 Wayne Shorter, Adam's Apple (BN) $7 NOW $5 Wayne Shorter, JuJu (BN) $7 NOW $5 Horace Silver, Serenade to a Soul Sister (BN) $7 NOW $5 Horace Silver, Horace-Scope (BN) $7 NOW $5 Horace Silver, Silver's Serenade (BN) $7 NOW $5 Horace Silver, Blowin the Blues Away (RVG) $7 NOW $5 Horace Silver, Song For My Father (BN) $6 NOW $4 Horace Silver Trio (BN) $6 NOW $4 Horace Silver, Six Pieces of Silver (BN) $7 NOW $5 Horace Silver, The Cape Verdean Blues (BN) $7 NOW $5 Horace Silver, Doin the Thing (BN) $7 NOW $5 Nat Simpkins, Cookin with Some Barbeque (Muse, rare disc with Gloria Coleman) $9 NOW $6 Frank Sinatra - Count Basie (Reprise) $6 NOW $4 Carol Sloane and Clark Terry, The Songs Ella and Louis Sang (Concord) $6 NOW $4 Jimmy Smith, Prayer Meetin' (BN) $7 NOW $5 Jimmy Smith, Midnight Special (BN) $7 NOW $5 Jimmy Smith, Back at the Chicken Shack (BN) $7 NOW $5 Jimmy Smith, dot com blues (Verve) $6 NOW $4 Jimmy Smith at the Organ Volume 3 (TOCJ Mono) $12 NOW $9 Jimmy Smith, Cool Blues (RVG) $7 NOW $5 Lonnie Smith, Think! (BN) $7 NOW $5 Louis Smith, Smithville (TOCJ Mono) $12 NOW $9 Louis Smith, Here Comes Louis Smith (BN) $8 NOW $6 James Spaulding, Blues Nexus (Muse) $8 NOW $6 Mary Stallings, Spectrum (Concord) $7 NOW $4 Sonny Stitt, The Last Stitt Sessions (Muse) $7 NOW $5 Sonny Stitt, the Good Life (Evidence) $7 NOW $5 Superblue 2 (BN) $8 NOW $6 T Art Tatum, Tatum Group Masterpieces Volume 5 (Pablo) $7 NOW $5 Art Taylor, A.T.'s Delight (BN) $7 NOW $5 Robert Trowers, Point of View (with Al Grey, Slide Hampton Fred Wesley) (Concord) $7 NOW $4 (tray card has tear in spine) Steve Turre, in the Spur of the Moment ( Telarc Jazz) $6 NOW $4 Norris Turney, Big Sweet N' Blue (Mapleshade) $8 NOW $6 Stanley Turrentine, Flipped (Drive Archive) $8 NOW $5 Stanley Turrentine, The Look of Love (Creative Sounds - that screwed up reissue program of BN titles) $7 NOW $5 Stanley Turrentine, Never Let Me Go (BN) $7 NOW $5 Stanley Turrentine, The Spoiler (BN) $7 NOW $5 Stanley Turrentine, More Than A Mood (BN) $7 NOW $5 Stanley Turrentine, Rough 'n tumble (BN) $7 NOW $5 Stanley Turrentine, Joyride (BN) $7 NOW $5 McCoy Tyner, Tender Moments (BN) $6 NOW $4 W Cedar Walton, As Long as there's Music (Muse) $7 NOW $5 Ernie Watts, Classic Moods (JVC) $6 NOW $4 Ben Webster, Ballads and Blues (Laser) $6 NOW $4 Ben Webster, Soulville (Verve) $7 NOW $5 Ben Webster and Sweets Edison, Ben and Sweets (Columbia) $6 NOW $4 Mark Whitefield, 7th Ave Stroll (Verve) $7 NOW $5 Joe Williams, In Good Company (Verve) $7 NOW $5 Joe Williams and Friends (Spotlight) $7 NOW $5 Joe Williams, Ballads and Blues Master (Verve) $7 NOW $5 Joe Williams with the Count Basie Orchestra Directed by Frank Foster (Telarc) $7 NOW $5 Joe Williams, Nothin but the blues (Delos) $7 NOW $5 Joe Williams, Having the Blues Under a European Sky (LRC) $6 NOW $4 Tony Williams, Story of Neptune (BN) $6 NOW $4 Rickey Woodard, The Silver Strut (Concord promo) $6 NOW $4 Phil Woods/Vincent Herring/Antonio Hart, Alto Summit (Milestone) $7 NOW $5 Y Lester Young in Washington D.C. 1956 (Pablo) $7 NOW $5 Compilations Tough Young Tenors Alone Together (Antilles) $6 NOW $4 Newport Jazz Festival 1958 - July 3rd-6th - Mostly Miles with Lee Konitz and Horace Silver (Phontastic) $8 NOW $5 Essence of Funk (Hip Bop Essence) - Tom Browne, Donald Harrison, Bennie Maupin - $6 NOW $4 Mini-LPs: ADDITIONAL DISCOUNTS HAVE BEEN APPLIED TO THE REMAINING MINI-LPs, SMALL BOXES AND DIGI-PACKS Johnny Griffin, JG (Argo with weird split in the middle cover design and OBI) $16 NOW $10 Stanley Turrentine with the Three Sounds, Blue Hour (JRVG, with OBI) $16 NOW $10 Lou Donaldson, The Natural Soul (JRVG with OBI) $15 NOW $9 Clifford Brown All-Stars (EmArcy) $15 NOW $9 Oscar Peterson Trio + 1 Clark Terry (Mercury) $15 NOW $9 "Small" Box Sets Digi-Packs Legacy Lives On (Mack Avenue) two discs - $15 NOW $8 Laverne Butler, Blues in the City (MaxJazz) $7 NOW $4 Darrell Grant, Twilight Stories (32 Jazz) $6 NOW $3 Sonny Stitt, The Champ (32 Jazz) $7 NOW $4 Sonny Stitt, Best of the Rest (32 Jazz) $7 NOW $4 Diana Krall, All For You (Impulse) $6 NOW $3 Lavay Smith and Her RedHot Skillet Lickers, Everybody's Talkin' Bout Miss Thing $6 NOW $3 Diana Krall, Love Scenes (Impulse) $6 NOW $3 Karrin Allyson, in Blue (Concord) $7 NOW $4 Milt Jackson, Early Modern (Savoy) $8 NOW $5 Benny Green & Russell Malone, Jazz at the Bistro (Telarc) $7 NOW $4 John Coltrane, Ballads (Impulse) $6 NOW $3 Kenny Burrell, Laid Back (32 Jazz) $7 NOW $4 Ray Bryant, Somewhere in France (Label M) $7 NOW $4 Art Blakey, Paris Jam Session (Verve) $7 NOW $4

Well, the obvious way is to ask Youk to play LF, and send Jason Bay away. Bay is signed at a reasonable cost for one more year and is obviously an all-around talent. Shouldn't be too hard to move him. Of course that also requires asking Youk to move to LF, where its a given that his skills will not be nearly as good as they are in the infield corners, beyond the fact that its really pretty disrespectful of a reigning Gold Glove first baseman. If the team is serious about getting younger though, they should keep Bay, move Youk to third and figure out a way to send Mikey Lowell away. Of the three, I think he's the weakest offensively, and more likely to decline going forward. Make no mistake, I like Lowell a lot, but keeping Bay and Youk and adding Teix to a team that is otherwise very young (Jacoby, Pedroia, Lowrie) would give us an extraordinary group of every day players to go with a great group of young or in their prime starters. Dynasty city! And a great contrast with the Yankees who are still lacking in the ability to deliver major league quality position players and will most likely keep running Damon, Abreu and the rapidly aging Jeter, Posada and A-Rod out there. Our only "aging" problem would be Tek, if they keep him, and Drew, who isn't in his decline phase yet but will be by the time that contract expires.

Hey, it is what it is. I smell another three-game sweep around the corner. ... So, do you ever feel like just giving up guessing what the Rangers will do??? Glad to see one of the 5 guys from the Tex trade (Harrison) is starting to pay off....I bet by the time all is said and done, it's going to look like that Boof Bonser, Francisco Liriano, and Joe Nathan for A.J. Pierzynski trade, I betya.... And wasn't it the "veteran ace" that Al hates who threw the shutout, or at least pitched shutout ball? Its the beauty of baseball - the crappier you look, the more likely it is that a win is coming. The Yankees can explain it in great detail, as they've had great practice looking crappy.

Well I was pretty pissed at the Royals, and then the Twins, and then Paul Byrd but then I brightened up a little because of the Rangers. But no expletives were deleted.

I honestly didn't pay that much attention, I just knew that something was being inserted where it ought not to be. But I'm glad you're doing well, and I can at least identify with the idea of something being inserted there, if not actually the sensation.

Reminds me of when I was in the recovery room after the bone marrow donation procedure. I was kind of slow to recover from the spinal anesthesia but I had a somewhat full bladder. So the nurse had to catheterize me. Its really no problem if you still have spinal anesthesia in you. Too bad that's not an option if its only a five minute procedure otherwise.

And don't forget, the trading deadline used to be BEFORE the all-star break! (Mid-June, if I recall correctly) Before my time (or at least before I paid this much attention). I won't comment on what that would make you.

Congratulations and Best Wishes to the happy couple, Ed!

Waivers are definitely set up to encourage the non-movement of players. The idea is to keep it from being easy for a contender to improve their team, and I think that's a good thing. Remember too that players who are not on the roster as of August 31 (or September 1, can't remember which) are ineligible for post-season play. Something else that keeps a good team from getting better, or leaves them more at the mercy of their competition. But the idea of blocking players goes back a ways, and its what makes the non-waiver deadline of the last day of July at 4 PM ET an important part of the season.

The Rays have come too far to miss the playoffs! - and to do that and let the Yanks get in would require that they play one game under .500 while the Yanks play .700+ the rest of the way. Of course I wouldn't mind if the Rays struggle and the Sox can catch them, then they'd at least have home field for the first round while the Rays can deal with the Halos. At least the Rays should do OK this weekend against the Rangers, if they pitch a little and hit a little (easier to do the latter) (sorry Al). But then they get the Angels, so hopefully we'll close the gap by this time next week.

Alex has changed his view of the afterlife?

Actually, don't they have Beckett, Dice-K, Lester, Buchholz and Masterson all under their control for at least two years? And of course Wakefield has a lifetime contract; if he doesn't have any lingering shoulder issues, I'd expect them to pick up the next option year. That would put one of Buccholz and Masterson as the sixth starter, and Bowden backing him up. Really there is no reason to go after a back of the rotation guy unless they really want added depth. The bigger issue going forward is replacing Manny's production, and I think they will make a very hard play for Teixeira, with Bay or, less likely, Youk, on the trading bloc if they're successful.

Actually I think the system is perfect as it is and would even say that if our positions were switched. It would be kind of silly if you could block a move and then the guy could go back on waivers - there'd be no point to the waiver process then. But by doing it in order of record, and for your league before the other, it gives teams that are chasing the ability to block moves that may help the team you are chasing. So better teams can't automatically get better if they can work a deal, lower teams can make blocking maneuvers. We'll see if teams like the Yankees letting Byrd slip through comes back to haunt them.