Dan Gould

I'll just say "examples, please" to try to get a handle on what you are saying. To me, vocal inflections are akin to good acting vs bad acting. Or, if you will, the choices that actors make during a performance. We're also getting beyond recorded evidence unless you believe that performers inflected the same every single time. So ... examples?

If the established inability of the Red Sox to ever rise past 7 games over .500 weren't enough I just jumped ahead to September's schedule. They got six total against bad teams (KC and the White Sox) And the rest against the Orioles, Rays, Rangers, Blue Jays and Yankees. Their best finish is in front of the Yankees, if that team never wakes up. .

That's the kind of secrecy that actually gives me hope that something might be afoot and that not only will you eventually be able to discuss but that we might also be able to see and discuss ourselves.

So it sounds like there are two different archives you are accessing?

Glad you've enjoyed him so much. I always thought Douglas Lawrence described him best, in the piece he gave me for the website: "He deserved much more recognition than he ever got. No one deserves to be heard more than Percy France. Especially in today's world of playing notes just to play notes. Percy never played a note he didn't mean. He never played a solo he didn't mean. He was always for real."

If there was ever time the Yankees need Luis Severino to regain his form it is surely tonight. Given recent results it might take a miracle.

On what would have been his 95th birthday, new youtube uploads from the Gaskin Papers plus a photo recently received from the Smithsonian of Percy at a surprise b-day party in 1989. Phil Schaap's copious head of hair can also be seen. Leonard Gaskin Papers, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution

As a Cub fan by birth and Sox fan by choice, hatred of both NY franchises comes very naturally. The Mets fall from $350 million dollar payroll is just a beautiful thing and the possibility of both teams missing the playoffs would be a great thing to see. That Yankee collapse at Miami is the kind of thing that can send a team into a spiral, and playing Atlanta can do it regardless.

Could the Yankees limp into their weekend "nobody cares but the fanbases" showdown with the Sox under .500 courtesy of the Braves? I don't know but hope springs eternal! (This is where I really miss the green smiley with the eat-shit grin that didn't return with the last upgrade)

I think the key question is how many were ordered up front to qualify as fast. If it were a thousand up front I'd agree.

CD title is Homage. Trio per the cover. And not available until late October and possibly streaming/download only? That would be disappointing because I don't care how the world evolves around me I am still an "actual object" kinda guy.

I thought it was known, at least around here, that the episode where George gets himself hired by the Yankees by "doing the opposite" has lines lifted directly from "the tapes" in the scene where he stands up to the jerks sitting behind him and his date at the movies.

Thanks for posting that

This is second in the "Jordi Sunol Archive" series on Storyville ... first was a Phil Woods. Sunol is a still-active promoter in Spain who gifted me some Percy France recordings. I think in some ways this series can really be chalked up as a benefit of Covid as he started working on digitizing his archive while lockdowns were in place. I wonder what may be next on the release schedule.

I do not quite agree with the "malpractice" assertion here ... we ought to recognize that players have a lot of responsibility here to report what is going on in their heads. And other than some short period ago mentioning "fogginess" I don't see where Rizzo let anyone know anything about how his head was functioning. And it does seem like "oh now that you mention it, sometimes I'd forget the number of outs, and I started feeling tired but I figured it was the daily grind of a long season." Well, I would expect a 12 or 13 year veteran to know exactly how tired he can expect to feel in June, and in July and in August. If it were indistinguishable than its not really a symptom. And again, did he or did he not tell anyone. There's also the fact of guaranteed contracts in MLB meaning no one is "right behind you trying to take your job" the way it is/was in football. Last but not least, "forgetting how to hit" happens to nearly everyone in the game at one point or another and I do believe that he has been on an offensive downswing typical of people in their decline years. In fact I expected that his decline years would get hidden a little bit by playing 1/2 his games in that ridiculous park. Failure to "take care of your players"? OK, maybe but "malpractice" ... not proven to me.

I've always agreed with that sentiment.

Ok but not the entire session.

This is a little shocking: https://www.mlb.com/news/anthony-rizzo-injured-list-concussion When I saw the headline I assumed something had happened in the last game or two but this is from May 28, also the point where his bat went to sleep. Measurable "cognitive impairment" this long after? This is some serious shit

There is the Blues for Tatum session that I do not expect will ever see the light of day. I think a Lee Morgan 60s box would consist of what was issued in the CD era and that's it.

So wait a sec, my info was wrong but I get detention? My Daddy is going to talk to the principal.

We should take note that NBC has an expert who says it IS a Sun Bear. And if it really is 104 F when those photos were taken it does seem unlikely that a human could stay outside wearing a bear suit made out of fur.

Finally some clues that allow me to do some sleuthing. Track 7 is from this, track 6. I thought seriously about using this CD for my last BFT until it fell out of eligibility when I settled on the theme. Jim's "Young Lions" comment sealed the deal for what I knew it had to be. Of course anyone can come up with #13 given the ID of Woods and Griff. Last track of this. Wondering if I also have number 3 since I've been known to enjoy the plagiarists as much as the originators, if they are pleasing to my ears.

Meaning the Astros are unbeatable with Verlander back? I wouldn't necessarily go that far.

A tad more mellow BFT than usual? Felt that way to me ... anyway terrible at guesses so will refrain almost entirely. Tenor on 2 had a lot of appeal, and 5-6-7-8 were all winners here. Off the wall guess but if I were to hold it back and be wrong I'd be upset, so: Sweets Edison on number 5.

Thom pulled it out of the folder and it is at the top. I just got number 4 to play by reloading the screen and playing from the file at the top of the list.