Dan Gould

True, I was responding to your general advice to use the audio outputs from the DVD player; if your DVD will only play on the PC, that's not going to work.

Jack, when I've included pictures with my answers to a BFT, I've just linked to images online in the usual manner (seventh button over on the second row, if you haven't actually done it before). I think that is really the only way to do it because if you use the board "attachments" function, you'll get all of your pictures at the bottom of the post, so they won't go with each track as I am sure you want them to. Plus there is the issue of the attachment size - you'd have to resize any image to a maximum size of 100K.

Yeah but apparently there was only a low, right field camera in use (no TV broadcast), so there's no view of exactly where he hit it - I said it wasn't a double to begin with, but apparently it ticked off Longoria's glove and skipped away from him. He was still out by ten feet and went for the extra base to flash his spikes. And I find it interesting that his claim about the slide is that he had a choice - go in "weird" to try to get around him or aim your spikes at his glove. Well, how does an infielder slap a tag on a runner? He puts his glove down in front of the base and lets him slide into it (he definitely doesn't reach for the runner because the foot can slip in, and he sure as hell doesn't hold his glove at waist level which is where Duncan's spike came in and hit him. I'd respect Duncan more if he simply said "I did it to protect a teammate and if they go after another of my teammates in the future, I'll do it again."

Exactly, and the way he tried to stretch it into a double so that he'd have the opportunity to come in spikes high made it even more obvious what his intent and malice aforethought was. He really should get a ten game suspension.

One potential problem is if you have a PAL encoded DVD - they'll play on PCs but you're screwed if you have a US DVD player. There is a fairly straightforward way to convert from PAL to the US standard but I am SOL anyway because I don't have a DVD burner installed.

I can't believe Chuck doesn't have the Cobb, Gryce or Green. Let me guess - you had the vinyl once but sold them. I hope you track them down at reasonable prices. Great music.

So what does everyone think about the situation brewing between the Yankees and Rays? To summarize: In a recent game, a AAA second baseman with little hope of making the team was a dead duck heading for home, decided to put his shoulder down and run over the catcher, who held onto the ball but broke his wrist (he's the Yankees top-ranked catching prospect). The Yankees bitch and moan about how this isn't the way the game is played in Spring Training. Girardi especially bitches and moans to the extent that his friend and former colleague Don Zimmer said "shut the fuck up - we never got the memo that you don't play the game right in Spring Training, and anyway, what if slides into the catcher and breaks his leg? No one says anything." And Shelley Duncan, who I think is going to piss off a lot of AL opponents this year because of his big mouth and modest skills (kinda like a combination Wally Backman/Lenny Dykstra), ran his mouth about what might happen if he is rounding third and the catcher has the ball. Well, today was the first game since the earlier contest and it started in the very first inning. A Yankee scrub, filling in for Pettitte, threw across the chest of Rays stud prospect, Evan Longoria, and was immediately tossed. Then in the second inning, Duncan hits a routine single to left and decides to "try" to stretch it into a double. He's dead to rights and comes in spikes high. What a punk. Johnny Gomes came across from right field and tackled him as he tried to get up. Duncan, Gomes, and two Yankee coaches were ejected. IMO, MLB should absolutely give Duncan a 3 to 5 game suspension for the start of the year. This is certainly similar, if not quite as bad, as Julian Tavarez in 2006, swinging at a runner after a wild pitch in a spring training game. And iirc, he got suspended 10 games. With Duncan running his mouth ahead of time, and the apparent fact that he tried to stretch the double specifically so that he'd have a clear shot at the catcher, that's easily worth 5 games. And best of all, as the Sox learned a few years ago, when you get into it with the Rays, they don't forget. I say go head-hunting with A-Rod and Jeter next time. They'll think twice about being pussy whiners about a completely legitimate, if unfortunate, play.

Wasn't the whole purpose of this thread to put Larry's opinion up front and center in the first place? If you're asking him his opinion, and he gave it to you, why are you saying he shouldn't be entitled to have his own opinion, or that it's not valid to him? I haven't said that Larry shouldn't formulate and state his opinion. I thought I made that clear when I wrote

And the DVD audio extractor (that Claude posted a link) works very well. I couldn't get the SUPER to download, which was a little weird annoying, but I'm OK for the remainder of the trial period with the audio extractor program.

I'm finding I agree with Bill. Stop the board, I wanna get off. But seriously, I'm glad that I engaged Larry on this question and attempted (and succeeded, to an extent) to get him to give Hamilton another listen. But what I get from Larry's most recent comments are: I think Scott is little more than mediocre and that therefore no one should derive much if any pleasure from his playing, why do we give him any benefit of the doubt when players the same age or younger were doing it better way back when. The problem Larry is that you have different ears than others. They aren't better, and they aren't necessarily more perceptive. You seem to believe that empirically, it is impossible to prefer Hamilton to X, Y and Z but that is simply not a sustainable premise. You already note that Hamilton has received a lot of praise. You give him virtually none. So everyone who praised him is wrong? I'm not saying that you are wrong, I am just saying that you hear differently than others. Saying and basically is putting your critical judgments ahead of everyone else's. Maybe you think the aural evidence is overwhelming and incontrovertible but the fact is that other people hear different things when they listen to SH.

She wasn't. If she's 69 now, she'd have turned 30 39 years ago. 39 years ago would be 1968-69, and the show was over by then, I'm pretty sure. Ran for three seasons, '64-'67. She was in her late 20s throughout the run.

Well, this is a question asked long ago (and Jim never did answer) but having acquired most of their collaborations recently, I'm curious where this one appeared. I've got it on a Capitol LP - The Dudes Doin' Business Capitol ST-569 If you thought that getting to hear Junior Parker singing "The Inner Light" (yeah, the George Harrison/Beatles sitar-laden song about TM) was a thing that would never happen in your lifetime, guess again. It was reissued on Groove Merchant with the title "Good things don't happen every day". That will be easier to get hold of, I suspect. Never even knew about the Capitol issue MG Thanks MG. I picked up that one a few weeks ago from Dusty Groove, which seems to get it back in stock with some regularity. For $10.99 I figured it was worth a shot, even with the Beatles covers, but I mainly wanted to hear Junior's last chart hit, "Drownin On Dry Land". A very uneven record to me, but "In the Heat of the Night" is definitely one of the better tunes.

Well, this is a question asked long ago (and Jim never did answer) but having acquired most of their collaborations recently, I'm curious where this one appeared.

It never ceases to amaze me the basic tenets of this "faith":

On the subject of "great albums of bad music" - my sister's Father In Law passed away early in February and since I live five minutes from his house, I've been asked to help his son and daughter in the process of clearing out the house. Since I am known as the "music person" in the family, it was suggested that I go through his old records. Harry Parley loved latin music and he actually owned a pair of bongos just so that he could play along with his favorite records. So I am flipping through the Xavier Cugat records when I came across ... Irving Fields Trio, More Bagels & Bongos I'm sure some of you have heard of it but it was the first of Mr. Fields' "... & Bongo's" series. Obviously, "Yiddish Favorites set to Latin rhythms" was such a big hit they had to come out with More Bagels & Bongos but while I didn't find the original "Bagels & Bongos" Harry did own: Champagne & Bongos (Favorite French melodies) Pizza & Bongos (Italian favorites) A look at AMG revealed that there was a final entry in the series: Bikinis and Bongos (yes, Hawaiian tunes) For those interested, Bagels & Bongos was reissued on CD in 2005, and believe it or not, Irving Fields issued a new CD in 2007.

I got this earlier this morning as a forward from my brother, and sent it along to a few "O" people. I guess my brother got his from someone from Oklahoma, they had renamed it "if celebs moved to Ohio". I think the Olson twins and Tara Reid are the best but they're all good.

Yeah, that's a great curveball. But you know what? During his no-hitter, Clay Buchholz threw a curve that looked at least as good. And there's a lefty on the Cubs staff that throws the same kinda curve, last year I saw examples that were even sicker than that one. So, all credit for being 19 years old and having stuff like that but really, let's win a few ball games before we reserve the spot in Cooperstown or start comparing him to Koufax.

Zen, you're news is out of date. The Globe is reporting this morning that Beckett came to the park feeling much worse than he did the day before. Couldn't get comfortable, didn't sleep much. The blog has his transcribed comments. Unless he gets better real fast, I can't see him getting his pitch count up enough and even then they won't want to put him through a 17 hour flight. The good news though would be that if both Beckett and Dice miss the trip, they can come back to pitch games 3 & 4 in Oakland. Its not as good as having those two pitch the first four games but its something. As for Lester, I think he had a real good outing against the Mets today. At least, he started and the game was scoreless into the bottom of the eighth. I did hear that he has said that his fastball has a lot more get up on it, that hitters are reacting late to it. He is above his pre-Cancer weight so I think there is good hope that we'll see the guy that we thought we had when he was the top prospect in the system. With a 95 mph fastball and enough command, I think Lester could be a 15 game winner/low 4.00 ERA guy this year. Easily. Update: Lester struck out five in four scoreless innings today. Now if Buchholz could regain his missing form, we'd be in better shape.

What about the rule that can't complain about your team the first four years after a championship? Red Sox fans will never be happy. Jesus, you get four gimme's to open the season against my team that is putting out a triple A team. I don't think they are "gimmes" if Harden starts two of them, and Beckett and Dice don't start any. I'd probably be less concerned if there wasn't all this talk about "dynasties" and being odds on favorites to repeat. That puts more pressure on them, and right now they look awful between anemic bats, bad starters and injuries (Lugo is out now over a week with a 'sore back' and Coco hasn't played since March 2nd with a sore groin, in addition to Beckett.)

Bloody hell. Now Beckett says that his back worsened over night, he isn't as encouraged as he was yesterday, and while he won't say it, I think its a given that he will not make the trip to Japan. And on top of that, Dice-K's wife is pregnant, her due date is the day that the team is supposed to leave for Japan. They are planning to have the baby in the States and he will be present for the birth. They say that he could still make the trip (and obviously the Red Sox were asked to play in Japan because of him) but who really knows? Right now it looks like Tim Wakefield and Jon Lester to open the season. That's just fucking great. Y'all should be thankful that I haven't had a drink today or that post might have been a lot more vitriolic.

Funny when I opened the other thread I thought to myself "$163?! Time to put my copy up." Then I noticed that's a set price, not the result of a bidding war. Then I went through my LPs and realized I never landed a copy of the other Choice album anyway.

Unfortunately some problems at home prevented me from seeing as much of the ESPN broadcast as I had intended to watch. I did see though that we had a 5-2 lead in the ninth and two different scrubs gave up a three run homer and a grand slam to lose. In fact, we've lost six straight while scoring four runs. Of course it doesn't "matter" but anyway you slice it that's not good. And now Beckett may miss the trip to Japan with a back injury. The reports the day after were encouraging but I wouldn't be at all surprised if they erred on the side of caution and decided that a seventeen hour plane ride isn't a good idea for a guy nursing a lower back strain.

Its nice when a momentous occasion - or a pseudo-momentous occasion - brings old friends out of the woodwork. Hope life is treating you well, Ed.

From one Seminole to another,