Dan Gould

I'm pretty sure that one is a re-packaged Storyville title that I got a couple of years ago. Very fine, mostly standards and ballads, the sound was exceptional, too. I actually transferred the audio part to CDR.

I've used winrar forever and I don't even get a pop-up guilt box.

I was the recipient of about four PMs during the board contretemps last week, yet just today did I actually receive email notification of those long received messages. Perhaps something for a newly appointed Admin person to look into?

If you are not interested in complete sets, you can pick and choose what Mobley, Donaldson or Parlan releases you do want through both domestic and Japanese reissue programs. Mosaic serves a different part of the market.

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If Mosaic's box set designs constitutes "ugly packaging" I really have to wonder what you think of 32 Jazz releases. Ugly? Give me a break. Beautiful photography, distinctive packaging. To criticize it is mind-boggling. As for box sets vs individual albums, you are simply ignoring the purpose for which Mosaic was founded. Furthermore, why would any label allow its albums to be licensed so that Mosaic can compete with their own reissue programs? If Mosaic took the approach you prefer, why would BN have any sort of reissue program? Sorry but your complaints are stupefying.

Dan Gould will send you a Christmas card for that MG He also joined the board on my birthday, and loves Stylings of Silver just as I do .... Were we separated at birth?

Oh HELL yeah!

I don't think it equates jazz with anything. It says what we already knew: 20-30 somethings couldn't give two shits about jazz, just as you couldn't pay me enough to party while musical crap like that is playing.

After all the arguments about should there/shouldn't there be, I'd like to request that Jim make the Classical Forum optional, as no one should be forced to see that forum if they don't wish to be exposed to it.

Getting screwed?

Won't the Pats forfeit that pick if they win the Super Bowl?

I'm about ready to start up the air conditioner today. ATL only has two seasons: summer and that small period of about 2 months when it is not summer. /In my day we had four seasons whether wanted to or not! Tell me about it. About 80 here and the AC is running. I went to a Christmas party last night and it was about 70 degrees outside, but dammit, it's the holiday season so people were wearing their big christmas sweaters. I won't miss the long frigid winters of the midwest, but I wouldn't mind a little cool weather. Maybe in the MF 50s at least? It's going to take me some time to get used to this place. don't worry, Paul, chilly weather like that is coming. There will be plenty of days with downright cold overnight temps and chilly daytime highs. The beauty of it though is that the really cold cold snaps will last three or four, maybe five days max. Then you'll be back to beautiful highs near 70 and occasional warm days. All bets are off, however, if global warming has made that much of a difference in the ten years since I left Tallahassee.

Obvious Man has a question: Have the Dolphins officially quit?

The one defense I can give for Hershiser's position is that W's are what get a pitcher the big bucks. So as a pitcher, he thinks W's are the deciding factor in who is great, good and so-so.

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Patrick, Quincy mentioned Retrosheet - I have no idea if its a paysite or not but they've got the play-by-play for all, or nearly all, games in MLB history. OBP is actually one of those relatively new stats that the sabre people love and the other people (say, those not named Ozzie Guillen) have grown to recognize as valuable. The one thing I think that non-sabre people should come to understand is that BA and RBIs are "old fashioned, not very valuable" stats (BA because there tends to be a lot of variation based on luck - line drive rates, batting average on balls in play spiking (that is the explanation of Jorge Posada's enormous BA jump), RBI because its dependent on your teammates (same for runs scored). For pitchers, wins and to a lesser extent, ERA, are considered passe. Wins are really no way to measure a pitcher's value but unfortunately a lot of people haven't gotten there yet. Probably the biggest thing to appreciate about most of the new-fangled stats is that league and park effects are normalized for most of them. That alone makes comparisons more realistic and informative.

Well, it always was "working", but now it has no problem with Goldwave extracted files, if I can remember to extract at 16 bit. Which is good cuz I've decided to re-burn my "Best of the Blues Volume 4" compilation. Just heard a kick-ass Shakey Jake track that I want to figure out how to slip in. Need to decide what to delete though. thanks for asking, Mark.

If you mean my memorable turns of phrase, I agree wholeheartedly.

A fine idea for a program, David, but no one is expected to die in a car crash, unless they are NASCAR drivers. I'd go with "tragically" or "suddenly".

Eric, you're a big step above me (I never bought a Baseball Abstract, for one) but I am curious how you view stats like VORP and WARP. Personally they lose me when they make the jump to "wins" but I do think that the VORP stat is worthwhile.

"withdraw funds". If you do it electronically, there's no charge, it takes just a couple of days usually. I believe you can also pay to get the money via money order or something like that.

I completely agree with what Vincent writes. Kuhn was a fool and an embarrassment (I'll show up for a World Series game in short-sleeves to "prove" its not cold) and has been noted in other commentary, he actually thought he had the power as commissioner to take the Messersmith decision out of the arbitrators hand, by fiat. It shouldn't be surprising though that a Veteran's committee made up of old upper management baseball people would vote Kuhn in and not Miller. What is sad is that before, when the players were involved in the vote, Miller couldn't get elected either. All of these rich players owe an enormous debt of gratitude to him, yet they couldn't vote him into the Hall?