Dan Gould

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?

Oh to be young and foolish again. In my defense, at the time I was enthralled by Wynton's "blues and swing" definition of jazz and had no interest in Miles' music from Bitches Brew onward (I still don't) and since I bought into Columbia's description of BB as "the first shot fired in the fusion revolution" I considered Miles the font of all that came after. And in point of fact, I had no knowledge whatsoever about how much non-jazz DB covered back in the day. Basically, I just wanted to see my name in the mag. Now, if you can find the Jazz Times where I called smooth jazz the "bastard son of Miles Davis and Creed Taylor" ....

There's a Hank bio coming? I had no idea, but that really gets a from me.

I think what you're missing is that this is something that has bothered John for a period of time, and Chris happened to give an example of it in this thread. A PM wouldn't do anything - Chris would laugh in his (anonymous) face. The point is to call people out so that maybe John's points get across to the board in general. I'm sure he realizes its pissing into the wind, but its not something that could possibly be solved by a PM, either.

My Nero version has no problem with FLAC files, and no codec was required. In fact, in the past I've taken dime concerts, converted them to wav, done any necessary edits, and then burned. Now I am planning to take the flac files and go straight to Nero, use the "normalize" option to boost the signal, and get the damn things burned and off my hard drive.

http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=132323 Looks like the author is more interested in Lee's music and life than his own beliefs about race relations, as the earlier Morgan bio was. Of course, for me, in-depth musical discussion will be just as much of a slog, the question is which type of slogging do I want? If there is a decent amount of biographical insight (according to the blurb, he had "had exclusive access to Lee Morgan's now-deceased brother, who was able to provide unparalleled insight into Morgan's personal and family life.") I think this is the bio I'll finally purchase.