Dan Gould

thanks Steve. I wonder if the sessions survived at all. I would think that when Grant became a "name" again, that would have been the perfect opportunity for Vee Jay - or Collectables, who owns the American rights to reissues, to put the disc out. Then again, they put out five discs of Vee Jay blues recordings but never bothered to include the Baby Face Willette singles, so maybe they just don't know what they have.

Is this aimed at me or the people bitching that I was the one to start this thread? It's aimed at your behavior of late. I was looking for a photo along the lines of "it's my ball and I'm going home" but struck out. So, I'm the target of an utterly ridiculous attack claiming that people don't wish to post on a thread I start, but I'm the one who's being a baby. Sounds reasonable to me.

Is this aimed at me or the people bitching that I was the one to start this thread?

Over ath the Blindman's Blues board, I just noticed this statement: Anyone here heard this rumor before? Any hope that its true? I could see a special Mosaic Single for this: Grant's unreleased session plus the 45 Baby Face Willette cut.

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did you check to make sure he actually paid the cover charge?

Very astute observation. Then start another f-ing one and I'll delete this. Otherwise, piss off. Wouldn't have expected such harsh words from a class act like yourself, Dan. I learned long ago about getting into pissing contests with skunks. It's best to just walk away. Sayonara, Danny boy. that mean you'll stay away from all baseball threads I start? Good deal, because I'm going to be on top of all of them, and keeping your Yankee loving ass away will be a nice little side benefit.

Is Dee Dee's show broadcast on the web? Anyone? Bueller?

Be thankful it was Kedis and not the idiot bassist who performs nude.

Very astute observation. Then start another f-ing one and I'll delete this. Otherwise, piss off.

Thanks! Is there any reason we can't have a thread called Baseball (Non-Dan, Non-Yankee/Red Sox melodrama)? I don't think that's a cantankerous suggestion at all. Cool it And I'm to be banned from this thread? No, not a cantakerous suggestion at all. No one has ever been stopped from posting non-Yankee-Red Sox comments in any baseball thread.

I already explained that - it was a list of faults that one can find with past champions. It was for illustrative purposes, not necessarily that I believe all of those were cases of poor champs. Then you should have made it clear in your initial post that you don't believe these championships are all tainted. Your wording was hardly clear in this regard.

I was pissed at my team's three and out "defense" of its title but I'm pretty certain that I gave credit where it was due (even if I clung to the "cursed for eternity" last line of defense a bit too long ). The simple fact is that if the Cards had won five more games in the regular season, the worst I would have said was that they were fortunate to be in a crap division. But c'mon, injuries are no excuse, even as I curse what befell the Red Sox in August. They fall under 'shit happens' and as Massarotti said, the long season is designed to weed out the mediocre and the brittle. I fully understand the idea that less worthy teams can win in an expanded playoff system. The motivating force behind the Red Sox philosophy is that sometimes it takes luck and good fortune to win those last 11 games, so the idea is just to get to the playoffs and believe that eventually, you'll win one, and I think they have it exactly right.

And they ultimately lost. That's what I find annoying about this result - a team only slightly less pathetic than those Mets - one more win - is now World Champions. Its a new low, and it obliterates the previous low, which was 88 (or was it 87?) wins by Minnesota. You ought to hope that we get an even worse team to win a championship - it will lessen the stank on this "champion". I love how you start out this way: Yet after I point out only a couple of those cases and having no such "taint" you come back with Pick a story and stick to it.

By any measure, this is the ultimate tainted championship and so many of your examples do not even qualify as "tainted": The presence of the Padres nullifies what the White Sox achieved? The Astros were a legitimate contender. If the Padres had made the Series and then spit the bit, yeah, OK. But their presence? Tell me, if the Tigers had beaten the Mets, would you be talking about a "tainted championship" because the pathetic Cards were in the playoffs? Pot, meet kettle. The Red Sox won 98 games in 2004 and were obviously of championship calibre. They kicked the crap out of their WS opponent and any team that comes back from 0-3 against the Yankees isn't any sort of "taint". How does a 116 win team losing the LCS qualify as a "taint"? No one said that blow-out records give you a bye to the World Series. There are more in your list, but this is boring me, so let's hear from Jayson Stark: BTW, that Pirates stat more than makes up for the so-called "bs" of the Royals comparison.

Sonny Clark, Mopin' and Lopin'

"Reach Out" and particularly "Going Out of My Head" were misfires, imo, but I've always enjoyed the rest of the album. So while I don't dismiss it completely as some do, at the same time, its probably the closest I know to "non-essential" Hank. And Hank is very essential to me!

In my book the season ended the week before, when as I recall the Sox lost five straight games to two last place teams. Well that certainly was a taste of what was to come. Two in a row to Tampa (which I witnessed; thankfully I couldn't stick around for the bullpen arson of the second game) and then swept by KC. But that was actually 8 days before the Massacre. In between we got healthy against the hapless O's (three game sweep) and lost two of three to Detroit. Then we stepped out of an airplane sans parachute.

Here's a command for you....f*** you and your wife....poor sport! Enjoy the long winter! m~ Well that's certainly consistent with you "not caring about my opinion" and not being upset by my blathering. Here's a thought for your long winter: Enjoy it, because no one is concerned about "breaking up the Cards". It will take another 102 World Series for a piece of shit team like that to win again.

That would explain why you keep posting. I'll have to explain that to my wife when she gets home and asks "so what did that idiot Cards fan say now?"

It is so obvious that you know there is a big kernel of truth to all this, and its killing you. Why else do you keep bitching about me and others who have the same opinion? Go enjoy your championship. But you can't, because you know that it is true, that the team was pathetic in the regular season, won the division by a fluke, and had the World Series handed to it. The fact that I upset you so only demonstrates that you know in your heart of hearts that the truth has been spoken. You ought to be ignoring me and enjoying your championship yet you keep coming back. Its a cliche because its true: The truth hurts.

Its so clear that the truth hurts, let's get the opinion of someone else:

It seems to me there is one other critical question: Where does Mr. Matsuzaka end up? As I understand it, sealed bids are being prepared for submission to his Japanese team. Winning bid gets 30 days to negotiate a contract with Matsuzaka and his spawn of Satan agent. If you can't reach a deal, no money exchanges hands, and in one year, Matsuzaka will be a free agent so there will be no money for his team, he can instead, like Matsui before him, simply negotiate with the team he wants to play for (Seattle being the obvious preference). Matsuzaka was 17-5 with a 2.13 ERA for the Seibu Lions this season. In 186 1/3 innings, he allowed only 138 hits and struck out 200. He's 26 years old. He dominated at the WBC last year. And he throws a "gyroball": youtube Clicky That pitch is nasty, especially since he throws it around 90 mph! Personally, I think Matsuzaka, even with the added cost, is the best pitcher available this off-season. If I were Theo, I'd think seriously about bidding 30 mil for the chance to negotiate. There is suspicion that 20 million will do it, but I think that is way off. With pitching in such short supply, mediocre options among free agents, and tons of money filling the sport's coffers, this guy is going to attract some serious interest.

Your World Champion Cardinals: After April, a losing record. From mid-June to the end of the season, a worse record than the hapless Royals. First division winning team to have three losing streaks of seven games or more, without falling out of first place. I haven't seen it officially, but I'm willing to bet that no World Series champion has ever had three such losing streaks in the regular season.

I'll sign your petition if you'll sign my "Fire Bobby Bowden" petition.