Dan Gould

Why? I've gotten great LP tranfers using the soundcard and Goldwave. Although it would certainly save steps if their software recognizes track breaks and splits up the tracks automatically and also sets levels, I fail to see the advantage otherwise. If the point in bypassing the soundcard is the fact that soundcards are easy to overdrive, well - set the levels lower.

With a 60% chance of showers. BRRRRRRRR.

Looks like pretty brutal weather to start this thing off.

Thanks for the transcription, Nate. As Ray says, either he's talking about someone else or no one told him that Jim made specific reference to the time frame this occured.

Cough... Yankees 2004... cough. http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/recap;_ylc=?gi...110&prov=ap I was thinking that, too, until I remembered that the correct statistic is for a home team that won game 6, every team between the '75 Red Sox and (now) 2006 Mets won game 7. Sympathies to all those Met fans who suffered through last night. We all know how painful that is. You can console yourself that there is an outstanding core of young every day players that will help this team win for a long time to come. Gotta do something about the starters though and get younger (and more likely to stay healthy). Maybe its appropriate that the two teams who played the worst ball in September have now righted the ship and really come on in the playoffs. I don't see the Cards having a chance - it would be surprising if its not a sweep; if it goes 6 it will be a miracle - but I do think that if Suppan and Weaver pitch well, there's a chance. I guess this postseason shows there's always a chance.

Can any of you Cards fans tell me if Pujols has always been this much of an asshole with the press? That's certainly not the impression I've had before. Of course, LaRussa will never stop defending his stars. They're always completely blameless, whether its McGuire or Pujols.

I really dislike both teams, and have disliked the Mets for much longer (being a Cub fan will do that) but for the integrity of the game, I think you really have to hope the Mets pull it out. It was bad enough when the Twins went to the WS (and won) with 85 regular season wins, but the Cards going to the Series with 83 wins? There's something deeply wrong if that happens. Hey, stuff happens. Back in '54 before the advent of playoffs, the Giants won the NL pennant with, I believe it was, 88 wins (154 game season). They swept the Indians who had won 111 games. Go figure. That's a .571 winning percentage, which is perfectly respectable, even if it was way behind the Yanks. The Cards had a downright pathetic winning percentage of .516, 6th best in an awful league, behind even the Phils and nearly the Astros.

Only 300 game winner who got most of his wins for the club, so I'd have to say yes.

How about if we say "pretty please with sugar on top"? I'd really like to know exactly what he said.

I really dislike both teams, and have disliked the Mets for much longer (being a Cub fan will do that) but for the integrity of the game, I think you really have to hope the Mets pull it out. It was bad enough when the Twins went to the WS (and won) with 85 regular season wins, but the Cards going to the Series with 83 wins? There's something deeply wrong if that happens.

Despite your protestations, you be much jumpier at 13-17. Music encountered during this period "imprints" and it is up to the recipient to allocate importance. I have youthful weaknesses for Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis, Chuck Berry, Elvis Presley and even Timi Yuro. Never started a thread about this stuff 'cuz I know (and accept) what it is. Many post in the past but no response. It is very important when one encounters music and how that is folded into one's personal taste. Chuck, if I may, are you saying that we all have particular favorites that are purely a function of our age when we first heard them? Are you also saying that such favorites are in some sense almost involuntary or not completely rational? In other words, had we not heard them at a presumably impressionable age, we wouldn't enjoy them as we do? For that matter, why do we have to "allocate importance"? Just because you discovered Charlie Parker and Louis Armstrong a few years down the road, does that mean you're supposed to downgrade the music of your youth? Are you ashamed of your "youthful weakness" for Little Richard, et al.? I'd happily trade my weakness for "American Pie" and countless other top 40 hits of the 70s for an equivalent dose of "Good Golly Miss Molly" and "Great Balls of Fire". This deserves a separate thread - but its the first comment in this one that I had anything to add to.

"No, no man. I said more cowbell!"

anyone familier with the Ace reissue On The Blues Side? I've been really curious about Chuck's earliest recordings outside of the hits.

I, on the other hand am hoping Glavine's arm falls off (not literally)! I will be at the Dave Holland show tonight and will have to make frequent jaunts to the bar for updates.....maybe I can get the waitress to bring me updates! m~ You got lucky! Rainout. I'd say it gives you the advantage, Brad, but only if you win the next two. A game 7 would give Randolph distressing choices for his starter: Oliver, who hasn't started a game since 2004 or Trachsel.

Glad to hear Jimmy's memoirs are being published.

I was going to make it a surprise, but don't sweat it, Jim. Lon hipped me to this download and I will burn and mail today!

If you don't you're not from Philly. No one said anything about the taste of people who eat those cheesesteaks, its the unadorned cheesesteak that is your gift to the world. You wanna put ketchup on it, that's yo' bidness.

While the question of whether or not Torre would be fired was largely a function of recent post-season success or lack thereof, Macha's firing was not. Remember, first, that Macha was actually fired last year, (or it was announced he would not return, same difference) and then rehired a week later. And let's say that his "people skills" are extremely lacking:

Did anyone catch the part of the Miami-FIU brawl where the big Miami lineman was swinging his helmet? I swear he looked like I can imagine his Mama used to, swinging her purse - or her shoe.

Even if half of what the defense attorneys claim can't be proven, there are so many problems with this prosecution, I don't think they have a snowball's chance of convicting.

The more important question to me, Mike, is whether or not they seemed to dig what you were doing?

Calling Scott Yanow! Is this CD still a disappointment, Scott? Or maybe you were hung over, or in a "mood" when you listened? I think we've all been there, when a CD doesn't do it for us one time, and then the next, its a totally different reaction. (In all honesty, I grabbed the domestic issue of this and wasn't blown away. Sounded like another night in another town, or in this case, another country. Not disappointing but not revelatory or even particularly memorable.)

Well good luck with that. The fact that today the two teams are starting pitchers whose records are 3-13 (Mets), the other 5-8 and neither ERA is below 5 tells you all you need to know about the likelihood the NL winner can compete with Detroit. It will take a miracle for the AAAA champion to win it all.