Dan Gould

As one who has never found his way fully into Hill's music, this description has me intrigued (of all of his BNs I've kept Grass Roots, Black Fire and one trio session from the Mosaic). If Grass Roots was his most accessible, is Pax undoubtedly second most accessible?

If that is the scenario, I think the Twins will start Santana on Sunday. Santana has not been as dominant down the stretch as years past (he still is great). He has gone the last couple of starts without a win. I would still prefer Santana as the ALDS game one starter, but we sure have had luck with Garza and Bonser. Now if Liriano and Radke were healthy, with our bullpen.... Hopefully Saturday's game will not go extra innings or they will have to 'postpone' the game until before Sunday's game because of scheduling conflicts with the Gophers (it happened once in 2004 before the playoffs). You'll definitely regret it if Santana starts Sunday and loses, and you face the Yanks with Santana unavailable til Game 3. I got a question for you: When did Radke decide to retire? Didn't he sign a three year deal last off-season? I remember the Sox tried hard to get him, I'm glad he didn't sign and then have his arm blow up midway through his contract. Coming back from a torn labrum, I'm not surprised he'd hang them up. The odds are very long on recovering from that injury.

Congratulations, as well as sympathies to jazzypaul, whose team collapsed on a scale similar to the Twins enormous rise. To think that for so many months the defending champions had the second best record in the majors and now, bupkus. But don't feel too bad, Paul, to paraphrase George Costanza, Boston is the lint in bupkus' pocket. HS, your manager may have one enormous decision to make come Sunday: Do you start Santana if it may mean the division championship and missing the Yankees in the first round? The Twins are so dominant at home it almost makes sense to take the risk, but there's no doubt its a huge risk considering the rest of the staff you're trying to win with.

I don't understand the point of this remembrance. What made it an "interesting sociological study"? For that matter, what did you think of him?

I remember when The Stranger exploded all over pop/AOR radio and since I'm a bit older than Alexander, I can cop to actually owning the album, which is in fact a true classic, IMO. Subsequent albums revealed too much of his latent sensitive singer-songwriter side as well as a super-sized ego. I grew less and less interested post-The Stranger until my brother came home from college with an album titled Songs From The Attic which takes the best of his pre-Stranger songs and presents them in various live settings from small club to big arena. This led me to explore his earlier albums, none of which are as consistently satisfying as Songs From The Attic. Having established that there are Billy Joel songs and albums that I enjoy, I must also say that there has got to be a toasty place in hell waiting ever since he wrote "We Didn't Start The Fire".

Here's hoping Papi gets a homer tonite to break Ruth's all-time mark for homers on the road (32). Would be a shame if he misses, as I can think of at least two monstrous homers he had taken away in domes. There was a shot in Minnesota that hit the speaker that Hunter said would have gone about 550 feet and ended up a single, and another one in Tampa that hit the catwalk and iirc, was actually caught for an out. The Babe never had to deal with those ridiculous ground rules, or as Tito called them, miniature golf rules!

Oh my god, Paul Gonsalves is sleeping throughout the entire tune!! "Sleeping" is one word for it. forgive me, but did anyone else think of this classic: "This musician has ceased to be!"

Ramierez? Pretty darn good for a rookie but, not amazing - yet. Good bat but, a so-so fielder. He just committed his 25th error of the season last night. Lots of potential though, he's only 22. How about them Phils?? Hanley should be a lock for ROY honors. About the only problem are rookie errors in the field, though he still makes plenty of spectacular plays, too. But he's got 50+ SB and 40+ doubles, and the sky is the limit. I'm sure he'll settle down defensively and make all the routine plays, too.

I agree that Sheffield is not a good option in RF. But my take is that Manny is going to be shipped to the Halos, which makes it imperative that someone be added to protect Papi. I think Sheffield could do that for a couple of years, and putting him in left field, well, range hardly matters and neither does arm strength. Manny gets a lot of assists because his arm is accurate but not particularly strong. Sheffield's arm is definitely stronger. The only other outfielder I can see taking Manny's spot would be Andruw Jones and I am not certain that a deal can be made, at least not without signing him to an extention, given what the Braves will ask for. But Jones behind Papi would be fine, too. But if Manny goes, someone has to step in to his spot in the lineup and if he goes to the Angels, there's no one coming back who would do that. I also suspect that Sheffield is the type of ballplayer who would take the "disrespect" the Yanks would display and turn it into a major motivational factor. There is a big shot OF prospect, name of Jacoby Ellsbury. But he's not a basher. More of a speed guy with awesome defensive skills, who is now developing the necessary plate discipline. But he's more of an ultimate Damon replacement than a Sheffield/Manny replacement.

Too bad this will kill the chance that the Yanks pass on Sheffield. Probably the only way the Yanks let Sheff walk is if he shows that he can't handly first base from now through the playoffs. But even then they'd be more likely to exercise his option and trade him out of the division or out of the league.

Since you're saving this for a food thread I presume that the evil institution is brunch, not fake Django combos. Please let me know when you do explain, because I am positively dying to hear what makes scrambled eggs with salami, an onion bagel and OJ "evil". Throw in the Sunday paper and that's damn close to heaven.

Surely a licensing issue, probably related to how the 1600 mghz signal behaves at night - it probably interferes with another licensed station in another market. When I worked at WTNT Tallahassee, I had to make a similar switch on the AM talk radio sister station (which at that point was always riding the satelite and never had live hosts). About 8 years ago, a friend discovered, on the local PBS affiliate, a program of Bollywood videos. Not as "hip" as MTV was, but twice as mesmerizing. The colors, the weird sounding music, the hot babes, and the guys in Member's Only jackets. We'd catch it at 1 in the morning and no matter how tired we were, we didn't leave til it was over.

I wouldn't have confronted either, but I would have called the cops while keeping ongoing surveillance at a safe perimeter.

Couldn't agree more!

How 'bout Big Papi? Breaks the club mark for homers in a single season, a record that's lasted nearly 70 years and couldn't be eclipsed by Ted, Yaz, Rice. I loved it when he hit #52 and the team froze him out when he reached the dugout: But they couldn't hold back the love too long: Part of me hopes he doesn't get too hot over the last ten games. It would suck if he ends up with 58 or 59, and you just know that the 8 games he missed with the irregular heartbeat kept him from breakin the AL record. Then again, if he finishes with 58, can he still be denied the MVP?

Is this a question of what you "have to get next"? Personally, I'd get them all eventually. Cast aside your wariness of the Town Hall date, its very good. It Club is also well worth having. Can't comment on Tokyo. But assuming you dig Monk with Rouse, I'd definitely snap up the two live sets.

Yanow isn't in the category of a Larry Kart or any number of high-minded, "serious" critics/reviewers. He does yeoman's work, as he himself described it earlier: and on those terms he does a pretty decent job.

Who exactly is "everyone"? The "elite" on the board, or the board in toto? Because the fact is that there are many people who respect, on one level or another, what Yanow does and have been helped by him in the never-ending process of finding, as he put it, "music we will enjoy." I hardly consider myself a newbie but there is no doubt that I've found that if Scott recommends a particular album to people who enjoy mainstream jazz (or soul jazz, or any one of a number of categories) there's a very good likelihood that I'll enjoy it.

that's real amusing when you declare that I'm closing in on 80.

Sharp Nine has put out their latest CD:

Here comes Chewy ...

Scott hits 52 on Oct. 4th, one day after I do the same... I'm sure you'll want to send him birthday greetings... And if you'd noticed my birthday thread from one week ago ...

Of course, but you don't have to reveal your ebay ID. Tell us what it is, post it again in the next month. Or is it so rare that it only appears once every six months? Well, if I tell you which set it was and you look up the completed auctions for this set you don't need to be a genius or even mildly intelligent to see which is which... Anyway, that's just my little idiosyncrasy... Which constitutional amendment does this fall under, btw? OK, I didn't think about the completed items search ... but what's the point of keeping it a secret? There are plenty of people here who would bid up anything you put up, especially rare Mosaics. No wonder you're a dentist. Ya got no business instincts! Dan, I'll be the first one to admit that I am the worst sales person you'll ever meet, but one thing I did come to understand from my travails - never do business with friends, if you don't want to lose them...and I do consider you guys my friends. PLUS - looks like most of you don't have any money anyway, so why bother?! Yeah, they keep putting their money with old Conn. and he blows it on the NFL pool!

Of course, but you don't have to reveal your ebay ID. Tell us what it is, post it again in the next month. Or is it so rare that it only appears once every six months? Well, if I tell you which set it was and you look up the completed auctions for this set you don't need to be a genius or even mildly intelligent to see which is which... Anyway, that's just my little idiosyncrasy... Which constitutional amendment does this fall under, btw? OK, I didn't think about the completed items search ... but what's the point of keeping it a secret? There are plenty of people here who would bid up anything you put up, especially rare Mosaics. No wonder you're a dentist. Ya got no business instincts!

Of course, but you don't have to reveal your ebay ID. Tell us what it is, post it again in the next month. Or is it so rare that it only appears once every six months?