Dan Gould

We can set aside A-Rod as the cause of his termination. It was a claim of sexual harrassment. According to the AP:

I don't understand this. I thought performance rights organisations collected a general license fee; then you could play anything licensed by that organisation. That's how it is in Britain. Licensing individual pieces that might (or might not) be played is a mind-blowing concept. MG Maybe those five songs were the five ASCAP songs they played. Could be, but what are the chances of that? Oh - are you saying that the US system is the same as the British one? MG I believe so. You pay a flat fee. There may be different fee schedules but that's the basic concept. There's no license paid for individual songs.

I don't understand this. I thought performance rights organisations collected a general license fee; then you could play anything licensed by that organisation. That's how it is in Britain. Licensing individual pieces that might (or might not) be played is a mind-blowing concept. MG Maybe those five songs were the five ASCAP songs they played.

I'm not giving up yet. Seems to me you've got two things working in your favor: I'm pretty sure you can pound on Jaret Wright's pitches One of the problems I see the Yanks having is the inability to go for the jugular and finish off a team with a sweep. They haven't won more than 5 in a row, and without specifically looking up the stats, that has been the pattern, and its kept them from ripping off the kind of long streak they've needed to make a move. The only team they manage to sweep is the White Sox who are in free fall, and we all know Texas has more sac than the defending champions, don't we?

Its the same as paying for the license to play music over the sound system. I guess this bar doesn't provide any type of music other than karaoke nights. When I worked at a tennis shop, the boss got a notification because he was playing the radio in the store. He wasn't about to pay for a license but he found out that music is allowed if its in a "work area" so he set up the radio by the racquet stringing machines. When I learned that he also enjoyed jazz I started bringing in cassettes and that was the hippest tennis shop in the world, I tell ya. But every once in a while he'd tell me to turn the stereo down, just in case.

I think the point is that ESPN wanted to focus on A-Rod, and Reynolds thought it was excessive. There's no reason to shit-can Phillips since he's totally on board with the harping on A-Rod's failures. While I don't think ESPN is actually biased against Rodriguez, I did think that they got to be excessive in how they covered it, especially the continuous recaps of the week that never ended. Its one thing to show us how he struggled the previous night, but then they'd go all the way back a week or more to show us all the lowlights, yet again. Maybe Reynolds said something a long the lines of "I'm not gonna sit at that desk while we bury him for no reason" and they said "see ya".

There are also reports that he was dismissed due to strong opposition to how ESPN has harped on A-Rod's problems. Have no idea if that might be true ...

If you'll do something for us tonite, perhaps I'll entertain your notion.

Now how can that be "questionable cover art" when it contains such a good lesson for happy living?

When I interviewed Eddie Higgins, he spoke of what a thrill it was to be Hawkins' accompanist at the first Playboy jazz festival. Checking the transcript, Eddie mentions that he believes the music has been issued on four different LPs, fwiw. IIRC there was one track on a 4 lp Playboy box I had in high school. Maybe that's what he was saying. Don't know of anything else from that gig. I Checking the tear sheets that I received, Cadence added the info that the music has appeared on Verve, Spotlight, Shoestring, Playboy, and Bean records. So its actually been out five times.

I don't think a Red Sox fan is allowed to use the word "irrational." Its not irrational to hate the team that you have to contend with every single year. Hating a team that you have never played against prior to interleague play is.

When I interviewed Eddie Higgins, he spoke of what a thrill it was to be Hawkins' accompanist at the first Playboy jazz festival. Checking the transcript, Eddie mentions that he believes the music has been issued on four different LPs, fwiw. He also tells an amusing story about Hawkins showing up at the very last instant before they were to go on, and never acknowledged Eddie at all. He asked him what he wanted to play, and he grunted at him. He suggested some tunes, he grunted again. Then they went on.

Dave James posted a separate thread. There's talk that it was related to a sexual harrassment claim.

What box set is this? You're not being very helpful ...

Come be a baseball fan in Chicago for a couple of years, and then complain. Your darling Cubs get all of the media exposure because their park is in the beer and lifestyle neighborhood. No team has ever had to do less work for all of the adoration it gets, and frankly, it's sickening. And what kinds of names are Shawon, Heathcliffe and Ryne anyway? And, let's add to that the fact that such a comment means that you know nothing about Chicago baseball tradition. Cubs fans hate the Sox, we hate the Cubs. If you're a lifelong Wrigleyville-ian, multiply your Sox hatred by 10. If you're a Bridgeport or Beverly native, magnify your Cubs hatred by 100. That's just the way it is. They wear t-shirts with our modified logo saying "Sux" and we wear t-shirts with their modified logo saying "Chokers." Complaining about my "obnoxious" comments is like complaining after an afternoon drizzle once you've experienced a hurricane. Well excuse me but I was only a hardcore Cub fan until I was five years old when the family moved to Long Island. But I will say this: My father's been a hardcore Cub fan for far longer than I've been alive, and he's never said a single goddamn negative things about the White Sox EVER. So screw you and your irrational Cub hatred, cuz adults have managed to not give a rats ass about the other team. Its like Mets and Yankees fans - its pathetic and stupid.

While I've always perceived a bias toward the Yankees from Reynolds, he does have strong analytical and TV skills. Why oh why couldn't that joke of an ex-GM get the sexual harassment accusation instead? Regardless, I'm sure Fox will pick Reynolds up and if not, WTBS is going to need booth and studio talent. He'll be fine, I'm sure. And as for the perceived bias, perhaps I was wrong. He did pick the Sox to win the East at the All-Star break. So maybe those previous Yankee predictions were just his honest opinion.

There was a pretty cool Playboy After Dark clip of B.B. King put up on youtube a while back.

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Ummm, no shit, sherlock. I'm thinking more than likely, we're the wild card. Are we the LUCKIEST team alive this season? absolutely. Trust me, I'll be the first to tell you that this isn't going to be the magic season of last year. But, considering that luck factor, you never can tell. Considering how much rage you've got dripping through your posts regarding my beloved White Sox, however, Dan, one has to get back to my original question. Maybe Ron Kittle gave you a wedgie. Or maybe you're just mad that Pudge likes us more than you guys these days. You really want to know? Its lingering resentment at -your obnoxious comments about the Cubs. -the ALDS sweep last year. -how sucky you were against the Yanks this month. -the fact that every commentator at the ASB declared the White Sox would inevitably win the division crown when they've pathetically collapsed since then. I'm shocked to see that you agree that they have deep problems. Now I hear that you may give up Brandon McCarthy for a two month rental of Soriano? http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=2528494 Just do everyone else a favor and hold off the Twins. The worst case scenario I can see right now would be the Red Sox winning the division and the Twins making the wild card. If that happens, the wild card plays the division winner with the second best record, and that would be in all likelihood the Red Sox, and there's no way I'd want to face Santana and Liriano for three games of a five game series, home field advantage or no. No, I'd much rather face the defending champs so we can return the favor and sweep them out of their title defense.

Who said they were athletes? Like jockeys and race car drivers, golfers are about as athletic as me, man-boobs and all. Now that isn't to say that Tiger's not an athlete, but he grew up playing sports and he's a young guy. Anyone remember Jack's Amex commercial where he's playing tennis? That's the level of athletic skill of virtually every golfer.

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Veronica Daniel J. Travanti Daniel J. Gould Who is Veronica and what her connection to a 1950s ventriloquist's dummy? There's actually a "Name three people" explainer thread but I'l answer here: Archie and Veronica were well-known comic book characters. Veronica (Hamel) played the girlfriend of Daniel J. Travanti's character on Hill Street Blues. My middle initial is also "J."

Looks like "Fast Reply" is the way to go if you've got a particularly clever group of people in mind and you want to get your post in ahead of someone else on "Name Three People". Edit: I used Fast Reply for this one and you can still get the smiley in if you know the code. Interesting, too, that when you edit a "Fast Reply" it gives you the same plain-jane text box, no image or http links or nothing. Its like the software knows this message was created with Fast Reply, and ever more it shall be. (I'd put in the eyes bouncing around the skull smilie here but I don't know the code for it. )

Well, I was describing AAJ as I saw it. I haven't looked at that board in a very long time.