Dan Gould

I'm not posting a link here, Marcus, so you need to send me your email for the yousendit link.

Well I damn sure hope the clubhouse doesn't think as you do, cuz the Big Hurt is kicking the crap out of us right now, so we need some help, bad.

She did the spoofs at least 6 years before she ever appeared on the children's show. Then she never should have mentioned them to her employer. Well, that was the reason why she was shit-canned, wasn't it? right back atcha, slick.

Yes, I think she should have been fired, because she was the host of a children's program. If those spoofs are running at a time when kids could see them, no parent should be expected to explain what the nice lady from their kid's favorite show is talking about.

Up for more. Any interest from the usual BFT contingent? couw? Jim R.? Jim S.? I got some good (good) stuff on here and some good (weird) stuff too!

There's no reason to blow a gasket. You're down 3-0 and about to fall behind the Yankees in the wild card chase. Like they say, scoreboard. I'm laughing right now, but I bet its Ozzie who blows the gasket.

Agreed, except tha it was Matthew who made the point about touching in the workplace.

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? Well, with all due respect Dan, as much as you wanna rag on the White Sox, don't forget that the Red Sox didn't repeat, either. Do we rag on them for that? Yeah, but at least we made the playoffs. By the end of the day, the White Sox may be out of the playoff hunt, and at this point I don't see how anyone can predict that they will hold off Minn. or the Yanks. So yeah, I would say that if you make major improvements to your team and then fail to make the playoffs in your title defense, you deserve to be ragged on. The Red Sox had plenty of excuses: they effectively lost their closer and their ace for the entire season. The White Sox added a HoF slugger and a very good starter, and they're about to collapse like a wet taco. the interesting question now is, what desperation move will they try in the final few days before the deadline?

Anyone else see this as contradictory? Don't care if you like it but if you don't recognize beauty when you hear it you aren't listening. who doesn't like "beauty"?

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.