Dan Gould

Apparently I missed this part of the reporting on the cheating system. Was he on the hook for a long suspension had he not retired? I just don't recall these things at all, I mostly remember what was done to the manager and bench coach who was the, uh, manager of the Red Sox when it all came out. Anyway I still think Beltran is an overwhelming case for the HoF - how long he should wait will be up to the writers. Now I am curious to see how far he has to go after this ballot. I am guessing we've got Rolen getting elected from the prior ballots and ... whoever comes out of that group of recent stars (and I am dying to find out what support Bonds and Clemens get from the small group of electors). Baines presence is the bottom of the current barrel and makes Rice in on the last year of his candidacy look like a no-brainer (I loved Rice as a kid but understood the arguments against). Baines never put the fear of God into pitchers and managers the way Rice did. Baines is purely LaRussa's fault and a travesty.

For those not receiving Loren Schoenberg updates on FB, I have added Volume 5 details to my earlier post,and repeated here. Pretty interesting group and the only known recording of Benny with Barry Harris. The music can be heard on Youtube on the Harlem Jazz Museum page. Volume 5: Benny Carter, alto saxophone Dizzy Gillespie, trumpet Barry Harris, piano Stanley Jordan, guitar Joe Kennedy, violin Larry Ridley, bass Yusef Ali, drums

MLB.com Breakdown of new HOF candidates This group is pretty darn weak. Beltran is obvious and it would be a shame if he's left off any significant number of ballots due to the Astros cheating scandal in his final season. Beyond him though ... K-Rod is it and I don't know if I'd be sold on him. Seems I recall quite a few blown saves when they really mattered? I'd rank Lackey third in this group and honestly, not even in the "Good but not great" Hall, more like the pretty good HoF. What do y'all think? I don't think anybody else deserves 30% of the votes and a lot should go bye-bye right away.

I will stick with my "Yankees will open the vault and do whatever it takes" prediction, which I think I monetized as 500 million dollars over whatever length of contract.

No problem ... and Loren advises that he will be uploading other tracks to youtube from the remaining volumes, so if we keep an eye on the Harlem Jazz Museum page we'll get the details on the rest in short order. https://www.youtube.com/@NationalJazzMuseuminHarlem

Loren referred me to "videos" and the best I can do from youtube is this: (from the announcement there is a Dizzy, a Sweets and a Barry Harris that are unknown for the moment) Volume 1: Benny Carter, alto saxophone Hank Jones, piano Milt Hinton, bass Ronnie Zito, drums Volume 2: Benny Carter, alto saxophone Clark Terry, trumpet/flugel Horn Hank Jones, piano Bucky Pizzarelli, guitar Milt Hinton, bass Grady Tate, drums Volume 3: Benny Carter: Alto Saxophone Trumpets: Jon Faddis, Joe Newman, Victor Paz, Ernie Royal Trombones: Eddie Bert, Dickie Harris, Quentin Jackson, Jimmy Knepper Alto Saxophones: George Dorsey, Jerry Dodgion (+flute) Tenor Saxophones: Budd Johnson, Billy Mitchell Baritone Saxophone: George Barrow Piano: Roland Hanna Guitar: Wally Richardson Bass: Major Holley Drums: Mousie Alexander Vocal: Hale Smith Percussion: Ray Barretto Volume 4: Benny Carter, alto saxophone Joe Newman, trumpet Sir Roland Hanna, piano Bucky Pizzarelli, guitar Richard Davis, bass Richie Pratt, drums Volume 5: Benny Carter, alto saxophone Dizzy Gillespie, trumpet Barry Harris, piano Stanley Jordan, guitar Joe Kennedy, violin Larry Ridley, bass Yusef Ali, drums Volume 6: Benny Carter, alto saxophone Harry “Sweets” Edison, trumpet Derek Smith, piano George Duvivier, bass Ronnie Bedford, drums Volume 7: Benny Carter, alto saxophone Chris Neville, piano Steve LaSpina, bass Jackie Williams, drums Volume 8: Benny Carter featuring Al Tinney, Lou Hackney, and Jerry McClam.

Considering how fresh it is I wouldn't expect it on Lord. I actually thought that you could figure out from the shows because there would be a track that would include stage announcements. I can try to reach Loren and get him to give details. I'll let the board know.

At $9 per I am not going to sweat that possibility. If anything, should that happen, I'd probably just try to buy a copy of the Mosaic booklet then.

Thanks for discovering this ... I understood it to be streaming only so knowing that all can be had as downloads is good to know.

I do not understand the decision to make these unreleased Benny Carter recordings only available on streaming platforms. Nor do I quite get how that maximizes revenue to the Harlem Jazz Museum.

Everything they are releasing (why streaming only I will never comprehend) is new and unheard.

As I recall, years ago Jim A. improvised a set of milestone categories and even allowed members to request status levels for number of posts. I am not surprised that this long-awaited upgrade wiped things like that out.

I am going to go ahead and say you are wrong. https://isip.piconepress.com/projects/speech/software/tutorials/production/fundamentals/v1.0/section_02/s02_01_p05.htmThe WAV audio format was developed by Microsoft and has become one of the primary formats of uncompressed audio. It stores audio at about 10 MB per minute at a 44.1 kHz sample rate using stereo 16-bit samples. The WAV format is by definition, the highest quality 16-bit audio format. Because you can convert between formats, a wav file could theoretically be sourced from a lossy MP3. This could happen for older burner programs that didn't recognize MP3 source files. Converted to wav, they would burn the music CD. But as I said, who would offer downloads in wav format if it wasn't at the quality provided by wav files? BTW, this is for microsoft machines - Apple has it's own equivalent file type. I think it's AIFF but I may be wrong, if that is the Apple equivalent to FLAC files, which are simply a way to compress wav files without being lossy the way MP3 files are.

Well we just closed and funded on a HELOC and they paid off my AMEX balance, where I charge nearly all of my monthly expenses - internet, gas, food. So with no payment in November to make, I decided to repurpose some of that money and ordered 10 of the in-stock BNs in this format. Call it an early Christmas present and I am committed now to no more shopping for myself thru Dec 31. 🤑

I have no idea what "wav is just the container and the content could be low definition or high definition" possibly means. Wav is an uncompressed audio format. If a CD is extracted to wav, it will be indistinguishable. If you take a "lossy" audio file such as MP3 and convert it to wav, it doesn't gain what's lost in the MP3 compression. Nevertheless I do feel that current MP3s sound perfectly fine for me - I would guess that's at 256 mps or 320. So if you mean that .wav files could be authored from poor quality MP3s, I guess "container" makes some sort of sense. But then again why would anyone offer downloads that aren't compressed when the source file is in fact smaller?

The hard part is that of the ones they appear to have in stock, some are such stone cold classics that to miss them feels wrong. And ironically I don't even have a proper rig set up to enjoy them anymore - haven't replaced my wife's studio reference speakers in years.

I've rarely if ever gone overboard for remasters but the XRCD results I have heard are pretty remarkable. This could be an expensive thread for showing me the Elusive Disc page for these releases.

Could have sworn someone posted earlier but this thread will do ... Eastwind Imports is at the final stage of their final sale. Price drop to 75% which meant $28-34 Japanese imports at just $6.50 to $7.50. Only missed out on one, the SHM release of the Bennie Green Time Records release. Priority Mail worked out to $10 a piece, give or take and they are out for delivery today. Code SALE75 WWW.eastwindimport.com

I think this should be its own topic and posting the link to gofundme ought to be fine too.

Why, when they went thru on the writer's ballot per the rules in effect at the time? (I want to say that Palmiero fell off at some point for not maintaining the minimum % required?) Or are you suggesting that there should be a gap between eligibility on the writers and then on the overlooked ballots? If we were dropping PED users and replacing them, then I'd put Dewey Evans back on the list. He was great by modern measurements way before it was cool to take walks and hit a lot of homers and doubles - 127 career OPS+ - and one of the all-time RF defenders, too.

Interesting "Contemporary Players Ballot" for HoF as Bonds and Clemens and Palmeiro (and some other darn good players) get their chance. https://www.mlb.com/news/2023-contemporary-baseball-era-hall-of-fame-ballot?partnerId=zh-20221108-750166-mlb-1-A&qid=1026&utm_id=zh-20221108-750166-mlb-1-A&bt_ee=vglAru4VEvzICRuB388HKvE%2FG%2F5RIfRojzuLf0R4DXHBVfbuarCP85D0CzAVfhez&bt_ts=1667916333021

It will be good when all contributions are tabulated correctly and we'll know where we (truly) stand on the forum costs.

This is my first post, post-upgrade but before I submit I already got the "Posting Machine" badge. 🤯

I am so screwed.

He never told Aric and friend what kind of sammich it was.