Dan Gould

Cuz the team is ten games under .500 ... but only five games out of first place! Looks like your Indians may be fading. I'm beginning to wonder myself if the A's are gonna play themselves out of the playoffs without Crosby. They were awful without him at the start of the year, and now they're not doing too well with him now, letting the Yanks take over the WC.

Congratulations to you and the future Mrs. Jazzypaul.

Well this thread isn't very active, but I would like to point out that the James Blake story is quite the nice one to see*. Today he was down a set, 2-5 and 0-30 on his serve when he finally figured out that he was letting the other guy dictate the points, he wasn't being aggressive enough. Next thing you know, he's won the set 7-5, gets an early break in the third, and closes him out in four sets. * This guy was an up and coming young American when he stumbled approaching the net, crashed into the net post and fractured his neck. Major doubts about his recovery from that ... and it was a very short time later that his father died of cancer. After that, he developed a case of debilitating shingles which among other things paralyzed half of his face. Now, after seeing his ranking tumble into the 200s, he won the Pilot Pen heading into the Open, and now he's through to the quarterfinals where he'll meet Agassi. Man, you just know that CBS wishes they could meet in the semis or the finals so they could broadcast but at least this way, one American will make it to the semi-finals at least, and it will either be an inspirational young player, or Agassi trying to put it together one last time.

OK, my follow-up question would have been, does that mean you regarded Mobley as one of the "usual 'open Monday night at Birdland " types who were all over the place, recording for Savoy and Prestige and Roulette"? Or, put another way, did you regard Mobley as a cut below Horace/Byrd? Thanks Mike, for sharing this, by the way.

Don't know if this is easily available in the States but I scored my copy courtesy of Brownie, and I just gave it another listen. Unlike Ubu, I prefer Houston Person over Ricky Ford, in general, but there is certainly nothing wrong with Ford's work here. As far as Person goes, ubu, have you heard any of his Highnote CDs? I do feel that Houston has grown and matured wonderfully and any of the Highnote CDs should be heard for a nice glimpse of where he is at. I saw him last winter in Fort Lauderdale and it was one of the best shows I've seen in south Florida. I have no possible idea why you think of him as "second rate" but if you've only heard his Prestige-era funky organ side, you definitely haven't heard the best of Houston Person.

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Nuremberg was never your model. Stalin style show trials, followed by bullets in the back of the head is more like it.

YAY!

Agreed. Guy ← Are you seriously agreeing that they should be "tried"? Not sure if there are laws for criminal negligence. Sorry to disappoint. Guy ← Alright, here's the wikipedia entry on criminal negligence. Guy ← Thanks for the info on criminal negligence. What is disappointing is that among all of the people on this board, a PhD candidate actually gives support to the idea that laws on the books might actually be folded, twisted and mutilated into forming the basis for Albertson's wet dream, otherwise known as a good old fashioned political show trial.

All the songs are late night blues played with tremendous feeling and soul. Here's the best way to experience this album: put on headphones and turn off all lights in your listening room. Remove all outside stimuli and let the music take over. You should be transported, thrilled and amazed. Or, on the other hand, if you are like the people who don't "get" this album the way others do, you will fall asleep, and fortunately you will have the lights out already so you can enjoy your nap.

I'd be interested to hear your reaction. Some find this a major snooze. Others think its a classic.

Agreed. Guy ← Are you seriously agreeing that they should be "tried"? I thought you were smarter than that.

Very interesting website here. Basically, it predicts final standings, wild card winners based on the games remaining and a variation on the Bill James "Pythagorean Theorem." Here's the explanation they give: So, on the far right of the standings you see Predicted Wins, Predicted Losses, and percent chance of winning the division, winning the wild card and making the playoffs (division chance + wild card chance). Bottom line, and I have to say this surprises me, but the Yanks trail all American League contenders with just a 36% chance of making the playoffs. The Indians, as of right now, are the favorites for the Wild Card, at a 47% chance. Of course, its just an exercise in statistics, but its still something interesting to keep an eye on in September.

Check the dates and you'll see that I posted this before you did, but in retrospect, you put it in the proper forum. For some reason, I thought "Artists" cuz its about Hank Jones instead of thinking about where the article appeared.

I've been watching wall-to-wall coverage and didn't hear a damn thing about the Convention Center until yesterday. when it came to masses of people in an increasingly untenable situation, ALL the coverage was about the Superdome. As far as getting poor and elderly people out before a storm hits, that's for a locality to figure out BEFORE disaster strikes. New Orleans had no plan in place, despite years and years and years and years and years of advance knowledge. Since the political fire is going far and wide with no end, I think I'll weigh in for the first time since retiring from the Politics Forum: This Blame Bush crap is a joke. 1. Its Bush's fault because there are National Guardsman in Iraq? That bitch might hold water, if the effected states didn't have large numbers of their National Guardsman available to be called up. IRAQ has NOTHING to do with the response to Hurricane Katrina. 2. Its Bush's fault because global warning made the storm such a monstrosity? Get your head out of your ass! This storm was well within the historical parameters of hurricanes, and Kyoto or no Kyoto, would have happened sooner or later. An aside: I had the misfortune of reading Michael Moore's latest letter. In it, he claimed that as the storm passed over south Florida, the weather man was saying, on THURSDAY, that this storm is headed to New Orleans, and therefore, Bush is responsible because nothing was done and they had so much time to prepare. What a complete crock of shit. When that storm crossed the peninsula, it was expected to start turning to the north almost immediately, and the initial target was the panhandle. But that turn kept being pushed back and pushed back and pushed back, and the landfall area kept shifting to the west and shifting to the west. This storm was NOT forecast to hit New Orleans at the time it was pummeling Florida. But its a great thing to claim, because then you can once again Blame Bush. 3. This is how governments function, particularly in the wake of a storm which absolutely DEVASTATES the transportion infrastructure of the area. 4. The simple fact is that the fate of almost all the victims was sealed when the storm hit, transportation systems wrecked and the levee was breached (a result, by the way, that according to today's Times, was never considered as a possibility. The presumption of all prior planning was that water would overflow - not burst through).

Interesting to hear what Hank says. Too bad Ratliff didn't ask him if good taste is always the answer, huh Chuck?

I bought this on cassette long ago and only now I am fixing that by splurging on the JVC XRCD version of this, only $19.99 right now at Red Trumpet. As to the thread topic, no need, IMO, to pick one label over the other. Blue was a very fine trumpet player, and all his albums from this period - Riverside, BN, with the Silver Quintet - have much to recommend them.

this is all the people who have posted have suggested. Take it to the other forum where politics belongs.

You know, I might be concerned about this possibility if it wasn't 8 pm Eastern time on the deadline for post-season rosters, and there isn't a whiff, not a hint of this possibility on ESPN.com.

As compared to spending billions invaiding a country that had nothing to do with slamming airplanes into US buildings? Thus saving bin laden-- a sworn enemy of Saddam-- the trouble of toppling him. ← Thanks for setting that Bush-level rationale straight, medjuck. ← Please go play in another forum. ← Word.

Dave, we've argued the points of "personality" vs shot-making before so I won't go there, but I have to point out that if you are looking for personality, Agassi lost his a while back. Now when was that? Let's see ... oh yes: it was right about the time he became a Grand Slam champion.

All these rumors about martial law being declared: According to the Times, a couple of Parishes requested it, but it is not authorized by the State Constitution.

Thanks for that clarification, now my comment doesn't make me look a wee bit confused.

Yeah, and maybe crop out the pee stain. Then you don't have to change the tee-shirt to Benevolent Bed Wetter.