Dan Gould

Oh man, it just got worse for George's Nine: Not only did Wright struggle again, but he came out in the sixth with pain in his shoulder. How long can Tanyon Sturtze, last released by Tampa Bay, go as a replacement starter? And what if Brown's back locks up or he goes another ten with the clubhouse wall? Is it time for Panic in the Bronx yet?

What do you call a circle jerk with only one participant? Another episode of "Clem tees off on Francis Davis."

Teddy is only on one track, actually. But Blue and Harold Land are on the rest.

Damn. All you had to do was tell me you were looking for it. You're search might have been about, what, three years shorter?

Yes, and they're rather nice. I think another one's due out soon or has come out already.

This just demonstrates how much of an asswipe you are, and why your pathetic rants against PUBLISHED authors are located HERE, where you can spew whatever goddamn lazy illiterate pathetic crap you want to. Here's a newsflash, for ya, Clem: I have no doubt that you are regarded as a fuckin' joke by 99% of the people here.

Laughin your ass off even more today: Rangers 10 Yanks 1 in the 8th, and they've pounded out 18 hits to the Bronx "Bombers" 3? But on a positive note, Jaret Wright's ERA came down under 10 ... but somehow I don't think it kept the boo birds from givng him a few Bronx cheers ... and need I say it? I think King George might feel a tantrum coming on.

Top 50????? How about top 5?

Its definitely a nice one, with a good mix of blues and ballads. They also appear together on the 25th Anniversary Concord Jazz Fest two CD set, for three tunes I think. Nice one, that is (and you get a fine performance by the Harris Quartet, too).

I always thought that much of the criticism levelled at Rollins' bands has been levelled at Clifton Anderson and Cranshaw (for playing electric bass)? I can understand that Broom might help, but from what I've read, that still looks a lot like his typical touring band, except no Stephen Scott (pretty sure he's been the pianist lately).

You also used a hoary cliche, which is something I am currently fighting with my writer-editor brother about in my article about the Sounds demo discovery. But at least the cliche I have in mind isn't nearly as shopworn as "every cloud has a silver lining."

Yes, but in all cases in Jim's reviews, the comma belongs within the quotations.

Nice review, but, uh, punctuation goes inside quotations. Sorry, but its a pet peeve of mine.

Definitely remember her from Match Game. RIP.

Yeah, I think when you're a leader for that long and record as much as he has, you've busted out of journeyman status.

And FUNNY!

Gotta disagree there, as far as material/being in a rut. If he's in a rut and picking bad material, then he's been in a rut since the late 70s! (I know there are people who'll agree with that, but we'll put Chuck aside for the moment ) Not sure about the comment on sidemen. Maybe its been a few years, but he's recorded some pretty nice albums with Norman Simmons and Tommy Flanagan fairly recently. OTOH, I just checked AMG for a review of this CD, and they call him "Journeyman saxophonist Scott Hamilton" so what do we know?

Yes, but Moose who has become a less than six inning pitcher who's retired the side in order like all of three times so far? Wright and his 10+ ERA? Kevin Brown?

Yeah, no doubt the Yanks are really kicking themselves over Leiber. They just had no clue what the market for pitching would be. ********************* Harold, to clarify the relative strengths of the pitching staffs, here it is in a nutshell: Yankee starters: ONE "quality start" in the last THIRTEEN games. Sox starters: Collective ERA of 1.13 in the last SEVEN games. Brown goes tonite for the Bombers, who will likely have to do some bombing. Wakefield and his 1.35 ERA goes tonite against the D-Rays.

Hot Not Hot

That's what I said! The ballad's pretty though.

I was very much interested in top 40 AM radio growing up, spending a lot of time listening with Mom, like while she was doing laundry or sewing. According to her, the earliest song that I really really really liked was "Age of Aquarius" which would have been when I was about 4 years old. Earliest recordings that I got as gifts were a few years later with Chicago's Greatest Hits and Beach Boys Endless Summer.

Glad there's over a hundred page views, but no one else wants to comment on the tunes?

Tough, tough loss for the Cubs with Nomah out for two months minimum. And the poor guy: Two years ago, he left 15 million a year on the table, almost gets replaced by A-Rod, gets injured, traded, best he can do is a one year deal with the hope he can show that he's healthy and productive, and now this, which will be taken as proof he's injury-prone. Now the best thing he can hope for is another one year, incentive-laden deal. And the Cubs have no middle infield, with Walker out, too. Meanwhile, let's compare the Yanks and O's and the Sox and O's, shall we? Yanks get swept by the O's by a three game cumulative score of 23-11. The Sox sweep the O's with two straight shut-outs. B-) And Harold, are you still sure you'd take the Yanks starters "any day" over the Sox? Let's see, until Pavano last night, the Yanks had gone 11 straight starts without meeting the minimum standard of a "quality start" and the only pitcher who isn't going 7+ is Schilling. Wells, working on a 15 inning scoreless streak; Clement is lights out, Wakefield is just sick, with an era of 1.36 or something.