Dan Gould

This was a must-win and they did. So ... 3 out of 5 in Boston but last 2 in Houston - doesn't feel like home field advantage. Assuming they do reach the Series, glad to see Atlanta won last night. I think the Dodgers would make mincemeat out of most of the Red Sox staff, plus I wouldn't want Pujols in the lineup as the DH. If Atlanta can pull the upset, and we do beat Houston, then we get home-field advantage despite coming out of the wild card spot. (Which brings up another bit of total confusion: The whole idea was that with play in games (and potentially more than one), Wild Card teams were supposed to be at a bigger disadvantage, having probably used their best starter to get in to the dance, and maybe second best to secure their spot in the last game of the season. Yet, now, if you do get thru to the World Series and have best record, you host 1-2 and 5-6? If its the Dodgers and Houston, Dodgers should suffer for not winning the division and start on the road, 106 wins be damned.)

I've just ordered this so you better be right about Houston!

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Sorry for the pain you must feel. Incredible that two teams could have such records in the same division especially when San Diego was the hot pick going into the season. IMO definitely a bad call on the check swing. A bit out of sorts with Sale named as Game 1 starter. Eovaldi is certainly the easy choice, on regular rest. Supposedly Sale "found it" between his last near-disaster of a start and now. We should know pretty quickly tonight if that was really the case. If Sale gives 5 quality innings and he sticks with the best of his bullpen - like Houk for three innings and Whitlock for the 9th, this could be a big advantage with Eovaldi going in Game 2. But if Sale sucks again that's a lot of pressure for game 2 to go back to the Fens with a split. We used to say "In Theo We Trust". If this works I guess it will be "In Alex we Trust".

Have you seen Omega Man with Chuck Heston? Same source - like the remake with Wil Smith. When I was a kid I thought Omega Man was way cool. Ultimately I decided no one has ever done justice to the Matheson story.

Personally among Shatner appearances (and also written by Matheson) I prefer the one with the fortune telling machine in the diner.

Ghost Story and the opening scene from Night of the Living Dead scared the ever-living crap out of me when I was 7 or so. Never would have guessed a DVD (?) exists for the former, maybe I'll try to find a copy and see if it still works its magic. Matheson, of course, was great, and you don't even mention Twilight Zone.

Congratulations. Do report on what his responses are in the coming months/years.

Yeah but he's all over this.

Yes Garnett is the big blinking red warning sign for me, and was from jump.

DOH! And now I recall planning to write a post about how this describes the Maupinized part of the Morgan box set and how it wasn't my cuppa. I do thank you both though for saving me the time and money to verify that Understanding ain't my cup of tea either.

I could have sworn my friend Mr. Felser (and Rooster) posted something about the edginess of this era of hard/post bop and how exciting it is but I can't find the posts now. Anyway I have to say that for me, all of that edginess (not the word used originally) comes from Maupin, and that I really really should have remembered that it was Maupin's playing on the original 3-disc set that kept me from pulling it out very often. I love Lee on these tunes; I love Mabes too. And I am going to enjoy the booklet which is nicely done. But I can't get with Maupin. I know, I know, I may be in a severe minority here. But his playing makes me want to skip ahead on 95% of these tracks. Oh well.

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Funny in the same circumstances I'd have stopped at the McDonalds or whatever fast food restaurant had an out-parcel for that purpose. Faster ingress and egress for sure. As for malls in general when I was a kid there was a major mall in Nassau county Mom shopped at but at the moment I have no clue what it was called. I'd bet its still in operation though. Later when I was an adolescent in CT, no malls near to Wilton (big one in Stamford that Mom went to as the nearest Macy's (I think)). The opening of the Danbury Mall (20 minute drive) was a pretty big thing as I recall but pretty sure that one has bitten the dust. When I went to Tallahassee for college, malls played a bigger role in my shopping for sure. Governor's Square on Appalachee Parkway, just down the road from Graham's Erection (then-governor Bob Graham, and really you don't think the capitol and the office tower in between don't look like one? Heaven forbid Florida elects a female Governor I don't know what the locals would start calling it.)

From marathon to sprint to slow-motion car wreck. What an abomination. And now, with absolutely no room for error, the Sox manic-depressive offense is in full-on depressive mode, and somehow has to win three straight at the Nats with one of Schwarber, Martinez and Dalbec stuck on the bench. At this point I hope they are eliminated by Saturday night. All that will take is two more embarrassing losses and two wins by Seattle.

Well they are bred to be sold, so part of the deal of having a wife who wants to raise and distribute as many pure-bred apaloosas as possible.

OK but that doesn't explain Jutta Hipp who recorded in the mid-1950s for the label getting royalties in 2003 or the unlikelihood (IMHO) that Alfred and Francis were making the equivalent of $850,000 a year in 1965.

You realize that $100,000 in 1965 is almost $870,000 in today's dollars? https://www.in2013dollars.com/us/inflation/1965?amount=100000 Also your statement about no royalties at all ... how does that gibe with the fact that we learned that Tom@BlueNote needed help in the early 2000s finding Jutta Hipp to settle her accounts, which amounted to the proverbial "pretty penny" at the time? Did BN change contracts on the fly when the reissue boom started?

Terrible news - my wife and I saw him at this great performance space in Delray Beach (bring your own anything was their motto, so people brought in takeout food with cold beer or wine). Great performance before a very appreciative crowd.

And it also makes the "Well feel something in Bb, motherfucker" story sound real as opposed to legendary or apocryphal.

The truly beautiful Maggie, on schedule, sadly, to go to her new owner in about two weeks.

Thank you I didn't know there was a free option anymore. I will surely keep in mind.

Yeah that works great for album covers but if you don't keep personal photos online harder to do for sharing pics for a thread like this.

I've never needed to delete a prior upload. Each post has a max upload size that is so small - 100KB, and effectively its actually less, because I've had snips that say 90KB and it refuses to upload. But isn't that a per-post not per-thread limit?