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I should point out that this year is the 100th anniversary of the first Grey Cup game. They took three years off during World War II, so this is the 97th game. The league has downplayed this anniversary, instead planning to celebrate the 100th game in Toronto in 2012.

I see that Into the Light can now be heard at lala.com. http://www.lala.com/#album/165760613842081.../Into_the_Light

I see that Here Comes The Nice Guy Trio can now be heard at lala.com. http://www.lala.com/#album/165760614007413...e_Nice_Guy_Trio

PMs received, riverrat! The Blue Mitchell is on hold for you.

My Christmas season begins the day after the Grey Cup game each year, which means next Monday. I hold off listening to Christmas music until then. The Carla Bley was mentioned on the ECM thread, and I'm looking forward to listening to it here: http://www.lala.com/#album/432627041169191...hristmas_Carols

I can see Shane winning with the final score 45-0! Just kidding!

In case you didn't see it, go play our Grey Cup contest and win a CD here: http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=56020

Thanks Chuck! I hope you'll play the contest this year. You might win a CD. Just what you need!

medjuck, I'm just now noticing your post for the first time. Sorry for the five month delay! Miles Davis Live Vol. 1 is late era Miles, and sounds a lot like Live Around the World. So I assume that Vol. 2 is more of the same. It is on the Delta label and was made in S. Korea.

bumping for the Grey Cup contest

It's that time of year again! It's time for the annual Grey Cup contest. (Past winners have included Noj, brownie and Shane/indestructible.) Here are the rules: 1) Pick the winning team. 2) Pick the number of total points scored by both teams. (aka the tiebreaker) Since approximately half of us will pick the winning team, picking the total points is necessary to win the contest. Your total points prediction must be a number which is a multiple of five (5). The winning tiebreaker will be the one closest to the correct answer. If two are equally close, the winner will be the lower pick. If two people pick the same thing, the first to make the pick will be the winner. THE PRIZE: Your choice of one CD from the list of CDs I have available for sale here: http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php...&hl=Factory Deadline: kickoff, Sunday Nov. 29, 6:00 pm eastern. ***** The Grey Cup game: The Grey Cup is awarded to the world champion of what I think is the greatest game in the world, Canadian rules football. That is to say, the champion of the Canadian Football League. This year's game will be played by the Eastern champion Montreal Alouettes and the Western champion Saskatchewan Roughriders. The location of the game is chosen years in advance. This year's game will be played in the western city of Calgary. You can expect that there will be many more Roughrider fans there than Als fans. Montreal was by far the dominant team in the league this year, finishing with a 15-3 record. Saskatchewan finished with the second best record, 10-7-1. The game's kickoff will be at 6:00 pm eastern, so that time has been designated the deadline for this contest. You can listen to the game here: http://www.am770chqr.com/index.aspx (To listen to the game, you will need Windows Media Player which you can download for free. So you might want to plan ahead if you don't already have it.) You can study the season as it has developed with the CFL thread, which I will be updating during the course of this week. Good luck! Here's my pick (same as last year): Montreal, 50 points

Montreal Alouettes 56....British Columbia Lions 18 http://64.246.64.33/merge/tsnform.aspx?c=s...aspx?id=4268676 Well, what did you expect? The Als scored at will. Calvillo threw 5 TD passes. ***** Saskatchewan Roughriders 27....Calgary Stampeders 17 http://64.246.64.33/merge/tsnform.aspx?c=s...aspx?id=4268736 The score was tied at 10 at the half, but it was all Roughriders in the second half. ***** So now we will see the teams with the two best records during the season face off in the Grey Cup game!

I think they're piggy backing on Britney Spears' success.

Happy Birthday 2009 Doug!

I'm listening to this one now, and I think it's gone from my least favorite Rava to my most favorite. Maybe it's just right for this time of night.

David Naylor Finals preview http://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/foot...article1372511/

Pretty amazing, all right! He must have had a lot of time on his hands!

To clarify my view about Duval, I'm not surprised that he was named the placekicker because he broke the league scoring record. But throughout the year the announcers have not treated him as the punter who was having an obviously better year than everyone else. ***** Gregg Xenakes Finals preview http://www.sportsnetwork.com/merge/tsnform.../AJN4267583.htm

Happy Birthday Bill!

Thanks for that link, Noj. I didn't know that Garcia had been let go by the Eagles. It doesn't surprise me, considering that they have McNabb, Vick and Kolb. Garcia is 39 now, and maybe all the decent teams figure that he is too old to do it any more. I think his years with the Browns and the Lions showed that he can't resurrect a bad team all by himself. On the other hand, there seems to be a real shortage of competent quarterbacking in the league this year, from what I hear on Sirius. I heard one guy yesterday suggest that Cassell was the only good quarterback playing on a bad team. All the other bad teams have bad quarterbacks. That was just one man's opinion. But as I recall Garcia looked good when he was healthy last year with Tampa, and I would think that someone would consider him to be better than what they have now.

I don't want to bet a dead horse, but I have to think that the Raiders would be better off if they hadn't let Jeff Garcia go.

The 2009 All-Star team has been announced. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/2009...article1368240/ I'm a little surprised that Duval was named both placekicker and punter, but I haven't seen the stats.

I have received a promo cd of an singer named Somi called If the Rains Come First. I had never heard of her before, but this is her third album available at lala.com. The record sounds a great deal like Bebel Gilberto. Maybe with a little Sade influence too. It so happens that I like Bebel and Sade, so I like this too. There are eleven tracks, the first ten of which are strong. The last one should have been left off IMO. I definitely recommend that you listen to it here: http://www.lala.com/#album/165760613833109...ains_Come_First

I'm sorry to hear this. I still pictured him as a young guy. I have him on a Nucleus album for sure, and perhaps something else as well.

Thanks jazztrain!