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  3. NFL 2013

    in Miscellaneous - Non-Political

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    Luckily we don't have to find out.

    BTW, Manning has feasted on very weak defensive teams this season. He hasn't faced anything even close to what Seattle has.

    I'm torn. I would love to see Champ retire with a ring, but I'm an old school defensive guy. I want to see Seattle win it.

    It also depends, to some degree, on how the refs call it- Seattle gets away with lots of holding by the defensive backs, so if the refs call a tight game I think that advantage goes to Denver.

  7. MLB 2013 Season

    in Miscellaneous - Non-Political

    Posted · Edited by PHILLYQ

    How do you know? Maybe the Mets are making to look a big splash.

    Also, perhaps Jay Z is just trying to send the Yankees a message. Randy Levine said they're not meeting his demands.

    The Mets don't have $$ to sign Cano unless they plug their holes with some AAA players. They need a shortstop, a corner outfielder, a healthy catcher, some bullpen help(Hawkins is gone for $2.5mil and that blew away the Mets offer!), a starting pitcher, etc. $30mil won't buy much this offseason, if the Marlon Byrd contract is a template for the other free agent signings.

  9. Herbie Hancock Complete Columbia Box

    in Mosaic and other box sets...

    Posted

    Dang! The DHL order was something else ... so I'm *still* waiting for the Herbie, I am getting very impatient, after all it's been close to eight week since my (pre-)order and I thought the idea of pre-orders was they should send it so you have in on street day ... not that that really matters, but come on, it's been ten days en route now and was shipped only after erwbol had already received his, how effin' lame is that?

    Anyway, I picked up the new November edition of Wire and there's a three page review (by Greg Tate, don't know him, I think) of the box. Started reading it on my way home, makes me all the more impatient!

    Ubu, Greg Tate is the driving force behind Burnt Sugar and used to write about music for the Village Voice. IIRC, he was punched out by Stanley Grouch while at the Village Voice!

  12. MLB 2013 Season

    in Miscellaneous - Non-Political

    Posted

    Maybe this is venturing into the political, but I don't care - it speaks to what's really going on with the Braves' move. Delete if you will.

    Here's a quote from Cobb County GOP Chairman Joe Dendy on the transportation issues:

    “It is absolutely necessary the solution is all about moving cars in and around Cobb and surrounding counties from our north and east where most Braves fans travel from, and not moving people into Cobb by rail from Atlanta.

    For anyone familiar with Atlanta demographics, this is pretty blatant.

    I get your point, but isn't Turner field pretty beat down?

    That's what I have heard.

    Well, the Braves' management says this:

    Turner Field has served the Braves well since 1997, but it is in need of major infrastructure work, which will cost around $150 million. These upgrades are functional ones, such as replacing worn-out seats or upgrading the stadium's lighting, and they would do little to significantly enhance the fan experience. If the Braves were to pay for additional projects focused on improving the fan experience, the additional costs could exceed $200 million.

    I don't really know what they're talking about. I'm not knowledgeable enough to know what upgrades Turner Field needs, but I think most visitors would be surprised to hear that the Braves think it needs that much work. On my last visit, a couple of months ago, the only negative I noticed was that the lighting in the corridors seemed a little dim, but that certainly wasn't a major issue for me. My impression was that the seats were just fine, that the sightlines were excellent (not a bad seat in the house), that the field was beautiful and well-lit, that the concession choices were widely varied, from cheap hotdogs and nachos to gourmet sandwiches and steaks and PBR to craft beers, that there were lots of activities and entertainment for fans before the game (and during it, if the kids got bored), and that the organ was played by an excellent jazzman, Matt Kaminski. (Okay, he didn't play jazz at this gig, but his sarcastic song choices to introduce the opposing players were pretty funny.)

    Maybe Turner Field does need 150-200 million dollars of work after 16 years of operation. That seems excessive to me, but maybe it does. The projections for the new facility are around $672 million. (That's the stadium and surrounding infrastructure.) The Braves won't be paying all of that, of course, but they will certainly be spending more than they would if they stayed put. I guess they are pretty sure they'll recoup their investment, but "throwing away" a perfectly good, relatively new baseball stadium seems insane to me.

    And once again the numbers they publicly say are not really what ends up being paid with 30-years of interest. Beside Turner Field being surrounded by "the wrong type of people"....the real thing this is all about is all the latest bells and whistles that come with a new stadium....and all the ways the team (not the taxpayers) can make more money from them.

    I don't think we will see many teams staying in any stadium longer than 20-years before wanting a new one anymore.

    If cities had any sense they would do what San Francisco/NY/Atlanta now did with the Giants/Jets/Niners/Braves, etc. Let another city/county/state taxpayers be robbed while they still keep their city/state name. The money saved might go to do some actual good for taxpayers of the city/state.

    Cities really should stop subsidizing everyone of them...they're all White Elephants to taxpayers.

    I saw something recently that the Atlanta baseball team has a horrible TV contract with a lot of years left on it. A new stadium would provide a nice revenue boost for them.

    I think every stadium deal I've seen in the last 20+ years involves hosing taxpayers, poor people(who gets hit when budgets are cut to pay for debt service on stadium bonds?), etc., all to line the pockets of the teams. Don't believe a word when a team trumpets them paying for a stadium- did they also pay for the infrastructure improvements to make it possible- NOT! In NYC, Nanny Bloomberg gave away about a billion bucks to the Yanks and Mets for new stadia, and was prepared to go more for the Jets on the west side of Manhattan.

  14. Live recordings you were in attendance

    in Miscellaneous Music

    Posted

    I forgot about this one. This was Cecil Taylor Tony Oxley show at the Village Vanguard in July 2008. It was recorded and released as an LP by Ben Stein. He is the program directory of WKCR. I am not sure which set, but I was at all 12 sets that week.

    I'm at the bottom of this New York Times photo. Cecil is a genius. Maybe a new word needs to created be to describe his genius.

    Cecil finished one set after only 40 minutes and Lorraine yelled, get back up there and play. Cecil just walked up the steps to have a smoke. I don't thinks he has been back since.

    taylor.600.jpg

    I was at one of those shows myself and I could've stayed for a second set, but I was spent from listening to CT.

  15. NFL 2013

    in Miscellaneous - Non-Political

    Posted

    I just learned of this.

    From just how much of a disaster Schiano is..... They trade for Darrelle Revis....give him a 6-year $96 million deal (none of which is guaranteed...but this year he get's $16 million) and he doesn't let him play man to man @ all so far this season, but only zone defense.

    You can't make that up!

    To mix my sports metaphors, it's like asking Babe Ruth to bunt all the time!

    Jonathan Martin is from Stanford. Not exactly small, or can't protect himself. Both his parents are Lawyers who graduated from Harvard. His Great-Grandfather was only one of 12 African-Americans in the class of 1924 and he wasn't allowed to live on campus dorm.

    All kinds of shit going on with each of the Florida teams, but this is something that has been going on for a good while with him.

    You don't have to read between lines what this is really about.

    NFL just found itself in another mess.

    I hope things turn out OK for him and it's not another Barret Robbins

  16. MLB 2013 Season

    in Miscellaneous - Non-Political

    Posted

    Didn't take long for the Yankees to resign Girardi to another 4-years. Now, it's Cano coming to reality after "testing the market". The Dodgers already made it clear they're not interested. Considering his age and he's a 2nd baseman and the history of the position....5-6-years really is the most, but the Yankees will probably give him 7-8-years like Pedroia, which I think the Red Sox & Yankees will end up regretting.

    Of course, Cano might end up playing 3rd if Mr. April is suspended and they don't trade for anyone.

    I think Nunez at third, despite his penchant for costly errors. $189mil or less!

  19. Is jazz good for babies?

    in Miscellaneous Music

    Posted

    I played all sorts of music for my son(He's 21 now), and when he was little he loved James Brown and Tower of Power. When he hit his teenage years he called jazz 'music by people who don't know what they're doing'. Now he's quite eclectic in his tastes, bit of Bill Evans here and there, along with lots of other stuff. His taste in music is all his own.

  21. MLB 2013 Season

    in Miscellaneous - Non-Political

    Posted

    Painful weekend for Yank fans, starting Thursday with an epic comeback, then pffft! Blown in the 9th, lose in the 10th, then Friday, up 8-3 late, then pffft! Bullpen implosion. Today was a just a good old-fashioned butt-kicking. Bosox lookin' very strong, I hope they sent a thank you card to the Dodgers for this season:)

    Unless your theory is purely addition by subtraction, I think that's premature. There's plenty of time for thank you cards in the coming season(s) when the prospects they picked up actually contribute. Credit should go to Cherrington for some pretty shrewd use (to date) of the salary that was freed up though.

    Meantime with Ellsbury in a walking boot and possibly out with a broken foot, I do worry that this is their high water mark. I guess the Jackie Bradley era starts early in Boston. Come to think of it, a young, highly touted centerfielder was called up at the end of the 2007 season, became a starter and helped bring a championship home, so maybe Bradley can do the same.

    The Dodgers did take a lot of $$ off the Bosox payroll, and Boston did get rid of Crawford & Beckett, a definite addition by subtraction both in payroll and performance.

  25. MLB 2013 Season

    in Miscellaneous - Non-Political

    Posted

    Painful weekend for Yank fans, starting Thursday with an epic comeback, then pffft! Blown in the 9th, lose in the 10th, then Friday, up 8-3 late, then pffft! Bullpen implosion. Today was a just a good old-fashioned butt-kicking. Bosox lookin' very strong, I hope they sent a thank you card to the Dodgers for this season:)

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