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

Stanley Grouch does pompous every week in the NY Daily News, he has a regular column!

Not unusual for the Asstros!

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.

SS1, c'mon! Your tribe is on the verge of a playoff spot! Congrats to a long-suffering fanbase.

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.

With that much $$, she may want a prenup, SS1!!

Serena is 31 and possibly playing the best tennis of her career. When she finally does hang it up(and ties the knot with SS1), she's probably the best female tennis player ever. Just had to repeat that-WOW!!!

They arrested the guy, but haven't figured out what to charge him with!

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:)

Some quotes from Chris Albertson in the article.

So two pitchers did it clean!

Followed closely by '3rd down efficiency'. Lumping every third down together and going with the average is, IMHO, just absurd. There's a huge difference between 3rd and inches and 3rd and 10, so to lump them all together muddies what could be a good stat. No one yet has found a correlation between making third downs and winning games.

Yes, but you have to clean up afterwards!

Revenue is expected to be $25 billion in 15-years....in the meantime by the time they finally pay off the money in 20-years....the cost of inflation would lesson the value of the remaining 17-years paid. They're probably going to lose another 25-35% of the money's value on top of what they're going to pay the lawyers. What is $75,000-$100,000 going to do for anyone with Dementia? That's like one year's worth of treatment...and they're not even getting it one lump sum payment. This settlement also kept the NFL from opening up it's records on concussions. Current players and future players are screwed because they can't say they don't know the about the risks and accept the liability....it also would be covered under the CBA. Goodell got a new contract that doubles his salary after getting the NFLPA to kowtow for the last CBA. Who knows how much more he's going to get in the future now that he got the Refs and the former players to do the same. The lockout settlement hosed the current players, and this deal hoses the former players.I get the feeling that the NFL told the former players' lawyers that 'we can settle for this, or we could tie you up in court for 10 years'

Welcome to the new members!

King Crimson at the Pier, 1982 3 Allman Bros. Instant Lives Mingus at Carnegie Hall(Please release the entire concert!) Herbie Hancock 'VSOP'(Has the Mwandishi band and the headhunters as well)

I had nothing good to say, so...

Ya hit a home run with this one!

I'm a Yankee fan and I didn't care at all whenever Bonds was HBP, and as Blue Train pointed out, Bonds crowded the plate and wore body armor that led to more HBP.Did you see or hear about any celebrations by Yankee fans over Bonds being HBP? Who are all these Yankee fans upset about A-Roid getting plunked? The NY dailies(News & Post) had nothing on it, and I'm a Yankee fan and I thought it was no big deal. It sounds like you're in the fact-free zone. Or is that tragic number? Better days may be ahead, as the Cubs did get rid of some bad contracts this year.

Al Davis went from brilliant(his early years) to extremely dim. I think he became more interested in keeping and wielding power than making the Raiders better.

I finally got a chance to listen to this a few weeks ago, and it's VERRRRY good. Mike plays some greazzzy organ(had to wipe my glasses a few times!), and the drummer and guitarist are right with him, a true trio disc. I Played some cuts for some friends who are not jazz buffs and they dug the immense groove on the disc. I highly recommend it.

Looks to me that the next step is a sale of WBAI, they have a slot on the dial that is worth a lot of moolah.

Congratulations!!!

" My personal favorite member of the group by far was the drummer" may have made the point, but what do I know? I'm not very well studied on *Reynoldian* scripture If you read your Reynolds regularly, you know that he LOVES Tom Rainey's playing.