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  1. MLB Hot Stove League 2012-13

    in Miscellaneous - Non-Political

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    He also got his ass kicked by the D'Backs in the World Series and the BoSox in the ALCS.

    It was AWESOME! :g:g

    he didn't get his ass kicked by the D-Backs, he made a bad throw on a bunt and a bloop over a drawn-in infield won the game for the D-Backs.

    The outcome was the same; that's all that matters. The Yankees have managed to avoid the natural order and cycle of things in baseball for far too long. Hopefully, they'll be paying for that over the next several years. They now appear even more mismatched than the Knicks, so I'm guessing that they will be sucking at least for a few years.

    So if a guy trips and breaks his nose it's the same as if he were in a fight and got his nose broken because the result is the same?!!! In the game that Goodspeak referred to, Rivera made a bad throw and a bloop over a drawn-in infield was the game/series winning hit. How can anyone characterize that as an 'ass-kicking'?

  4. Get well Sonny...

    in Artists

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    I envy people of my approximate age whose first and often only heartfelt idol was Trane. They almost all discovered him after the passage of time had removed him from the planet, so they only knew him as deceased. That's how it was with me and guys like Hawk, Prez, Bird, a few others, but a lot of my "real heroes" have been guys who were very much alive when I got to them, and none has been a more real hero to me than Sonny. So many of them have passed in my lifetime, and/but I'm really not ready to live in a world without Sonny Rollins, for more than a few reasons, only some of which are probably rational. Not yet, probably not ever, but...

    So yeah, get well. Stay well. Keep playing the tenor. Do it however and with whomever you choose. I don't care. Just...keep it going until it's for sure time to go.

    Please.

    Me too. i saw him a bunch of times when I was first getting into jazz in 1972/3/4 and he still played the Village Vanguard. Mind-altering music.

  5. Alvin Lee, RIP

    in Artists

    Posted · Edited by PHILLYQ

    Maybe the greatest 'guitar face' of all time, especially in 'Woodstock' when the screen was in three panels and he was facing himself on both sides! Fine player, he could certainly ROCK.

  12. Albums it took you a while to start enjoying

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    I'm still not sold on On the Corner, and I'm a huge Miles Davis fan. But I have not heard it in ages, and for me it never made it to CD or digital files.

    Eric Dolphy is an interesting case in point, and I'm especially with those who had trouble with Out to Lunch. I always loved his flute work (unparalleled), but otherwise he was tough to get into--though I had my share of hearing him with Mingus, Trane, Oliver Nelson, etc. I've since become a true fan of Dophy in general--and Out to Lunch must be considered a classic (aided by the phenomenal young talent on it).

    Where would Dolphy have gone in his playing/composing? Consider that he had a peak period that lasted only about four years.

    If you can ,get ahold of the 'On the Corner' box, it's real revelation!

  13. Miles Davis: The Bootleg Series, volume 2

    in New Releases

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    Does German Amazon offer German resellers? I'm thinking I could get a German set with the sticker for a damn good price if so.

    I'm at least as serious as not, because that sticker thing really kinda piques my geek...

    Jim,

    I ordered mine from Germany and I got no stickers.. I was even thinking when I saw your post to rip them off the package and mail them to you, but no stickers on the package at all. Could be the stickers are only put on for a package sent inside Europe.

  17. NFL 2012

    in Miscellaneous - Non-Political

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    The St. Louis Rams announced Tuesday that newly hired defensive coordinator Rob Ryan is no longer the team's DC, saying that "after extensive conversations regarding defensive philosophy" Ryan was "not the right fit" for the position.

    Shouldn't they have had those extensive conversations BEFORE they hired him?

  18. MLB Hot Stove League 2012-13

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    New York Yankees general manager Brian Cashman said on Friday that there is a chance Alex Rodriguez could miss the entire 2013 season after undergoing hip surgery. The Yankees currently plan on having Rodriguez back after the All-Star break.

    I believe that, why else would ARod take freakin' forever to have the surgery? He must have know no matter when he had it, it was going to be a lost season.

    He waited to have the surgery in order to reduce his recovery time. By strengthening the area around the hip his recovery after surgery would be lessened. I saw a story about it in the NY Daily News and IIRC it has also been reported in other outlets.

  23. my dentist wont return my knee

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    Very interesting. At my family dr.'s suggestion I took glucosamine but didn't think it did much to ease the leg pains so I stopped. That was in a June, when the warm weather had eased the pain in previous years. This time, though, the pain continued well into the summer until I caught on and returned to the glucosamine.

    Nowadays broken cartilage rattles around in one knee, especially painful when I bike an hour or 2 each day. Has anyone on Organissimo had a broken cartilage problem and also had arthroscopic surgery for it? Did the surgery do any good? (Knee surgery is scary. My mother had surgery on both knees and afterwards could not walk from the front door to the sidewalk - too painful.)

    I had arthroscopic surgery on my left knee in 1996(torn meniscus) and have had no problems from it at all. I went to a local hospital, two blocks away, and it turns out that the surgeon was rated one of the top ten in NYC by New York magazine, so I got very lucky. After surgery I used a cane for three days, but walked normally afterwards. I was given rehab exercises to strengthen the joint and did them religously. After six weeks I returned to playing handball and I still play today(I'm almost 57). Surgery has advanced quite a bit and does wonders in many cases, especially with mine. Be sure to get an MRI to get a good look at your knee and check around for a good surgeon to do the job.

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