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You should have bought a lottery ticket that day, too.

I got your PM and payment, and I'll ship tomorrow. Enjoy the disc-it's a good one!

I was very lucky, no broken bones or massive blood loss, but I was hell on a pair of glasses! I started wearing them at 8, and I was determined to have as much fun and play as much sports as anyone else. I bent them, cracked them, lost pieces, popped lenses, any way you could mangle a pair of glasses I did. So I became a regular at the local optical place, going in with my Mom and a wounded pair of specs. The people there even used to give us a nice discount, maybe because I was such a frequent customer.

There is so much that I hardly know where to start. I grew up in Brooklyn and have never lived elsewhere, and we always had neighborhoods. Go a few blocks and you're in Italy, go some more and you're in Jamaica, some more and everyone is Jewish from eastern europe. Everyone has their enclaves, but you get on the subway and you might be squashed between two people from different corners of the world! With all those people stuck together(The legal population of Brooklyn is about 1.8 million, I think, but actual is much higher), sure we have a riot or two sometimes, but for the most part people get along reasonably well. NYC never sleeps, we want everything done yesterday and better than anyone else. Along with that, we have a generosity of spirit that doesn't seem to occur in many other places. We take a hit and keep coming. Those Al-Qaeda dirtbags made a huge mistake in attacking NYC. They thought they were doing something massive, but NYC brushed it off, said "I crap bigger than you guys", and moved on.

It was a lot of fun to hear 55000+ people chanting 'Who's your daddy', especially after Schilling said he wanted to shut up the Yankee fans.

I was watching the game last night, and I stayed up(I have to get up veeeery early for work) because Mussina was working on a perfect game. So I see he gives up a few hits, two runs, no biggie, it is 8-2. Wake up this morning, no radio, I buy the newspaper on the way to work, and 10-7? I nearly fell over. I think Schilling is done. He was only able to take the mound last night because he was shot up and his ankle was numb, but he's a power pitcher who needs his legs. His pitches were up a lot higher than usual, resulting in that poor outing last night. If it's a dislocated tendon, I don't think it will heal quickly so that he's close to normal.

Glad to see that hey arrived. As for the Canadian PO,

'Mingus at Carnegie Hall'- not a great disc, but I was there. 'Between Nothingness & Eternity' Mahavishnu Orchestra- recorded over two nights, and I was there for one night. 'A Night at the VV'- Sonny Rollins- listened to it last night and it's still great '8:30'- Weather Report 'Agharta', 'Pangaea', 'Plugged Nickel', all the live stuff on the new box John Zorn's Masada, at Seville & Tonic Non jazz: Allman Bros.- at the Fillmore Santana- Lotus J. Geils- Full House James Brown- Love Power Peace(no home should be without it!)

Any takers for these fine discs? Up with hope.

Some stuff I have on Ebay: http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQgotopageZ1QQsa...osortpropertyZ1

Well, last night was sirloin steak and sauteed mushrooms, tonight was curried cauliflower and chicken cutlets with garam masala, still thinking about tomorrow. What time are you coming?

48, but still young and silly enough to laugh out loud at that(with my 12-year old son!). I've already been offered the 'Senior' discount once, been taken for my son's grandfather, kids call me 'Mister', I guess I am getting there. I was born the day after Clifford Brown & Richie Powell died.

If you like Billy Cobham, I think they may have 'Spectrum' & 'Crosswinds". Spectrum is more into the fusion bag, and Crosswinds leans more to the straight-up side.

Some smokin' Holdsworth, also.

"My wife wanted to make love in the back seat of the car-she wanted me to drive." "My wife is such a bad cook, when she made toast it had bones" RIP Rodney- with great respect

You can't bury the Angels yet, at least not after one game.

Whenever I've heard Sonny Rollins do it, it never seemed forced, but rather a part of the solo that fit exactly right to where he was within the solo.

Repeat after me: "The chicken neck is the thing that's not attached to me, the chicken neck..."

Uh, Mark, if its the best lineup in baseball, how come the Red Sox scored almost 100 more runs? .. The Dh, and the wee little stadium they play in???? And Larry Walker joined the fun late...

'Nobody loves me but my mother, and she could be jivin' too'

Ichiro's OBP is only slightly better than Posada's, yet his BA is much,much higher. Look in the Sunday newspaper, where most papers will have the teams BA, OBP, runs scored. Check how BA does not correlate to runs scored, but OBP is much closer to a very good correlation. I don't deny that Ichiro is a very good player, but if he walked as much as Posada he would be of much more value to his team because he would make less outs.

The game last night had a wonderful,'only in Yankee Stadium' ending. A tie game, Matsui works a walk and Bernie Williams sends one out! It was so nice to see him do well, he's one of the classiest people in all of sports. He had a difficult year, with an emergency appendectomy, shuffled around in the lineup, sometimes benched for Lofton, but didn't whine and moan about it. bernie, this one's for you

I just lstened to to 'Patterson's People'- y'all got a winner there!

Welcome to the board, Steve.