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Check this out.... MLB park factors sorted for HR. http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/stats/parkfa...amp;season=2009

No. Well, I've tired of Chris Berman's routine. He doesn't announce a baseball game so much as he pontificates his way through it, rambling away with all sorts of self references and other musings on a variety of well-worn topics while his bewildered partner tries to follow along. It's rambling and ... oh by the way, there's a beautiful double play! We'll be right back. Agreed that Berman has jumped the shark. However, what he does as an announcer has absolutely no effect on the outcome of the game or HR stats unlike the Yankees new home. They need to raise and/or move the fences. If the Phillies moved their left field wall back and didn't go bankrupt from the loss of revenue that the missing rows provided I think the Yankees should be able to do it too.

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Jerry Moore one of the first(and one of the best!) tapers died in his sleep last week. To read more about him and his contributions to Deadheads everywhere click here and here.

http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/recap?gameId=290607013 He definitely touched the rim but the rim never moved. Not goaltending http://www.nba.com/analysis/rules_11.html

NL All-Star update. Good news - Ibanez is now first among outfielders by a comfortable margin, Manny 5th. http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20...sp&c_id=mlb

Gallo arraigned in death of Adenhart http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=4240352

Friday, 12 June 2009 Kevin Valentine — PMA's "Art After 5" — Philadelphia Museum of Art, Great Stair Hall, BF Parkway & 26th, Philadelphia — 215.763.8100 June 12 (Fri) — 5:45-6:45 & 7:15-8:15 pm — $12 [free for members, students $8] Odean Pope + Sunny Murray — Odean Pope (tenor saxophone), Sunny Murray (drums) — an ars nova workshop production — Philadelphia Art Alliance, 251 S 18th St, Philadelphia June 12 (Fri) — 8 pm — $12 Dave Allen Quartet — featuring saxophonist Seamus Blake — Chris' Jazz Cafe, 1421 Sansom St, Philadelphia June 12 (Fri) — 8 & 10 pm — $15 Joe Ford Quartet — Ortlieb's Jazzhaus, 3rd & Poplar Sts, Philadelphia June 12 (Fri) — 8 pm - midnight Saturday, 13 June 2009 Charles Fambrough Quartet — with Joe Ford, Bill O'Connell and Wilber Fletcher — Philadelphia Clef Club, Broad & Fitzwater Sts, Philadelphia June 13 (Sat) — 7 & 10:30 pm — $25 [$20 in advance] Tessa Souter — Chris' Jazz Cafe, 1421 Sansom St, Philadelphia June 13 (Sat) — 8 & 10 pm — $20 Clifford Adams Quartet — Ortlieb's Jazzhaus, 3rd & Poplar Sts, Philadelphia June 13 (Sat) — 8 pm - midnight http://www.chrisjazzcafe.com/ http://ortliebsjazzhaus.com/ For new/used Jazz CDs I would try A.K.A. Music which is located at 27 North 2nd street. For vinyl I would try Beautiful World Syndicate. They have two stores..... http://www.myspace.com/beautifulworldsyndicate

First Grasshopper and now Hugh Hopper. Bad week to be a hopper.

Wow. Just listening to the samples of Saturday Night Special on the Wax Poetics page. Amazing. Too bad he didn't get to see this re-issued.

Peter, are you still looking for back issues?? I know a record store here in town that has a bunch. PM me if you're still interested.

Great. Durbin serves up a gopher ball in the 12th to Ethier. :rmad: :rmad: :rmad: :bwallace: :rmad: :rmad: :rmad: :rmad:

Hmm.. that's weird. I would send an email to the Cecil Taylor list serve. It might take a couple of days to get an answer but you will definitely get one. http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/CTResearch/

Well, It's funny...the mutts win even with a cast of nobodies and has-beens. Braves have less luck with has-beens. If the Marlins hadn't fallen apart, it really could have been their year. Phillies should try to get Penny and then a #1 or #2 guy. J.H., have you heard of any rumors of Cliff Lee??? You get him and have Penny go 5-6 innings and only give up 4 runs a game, and you guys win the east. Or will Bastardo, or whatever his name is, get called up??? Don't want anything to do w/ Penny. He usually starts off fast and then is done by August. Haven't heard a peep about Lee. Bastardo started this week vs. the Padres and went 6 strong innings for the win in his MLB debut. However, I don't think he's ready quite yet. He basically throws 3 pitches - fastball, fastball, and fastball. He couldn't locate his slider or change up all night but that could have been due to nerves. J.A. Happ is looking pretty good though. 4-0 so far. What the Phils really need is a right hand bat off the bench that can play outfield. EDIT: F*ck. Lidge just blew another save. 2nd in row vs. the Dodgers and 6th on the season. Memo to Uncle Charlie.... Shut him down. NOW.

Lester Bowie - The 5th Power (Black Saint)

Are the Mets doomed again by ghosts from the past?? The future has been written for the 2009 New York Mets, and it is not good. They are modern day Jobs, all of them. Only in this run, there is no reprieve. A team with baseball's second-highest payroll will win, oh, 85 games and finish 10 games behind Philadelphia. They will add someone -- Aubrey Huff? Nick Johnson? -- to the mix, sing his praises, find a groove, then sink back to reality. They will fire their manager, trade off their prospects, talk about the new Mets, the fresh Mets, the exciting Mets. But they're still the haunted Mets. http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/writ...x.html?bcnn=yes Frankly w/ the Phillies starting pitching ERA hovering around 6.00 and Lidge just giving away games like Santa gifting presents, I wonder if this obit is a tad premature....

Randy Smith, R.I.P. http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=4233659 I used to love watching him play w/ McAdoo against the Baltimore Washington Bullets. Damn.

This afternoon... Cecil Taylor - Nuits de la Fondation Maeght vol. 1 (Shandar) Cecil Taylor - Nuits de la Fondation Maeght vol. 2 (Shandar) Cecil Taylor - Nuits de la Fondation Maeght vol. 3 (Shandar)

I'm starting to wonder if his "suicide" was some kind of weird sex act gone horribly wrong a la Michael Hutchence.

Clearing out the backlog this afternoon... Cage/Oliveros/Johnston - The Contemporary Contrabass (Nonesuch) Charles Wuorinen - Time's Encomium (Nonesuch) Randall/Vercoe/Dodge - Computer Music (Nonesuch)

Donald Erb - Music For Instruments & Electronic Sounds (Nonesuch)

It went for $966.60

R.I.P., Grasshopper.

Nice racquet.

That's too bad. Well here's another one starting @ $600. Free shipping. http://cgi.ebay.com/DON-PULLEN-MILFORD-GRA...1QQcmdZViewItem