ghost of miles

I'm in for the CD.

Some of it stems from the "three true outcomes" philosophy of walk, strikeout, and home run. Not sure that I buy into it anyway, analytically speaking, but I find the practice of it makes baseball a less interesting sport to watch. And teams like Houston and Boston certainly can hit for power, but they score in other ways as well. Everybody scoffs at BA these days as an outmoded stat and talks about OPS, but it helps to have guys who can give you more singles and doubles as well--especially when runners are positioned to score. Seems elementary, but whaddaIknow.

Completely agree, and lots of posters at PSA would concur as well. But Boston simply out-managed, out-pitched, out-hit and out-played us in general. They were the better team in the regular season and clearly the better team in this series—NY was 0-3 in games where David Price did not appear. The Houston-Boston matchup will be a great one. Also looking forward to Milwaukee-LA on the NL side of things.

Well, NY had better shift the momentum quickly--they've been completely dominated through the first half of this game. Starting pitching is certainly the place to begin, but I'm wary of the free agents that will be available, outside of Corbin. (And even if Kershaw were to opt out, which I don't think he will, I'd be VERY skeptical of giving him a big deal when he's on the wrong side of 30 and has had back issues.) Severino hopefully just needs another year to mature into a full-blown ace, and Tanaka can probably give us another couple of decent years. I don't know where Montgomery is in terms of when he comes back from TJ surgery. Happ might be worth taking a chance on for another year, if he's willing to sign for only that. I don't think we'll see Sonny Gray again. Not sure where Sheffield is in terms of his development. I also think NY needs to hire a new hitting coach.

Welp, turn out the lights, 2018 New York Yankees. You were a very good 100-62 team, but you're no world champion contender and not in the same league as Boston and Houston. Great rookie years by Andujar and Torres, an MLB team home-run record, but a lot of fodder for the hot-stove league, that's for damn sure. Please start by getting a new hitting coach.

News flash! Angel Hernandez has been replaced as tonight's home-plate umpire. Here's some video footage of the guy who's stepping in for him: I'm puzzled by those moves as well. Consensus seemed to be that Leon would be catching Porcello tonight. Does Holt have terrible lifetime numbers against CC or something? In addition to the first-ever postseason cycle he nailed last night, wasn't he one of Boston's hottest hitters in September, too? On the NY side Andujar and McCutchen are nowhere to be seen in tonight's starting lineup, and Hicks is leading off.

I think all other posters have been asking for in this thread is the general principle that the rules moderators apply to the board apply to themselves as well. Seems this whole dust-up arose from the necessity to purge some recent posts for political reasons, which caused some O members to wonder why earlier ones, in particular by a fellow moderator, had gotten a pass. That doesn't seem like a ludicrous or excessive request or concern--it's not so much "please dear God get rid of that Time Magazine image, itz been haunting me for months!!!" as it is, are moderators going to favor other moderators in general when it comes to applying board standards? That's all. And yeah, sorry, Brett Kavanaugh is a freakin' lightning rod in American culture right now and will continue to be so for quite a long time, most likely. I'm sure Jsngry isn't intending to endorse his confirmation to the Supreme Court by posting a family photo op, but can of worms and all that, because on its own, it can easily be perceived as an endorsement. If a board member started posting photo ops of Trump or Kamala Harris or some such in this thread, it would be pretty obviously political. Here's an easy way of defining it: "no politics" should include "no political figures," especially since the overwhelming significance of political figures is... politics. Problem solved!

Came across this in my search for humorous gravestone images—however, it could be considered pro-gun control:

Damn kidz! Get off my Forest Lawn!

P.S. This thread is HOT! Now here’s an image we can all get behind... or get a head!

Hey Jim, I will be eternally grateful for all of the work you did to restore all of the content that went missing after another mod accidentally blocked me. I don’t even normally check this thread and take no umbrage at anything that’s been posted—but in the context of the ongoing discussion, I still gotta say that the Time cover, whatever your intent in posting it, comes off as overtly political, no doubt about it. And hell, even a photo of a smiling Kavanaugh family is political at this point—there’s an easily implicit message in posting an image like that. In our hyper-politicized, hyper-partisan age (don’t even get me started! ), any “current events” images that involve controversial political figures are likely to come across as political themselves. I don’t care, I have much better things to worry about than what’s getting posted in the “post a pic” thread, as do we all... and have MUCH respect for your insight and integrity in all things. But I do disagree on this one.

Yeah, Angel had a game almost as bad as the Yankees... well, that’s a pretty bad level of bad to compete with, but I can’t imagine either team is happy at the thought of him behind the plate tonight. NY will be hoping for a lot simply to get a five-inning three-run start out of CC, but at least I’m confident that he’ll know the time the game starts. They also have to hope that the bats can wake up against Porcello and that the DRob/Betances/Britton/Chapman train can hold any lead they might be able to attain. A lot of hoping that even if fulfilled leads to facing Chris Sale at Fenway for game 5. I think it’s a little less than 50-50 at best that such a game ever comes to pass. The Sox bounced back from a demoralizing game 2 loss and administered the worst beatdown any home squad has ever received in the history of the playoffs. That’s the sign of a tough team. Tonight it’s the Yankees’ turn to be tested.

The Time cover is a great one, but it is political by a hundred miles--not a hard call at all to make IMO. And I say this as a flaming left-winger very sympathetic to the point it's making, but in terms of objectivity, rules, and fairness, it shoulda been bounced, ump.

I have both of those too! I also have Mundell Lowe's TV ACTION JAZZ cd. Thanks for all of the suggestions so far, everybody. Some others I'm considering: Bill Evans, "Suicide Is Painless (Theme From MASH)" Bob James, "Angela (Theme From Taxi)" Phil Woods, "Theme From Star Trek" Betty Carter, "Theme From Dr. Kildare" Pete Rugolo, "Naked City" Earle Hagen, "I Spy" ... in addition to the aforementioned Shelly Manne and Ornette Coleman. Maybe a good version of the theme from "Mannix," too? "Mission: Impossible"? Has any jazz artist done the Flinstones theme? I remember Sting's circa-BRING ON THE NIGHT group jamming on it in a documentary about his Brandford-era band.

Wow, what an embarrassment. I saw this coming, but not quite this bad... so much cockiness and complacency from the Yankee fan-base after game 2, as if we had already freakin' won the ALDS. Apparently Severino didn't know the start time for tonight's game and had to rush his bullpen session, which is a stupid, inexcusable mistake. I think Boston would have hit him hard anyway, but gawd almighty... and Cora definitely improved the order by putting in Holt, Devers and Pearce. And wtf was Boone thinking leaving Severino in after three innings? He clearly didn't have it, and we were lucky to be down only 3-0 at that point. People on Pinstripe Alley were going nuts when they saw that Boone was bringing him out for the 4th, and then he left him in for THREE batters that loaded the bases with nobody out and the top of the order coming up. Worst managerial decision I've seen by a Yankee coach in a long, long time. Now it's a 10-0 blowout and Boston won't even have to use Kimbrel tonight. NY's put themselves in the position of (1) absolutely having to win tomorrow night, or go home for the year, and if they can pull that off, then (2) having to beat Chris Sale at Fenway.

Astros will have plenty of time now to rest and watch the Red Sox and Yankees beat up on each other.

Hey all, I'm working on a Night Lights show about jazz recordings of TV themes and have been putting together a list of some obvious candidates (Shelly Manne and "Peter Gunn") and perhaps not so obvious (Ornette Coleman and "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman"). What can you think of or suggest? It can be either covers/interpretations or the original recordings (thinking here of Nelson Riddle and "Route 66," for example). I've come up with quite a few, but I always like to check in with the Organissimo brain-trust for recommendations. (Along these same lines, there's a fun new CD out from pianist Randy Waldman: Superheroes. I played his version of Oliver Nelson's theme for "The Six Million Dollar Man" on my afternoon show today.)

Uncertain but possibly yes re further releases is my reading of the tea leaves I've been given. There's a live recording of Billie Holiday at Cafe Society performing "Strange Fruit" with only piano accompaniment that I'd sure like to hear, among other things.

How Red Sox could adjust lineup for game 3

I understood that Brad was referring to that particular potential series—just also realized that there’s a good chance the AL team will have the advantage in the WS. Congrats to the Brewers for so impressively sweeping the Rockies. Here’s another nugget of interest—to me, anyway—if the Dodgers and Astros follow suit, we will have a geographical four-corner NLCS/ALCS, with Los Angeles facing Milwaukee and Houston squaring off against either Boston or New York.

I just realized that with the new (well, relatively new--MLB just started using it last year) formula for determining home field advantage in the World Series (team with the better record, regardless of whether they were a wild-card or division winner), the American League will definitely have it unless their representative team is Cleveland. Cleveland would hold home field advantage against either the Braves or the Rockies, but not against the Dodgers or the Brewers.

I don't know how their stats look against Severino, but I would not be surprised to see Holt, Pearce and/or Devers in the starting lineup tomorrow night.