ghost of miles

We re-aired The Avant-Garde Plays the Great American Songbook this past week; it remains archived for online listening.

Just met him--a very nice, down-to-earth guy. I'll post a link to the Profiles program once it's archived online.

Rundgren's been here in town for the past several weeks and is coming by the station in a few minutes to do an interview... we're pretty psyched about it around this joint.

I heard a recap of last night's game on NPR this morning--they ran tape of Brian Wilson in a postgame interview saying, "I feel like getting a little weird." Getting, as the NPR announcer asked afterwards rather incredulously? Really happy for Giants fans today. Kind of ironic that one of the two World Series champ "drought" teams left is the Cleveland Indians, considering that their record-setting 1954 team was knocked off in the Series that year by--the Giants!

Hey, a great World Series win for you Giants fans--what a cool, likable team you have. And what a great ride for the Rangers this year... I don't think they've finished speaking their piece in terms of postseason appearances. J.H., excellent point about the Giants knocking off some of the game's top pitchers on their way to taking it all; of course, they were in the position to do that because of their own outstanding staff.

Cool indeed, but I'm betting you won't be witnessing it. I think Lee will pitch a masterpiece.

Ugh, me neither. He won't consider expanded replay but he's all eager to expand the playoffs? On the Series, great performance by San Francisco's pitchers again--no room for error on Texas' part now. They're in a tough hole, even with Lee pitching Game 5, what with the last two potential games in San Francisco.

Just found out that Borders #115 here in Bloomington will be closing for good as of January 7.

Here's a great Prestige compilation of Red:

Well, there you go, Ranger fans--your bullpen held (I doubt SF will want to see Feliz much more if they can help it) and you bagged your must-win game. What happens if you even it up tomorrow? You'll have Cliff Lee going for game 5 (you know he'll be back on form) and a good shot at taking a 3-2 lead back to San Francisco.

Enter Feliz? I'm working down to the wire on a documentary show, but I'm trying to sneak in Internet/TV peeks as the game goes on.... Rangers batting now in the bottom the 8th.

Deep in the heart of Texas seems to be producing a better vibe for Ranger play so far tonight.

This is pretty cool: World Series Game 2 8th inning break singalong ...I'll confess that as a kid I really dug some of those early Journey sides like "Lights"... Q95 used to play them a lot in Indianapolis. Neat that Steve Perry was actually in the crowd and urging them on in the singalong; again, I'm really impressed by the character of the Giants team, their fans, and the spirit of the games at A T & T Park. Great to see a city having such a love affair with its ballclub.

I guess I'll be moving the Mosaics into the bunker...

One more time! :party:

Incredible that that all started with two outs and nobody on--is that some sort of Series record, scoring 7 runs in such circumstances? I cite the '96 Yankees in part because they were flat-out humiliated by the Braves in the first two games--and at Yankee Stadium to boot. At least Texas will be at home for the next three. The bullpen, whatever its perennial problems, looked rattled to me, maybe some WS nerves that might be more easily settled in a friendly environment. And you'll be able to put Guerrero in as DH. Rangers look outclassed so far, but the homestand could really turn things around. Game 3 obviously a must-win at this point, though.

Man, I think the Rangers can't get out of San Francisco fast enough. Just remember the '96 Yankees, guys.

Nice escape from a jam by Cain.

Quite the pitching duel tonight, so far.

Beautiful and vivid description of Jamal's playing, Mark--thanks for posting it.

A most excellent day indeed.

Is this going to be one of those vaunted "battle of the aces" matchups that ends up 10-8 or some such? Well, I called the sum of runs right--it ended 11-7. Jsngry, you've got to take some consolation from the Rangers' mettle in this game. Plus they forced SF to use Wilson in a blowout and then hit him hard, clearing the bases and scoring three runs before he could finally put them away. If they win tomorrow, they head back to Texas for three games all tied up. EDIT: I love it that the Giants use Blur's "Song #2" as their postgame victory music.

Apologies to Berigan, but the Braves beat the Yankees 12-1 in Game 1 of the '96 series. And that didn't end well for the Braves. Damn, beat me to it. They smacked the Yankees around pretty hard in Game 2 of that series as well. Not to mention that the series then headed back to Atlanta for three games. At that point I remember thinking, "Well, this season was a great ride, lots of incredible stories and character developments, good to finally make it back to the WS, blah blah blah..." I just wanted to see them avoid getting swept. Turned out a lot better than that, obviously, but their chances sure looked bleak after the first two games. BTW, they also had a highly-talented rookie shortstop (Derek Jeter), a gutty ace acquired via trade (David Cone), and a slugging outfielder trying to put a substance-abusing past behind him (Daryl Strawberry).

Yes--didn't somebody upstream point out that Guerrero might be problematic for the Rangers in the road games? Those two plays reminded me of watching Marcus Thames this year for the Yankees whenever he took the field...a development that never failed to make Pinstripe Alley posters break out in hives.

A three-run dinger would put 'em right back in it. There's a big psychic difference IMO between a four-run and a six-run lead. I thought the same thing, esp. after Lincecum struck out the first two batters that inning. A lot of teams would have been so devastated by their invincible ace getting knocked out of the game that they would have pretty much rolled over at that point and died for the rest of the night. Instead they kept it a contest.