ghost of miles

Who's to say that's going to happen? God only knows w/the Yanks and the Bosox this year; NY took the regular season series 10-9, and now they're tied at 3-3 in the playoffs. This will be the first time in baseball history that two teams have played each other 26 times in one year. Like I said yesterday, no way would I count Boston out. I think Clemens and Martinez will both throw great games tomorrow night. Torre better hope he can get 7 out of Roger because I don't think he trusts the bullpen against Boston outside of Rivera. Wakefield will undoubtedly be on tap for the Bosox in the late innings. It's gonna be a war of inches...

Can't believe I've never read it before, but OUR TOWN, by Thornton Wilder. And getting ready to start EUGENE DEBS: CITIZEN AND SOCIALIST, by Nick Salvatore. Love those Hoosier radical roots!

Awful. Florida was the only team I could not stand to see in the World Series. I hope Boston or New York kicks the s%#@ out of them. There are a lot of baseball fans in the Midwest with broken hearts tonight.

Up for Mike Fitzgerald next time he happens round these parts. I'm at work, but I'll try to check my copy of RAT RACE BLUES when I go home tonight to look for more info on Williams.

No way would I count Boston out. As for the Cubs, they've still got home-field advantage, but tomorrow will be a real test of whether they can come back from a collapse like that. Linked from the Cubs fans' message board:

WTF?!

Yanks are goin' back to the Bronx up 3-2! Man, I can't believe they took 2 of 3 from the Red Sox in Fenway. No guarantee they'll get the pennant, though--this has been a great series so far, and NY won the season series only 10-9, so I ain't countin' on nothin'. Interesting--NY's 7-0 in the playoffs when Mussina doesn't start, 0-3 when he does. He pitched a lot better last night than in his previous two outings, at least. C'mon, Cubs!

Never stopped Buhaina. Nor has any religious faith ever kept some of its practicioners from doing things seemingly at odds with their beliefs. I'd heard stories before to the effect that Young had, at the very least, dabbled. It doesn't detract at all from my enjoyment of his music--just makes me bummed if it indeed played a role in cutting his life & career short.

Isn't there alleged to be a tape of a Young/Coltrane practice session floating around somewhere? That would be cool to hear. In the liners to 'Mothership' Michael Cuscana writes that no documentation of the events exist. This sounds right, but it could also mean that no known tape exists. It would be nice for something like this to turn up. Also not be off topic, but in the liner notes it also said that Larry died in the hospital due to negligence. What was he in the hospital for? And what exactly happened? My memory of where I heard that a tape might exist is extremely sketchy. If one does, it's probably in the possession of the estate, which means that it would be up to Ravi & Alice as to whether to release it or not. But so far I can't even confirm the rumor that I heard/read. I'll second Chuck's recommendation on the Jimmy Forrest Delmarks.

What a fool I am! I got one of these and just, ah, deleted it. Guess I won't be joining you guys in fatcat land...

Dan, That's how it was being reported on one of the wires last night... I don't know if this rotation is still holding true today.

Verily, I believe not mine eyes! Another Yankees fan on this board? We should form a support group... I remember the '78 playoff game very well. My industrial arts teacher allowed me to listen to it on a transistor radio while I was doing shop work; I heard Dent's home run there, and heard Jackson's as I was walking home from school. Beautiful memories! B)

Well, here's the new rotation, it appears (re: Boston-New York): Game 4 (Fenway): Mussina vs. Wakefield Game 5 (Fenway): Wells vs. Lowe Game 6 (NY): Pettite vs. Burkett Game 7 (NY): Clemens vs. Martinez

Oh man, that is a drag. It's another strip that my wonderful regional paper the Indpls. Star has occasionally banned (remember when Michael's gay friend took his lover to the prom?). It's been a warm, witty, and pretty true-to-life strip--I'll miss it like hell when it's gone. Doonesbury, of which I'm a lifelong fan (started reading it when I was 10) thankfully seems to be set to roll along for a good long while... Not as good as it used to be, but I've grown so attached to the characters that it doesn't matter as much to me. (I'm enjoying the recent narrative, resumed--at last!--in the past week, with B.D. and crew mounting a sort of Heart of Darkness/Apocalypse Now journey up the Euphrates River to take out Uncle Duke, who has commandeered an Iraqi town called Al Amok.)

I'd probably opt for #2. I doubt that Torre will change his rotation.

I know that theoretically speaking, legally speaking, professionally speaking, that it was wrong of Zimmer to go after Pedro like that. But I gotta say I smiled when I watched Z.'s charge on video--he's still got the Zimmer spark. Pretty sure that Zimmer played with the mid-50's Dodgers--correct, Jim? I think I remember his name popping up in THE BOYS OF SUMMER or some other similar source.

Well, when it comes to the question of, "If you could listen only to one set/era of one artist's music for the rest of your life, what would it be?", the Parker Dial/Savoys give Ellington's Blanton-Webster band some pretty stiff competition as far as I'm concerned, since they'd also top my "most listened to" poll.

Well... at least the Cubbies have Prior and Wood for Games 6 & 7 (if necessary)--and it'd be nice to see them take the pennant at Wrigley.

I think it was Leroi Jones who wrote that when he & his friends heard white people complain that they couldn't dance to bebop, they would say, "You mean you can't dance to it." I've got almost all of the material on the Dial/Savoy box but keep thinking that I should get it anyway... I'll have to look around for a decent used set.

Ed, I'm at work on several different jazz radio projects that could benefit immensely from just a small contribution on your behalf... say, $25,000 or so to see them through in the next year. It's not me I'm thinking of, Ed... it's the jazz community! And the music that means so much to them. I know you won't let them down.

Brother Berigan, verily, I hardly believe mine eyes... are you defending the Yankees, even if only indirectly? The world has indeed changed! I'll get those "I bark for Clark" campaign buttons in the mail to you tomorrow!

Sounds like MLB took a pretty evenhanded stance in meting out punishment:

I'd love a CD soundtrack of that film that combined Bernstein's score with the Chico Hamilton music--or is Bernstein's score what the Hamilton group recorded?

Colts lost in OT on a 48-yard field goal.

Hazel Scott, 1939-45 (Classics) Jeanne Lee/Mal Waldron, AFTER HOURS Various artists, FROM SPIRITUALS TO SWING Charlie Parker, LEGENDARY DIAL MASTERS V. 1 Louis Armstrong, LOUIS ARMSTRONG & FRIENDS