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I'd like to own one of the concession stands.

Ah, there it is. Thanks JSngry. On Shields vs. Sabathia last night -- very enjoyable game to watch.

My dad asked me a baseball question the other day I had no answer for. (He likes asking those kinds of questions). Why is home plate shaped as an irregular pentagon? Why does it have five points while all the other bases are square? Nearest I can figure is that it was designed that way for the purpose of exactly measuring out all the other distances on the diamond (pitcher's mound, etc.) -- a point being a much more specific spot to measure from than the flat edge of a square. A quick web search turns up a few arguments that the shape makes it is easier for an umpire to judge whether a pitch crossed the plate, but I'm not sure why that would be. In fact, intuitively it seems like it could make it more difficult (four corners being a more distinct shape than five). Anyways, curious.

I have lots of Mr. Hyman's recorded works in my collection. But my wife had never heard of him until about six months ago, when she came home and excitedly told me that she had heard a jazz pianist named Dick Hyman playing "Wang Wang Blues" on the radio. He lives down in this area now, and has been active in the Sarasota Jazz Society.

James 'Blood' Ulmer

Link. Another link says .431.

I think it's safe to assume he would have been well north of 200 pitches. Assuming 15 pitches per inning X 19.66 innings = 294 pitches. I have no idea if 15 per is a valid average, but even assuming 12 pitches per inning, that = 235.

I was wondering that, too. Didn't see it.

From wiki: July 21, 1945: Les Mueller put on one of the greatest pitching performances in major league history. Mueller pitched the first 19-2/3 innings for the Tigers and left having given up only 1 run. No pitcher has thrown as many innings in a major league game since Mueller's feat. The game lasted 4 hours and 48 minutes before umpire Bill Summers called the game a 1-1 tie due to darkness at 7:48 p.m. (Shibe Park had lights, but the American League had a rule against using the lights during a scheduled day game.)

Gorelick is a scary/creepy name, although you wouldn't want to include him in a week-long playlist. If you included bluesmen, you'd have some pretty fertile territory.

The Yanks still could have gotten out of that inning with no runs scored if Logan snares the comebacker to the mound, instead of muffing it, and starts a 1-4-3 DP. But that dome makes a travesty out of the game. The Trop is a joke, no doubt. For a lot of reasons. But Granderson isn't the first person to lose a fly ball to the background of a dome. Or the sunlight, for that matter. The catwalks are the bigger joke. That and falling glass. And power outages. (noticed that when some lights went out after a lightning strike Monday night, the box scores listed it as an 18-minute rain delay ... at the Trop ) Logan actually was pitching well, I thought, but Granderson (again) should have made a better throw to home on the go-ahead run on that shallow fly ball. I was a little surprised Rodriguez tagged up on that one. An accurate throw almost surely nails him.

Janet Cook. Huh. Learn something new every ... few years late.

Nice story. Thanks.

And a satellite disc, wireless modem, solar panel power system, spear, knife, fishing line, some flint and someone to dance with. ... And, what the heck, an iPad, too.

Let us know what you think of them. Will do, absolutely. Robert Altman's "Kansas City" is among those near the top of my list.

Happy birthday to the man Down Under who keeps the music on the up and up!

Couldn't stay up for the end, although the way that game was going I pretty much figured the outcome.

Great thread. I've written down half a dozen films to watch. Luckily, I have an independent movie rental store in the neighborhood that I suspect will have many of these.

Tragic and bizarre case.

Have added quite a few AM titles since this thread was begun. This one absolutely soars, IMO -- Emile Barnes, the Louisiana Joymakers, DeDe & Billie Pierce (AMCD-13): Recorded in 1951, the sound quality is excellent as well; among the best I've heard in the yellow label series. Great album.

There's some nice things up for auction here at practically give-away opening bid.

Heading over there now for a DL. Thanks for pointing this out.

Something happened at the old plant that day. No one can recall exactly what. But Geno the maintenance guy ran off with the boss's secretary and they ended up in a chapel in Vegas, last anyone heard. Mr. Korbishly from accounting ran home laughing hysterically and naked after lunch. It took two hours to get Ms. Zelinski out from under her desk, everyone taking turns coaxing her and smoking cigarettes. And the Kinsley brothers just kept pouring can after can of colored paint into the old vinyl machine. The next day, no one said a word.

What is he drinking?

What were they thinking? This doesn't exactly foster a lot of confidence in the prosecution if they can't follow some basic rulings on what will and will not be allowed into evidence. Almost sounds like an intentional screw-up, for some reason. Maybe they didn't like the jury? What gives?