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Best wishes. Have some cake!

Rays dealt Aki Iwamura to the Pirates on Tuesday for young reliever Jesse Chavez. They say the kid's got a lot of upside. Rays had some depth at 2B and their pen is definitely a weak area, so probably a good move. I'm guessing they cleared some salary room with the move as well.

If she was going to completely rewrite your piece, she should have at least had the decency to tell you and offer you the option of having your byline removed.

Happy birthday GA!

Get a Mac. End of problems.

Congrats to the Yankees. I really enjoyed watching the series this year. These guys will be more dangerous next year.

Hope you're feeling better soon Allen, and everyone who has come down with this. Nasty shit.

Noticed this at the end of their email:

Find the right guy with the right laptop and we're ALL fucked!

The article makes a lot of sense in light of the way Kelley presents certain things in his book, but I can see how it would be largely "?" if you don't have access to a copy. Yes, perhaps. Although I would point out Schlesinger herself states she hadn't read the entire book at the time she wrote the piece. My takeaway from her article is that she wanted to correct some of Kelley's misuse of terms, but then goes on to make suppositions about Monk's mental state herself that seem loosely grounded. Sort of a "could be this, could be that," kind of thing. And really, that's probably the best that can be managed at this point. Is there any indication in the footnotes that Kelley consulted with a psychologist during the writing of the book?

At first I thought you people were talking about that pop psychologist Dr. Laura Schlesinger. ... Whew. Read the article at AAJ. Doesn't really shed much light one way or the other, seems to me.

"Mingus at Antibes"

Really looking forward to it. Thanks!

I honestly could care less what someone wears while playing music. If they want to wear tuxedos, have at it. Potato sacks work fine, too. Costumes of all sorts welcome. (all within reason, of course. If a band came out dressed like Kiss and began playing like Ellington, that might be a little hard to reconcile at first.) Who am I to judge? I'm in shorts and a T-shirt most of the time.

Some of you have probably already seen this, and it has nothing to do directly with the Kelley book, but thought it might be of interest. Some notes of advice Monk wrote to Steve Lacy. Beyond that, the thread at AAJ doesn't really offer much further insight about where it came from.

Kruk is pissed at that camera HR ruling. I guess it was part of the ground rules established before the game that if a ball hit the camera it would be ruled a HR. From my point of view, I'm not sure the camera was hanging all that far out over the fence anyways, and the side angle seemed to pretty clearly show that ball was headed over the fence. Nice win by the Yankees.

Very nice recollections, Allen. Thanks for sharing them.

Anybody up for instant replay yet? ... (ie: getting the calls right)

Hey, I just flipped on the Leafs-Habs game for a second and Montreal is wearing these tonight! Awesome!

I think I'm with you Noj. Can't seem to get worked up about any of it.

No love for The Great Concert of Charles Mingus? Used to have it on iTunes. High on my wish list now. With Dolphy, Clifford Jordon, Jaki Byard. A great, great album, IMHO. While I don't know a whole lot about Mingus, I agree that Blues and Roots is an excellent album as well.

I hear it makes you mumble things like "feminazis" and such... Yeah, it does kind of give you a Rush at first.

Interesting. I'm with you on the NBA. To me it's like watching paint dry. College ball is much more entertaining, IMO. As for the book ... eh. Wouldn't be surprised either way, but that Donaghy cat has exactly zero credibility.

the hour approaches ...

Sure. Why not. Seems to be no shortage of people wanting to deliver.