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That's Hiroshi's LP stocklist. I understand selling LPs is an important part of his business. Thanks for clarifying that. Wasn't reading closely enough.

Thanks for posting this. btw, I see 26 Ellington titles on his complete list.

Seems tailor made for the monkey farts.

"Horace Silver Trio, Vol. 1 - Spotlight on Drums" This one's on order. Probably be here next week sometime.

Daryl lambasted his talking drum.

My problem is finding the 'round-midnight' thread, round midnight. Was up quite late last night and darned if I could find it. Had all sorts of great ideas, but now they're gone.

Me too. Kind of a joke. But we don't actually pay taxes on any discs purchased over the internets, right? I don't think I ever have.

We're supposed to be paying taxes on this stuff?!?

Florida has been on there for a while Do you ever read those Safire "On Language" columns in the nyt sunday magazine? I stopped getting the times, but used to get a kick out of them. He goes on and on (no pun intended) about stuff like this.

Makes sense.

I agree on the reasons for letting him go. And you're probably right about his value on the open market in the off-season. I'm wondering if Maddon's connections to the Angels have anything to do with the deal. He spent a lot of years there. Could be some kind of quid pro quo thing going on where the Angels now owe him one. Gentleman's agreement, of course. ... (wishful thinking).

One more tidbit on the Kazmir deal. Apparently Maddon is excited about "the player to be named later." I had always thought that designation meant the two teams had narrowed the choices down to a few players, but hadn't finalized which one it would be. Apparently the designation, at least in this case, means -- we know who it is but we're keeping it under wraps for now.

I'm on the computer, so I went to dictionary.com, and this seems to be the applicable definition: "At the" piano sounds better. "At the" drums, not so much. "At the" tuba, sounds wrong. The more precise "playing the" piano, "playing the" drums and "playing the tuba" would be best. Reminds me of the kind of problems that crop up with headline abbreviations. Often you'll see the word "in" used as an abbreviation of the expression "in the case of." So what you get is: "Man charged in murder," which sounds OK, but not the way you'd speak. You'd say, "He was charged with murder." But saying "in" is more accurate and fair than saying "with" because the term "murder" has a legal definition, and to associate someone "with" it before it has been established that a) the death was a murder and b) the suspect is guilty of that murder, indicates a presumption of guilt, or a presumption of facts that have yet to be established. (this is the kind of shit copy editors think of) <--- if you'll pardon the dangling preposition. ...

Sorry I didn't jump in on the Kazmir thing earlier. At work. They had to beat the Aug. 31 deadline for him to qualify for the Angels' postseason roster. It seems pretty obviously a salary dump. I think Kaz was owed something like $22.5 mil. over two years? Not sure about that, but I think it's close. He was pitching much better of late, but the bottom line is they needed to clear some salary in one way or another in order to take a serious run at re-signing Crawford, a much higher priority. The emergence of Niemann (12-5, 3.87), combined with Kaz's injuries, general inconsistency over the last two seasons now, and his propensity to rack up high pitch counts in the early to middle innings, plus the fact that they can bring up a fairly experienced guy in Sonnanstine, all combined to make the decision the least-worst option, I think. Niemann, btw, typically goes deeper into a game than Kaz is able to. They probably still feel like they can make a run at the BoSox with Sonnanstine in the rotation, but the fans will pretty much see this for what it is, and accept that as a small-market team, it was a necessary evil in order to try to keep Crawford. I think honestly the Rays have more problems in the bullpen, as in they have no real closer, than they do in the starting rotation, Kaz or no Kaz. Wish him the best. I know he was well-liked on a pretty tight team. EDIT: someone wondered about the ownership above. Stuart Sternberg has shown over and over again he is a vast, immense improvement over the previous ownership; a guy willing to make the maneuvers necessary to mold a highly competitive and pretty exciting team in a really tough division. He's one of he good ones, I think.

I saw that. Used to have it on iTunes, which long since overflowed and is no longer useful, except for the occasional BFT's. Interesting.

Good news!

fwiw, Wiki goes with Prez, not that they're the last word. Probably written by some young whippersnapper.

Thanks for that WB3. Judging from the write-ups, I knew it was going to be a warts-and-all set. But I'm sort of at the stage with Powell where I want to listen to the warts, so to speak, as well as the inspired playing. In honor of Lester Young's birthday, I ordered "Pres and Teddy" today.

Yes. Really looking forward to that one. Bit the bullet today and ordered something I've been salivating over for a few weeks: "Complete Bud Powell on Verve"

12:40. Just got off work. Listening to some (more) Bud Powell.

It's 2:25 p.m. now, but I'm usually up late most nights. ... will check back later. and yeah, late-night listening has a quality all it's own.

Or, to put it another way, he's more interested in maximizing his earning potential and his personal stats than in competing for a championship. I'm not sure that's someone you want on your team. Will he hold back because he doesn't want to risk injury heading into free agency? Screw that. I want the guy who is hungry, who will run through a wall for his teammates. But, I guess the reality is, modern athletes are too often not motivated by championships, but rather $$$$ and individual achievements. (Maybe good if you're a tennis player. Not so good if you're a relief pitcher on a team in a pennant race.)

Bev, how long did it take you to enter 3,000 titles into excel? What other sorts of trends emerge? Do you break them down according to sub-genre or that sort of thing? I have considerably fewer than 3,000, so it might be a fun exercise.

Hey. It's an asset. Maybe you can get a line of credit on it! That's how they did it in the go-go '90s baby. Next thing you know, boom! you own the Dallas Mavericks.