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When provoked, it is preferable to react like The Dude, rather than escalate the negativity: Lighten up, gentlemen.

You make a very good point. Now if only Clemens and Bonds had the courage to say the same thing. Strongly disagree. First of all not all of the players from the "steroid era" were on PEDs. So far only 128 players have been caught or implicated for using PEDs. Math isn't one of my strong suits but that seems like a pretty small % out of the total numbers of players who have played in the MLB in the past 20 years. So not everyone was guilty. Not even close. But regardless of how many players took PEDs my main point is this - you can't let those steroid records stand because if you do, it's the same thing as saying it's OK to cheat, which is clearly wrong. Furthermore what about the guys whose records were broken that didn't take PEDs?? Is that fair to have some juicer in the books instead of them?? Hell no. While I'll sympathetic to the let's "MOVE ON" sentiment - because frankly I think we're all getting tired of hearing about steroids at this point - it would be wrong to turn our back on what happened and pretend there are no consequences for one's actions. That's not how life works. In my mind MLB did say "it's OK to cheat," while it was happening. So MLB is in no position to punish the players whose enhanced abilities it cashed in on at the time. An average Joe like me knew McGwire was juicing without even knowing a test result. The guy had forearms like calves and was hitting 500' moon shots. While the stadium was being packed, and no one was blabbing about it, MLB had no problem with it. Once it became a public issue, now they're right to throw those guys under the bus retroactively? Some of the stuff which is now banned/illegal/known to be dangerous could be had OTC. I knew guys who were using stuff like Creatine. They bought it at GNC and blew up into musclebound meatheads in no time.

My problem with the Steroid Witch Hunt is that there was a culture of steroid use which was ignored if not endorsed by the owners and coaching staffs. MLB had no problem cashing in on the Steroid Home Run Derby, and fans packed the stadiums to watch the balls fly out of the yard. The hitters were juiced, the pitchers were juiced, AND they tightened up the strings on the balls to make sure they flew extra far. To put this at the feet of the players, and not include the trainers, coaching staffs, FANS, and owners who looked the other way, is bullshit. And we heard about it as fans. Now everyone is all up in arms and crying about the "sacred" records and all this nonsense. Well, I say it's crap. The baseball world should collectively accept responsibility, let all the records stand since nearly everyone was guilty to a certain degree, and MOVE ON. Get over it. It happened. It wasn't Barry Bonds' fault or Roger Clemens' fault. It was damn near everybody's fault.

Listening and loving this set. What a labor of love! Disc 1 is in my stereo and the CD-Rom is in my computer, my ears full of sounds more than a century old. Dinwiddie Colored Quartet and Bert Williams just sent me for a loop. Thank you for putting this together, Allen. I'd buy the other three volumes in a heartbeat.

I received my copy today. Thanks Allen!

I'm in for the download, too.

Can't get a better endorsement than that! Awaiting with baited ears.

If I recall correctly from my "Fabulous Finales" video, the Giants were considered "mathematically eliminated" at the end of June, then went on some insane stretch drive to tie the Dodgers and leave it up to a single game to decide the pennant. Thomson had hit a go-ahead home run off the same Dodger pitcher in a crucial game a short while before the "shot heard round the world." Even as a Dodger fan, the highlight gives me chills. There's nothing like a walk-off home run in a big game, and that's easily some of the most passionate announcing ever. Russ Hodges was in the moment!

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Cool, thanks! I'll try that next time. When I did it I just did a load of highlighting and deleting in Word, then transferred it to Excel.

That's one I have tried to figure out too, mjzee. You can use the View Options to pare it down to the information you want, then select all, copy, and paste it into a Word Document, but it doesn't come out neatly formatted.

Thanks Jeff and Ubu! I'll have to look into the Aladdin stuff at some point.

Just placed an order for the Savoy 2-cd set, which will be my first discs by Prez. Did I select a good introduction to Lester? I'll peruse this thread for more...

'Roids aside, there's no apologizing for still sporting the 1980's single earring look. In fact, the entire practice of men wearing earrings should be abandoned. Give the giant diamond earrings back to your sister, please.

Fisher turns down Heat, returns to Lakers.

Frank Foster - Soul Outing Bass - Bob Cunningham , Richard Davis (2) (tracks: A1, B2) Congas - Alan Dawson Drums - Alan Dawson Guitar - Billy Butler (tracks: A1, B2) Piano - Pat Rebillot Saxophone - Frank Foster Trumpet - Virgil Jones

LeBron shouldn't necessarily do anything to help the Cavs, and he didn't. It just would have been the "cool" thing to do. But, it's a business, and LeBron only needs to look out for his own best interests.

Sizzurp! What a loser.

He didn't have to go to Miami, or it could have involved several teams...or something. I'm just saying it's a dick move to leave Cleveland in shambles. They'll go from the best regular season record in the NBA to one of the worst, guaranteed.

The criticism I agree with most is that LeBron James is now on Dwyane Wade's team. It is not LeBron's team. The proven winner is Wade, the face of the Heat franchise, and LeBron has demoted himself to second fiddle.

Well, if I were a Cleveland fan I'd be most pissed that LeBron didn't negotiate a sign-and-trade to bring some sort of replacement(s) to the Cavs. Instead he left them hanging, until all the free agents and possible trades were out of reach, then kicked them off the cliff to complete irrelevance.

Harry "Sweets" Edison with Ben Webster, Jimmy Rowles, Barney Kessel, Joe Mondragon, and Alvin Stoller

It's stunning that he didn't at least make some sort of effort to get the Cavaliers some players in return, in a sign-and-trade or something. By all accounts the organization had catered to LeBron's every need and bent over backwards to make him comfortable, down to babysitting. The least he could have done is gotten Cleveland a marquee player or two in return. Really poorly handled, all the way around.

The NBA, where guilty until proven innocent happens. So awesome how accepting a cash payoff to STFU rather than actually seeking justice is taken as a sign of credibility--as opposed to getting what she actually was after [$$$]. Never mind though, back to how great LeBron is despite the fact that he totally tanked it in the playoffs, just threw his hometown under the bus, and speaks of himself in the third person.