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Brian Wilson does this "X" thing after every win/save to honor his family and his faith in God. Casey Blake was mocking him during the Giants' last visit to LaLa Land. What a jackass. Wilson's display, despite what he claims it means to him, is going to be taken as showing up the batter. The display doesn't come with a spelled out disclaimer that he's "honoring his family and his faith in God," and doing it in a celebratory manner in the wake of a win/save makes that excuse for it not only lame but disingenuous. I would agree with you Noj....if Wilson was turned towards the plate or up in somebody's face doing it. But he isn't. Fact is, he turns away and toward centerfeild and looks up to and points to the sky. I seriously do not know how anyone could see it as anything else. Would you say the same about a player who crosses himself before batting? How about when [and this is quite common throughout the MLB] that same batter hits a HR and points to the sky as he crosses homeplate? No my friend, there is no mistaking what Wilson is doing after a win/save. Besides, and here's my point, nobody else in the entire league is mocking Wilson except for Blake. Hence, Casey Blake is a jackass. Brian Wilson does this "X" thing after every win/save to honor his family and his faith in God. Casey Blake was mocking him during the Giants' last visit to LaLa Land. What a jackass. Wilson's display, despite what he claims it means to him, is going to be taken as showing up the batter. The display doesn't come with a spelled out disclaimer that he's "honoring his family and his faith in God," and doing it in a celebratory manner in the wake of a win/save makes that excuse for it not only lame but disingenuous. Even though I am a huge Dodger hater I completely agree. Scroll up to my response to Noj...then tell me if you still feel the same. And Casey Blake is still a jackass. Grrrrr I understand where your coming from on this but lets remember that Blake also apologized after he he was told why Wilson does what he does. I don't think the Giants or Wilson are upset about it at all. I think Giants fans are over reacting a bit by being upset about it. Back in Gibson and Drysdale era none of this watching home runs at home plate till the ball cleared the fence and flipping the bat or relievers making gestures after big outs would fly. K-Rod for the Mets is way over the top compared to Wilson buts we are in the TV-ESPN Sports Center era. It was it is. Speaking of getting thrown at, I know you have to protect your guys and all but twice in the last couple weeks Giants pitchers came close to hitting Victorino and today hit David Wright in the head where is was obvious it was nothing more than complete lack of control. Yes it's not cool to throw at peoples heads but looking that replays its was obvious that neither were lets hit the batter situations. Luckily it cost the Mets today as Pedro went deep after the brush back (forward in this case). Hopefully David Wright is ok as that looked very scary but no way in hell was Cain tying to hit him.

haven't gone record shopping in a while so went a little nuts this week. CD's: John Surman - Brewsters Rooster John Martyn - Solid Air (Deluxe Edition) Richard and Linda Thompson - Live In Concert 1975 Vinyl: (first two thanks to the Eberhard Weber thread) Eberhard Weber - Yellow Fields Pat Metheny - Watercolors John Abercrombie - Characters George Russell Presents: Jan Garbarek, Terje Rypdal - Esoteric Circle Art Blakey - Drum Suite

Brian Wilson does this "X" thing after every win/save to honor his family and his faith in God. Casey Blake was mocking him during the Giants' last visit to LaLa Land. What a jackass. Wilson's display, despite what he claims it means to him, is going to be taken as showing up the batter. The display doesn't come with a spelled out disclaimer that he's "honoring his family and his faith in God," and doing it in a celebratory manner in the wake of a win/save makes that excuse for it not only lame but disingenuous. Even though I am a huge Dodger hater I completely agree.

http://blog.seattlepi.com/amazon/archives/169338.asp http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/conte...ml?hpid=topnews For more silly reading aside from Three Moon Wolf check out reviews for Tuscan Milk and Zubaz Pants.

Ethier is a stud. No way should he have been in a position to tie the game due to the worst umpiring over a 3 games series I have ever seen but he came through in the clutch. It sucks that the Umps took away a win from Cy Lincecum. I have a man crush on Freddy Sanchez, great pick up. Dodgers will win the west but maybe, maybe the Giants can get the WC. We will know if they can pull it off after the upcoming road trip.

I've listened to Brewster's Rooster I think five times, and I like it more with each listen. Agree, I listened to the whole disc last night and its one of the years best releases. It swings, rocks with a little bit of free jazz in there. Great stuff.

The new Bollani is going to be with his Danish Trio so I think it will be much more upbeat than his last solo record. I discovered Bolani on Rava's Easy Living which I think is a fantastic record. However I have been hesitant to pick up the duo disc because I felt I would probably be lacking the joy and fun that make the Rava/Bollani At Montreal releases so good, so I get where your coming from on that. I am half way the new Surman and love it. Heck some of it even swings, plus a cover of Chelsea Bridge on a ECM release? I know its not really Jazz but has anybody heard the new Jon Balke titled Siwan? Looks very intriguing. http://www.siwan.no/Siwan/Siwan.html

My favorite non-Jazz artist right now. Her last two records have been sublime. Recent new discovery for me has been Jon Hassell. Just got into his latest Last Night The Moon.. and Power Spot. Great stuff.

Quite possibly my favorite ECM of all time. I believe it's on Oceanus where they arrive at this beautiful major tonality at the end after a long period of modal/minor harmony. Always gives me a rush. I agree, fantastic album. Since were talking Weber as a side man lets not forget his playing on Gary Burton's Ring. Possibly my favorite (top five anyways) ECM record. I need to pick up Yellow Fields and Watercolors. Thanks everybody.

I will second Adam Rogers with Bill Frisell right after.

Not sure if it works but I love the name. Luckily for us the six foot high fence is working. Planting stuff they are not supposed to like didn't.

I put him on the ignore list. I got tired of him bulling other posters and coming here after a Red Sox loss and seeing every swear word in the book to describe a player on the Red Sox that ruined his life for that day. Never once did he give the other team credit, its always the Red Sox fault and despite them being the only team to win TWO world titles this century and being in the top four or two in Payroll who can buy what ever free agent they need I am supposed to feel sorry for the long suffering Red Sox fans. Gag me. The saddest part is he doesn't know how lucky is his to have a team that will always be in the running due to their cable TV revenue and will never have to re-build. The problem with Baseball isn't roids its that out of the top 8 highest payroll teams 7 of them will get playoff spots year after year.

This is my first Jon Hassell, it took a bit of time to dig into it but now I love it. Think I will pick up the recent ECM Touchstone release of Power Spot.

You will love those, I know I do. Especially the Ray Bryant. Good haul.

I thought that at first but why shouldn't Ortiz and Manny not get the same treatment by fans that Bonds, Arod and the other names that leaked got. If you release the whole list they get lost in the shuffle. It's wrong both ways and I know the tests were supposed to be anonymous but if I was given an advance date for a specific drug test for work I would make sure leading up to it I was clean.

Thats a good one. Been enjoying some 2005 Incanto Chianti Classico Riserva that TJ's had for a while. Not great but very good for the price.

A space-age bachelor essential. I've not played this in years, much more enjoyable than I remembered. Excellent album. I am pretty awed by Michel Legrand. I would be amazed enough at his composing and arranging, but he's also one hell of a pianist and a very good, if idiosyncratic, singer. Did you ever see him in the movie "Cléo de 5 à 7" (1962) He basically plays himself but he is great. Fans of 60's French cinema will get a kick out it. I going to pick up that record asap.

Whew, 16 years since Watching The Dark! This does seem like a sensible set as his self-released bootleg set was too sprawling and had sound quality issues. It's remarkable how many labels the 4 disc box covers. I noticed it grabs 1 live track from Watching The Dark. Boxes are now covering boxes. Wow, if I didn't have Watching the Dark and 95% already of of what's on Walking On A Wire I would pick that up. Looking at the track list, aside from maybe a few more songs off Small Town Romance they got it right. Anybody wanting to have a great Richard Thompson collection that new box would be perfect. I usually have gripes with stuff that got left off but not with that.

Taru - Lee Morgan. When my wife asks how many Lee Morgan records do you have I saw not enough. Love George Benson's Grant Green-isms on the boogaloo tracks on this.

There is a woman who need never be without a date, if she can handle dating musicians and jazz fans... Truer words have never been spoken. A while back there was a female clerk who worked the Jazz section at Amoeba SF. Normally I wouldn't have gave her a second look walking down the street but when she was talking about the sonic differences in sound reproduction between the Verve Originals version of Miles Davis Elevator to the Gallows to the one that came out in 1990 with the bonus tracks or if I wanted something really cool I could get the german edition that also contained the Art Blakey soundtrack Les Liaisons Dangereuses with it I wanted to date her on the spot.

I need to track that one down, been really enjoying Electronic Sonata 1968 this week. I think if I would have heard that record when it came out I would have freaked out. Its so ahead of its time, sadly it seems like it was lost on everybody. Maybe in passing George Russell will get the credit he finally deserves.

The thing that gets me about Ortiz is the hypocrisy of Red Sox fans, anybody with half a brain cell would see that it was so f-ing obvious. Six years with the Twins he was a marginal player at best, never hitting more than 20 home runs. Do you really think the Twins who are the smallest of small market teams in the worst stadium in MLB yet continue to be competitive year in and year out because of player evaluation would just give up on a player like Ortiz? Seriously, what's next. Oh its ok because everybody else was doing it? Conveniently forgetting the accusations you made about Bonds and A-Rod. Must be nice. The tests are from 03 not 04 or 07? Spare me.

I played that one again yesterday and its still a mind blower. Dolphy just explodes out of the speakers. NP: Electronic Sonata.

Ichiro is one of those guys where every at bat is worth watching. He is a true artist up there like George Brett and Rod Carew.

Bummer, a true original and great artist. Every time I go back to his old stuff it still sounds fresh.