Edward

Unless somebody objects, I am going to assume that you picked Jacksonville and call it good. Whom did you pick for yesterday's (Thanksgiving Day's) games, NOJ?

All right, the season standings after 10 weeks (144 games - 9 X 16 games = 144 - each time had one bye during the first 10 weeks of play) are accurate EXCEPT that Conn500 is 84-60, not 83-61. In order to add the week 11 totals into the mix, I still need to know AllBlues', No-JJJ's, and Akanlog's picks for last Monday night's game. Thanks!

SS1, you could NOT have made things any clearer. As for the season to date totals, I will do a complete accounting at some point later today. I know that SS1's weekly totals are correct (and I am also confident that his season to date totals through week #10 are correct), so this should not be a problem. A total of 144 games had been played before last weekend's games, and 160 games before Thanksgiving Day. If you add the Week #11 totals to SS1's tallies that I quoted (i.e., 89-55, 88-56, 87-57, 83-61, 81-63, 80-64), everything should be hunky dory.

Here are where things stand now based upon my calculations after recounting everyone's season to date totals (netting Conn500 an additional win) and adding the results for Week #11: Season Standings ED 98 - 62 (3 wins) .% SS1 96 - 64 (2 wins) .% Allblues 94 - 66 (3) .% Conn500 92 - 68 (1) .% No-JJJ-y 87 - 73 .% The total number of games played through week 11 is 160. If no team has a bye, sixteen games are played in any given week. As each team had one bye during the first 11 weeks of the season, each team played 10 times and 160 (16 X 10) games total were played during this period. It looks as though we were all 2-1 for the Thanksgiving Day games. Please let me know if I am in error. NOJ, PLEASE let me know whom you picked for Thursday's games. I believe that you are in an office pool at work, so the picks that you made for that pool will work just fine.

Exactly, that's why I like it so! But seriously, as Chris has already noted, La Marseillaise is like a breath of fresh air compared to its mostly sullen sounding peers. Its appearance in Casablanca further reinforces this image.

La Marseillaise

Edward, I picked 35 points and posted a few hours before you did on Wednesday. I changed my tiebreaker to 38. Oops! I'm sorry - I wasn't paying attention. By all means if you want 35, Allblues, please keep it. I will change my points total to 34.

No, you were right, everything was going smoothly. If you want me take over though, I will. The rule will then be that no one may change his/her picks later than 15 minutes before kickoff of the EARLIEST game played on a given day. For instance, if the earliest Sunday game kicks off at 10:00 a.m. (PST), you cannot change any games for that day (including the afternoon games) after 9:45 a.m. If you do make any edits after this point in time, you will forfeit all wins for that day. As for games on successive days, you cannot change your picks until game day. So, for instance, you cannot change your pick for the Monday night game until Monday, and you cannot change this pick later than 15 minutes before tipoff. The reason for this rule is to allow me to tally the wins for Sunday, at my leisure, before retiring for the evening on Sunday. It really is not as complicated as it sounds.

Yes, I'm sorry.

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My favorite Mosaics are all older sets: Nat King Cole Trio, Buddy de Franco, Art Hodes, Amos Milburn, and Shorty Rogers. I do not have very many Mosaic Selects, but I really love the Carmell Jones set.

I bet you the discount will increase to 50% off this Thursday (will Tower be open on Thanksgiving now that it is being run by Great American?) or Friday. Keep your ears open (I am sure that it will be reported here on this board if it does increase), and try visiting Tower next Monday night (unless you enjoy braving the shopping crowds on Thanksgiving weekend.)

Akanalog, please do not be hasty and drop out now. Soulstation is an upstanding guy, and I assure you that he rarely makes mistakes; and when he does, it is nothing more - EVERYONE makes mistakes. Moreover, he is the reason why we have this fun little pool, and he has graciously volunteered his time to organize and run things for two years in a row.

Please note that I chose Jacksonville to win tonight's game, and I have not edited my picks since Saturday (11/18). Also, Akanalog/The Mommy is only 7-8, having incorrectly chosen Atlanta, Houston, Minnesota, Oakland, St. Louis, Philadelphia, Seattle, and Denver to win. (I'm sorry, Akanalog/The Mommy.)

Thanks, allblues. You're right on my tail, though.

Thanks! It was nice to finally win a week. However, my overall total is now 88-56, not 87-57. (You also forgot to add the Monday Night game into week 10's totals.)

The reason that people are beginning to see old Japanese titles and similar items at certain Tower stores is because Great American is shipping all of the stuff that is sitting in Bayside's (a distributor owned by Tower) warehouse. For instance, I picked up an old TOCJ of Dizzy Reece's "Trinity in Blue" in Laguna Hills the other day, and I saw an old TOCJ of Tina Brook's "Minor Move" in the Glendale store the other week. The Laguna Hills store also received, among other things, at least 30 copies of a Japanese pressing of the MPS album, "Mirror, Mirror". It is my understanding that some Tower stores are receiving disproportionately more from the Bayside warehouse because Great American plans to close, for various reasons, certain Tower stores before others. I will probably take another peek inside Tower Laguna just before Thanksgiving day, but I want no part of it Thanksgiving weekend when I am certain (but I could be wrong) that the discount for most CD's will reach 50% off.

Happy Birthday, Paul! I hope that you enjoy your day as well as the year to come.

Although small in comparison to either of the two Bear Family sets, this four-disc set from Columbia appears to provide a good overview of Bob Will's entire career. I picked up two copies of this box (one for me and one for a friend for Christmas) at a price of $19.97 each (50% off!) at Amazon.com. My shipment just arrived in the mail today, and I am looking forward to listening to some great country swing this weekend. The 50% markdown is odd considering that the set was only released earlier this year, but at $19.97 (with no state sales tax and free shipping if your order reaches $25.00) I am not asking many questions. Those interested may find the links below useful: http://www.amazon.com/Legends-Country-Musi...TF8&s=music http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&a...10:w1ae4jo78wal

I dropped by Tower Costa Mesa this morning, and all of the CD's (including boxed sets) were on sale for at least 30% off; Latin CD's were on sale for 40% off. It appears that the sales discount is increasing by about 5% or so every week, with the additional cuts being put into place every Thursday. On another thread, someone quoted a reliable source as stating that the discount would reach 50% by Thanksgiving with further increases of 10% per week taking effect thereafter.

Happy Birthday, man! Don't let your buddy buying you that great set stop you from buying yourself some music too, though!

Happy Birthday, Guy! Have a great weekend and an even greater year!

Happy Birthday, Daniel! I hope that you truly enjoy your day.

Well, Allblues and I are showing why we are leading the pack with season worst scores to date of 4-8 each . FWIW, I fared better (6-5-1) in the office pool, which utilizes the spread.

All right, I spoke with a friend (the "classical guy") at my local Tower, and he told me that a Great Western representative has indicated to Tower staff that most liquidations have taken them from 8 to 12 weeks to complete. Eight weeks takes us into December; twelve weeks takes us into January. So, I guess that my projections noted above were WAY off. It looks as though the liquidation could easily be completed by Christmas, although it is clear that not all stores will be closed on the same date. Also, I was told that sale prices on certain items (I don't know which ones) are expected to be increased to 20% to 30% off by week's end.