paul secor

Felt the need to hear some Dexter today.

Amen.

I was relieved when last night's game ended with a Boston win. (Never thought I'd find myself writing that.) The Yankees were a boring team to watch this year, though I'm sure that the fans who love home runs would disagree. I remember reading a quote from Charlie Lau: "Nobody should hit .200. Anybody should hit .250. He's probably turning over in his grave after the past season. Chris Davis hit .168, the lowest average in baseball history for a hitter who had enough at bats to qualify for the batting title - not that he had to worry about a batting title. .168!!!! I watched a Yankees-Orioles game late in the season and Paul O'Neill made the comment that he couldn't understand what was going on with Davis. He said that Davis was still doing all of the same things he did at the beginning of the season - why didn't he or someone on the Orioles coaching staff say, or he himself decide, you have to make some changes. I guess he doesn't care. He has four years and $92 mil. left on his contract. Self respect be damned. And don't get me going about shifts. (But I will.) All of these guys hitting .220 coming up to bat against shifts and their attitude is, I won't change what I do. I'm a power hitter. No - you're a lousy, incompetent hitter. No one wants to say that. End of rant.

A favorite here.

There's a video where Sonny talks about how much he enjoyed playing with Don Cherry.

Houston Shuffle - Texas R&B 1955 - 1966 (Krazy Kat)

That's how Cashman built this team. He thought that a home run or nothing offense and relief pitching could cover up creaky starting pitching. Might work in the regular season, but not in the post-season.

Horace Parlan: Complete BN Sessions - LP 4 - Speakin' My Piece session

Eddie C. Campbell: King of the Jungle

George and Ethel McCoy: At Home with the Blues

I don't check this thread out very often. I had no problem with anything I'd seen on it until someone pointed out to me that posts had been deleted. I scrolled up and saw the above. Given the images that have been posted on this thread, does anyone think that was a bit of an overreaction? I did. I do think that we should let this serve as a lesson learned for all and post accordingly.

Good one.

I saw him 20 years ago performing in the Royal Soul Revue with Percy Sledge, Ben E. King, Lloyd price, Jerry Butler, Gene Chandler, and others - emcee was Peter Wolf. Chuck Jackson still had a great voice then and was still doing it.

I don't post political comments or photos here - or at least I can't remember doing so. I'm mostly here for music interactions (though sports, books, film, etc. enter into the mix). I'm concerned that Jim A. may decide to close this place down because of all of the arguments about politics and censorship that are going on - some of which I've been a part of lately. I feel that we have to police ourselves when we post, and I think that it's a no-brainer that any photo/drawing/cartoon of a political figure is political and shouldn't be posted here. Just my opinion.

A player who deserves to be remembered. And it seems he is - at least here.

Little Willie Anderson: Swinging the Blues

Gladiators: Serious Thing (Nighthawk)

The Best of Freddie Scott - Cry to Me Good uptown soul sung by a very fine singer.

Okay, if you want to ignore the issue that you brought up. You're the boss.

Okay - why was the above post allowed and others were deleted? Because Jim didn't know it was political? I don't post political stuff, but all of this seems pretty bogus to me. If a moderator is going to enforce rules, there should be equal treatment for all.

Perhaps the answer is that moderators stick together.

Thanks for the update. I look at this thread infrequently, so I didn't realize what's gone on. I deleted my emoji since it no longer made sense.

Rob Brown Trio: High Wire (Soul Note)