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I hope so, looking for Japanese imports is getting expensive, plus the Timeless Collection 40 cds are hard to find, so some of those rarer ones would be a good place to start.

Amoeba's prices have come down from what they were in the past. I saw the Andrew Hill Mosaic on sale for $85.00 last week.

Well, ok, but if he goes, who takes his place, and how many more years does he remain above-average (or better) in somebody else's uniform instead of yours? Besides, Pujols has been a gentleman of sorts, and to have him gradually become the dignified veteran/elder statesman/franchise icon holds a vlau to a team and to the game as a whole that transcends money vs stats. Now see, A-Rod don't get that consideration because A-Rod has not been the class act that Pujols has. More than that I will not say. I'd say: If the price is too high, just have him play out the year in St. Louis, then use about 15 million to sign two/one player that can help the team, and just be a little below Pujols production. I'd like to see him be the elder statesmen of the Cards, but I also have ask: Is it worth $20,000,000 to have an elder statesmen around? As to ARod: He gets ZERO slack from me.

True cosmic justice would be for CC to stay, and become an average pitcher, thus the Yankee's are paying him and ARod for being mediocre players in their declining years -- Karma strikes again! The whole Pujols situation strikes me as strange, not negotiating because spring training is starting? because that will be a distraction? All the Cardinals have to do is look at the ARod situation, a once great player becomes average, but is still payed mega-money. Pujols is not that far ahead of other first-basemen.

Wide As The Waters: The Story Of The English Bible And The Revolution It Inspired by Benson Bobrick. Fascinating story of the King James Bible and some of the unintended consequences the KJ Bible had on English history.

RIP, sad news indeed.

I wonder if Pujols will sign -- doing so by Wednesday is a tall order, but the Card's are willing for a ten year deal, so you never know.

I kind of feel sorry for Justin Bieber, rarely has the music industry's cynicism and money grubbing been on such naked display as with this "artist." Once they're done making money off the tweeners who swoon over him, he'll be dumpster diving by the time he hits twenty-one.

"You're only wearing 19 pieces of flash..."

Raymond Chandler :wub: :wub: With each passing year, my appreciation of him grows and grows.

I'm starting to collect the CTI: Timeless Collection 40 out of Japan, and they are very good, with the mastering being excellent. Highly recommended to take a chance if you find some. Deodato Deodato 2 Deodato Prelude Deodato/Airto In Concert Airto Fingers Airto Free Ray Barretto La Cuna Antonio Carlos Jobim Stone Flower Astrud Gilberto Gilberto With Turrentine Jackie & Roy A Wilder Alias Jackie & Roy Time & Love Patti Austin End Of A Rainbow Patti Austin Havana Candy Nina Simone Baltimore Urbie Green The Fox Hubert Laws The Rite Of Spring Hubert Laws The Chicago Theme Lalo Schifrin Black Widow Lalo Schifrin Towering Toccata Fuse One Fuse One Fuse One Silk Freddie Hubbard Red Clay Freddie Hubbard Polar AC Freddie Hubbard/Stanley Turrentine In Concert Jim Hall Concierto Chet Baker/Jim Hall/ Hubert Laws Studio Trieste Chet Baker She Was Too Good To Me Bill Evans Montreux II George Benson Summertime/2001(aka In Concert -Carnegie Hall) Milt Jackson Sunflower Milt Jackson Olinga Stanley Turrentine Sugar Stanley Turrentine with Milt Jackson Cherry Paul Desmond Skylark Paul Desmond Pure Desmond Joe Farrell Outback Art Farmer/Jim Hall Big Blues Don Sebesky Giant Box Gabor Szabo Mizrab Allan Holdsworth Velvet Darkness Randy Weston Blue Moses

Thank goodness football is finally over, let baseball, the best sport in the world, take over now.

You're kidding, right? The Giants are the team to beat. They have the best pitching staff in baseball. Their much maligned offense plays in one the toughest hitter's parks in MLB. Additionally they will have a full season of Buster Posey at the plate not a 1/2. It's just that all the stars seemed to align right for the Giants last year, plus, I'm always leery of the year after for a team with "great chemistry," and don't forget the only reason they got in the playoffs in the first place was the collapse of the Padres. They really don't have a great batter that they can count on to carry a team through dry spells. Also, the players seem to be in party-mode right now, and I wonder how they will handle success. I know I'm in the minority, but I see a lot of question marks for the upcoming season.

Pablo Sandoval, looking semi-in-shape for the upcoming year, the bad news is that he seems to be falling under Barry Bonds tutelage. Bonds trainer, Greg Oliver, is now working on Panda, and this is a guy that is forbidden to come to the Giant clubhouse. Not sure how good of an influence Bonds is at this point, be we'll see. Don't know about the Giants for this season, the offense might be a problem again, they will have a full year with Madison Boumgartner, and that pitching staff will keep the in every game, they'll be hanging around the top for the year, I don't see any team in the NL West getting any better.

I've played all three a couple of times, and they sound good to me -- of course, I have nothing to compare them with, it's the first time I have heard them.

The Ultimate Weird Tales Collection by Clark Ashton Smith. Nice short stories in the H. P Lovecraft vein, very enjoyable.

No One Will Ever Believe You -- Stories about Bill Murray

For the life of me, I couldn't figure out a way to phrase my question correctly. Luckily, Mr. Kart understood my awkward question. Glad I entertained!

Are you a baseball fan, or was the writing part of the book something that an editor asked you to do?

Baseball's Top 50 Ejections NB: It comes after the infamous "pine tar" ejection.

Sad news, RIP Charlie.

Well, just my crappy opinion, but when you come out with an answer like this: I'm not counting on depth of insight... but, that's probably just me.

One of the nice things about it is that it takes itself less seriously than the better known Prog-rock of the time - there's a sort of Lewis Carroll/Edward Lear feel to it. Yet the instrumental playing is as skilled as anything in the genre. It's a very English approach - eggheadism on the one hand; and then embarrassment about appearing too clever that results in the silliness. I always think of the way the English use the term "amusing," not falling down funny but amusing in an enjoyable, fun, understated manner -- if that makes sense. John Banville has written about the use of amusing in some of his novels (yes, I know he's not English, but he's U.K.). So, it would be amusing music they make.

That was my first prog rock album, summer of '71! I liked it a lot, but their immediately previous album called If I Could Do It All Over Again I liked even more. Thanks for the tip! I put on my list for my next Amoeba run. I agree too! Add 'Waterloo Lily' (which has a different but still excellent keyboard player) and you have the three great Caravan records. Be prepared for whimsy, adolescent double-entendres, wonderful tunes, marvellous extended instrumental passages and some very inventive electric bass playing. You can listen to these records just following the bass. After which you'll need the two Hatfield and the North albums and the first two National Health albums! Thanks for the tips, looks like there's some English pro-rock in my future.