Matthew

Of course, I'm all on tenterhooks to see if the Mariners can reach their magic number of a 100 loss season. I have faith that my boys can lose the 2 of 3 that's needed, if not get swept this weekend. Go Mariners!

All the Giants need to do is win one game, and they're in. The way San Diego is collasping, looks like tomorrow night will do it.

The criteria for the RHOF is whoever Jann Wenner likes, gets in...

I'm afraid I think Dr. John & Donovan would be good choices. Think Dr. John's tribute to Duke Ellington is all kinds of wonderful.

Scrubs: The Complete and Final Ninth Season. What can I say? I loved Scrubs.

I really think the Giants, with their pitching and improved offense, have a great chance of going all the way. Brian Wilson needs to be a little bit more steady, or maybe pitch less five out saves, Bochy might be over pitching Wilson. Still, I've like the Giants from the start, and I don't see any reason to change at this point. Giants in the World Series.

Perfect summation of the Mariners' year -- it just flat-out sucked.

I love how the Mariners are killing the Yankees, and they aren't even playing them.

Living in the good ol' Inland Empire has its drawbacks, don't it?

103 right now, which means in a hour, it will probably be 106 -- Yuck.

Real Jazz in the only station on Sirius/XM that plays "straight ahead" jazz. There is Water Colors, which is the smooth jazz station, and Spa, playing "Windham Hill" type of stuff. The other station that I listen to for jazz is 40s on 4, that station play big band music from the thirties and forties, and is very good. I love having Satellite Radio, as I drive a lot, and I'm able to listen clearly to any station wherever I am (I love to listen to baseball games when I drive). I also have it set up where I can play it through my stereo system at home. I've enjoyed that so much, I canceled my Direct TV subscription.

Bud Selig is open to expanding the playoffs. Why can't this guy just retire, he's ruining the game of baseball with his stupidity... Article here

This is ridiculous, is 4:45 p.m., and it's 101

I went ahead and pre-ordered it off Amazon, I'm looking forward to the cd, the line up is promising.

What I said last year still holds... Happy Birthday!

I wonder if they'll play this when the Phillies clinch....

http://www.jazzwisem...jazza-festival- Robert did 'Midnight' and 'At Last I Am Free' way back in the early 80s. Could be accused of being another rock star does standards affair....but he has a long record of making these things his own. I can just hear him doing the final track. With Wyatt's approach to vocals (and music, for that matter), I don't see this falling in the Rod Stewart camp...

I've been listening, and loving, these two all week... Buckethead -- Padmasana The Egg -- Venice Beach

Allen is lucky to play with THB, Goodnes, do I ever love his duets with Braxton (Bynum not Allen's... though I'm sure an Allen Lowe / Anthony Braxton duet would be interesting also....).

The Dodgers are such a incredible mess right now, to think, the idiots who run the team turn to burnouts from the Yankees, of all teams! for managers. I grew up a big Dodger fan, but the McCourts have turned me complete off anything Dodger. It use to mean something, the Dodgers, there was a Dodger Way, they always promoted within, there was a sense of pride wearing the blue, of being a Dodger fan. Now it's a joke. Peter O'Malley is complete right: The McCourts need to sell this team asap, and go back to the darn East Coast. Geesh, just the specter of the four McCourt sons running the team sends shivers down my spine.

Where Erik Bedard will pitch in a game.... maybe

Happy Birthday Dan!!! Hope you have a great day!

On TV 1: A very good documentary on Bootsy Collins

The Padres seem to get a lot of high strung players. Mike Ivie and All Wiggins also come to mind. I remember when Ivie came up, all the scouts said he was just as talented as Johnny Bench. Too bad he turned into a head case.

Not aware of any Sassoon revival over here. I read it c. 1978 and remember being very affected (the Graves too). Worth remembering this is the view from the elite! In fact, if you've an interest in WWI I'd recommend reading 'Forgotten Victory' by Gary Sheffield. Gives a very different interpretation of WWI but starts with an excellent historiography of the war. One thing it points out is how the view of WWI as portrayed in Sassoon, Owen and Graves only began to take shape in the 30s and, particularly, with things like 'Oh What a Lovely War' and the BBC 'The Great War' series in the mid-60s. In the '20s it was generally viewed as a necessary sacrifice with people like Haig treated as heroes. The 'standard' view is actually a revisionist view! Which doesn't alter what you say about the shock of the war. And if it got us bad, then its impact on France, Germany, Russia was many times worse. It's true, the "other ranks" weren't writing books about being in Oxbridge, playing cricket, and jumping around on their horses! Nor were they likely concerned about how they didn't learn war lessons at public school. I would imagine that in the '20s there was still a sense that WWI might still be "the war to end all wars," but in the '30s, with the rise of Hitler, it must have been a jarring realization that round 2 was coming up fast, and that all those deaths were, I don't want to say worthless, but the sacrifice of all those lives did not solve too much. Geesh, Haig! I wonder what was going through his heart-of-hearts when he looked back on the war...