Neal Pomea

Great quote from Durocher! True too. First Columbian District win for the Davey Johnson regime, at home 2-1 over Pirates. First walk off winning hit for Matt Stairs, who has been a terrible disappointment this season overall. Excited about going to a true double header tomorrow (single admission, no clearing out the stadium between games!).

It's like I have always said. What this country needs is more Rice.

14-inning win against the White Sox last night, and an ejection for new manager McLaren! Washington sports talk is buzzing with news about Davy Johnson.

He had a classic scene in It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World. Sid Caesar wants to use the pay phone he's ranting on when he finally gets out of the hardware store with Edie Adams. He's on a pay phone ranting: "The police in this town are retarded! I'm dealing with moronic people!"

Serpentine!!!

Not surprising. Can't blame Riggleman at all. The GM would not even agree to begin discussing an extension. A manager with a one year contract is really in a bind. These are not the days of Walter Alston anymore. I wish him well. He served baseball in Washington very well, in my opinion.

Try this. At the top click View then Toolbars. Check Menu Bar if it is not checked. I have these checked: Menu Bar, Navigation Toolbar, Bookmarks Toolbar.

Sweep the Cardinals, vacate last place (that's the Marlins), and talk smack to Baltimore coming into town for our inter-league series. What a night! Columbian District on an upswing for a rare moment!

Cards gotta be wondering wtf. 8-0 Nationals in the 7th inning. Would love to see a series win, then some momentum going into our weekend series with Baltimore.

Fun at the game last night! Got to see Pujols hit a rocket home run, but the Nationals later rallied with 6 in the seventh inning to win 8-6 with Clippard pitching the 8th and Storen the 9th. An energized crowd for a team in the cellar. 4 wins in a row is news for the Nationals.

Before I got a cell phone just a few years ago, a co-worker used to try to shame me into getting one. Said even the homeless had cell phones. Well, of course. Where would they put a landline, Sherlock? I hate it when people try to shame you about your rate of technology adoption. Bad taste.

Just adding that I switched allegiance to the Washington Nationals in 2005, and that turned out to be the very year, the only year the Astros went to the World Series! They were swept in 4 games by the White Sox, but it was a great series with each game possibly going either way.

Consider the odds of a Baltimore-Washington World Series ever happening!

I rooted for the Houston Colt 45s/Astros from their inception until 2005 when Washington got the Expos franchise. Now I am on the ground floor with this team.

Agreed! It took about 3 hours to upload my 20 GB to the Amazon Cloud. I let Amazon select the music just to see what it would do. Now I am going through and deleting what I don't want on the Cloud, or the stuff that it took from my hard drive and for which it had no indexing information. (I have digitized a lot of my lp and 45 collection over the years, then when I put some of that stuff on iTunes I took pains to index it all very carefully. But AC took not only iTune, indexed songs but also "unindexed" songs from folders other than iTunes. Now it's a pain to sort and I don't see any way to edit song titles, etc.) I would call this a product in Beta.

Anyone trying this? Comments on your experience? I am giving this a try. You start with a measly 20 GB free then have to pay some more for additional space. I will use it to put music on my Motorola (Droid) phone and hopefully play that back in my car. Right now I think Apple and Amazon are in competition. They'll have to guard their cloud warehouses like Fort Knox! Don't know if this computing centralized who knows where is really a good idea. Maybe for music files and that's all.

Thanks for the history, Jeff!

Midnight Blues, from Bunk Johnson "The King of the Blues," American Music Records AMCD-1. Can't get that song out of my head! Bunk Johnson, trumpet George Lewis, clarinet Jim Robinson, trombone Baby Dodds, drums Lawrence Marrero, banjo Alcide Pavageau, bass

Obits for Jim Northrup (Detroit Tigers) and Jose Pagan (Pittsburgh Pirates)

Hard fought series with the Giants, 2-1 in favor of the defending World Champs. Now it's off to San Diego.

Not sure anyone can hold a candle these days to Bryce Harper, the Washington wunderkind now laboring in the low minors. After stopping to admire his long ball handiwork the other night for an exaggerated length of time, and pissing off the pitcher in the process, he gave him a pucker as he trotted between third and home. I think if I was this kid, I'd either dial it down a notch or reinforce the padding in my batting helmet. It's exactly because he doesn't do that shit is one of the reasons why I admire Chase Utley. Doesn't matter if he hits a home run or strikes out he never changes the expression on his face. It's all business. Harper could use a lesson or two from the real professionals. I hope he won't come near the big league team until he stops pulling this kind of stunt and loses the warpaint on his face.

Hearing the Eureka Brass Band NO Funeral and Parade cd right now! Powerful stuff. I am thankful this music was recorded.

Bunk Johnson King of the Blues, Wooden Joe Nicholas, and Eureka Jazz Band New Orleans Funeral and Parade are now shipped! Can't wait to hear these and make my next order of stuff from this label! Will be returning to the thread of brass bands for more recommendations.

Columbian District won a nice split with Phoenix today in 11 innings. We haven't won too many extra inning games, or one run games, this season! Hope this takes us on our way to inching toward .500.

Nice link to the Google Books presentation of this excerpt.