A tribute to hot August playoff races, and some Travelin’ Music
There comes a point in every baseball season when the pretenders get separated from the contenders. And it’s getting to that point in the 2009 season. Tonight, the first-place Phillies come into the Ted to take on the Braves, who have been showing signs of contending for a spot in post-season play. And out in Texas, my Boston Red Sox begin an important series with the Texas Rangers that could be critical in deciding the AL wild-card race.
So, to set the scene, tonight’s Travelin’ Music comes to us courtesy of John Fogarty. Check out John’s custom-made gee-tar. Not exactly a model designed by the late, great Les Paul, who was called to his reward by the Great Death Panel in the Sky this week.
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I Report/ I Am The Mob :-) You Whine :-(
August 14th, 2009
4:11 pm
I second that emotion-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TS9_ipu9GKw
Swami Dave
August 14th, 2009
4:23 pm
Jay:
Here’s to the hopes that PrezBO, his merry band of PrezBOts, and their disaster-in-the-making debacle, Health Care Deform continues their August slide just like your Red Sox! Freedom and opportunity would be all the stronger the less the thieves and collectivists are able to limit it.
For easy evidence, follow the inverse relationship between PrezBO’s polling numbers and the stock markets; the worse he fares, the better the markets do!
-SD
getalife
August 14th, 2009
4:25 pm
Look for a repeat in the World Series and now they have Vick:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTVrXVnY_Vk&feature=related
arnold
August 14th, 2009
4:32 pm
There won’t be a slide in the Health Care debate for O’Bama. The Terry Shiavo fanatics will continue to lok foolish and will eventually lose out again.
TnGelding
August 14th, 2009
4:37 pm
Pennant races are for skirt chasers. We need to eliminate spectator sports and put more effort (and money) into participation sports. The jocks are laughing all the way to the bank. This from someone who bet $100 on the Braves to win the 1991 pennant in Vegas. Haven’t been back since stopping by to pick up the winnings on the way home from my mother-in-laws’s funeral. I also sat out in the cold for 2 nights as the Yankees helped open the stadium that Ivan Allen built. I only lived a few miles from there at the time. I matured and the strike turned me off.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gb0Oop1nnvk&feature=related
I Report/ I Am The Mob :-) You Whine :-(
August 14th, 2009
4:37 pm
Here’s hoping the rest of the league shows Obozo’s team the White Sux some quarter-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TS9_ipu9GKw
Cause that’s what the mobs been giving him lately…..
Mrs. Godzilla
August 14th, 2009
4:42 pm
For what it’s worth…..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1m0yCM5uhQU
@@
August 14th, 2009
4:44 pm
That’s a guitar? Looks like a cricket paddle to me.
Did the “brits” chelp off again today?
Thppbbbtt.
I Report/ I Am The Mob :-) You Whine :-(
August 14th, 2009
4:45 pm
Jimmy Page: My Les Paul Guitar is My Mistress and Wife
He’s got the most awesome “wife” ever.
Normal
August 14th, 2009
4:47 pm
Come on, Jay did you forget the 40th for Woodstock?
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=9997673
TnGelding
August 14th, 2009
4:48 pm
Swami Dave
August 14th, 2009
4:23 pm
You’ve made that point several times and I let it slide, but you’re delusional. Has absolutely nothing to do woth the economy, right?
“Don’t let the press confuse you,” Cramer said. “We are almost at Dow 9,400 because things are better than you think, and still improving by the day.”
http://www.cnbc.com/id/32404887
Normal
August 14th, 2009
4:50 pm
…And this one is for all you Republicans out there helplessly hoping …http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhecdhiokJo
Bye, now…
Normal
August 14th, 2009
4:52 pm
My 4:50…sorry
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhecdhiokJo
AmVet
August 14th, 2009
4:55 pm
WOW!! What a few days coming up for music fans in Atlanta!
Tonight the Temptations are at Chastain Park. Tomorrow night what a trifecta! Sir Paul at Piedmont Park, Steely Dan at Chastain and Def Leppard & Cheap Trick at Lakewood!
Then…CSN on Monday, Bonnie Raitt & Taj Mahal on Tuesday and America & Christopher Cross on Wednesday! All at Chastain.
I’m VERY stoked about seeing a Beatle tomorrow night…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ETDAIGuoN4
and
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrbNfROzqqo
TnGelding
August 14th, 2009
4:56 pm
Narrow that deficit!
“Tax Evaders Face IRS Showdown”
“Tax-Cheat Showdown: Fess Up or Stay Quiet?”
“The Internal Revenue Service is staging a massive poker game. It has invited 52,000 UBS AG account holders to the table.”
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125020653689430645.html
(Hunker down Reporter!)
Scooter
August 14th, 2009
5:04 pm
Dang AmVet, I am going to learn how to post two at a time too!
In the mein time lest we forget.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mo_hZutQZSo
@@
August 14th, 2009
5:06 pm
TnG:
Tacky, bud….tacky.
This from someone who bet $100 on the Braves to win the 1991 pennant in Vegas. Haven’t been back since stopping by to pick up the winnings on the way home from my mother-in-laws’s funeral.
Are you still married to the same woman?
Paul
August 14th, 2009
5:08 pm
AmVet
I saw Sir Paul when he played in Dallas. What a gentleman performer. Heck, at one point he sent his backup guys off and went solo for a while. Then did a number with the same guitar he used on Ed Sullivan. Stayed after about 30 minutes signing anything people handed him. A real class act.
Unlike the twits three rows up who just had to lean on each other and sway back and forth while everyone else was seated. Then they pulled out their lighters… I looked around for a spray can of something flammable…
Scooter
August 14th, 2009
5:16 pm
Something for us http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBfjU3_XOaAbaby boomers. (since Jay played Fogarty)
Scooter
August 14th, 2009
5:17 pm
Am I the only one having tech. diff.?
Paul
August 14th, 2009
5:20 pm
Scooter
I suppose. All my difficulties are of the nontechnical kind –
Try Firefox -
Redneck Convert (R--and proud of it)
August 14th, 2009
5:20 pm
Well, I’m with Swampy Dave and @@. If a Conservative is in the White House, I’m pulling for the country to start making all kind of money again. But if a librul Democrat is in the White House, I say screw the country. That’s how Patriotism is suppose to work.
My advise is to hold off buying your playoff tickets if you’re pulling for Atlanta. The Braves mostly look like Bobby Cox at the plate and when they run the bases. Heck, Bruce Benedict was a speed demon if you want to compare him and he’s the one the LA Dodgers coach said run like a expecting woman. I expect the Phillies to pull a sweep.
Have a good night everybody.
I Report/ I Am The Mob :-) You Whine :-(
August 14th, 2009
5:21 pm
However, what infuriated me about the antiwar protests when Bush was in office is that the left’s level of rhetoric was not just different in degree from what one might commonly see at political rallies but was different in kind. To me, the left became completely unhinged. To regularly brand Bush as Hitler, to regularly refer to the Bush administration as a “regime,” to tolerate the not-uncommon calls for Bush’s death or assassination reflected a serious change in the nature of political debate in this country. That change was very much a valid news story. In many respects, that change superseded the significance of the war itself. Yet, the media totally and completely ignored and whitewashed the level of lunacy among the left.-BOWT, WSJ
heh
@@
August 14th, 2009
5:23 pm
If Colonial fails, mortgages get more scarce
“It’s like if they shut down half the concession stands at the baseball game,” said Scott Stern, CEO of the Lenders One mortgage bankers group in St. Louis. “It means the guy who’s last in line is going to have to wait a lot longer to get a hot dog, and in this market who knows what the price is going to be when he gets there?”
I don’t think we’ve seen the worst of this economy.
Disappointments in June’s retail sales and unemployment #s.
Scooter
August 14th, 2009
5:26 pm
Paul, I don’t know what Firefox is. But thanks! I am sure it is operator error?????
@@
August 14th, 2009
5:27 pm
Make that July. I like to drag summer out.
Scooter
August 14th, 2009
5:28 pm
Dang @@, I sure hope you are wrong! Jus sayin’(sorry Normal)
Scooter
August 14th, 2009
5:32 pm
JUst because I haven’t heard this here yet!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AofzLsvTsM0
Paul
August 14th, 2009
5:37 pm
Scooter
The browser you’re looking at on your screen is probably Microsoft’s Internet Explorer. Firefox is a different ‘browser’ – the vehicle that takes you around the Internet.
Go to the place up at the top of your screen where it says “http://blogs.ajc.com.etcetcetc”
Click once on that area and it’ll highlight. Then type firefox.com
When the new screen comes up doubleclick on the place that says ‘Download” and click on the prompts. Let it install. It’ll also import your old bookmarks if you want it to. You may not want to set it as your default browser until you decide if you like it or not. I find it operates much quicker. Seems to be more secure.
Paul
August 14th, 2009
5:38 pm
Oh yeah, after you type http://www.firefox.com be sure and press the ‘Enter’ key -
Scooter
August 14th, 2009
5:41 pm
Thanks Paul, I’ll try it! See if this has something to do with your nontechnical diffs.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulVDM0a49Lw
Paul
August 14th, 2009
5:45 pm
Scooter
heh heh… a married guy’s never gonna answer that one!
Scooter
August 14th, 2009
5:49 pm
Paul, once upon a time, I was married. I know! LOL
@@
August 14th, 2009
5:53 pm
I sure hope you are wrong!
I do too, Scooter but aside from the market which has been downright quirky, it’s as though the economy is floating in cement boots.
Foreclosures are up 7% from June.
Scooter
August 14th, 2009
5:59 pm
Something we all have to do right now!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqG52NpKNdk
Scooter
August 14th, 2009
6:02 pm
@@, for the moment my 401K is rising! Do you think it will drop again?
Scooter
August 14th, 2009
6:10 pm
One for you @@!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xl6NfQyNLto
DebbieDoRight
August 14th, 2009
6:19 pm
Since you guys LOVE oldies, here’s one of my favorites…….did anyone do Janis yet?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7JVxE2SYxo
DebbieDoRight
August 14th, 2009
6:22 pm
Another real oldie…..Tom Jones!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvmyTZEqlo8&feature=related
Scooter
August 14th, 2009
6:26 pm
DDR, back at you!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFvkhzkS4bw
DebbieDoRight
August 14th, 2009
6:30 pm
Boz Skaggs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytbzAcW5KHI
DebbieDoRight
August 14th, 2009
6:34 pm
Hey Scooter!!! I was gonna hit back at ya with Santanna’s Black Magic Woman….but then I thought about it and said heck, why not hit him with something new. So, here ya go!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rRlBmJiz5k
Scooter
August 14th, 2009
6:44 pm
Smooth real smooth,DDR!
Seems like there is nobody out there but us!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-oLx8aynsY
Paul
August 14th, 2009
6:45 pm
okay, I can see everyone’s having a good Friday…
just saw this little clip of Spkr Pelosi saying she’s a fan of ‘disruptors.’ Even had good words to say when she was shouted down.
‘course, the Pres was Republican and the topic was Iraq.
I’m just so happy to see she’s consistent with her principles, regardless of changing situations!
http://www.breitbart.tv/06-flashback-pelosi-tells-anti-war-protesters-im-a-fan-of-disruptors/
Sherl
August 14th, 2009
6:50 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqMJjmkCqEM&feature=related
DebbieDoRight
August 14th, 2009
6:51 pm
LOL so funny Scooter!!! Yeah we’re all alone — maybe since Jay left we can talk dirty to each other and pass some time on a Friday night! Whaddya say?! Oh well, Jay’d just ban us anyway!! Why aren’t you out having fun on a Friday night? I’m a deployment widow so I’m in mourning for at least 2 weeks after Dudley leaves, then the “edge” wears off and i get back to my real life; but that’s no excuse for you! You should be out, having fun, kissing some ugly girl after having too many Jack’s straight up!! Whattsamattawithu?
Here’s another favorite of mine — this one’s from Big Mama Thornton, (I played her once in a school play, since I’m tall and sing alto and have dimples, oh and black!!), no one can sing like Big Mama!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XUAg1_A7IE&feature=fvw
stands for decibels
August 14th, 2009
6:55 pm
A song appropriate for any number of Friday news-dumps.
(also: the answer to “So, Mick Jones, from the Clash — wot’s ‘e been up to?”)
DebbieDoRight
August 14th, 2009
6:57 pm
Okay…..I was wrong lotsa people are here!! then let’s do mambo no. 5!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfvJOL1gpic&feature=related
I know you guys hate that one!!!
DebbieDoRight
August 14th, 2009
7:10 pm
Sitting out by my window looking at the rain; felt something clamp on to me; it felt like a ball and chain…….Ball and chain, turn me loose…..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSNavkeDg54&feature=related
Bud Wiser
August 14th, 2009
7:19 pm
This is dedicated to the Philadelphia Eagles, and their new addition, Michael Vick.