A jazzy Travelin’ Music kickoff to a holiday weekend
So I was thinking that it’s been a while since we kicked off Friday’s Travelin’ Music segment with a jazz cut, and that it’d be nice to promote this weekend’s Atlanta Jazz Festival at Piedmont Park. But weather looks like it might dampen things, so to speak, with scattered thunderstorms predicted.
So jazz, storms … you see where I’m headed here, right? What I love about this duet between the great guitarist Joe Pass and Miss Ella is the sense of rhythm that they share — it’s like you can hear the two of them dancing together, finding that swing beat and meshing on it beautifully.
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AmVet
May 28th, 2010
7:35 pm
She really was awesome josef, as that song really showcased; but just slightly typecast with “At 17″. Thanks.
And finally, some Zappa. Doing the Koo koo ka choo. Awesome.
I discovered this from the movie As Good as it Gets…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-X8Ryn82QLo
AmVet
May 28th, 2010
7:36 pm
Excuse me, For Love of the Game.
Hillbilly Deluxe
May 28th, 2010
7:41 pm
Jay
Hat tip for being astute enough to notice what Joe Pass was doing on guitar. I love the way those jazz/swing players play melodies with chords. A nd funny you should mention that Erroll Garner didn’t read music. I got into a discussion on here one night about how many great players don’t read music. I was basically told I didn’t know what I was talking about. I sort of felt like you for few minutes.
George McCorkle, the rhythm guitarist in this band, once said, “We were almost jazz”. They were known for other things but he was right. Here’s one of theirs with some jazzy riffs in a little western thing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmOhBn-llbE
AmVet
May 28th, 2010
7:49 pm
Hillbilly, welcome! “specially with that SC sound.
(BTW, the BoSox won that day. An endless 10 – 9 affair over Seattle. Grand slams and countless pitching changes.)
This, from the film Hurlyburly. More cranked up fertility rock.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uc4haaYZKv8
Bruno
May 28th, 2010
8:00 pm
Howdy gang–the full band is here now, I see. I got busy at work and couldn’t attend to the stock market and darn if Obama didn’t pull that thing down again. I’ll have to apply my genius to it next week and see if we can’t get it back to 11,000 again.
Jazz theme?? Not my cup of tea, but here’s a guy I saw live in Claremont, CA front row in 1978:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QjTK0pL1go
Hillbilly Deluxe
May 28th, 2010
8:00 pm
AmVet
Baseball question here. Do you prefer high scoring games or low scoring. Me, I love a pitchers duel. I remember that year that Steve Avery won that 1-0 playoff game against Pittsburgh. One of the best games I’ve ever seen. No telling what kind of numbers he’d have put up, if he’d stayed healthy.
Best game I ever saw in person, was in Wrigley Field. Mark Prior had 16 K’s. Cubs lost to the Reds in extra innings. It was the game that doomed their post-season hopes that year. That ol’ ballpark was really rocking that day.
RW-(the original)
May 28th, 2010
8:02 pm
Watchoo talkin’ ’bout, Willis?
RIP Gary Coleman
Hillbilly Deluxe
May 28th, 2010
8:05 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgaRjKe2Hkg
josef nix
May 28th, 2010
8:08 pm
AmVet
One of my friends who is NOT a Janis Ian fan said that you could judge the success of one of her cocerts by the number of suicides the next day!
AmVet
May 28th, 2010
8:08 pm
That MTB had an “all the good people in Tennessee are diggin’ Barefoot Jerry and CDB” feel to it, HD.
You gotta ask! I’m with you 1 – 0, baby. In enough lifetimes I could come back as Steve Avery. That post season where he was throwing bee bees? Untouchable. Wonderful(!) times for long suffering Braves fans.
And just in time for some bb talk! Lay some national past time smack on us, RW!
RW-(the original)
May 28th, 2010
8:12 pm
AmVet,
Do you remember what year you were in Boston? Sometimes it’s fun to look at an old box score and find out how foggy some memories really are.
Bruno
May 28th, 2010
8:12 pm
If we’re switching it over to a lady artist theme (okay by me), here’s a powerful ballad from the 70s that I liked:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlVfqgMu-tc
Hillbilly Deluxe
May 28th, 2010
8:13 pm
You just gotta love a song that mentions, “The American Dream”, Dusty Rhodes.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDTH7mnBJOE
Bruno
May 28th, 2010
8:20 pm
Am–Powerful Kim Richey tune @ 7:35.
josef nix
May 28th, 2010
8:21 pm
Bruno…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjC15zQ0GTo
“Well I’m not the kind to live in the past
The years run too short and the days too fast
The things you lean on are the things that don’t last
Well it’s just now and then my line gets cast into these
Time passages
There’s something back here that you left behind”
–Al Stewart
AmVet
May 28th, 2010
8:27 pm
Yeah I think you’re right, RW. It mighta been 10 – 8! I’ll have to look now.
All I know is we went out on the town after that! And when my flight the next day back ,landed here, I begged the stewardess to let me stay on the plane, but she wouldn’t. It musta taken me three hours to get home. (Instead of one.) I got some horrific flu thing! Even so, good times, I was working for Bose. (Amar Bose is a frickkin’ genius!)
I’m guessing you’ve seen lots of game at Fenway?
HD, saw Brmalett at the Dogwood Festival. For free! The night before? Dave Mason!
Bruno!
More Dan…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GD_DyoB4Cjs
Bruno
May 28th, 2010
8:28 pm
“We were almost jazz”
You might be able to say the same thing about this tune as well, HD:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2HRrjpiM7Y
Dave R.
May 28th, 2010
8:30 pm
AmVet, Fenway is one of the best parks to watch baseball.
Ever.
RW-(the original)
May 28th, 2010
8:33 pm
Here’s a site where you can find it. Just click on the year and then go to the tab that says schedules and results.
Hillbilly Deluxe
May 28th, 2010
8:34 pm
Bruno
Very true. The only real difference in Jazz and Western Swing is replacing horns with fiddles. That Skynyrd song has a lot of swing in it.
AmVet, RW
I’ve seen Wrigley; now my goal is to see a game at Fenway and a game at Rickwood Field in Birmingham. Rickwood is older than Wrigley or Fenway.
Bruno
May 28th, 2010
8:34 pm
HD @ 8:05–I was just fixing to play that song from Sea Level! Unreal! I love the whole “Cats On The coast” album. Half the band was from the Allman Brothers, of course, while they were on official hiatus for a year or so in the late 70s.
Hillbilly Deluxe
May 28th, 2010
8:35 pm
The baseball fans might enjoy this.
http://www.digitalballparks.com/
josef nix
May 28th, 2010
8:38 pm
Great women…? Broke all kinds of barriers, she…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inpDOCnjxNg&feature=related
AmVet
May 28th, 2010
8:39 pm
It strikes me that this place is like a free form Pandora Radio.
I agree Dave. But then I’ve only seen MLB in three places, Tampa, Atlanta and Boston. I saw the NYY and the pre-Big Red Machine in pre-season Florida. 1975. Catfish got lit up.
Thanks, RW. You rock. (Though I’m REALLY stretching my pinstripe roots here!)
A couple of boys from Akron.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K12ThB088SA&a=w5df8bxvKO0&playnext_from=ML
AmVet
May 28th, 2010
8:48 pm
HD, http://www.rickwood.com/
Though, I (of course) always knew and loved this song, you brought it back into my consciousness. And I am grateful.
For all us Memorial Day patriots.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYEsFQ_gt7c
Hillbilly Deluxe
May 28th, 2010
8:50 pm
Back at u Bruno
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIXuCGLfcFU
RW-(the original)
May 28th, 2010
8:51 pm
AmVet,
As you probably know I’m originally from the Boston area, but as a kid I was a big Yankee fan. My grandfather took me to a game in Yankee stadium back in the early sixties. I was in heaven when the game went 15 innings before the Yankees won. It was only many years later that I realized what a sport my grandfather, the diehard Red Sox fan, had been for sitting through that with me. I bet he was secretly hoping the Yanks lost, but he never let on.
Bosch
May 28th, 2010
8:53 pm
“Do you prefer high scoring games or low scoring. Me, I love a pitchers duel.”
Then you should love soccer!!!! High scoring soccer games are boring.
josef nix
May 28th, 2010
8:53 pm
okay, baseball
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fivhQrReSFQ&feature=related
and rain…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TS9_ipu9GKw
Bruno
May 28th, 2010
8:54 pm
josef–Thanks for the Al Stewart dedication.
HD–I’m sure you’ve heard it before, but this Mick Taylor number kicks some serious axe in my book:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qfX9pepN6Y&feature=related
Am, you might want to take a listen as well ^^^^^^^^
josef nix
May 28th, 2010
8:57 pm
AmVet
From Unmentionable to you…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w90rNBBtbfE
RW-(the original)
May 28th, 2010
8:59 pm
Hillbilly D,
Thanks for the link, that site looks pretty interesting. I had no idea Wahconah Park dated back to 1919.
Hillbilly Deluxe
May 28th, 2010
9:00 pm
Bosch
Never cared much for watching soccer but I did like to play it as a youngster. I liked to play goal. Something about hurling my body at fast moving objects that I seemed to enjoy. I’ve always been a tad unconventional.
AmVet
May 28th, 2010
9:03 pm
That is the coolest baseball story I’ve ever heard RW. And damn! I’ve heard a bunch.
After the Yanks blew that 3-0 series lead, I begrudgingly knew the gig was finally up. And in a way, kinda liked it. (Damn! I’m going to Yankee purgatory, at least!!)
Hillbilly, Burleigh Grimes. Wow! Southern baseball is about as sweet as southern music.
Oh well, hope springs eternal, every April. (Though you broke my baseball heart with your “cruelest month” remark.)
Bruno, just monsterizing it with that 9:54.
Back at ya…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QeOKj5XdVAE
Hillbilly Deluxe
May 28th, 2010
9:06 pm
Speaking of baseball and having a bad day. Randy Wells today was hooked after throwing 16 pitches to start the game and not recording an out. He was charged with 5 earned runs.
Great Mick Taylor cut, Bruno.
StevenCee
May 28th, 2010
9:08 pm
Here’s a classic Stanley Turrentine song, & it’s called “STORM”!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Slns_0xNpYc&translated=1
Now, I’ve played this tune myself hundreds of times, but since my band is scheduled to play at the Jazz Festival tomorrow, I sure hope I won’t be playing it then!
Hillbilly Deluxe
May 28th, 2010
9:12 pm
AmVet
It’s opinion to argument of course but Ty Cobb was the best all around player in my opinion. He’s a Georgian as was Johnny Mize and Jackie Robinson was born in Georgia, although he grew up in California, I think. I don’t know if it was the same in other parts of the country, but way back when in the South, every little town had it’s own baseball team. Lot’s of those guys came off those town teams. And later when the mill economy got going, lots of mills had their own teams. Lots of those players had no real job at the mill though, they were paid to play baseball.
bugatti
May 28th, 2010
9:14 pm
RW-(the original)
Considering the amount of money that the yankees spend on their team compared to the rest of MLB, if they ever LOSE a world series, they should be ashamed of themselves.
RW-(the original)
May 28th, 2010
9:19 pm
bugatti,
I haven’t been a Yankee fan for a few decades now, but I disagree with your assessment. Baseball is a different kind of game and putting together the best collection of individuals doesn’t give you nearly the advantage you might think. In fact when you don’t have somebody like Joe Torre that can manage all the egos it can be a pretty big disadvantage.
AmVet
May 28th, 2010
9:22 pm
josef, going all red, white and blue on us! You old patriot you!
Wow! 5 earned after 16 pitches?! Sounds like an MLB record.
Not so sure, HD. Howz bout Cincy’s home grown Pete Rose?
The greatest pitcher of all time? Arguably, the Jayhawk “Big Train”.
Just stirin’ it up a tad…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnSasG3P5d4
and
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4y9ml7VhlY&feature=related
bugatti
May 28th, 2010
9:25 pm
RW-(the original)
Having a line-up that can hit home run after home run makes up the difference.
I think they are a travesty to Baseball and need to be brought under control. I played baseball in high school and college and used to be a huge fan but why bother? Whoever spends the most money wins. The Marlins needed a World Series trophy so they spent the money and got one. That’s not sports.
How about if we just allow NASCAR to use as much horsepower as possible? Howe about if the NFL goes to the MLB system and whoever spends the most money wins the Superbowl?
Major League Baseball sucks because of the yankees. Period.
Scout
May 28th, 2010
9:25 pm
Semper Fi my friends ………………..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ou7y8AyTwIY&feature=PlayList&p=23B2887F7FC10C8E&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=31
bugatti
May 28th, 2010
9:28 pm
By the way, libs. Rohm Emanuel’s advice to Bill Clinton resulted in Clinton’s impeachment.
As long as he has the president’s ear, Obama is next in line for impeachment. can ANYONE understand that the problem is that little worm emanuel?
To tell you the truth, he is the best thing that has ever happened to the GOP.
AmVet
May 28th, 2010
9:28 pm
Stephen, good luck! I may be there!
Hillbilly Deluxe
May 28th, 2010
9:30 pm
AmVet
Pete Rose was an outstanding player but I don’t really think he was even the best player of his time. I mean his time included Mays, Mantle, Clemente, Frank Robinson, and Aaron just to name 5. I think they were all better all around players than him
I love watching the old films of Walter Johnson pitching. His throwing motion makes it look so effortless. And he put up those Hall of Fame numbers pitching for what were usually poor teams. Imagine if he’d played on a powerhouse.
Hillbilly Deluxe
May 28th, 2010
9:32 pm
For Memorial Day.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydWhRObVxrM
RW-(the original)
May 28th, 2010
9:34 pm
bugatti,
Whatever problems you might have with MLB should be mitigated by the fact that whatever causes came together to determine the outcomes always managed to keep Barroid Bonds from slipping on a ring.
AmVet
May 28th, 2010
9:35 pm
bugatti, your ire is misdirected, my friend.
Here’s the real culprit; and what even most real baseball fans don’t begin to understand.
Baseball’s antitrust exemption:
By virtue of the exemption, coupled with decades of reluctance of various courts to overrule, baseball is the only sport, or business for that matter, that has an exemption to the extent that it does.
The exemption was not considered again by the Supreme Court until 1953 in Toolson v. New York Yankees, Inc. George Toolson, a Yankee minor leaguer, sued over the reserve clause (which binds a player to one organization), claiming it blocked his path to the major leagues. In the decision, the Supreme Court did not deny that baseball was not interstate commerce. Instead, the court ruled that when the Sherman Act was enacted in 1890, Congress didn’t intend it to include baseball — that the Sherman Act was more closely directed to the monopolies and trusts of the robber barons like John D. Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie.
bugatti
May 28th, 2010
9:42 pm
4 out of 15 0f the world series trophies since the Braves won it have gone to the Yankees.
It nothing but total BS. The Yankees should either come under control or be disbanded. they are ruining MLB.
The yankees spent 206 million last year. the Braves one of the highest spenders in the league spent 84 million. Frigging DUH?
They should be expelled from the game.
AmVet
May 28th, 2010
9:43 pm
I knew I could count on you to come up with something good, HD! The best of the best. All In Cooperstown. SO many amazing exhibits there! I remember one of a color coded strike zone, baseball by baseball of Ted Williams strike zone. In the sweet spots, he hit over for .400. For his career!
When you walked into the first room there was a larger than life photo/stand of Roger Clemens. Under it said – 20! Willie “Tape measure” Stargell went in solo the year I was there.
Bruno
May 28th, 2010
9:45 pm
“The greatest pitcher of all time? Arguably, the Jayhawk “Big Train”.
Being from Philly, I have to put a shout out for Steve Carlton. In 1972, the Phillies won only 59 games–Steve was 27-10 that year with meager run support.
bugatti
May 28th, 2010
9:49 pm
The yankees spent 60 million more than the Phillies and if a team doesn’t spend over 150 million, they will never get there.
Cooperstown is a monument to great baseball. Bank of America is the modern monument to baseball.
Bruno
May 28th, 2010
9:49 pm
AM–Consider the JB blog officially monsterized following your 9:03.
Here’s a smooth little jam with both John AND Mick together on stage:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-Bk6namUxg
Hillbilly Deluxe
May 28th, 2010
9:50 pm
AmVet
I heard George Brett tell a very interesting story about Ted Williams. Brett and some other players were talking with Williams about hitting and Brett said that when he was really going good, he could actually see the bat hit the ball. Ted said that when he was going good, he could see what part of the ball he hit. Brett and the others found that hard to believe so Ted offered to demonstrate (remember this is 20-30 years after his playing days). They put pine tar on a bat so it would mark the ball when he hit it and he could tell them if he hit across the seams, with the seams, etc. According to George Brett, Ted called 5 of 7 balls that he hit, correctly.
Scout
May 28th, 2010
9:53 pm
A Mus Watch: Not Long ………. You will be Surprised !
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUofV_D1-1g
(Something you probably don’t know on this one ………….. watch when John Wayne calls for First Squad to come over and get the flag. It’s only a couple of seconds but the three guys in front are Rene Gagnon, John Bradley and Ira Hayes ……….. three of the six surviving acutal flag raisers.
Semper Fi !
RW-(the original)
May 28th, 2010
9:54 pm
4 out of 15 0f the world series trophies since the Braves won it have gone to the Yankees.
Of course one of those would be 1996 where the Braves gave up a huge lead in game 4 that would have put them up 3-1. Are we to believe the players started comparing pay stubs around the 7th inning?
AmVet
May 28th, 2010
9:55 pm
Unquestionably, the greatest slider ever I saw, B!
bug, its the deification of sports. Kind of a Greek thing.
And money is the god.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RGYPIM_F1E
Hillbilly Deluxe
May 28th, 2010
10:01 pm
I always thought Steve Carlton was a great pitcher but given a lot of his facial contortions between pitches, I always wondered if he wasn’t partaking of something.
I sat up over the bullpen at Atlanta Stadium one night and watched Lee Smith warm up. It was mind-boggling how hard he threw.
popeye
May 28th, 2010
10:04 pm
amvet…A small correction. Ted Williams ended his career with a 344 BA. Not too shabby! But, not 400 as you state>
AmVet
May 28th, 2010
10:06 pm
HD, I also heard he thought guys who chewed gum were dumb, because it made their eyes “jump”.
The greatest pitcher I ever got to see live? Unquestionably Greg Maddox. A first round HOFer… The greatest player batting against him? Ken Griffey, Jr.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHW_SdxOarM
RW-(the original)
May 28th, 2010
10:07 pm
Hillbilly D,
Lee Smith did throw hard but his bullpen sessions could be something of an illusion. He always had his bullpen catcher wear what we used to call a “popper” mitt.
Hillbilly Deluxe
May 28th, 2010
10:14 pm
RW
Oh yeah, I know about popper mitts but I was only about 30-40 feet away. I couldn’t have hit him.
Hillbilly Deluxe
May 28th, 2010
10:16 pm
I saw Bob Gibson once live. He could hum it too. And that was in 1968, which was his big year.
Mick
May 28th, 2010
10:19 pm
Bug – don’t diss the last world series the marlins won because they had the lowest payroll in the league and beat the yankees in game 6 at yankee stadium with josh beckett smoking it past the millionaires club. I consider myself to be lucky to have witnessed a mantle and killebrew home run in the same game.
AmVet
May 28th, 2010
10:19 pm
For me, the dual entities of Eckersley and Smoltz are the real deal, HOF numbers in BOTH categories!
I also loved the Cardinal pitcher turned power hitting outfielder story of Rick Ankiel.
Another side of that scorching Aussie chick…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9zO7qZfWpY
Mick
May 28th, 2010
10:21 pm
When everything starts getting to you this meatloaf says it all-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gbi8zgvpL8Y
popeye
May 28th, 2010
10:29 pm
Many moons ago as a youngster growing up in Portland, Oregon I was called on to pinch hit in a high school game. At that time I was only a freshman, The guy pitching was a senior!
I took three and sat down…his name Mickey Lolich
http://www.thebaseballpage.com/players/lolicmi01.php
Hillbilly Deluxe
May 28th, 2010
10:31 pm
I wasn’t aware of Orianthi; she’s good.
This is totally off theme but I heard it the other day for the first time in ages. Always liked it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-nSdyHhZeM
Hillbilly Deluxe
May 28th, 2010
10:32 pm
popeye
I remember Lolich. I’m sure you have plenty of company in the “taking three and sitting down”.
AmVet
May 28th, 2010
10:33 pm
Mick, I was thinking the same thing. The Fins and the ‘yotes both beat the mighty Yanks and Riviera…
As RW said, no matter the salaries, they still gotta play ‘em.
Kasim was in that ML video, Mick…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4h3h7LN-80
Bruno
May 28th, 2010
10:34 pm
“Another side of that scorching Aussie chick…”
Am–I have to confess to having impure thoughts while watching that Orianthi video. That’s some tasty shrimp on the barbie for sure!
Hillbilly Deluxe
May 28th, 2010
10:39 pm
The rain has made it to the Hills.
Another “Lie To Me” song.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DayCrQWJXuI
Mick
May 28th, 2010
10:40 pm
Micky lolich was a force, he looked scary on tv.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVlTJfj1nGU&feature=related
bugatti
May 28th, 2010
10:42 pm
guys,
Yea, all those great wins over the yankees were where? IN THE WORLD SERIES.
How many times has the yankees gotten to the world series in the last 15 tries? How about 7, almost half the years the yankees were in the world series.
So how did they get there? could it be that spending multiples of the other teams in the league just might give them an unfair advantage?
The yankees have 27 titles, the next closest is the Cardinals with 10. It is a friggen joke.
I say kick them out of the league.
If the yankees were restricted to the same salaries that the rest of the league has to endure, they wouldn’t make a single playoff.
They suck, as does MLB.
AmVet
May 28th, 2010
10:43 pm
Bruno, oh yeah! I read where Carlos said she was the one he would hand the baton off to. Did you see that insane Tony Levin using those sticks to play the bass on Gabriel’s Red Rain, that I cued up earlier? We talked about him touring with TR a while back. BTW asked Bookman to relate his tales with Todd. Go back and check it out…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qA5P4PAf1XM
Hillbilly Deluxe
May 28th, 2010
10:48 pm
This was always one of my favorite Todd Rundgren songs. A lot of women hate it but I don’t really think they understood it. Of course, it could be me that didn’t understand it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zL_6gYWXsUM
Bruno
May 28th, 2010
10:50 pm
“At that time I was only a freshman, The guy pitching was a senior!”
My claim to fame sports-wise was having to wrestle against Ricky Dellagatta every week in High School since we were in the same weight classification. He made the Olympic team in 1980, but Carter pulled the plug if you remember. Here’s a match in 1981 against the Russian Olympic champion, Beloglazov. Though he lost here, Ricky pinned him 1 week earlier in Atlantic City.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8n8ZJuyRpc0
@@
May 28th, 2010
10:51 pm
Well if it’s jazz, I’m going with Pat Metheny.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1g6nPYyIS_I
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSONbye6n98&feature=related
That’s it….my Friday night contribution.
Hillbilly Deluxe
May 28th, 2010
10:55 pm
@@
Us folks who are musically ADHD have usually wandered hopelessly off the theme by this time of night. (IW&SH)
Mick
May 28th, 2010
10:56 pm
bug – all those years the braves had the best pitchers and were tough to beat, the yankees represent predatory capitalism at its best. The key is the manager and joe girardi is a great manager. No matter what, the best players walk off the winners as did the marlins and the diamondbacks.
AmVet
May 28th, 2010
10:59 pm
I own that Lang CD, HD. My gawd who wouldn’t, after hearing that?
Better than most iconic characters.
As was that Runt.
@@
May 28th, 2010
11:02 pm
Hillbilly:
I can see that. Nobody ever talks about volleyball.
Alrighty din! I’m exhausted from a full day of yardwork, so I’m gonna crash.
You have a great holiday weekend, Hillbilly!
Hillbilly Deluxe
May 28th, 2010
11:05 pm
AmVet
I own that Lang CD, as well.
My opinion of the World Series goes something like this. You have to be good to get there but once you do, it’s usually the team whose pitchers get hot that wins. Good pitching always trumps good hitting. I like Whitey Herzog’s idea of playing the Series in 7 straight days. That way a team’s 4th and 5th starter come into play. You get a better idea of who really has the better team that way.
And AmVet, I haven’t mentioned that 10th player thing all night.
j/k
bugatti
May 28th, 2010
11:06 pm
Mick
Maybe you want the World Series to have one of the two teams as being a shoe in. I like real sports. In like all the teams to have a chance. Since when is MLB about who faces the yankees in the World Series?
the Yankees have ruined the game. The popularity is going south.
We are seeing the end of MLB because of the yankees and I wouldn’t give two cents for the whole damned team.
I Report (-: You Whine )-: mmm, mmmm, mmmmm! Just sayin...
May 28th, 2010
11:10 pm
The reason that “the masses” are a lot more prosperous and even civilized is that they have been participating in our free-market economy for years. It has made their lives easier, and they recognize it. As Arthur Brooks, the urbane president of the American Enterprise Institute, demonstrates in his new book, The Battle: How the Fight Between Free Enterprise and Big Government Will Shape America’s Future, seventy percent of Americans favor free enterprise, with only a glum thirty percent turning their tremulous palms up to the nanny state.-Tyrell, AmSpec
I don’t know about “glum,” but I do know they are weak minded, just sayin…
Bruno
May 28th, 2010
11:11 pm
Later, guys.
Mick
May 28th, 2010
11:15 pm
@@ – great metheny and amvet I second that on lang
AmVet
May 28th, 2010
11:18 pm
HD, and you and I are both anti-DH.
Gotta go back to the local stuff…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmRJon2EeEM
I Report (-: You Whine )-: mmm, mmmm, mmmmm! Just sayin...
May 28th, 2010
11:19 pm
Just what I was sayin….
One question we need to ask ourselves: Why is BP drilling one mile down and a hundred miles offshore in the first place? Could it be that our extra-stringent government regulations have created the conditions for this first class environmental emergency?
If you need a really stupid idea, ask a liberal, hahahaha, you know what I mean?
Hillbilly Deluxe
May 28th, 2010
11:24 pm
AmVet
That’s a tour de force from Duane. Here’s a good one from Dickey.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1jpQu6qR1E&feature=related
It’s time for the Skipper to go to the bullpen; I’m outta gas. Nite all.
Mick
May 28th, 2010
11:25 pm
bug – in the great big scheme of things, I really don’t care.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbsvsv_N0Mo&feature=related
AmVet
May 28th, 2010
11:26 pm
Andy. I was wunderin where the hell you were earlier. Thinking about how you and getalife head bang off of each other. Musically. Very funny. I mean given the obvious differences.
Heavy metal!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZ5bS3_BCDs
Mick
May 28th, 2010
11:36 pm
I’m running out of gas, lights out…great, great tunes tonite
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtWSdJeLnv0
I Report (-: You Whine )-: mmm, mmmm, mmmmm! Just sayin...
May 29th, 2010
12:01 am
I check in when I can-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rhGAsmENpA&feature=related
I Report (-: You Whine )-: mmm, mmmm, mmmmm! Just sayin...
May 29th, 2010
12:19 am
The president, in my view, continues to govern in a way that suggests he is chronically detached from the central and immediate concerns of his countrymen. This is a terrible thing to see in a political figure, and a startling thing in one who won so handily and shrewdly in 2008. But he has not, almost from the day he was inaugurated, been in sync with the center. The heart of the country is thinking each day about A, B and C, and he is thinking about X, Y and Z. They’re in one reality, he’s in another. -PeggyNoonan
Not only that, he’s a klown too, just sayin…
bugatti
May 29th, 2010
12:35 am
Mick
“in the great big scheme of things, I really don’t care.”
I know. And that’s why we get whet we deserve. Sort of like The White House
I Report (-: You Whine )-: mmm, mmmm, mmmmm! Just sayin…
“Why is BP drilling one mile down and a hundred miles offshore in the first place? ”
I thought the same thing, but I have been looking at the NOAA site and there are almost three thousands oil wells between the site of the disaster and the shore. This was one of the deepest wells but there are thousands that are in more shallow water.
In fact, if you actually go to Grand Isle, LA, you can see a bunch of oil wells from the beach.
This was just a big screw up by BP. Yes, Obama doesn’t give a damn, anymore than he cared about the flood in Nashville. If it’s not Chicago, New York or Hollywood, the rest of the country can go to hell,
This is the worst president we have ever had by a long shot. If he was gauged by the same standard as a Republican, he would have been imprisoned by now.
TaxPayer
May 29th, 2010
7:53 am
If he was gauged by the same standard as a Republican, he would have been imprisoned by now.
So, when does George start his prison term.
stands for decibels
May 29th, 2010
7:59 am
I didn’t read all of bugati’s whinges about the Yankmes, but I do feel compelled to make one comment.
With all the changes in MLB over the past century-plus, there’s been one constant: the Majors have had its haves, and its have-nots.
And I always find it bizarre to hear anyone from the right of me on the ideological spectrum complaining about a team being able to “buy a championship.”
stands for decibels
May 29th, 2010
8:00 am
1996 where the Braves gave up a huge lead in game 4 that would have put them up 3-1. Are we to believe the players started comparing pay stubs around the 7th inning?
heh.
stands for decibels
May 29th, 2010
8:35 am
Hilarious piece from Dick Cavett about how a comedy writer would go about “Linkletterizing” a joke.
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/05/28/art-did-the-darndest-things-to-your-jokes/