Matthew

If you have the dreaded "Metal Box" of Evans, you can tell by the alt. tk's & false starts that they were struggling during this session. IMHO, one of the worst in the Evans' Verve catalog.

mega dittos

Lee and Felix at the top of the rotation, with a (hopefully) improved Morrow as the three starter -- that could be a killer staff. Just wondering what the Mariners gave up (Phillippe Aumont?), and if there is any kind of agreement with Lee for after the 2010 season. Still, the Angels look weaker, so the Mariners might have a legit shot this time. Of course, everyone was excited about the 2008 season, and look how that wound up, but still, major props to the Mariners on this deal.

Wow! I'm speechless.......

Looks like Jason Bay is going any where but Boston, turning down 60 million over four years. Don't think he's worth that much money myself, overrated in my book, but whatever. Boston might not have too good of a team next year.

I think I'm starting to go off the deep end with my rock choices, but I love this stuff. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19Knfvn-g-E.

Hans is right. I'm guilty as charged. Blindsided, as it were, by the unintended double negative. I feel shame.

I agree with you on Damon, I don't see anyone paying that high of a price for someone on the downside of his career -- after all, how many times can he steal second and third? It's interesting, but a lot of the "experts" don't seem to be too sold on Grandrson, they seem to feel that last year was a major downturn in his playing. Still, he's a lefty batter, and all he has to do is lift a flyball to right field, and viola! it's a homer! I think I read somewhere that the Yankees have ten players over the age of thirty-three on the roster. I find that hopeful grounds for a collaspe next year.

I know this is freaky, but I also ordered today: YA HO WHA 13: God And Hair. Thirteen disks of pure California crazy psychedelia.

Artie Shaw: The Last Recordings: Rare and Unreleased & Last Recordings: The Big Band Vol. 2

Great article that got past me when it was first posted. Thanks a 1,000,000 for the alert on this one Dave. I'm trying to make up my mind on getting either the Artie Shaw or Oscar Peterson Mosaic for Christmas. Decisions, decisions.....

My YouTube favorites at the moment: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_RbSAwMa3U. I also dig this video from SXSW 2009: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crJlogkdjB8.

I always thought that was their greatest..... hit???!!!!????

I'm surprised no one has mentioned Atsuko Yamano, of Shonen Knife. Now, I know people will tell me that SK was never meant to be "good" from the very start, but jeesh, at least try keeping the beat.

Happy Birthday! Ghostie *Sigh* If only you could get rid of the Yankee fixation though....

I have a BlackBerry Curve 8900 and it works like a dream -- email, downloads, attachments, calendar, syncing up, speaker phone, etc. all the functions are outstanding. That $30.00 extra on my AT&T bill is a little much though, but I travel a lot, and need to do office stuff off my cell phone, and the BlackBerry has met my every need. The one downside is that I have to recharge to phone every night when I heavily use it. Plus, it doesn't change the time when I go to a different time-zone.

The box set deal on these was just too blasted good to pass up: Erroll Garner: That's My Kick/Gemini/Magician?Gershwin & Kerns/Dreamstreet/One World Concert/Now Playing. Oscar Peterson: Live at the Blue Note

The Angels will miss Figgy during the regular season, and if he ever matches that regular season output in the postseason he'll really pay dividends for the Mariners. I'm pretty much *yawn* about this signing. The Mariners way overspent on Figgins because they again went after someone who had a big pre-free agent year (see Adrian Beltre) but whose stats aren't that great when you take away that year. What the mariners need is a power bat in the line up, not some light hitting third baseman, they already had that. So *YAWN*

Mary Baker Eddy by Gillian Gill. A really fascinating book about Mary Baker Eddy, the founder of the Christian Scientist Church. I just checked it out from the library on a lark to read on my recent business trip, and it was very engrossing with a lot of interesting insights into Mrs. Eddy, and the religious culture of the nineteenth century. Highly recommended for those who like to read about religious leaders.

For the past couple of days, I haven't been able to get this performance out of my mind:

I might be the only one, but I dig Raggy's show.

Soft Cell: It's A Mug's Game. Extended mix, of course. Call me strange, but the 1980's were a great rock decade.

I think the Mariners will pass on Matsui, they have Griffey for DH already, and they can always pick up another player who can DH and play the field, and doesn't bat lefty. If the Mariners had both Griffey and Matsui, that's two players who can only DH, so that would be a big roster hit in terms of player maneuverability. If there is a Japanese player the Mariners want, I would say Dice K is the one on their minds.

25 Best Ricky Henderson Stories Of All Time.

The premier of Rite of Spring is one of my all-time "I wished I was there" moments in history. Can you imagine, fist fights in the crowd? Loud booing from the first bassoon note? The police being called in? There is a very good chapter on the premier in the book Rites of Spring : The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age by Modris Eksteins.