Neal Pomea

Cards in 6 (I have no idea)

I think you're wrong there. Look at the enormous effort that goes into preserving ancient texts. This is not done for the sake of future sales. The real difficulty is that the amount of material has increased exponentially over the last fifty or sixty years. And who shall say what is worth preserving for the next thousand? MG I would be glad to be wrong in my remarks! Good point about the efforts to preserve old texts, and not merely for the sake of future sales! Who'll say what's worth preserving? Good question...

Doesn't section 108 of US copyright law enable a library and archive exception? I thought UK would have one. In any case, in the US or the UK, a few copies scattered here and there among libraries and archives is hardly what anyone would understand to mean "available." The only things available are things that continue to make money (or might conceivably make money in the future) for copyright holders, whether we agree with that or not. If the UK libraries want the masters, they should pay for them. I don't think US libraries and archives store masters but I might be wrong. But I doubt that masters would be preserved well without the incentive to preserve them for the sake of future sales. In the US, there would be strong calls for cutting funds for preserving our history and culture, the way "nonessentials" like libraries are among the first to get the knife. At least that seems to be the way the thinking goes. Personally I would never say libraries are nonessentials. Since this is an emotional political issue, I thought it would be in the politics thread and had a hard time finding it once it wasn't in my View New Posts section.

The day Herbie Mann lost his hair

Wow! Buster Olney made the same stupid original pick as me, i.e., A's over Padres. What an idiot! I am a librarian.

Oh, is the series going to be on Fox? I wish it were ESPN with Jon Miller and Joe Morgan.

Congratulations to the Tigers and their fans! I had predicted the A's to win, but they never seemed to get it going. I didn't expect a sweep. Attention turns to NY and StL. I am a National League man and will root for either of them in the WS.

From 1960, Thelonious Monk Quartet Plus Two At the Blackhawk.

I like the one with the Cubs fan sitting in a tree, too.

I didn't mean "backed in" in a bad way. They deserve to be in the post season, because they had such great years. I should have said they slumped toward the end and almost didn't make it, which would have been a shame. I think the A's can hit the Tigers pitching. They hit Minnesota's! Anyway, I sort of hoped for an all West-coast series. Their stadiums (well, not Oakland's) are beautiful. They would start their games at 5 Pacific time, still daylight, which is a throwback to the past, then the shadows would creep in and help the pitchers. I don't particularly like the prospect of players seeing their breath if the Series goes to Detroit in late October, early November, but they are deserving and an exciting team to watch. I didn't even know about that kid who pitched in the 4th game! Take a look at this interesting article about Detroit and 1968: http://www.baseballhalloffame.org/history/2003/031020.htm I didn't remember that Detroit was troubled by riots at that time, and the Series brought the city a little closer together. I was just a dumb kid I guess, no hair on my head, no shoes on my feet. (I feel a country-western song coming on, so I had better take my leave).

Time to pick the next round winners. A's/Cardinals A Tigers/Cardinals WS would sort of be nice. We'd at least see some replays of the 68 Series! I was a kid but I remember that one well! Gibson's best year. McLain won 30+ games. And the MVP was Mickey Lolich, who pitched 3 complete game victories! Though the Tigers and Cardinals both sort of backed in as they slumped at the end of the season, they both woke up quickly and are playing well now.

Yankees? "They're yesterday's news, kid." -- Gus Sands in The Natural

We mustn't mock NY, Boston, Chicago, LA, or any of those cities that proclaim themselves the center of the world, the only teams worth watching in the World Series. Bad baseball fans. Just kidding. Or am I? (That didn't look like Buck O'Neil, did it?)

He was a bigger than life person. Gracious. One of a few. Besides Ken Burns' Baseball, wasn't he also in Jazz? I swear I remember him talking about Swing music, which struck me. Does this ring a bell with anyone?

Congratulations to Oakland! And thank you Twins for a great season! My original prediction of A's/Padres in the WS may not come to pass. The Mets and Cardinals look stronger than I anticipated. In other news, Nationals are interested in Braves coach Terry Pendleton for manager. I would like that. Him or Joe Girardi.

Oakland takes Game 2, 4-2.

Ephesian boppers from Philadelphia? Move to Reissues, please.

Athletics v Padres For an all west coast series, would they start their games at 5 or 6 for the east coast audience?

He can record a win (game needs to go only 5 innings), but not a no-hitter. No hitter defined as follows: "An official no-hit game occurs when a pitcher (or pitchers) allows no hits during the entire course of a game, which consists of at least nine innings. In a no-hit game, a batter may reach base via a walk, an error, a hit by pitch, a passed ball or wild pitch on strike three, or catcher's interference." http://mlb.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/mlb/official...regulations.jsp

After the first round, in which there are 4 teams in each league, there are two teams left to play a 7 game series for the league championship. They play 2 games at one team's home, 3 at the other team's home, then the remaining 2 games at the first team's home. The 4-3 advantage goes to the team with the best record that season. In the World Series, the 4-3 advantage goes to the league whose team won the All-Star game.

What's not to like? I like heavy handed, even more so with Monk and Mal Waldron, as well as a light touch.

I like the ragged but right Basement Tapes, especially the unofficial ones mentioned in my earlier post. Kicking My Dog is just hilarious.

I have something called the Genuine Basement Tapes, http://www.punkhart.com/dylan/reviews/basement_tapes.html Is that considered part of this set? I love Genuine Basement Tapes a whole lot, though the sound is hard to take at times.

For the period from 75 to 95, I liked Slow Traing Coming, Shot of Love, Infidels, and Biograph the most. I sort of lost track after Empire Burlesque, until Time Out of Mind.

Good choice! On another board, where someone asked for Blakey recommendations, after the long list of recs like Moanin', etc. , these are the two I recommended. I don't recall one volume being better than the other, though.