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Quite an exciting game 4 Oakland at Detroit! Scherzer worked out of a bases loaded 8th with no runs! That's some baseball!

Well. so much for my earlier rant about the unfairness of the long layoff upsetting hitter's timing. Nice try! Red Sox were idle from Sunday to Friday, yet they are on the best offensive tear of the post-season so far.

"Can't hit" Braves bullpen not exactly holding it close tonight against Los A. (10-4 in 4th inning). Still think they will take 3 out of 5, in this series.

Not sure what the Cleveland fans did to irritate you.... but I want to relate a little story. A few years back while in Cleveland I decided to go to Progressive Field and watch them take on the Yankees. About a half hour before game time about 20 buses rolled up outside the stadium and those buses disgorged probably a couple thousand Yankees fans. There were so many Yankee fans in Cleveland for that game that when the Indians scored or had a good defensive play the boos were louder than the cheers. THe loudest cheers at Progressive that day were when the Yankees scored.... talk about obnoxius fans... you had to wonder which effin' city you were watching the game in. Yeah, this was happening in Washington too. Phillies fans were descending on Nationals Park. It was promoted by the Nationals' front office as a way to sell a lot of tickets, and it turned off home fans so much it's been discontinued in the last few years. It Cleveland the other night It was impossible for umpires down on the field to make bang-bang calls that rely on sound. It was not rudeness by the fans. I think they have good fans. And yes, I would complain if Nationals fans interrupted the game to such a degree with their noise. Nothing ridiculous about that at all.

I've settled on who to root for in the playoffs: the visitors! So far the Pittsburgh and Cleveland fans have been so off putting, and I imagine all the rest of the home crowds will be too. Maybe I will watch LA and Atlanta without the sound. Nothing against the Indians but I was so glad that Tampa took the crowd out of last night's game. When the crowd is so loud that the home plate umpire cannot hear when a pitched ball hits the ground, that is a problem. Sound calls on runners at the bases suffer too.

Detroit and Oakland will have been idle from Sunday to Friday. If I were them, I would protest this disadvantage to their rhythm. MLB could have scheduled them for Thursday, could have scheduled two wild card games yesterday. It's a cynical TV ratings move. ETA: Also Boston

The 800 tracks are listed in a PDF available on the site. Link please. I do not see a PDF with the song list at this site: http://thirdmanrecords.com/news/view/paramount-records-wonder-cabinet

I just want to hear the music. Don't care about the wooden case. Who's doing the notes? Lossless? For these sources? Do no want, do not need. Is there a song list yet?

Will we be able to return Houston Astros to the NL where they belong and return Milwaukee Brewers to the AL where they belong?

Still the greatest Cajun blues ever made: Soileau and Robin! 1929, Easy Rider Blues http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_d7hWZPi1w

Nationals mathematically eliminated last night by St L. It was fun taking it down to the last week of the season, but the team didn't play well until August. Can't win like that. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/nationals-journal/wp/2013/09/24/the-nationals-and-what-could-have-been/

Gabor Szabo, Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds, from More Sorcery.

Last night's Nationals-Marlins game. Man returning to 3rd was called out. Man coming in from 2nd was called safe. I believe if Ian Desmond had not tried to tag anyone, they would have both been called out as a rule violation.

Folk art does change. Unless he wants to call Cajun music jazz. But his theory about black influence on American music works quite well for Cajun music. Much of the basis of Cajun music came from the teaming of white Irish Creole fiddler Denus McGee and black Creole accordionist Amédé Ardoin. Together they recorded what became the standards of Cajun music, as well as black Creole music which evolved into Zydeco. The white Cajun musicians wouldn't have any songs to play were it not for the black Creole Ardoin!

Cubs' magic number? Last night 11 worked fine (Cubs crushed Nationals, 11-1).

Wow Jeff! Reminds me to check Joe Bussard's catalog. Wonder if he has any of those Night Owl sides, including the one you mention. Strange that I have never sought out his Reed stuff, though I assume he must have some. Is Chris Lively and Wife a murder song? What's the theme?

Blind Alfred Reed, How Can a Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live? lp on Rounder, number 1001. Must have been an early one for Rounder. There'll be no distinction there, Beware, Why do you bob your hair girls?, Always lift him up and never knock him down. Wow! Standouts!

That's about right, Chuck!

RIP Connie White!

Yes, and DC is pretty much out of the wild card race too.

Tough DC schedule ahead: 3 v Atlanta, 3 v Philadelphia, 3 v SF. We could well be 17+ games behind the Braves by the time those series are through. Not Dark Yet (But Getting There!) You wouldn't want to read the Nationals discussion boards right about now.

I was a fan UNTIL 2005, which is the year Houston went to the WS! Switched allegiance totally to Washington. So now my DC team may have to wait just as long as Houston did before going to the World Series. I may be dead before then! '86 was certainly a highlight. Great championship series with the Mets, who went on to win it all that year. The earlier team with Enos Cabell, JR Richard, Art Howe, Craig Reynolds, Alan Ashby, Terry Puhl, they were great to follow!

Selig's deal for the Astros (making them move to the AL) is even worse than his bargain with Peter Angelos for a monopoly on tv broadcast rights in the region for Baltimore-Washington. It's really 2 markets, and Washington should be getting a greater share of the money made from MASN (Mid-Atlantic Sports Network), or free to negotiate its own tv deal with another vendor. No big deal to send a team to another league? Well then why didn't Selig just RETURN Milwaukee to the AL where they began and where they belong, instead of disrupt Houston's baseball history to this degree?

GAL Windsor! Nice.

He's a good old boy. Prince Johnny Jack!