Lammycat

This is a golden rule. You'll usually get comped a few, too, if a regular. It's a good deal for both parties.

At least 20%, almost always. I have gone down to 15% for shitty service and up to 50% for excellent service. This includes pizza guy, newspaper delivery person, haircuts, cabbies, restaurants/bars, etc. It's really not that big of a deal even though I make a moderate income. I figure it in to the cost before I even leave the house.

Sincere condolences, jnick.

Were they absurd, though? Save for HRs (which look to be pretty consistent throughout his career, btw) he really tapered off in almost all categories the last 5-6 years of his career. http://www.baseball-reference.com/a/aaronha01.shtml

I agree that the sight test is weak. The spikes in numbers, however, usually draw concern. Inflated numbers for a short spell late in a career don't automatically mean suspicion. Absurd spikes usually get people talking/accusing, though. Sosa's spike was absurd, as was McGwire's and Bonds'. Was Schillings career arc/rise absurd by normal standards? I don't think it was, particularly when compared to known users like Clemens; which makes the Sheehan comments about skin color, verbosity, whatever seem less weighted to me.

Not "o.k." but on the same level as (ahem) corking a bat.... ed. ^ what winston said, too.

He didn't, I was responding to B2's take:

This looks to be fantastic. I'm glad Sendak is on board , too. Always a good sign. I saw a ballet of WTWTA about three years ago that was fantastic and had thought at the time how cool it'd be for a feature film.

So Sheehan is saying because of who he's played for, his verbosity, and his skin tone that he's free from suspicion? Not because he's never been even hinted at as using? I'm not sure I agree with the take. As to Schilling's career being a more improbable path than Bonds', I disagree, too. While Bonds was a great player prior to the years he's assumed to have started using, his years after that are absurd for an aging ball player. I wouldn't call Schillings numbers absurd compared to his younger years. His velocity consistently went down as he aged, as well.

Baseball Prospectus is almost always a good read.

Caught him for the first time two years ago at an outdoor fest and thought he sounded great. I like the weathered-ness to his voice. That last album of his, This Old Road, is a worthy one, too.

Sure. Best post-season pitcher w/ over 10 decisions, 14th on strikeout list, 216-146 record, two WS titles. ERA is mid-3s, though. I don't see how he doesn't get in, though b2 may feel different.

What he brought to BOS was pretty amazing. Great career, overall.

"What's Going On"- 3 Non Blondes Makes me want to stab things.

I'll toss in: "Moonlight Mile"- Stones "Good for Nothing"- Freakwater "All Apologies"- Nirvana ed. Ha. Moonlight Mile^

Have a good one... I am seated in an office, surrounded by heads and bodies. My posture is consciously congruent to the shape of my hard chair. This is a cold room in University Administration, wood-walled, Remington-hung, double-windowed against the November heat, insulated from Administrative sounds by the reception area outside, at which Uncle Charles, Mr. deLint and I were lately received. I am in here. Three faces have resolved into place above summer-weight sportcoats and half-Windsors across a polished pine conference table shiny with the spidered light of an Arizona n

Have a good one... am seated in an office, surrounded by heads and bodies. My posture is consciously congruent to the shape of my hard chair. This is a cold room in University Administration, wood-walled, Remington-hung, double-windowed against the November heat, insulated from Administrative sounds by the reception area outside, at which Uncle Charles, Mr. deLint and I were lately received. I am in here. Three faces have resolved into place above summer-weight sportcoats and half-Windsors across a polished pine conference table shiny with the spidered light of an Arizona no

"Goodbye"- Steve Earle "All Things Must Pass"- George Harrison

James Taylor

I have not kept pace with the show at all this year and I feel good.

"This is the story of Danny and of Danny's friends...." Probably my favorite book ever.

Actually, "Roxanne" and "Hole in my Life." Neither is actually a bad, per se, tune. I'm just fried on both. Overall, a comprehensively excellent album. I really appreciate "Masoko Tango" a lot more now than I did when the album first came out, too.

Listened to Outlandos d'Amour (Police) this a.m. for the first time in a a spell. Save for two songs, it's still solid as hell.

Have poca weave you a bacon hat and you're all set, amigo.

Wow. I think you are underestimating their capabilities a bit. There's no magical formula, of course, but Warren sounds good to these ears in what I've heard so far. He does have solos, too. I think it's a noble effort on their part to put the time in that they have been with practicing, too. Not sure how you come to the conclusion that they're under-rehearsed. They've got a repertoire of tunes to toy with and interpret that I think will sound fresh. Mimicing older formats (and Garcia solos/parts) would be a lot more painful to my ears than in re-interpreting old tunes. ed. re: big venues=