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From Cable & Tweed Brian Jonestown Massacre on tour: 3/16 Club Nokia, Los Angeles, CA 3/17 The Fillmore, San Francisco, CA 3/20 crystal ballroom, portland, OR 3/21 Neumo's, Seattle, WA 3/24 Ogden Theater, Denver, CO 3/26 Turner Hall, Minneapolis, MN 3/28 The Metro, Chicago, IL 3/29 The Grog Shop, Cleveland, OH 3/30 Rex Theater, Pittsburgh, PA 4/01 Terminal 5, New York, NY 4/02 Paradise Theater, Boston, MA 4/03 Pearl Street, Northhampton, MA 4/04 Trocadero, Philadelphia, PA 4/06 9:30 Club, Washington, DC 4/07 Cat's Cradle, Carrboro, NC 4/08 Orange Peel, Asheville, NC 4/09 Exit/In, Nashv

Yup. Leo's pretty amazing ...

Headline on MSNBC right now: "Report: Mets not interested in Manny Rodriguez"

Yup. Lena Blackburne Baseball Rubbing Mud

It's a great, great album - and I only have it on vinyl. I was looking for it on CD recently (after I learned that Pat Leonard passed away) and couldn't find a copy.

If he makes it (and I think he will) I wonder what hat he'll wear. Giants?

I've been listening to this alot.

Love love love that album. Wait - are the reissues out?

Two more shows: Philadelphia March 13 Washington DC March 14

The first one for me was Europe 72 which started a 5+ year binge of listening mostly to the Dead. The two albums that shook me out of it were Husker Du's Flip Your Wig and REM's Reckoning. Harborcoat remains one of my favorite all time songs.

I'm about half way through it right now, and I agree. It's quite good.

I remember seeing Nolan Ryan hit Jim Rice in the head with a fastball. My recollection is that it hit off the top of RIce's helmet and went into the stands as if it was a foul ball.

I think one of the great things about the Hall of Fame is that you can debate the worthiness of players like Jim Rice forever. But what continues to baffle me is this principle that must be held by some writers/voters that they won't vote anyone in on the first ballot - or maybe their feeling is that no one should be unanimous. But c'mon, 28 voters thought Ricky Henderson was not a first ballot hall of famer. Historically there are plenty of even more ridiculous examples. Nine people didn't vote for Hank Aaron his first year of eligibility. Hank freakin' Aaron ...

Because he's from Belleville or because he was a scab?

I read the headline quickly and at first thought it said that Ryan Adams was offering $15 tickets from US to Europe.

Moreso than he is now. He averaged about 17 home runs per season in Japan, and he has averaged about 9 per season in MLB.

Good stuff. I can remember seeing (a relatively young) Yo La Tengo open for the Feelies in the late 1980s.

The only foul ball that I have ever caught in my years of seeing major league baseball games was off the bat of Milton Bradley, so he'll always have a place in my baseball-loving heart.

I still fondly remember the day (a long time ago) when I was, um, partying with a friend and he sat me in a chair, gave me a pair of headphones, put on Echoes, and said he would be back in 25 minutes. Of course I also fondly remember the day when I was borrowing some Grateful Dead tapes from a friend and he said "You like Dark Star? You should definitely borrow 2/13/70."

Three of the four are out of print. As you noted Only Life was just reissued, but you should also track down the first two: Crazy Rhythms and The Good Earth. (If you need help, send me a PM.) I saw them a lot between 1986 and 1991 and was never let down. I also saw them back in October and they've lost nothing off their fastball.

Somewhat self-serving in that my brother-in-law wrote it. It's a pretty interesting portrait of the first marine killed in the war in Irag. It's good but if I can continue to praise his work, his first book is better. It's called Flight of Passage and it recounts the story of when he (age 15) and his older brother (age 17) fixed up a Piper Cub airplane and flew it across the country.

Y'know, I'm not a huge Bowie fan but Heroes is probably one of my ten favorite songs.

Maybe, but I would argue that the only reason that Mirabelli had a job in major league baseball last year was that he had some skill in catching a knuckleball. I remember watching one of the games where Bard was catching Wakefield and you could see the fear in his eyes.