Oil Can Boyd

Right - it's much more complicated. I would argue that of all of the "major" sports, baseball has the lowest success rate in terms of projecting future success of amatuer/high school/college players. And I think it has the largest gap between high school/college level and the majors. Every sport has its list of can't-miss players who missed but baseball's is pretty long.

One of the best baseball names ever.

I really liked this. Pretty sad ...

Yup. The knock on both Young and Jeter is that they are very good at balls hit right to them - which keeps their fielding percentage high - but their range is so limited. And the problem with fielding stats is that fielding percentage/number of errors is the metric that many people still look at. Someone on ESPN was making the point that the real problem with Young getting the Gold Glove is that it makes it hard to change his position. Most people seem to agree that he is a liability in the field but now it becomes hard to move him.

Well he's looking for investors in order to finish it, which may have been overlooked in the first scene. It you've got some extra cash sitting around I can put you in touch with him ...

American League Gold Glove winners P, Mike Mussina, NYY C, Joe Mauer, MIN 1B, Carlos Pena, TB 2B, Dustin Pedroia, BOS 3B, Adrian Beltre, SEA SS, Michael Young, TEX OF, Torii Hunter, LAA OF, Grady Sizemore, CLE OF, Ichiro Suzuki, SEA

A guy I know is making a movie about trying to get the Kinks to reunite. He talks to, and plays with, Sting, Robyn Hitchcock, and others. The trailer is here:

Not to pile on the Freedy negativity, but I used to hold Can You Fly in really really high regard. I listened to it a few months ago for the first time in a while and it sounded, I don't know, sort of uninteresting. It still has some great songs on it but it had more filler than I remember.

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I don't read a whole lot of history but this is pretty good.

Don't think it has been mentioned: Bone Machine - Pixies (Surfer Rosa)

I had the exact same thought. That is a pretty quick jump from the ME Upstairs to the Wilbur. Fleet Foxes made a similar jump - TTs a couple months ago to Somerville Theater this fall.

Wilco - front row in Boston summer of 2007 Magnetic Fields - from row (both nights) in Boston when they did 69 Love Songs in its entirety

Steve Albini in a cowboy hat?

From mlb.com: "The possibility is still in play that following a game Wednesday, the teams would travel on Thursday and play Game 6 in St. Petersburg on Friday. That would put Game 7 on Saturday -- and allow Hamels to pitch on full rest."

I probably listened to that song 10 times over the weekend. I remember when the album came out Pitchfork panned it. I don't remember the exact quote but they basically said the title track was the biggest failure on the album. To each his (or her) own ...

I remember when that interview was first kicking around. My favorite part is when they nod in response to a question. That makes for some good radio ...

Sun Kil Moon's cover of Tiny Cities Made of Ashes

Does Steve Carlton still pitch for them?

What's the connection to Philo? A friend of mine used to live there.

I heard that too. Someone told me they saw him on Jimmy Kimmel and he was not amused. My theory is that someone filled him in that lots of people found the skit really funny and that he was going to look like a jackass if he kept being pissed off about it.

Arcade Fire