Oil Can Boyd

Are suggesting that we move on (like 10 pages ago)? But that's the great thing about baseball arguments. They are unwinnable. People in New York are still arguing whether Mantle, Mays, or Snider was the better center fielder ...

I certainly agree with this. Having watched the Red Sox try the bullpen-by-committee approach in 2003 with serviceable major league pitchers (Mike Timlin, Alan Embree, BK Kim, Ramiro Mendoza, Chad Fox, etc.) they couldn't end games. When they got Keith Foulke in 2004 or when Papelbon took over in 2006 I felt it really changed the dynamic of close games. As a fan I was much more confident when it got to the 8th or 9th innings. And I certainly agree that the save is a flawed statistic. The fact that the guy on the Rangers got a save in that 30-3 game last year is proof of that.

The Band's cover of Atlantic City is pretty shweeet. Love the mandolins ...

I'm still not sure what Milhouse had to do with it ...

Braun gets my vote based on a laser of a home run I saw him hit at Fenway.

I love that series ...

Re-reading this after about 20 years.

First Manny with the high five during a play, but now Mike Lowell steals a fan's cell phone during a game.

On my trip to Maine last weekend (350 miles round trip) my Honda Civic Hybrid got 52.3 MPG.

Cat Power's I Found a Reason remains one of my favorite covers.

Both of my kids (age 9 and 13) sing that song incessantly. It's like crack ...

Glass Ice Gin Tonic Lime

Carpet baggers. Every last one of 'em.

Still my favorite BTS album

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As a Red Sox fan of over 30 years I can say that I am really sick of the Sweet Caroline thing. It was fine and even sort of fun in 2004 but it's time to give it up.

Seemes appropriate for the day Lawn Dart by Ed's Redeeming Qualities It was the third of July and the weather was fine Ed brought the hot dogs, the croquet set was mine But the red ball was missing and three mallets were bent Ed suggested lawn darts so to K-Mart we went We looked by the yard games, we looked by the grills But we couldn't find lawn darts come high water or hills We talked to the sales clerk and she started to cry She said "They're off the shelves now," and she told us both why: A kid was pegged in the head with a lawn dart Her dad didn't see 'er, that's the worst part

You can download the second set here" NYC Taper Second Set: [Total Time 51:21] 01 Dancing Barefoot (Patti Smith) 02 Original Love 03 Deep Fascination 04 Outdoor Miner (Wire) 05 The Final Word 06 Sooner Or Later 07 Too Far Gone 08 Time is Right 09 Fa C

I wish. I saw them at Maxwell's a long time ago and it was tremendous. And don't forget the show on Friday opening for Sonic Youth.

I think I told this story in another thread but I saw the Pixies in the summer of 1987 before they were signed. It was reportedly the show that Ivo (from 4AD) saw them and signed them right after.

The Feelies opened for REM on the fall 1986 tour. I saw the show at the Felt Forum in NYC.

Just finished this and really liked it.

Not sure if this goes here or in the Now Drinking thread Love is like a Bottle of Gin (Magnetic Fields) It makes you blind, it does you in It makes you think you're pretty tough It makes you prone to crime and sin It makes you say thing off the cuff It's very small and made of glass and grossly over-advertised It turns a genius into an ass and makes a fool think he is wise It could make you regret your birth or turn cartwheels in your best suit It costs a lot more than it's worth and yet there is no substitute They keep it on a higher shelf the older and more pure it grows It has no