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Oh - I wasn't calling you out or anything (and that last one was four months old). It just seemed like there was a lot of good discussion over there.

And here's a long thread about it: 5 album streaks

Conan's country/western song the other night was pretty good and pretty funny. John Stewart is struggling too. I have not seen every episode this week and there have been some decent moments but there has also been some floundering.

I used to listen to their Happy Trails album all the time but I haven't played it in probably ten years.

Assuming the rule that they could vote for 10 players was in effect, I still have a hard time believing that 11 people didn't think Babe Ruth was among the top 10 players in 1936. It is interesting to see who did and didn't get votes though. HOF Vote for 1936 But you are right, Cy Young didn't have much support at all. (But in the writers' defense, it's not as though he ever won the Cy Young award.)

I agree.

Back to the Hall of Fame, it has always struck me as odd that no one has been voted in unanimously. 11 people thought Babe Ruth was not worthy. Babe Freakin' Ruth! Nine people thought that Hank Aaron didn't deserve to be in. 23 people didn't vote for Willy Mays. 20 people didn't vote for Ted Williams. It took Joe Dimaggio three tries to get in.

Maybe. But you would still have people (like ESPN) making a compelling case: "During those 12 years, Rice was the most dominant player in the American League. Maybe not the best player -- I'd give that nod to George Brett. But check out Rice from 1975 to '86. He ranked first in the AL in games (1,766), first in at-bats (7,060), first in runs (1,098), first in hits (2,145), first in home runs (350), first in runs batted in (1,276), first in slugging percentage (.520), first in total bases (3,670), first in extra-base hits (752), first in go-ahead RBIs (325), first in multihit games (640), fo

I remember at the time that soundboard tapes circulated pretty widely for those 10/9 and 10/10 shows. While I had older soundboards, it was pretty ear-opening to hear shows from that era through the soundboard.

It all depends on what your definition of "is" is.

I too only discovered Ghosts recently and I love it. I'm looking forward to April 1 ...

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Yup - saw the show in Boston and it was fantastic.

On CD, it is only available as part of Dead Letter Office. Being a grumpy old man, I only have it on vinyl.

I'm one of these grumpy old men who think that they have been going downhill since Fables of the Reconstruction.

Not specifically. But one of the "soft" criteria does seem to be whether the player was respected by his peers. In the last baseball thread someone asserted that Rice was the most feared hitter in baseball for five years and someone else questioned that statement. The Rice question is a tough one for me. As I mentioned in the previous baseball thread he was my favorite player when I was a kid. I saw him play dozens of times, he put up some really good numbers, and it was fun to watch him hit. But is he a Hall of Famer? I'm stealing someone else's line here, but if there was a Hall of R

This was in yesterday's Boston Globe: A few questions for Goose Gossage, who stands a very good chance of being elected to the Hall of Fame Tuesday: Is Jim Rice a Hall of Famer? GG: "Absolutely. Are you kidding me? There weren't many hitters that I feared when I came into the game, but when Jimmy stepped to the plate, he was as close as I came to being scared. And for a power hitter, he could really hit. That's very rare. I can't think of too many people I respected more in the game. If I could go into Cooperstown with Jimmy, even though we were rivals and he was a Red Sox and I was a Ya

I saw them play this on their recent tour and it was sublime. It was mostly acoustic and Ira played percussion on the back of his guitar.

Oh I dunno: "If he's doing that to me, I should have a third ear coming out of my forehead. I should be pulling tractors with my teeth," Clemens said, wearing a lavender button-down shirt during the interview, taped at his home in Katy, Texas. "I was eating Vioxx like it was Skittles," Clemens said. "The higher you get up on the flagpole, the more your butt shows. I understand all that," he said.

I kind of feel the same way. But then again I've seen Blue Man Group a handful of times over the years. The spectacle of that does not change but it is still pretty fun.

Don't forget their cover of Pretty in Pink.

I'm a big Magnetic Fields fan and I have only heard about half of it but, yeah, it's not doing much for me yet. I suppose I should wait until I have the real, entire thing before making final judgment ...

Jim Rice for the Hall of Fame? I'm biased because he was my favorite player as a kid but the debate on ESPN makes a compelling case: "During those 12 years, Rice was the most dominant player in the American League. Maybe not the best player -- I'd give that nod to George Brett. But check out Rice from 1975 to '86. He ranked first in the AL in games (1,766), first in at-bats (7,060), first in runs (1,098), first in hits (2,145), first in home runs (350), first in runs batted in (1,276), first in slugging percentage (.520), first in total bases (3,670), first in extra-base hits (752), first in