Oil Can Boyd

Crap - me too.

Donnelly struck Guillen out and then they were jawing at each other. And then he plunked Kenji Johjima on the next pitch.

14-3 (Red) Sox; I'll take it. I guess the Donnelly-Guillen bad blood goes backa while.

I was going to say something similar. Yes, there are plenty of cases where journeyman pitchers become closers and get 25 saves but to have a guy who can do what Papelbon did last night really changes the dynamic of a pitching staff. And it's pretty damn entertaining to watch.

Hippies and Wilco fans, cuz that was the year Wilco played.

Exactly my thoughts.

From wikipedia: The Newport Folk Festival fell on hard times in the later 1960s, even closing its doors for a number of years, beginning in 1971, but was revived in 1985, and has since become one of the major folk music festivals in the United States, alongside the Philadelphia Folk Festival, which began in 1960. The festival has run without interruption ever since 1985, although in a different form from its 1960s heyday; the event has gone from not-for-profit to for-profit, the crowd has shrunk from 20,000 to 10,000 and evening concerts have been canceled. Furthermore, major sponsors hav

They are working it. Last year they had shows with Aimee Mann, My Morning Jacket, and Guster, and the other shows they just announced are the Cowboy Junkies and DJ Paul Oakenfold.

I agree ...

Don't recall this one being mentioned:

Exactly. I love reading box scores ...

Meat Puppets II Picking up from the debut album thread.

Good point. I came to the Meat Puppets through Meat Puppets II, which I would rank among my 20 favorite albums of all time. Working back to the first album was not so satisfying ...

See I would put that on the complicatedly-titled list of Bands-Whose-First-Album-I-Don't-Really-Like-But-Whose-Later-Work-I-Love. Others would include: Husker Du Replacements Dinosaur Jr.

I'd throw Stephin Merritt in the mix (probably along with Dylan and Lou).

Mine was 1974, Red Sox (Bill Lee) vs. White Sox (Wilbur Wood). White Sox won ...

Two of my favorites are: Feelies Crazy Rhythms Throwing Muses

Great album. Hospital came up on shuffle for me this morning ...

Now that is great ...

I'll put in a plug for Bill Janovitz's (from Buffalo Tom) book on Exile On Main Street. It goes through the album song by song and is definitely written from a musician's perspective. It's well written and well done.

I love Yo La Tengo (and this album) but I Am Not Afraid Of You And I Will Beat Your Ass is not a great album title.

Having watched the Red Sox try a bullpen by committee in 2003 - and failing pretty miserably - I think it changes the dynamic of the pitching staff pretty significantly knowing that there is a real closer who can shut down the other team late in the game.

Saw Lucinda last night and I have sort of mixed feelings about it. Her voice was great, the band was great, and the sound in the theater was spectacular. And yet somehow the whole thing was somewhat underwhelming. It was solid but it didn't leave me wanting more. One question: it was my first time seeing her and she certainly appeared to be reading lyrics from a notebook on the stage. Does she always do this? Set list (that I got from another board): Rescue Ventura Fruits of My Labor Car Wheels on a Gravel Road Those Three Days Out of Touch Righteously Essence Real Live Bleeding Fin

They just need someone to fill in until Roger Clemens returns.