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The Red Sox have an over-filled bullpen, so now they've traded for Joel Hanrahan. I'm not sure what I sense ...

Former Atlanta Brave Dale Murphy was on reddit today and offered up the following: [–]trinitron13 23 points 2 hoursago I know you have had a bit of a history with Wilco (via Twitter) and that you are a big music fan. Who are some of your favorite artists and what was your walk out song when you bat? [–]DaleMurphy3[S] 96 points 2 hoursago I'm a huge Wilco fan and have gotten to see them a few times live. Incredible! As for other artists/bands I'm listening to: -The Civil Wars -The Avett Brothers -Markarians -The War on Drugs Walk-out songs weren't really around when I was playing,

Big Chabon fan but this isn't doing it for me. I will plow through (because I have a hard time not finishing books) but this is really sprawling and all over the place and I'm having trouble keeping track of what's going on. There is some great writing but there is also lots of writing that to me seems like he is trying too hard.

A friend just sent me this link from archive.org. It's described as "a seamless audio supercut of an entire year of the Grateful Dead tuning their instruments, live on stage. Chronologically sequenced, this remix incorporates every publicly available recording from 1977, examining the divide between audience expectation and performance anxiety." It's weirdly hypnotic (but I will admit to have not listened to all 90 minutes of it): http://archive.org/details/gd1977-12-31_505

Funniest line I saw about the Nirvana/McCartney set: "You say goodbye, I say hello, hello, hello, how low."

Agree with most of those listed. I have probably listened to the Europe '72 version more than any other. It was the first one I ever heard and I still love it. One of my favorites that I saw was 10/12/84 in Augusta Maine.

Got tickets for Boston. Never seen him/them so I'm pretty excited ...

Wow. I don't read every post on VC but I hadn't heard that before. That's wild ...

I liked the Napoli signing but I'm not crazy about the Victorino deal. Seems like a lot of money ...

Red Sox sign Mike Napoli to 3 year/$39 million contract: http://msn.foxsports.com/mlb/story/boston-red-sox-mike-napoli-reach-three-year-deal-120312

Looks like it was quite a night - Frank Black, Johny Marr, Tommy Stinson, Lee Ranaldo, Kim Gordon, and more ... http://www.slicingupeyeballs.com/2012/12/02/dinosaur-jr-johnny-marr-black-francis-kim-gordon-video/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+SlicingUpEyeballs+%28slicing+up+eyeballs%3A+%2780s+college%2C+indie%2C+alternative+rock+music%29&utm_content=Google+Reader

Full (40 minute) set from REM in February 1981 can be seen here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=RiZW_Wlj8Kw

Interesting piece from a Boston Globe writer - who is also a HOF voter - about PEDs. He is basically agreeing with you and saying that he doesn't care any more whether players took PEDs. It is part of baseball's history and he is going to judge players on their numbers. http://www.boston.com/sports/baseball/redsox/extras/extra_bases/2012/11/erasing_a_line.html

Two names I wouldn't have necessarily put together ...

via Pitchfork Low will celebrate their 20th anniversary as a band with their new album The Invisible Way. Produced by Jeff Tweedy and recorded in Wilco's Chicago studio, the Loft, the album is out March 19 in the U.S. and March 18 in the UK via Sub Pop. Watch a trailer for the album below. In a press release, Alan Sparhawk said that Low visited Wilco's studio while they were in Chicago on tour and decided to record with Tweedy after hearing his work on Mavis Staples' album You Are Not Alone. He also said that the tracks on The Invisible Way are "about intimacy, the drug war, the class war,

Country Disappeared was the fade out music on this week's episode of This American Life.

Saw this another site but here is the New York Times' original review of Abbey Road (which concludes "As it stands, Abbey Road isn't tremendous. Still, it has 15 fine minutes and, by rock standards, that's a lot.") http://www.nytimes.com/library/music/100569lennon-beat.html

That's exactly why I showed it to my daughter. There was some medical ad on with all sorts of disclaimers Including "may cause death" and that caught her attention.

I still quote from Happy Fun Ball and recently showed it to my daughter who was thoroughyl amused ...

I'm a big Russo fan. I thought the book and the movie of Nobody's Fool were great. (I think Risk Pool and Nobody's Fool are my two favorite books by him.) I liked - but didn't love - both the book and movie of Empire Falls. I know he has written other screenplays and TV movies but I don't think any of his other fiction has been turned into movies.

Better hope you are not booked on the same airline flight as Wayne Coyne: http://stereogum.com/1204222/wayne-coyne-apparently-brought-a-grenade-to-the-airport/news/

Interesting piece on the current version of the Who written by Ira Robbins. http://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?f=1&i=42564&t=42564#reply_42564