Sweet Papa Crimbo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kqw0Gz9GahM

They should rename Fenway "Poppi's Place"

I had a helluva run from 1992 to 2004.

And from 2004-2013...kinda spotty?

See I'm a dreamer, man, and when I was a cook I'd always work with people who weren't dreamers. Like, I was cooking at this restaurant and I put a hot dog on the grill and my kitchen manager came over, and he said, "Mitch, put the hot dog up here, in the right hand corner of the grill, so in case you get a whole bunch of orders at once you have all this space available." See that's how I knew he wasn't a dreamer, 'cause the day I give up my dreams is the day I have strategic grill locations. A dreamer has a philosophy: The entire grill is hot.

 

Thanks for that...

Yeah, but you think Springsteen is the greatest thing ever so...

 

I notice nobody has thrown out Dylan even ironically.  Is that the one artist you can't argue about?

No...I don't think Springsteen is the greatest thing ever. However, I view his first 7 records as being one of the best 12 year runs in history. Everything after 1984 is definitely hit and miss.

If you get right down to it, there are bands that are beyond the simple judgment of the individual; History has spoken: Springsteen, Dylan, The Beatles, The Grateful Dead (although I really don't get 'em, I understand why they are acclaimed and loved).

Nirvana

Replacements

Velvet Underground

There...I said  it.

This says you're wrong

Oh yeah, I forgot about him. Add him to my list.

Springsteen

You

Are

Dead

to

Me

Vinyl or CD?

Nirvana - yes

The Replacements - Yes

Hall and Oates - Yes

Paul Butterfield Blues Band - No

Chic - No

Deep Purple - Yes

Peter Gabriel - No

LL Cool J - No

N.W.A. - Yes

Link Wray - Yes

The Meters - Yes

Linda Ronstadt - No

Cat Stevens - No

Yes - Yes

The Zombies - No

I agree with almost every single vote here...I would add Linda Rondstadt because she was simply the biggest female recording artist of the 1970's, and I don't think you can tell the story of the music without her.

who doesn't?

...my wife?

A guy who can afford to have four kids in the first place and also live in a nice house with nice cars hano business complaining s about his financial situation. What kind of work does his wife do, I wonder?

 

I wanted to read this again  to see if it was as bad as it seemed in the original post.

It is.

Move this from TTL to SES...

Listening to some Centro-Matic (iTunes on shuffle)

Questions about healthcare plans under Obama's Affordable Care Act?

Dial 1-800-318-2596, that's 1-800-F1UCKYO.

 

 You can't make this shit up...

The Tigers contract was more about Illitch being haunted by a chess-match-offering Reaper, plus Illitch inventing his own legend about this kid whom he used to see hitting homeruns while the kid's papa played for the Tigers, plus Illitch just wanting one cot-damned ring before he croaks.

 

There's no way Fielder will live up to that contract, but as a fan, I don't really care. Illitch can spend his money any way he wants. It's the first time the Tigers have been in the post-season 3 straight years since Ty Cobb graced their roster, and that's pretty, pretty, pretty good.

No matter how bad Fielder's contract is and how crazy Illitch is, it will never match the insanity of Pujols' and Hamilton's contracts and Arte Moreno batshit crazy moves in the last two years.

Not even going to bring up the CJ Wilson contract.

The ONLY bad thing about Breaking Bad is now we are going to get poorly conceived copies trying to capitalize on the gritty crime drama format.

Saw the same shit go down after the Sopranos, The Wire and The Shield

I don't know about stumbling into the playoffs. They went 11-4 to clinch the division, then sent in their b-squad to play out the season against the Marlins.

 

But their bullpen, yes. Poor. They'll be leaning heavily on their starting rotation, which is the best in either league.

By stumbling into the playoffs I was referring to getting NO HIT on the final game of the season. May have been the b-squad, but pride should have counted for something there.

As much as I respect and admire Leyland, I wonder about him at times.

And what's the deal with Fielder? Any idea what is up with him?

If the new release takes a while...but to full blown cult band status. And that isn't really a bad thing

Wild card:

 

Pirates over Reds

Indians over Rays

 

ALDS:

Tigers over As

Redsox over Indians

 

NLDS

Cards over Pirates

Dodgers over Braves

 

ALCS

Tigers over Redsox

 

NLCS

Cards over Dodgers

 

World Series

Tigers over Cards

I don't see the tigers in the series. Stumbling  into the playoff...poor bullpen...

I'm kinda fond of Dunch

Really interested to see how things work themselves out.

This has been a really fascinating ride. There are NO innocent parties here (outside of maybe Flynn and Holly).

Walt has just turned out to descend to being the worst of them all.

As I have said: a morality play with no innocents; just varying degrees of guilt.

They don't seem to be smiling and their teeth aren't shining meaninglessly.

Maybe them being together busted the myth.