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Post by Canseco on Jun 11, 2016 18:43:09 GMT -5
I don't trust anyone who wasn't a little immature and partied at 17. I'm still immature and still partying. Me too. I'm on the liquor (hard) as we speak. Groome will be fine.
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Post by Canseco on Jun 10, 2016 11:22:31 GMT -5
I love this pick. Go for the downs, DD.
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Post by Canseco on Jun 9, 2016 21:54:08 GMT -5
Any loss stinks, but Price giving us a CG followed by a day off was much-needed for the bullpen. Quietly big, in my mind.
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Post by Canseco on Jun 8, 2016 19:59:38 GMT -5
So, Farrell is just gonna keep bashing his head against the wall in hitting Hanley in the 4/5 holes?
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Post by Canseco on Jun 4, 2016 10:12:26 GMT -5
It's probably too much to ask for Wright to bail us out with another CG, but... could you, Steven?
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Post by Canseco on Jun 1, 2016 22:13:43 GMT -5
Let's calm down.
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Post by Canseco on Jun 1, 2016 19:47:28 GMT -5
Some really questionable decisions by Farrell tonight. Also, Chris Young is NOT a centerfielder.
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Post by Canseco on May 29, 2016 20:00:01 GMT -5
^^new favorite commenter: "You are right. I was painting with a broad brush because it's Memorial Day Weekend, and I've been rocking." -Canseco. Speaking of which, where has ASAL gone? (A-Rod sucks at life) Did he disappear in to the ether or are you here under a different name? Nope. Long time lurker.
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Post by Canseco on May 29, 2016 19:28:07 GMT -5
Am I the only one partying because of that win? We stunk all weekend, blew leads, squandered comebacks, yet salvaged the series. Down turns are gonna motherf***ing happen over 162, but today was a grinder win. The only question now is: Bushmills or Jameson? Want to put some fine grain on that? If you mean there were some questionable decisions, I'd agree. But overall the team's offense rakes almost all the time. Poetic justice today that they smashed balls right at people, and then scored the the tying and go ahead runs on a few whispers - with a Ramirez HBP and a Bradley walk. Whoever made the pitch calls for Ross in the ninth - he or Hanigan or both - deserve real credit. After the weak grounder by Saunders, and Bautista's K, the single off the fists from Donaldson had them pitching very carefully to Encarnacion just as they should have, so he walked. Ross then proceeded to carve up Paredes. The guy was sitting dead on fastballs, so he threw him two hard breaking balls that tied him up, then a fastball up and away that almost unhinged him as he fouled it off. He was ripe to be put away with a slider low and in. Very nice. Teams are really starting to back away from Bradley, so he's doing what he knows very well how to do. He's selective and he gets on base anyway. And Pedroia may be heating up again. Those Baltimore games should be fun. You are right. I was painting with a broad brush because it's Memorial Day Weekend, and I've been rocking.
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Post by Canseco on May 29, 2016 19:24:45 GMT -5
Am I the only one partying because of that win? We stunk all weekend, blew leads, squandered comebacks, yet salvaged the series. Down turns are gonna motherf***ing happen over 162, but today was a grinder win. The only question now is: Bushmills or Jameson? It's as huge as a win can be in May. Sends them out of Toronto on a high note, after a hugely disappointing start to the series. Didn't win the series (could/should have) but an enormous moral victory here. If you believe in that sort of stuff, which I do. I'm going with nice Bulleit Rye on the rocks..cheers! Agree. Baseball, today, gets a little too up its own *** with the scientific side of things. From a strictly human being standpoint, this was a really uplifting win.
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Post by Canseco on May 29, 2016 18:36:17 GMT -5
Am I the only one partying because of that win? We stunk all weekend, blew leads, squandered comebacks, yet salvaged the series. Down turns are gonna motherf***ing happen over 162, but today was a grinder win. The only question now is: Bushmills or Jameson?
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Post by Canseco on May 29, 2016 10:35:30 GMT -5
Give us 9 innings today, David. Back on track.
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Post by Canseco on May 28, 2016 16:17:37 GMT -5
Vazquez has been overmatched on offense and defense all year. What are talking about? I was wondering the same thing. Is it some type of inside joke we aren't in on? Having watched just about every single game this season, I would never say Vazquez is overmatched. There is clearly some rust still being kicked off from the year off, but the kid looks damn promising to me.
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Post by Canseco on May 28, 2016 15:43:19 GMT -5
Awful.
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Post by Canseco on May 27, 2016 22:20:28 GMT -5
Got in a bit of a scuff up at SkyDome tonight, boys. He said Nomar wasn't that good.
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Post by Canseco on May 26, 2016 19:31:37 GMT -5
Get the eunuch out of town.
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Post by Canseco on May 25, 2016 18:57:48 GMT -5
Looks like a foul ball, but can they overturn it?
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Post by Canseco on May 24, 2016 21:10:57 GMT -5
Holy Saint Francis, Barnes. That was some GAS. Encouraging, especially with the Carson Smith news from earlier in the day.
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Post by Canseco on May 24, 2016 18:32:18 GMT -5
Why is Steve Lyons in the booth? He's just the worst So can anyone guess what the logic is for using JBJ in the 7th hole behind Rutledge and Young? And please don't tell me because they have too many RHH in a row because that's absurd to be planning for the bullpen usage over the optimal lineup vs. the starting pitcher. I had the same thoughts.
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Post by Canseco on May 24, 2016 10:47:57 GMT -5
Tough news, but let's hope the opportunity is seized by someone like Pat Light or Matt Barnes. I'm more intrigued by the former, to be honest.
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Pedro
May 23, 2016 16:12:44 GMT -5
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Post by Canseco on May 23, 2016 16:12:44 GMT -5
Great post as always Eric. The height of my rock n roll hof frustration was having Kiss just make it in and Yes being excluded. It takes me months to learn to play a yes song on guitar. Yes checked all the boxes- individually as talented musicians as any band had, amazingly complex compositions with great tempo and genre changes, melodies that could make me cry with their beauty- and a tremendously long career and right in the vanguard of classic rock for a legacy. And despite a truly unique sound, they were able to bring audiences along for the ride- they at one point outsold every band ever at Madison square garden. The frustration with music runs personally too. I just mastered my first CD hiring some top session players (7 time Grammy nominee Kim Stone is on bass). I sing with a deep country accent on one song, sing in a David Bowie accent in another two, rap in a ghetto accent in another, and a high tenor in yet another. There's funk, pop, rock, country, jazz and ballads written aoubt all types of topics from love, spiritual, environmental to a football song. The musicians and engineers were blown away, yet I'm too old and work too hard to tour and will not put in the nonstop work on social media needed to get on the map. The only very long shot hope seems to be to pitch songs to publishers and hope to recoup just a fraction of the expenses of tracking and mastering at high quality studios. I don't think Kiss was a mistake. They're music was never great, but it was plenty good enough, and they were very original and influential. There are bands whose inclusion is laughable, though. Here's an example, in the form of a sentence no human being has ever spoken: "My life was changed when I heard Steve Miller's "The Joker" -- I didn't know rock 'n' roll could do that!" Compare that to the 13th Floor Elevators going to SF and playing the same sort of trippy, avowedly "psychedelic" stuff that the Dead and Airplane had just started messing with, only within the context of four-chord garage rock instead of folk / jazz, which is to say, twice as loud and five times as hard. That changed everything. And the less trippy stuff was idolized by all the NYC bands that started punk as we know it. They induct old blues guys as "early influences." At the very least, then, have a wing of special inductees for contemporary influences. Without Pere Ubu and Wire, no Mission Burma, without Burma, no R.E.M. or Pixies, without Pixies, no Nirvana. Or to use an example less close to my heart and thus way more objective, without Roxy Music you lose a huge chunk of Bowie's career and a huge number of folks he influenced. Oh, Yes. At one point in my life they were my second favorite band (after Procol Harum). Their show at the Music Hall on the Close to the Edge tour remains one of the five or so best I've ever seen. I kind of outgrew the music a bit when I got into punk and classical, and I had previously decided that Jon Anderson was the worst lyricist in the history of rock. However, on the list of things I want to do before I die that I sincerely doubt I'll ever have time to do is to master Audacity and then trim the excess 3 to 5 minutes from "The Revealing Science of God" (except for the fat, their pinnacle) and then edit the other three sides of Tales From Typographic Errors into a piece just as long. Now, of all the groups identified as "prog," they were clearly the best artistically and the most commercially successful, right? How can the Hall voters ignore an entire viable and well-loved subgenre? I think it's because too many rock critics, led by the musically incompetent Robert Christgau, believe that rock music should not try to be good. It's an affront to their ears if you try anything unusual harmonically, rhythmically, or structurally. (And no, Genesis does not qualify as the token "prog" group -- they're in there because they sold out and went pop. That just makes the snub worse!) Your studio work sounds very cool. I suspect you wouldn't have done it if you weren't doing it primarily for yourself -- I've got a whole bunch of songs that exist only in my head, and I'm still toying with the idea of assembling some friends from 1976 to work them up. I think the idea of trying to sell the songs to publishers is a great one, and your doing the appropriate accent for each style is going to help that a lot. Good luck and keep us posted (probably in the thread in the off-topic forum that will be spun off from here)! What are your thoughts on Nirvana, Eric? The "holy shit" moment happened to me back in the 90s when I first listened to their powerful engine rock. Totally authentic, straight forward message.
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Post by Canseco on May 20, 2016 16:06:32 GMT -5
That lineup has me storming to the liquor store. Awesome to see.
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Post by Canseco on May 12, 2016 19:51:55 GMT -5
Price's adjustments, stats be damned, seem to be having a positive impact. The ball just has more life on it tonight. I noticed he's hit 95 a few times on the NESN gun.
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Post by Canseco on May 11, 2016 21:22:55 GMT -5
Good God, Jackie... have mercy!
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Post by Canseco on May 11, 2016 18:44:46 GMT -5
Does anyone know where I can find footage of the pregame ceremony with with little boy imitating Ortiz? That was heart warming stuff, and I'd love to be able to pass it along to my Dad.
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