Listener comments!

Tue. 8/5/08 11:11pm From: Laurie

Please tell Tommy Tornado he can't give up.

Tue. 8/5/08 11:11pm From: efd

i can haz scores plz?

Tue. 8/5/08 11:11pm From: monica

x-lent opening choice, evan! the bryatollah rules....

Tue. 8/5/08 11:12pm From: john

sox up 8-2, bottom 9...that what you're looking for?

Tue. 8/5/08 11:14pm From: efd

yes, thanks John! how about the Yanks and Rays?

thx Monica... Laurie, I'll see if I can talk him out of it!

Tue. 8/5/08 11:14pm From: john

8-2 Sox final. Rays won 8-4, Texas beating Junkees 8-6 in the 8th, but the rangers really have no pitching at all.

Tue. 8/5/08 11:15pm From: Sybil

Sorry I'm late! Did I miss anything?

Tue. 8/5/08 11:16pm From: john

Well, we missed you! Does that count? Oh, and the baseball roundup.

Tue. 8/5/08 11:17pm From: Sybil

Bryan Ferry! Waaaaaaaah!

Tue. 8/5/08 11:18pm From: dave

belatedly: all due respect to mr. bryan ferry who i do truly adore, but i'm just not sure there's such thing as a cover of sympathy for the devil that comes within light years of the original.

Tue. 8/5/08 11:19pm From: Sybil

John, i was watching about four games and lost track of the time.

Damn modern technology and the horse it rode in on!

Tue. 8/5/08 11:20pm From: john

I'm following everything on mlb.com myself. Shouldn't modern technology be riding in on a Segway or something?

Tue. 8/5/08 11:21pm From: efd

look at me asking for score updates as if i had time to read/respond during my opening set...

Tue. 8/5/08 11:21pm From: Jason

so this is what the wicked awesome sound like!

Tue. 8/5/08 11:23pm From: dave

oddly, it's pretty close to how i'd imagined it.

Tue. 8/5/08 11:25pm From: john

They sound wicked awesome. But baseball waits for no man, as we go to the 9th with the Rangers holding on to an 8-6 lead.

Tue. 8/5/08 11:25pm From: Jim

It wasn't that awesome. It was good though.

Tue. 8/5/08 11:25pm From: Sybil

"information entropy" is kind of... redundant... or something.

Tue. 8/5/08 11:34pm From: Jim

How's that

Tue. 8/5/08 11:35pm From: Jim

Are you all going to be playing regular music during the old-timers week?

Tue. 8/5/08 11:35pm From: Sybil

regular music? Say what?

Tue. 8/5/08 11:36pm From: john

Special guest John Sterling says, "Yankees lose! Theeeeeeeeeee Yankees lose!"

Tue. 8/5/08 11:37pm From: Droll

Thanks for the heads up about JF/DS tomorrow! I hope he goes for a Notes-Per-Show record.

Tue. 8/5/08 11:38pm From: Sybil

Thanks, john. I'm blacked out from that one.

Now waiting out the Dodgers game. Can you guess why?

Tue. 8/5/08 11:39pm From: john

Is it Manny-related? In a pool for when he doesn't run out his first ground ball?

Tue. 8/5/08 11:40pm From: efd

John - banned!

Tue. 8/5/08 11:41pm From: Sybil

Oooh, MUMS!

Tue. 8/5/08 11:41pm From: efd

has anyone here heard of The Skunks before?

Jim - the music will depend on the guests... it will be as "regular" as their shows were, I'd guess.

Tue. 8/5/08 11:42pm From: john

What'd I say? In case I'm being suspended without pay, trust me, Jason Bay is the perfect hitter for Fenway. Righty who hits righties and is most devastating when he pulls the ball. 4 for 5 tonight.

Tue. 8/5/08 11:43pm From: efd

Sybil, you'll have to handle this... if I get into it there'll be a lot of dead air on tonight's show!

Tue. 8/5/08 11:44pm From: Sybil

Manny draws a BB. He's 2-for-3 tonight. He's batting, what, .700 with LA?

Tue. 8/5/08 11:45pm From: john

Oh, and Bay's seven years younger, hustles, never got voted 23-1 off his team, and is signed for a year and a half. He's a hell of a ballplayer.

Tue. 8/5/08 11:45pm From: dave

holy cats, imaginary icons are wireiffic.

and by "wireiffic", i mean "wicked awesome".

Tue. 8/5/08 11:46pm From: efd

funny you should mention wire...

Tue. 8/5/08 11:47pm From: dave

someone's got to lob the softballs for you to knock the free concert announcement out of the park.

Tue. 8/5/08 11:48pm From: efd

not to mention i already had them cued up!

Tue. 8/5/08 11:48pm From: dave

YAY

Tue. 8/5/08 11:49pm From: Jim

I enjoy the new Wire stuff. I liked the EPs from the past few years, too. Play some more obscure crap though.

Tue. 8/5/08 11:49pm From: Amanda

I am pretty sure I've heard of the Skunks, but not actually familiar with them. (How many times has someone said that about a band they don't actually know at all?) Regarding that track I'm mainly disappointed that E.L. is on vacation and couldn't hear that "happy how-do-you-do."

Dave, way to ESP the segue!

Tue. 8/5/08 11:50pm From: efd

John, seriously, I appreciate your comments and Red Sox fandom, but to paraphrase Jerry Remy during last year's pizza-tossing incident: that type of behavior will not be tolerated in this ballpark!
We will have to agree to disagree re Manny.

Tue. 8/5/08 11:51pm From: Sybil

My bad, Manny's batting .625 for the Dodgers.

It took so long because I had to add, and I ran out of fingers.

Tue. 8/5/08 11:52pm From: G

Try base ten. Works well with fingers, I hear. :-)

Tue. 8/5/08 11:52pm From: john

Happy to agree to disagree. Manny's a hall of famer, Bay isn't. Yet. And Bay's only hitting .429 for Boston, with no game-ending double plays. I'll shut up about it now, but we can revisit in October when the Sox are playing and the Dodgers (who I will be seeing a few times in LA in a couple weeks!) aren't.

Tue. 8/5/08 11:52pm From: Sybil

Heh, john, that's no kind of bait. You think I have to choose, and I don't.

Tue. 8/5/08 11:56pm From: Sybil

efd, it's rare to see such a pure exemplar of MUMS in the wild. The thing to do is to allow it to pass in respectful silence, I think.

Tue. 8/5/08 11:56pm From: G

Skunks bootleg video 1979

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGU7cf6d6vo

Tue. 8/5/08 11:58pm From: john

Sybil, MUMS? And that Vermillion Sands record was, well, wicked awesome.

Tue. 8/5/08 11:58pm From: Sybil

nenesynchronicity!

Wed. 8/6/08 12:04am From: Sybil

LA/StL going extra innings. Oy.

Wed. 8/6/08 12:07am From: Sybil

Vermillion sands, in the 3.5 seconds I looked at their very cluttered, bandwith-chewing myspace page, seemed to be from Italy. So prolly no relation to nene records. Oh well.

Wed. 8/6/08 12:13am From: efd

ah, thx Sybil.

John, i suggest you go to joyofsox.blogspot.com and scroll down a bit to the Manny posts... the views of the guy who runs that site are pretty much in-line with mine, and he's more eloquent than me. :)
(at least, when i'm doing my show)

Wed. 8/6/08 12:16am From: Sybil

Intentional walk to El Maestro. Heh.

Wed. 8/6/08 12:20am From: john

I'll do that. I'm happy to say there are two sides to this rather emotional issue, just trying to see the bright side of what was a really quite hideously bad situation for all concerned before the deal. It's cool.

Wed. 8/6/08 12:23am From: frenchee

hey efd, who's the celeb winner?
I probably didn't even recognize the famous one...

Wed. 8/6/08 12:27am From: Jim

Hm.

Wed. 8/6/08 12:29am From: john

Julian Cope heals all wounds.

Wed. 8/6/08 12:29am From: efd

Liz, I'll email you; I don't want to say it out loud.

Jim, why hm?

Wed. 8/6/08 12:31am From: frenchee

hee, ok. Must be a good one!

and wait, isn't Julian Cope the heel that wounds?

Wed. 8/6/08 12:32am From: Sybil

There is no wound. There is no heel.

I am one with the playlist.

Wed. 8/6/08 12:32am From: john

Knew it was one or the other. Quite not impossibly both.

Wed. 8/6/08 12:46am From: Jim

Hm because of the Pollard tune. I am a sucker for him, and that kind of stuff in general, but that wasn't doing it for me at all. Do you have anything perkier?

Wed. 8/6/08 12:54am From: efd

I haven't listened to the CD that closely yet, but I'll give it another listen this week.

Wed. 8/6/08 12:56am From: Sybil

It's pouring rain in Atlanta, and they're still playing.

Heh. Yoyo. Not pitching tonight, though.

Wed. 8/6/08 12:57am From: Sybil

efd, if you have a chance, check out the Tavarez clip I found which I posted today.


And thanks for the song!

Wed. 8/6/08 1:01am From: Jim

Oh I meant in general, not off the Pollard disc.

Wed. 8/6/08 1:02am From: Laurie

The world is ending. Paris Hilton made me laugh: http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/64ad536a6d

Wed. 8/6/08 1:02am From: john

Have to ask, Tavarez as in Yo-Yo or as in Heaven Must Be Missing An Angel?

Wed. 8/6/08 1:02am From: Sybil

Laurie, I'm afraid to look at that link.

Wed. 8/6/08 1:02am From: Jim

Yo!

Wed. 8/6/08 1:03am From: Jim

I bet you can't do a baseball set.

Wed. 8/6/08 1:04am From: efd

Jim, maybe you'll dig the Thomas Function single coming up....

Wed. 8/6/08 1:04am From: Sybil

If it were the latter, John, it would be Tavares.

Don't worry, a lot of people make that mistake!


Man, sliding in the mud in Atlanta.

Wed. 8/6/08 1:05am From: john

I knew that, and should have assumed you did. I seem to have a lot to apologize for tonight.

Wed. 8/6/08 1:05am From: Jim

Eh, they are ok.

Wed. 8/6/08 1:06am From: efd

or, maybe not! ;)

Wed. 8/6/08 1:07am From: Sybil

No apologies needed!

Wed. 8/6/08 1:08am From: efd

i can't do a baseball set *right now*, but i bet i could put one together with some advance planning...

Wed. 8/6/08 1:08am From: Sybil

What, Jim, not perky enough?

Sorry, couldn't resist.

meanwhile, in Altlanta, I think they're bulding an ark in the outfield

Wed. 8/6/08 1:10am From: john

I've been following the Twins and Mariners spending the last few innings each deciding the other team should really win.

Wed. 8/6/08 1:12am From: Sybil

I notice Detroit and the ChiSox are still at it!

And Boston's other team wins its water polo match, 11-4.

Wed. 8/6/08 1:18am From: efd

wow, when did that Det/Chi game start? it's approaching all-star length!

Wed. 8/6/08 1:18am From: john

As for the Mariners, even their own broadcasters are a little inconsistent in their pronunciation of the closer's last name. If I were called Putz (and more than once I have been), I'd be sending out daily memos reminding people that it's u as in push.

Wed. 8/6/08 1:19am From: Jim

Detroit lost in horrifying fashion.

Wed. 8/6/08 1:19am From: Sybil

It just ended after 14 innings (or 13.5, I'm not sure). I think it started at 8.

Wed. 8/6/08 1:21am From: Sybil

Where is tony d/miss b?


Hmm, I see what you mean about the Twins game, John.

Wed. 8/6/08 1:27am From: Jim

I think you would lose our bet technically if you did that.

Wed. 8/6/08 1:29am From: john

How about every team's edition of Terry Cashman's Tallkin' Baseball?

Wed. 8/6/08 1:32am From: efd

i would rather lose the bet than play any team's version of Talkin' Baseball, even the Red Sox version.

Wed. 8/6/08 1:32am From: efd

(not that there's an actual bet on the table)

Wed. 8/6/08 1:35am From: Jim

Yeah if you took the offer I mean.

Wed. 8/6/08 1:41am From: Sybil

So the songs have to be about baseball? Or is it enough if they have baseball connections?

Wed. 8/6/08 1:43am From: Jim

Nah I just meant vaguely connected to baseball.

Wed. 8/6/08 1:44am From: Jessica

Fugu = [deadly if prepped by jr sushi chef] pufferfish.

Wed. 8/6/08 1:44am From: Jim

Not necessarily any over the top MLB lyrics like that Baseball Project band.

Wed. 8/6/08 1:46am From: efd

oh, like on that Simpsons episode!

Wed. 8/6/08 1:47am From: efd

and Sybil, good question re Toni D - i have no idea!

Wed. 8/6/08 1:50am From: efd

Simpsons episode about puffer fish, that is

Wed. 8/6/08 1:53am From: Jessica

I had one in my cubicle @ Berkeley Systems. In an aquarium. A great big cubicle-perimeter-making aquarium, with a sassy flirtatious pufferfish making eyes with me. (He's not in the screen saver, but does appear on the boxer shorts.) Oh, how I miss that little fugu.

Wed. 8/6/08 1:55am From: Sybil

How about this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJ4mJhvHI8I

Wed. 8/6/08 1:56am From: john

how about the intruders' love is like a baseball game? No actual MLB content, but still...

Wed. 8/6/08 1:57am From: Sybil

Jessica, you worked at Berkley Systems? After Dark Berkley Systems?

Wed. 8/6/08 1:57am From: john

OK Sybil, that was a shade freaky. Excellent choice, though!

Wed. 8/6/08 1:58am From: Sybil

Dang, John, GMTA!

Wed. 8/6/08 1:58am From: john

And so do we!

Wed. 8/6/08 2:00am From: Sybil

I actually own that record. A 45.

Wed. 8/6/08 2:01am From: john

Ditto, in point of fact. Think I prefer Cowboys To Girls, though.

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