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I don't think it is Frank's fault Mags hits the ball so hard and given the position of the infielders with a runner at 1st, it just happens - that is my theory

Maggs has always always been the Sox leader of GIDP or at least since 2000 and maybe before that until PK gave him a run (get it, run) for the money in 2003 I have always hated to see Mags at bat with 1 out and a runner at 1st

that my friend Mr Eye is really stupid management on your employers part answer to the ethics question of PA - are you indeed sick? sick of work? then to take a day off because you are sick of the place indeed is a sick day. you are ethically ok on this.

yo what they say

I for one am not interested in antiCub stuff - I am a Sox fan, not an antiCub fan, and I think we (sox fans) should be above junior high and high school trash talk - and I will wear nothing that has the word cub on, even anticub instead of the"skill" of our anti cub trash talk being put out there, I would rather go with the depth of our being Sox fans and not put downs of others in our support for soxtalk - we should not define ourselves as anti-cub because that is not what this site is sbout, this is about pro Sox talk just my opinion not binding on anyone else

I would say don't criticise anything (rap, opera, hevy metal, alt, emo, dada, baroque, neo surrealism whatever) without knowing the genre and the people to whom the art speaks and what it says to them and then consider it on the artistic merits alone - I detest Wagner's politics and life and everything he and his music stood for in his time and later generations but the music itself - is glorous and sublime and worth it that is Triumph of the Will makes it onto my best movies list - I detest what it is about but as a piece of film making - it is (was) revolutionary and pioneering so once can discuss the context or whatever else but yet see the art for what it is - which means no one likes everything of course - I can;t stand country music or jazz but I also will never saythose genres "suck" because they are something I don't like and I can appreicate genius in the genres life is always bigger than us and you of all people know that so why I am telling you what you already know?

ok, I am lost - what is the issue with Ja Rule here? I am surely missing something (and I apply the saying to everything - no just music) as to age of music - I also have seaosns tickets to the lyric opera - ae of music is irrelevant as opposed to making Larence Welk music out of what was once alive and revolutionary - enjoy it all, not just the slice that was hit s*** when one was a teeny bopper

the real Beatles tribute is coming I am sure to everyone who says watching is silly - don't watch! of course they are silly and worthless! but trash can be fun too and there is some good music out there - right now White Stripes -

exactly now I am watching every minute of the grammys and this beatles tribute with vince Gill and Sting is lamer than Prince and Beyonce but what the hell

yes it would be possible, of course you are talking to a pacifist whose son is in the Marines - all I asked of him was that he do what he thought best after he really thought about the right thing to do and do what his conscience says - all one can ask of anyone - you will understand the difference between calendar years and getting old as your years go by - the difference between living in the present and living in the past tense check out the context of the Dylan song - to me it is essential - don't criticise what you don't understand and some will argue with you on Dylan as someone with something to say

the thing is, not everyone reads evey forum - some people never go outside of just one forum - so to get the news out there, it has to be in the 3 main forums - so everyone has a chance to see it - especially as the proceeds go to soxtalk

as often as I have already done - just getting the info out there for my buds -

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why haven't you clicked this yet? I am getting my first one in black... I think it ios cool we can customize these wioth our names so we know who to meet or avoid at USCF at least from the back!

click this now look what I found surfing the internet! why wouldn't everyone order a couple for casual and formal wear??? better than being naked is wearing one of these!

that's when I go back to with Stevie it was great! every adult (except maybe Leonard Bernstein) said they were a fad - and we knew better! I don't know - he always said so!!! - and I know you emant that in green - - NY was an important market - but hardly made the Beatles everywhere else - outside of NY no one who Murrey the K was!

clapton cannot sing but I will agree that when he vocalizes he brings a certain something that others do not possess ok, it is overstated to say he cannot sing but he is only a journeyman singer, competent enough but nothing special but then again he always has that something

I disagree. Parents hated the Beatles. In many houses across the country parents said "turn that off" and heard the word "no" for the first time. And the early Beatles suggested a lot of danger. I also disagree that the Beatles never would have hit without the JFK assassination. That was undoubtedly a factor that we needed something but the we there is the pre teen through college market. The Beatles were the first band that college students could play without feeling like (or being told that) they were playing junior high music. That the prior two records did not hit doesn't clinch that argument for me at all because a lot of times it takes a few tries before something hits big. And it is Stevie Winwood - you added an extra letter. I am one of the few people who saw Blind Faith on tour. I do not want to argue with PA at all. I am trying not to. I am trying very hard. Clapton is one of the best guitarists ever, no doubt. He is one reason I saw Blind Faith. I have loved Clapton's music for all the years that he was good. but clapton cannot he cannot he cannot cannot sing

this will be a silly question to most of you but please someone explain exactly what is being rated by a "power ranking." I am ignorant. I cannot define the term.

thanks for your post! You are a good guy, thank you! as for Em, the really important thing is that you must promise yourself that you will live by the words of Peter Townsend, "hope I die before I get old" and Dylan's "don't criticise what you don't understand." And that is not aimed at you. That is aimed at everyone my age who does not keep up with music and have fossilized themselves in the music of their childhood and adolesence. Never let that happen. Most of my friends do not have a clue about anything going on today, and that is really sad. Don't get old. Never get old. Years may go by but never get old like too many adults do. As for the Beatles - yeah yeah yeah the did deserve the adoration! Like cheering for one's favorite sports team - it is a release - but the Beatles were never in the god-like category (that would be Clapton's fans and Dylan's fans who did that to them). We used to critique and criticise them then - Sgt. Peppers was a real shock to a lot of fans - as they kept evolving, so did the analysis, postive and negative. As for the screaming at the concerts - oh well, every generation has its folks it screams about. Just happened that the Beatles were that talented and that much more to offer. But isn't it fun at a concert to give ovations to the msuic you like - one of the fun things agout music!

I was very happy with Lamont and I have never bashed him. I rather like managers who bring us to division titles but I do sometimes feel rather alone in that. It seems like any time we have wona title, anyone could have managed that team but when we don't win, it is all the manager's fault.

brando, yes all of that and more, much more, much more. And the MJ analogy fails sadly. He was the best player arguably but he transformed nothing. Brando and Wells are a tad closer but they lacked the revolutionary impact on all of culture as well as their art form (although Brando's iconic status is certainly and he did to that a small degree). There are no analogies because they tarnscended all possible analogies. Elvis may be the closest as he helped usher in the world of rock and roll but even he was greatly outclipsed by the Beatles. elaborate? not enough time to do a doctoral thesis to back that up. However, there are no reflections from all of the media on the anniveraries of Hermans Hermits or Manfred Mann or the Dave Clark 5 or the Essex or the Shangrilas as there will not be for hardly anyone else. This is not a favorite band that some people recall. This was a pivotal moment in American culture and music, and world culture and music. They were not sui generis, nothing is, and they were not the creators of all things, no one is (non theologically speaking), but they opened doors, they introduced, they embodied, they incarnate of all that was "the 60s" which did not begin until 9 Fenruary 1964. The Beatles transformed, changed music, culture, popular and real, everything. There is enough academic and scholarly material out there. Not giving you short shrift my friend - perhaps what is hard to fathom for some is how different the world was on February 8th and February 10th of 1964, let alone how different the world was then than now. I don't know if there could be anythig of such immediate, revolutionary impact today. What lacks for many is that the Beatles are considered your parents or your grandparents music, old, you've grown up with it always being there and some are tired of it, think it is passe, you've heard enough raves about them, whatever. That does not take away from the astounding revolutionary impact they had on everything, on everything they touched. Whatever the gestalt of the 4 of them together in that time and place, it was a moment and several years of signal impact of the most transforming, transcendent kind that happens very, very rarely. Scoffers who are tres chic and beyond or above everything may do their caustic put downs and dismissals (and I understand that, I love to reject thinsg that seem overly popular too) but it is what it is and what it was and as both herald and agent of change, the Beatles stand alone. I feel lucky to have been alive and old enough to appreicate it when it happened and kept happening.

The Beatles changed everything. They revolutionized everything. They saved a dying art form known as rock and roll. And their early stuff is incredibly good and the later stuff is better. Thet deserve the accolades, always did, always will. Where ,usic was when they came in, and where it was when as a group they left the scene, as well as their own progression, is simply a reflection of who much they changed everything. Consider why Rolling Stone who panders to a youth market turned around and rated all those Beatles albums in their top 10 and top 20. Yes, I know, all of a sudden Rolling Stones goes from pandering to youth to being a bunch of aging baby boomers. There is nothing that is happening today that does not come from what the Beatles did. They and they alone are that significant. The history of music is what it is. They had things influence them, but they put it together, made something new, that simply changed everything. I am aware that is sometime really cool to put down things because they seem so popular or been said so much that one looks to be separate from that. But the Beatles transcend all such and it is what it is and their legacy and place in history is very secure. As far as the Beasties Boys and Eminem comment, if that was purely objective comment, you are right, of course. If that was meant to put down Em or something, didn't happen to me. There were many things which paved the way for Eminem and Beastes Boys is one of them, and that is neither a positive nor a negative, just fact. My response is yes, I agree.

that is a great album -