Haha, I literally told someone yesterday that 12-13ish was the normal Doors discovery time, while 14-15ish was Zepplin. Perhaps I developed faster than rest of the population. 😉
I was pleased it was written by someone named "Brad."
I don't think the Doors would make my top twenty-five bands from their era, but I've come back around to appreciating – if not flat out liking – Jim Morrison. I've always liked Ray Manzarek's work. I kinda wish Manzarek, Robby Krieger, and John Densmore had cut a few tracks with someone like Chris Cornell.
I may have pedestrian tastes, but I still very much enjoy quite a few songs in their catalog. Mr. Morrison's "poetry" crap, not so much.
but, c'mon.
Debut album includes Break on Through, Soul Kitchen, The Crystal Ship, Light My Fire. Even The End is (mostly) a really good song, which is why it's featured in Apocalypse Now.
Second album features Strange Days, Love Me Two Times, Moonlight Drive, People Are Strange, and When the Music's Over.
Third album includes Hello I Love You, Love Street, Not to Touch the Earth, The Unknown Soldier, and Five to One.
Fourth album sucked but included Touch Me
Fifth album: Roadhouse Blues, Waiting For the Sun, Peace Frog, Ship of Fools.
last album: Love Her Madly, LA Woman, The WASP (Texas Radio and the Big Beat), Riders on the Storm.
That's a pretty deep catalog without getting too tied up with Morrison's worst excesses.
with all necessary apologies to Bootsy, who would probably be retching if he were to wander into the basement today.
What's a "Bootsy?"
Sad trombone.
ayup
I very much enjoy most of these songs you've listed. Especially Love Me Two Times. He had some weird drug stuff, but I love his voice.
Yup, those are some pretty good tunes. But 1965-1970 is an absolute golden era for popular music.
The draft of this written by Brad when he was 21:
"The Clash. You'll thank me later."
Bravo.
Remember how Byungho Park has had sore wrists for months but the Twins kept saying it was no big deal? He's out for the rest of the season with wrist tendinitis.
Can the new GM hire a full analytics department and a new medical/training staff?
Sorry. Small Market™
The medical/training staff probably bears some responsibility, but not all. If I'm the manager of the Twins, and I see one of my players icing his wrist after every game, I shouldn't need a doctor to tell me that something must be wrong.
I seem to remember Molitor being asked about it some weeks before Park was sent down, and he said something to the effect that "We asked him about it and he said he could play." And I don't doubt that's what he would say. But at some point the question is not "can you play" but "can you get anything accomplished." And it was pretty obvious that he couldn't.
If dumb old Jeff A, who sat the bench on his small town American Legion team, knows how important the wrists are in batting, Hall of Famer Paul Molitor certainly ought to know it. Instead, he and the rest of the staff chose to turn a blind eye, pretend everything was fine, and allow Park to be labeled a bust by the media and the fans. And to what purpose? None that I can see. You'd think that, having spent what by Twins standards is a fair amount of money on Park, the Twins would've wanted to take care of their investment. Instead, they wasted a year of his career. To me, that's pretty much inexcusable.
This is the sort of thing I had hoped would have ended when Gardy left, but here we are. It's even more frustrating adding the variable of "guy was mashing huge taters and now he isn't" to icing his wrists every day.
From Parker Hageman on July 8:
Per the broadcast:
Quote
Announcer 1: “They have this slugger, Byung Ho Park, who played last night, he’s got a bit of a hand injury. He’s out of the lineup. He’s a guy who they hoped would come down, get things right and also propel this Rochester team but it’s not going to help them if he’s not playing.”
Announcer 2: “I don’t know if I was supposed to hear it but I did hear one of [Rochester’s] coaches talking about Park having a hand injury that kind of lingered throughout the year. It started in spring training and he just decided he can’t swing a bat right now. He can’t keep the hand on the bat and he decided to shut it down.”
On Friday Brad Steil, the Twins' Director of Minor League Operations, dismissed the broadcast banter, writing in an email to Twins Daily that there is nothing accurate about that report.
"Park does not have a hand injury and he didn't have a hand injury (or anything else) in spring training," Steil noted. "He does have some wrist soreness at the moment, but it’s not something that prevents him from playing. Players deal with bumps, bruises, soreness, and general fatigue throughout the course of a six month season, and we will occasionally give them days off to help manage those things."
and we will occasionally give them days off to help manage those things rub some dirt on it.
FTFY
This is a map of a fire near my house. Fortunately for us, it is moving away. If this had been in October or later when we typically get Santa Ana winds coming down through the Cajon Pass, we might not have been so lucky. They're calling this the Blue Cut Fire and it went from "oh, look, smoke" to mandatory evacuations for thousands of people within a matter of hours, which is pretty much unheard of when the Santa Anas aren't blowing. The base camp for the firefighters is just a few miles away from us. My house is near the 215 icon.
oh man...I didn't see it mentioned, but UP uses the BNSF triple main through Cajon Pass.
Yeah, that is a main artery for rail and truck shipping. I've heard of dozens of trucks waiting at the side of the freeway for it to reopen even though that could be days away.
When in northern Idaho, the cities are "MOSS-coe", "CORE duh Lane". I don't remember what was special about Pend Oreille, but I think that was funky, too.
Got it: "Ponderay". which is the name of a town on the lake.
Geez, even Missourians know how to pronounce that, and this is the state of Cairo (KAY-row), New Madrid (MAD-rid), Nevada (neh-VAY-duh), and a host of other atro-cities.
Which one do Miserians know how to pronounce?
In Idaho, MossCo is local and Ma's Cow is international.
If there was a Moscow in MO, it'd be assuredly MOSS-coh
There is a Versailles, Indiana pronounced ver-SAYLES
One in New York as well. Burgundy is pronounced ber-GUN-dee here and calliope is pronounced cal-E-oop. Back in the day when the street signs were all caps folks pronounced Clio street CL-10. That's an all time great in my book.
My f-i-l calls the regional store min-YARDS
And Mrs. Runner calls it MAY-nerds, just to be annoying
Out here by H-istan:
Barkhamsted (bark-ham-sted) not HAM
Berlin (BUR-lin)
Bolton (bowl-tin) - 6 mile time trials here
Coventry (cahv-en-tree)
Durham (durram) - awesome fall Town fair here
Greenwich (grinnitch)
Groton (grah-in) glottal stop - home of America's submarines
Hebron (hee-bron) - Bikram yoga
Leicester (les-ter)
Ledyard (lejer)
Leominster (len-min-ster) drove thru here on work trips
New Britain (nu BRIT-n) glottal stop (clip) - Rock Cats seeya-bye
Niantic (nye-antic) (first ocean triathlon here)
Norwich (norrich) Cross Sound Ferry to Long Island (lann GUY-land)
Quinnipiac (KWIN-ni-pee-yak) the Wayzata of Connecticut
Scituate (sitch-u-it)
Somers (summers)
Thames River (thames - long A - not like England timmes)
Tolland (tahlend) (my first triathlon)
Wolcott (wool-kit)
Worcester (wuh-stir) horrible backups on the Turnpike at 5PM
To be clear, I know the correct pronunciation, but I prefer to call it Le Crux.
PREDICTION CONTEST
DAY GAME ALERT: Rochester is at Buffalo at noon Central today.
An update on our old friend Matt Capps.
People Are Strange, When You're a Stranger.
Yea, but I still like the Doors, so suck it.
Haha, I literally told someone yesterday that 12-13ish was the normal Doors discovery time, while 14-15ish was Zepplin. Perhaps I developed faster than rest of the population. 😉
I was pleased it was written by someone named "Brad."
I don't think the Doors would make my top twenty-five bands from their era, but I've come back around to appreciating – if not flat out liking – Jim Morrison. I've always liked Ray Manzarek's work. I kinda wish Manzarek, Robby Krieger, and John Densmore had cut a few tracks with someone like Chris Cornell.
I may have pedestrian tastes, but I still very much enjoy quite a few songs in their catalog. Mr. Morrison's "poetry" crap, not so much.
but, c'mon.
Debut album includes Break on Through, Soul Kitchen, The Crystal Ship, Light My Fire. Even The End is (mostly) a really good song, which is why it's featured in Apocalypse Now.
Second album features Strange Days, Love Me Two Times, Moonlight Drive, People Are Strange, and When the Music's Over.
Third album includes Hello I Love You, Love Street, Not to Touch the Earth, The Unknown Soldier, and Five to One.
Fourth album sucked but included Touch Me
Fifth album: Roadhouse Blues, Waiting For the Sun, Peace Frog, Ship of Fools.
last album: Love Her Madly, LA Woman, The WASP (Texas Radio and the Big Beat), Riders on the Storm.
That's a pretty deep catalog without getting too tied up with Morrison's worst excesses.
with all necessary apologies to Bootsy, who would probably be retching if he were to wander into the basement today.
What's a "Bootsy?"
Sad trombone.
ayup
I very much enjoy most of these songs you've listed. Especially Love Me Two Times. He had some weird drug stuff, but I love his voice.
Yup, those are some pretty good tunes. But 1965-1970 is an absolute golden era for popular music.
The draft of this written by Brad when he was 21:
"The Clash. You'll thank me later."
Bravo.
Remember how Byungho Park has had sore wrists for months but the Twins kept saying it was no big deal? He's out for the rest of the season with wrist tendinitis.
Can the new GM hire a full analytics department and a new medical/training staff?
Sorry. Small Market™
The medical/training staff probably bears some responsibility, but not all. If I'm the manager of the Twins, and I see one of my players icing his wrist after every game, I shouldn't need a doctor to tell me that something must be wrong.
I seem to remember Molitor being asked about it some weeks before Park was sent down, and he said something to the effect that "We asked him about it and he said he could play." And I don't doubt that's what he would say. But at some point the question is not "can you play" but "can you get anything accomplished." And it was pretty obvious that he couldn't.
If dumb old Jeff A, who sat the bench on his small town American Legion team, knows how important the wrists are in batting, Hall of Famer Paul Molitor certainly ought to know it. Instead, he and the rest of the staff chose to turn a blind eye, pretend everything was fine, and allow Park to be labeled a bust by the media and the fans. And to what purpose? None that I can see. You'd think that, having spent what by Twins standards is a fair amount of money on Park, the Twins would've wanted to take care of their investment. Instead, they wasted a year of his career. To me, that's pretty much inexcusable.
This is the sort of thing I had hoped would have ended when Gardy left, but here we are. It's even more frustrating adding the variable of "guy was mashing huge taters and now he isn't" to icing his wrists every day.
From Parker Hageman on July 8:
and we will occasionally give them days off to
help manage those thingsrub some dirt on it.FTFY
This is a map of a fire near my house. Fortunately for us, it is moving away. If this had been in October or later when we typically get Santa Ana winds coming down through the Cajon Pass, we might not have been so lucky. They're calling this the Blue Cut Fire and it went from "oh, look, smoke" to mandatory evacuations for thousands of people within a matter of hours, which is pretty much unheard of when the Santa Anas aren't blowing. The base camp for the firefighters is just a few miles away from us. My house is near the 215 icon.
oh man...I didn't see it mentioned, but UP uses the BNSF triple main through Cajon Pass.
Yeah, that is a main artery for rail and truck shipping. I've heard of dozens of trucks waiting at the side of the freeway for it to reopen even though that could be days away.
Not to mention what it's costing Vegas. The 15 through the Cajon Pass gets backed way up every Friday with people heading to Vegas for the weekend.
Yea, some scary sh!t. I saw that ~80,000 people were being "evacuated" (or "under evacuation orders" anyway).
If only we could get the Donald to build a pipe line from south Louisiana to California and have the rain drops pay for it.
WGOM buck ... Or somesuch
Seriously, this is a question?
When in northern Idaho, the cities are "MOSS-coe", "CORE duh Lane". I don't remember what was special about Pend Oreille, but I think that was funky, too.
Got it: "Ponderay". which is the name of a town on the lake.
Geez, even Missourians know how to pronounce that, and this is the state of Cairo (KAY-row), New Madrid (MAD-rid), Nevada (neh-VAY-duh), and a host of other atro-cities.
Which one do Miserians know how to pronounce?
In Idaho, MossCo is local and Ma's Cow is international.
If there was a Moscow in MO, it'd be assuredly MOSS-coh
There is a Versailles, Indiana pronounced ver-SAYLES
One in New York as well. Burgundy is pronounced ber-GUN-dee here and calliope is pronounced cal-E-oop. Back in the day when the street signs were all caps folks pronounced Clio street CL-10. That's an all time great in my book.
My f-i-l calls the regional store min-YARDS
And Mrs. Runner calls it MAY-nerds, just to be annoying
Out here by H-istan:
Barkhamsted (bark-ham-sted) not HAM
Berlin (BUR-lin)
Bolton (bowl-tin) - 6 mile time trials here
Coventry (cahv-en-tree)
Durham (durram) - awesome fall Town fair here
Greenwich (grinnitch)
Groton (grah-in) glottal stop - home of America's submarines
Hebron (hee-bron) - Bikram yoga
Leicester (les-ter)
Ledyard (lejer)
Leominster (len-min-ster) drove thru here on work trips
New Britain (nu BRIT-n) glottal stop (clip) - Rock Cats seeya-bye
Niantic (nye-antic) (first ocean triathlon here)
Norwich (norrich) Cross Sound Ferry to Long Island (lann GUY-land)
Quinnipiac (KWIN-ni-pee-yak) the Wayzata of Connecticut
Scituate (sitch-u-it)
Somers (summers)
Thames River (thames - long A - not like England timmes)
Tolland (tahlend) (my first triathlon)
Wolcott (wool-kit)
Worcester (wuh-stir) horrible backups on the Turnpike at 5PM
To be clear, I know the correct pronunciation, but I prefer to call it Le Crux.
I like "lay-QUAH".
Right. I thought it was short for "Lake Water".