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Thanks to napster.com I listened to the The Kills most recent CD, "Blood Pressures". It's okay, but definitely not a must have for your collection. I was rather disappointed for the positive reviews I read for this CD. This band features Allison Mosshart who's also in The Dead Weather with Jack White.
C.W. McCall's "Convoy":
Quick sports notes:
My baseball teams had a relatively good day yesterday. LA won 1-0 in winning their second straight game! Of course, that's due more to Chad Billingsley excellent pitching rather than LA's pathetic offense. Also Boston beat Baltimore to move to a 1 game lead over the Yanks in the AL East. As for the David Ortiz- no name Orioles pitcher fight, no one won that. The Pirates continue playing well, coming back to beat alleged MLB team The Cubs 7-4. Pittsburgh is now 46-42 and have assured themselves their first winning record at the All-Star break in 19 years. Pittsburgh is tied for second place in the NL Central with St. Louis, both teams are 1 game behind Milwaukee. I expect the Pirates to be one of the biggest stories at the upcoming All-Star game.
Last but not least: The Braves were on fire and closing fast on Philadelphia. They had won 9 of their last 10 games. That was when they were playing teams with a mortal pitching staff. Last night Atlanta ran into the amazing, superhuman Phillies pitching staff. The Phillies won on a walk off home run by Raul Ibanez and take a 3.5 game lead over Atlanta in the NL East. Now news comes that Chipper Jones will miss at least 15 days as he undergoes a surgery today. The Braves faced Roy Halladay yesterday. It doesn't get that much easier over the next couple of days. They go against Cliff Lee today and Cole Hamels tomorrow.
It's been great not to have to hear about Frank McCourt over the last several days. However he put himself back in the news yesterday when he fired Dodger legend Steve Garvey. Garvey, who worked in marketing, was fired because he's working on putting a Dodgers ownership group together. Granted it doesn't seem like a great thing to do by Garvey. However everyone sees the writing on the wall about Frank McCourt being forced to sale soon. Everyone sees that but McCourt that is. The longer he holds on, the longer it's going to take the Dodgers to bounce back. As a Dodgers fan I'd love to see an ownership group lead by Steve Garvey and Orel Hershiser become new owners of the Dodgers.
Again all songs brought to you by iTunes 10.3.1. This song is from the movie "Once" which is extremely over rated, however "Falling Slowly" is an amazing song.
Yao Ming is reportedly retiring. When he's been able to play, he has been a quality player. Is he worthy of the Hall-of-Fame? Please. There's no way. The tissue soft center qualify for the Hall-of-Fame? Your kidding right. A good way to tell whether a player deserves to be in the Hall-of-Fame is would you have ever wanted him on your favorite team. For me, I would say no. Not only did he miss way too many games. But with his contract he ate up too much cap space that hurt the team in signing other players. Over the last 6 seasons Ming missed 250 games. In that time span the Rockets played 492 games, which mean Ming missed more than half of their games. He missed the entire '09-'10 season and played 5 games last season. Yao had his moments, but there's no way a 7'6" player should ever have his shot blocked.
I'm also glad that I'm not a Portland Trailblazers fan as they "tendered an $8.8 million qualifying offer" to the injury prone Greg Oden for one more season. (Thanks to espn.com.) I think that's a bad offer by Portland. I'm sure Oden will jump all over that. In his four seasons in the NBA he has only played 82 of the 328 games he potentially could have played. I wish I had a job where I only had to show up 25% of the time and still was offered $8.8 million dollars. Again what are the NBA players complaining about again?
Shouldn't this song be more funky? I remember this sung as being much more funky. Black Eyed Peas took the same idea with the much better "Don't Phunk With My Heart". This is Lisa Lisa and the Cult Jam's "I Wonder If I Take You Home":
The Yankees game was rained out last night, postponing for at least one day from Derek Jeter getting 3000 hits. I really had a feeling that he was going to get that elusive 3000th hit last night. Today Jeter didn't let the suspense last any longer than he needed too, Jeter had his his 2,999th and 3,000th hits in his first two at bats today. Jeter is the 28th player in MLB history to have 3000 hits and the first Yankee. His 3000th hit was a home run, how cool is that? Congrats to him. Update: Not only did Jeter get his 3000th hit, he also got his 3,001st and 3,002nd hit so far. So far today he has a home run, double and two singles.
Jeter has now risen to 27th on all-time career hits. Jeter passed Pirate great Roberto Clemente, who finished at 3000 hits even, before dying a relief mission. Next up on Jeter's list is Al Kaline with 3,007 hits followed by Wade Boggs with 3,010 hits. In fact, he should move up to 22nd on the all-time hits list in the next few weeks. By the end of the season, assuming he stays healthy, he should be 19th in most career hits.
Stan Ridgway's "Camouflage". I love this song, especially the end. I don't know if this song is a serious tribute or highly ironic. However whatever it is, I get goose bumps every time I hear it.
According to espn.com: "very little progress was made in the NFL's labor talks." The lawyers will be working all weekend though. (Again the lawyers are the only winners of any kind of contract negotiations like this. I hate lawyers.) Key representatives of the NFL and NFLPA will again meet on Monday. Today is NFL Lockout day 116. Many people think that July 15th is the defacto cut off date on when nothing of real import will be missed. If they get past that point then things are going to start being missed. That would probably lead to shorter training camps, missing the Hall-of-Fame game and preseason games. None of those things are that important. The NFL has designed the regular season schedule in such a way that 3 weeks of the regular season could be missed and still all teams would be able to have complete seasons. I would love to see the NFL go on an extended lockout, but greed probably won't let either side do that.
Meanwhile the NBA Lockout is setting up to make the NFL lockout look like a church picnic. In only the 9th day of the NBA Lockout, players are already preparing for no NBA basketball games to be played. Such stars as Deron Williams have already agreed in principle on a contract an international team when the lockout wipes out at least part of the season. He will be playing with Besiktas. Williams has a contract with an opt out clause. That would allow him to leave Besiktas if, and when, the NBA resumes play.
Sonny Weems, last of Toronto, has signed a contract with a Lithuanian team that doesn't have an opt out clause. Probably not a big loss for Weems, are the Raptors still considered an NBA team? Also according to espn.com, "Former Philadelphia 76ers power forward Darius Songaila has signed a one-year deal worth $1.5 million plus bonuses with the Turkish team, Galatasaray, his agent said on Friday." He only played 10 games for the 76ers last season, so he might have explored playing internationally anyway. Reportedly former Jazzman Andrei Kirilenko has tried to secure a deal with Real Madrid. Smartly Real Madrid passed on signing the injury prone Kirilenko.
A great song, a terrible live performance. I was wondering who would be singing Roni Spector's lines. This is Eddie Money's "Take Me Home Tonight":
Yesterday was the one year anniversary of Lebron James widely mocked "Decision". I say who cares? Can't we just let this story go now? Of course, stories like this might be a thing of the future if there's no NFL or NBA this fall.
Eddie Money's "Two Tickets To Paradise":
Also tomorrow the USA women play Brazil in the WWC quarterfinals round very early in the morning. I'll be at church and unfortunately will miss the game. Fellow Americans please cheer for me. Why are WWC games played so much later today than they are tomorrow?
Many people consider "Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue" to be Crystal Gayle's classic song. However I prefer "Why Have You Left The One You Left Me For":
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