All The Good Stuff
Dubs get a nice long layoff. Giants get Washington who they should handle at home. Derby next weekend got my attention. And The Oaks on Friday may be even more exciting. This is my time of year. Reveling.
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Gotta say, this is my time of year too. Get into New Orleans tomorrow AM and head out to the fairgrounds soon after. Probably a light day as I get my legs under me, but I plan on seeing the Cookers jazz band, Cecil McBee is one of my fav bass players so that’ll be nice. Probably see some Kim Carson, the Palm Court Jazz band, some gospel with Leo Jackson and the Mighty Clouds. I don’t know, maybe some James Andrews, Galectic, love the Soul Rebels and will probably check out a tribute to Bessie Smith with Meschiya Lake. Oh, gotta catch some Asleep at the Wheel (maybe Shamarr Allen will sit in again), some Jose Feliciano and end the day with The Who.
All while eating great food and drinking ice cold beers, yep, my kinda day.
what kind of food is on the menu today?
Tonight will just pizza,, I don’t get into NOLA until tomorrow. This isn’t a corn dog/funnel cake kinda deal, my first thing tomorrow will be the cochon de lait po-boy, as they say here in the south “Son, that’s some good eatin’ right dere”. Here’s the link for the food offerings.
https://www.nojazzfest.com/food/
Wow enjoy man. Dig Cookers band too. Remember Cecil McBee from Pharaoh Sanders and Thembi.
Struck up a nice conversation with Cecil at my first jazz fest in 86 when he was with the Leaders, and again at Yoshi’s so hoping I get a chance to say hi to him.
Love the gospel of the Mighty Clouds of Joy. To me some of the best soul music is gospel. Sounds like your gonna have a great day.
The gospel tent gets rocking, fer sure. The New Orleans Gospel Soul Children and the Electrifying Crown Seekers will also be on my list.
When in The Big East in Feb we ate and drank very well!!!
Enjoy Bozo
I will, thanks GH.
Sounds like fun, Bozo. Haven’t been to nola since before Katrina. The highlight of my work trip to Tallahassee was the Po’ boys and the fish. Asked one of the guards where the best seafood was, and he recommended the Seineyard out in the sticks. Great grouper and shrimp. You had to hunt to find stuff that wasn’t deep-fried!
True dat, Unca. A lot has changed in the city since Katrina, foodwise thou it’s a bit more diverse now (many places have salads now).
But frying is in their blood, and they do it well, so I gotta get me some. I live in a fishing community, but those gulf shrimps down there are pretty tasty, and their blue crabs are bigger than ours so they can do more with the soft shells. Also, right now is crawfish season. Come on down, I’ll buy you a birthday beer or two (hope ya had a happy one by the way, including swimming with that hockey team).
Slush said Leone tested positive along with staff member.
also Pederson has adductor strain but Z said not going on IL right now, and will see how he responds in few days..
Well he must feel better cause Pederson is listed in the expected LU and leading off tonight…
Dodgers’ Bauer has been suspended by MLB without pay for two full seasons worth of games (324), starting now, I guess. I’m guessing he had still been getting paid while on enforced leave from the team.
Earlier, Bauer filed a defamation and intentional interference with contract (et al) lawsuit against the woman who accused him. Not the kind of dramatic publicity mlb needs. Maybe Bauer will appeal the suspension and settle with mlb for a lesser sentence in return for dropping his own lawsuit. Well, not officially, of course.
Everybody all signed up to watch tonight’s game on Apple tv?
happy to take the night off. Fuck apple tv and fuck all apple products.
Streameast, baby!!
Hard to fight the photos of the woman beat to shit.
I’m not a fan of internet-only MLB games. I know that I’m a dinosaur, but still….
Giants vs. Nats, Dodgers vs. Tigers. The Giants and Dodgers both have a good chance to sweep this weekend. The standings might not change this weekend.
Ain’t a damn thing wrong with fried fish. Bloody delicious.
Fried catfish has to be my favorite of all time.
Oh, I had the deep fried shrimp and catfish while I was there, but the pan-fried grouper was great.
Our starting LF tonight is someone named Jason Krizan…
One of 3 guys up from Sac. Slush said Belt tested positive too.
I wouldn’t be surprised to see the Nationals hit a little better this weekend. The middle of their line up didn’t do much last weekend. Soto in particular hasn’t done much against SF over the last couple seasons. At least that’s the way it seems.
Way to go, James!
Sorry …
I’m going to the Cardinals game on Thursday. It’ll be a Rivercats bullpen affair.
https://www.cbssports.com/fantasy/baseball/news/giants-jason-krizan-making-big-league-debut-friday/
Man, 11 seasons and more than 1100 games in the minors. For the love of the game, huh….
Mets no hit Phils, second one in team hist.
Diaz finished it off striking out side, Harper Castellanos and Realmuto.
159 pitch no-hitter…
Wood still throwing 94. That’s a good portend. Even though he’ll probably lose tonight.
Giants give up a run on 16% RBI probability.
This game is over. I offer this to the pony people: https://youtu.be/k5hIvADyGM0
I think WillieD is a fan of Lucia Berlin.
That’s cool. I met her at a party around the time of this reading. I had no idea about her background. She was regal. I love her writing.
Her background is not unusual to me. I stupidly dismissed her work years ago as derivative of the Ray Carver/Denis Johnson inspired MFA malaise. Luckily, I took another look.
Thank James. Her short story collections I read were amazing.
Wood not good tonight. The notion that the Giants won’t have any problems with the Nats because they’re at home is ridiculous. Don’t be surprised if they take this series without much trouble. They’ve always given the Giants problems, last weekend notwithstanding.
Vos bomb!
And Bart didn’t swing and miss.
My apple app won’t stay loaded, after a few minutes it just starts breaking up
Streameast works great.
Some good stadium shots despite the amateur hour announcing.
Wood is a little soft tonight.
It’s better to play a team with an 8 game winning streak.
Yes.
I just happen to have the free AppleTV trial that came with my recently purchased MacBook and I’m not impressed at all with their baseball coverage. Pence is Pence, but this Katie Nolan chick has got to go, not to mention the clown they have doing play by play. I pay for MLBTV every year and can’t watch it there because of this crapola.
We give Kruk and Kuip guff sometimes, but we are spoiled rotten when it comes to broadcast crews. Miller, Flem, Kruk and Kuip are as good as it gets, imo. These idiots damn near ruin the game.
So who is surprised that Belt has caught Covid twice?
The answer, of course, is no one. No one is surprised.
Wait till they pull out his appendix again.
Yep. The game is tertiary to the inane blather.
if fans leave early, the seagulls may take that drone down
Jeez, they actually had GIDP probability for Flores.
They knew Wilmer wouldn’t notice that the right side of second was covered this time.
Soto’s whine probability on pitches that are actually strikes is at least twice as big as Belt’s.
I have a couple of Apple products. A phone and a laptop. I’ll say this: I’m impressed with their durability, given how much I’ve dropped them.
They make good devices, but AppleTV isn’t impressing me all that much, at least not the baseball part.
Not sure why a three point shot is said to be shot “from downtown.” I don’t see how that really makes sense.
Well it sounds better than midtown or uptown, I guess…
Downtown Freddie Brown.
Minnesota choking away another win. Wow.
Downtown Ollie Brown…
Cool player. Memphis will be tough.
Was talking about Fred, but so was Ollie
Great job tagging up by Slater…
Gonzo with the sac. Be nice for Duf to get off the schneid.
The Warriors vs. Ja Morant and the Grizzlies. The media is gonna love it.
Karl Anthony Townes walks up and clangs a terrible 3 with 45 seconds down 2 with no passing. Dumb.
Embid out with a broken facial bone.
Marte was doing well till that.
And that.
I got Streameast for video and KNBR on MLB audio.
I never felt so smart…
They’re in synch?
It was – not anymore.
Oh well…
Oh, who cares? Think we hit the skids for a bit here.
Shitting the bed tonight.
Hopefully, you’ll feel better tomorrow, LJ…
Yikes.
That inning was ooooogly….
Touché.
a Joey Bart special — mistake pitch, screaming liner into the LF stands. How many mistake pitches will he see this season? 30? 40? More?
20 hits for the Nats.
When do they have to stop?
You know the Nats are loving this.
they should nurse some walks and steal some bases in the ninth
Loved the steal. Bases loaded!