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Author: nosepail
Date: 05-22-12 19:06
Just bought the new Todd Snider record, Agnostic Hymns and Stoner Fables. I think it contains the best song yet about the financial crisis, even though I fear its title "New York Banker" is a simple code word for "Jew". Breaks down the systematic mortgage-backed security fraud in a few pithy sentences and has a folksy singalong chorus. Highly recommended to any Ike Reilly afficionando.
@Toland Has he ever played ACL? I just started getting into him lately and really love what I have heard.
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Author: DanMuller
Date: 05-23-12 02:37
You gotta hear the double live album he put out last year. Amazing. Among other high points, it has the one about how Ferguson Jenkins through a no-hitter while in LSD. He wasn't even supposed to pitch that day!
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Author: nosepail
Date: 05-23-12 07:37
Thanks for the recommendation, Dan. I will definitely get that record. I have to buy anything with references to Fergie Jenkins.
BTW, there is a hilarious bit about Ferguson Jenkins on the Spinal Tap DVD bonus footage. I wish that segment wasnt left on the cutting room floor.
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Author: Philippe
Date: 05-23-12 08:20
That wasn't Ferguson Jenkins, that was Dock Ellis who threw a no-hitter on acid. Jenkins was arrested at the border in possession of some drugs. About the same time as Paul McCartney did too, actually.
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Author: zoo
Date: 05-23-12 08:39
Fergie Jenkins is in the HOF, BTW. He was inducted the year my dad and I visited the museum in '86 or so. I still have the program w/ his picture on the cover.
And at first, I thought it was Bill Lee who threw the no-no on acid, but when I scrolled farther down and saw Doc Ellis' name, then I remembered.
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Author: erikalbany
Date: 05-23-12 08:52
I think Fergie went in in 1991 or so.
My dad lives in Cooperstown, and my work is not far from there.
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Author: nosepail
Date: 05-23-12 09:00
All throughout baseball he was love and respected.
Was there bitterness in Fergie Jenkins?
Well, it was never detected.
p.s. 1991 takes the prize.
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Author: erikalbany
Date: 05-23-12 09:24
"and at first, I thought it was Bill Lee who threw the no-no on acid."
Poor Spaceman. Every time there's a conversation about baseball and drugs (recreational, not performance-enhancing) he enters the conversation, whether deservedly so or not. God bless him and whatever humble corner of Vermont bucolia he's living on now.
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Author: zoo
Date: 05-23-12 12:10
Getting older stinks. I could have SWORN it was Fergie who was inducted the year I went to the HOF, but it was another Cub great, Billy Williams (who went along w/ Catfish Hunter...that much I do remember). The year was '87.
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Author: DanMuller
Date: 05-23-12 12:14
Apologies to Mr. Jenkins and sorry for the misdirection. Not sure why I got that wrong since Doc is named checked in the first line of the song:
Dock Ellis didnt think he would pitch that day back in 1970
when he and his wife took a trip to the ballpark a little bit differently
so by the time he hit the bullpen, half the world had melted away
thats about the time coach murtaugh said hey dock your pitching today
And, as long as we're on the topic of great baseball songs, my pick is Dan Bern's "Gambling With My Love (Pete Rose)."
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Author: erikalbany
Date: 05-23-12 19:32
To bring the conversation back around. . . I am actually seeing Wilco in Cooperstown in late July (on the fields around Ommegang brewery; it's a bitch not being a drinker anymore, but I apparently used up my drinking allotment at a relatively early age and am fine with that).
I had sworn off of Wilco concerts, but something about them in a field in the wilds of James Fenimore Cooper's Upstate NY made me enlist the credit card (and stalwart wife). Or maybe it was just because Lee Ranaldo was opening, and I liked the idea of him unleashing some nasty feedback and skronk on the mellow-mannered bespectacled hipsters. Or maybe I just wanted to see Wilco (for the umpteenth time) after having not seen them in years.
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Author: mats84
Date: 05-24-12 00:47
Incredible Fergie Jenkins stat :
1971 : started 39 games, decisioned in 37 of them (24 wins 13 losses). 30 of the 39 starts were complete games.
That's kinda mind-boggling........
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Author: HollowbodyKay
Date: 05-24-12 07:48
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"... And at first, I thought it was Bill Lee who threw the no-no on acid..."
William Burroughs played pro baseball?
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