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Paul Simon - “Late in the Evening”
from One-Trick Pony

I love this song. We played it in pep band sparingly, probably because I was the only one who liked it (sometimes I think I was the only one who listened to music for personal enjoyment and not just due to an academic drive to be superior to everyone else in the music department, hence why I left the music department). Come on, it’s hard to dislike. I listened to it twice on the way home tonight because the horn parts are so fun to sing (yes, the horn parts, fun to sing) and I like drumming on the steering wheel.

Really, the only thing keeping Kershaw from getting an A+ is that hideous growth on his face he’s calling a “beard”, because he was everything you could have hoped for and more in his first full season in the bigs. Mike Scioscia’s Tragic Illness

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Jim Croce - “Operator (That’s Not the Way It Feels)”
from You Don’t Mess Around with Jim

Robert Christgau once opined that “the secret flaw of the archetypal singer-songwriter might be songwriting,” and if you listen to enough singer-songwriters, it’s hard to disagree with him. Unless you’re talking about Jim Croce, who had a real gift for storytelling in music.

Operator, could you help me place this call?
‘Cause I can’t read the number that you just gave me
There’s something in my eyes, you know it happens every time
I think about the love that I thought would save me
But isn’t that the way they say it goes?
But let’s forget all that
And give me the number if you can find it
So I can call just to tell them I’m fine and to show

I’ve overcome the blow
I’ve learned to take it well
I only wish my words
Could just convince myself
That it just wasn’t real
But that’s not the way it feels

Previously: I Got a Name / You Don’t Mess Around with Jim

I’m not surprised that Lincecum was busted for marijuana possession. I mean look at the guy! He has hippie written all over him. I’m more shocked that the Weaver brothers have made it this long without being arrested. Juan Pierre’s Oversized Hat

Via Hub Hockey: Jack Edwards does a spot-on impression of Phil Kessel.

Hit shuffle on your iPod or mp3 player and write down the first 25 songs. No cheating or skipping songs that are shameful.

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David Glen Eisley - “Sweet Victory”
Frank Ticheli - “An American Elegy”
Jimmy Sommers - “This Weekend”
Deep Purple - “Highway Star”
Overture from 42nd Street
Eagles - “Witchy Woman”
Earth, Wind & Fire - “Devotion”
Montgomery Gentry - “What Do Ya Think About That”
Miles Davis - “Freddie Freeloader”
Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble - “Scuttle Buttin’”
Don Henley - “New York Minute”
Vertical Horizon - “Everything You Want”
Huey Lewis & the News - “I Want a New Drug”
Steely Dan - “Dirty Work”
Peter Gabriel - “Shock the Monkey”
Sting - “Fields of Gold”
The Spinners - “The Rubberband Man”
The Moody Blues - “The Voice”
Jim Croce - “I’ll Have to Say I Love You in a Song”
Nena - “99 Luftballons”
Dianne Reeves - “How High the Moon”
Royksopp - “Remind Me”
Marvin Gaye - “What’s Going On”
The Baseball Project - “Satchel Paige Said”
The Marshall Tucker Band - “Heard It in a Love Song”

reblogged from dreamincolorx

A: Mar-shand, Mar-sand, Mar-shond, Mar-chond, Mar-zhand, Mar-jand, Mar-shend
Q: How many different ways have the TSN guys pronounced Marchand tonight? SoSH. That’s for Sam. ;)

What Brick said: ‘When your powerplay is inept.’
What Brick meant: ‘When your powerplay is so bad, even at my age, I could lead this team in powerplay goals.’ SoSH