I picked up some CDs recently:
Nelly- "Country Grammer". I'd been meaning to pick this up for about 4 years now. For those of you who don't know Cornell Haynes Jr. grew up and went to school near where I went to school. I have a good friend I graduated with who plays in a weekly rec baseball league on a team with Nelly and Murphy Lee. Pretty wicked huh?
The Flaming Lips- "Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots". This album is amazing. My friend Michael is a big Flaming Lips fan and he suggested I pick this up. I am so glad that I did. I'm going to need to get more stuff from this band. I think I saw them on 90210 once.
Bjork- "Homogenic". I've had a cd-r copy of this one since I was in high school, but I guess those 6 year old cd-r's are starting to disentigrate. It has always been my favorite Bjork album, and I adore Bjork. It includes my 3 favorite Bjork songs: Joga, All Is Full Of Love, and Alarm Call.
Ween- "Quebec". I've only given it a brief listen, but I like it so far. Of course it's not as good as their country album, but I mean really, what is?
Bare Naked Ladies- "All Their Greatest Hits (1991-2001)
There are some BNL songs that I really like, but often times I find them bland and a bit annoying. I was going to get Rock Spectacle which is one I heard a lot and enjoyed at my last retail job, but I decided to go with this one because it includes the song "Pinch Me", and that's my favorite BNL song.
I am listening to the Flaming Lips CD right now. It's so good, you should check it out.
Also a friend of mine is currently attempting to download an advanced copy of "I'm Wide Awake It's Morning" from Bright Eyes. It does not come out until January. I fucking love Bright Eyes.
Nelly- "Country Grammer". I'd been meaning to pick this up for about 4 years now. For those of you who don't know Cornell Haynes Jr. grew up and went to school near where I went to school. I have a good friend I graduated with who plays in a weekly rec baseball league on a team with Nelly and Murphy Lee. Pretty wicked huh?
The Flaming Lips- "Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots". This album is amazing. My friend Michael is a big Flaming Lips fan and he suggested I pick this up. I am so glad that I did. I'm going to need to get more stuff from this band. I think I saw them on 90210 once.
Bjork- "Homogenic". I've had a cd-r copy of this one since I was in high school, but I guess those 6 year old cd-r's are starting to disentigrate. It has always been my favorite Bjork album, and I adore Bjork. It includes my 3 favorite Bjork songs: Joga, All Is Full Of Love, and Alarm Call.
Ween- "Quebec". I've only given it a brief listen, but I like it so far. Of course it's not as good as their country album, but I mean really, what is?
Bare Naked Ladies- "All Their Greatest Hits (1991-2001)
There are some BNL songs that I really like, but often times I find them bland and a bit annoying. I was going to get Rock Spectacle which is one I heard a lot and enjoyed at my last retail job, but I decided to go with this one because it includes the song "Pinch Me", and that's my favorite BNL song.
I am listening to the Flaming Lips CD right now. It's so good, you should check it out.
Also a friend of mine is currently attempting to download an advanced copy of "I'm Wide Awake It's Morning" from Bright Eyes. It does not come out until January. I fucking love Bright Eyes.
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Not at all. He was really cool and we talked baseball all the time. He'd bitch about Cameron only hitting against the Marlins and give me shit for wearing my Reyes jersey in the office -- "nice player, too many co-pays:" even looked at my roto club. Really good guy. The Commish and Bob DuPuy . . . .Conversation for another day, buddy, when we take in Mets-Card at a game at Busch II. We were right to win that case, completely right.
What does all of the grand jury testimony leaks mean for the BALCO case? It seems like each day more is released; will an apellate(sp?) court throw out an indictment based on this info being released? Will a trial judge throw out the case all together because of this kind of tampering?
Means nothing, other than that they will no doubt move for a mistrial and be denied. Whoever leaked it at justice will be fired if caught, and it's a ploy maybe to force a plea if the case is weak. The testimony is certainly admissable, as it will be at any trial for Bonds for pejury -- and dude, I can't go with you on standing by Bonds. He flat out lied to the Grand Jury twice. A) I don't believe the greatest athlete in any US Sport since His Airness was in his max flow took things without knowing what they were and B) Giambi went to Bonds trainer, said "do for me what you do for Bonds to keep him at this level" and ended up with tons of different steroids. It's clear from what we know, IMO, that Bonds was on more than he admitted.
Victor Conte has said from the beginning, and of course I question his reliability as much as the next guy, that this is not a case about drugs, it's about the athletes involved.
Agreed, especially the caveat that every time you rely on Conte's statements you rely on the words of the man facing serious criminal charges, always a credibility issue.
If this information continues to be leaked, and then the case gets tossed out, then I think that is complete utter bullshit. The government already knows they can't spend the money it would take to combat people who have the kind of money the BALCO defendents have right? So maybe someone is leaking the athletes names to the public, they all get hanged in the public court, and then whoops! Ahh, too many sealed documents leaked, gotta toss out the case.
This of course is my conspiracy theory. In the Bonds article this morning it says that he was interrogated on the stand. Giambi and Sheffield weren't, they told what they knew, and that was that. Once Bonds said he didn't take HGH or anything else they were like, "What's this calendar from Greg Anderson's office?"
1. The government has the money ot litigate EVERYTHING. I worked on Enron at my first firm. I know the civil fees for the US trustee appointed by justice were in the millions each month, and this is nowhere near as complex a case -- those fees were because of all the experts needing to analyze the structure of the very complicated SPE deals - literally hundereds. This is only the documents seized by one lab. Not an expensive case at all. The satellite cases against Bonds or anyone else for perjury wouldn't be expensive either -- US Attorneys don't get paid a lot. Experts and such do but it's not an issue. Bonds would no doubt hire a firm that bills at the rates my firm (a big NY firm does) or higher - - partners at 1000 an hour, mid-levels like me $400 per. He'll be the one paying.
2 Remember, Bonds and Giambi were given immunity in exchange for testimony with the express condition that they could be tried on perjury charges if he lied on any issue. They were government witnesses, not defendants brought in not as adverse parties but still under suspscion that they had reason to nopt be forthcoming. Giambi gave explicit details about his knowledge and use of steroids that he received from the same source as Bonds -- What was there to confront him about? On the other hand, Bonds denied the more serious use -- use from 2001 - 2003 and use of injectables. It was perfectly appropriate to confront the person you felt was lying with documents that said otherwise. Has Giambi denied injecting, and had the documents said otherwise, it would have been appropriate to confront him too -- both to get him to break and further implicate the defendants OR to go on record with comprehensive denials to keep the door open for future perjury charges. No need to be conspiratorial here. I think Bonds gets bad treatment sometimes, and sometimes he's a dick and brings it on himself, and here, he spoke contrary to documents seized in the BALCO raid. End of that. And as of yet, Sheffield's testimony hasn't been leaked, so we don't know what he said. Also he only trained with Bonds and Anderson wfor one summer. Probably less of a paper trail for him than either Bonds or Giambi in my mind.
I also can't stand that even on this website people sort of feel bad for Giambi. But they are all ready to take down the greatest black hitter of our era.
Until I see Bonds proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt I'll stand by him
No, a man's admission in a jusdicial proceeding is enough for me. Just like a suspension by MLB for a positive test wouldn't be beyond a reasonable doubt. . . but it would be good enough. Rose wasn't proven guilty in court of anything but Tax evasion on racing bets. I think people, myself included feel bad for Giambi not in the sense that he is less culpable, or shoufd get less of a penatty, but in the sense (at least this is my feeling) that they are scared for his wellbeing. All three of these guys should face the same punishment, be it nothing or be it suspension. Personally what I want is strong policy going forward, that's it. You can't hang three people because one source out of 50 steroid sources got busted. I just think Giambi is sensitive, looked frail and troubled all last year, and really is possibly a person who could hurt himself out of desparation. It's jsut how I see him. I have no undertstanding for his decision to bring it on himself. I think anyone who looks at three players can't but help that assuming all three face no suspension and play in 2005, Giambi will fair the worst and Sheff and Bonds will likely kick ass. Those, are my brief thoughts now.
you bet we'll get that oberst on vinyl!!!