I didn't say you had to fix it, just wondering. You have a half-baked standard to hold to, you know.

SBG is short for Stick and Ball Guy (okay, that's a reach). NBB is short for New Britain Bo (that's not a reach). I don't know why I abbreviated early in the process, I just did. I'll fix that next time out. And I'll look into the white stars.

Also, maybe white stars would stand out more from the text around them?

Q: Who is basically the best hitter of all time?

A: Al Kaline, of course.

Hand wrote that the duty to take reasonable care is ‘‘a function of three variables: (1) The probability [of an accident]; (2) the gravity of the resulting injury...; (3) the burden of adequate precautions. Possibly it serves to bring this notion into relief to state it in algebraic terms: if the probability be called P; the injury, L [for loss]; and the burden, B; liability depends upon whether B is less than L multiplied by P: i.e., whether B is less than PL.’’

That IS some funny stuff.

Actually it looks a bit like a sabermetric formulation. Moss is pretty sure this formula would be beyond the grasp of the Gardentool. Then again, you won't be finding him at your favorite cocktail party, either.

(Shout-out to frightwig: September is yours.)

tunelessly,

E-6

Exactly. If we wanted the All-Star game back, we could get rid of AL-NL play altogether, which would be fine with me. This would also make scheduling pretty straightforward. 8 games against teams from the other division and 14 games against teams from your own division. That way everyone within the division plays the same schedule.

Ubes, you should be the VJ.

Studio Arts Building mens room, University of Minnesota. Circa 1984.

Florida might be the key to solving your Cubs problem. I'm assuming in a few years they'll be playing elsewhere, most likely in the West. That would mess up interleague play significantly, though.

AL East: Yanks, Toronto, Baltimore, Detroit, Boston, Cleveland, New Jersey, Tampa Bay
AL West: White Sox, Texas, Kansas City, Seattle, Angels, Oakland, Minnesota, Milwaukee
NL East: Philly, Washington, Cincy, St. Louis, Pittsburgh, Mets, Florida, Atlanta
NL West: San Diego, LA, San Francisco, Colorado, Arizona, Houston, Cubs, Vancouver

It's not perfect: St. Louis is in the wrong time zone and the Cubs had to move divisions, but overall I see that as a less drastic change than when Milwaukee had to change leagues way back when.

As far as interleague natural rivals go, the main problem is that there just aren't enough true rivals to go around. The ones that make sense are Yanks-Mets, O's-Nats, Reds-Indians, Jersey-Philly, Rays-Marlins, White Sox-Cubs, Rangers-Astros, Royals-Cards, Seattle-Vancouver, LA-LA, and Oakland-San Fran. Then you have Toronto, Detroit, Boston, Minnesota, and Milwaukee left over in the AL and Atlanta, Pittsburgh, Colorado, Arizona, and San Diego left over in the NL. Boston-Atlanta kinda sorta makes sense with the Braves-Braves connection. Toronto-Pittsburgh or Detroit-Pittsburgh wouldn't be terrible. After that, nothing really makes sense. The only way to fix that is massive league realignment or to just do away with the natural rivalries. League realignment doesn't really make that much sense to me since you'd be taking teams that would be intraleague rivals and giving them fewer games against each other. So it seems like you either put up with some bizarre "rivalries" or do away with the concept.

I (embarassingly) don't have any opinion on Gould's Bach work. I've been meaning to check it out, though.

I always liked good low brass players, though. They were usually pretty easy-going guys.

Percy Grainger gave you away. What'd you play? I played Euphonium through college (Augustana).

Hmmm...Ben Kweller and no Ben Folds. I don't know what to say!

and historically, I really liked Sports Night

YES! A fantastic show! I need to purchase the DVD set

re: Red Hook. I'm messin' wif you. I don't think it measures up to the best Seattle has to offer, that's all. But I'll still drink it when offered

Also: What's your opinion on Glenn Gould's Bach work? Have you heard his organ recording of Die Kunst der Fuge?

Also also: I'm with you on Tina Fey.

Two hydrogen atoms walk into a bar. One says, "I think I've lost an electron." The other says, "Are you sure?" The first says, "Yes, I'm positive..."

A neutron walk into a bar. "I'd like a beer," he says. The bartender promptly serves up a beer. "How much will that be?" asks the neutron. "For you?" replies the bartender, "no charge."

There are 10 kinds of people in the world: those that understand binary numbers, and those that don't.

Law School Humor: One of the big jokes was about the case U.S. v. Carroll Towing. Our torts prof kept saying that it (meaning tort law) "all goes back to Carroll Towing." Our torts book had about one or two paragraphs from that case and it never really made much sense to me, so I had to look up the case elsewhere to figure out what the big deal was. And all year long -- it all goes back to Carroll Towing. There were plenty of times where I failed to understood what that meant in a particular context and I think he said that out of a nervous habit or something. No matter what the subject was that first year -- the joke was "it all goes back to Carroll Towing." Property? Carroll Towing. Civil Procedure? Carroll Towing.

Our contracts prof used to tell us that certain contracts cases were good ones to bring up at cocktail parties. I'm not sure what kind of parties she was going to that they talked about seminal contracts cases, but I'm either thinking that they were the most boring parties ever held or all of the parties involved were stoned. Or both.

Econ joke?

I am also very glad that you know P.O.S. He is one of the most entertaining performers I have ever seen, and when he has the whole Doomtree crew onstage with him it is a sight to behold. As much as I like him, however, I am a bigger fan of some of the other Doomtree people, specifically Mike Mictlan and Dessa. Mictlan is absolutely brilliant, and I'm pretty sure I want to marry Dessa some day.

When I went to college, it wasn't that easy dropping music altogether. There was a part of me that thought teaching music would be fun, but then there was a larger part of me that didn't want to deal with high school students. I also could just have easily decided to go into econ (the interest was there, anyway), but at some point you have to pick a side I guess.