Go Cubbies!

[rubato]

Time for this song again...



True story: Steve Goodman's ashes were scattered in Wrigley Field...so that he can spend eternity lying there, waiting for that ever-expected, never-experienced World Series win...

Mr Goodman is quite the musician.


yrs,
rubato

[MajGenl.Meade]

I guess they went

[Sue U]

Condolences to Scooter and all Toronto fans, and congrats to KC.

I'll be rooting for the Mets, but betting on the Royals, I think. Wouldn't be surprised if the WS goes 7 games.

[Lord Jim]

Mr Goodman is quite the musician.

Not so much these days...

[Econoline]

Mr Goodman is quite the musician.

Not so much these days...

Rubato was correct, except for the tense. Steve Goodman WAS indeed quite the musician; he died (of leukemia) much too early, in September 1984, at the age of 36. (Four days after his death, the Cubs clinched the NL East title, earning them their first post-season appearance since 1945--3 years before his birth. His ashes are still waiting for a World Series game.)

[Lord Jim]

I am very familiar with Steve Goodman, and have been since high school. (I've posted about him before; my personal favorite is "Door Number 3"...)

[rubato]

Mr Goodman is quite the musician.

Not so much these days...

Rubato was correct, except for the tense. Steve Goodman WAS indeed quite the musician; he died (of leukemia) much too early, in September 1984, at the age of 36. (Four days after his death, the Cubs clinched the NL East title, earning them their first post-season appearance since 1945--3 years before his birth. His ashes are still waiting for a World Series game.)

The tense was deliberate, and correct. I knew that he had died physically (which was mentioned in your post as well) but his performances and other recordings are living documents, not past tense.


yrs,
rubato

[Joe Guy]

Someone doesn't know the definition of a "living document".

[Lord Jim]

LMFAO!!!

The tense was deliberate, and correct. I knew that he had died physically (which was mentioned in your post as well) but his performances and other recordings are living documents, not past tense.


yrs,
rubato

And this is the guy who actually had the nerve to say of another poster:

You cannot admit error however trivial.

yrs,
rubato

Man, I'm getting tired of rebuilding that exploding Irony Meter...

[Lord Jim]

Rube, I gotta hand it to you...

I thought your response to my snarky Meade-type pointing out your screwing up the tense in your statement about Goodman would be something along the lines of:

"How typical of a hater like LJ to focus on a trivial grammatical mistake, rather than the significant point being made.

yrs,

rubato

It never occurred to me in my wildest dreams, that you would actually try to justify such a blatant mistake, and cook up some sort of silly rationalization for it...

I stand corrected...

That's the thing I really like about you rube...

No matter to what degree I think I finally have you nailed, you still manage to surprise me with a level of ignorance and intellectual insecurity that I could not possibly imagine...

[rubato]

Econoline mentioned in the original reference to Steve Goodman that he was dead. It would be impossible not to have seen that. After I played that clip I played several others, performances of his and one sort of documentary; a bunch of interviews with other musicians, John Prine, Arlo Guthrie, Kris Kristoffrson. They all said that he was dead.

I have more respect for the power of art than you do. His art is alive hence the present tense is appropriate. I tried to write "he was quite the artist" but it didn't scan.


Hatred makes you stupid. And stupider all the time. You are a small nasty little person with a shrunken little soul.

yrs,
rubato

[dales]

Hatred makes you stupid. And stupider all the time. You are a small nasty little person with a shrunken little soul.

yrs,
rubato

[Lord Jim]

It would be impossible not to have seen that.

Rube, you're far too modest...

It has been my experience in dealing with you over the years, to learn that your capacity for not seeing that which one would think would be "impossible not to have been seen" is enormously and singularly robust...

Having any luck sorting out Paul Krugman's lie yet?

ETA:

You said "is" when you meant to say "was" and you're so intellectually insecure, you can't even bring yourself to admit to that...

Hilarious...

Gee whiz rube, if you can't even bring yourself to admit to tiny mistakes like that, how will you ever bring yourself to own up to huge boneheaded blunders like "the Poles weren't victims of the Nazis" or "the British have had a 4th rate Navy since The American Revolution"...

A journey of a thousand miles begins with but a single step rube...

[Econoline]

Sheeesh. I'm sorry for turning this thread into another one of *THOSE* threads. Can't we all just agree that Steve Goodman wrote and performed some great music, that his composing is more important than his decomposing, and that his music and even some of his live performances will live on for a long time...and then move on?

Talk about the Royals...or the Mets...or the 2016 Cubs...(or the 2016 White Sox )...?

The tense was deliberate, and correct. I knew that he had died physically (which was mentioned in your post as well) but his performances and other recordings are living documents, not past tense.

Yes, that makes sense, and I'm perfectly willing to accept your word for what you meant. Since my stating that will now undoubtedly get ME attacked by several posters here, I'm now going to leave this thread and not look back.

Again, I'm sorry.

[Lord Jim]

Yes, that makes sense

Except for the fact that it's completely ridiculous...

Econo, you're going to break your spine bending over so far backward to believe this clown is sincere and telling the truth rather than simply accepting the glaringly obvious; that he fucked up and he's too insecure to admit even a tiny fuck up of this sort... ...

(Say, aren't you the same fellow that was swallowing his absurd verbal gymnastics as he attempted to rationalize his "free time is the defining characteristic of affluence" bull puckey? I've got a big burnt orange colored bridge I'll let you have cheap... )


If he were truly sincere about this tortured rhetorical construction, then referring to dead people that he respects in the present tense would be obviously something he's done before; in fact it would be something he does regularly....

So rube, to do you have a single other example of where you've done this in your 9000 plus posts?

I didn't think so...

[MajGenl.Meade]

[Joe Guy]

Sheeesh. I'm sorry for turning this thread into another one of *THOSE* threads.....

You're wrong.

It's one of *THESE* threads.

Things are sure getting tense around here...

[oldr_n_wsr]

LET'S GO METS!!!!!
Harvey first up on the mound.
Royals are a scrappy bunch. Mets defence better be at it's best (and that might not be good enough).

[Sue U]

Like I said, I'm rooting for the Mets (because NL), but I'm putting money on KC.

[Long Run]

The Royals find ways to stay in games. It took a performance for the ages for the Giants to get the best of them last year. Don't know if the Mets, with all of their good arms, have a Bumgarner level one among them.