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  1. Watching a bit of the Bristol race today. The crowd size is stunning. When I was there for the spring race and 2007 it was sold out and there was a lottery for tickets. I don’t think it’s 50% full now. How the sport manages to stay afloat is beyond me.
  2. I found out way too late in life that I would’ve loved to of been an electrician.
  3. She played a 3 1/2 half hour show three nights straight, one of those nights in absolute pouring rain this past year here in Foxboro. She is f***ing incredible.
  4. I know they love the guy, but they’ll never win with Campbell as a coach. He’s just too much of a moron.
  5. Lions can’t tackle worth a damn. What a choke job. Their head coach is a dumbass.
  6. Nope. It’s just this year. Version of everyone gets a f***ing trophy. The hall is for the best of the best of the best which none of these three ever were.
  7. That’s even more insane. Nobody who relies on analytics to make a decision should be allowed to vote. At the very least Beltran should’ve had to wait five or six years. I’ve always been in favor of keeping the steroid guys out, but even letting them in would be less of a disgrace than this.
  8. I am an extremely small hall guy in an everybody gets a trophy world. Beltré played 21 years in the Bigs and made five All-Star teams. How does a guy who for 3/4 of his career was not one of the 25 best players in his league get named tothe hall (on the first ballot, no less)??! His highest MVP finish was second, one time. And don’t even get me started on the other two.
  9. Beltre, Helton, and Mauer voted into the Hall. What a freaking joke. Add Biggio, Rolen and Baines and no wonder baseball’s popularity has faded.
  10. Just realizing now that the referee f**k up in the Lions Dallas game, cost the Lions home-field for this game Sunday with San Fran
  11. I remember wanting to watch this when I first heard about it. I couldn’t stand the movies with Tom Cruise. I discovered the reacher series by accident about 12 years ago when I was about to board a flight and needed to grab something to read, and just grabbed a random book off my wife’s bookshelf. She’s not even sure where she got it. It was 61 Hours. I was instantly hooked, even though he basically just rewrites the same book over and over again. The irony is, I stopped reading John Grisham novels because of that exact same reason.
  12. With the polka intro? Yup. I should add that I felt that they were lazy with the Setlist on that tour. The first I saw was in Chicago with a friend of mine who is an executive for Harrah’s and a friend of his who is a freelance reporter working the concert. He had a temporary pass to get up by the front of the stage to take some incredible photos (which I have), and then reviewed it for an independent Chicago paper. As we were walking out, he asked me what I thought of the show, and I told him that I felt a little bit like they mailed it in. He put that in the review! La Villa is one of my all-time favorite songs, but they never once played it legit on any of the tours that I saw. It was always altered or abbreviated in one way or another.
  13. My concern, more than whoever is drumming is who is singing. Geddy had some rough nights the last couple of years… Ill still go. And I've left shows early. Madison Square Garden to catch the last train. Saratoga to beat the traffic for the long drive. Time Machine at Mohegan Sun because the encore sucked. My folks’ house was so close to the casino I eas probably home before Neil’s bus rolled out.
  14. My band played Roller and Just Between You and Me in the 90’s. I had a bass/six string, double neck, and Taurus pedals that we would use for the middle of Roller. For Just Between, We changed the French line in the last chorus to “Voulez-vous ménage-a-trios, means that our love will be with three”, and cracked up at the audience reactions anytime they caught it.
  15. I listened to VT a ton when it came out, going for long drives in the Connecticut countryside. I never seemed to make it to the end. I’ve hardly ever heard Freeze or OOTC.
  16. Wow, Slim !!! I haven’t seen you in years!! I was someone you used to torment on CP A _ _ _ _ _ T _ _ W _ _ _ _ _
  17. This is my insane busy time so it’s been slow reading for me. I’m at the part where he talks about dealing with fans and their awkwardness. I would bet a lot of money that the one who said all the songs on Presto were about him was Bill Banasiewicz. It just seems to fit. I know he became close enough where they each accepted him into their personal lives. And the Visons book reads almost like an autobiography of his own adventures with Rush. And that they cut him off for an unclear reason. At first I’d heard he’d played unfinished demos on his radio program or something, but this fits too. The guy seemed a little obsessed.
  18. It reminds me of what my father described his first AA meeting as being like. He looked around the room and thought “No way am I as bad as these guys.” (He was). Every time I’m in a room full of Rush fans, I look around and think “Oh my gosh, what a bunch of f***ing dweebs. No way am I as bad as these guys.” (I’m not…..I think).
  19. We saw some people waiting by the back of the Orpheum. The car had just arrived to pick him up and had to back down the alley. We didn’t stay.
  20. Eric McCormack, who hosted the Geddy shows in Boston and D.C. last week, has been served with divorce papers from his wife of 26 years. The classic “irreconcilable differences.” He had the Boston crowd sing “Madrigal”. Of all the songs in the catalogue…. I wonder if that was the last straw for her.
  21. 7 World Series wins (and 4 losses) as a Yankee fan 4 Super Bowl wins as a Giants fan (and 1 loss). 17 College Basketball National Championships as a UConn Husky Alum I can’t complain…
  22. Eric McCormack hosted Boston as well, with the Fenway Park organist warming up the crowd, and Geoff Edgers, a reporter from the Washington Post asking the fan questions.
  23. The questions that were read in Boston were deep, and Ged kept saying “Wow, that’s a hard one..” I kept it light and asked “Can you beat up John Myung?” It wasn’t read.
  24. Up early in Boston watching the dawn approaching Southie from our hotel room. Also looking at my Boston building co-workers starting to arrive as they are just 5 stories below my window. I parked my car in their lot and saved 50 bucks. The show was enjoyable last night. We had a nice pre-show dinner at a little Irish place called Emmet’s and then walked down the hill by Boston Common to the show. A woman who had just come from Rushcon, sat next to me and was already quite wasted and getting annoying. Since the seating is incredibly cramped, my wife and I moved to an open area, as there was tons of room in the balcony. The Red Sox organist was warming up the crowd, and Eric McCormack from Will and Grace was the celebrity interviewer. My wife was more excited about him than Geddy. I kept thinking of how incredible it would have been to see the Hemispheres tour there from the mezzanine January ‘79. I think I found a boot on YouTube from that night, so I’ll give it a listen. The only story from the show I’ll share is that in the beginning of Witch Hunt, you can apparently hear Neil yell “It’s not a f***ing football!” during the mob rant. That story came from a question submitted by “Alex from Canada”. It came with a pic of Alex with a filter that distorted his face to make him look like a pig from Angry Birds. Overall, a very nice experience, if it turns out to be the last time I see Geddy onstage.
  25. Something tells me Reggie‘s numbers would be a lot higher if he had 2 extra rounds of playoffs every year. Just like when Mickey Mantle‘s postseason home run record was broken, a big deal was made about it. No mention that Mantle’s home runs all came in the World Series, because he never had a playoff series.
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