Opening Day....Yankee Stadium 1923....and today

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Posted By: barrysloate

I likewise agree that Dylan's great work ended in 1966.

Wasn't Suze Rotolo the Girl from the North Country?

And no question "It's Alright Ma" has the greatest lyrics of any popular song ever written. Even Dylan himself is confounded today about how he was able to do it.

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Posted By: Jodi Birkholm

I was very happy that Dylan mentioned that song in the Ed Bradley interview. It seemed as though he ascribed the song's creation (as well as much of the early material) to divine intervention. I for one can hardly dispute that.

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Posted By: barrysloate

Exactly Jodi. When Ed asked Dylan about his lyrics, that was the song he cited. He admitted he could never do anything like that today, and didn't even know where it came from. The version of "It's Alright Ma" from "Don't Look Back" is on youtube and well worth a listen.

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Posted By: Dan Bretta

Wow, Sandy that was an awesome story.

Now as for the rest of this thread, be careful fellas because it's always fun and games until someone gets published in the New York Daily News Blog.

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Posted By: Jodi Birkholm

As Uri Testikov said of Tolstoi: "He didn't need any inspiration....God spoke through his pen."

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Posted By: barrysloate

War- what is it good for?

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Posted By: Jeff Lichtman

That O'Keeffe -- he hates psychotic Net 54 members.

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Posted By: David Atkatz

Greatest single line in a rock n roll song:

"The ghost of 'lectricity howls in the bones of her face."

It's Alright, Ma is brilliant, no doubt. But I don't think it's his best.
And the electric side of Bringin' it All Back Home (although I love that album) isn't all that electric.

Musically, and to my mind, lyrically, BoB can't be beat. Those Nashville session musicians--Charlie McCoy, Kenny Buttrey, Joe South... as well as Robbie Robertson and Al Kooper... Man, those cats could play!

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Posted By: Dan Bretta

Bruce, stop with the unsolicited emails. Words can not describe what a vile, ugly person you are.

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Posted By: Jim VB

"Greatest single line in a rock n roll song: "


We'd need a dedicated thread to get everyone's opinion.


Mine always was:

"She's so fine, there's no tellin' where the money went."

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Posted By: Jodi Birkholm

Kenny Buttrey (RIP) was on a few incredible albums, and many other decent ones. Neil Young's "Harvest" and Lightfoot's "Summer Side of Life" come to mind. Buttrey was more than a little peeved with Young for refusing to let him show his stuff on "Harvest". To achieve the sparse back beat found on "Harvest", Neil went so far as to make Buttrey drum using only one stick, holding the free hand behind his back. The versatile Buttrey threatened to quit more than once, and many times demanded sharp pay hikes to compensate for what he felt was a massive blow to his ego. Leave it to the eccentric Young to hire the best in the business, then demand that he perform a task that a lower primate could be trained to do. Conversely, both Young and Dylan have also been known to utilize the services of musicians on instruments with which they have little-to-no experience (Al Kooper on organ on "Like a Rolling Stone" and Nils Lofgren on piano on "Southern Man" being the two most prominent examples).

Sorry for the ridiculous hijack, Ted. It seems as though a few of us get a little carried away when it comes to other mutual interests!

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Posted By: David Atkatz

Dylan didn't exactly "employ" Kooper on LaRS. As Kooper tells it, he wanted to play guitar, but Dylan had already picked Mike Bloomfield. Kooper went into the studio anyway, saw that no one was playing organ, and said to himself "Well, [producer Tom] Wilson said I can't play guitar... He never said I can't play the organ."

The rest, as they say...

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Posted By: Mike Snyder

Sorry to say that I have never been at an opening day......but it would have been a pleasure to see the yanks lose soooooo bad.

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Posted By: Jodi Birkholm

Yes, that's true, but Dylan didn't exactly kick him out of the session, either. Kooper says that he wasn't familiar with the chord sequence prior to the actual cut; that's why you hear his organ come in slightly behind everyone else. That, to me, is musically the best aspect of the track. Pure happenstance.

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Posted By: David Atkatz

You're right about Kooper's entries.

That slight delay is magic!

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Posted By: Matt Hart

Here are a few of my pictures from the game. Thats Jeter with Ruth's bat.
Matt

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Posted By: Ted Zanidakis

MATT.....thanks for posting your photos


JODI B
OK....I'll play your silly game....one of the best....circa 1976

"You can check-out any time you like....but, you can never leave"


TED Z

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Posted By: Edward F

Ah, the Eagles!

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Posted By: leon

To get a bit off track since we have gone there anyway...

O'keefe can't hate psychotic board members. When he and I talk he seems like he likes me? We get a long fine and dandy....I think part of why he likes the hobby is there are just so many warm fuzzy feelings that go around...Such pleasantries and men and women acting like true ladies and gentlemen. No one would ever do anything unscrupulous, or say bad things, would they?

And back to on topic. I have never been to an opening day game....I have in Little League, Pony League, High School etc.. though!! I have even pitched in a many a opening day games.....Nothing in the Professional Majors though...don't really care to.

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Posted By: Dan Bretta

I think the ghost of Babe Ruth must be very mad right now.

Indians just put up 14 runs in the second inning. Every single player in the Indians lineup has at least one hit and one run scored.

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Posted By: barrysloate

I turned it off at 7-2. Should have stuck with it. Wang has absolutely nothing.

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Posted By: Dan Bretta

"Wang has absolutely nothing."

They make medicine for that now.



Sorry.

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Posted By: barrysloate

Looks like the Yankees have a sore Wang.

I bet there wasn't a 14 run inning in the 85 year history of Yankee Stadium. It only took three games in the new park. They were just saying that balls have been flying out of the park in right field. Could be an interesting season.

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Posted By: David Atkatz

The Yankees are cursed. You can't abandon and demolish (the real) Yankee Stadium, and expect to win.

The Universe will not allow it.

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Posted By: Jodi Birkholm

"Looks like the Yankees have a sore Wang."

Florida?! That's America's wang!

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Posted By: Jeff Lichtman

I suspect 14 runs in an inning has been done. What has surely never been done is 18 hits in 3+ innings. It's all about pitching. A healthy Wang and this team is probably the AL East champs.

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Posted By: Dan Bretta

The record for runs in one inning by one team is 18 by Chicago (NL) in 1883...the modern record is 17 by the Red Sox in 1953.

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Posted By: barrysloate

Jeff- there have only been a handful of 14 runs or more innings in the history of baseball. I doubt it was done even 10 times in the major leagues.

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Posted By: Jeff Lichtman

Even more amazing when you consider how bad the Indians are. You'd think the new Yankee Stadium was built on a sacred Indian burial ground.

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Posted By: barrysloate

Texas had a 16 run inning in a 26-7 win over the Orioles. I forget the year, but probably around 1990.

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Posted By: Dan Bretta

Didn't the Rangers beat the Orioles 30-3 just a year or so ago?

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Posted By: Rob D.

Even more amazing when you consider how bad the Indians are.

Hey, Jeff:

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Posted By: Jeff Lichtman

Jesus, an arrow into my heart. (Seriously)

Um I mean, what a freaking ugly card.

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Posted By: Dan Bretta

Now that was a low blow.

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Posted By: Kevin Andrews

Jeff - Is it that the Indians are bad or the Yankees are just over rated?

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Posted By: barrysloate

Texas scored 30 runs against Baltimore in 2007. They had innings of 10, 9, 6, and 5 runs, and were scoreless in the other 5.

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Posted By: barrysloate

19-2 and counting.

20-2 before I could blink.

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Posted By: brock

Thank god it only count's as one loss. Thats whats good about baseball, it's a whole new game the next day. And for all you red sox fans talking crap your team is in last place right now. And they have more problems then the yankees!

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Posted By: Anonymous

The home plate umpire has seen enough - just called strike three on Hafner on a pitch that was a foot and half outside.

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Posted By: Jeff Lichtman

Kevin, the Indians were bad before today's game. I don't think the Yankees are overrated; it's a 3 team race in the AL East and they have (had) the best pitching, which is usually a harbinger of good things. Wang when healthy is one of the top pitchers in baseball; when he's not healthy, he clearly sucks. That's a huge loss for this team.

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Posted By: brock

I can't wait to see what the yankees do against Carl Pavano tomorrow.

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Posted By: keyway

INDIANS 20 to 2 in the 5th. Stands are now half empty. Typical NY fans. They would not be going home in Boston, just the fair weather Yankee fans.

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Posted By: Jeff Lichtman

Yeah, they wouldn't go home in Boston -- they'd just boo the players.

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Posted By: Michael Steele

We do like to Boo

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Posted By: Bilko G

New Yankee stadium>>>Coors field

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Posted By: Kevin Andrews

Jeff - I think you'll find with Sabathia that he'll be lights out against mediocre and bad teams but he'll come up short and frustrate you against the good teams. I watched it in Cleveland for years. He'll finish the season at something like 18-10 and then come up short when you need a big performance in the post season or need to beat Boston or Tampa to make it to the post season.

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Posted By: Jeff Lichtman

Kevin, I tend to agree. I'm a Mets fan and I've been somewhat stunned to watch as the NY media paints CC the second coming of Johan -- which he surely is not.

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Posted By: Rob D.

I can't wait to see what the yankees do against Carl Pavano tomorrow.

Excellent point. If your team can beat the likes of Carl Pavano, well, you've got no worries.

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Posted By: barrysloate

After today's game, Johan's ERA is 0.46.

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Posted By: john/z28jd

The new stadium is playing like a little league field,almost everything in the air to RF is leaving the playing field and that last HR by Hafner to LF was a joke