IGT 05/05 - Mets at Phils - Back in the Saddle Again

[Edgy MD]

Let's baseball this thread.

[ashie62]

Which Taijuan will appear tonight?

[Frayed Knot]

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Which Taijuan will appear tonight?

[kcmets]

Casually late, find a three run lead and still going in the first.

[Edgy MD]

Three Philadelphia runs home in the first and I object to losing to a team wearing their 1970s road pajamas at home.

[bmfc1]

Dammit, Lindor.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

This is bullshit. Not even 7 pm and were getting our asses kicked

[Fman99]

Oh, come on. Even if you don't put them at the top, to say that Aerosmith and the Eagles aren't even top THIRTY means you're not even on the same planet. I'm positive that I can, in good faith, come up with a credible list of 30 classic rock bands that I would easily prefer to listen to ahead of Aerosmith and The Eagles. Not in any particular order: The Beatles The Rolling Stones Led Zeppelin The Who Pink Floyd The Allman Brothers Traffic Cream Blind Faith Derek & The Dominoes Jeff Beck Group with Rod Stewart The Yardbirds Jethro Tull Creedence Clearwater Revival The Doors Big Brother & The Holding Co. with Janis Joplin Simon & Garfunkel The Jimi Hendrix Experience Bob Dylan The Kinks The Band Jefferson Airplane Buffalo Springfield The Byrds Crosby, Stills and Nash (and Young, too) Neil Young Sly & the Family Stone The Monkees Blood, Sweat & Tears Donovan I made this list in less than four minutes. And I barely had to crack 1968. And I left out the whole Motown stable, which I love and got regular airplay on the classic rock radio stations I grew up listening to, and were all mostly active in 1968. I take it back. Those two bands wouldn't make my top 75!

You missed the qualifier there. Nearly all of those bands are made up of folks who are not from the USA. I do put the Allmans, the Doors and CCR in that same rare air, among American bands. And ironically, despite the fact that the Band is often credited with inventing the "Americana" sound, only Levon Helm of that group was not Canadian.



And, yes, naturally, fuck the Eagles with a giant iron stick.

[Fman99]

From your list, here are the entries where all of the members were born in the States (to my knowledge):



The Allman Brothers

Creedence Clearwater Revival

The Doors

Big Brother & The Holding Co. with Janis Joplin

Simon & Garfunkel

Bob Dylan

Jefferson Airplane

Sly & the Family Stone

Blood, Sweat & Tears



So, from this batch, yeah, I put peak 1970s Aerosmith up against all of them, sure. Like KC, I can still listen to selections from the 2 radio friendly albums in the 80's, there are some good riffs in those records.

[kcmets]

Stranding runners, hoping it doesn't get habit forming.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

I'd put Tom Petty + the Heartbreakers and the Byrds ahead if Aerosmith, just off the top of my head

[Frayed Knot]

Unlike the quickie DH from the other day, this game isn't ending anytime soon.

[Frayed Knot]

Three soft bouncers to Lindor, two in potential GiDP situations, result in one total out.

Part bad execution, part bad luck.

[Edgy MD]

Two outs and nobody home yet, but this has been a good inning against Nola.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

I'd also prefer the doors, ccr and allmans to aerosmith.



Cheap Trick too.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Kiss? Probably not but closer than you think

[Frayed Knot]

Ron: Replays have been averaging 1:40 this year

Me: Bullshit

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Chicago. They're a better klassik rawk outfit than aerosmith.. the Beach Boys.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

I'd also say BoC

[bmfc1]

Are we going to hear that Taijuan needs an MRI tomorrow?

[kcmets]

7-sniffle through four. They can't even see the saddle.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: Kiss? Probably not but closer than you think

I really like it when Gene Simmons sticks his big fake tongue out. Cool. What are you, eight years old?



Gimme a coupla more minutes and I'll easily make my list all-American. And they're all bands. What? A band isnt a band because its named after the main artist? What solo acts? Nobody's playing all of their instruments except maybe Stevie Wonder.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

I gave 8 or 9 legit American contemporaries I'd consider ahead of aero in a best-American Band list

[The Hot Corner]

Reading this thread has been far m0re enjoyable than watching the beat down the Phillies are putting on the Mets tonight.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Edgy MD wrote: Three Philadelphia runs home in the first and I object to losing to a team wearing their 1970s road pajamas at home.

Those unis still give me nightmares. Flashbacks to the Schmidt-Luzinski juggernaut murdering pitchers like Pat Zachry and Mike Bruhert.

[Chad ochoseis]

I'd put Steely Dan on the American Bands Better than Aerosmith list, if you consider Walter Becker, Donald Fagin, and various sidemen a band.



I remember The Old Mole had a long Facebook discussion on best American bands. REM got a lot of love, though not exactly classic rawk.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Yeah I'm not even considering bands born in the 80s

[batmagadanleadoff]

Chad ochoseis wrote: I'd put Steely Dan on the American Bands Better than Aerosmith list, if you consider Walter Becker, Donald Fagin, and various sidemen a band. I remember The Old Mole had a long Facebook discussion on best American bands. REM got a lot of love, though not exactly classic rawk.

Its a band. A great one. What? Lenny Kravitz's band isnt a band because its named after Lenny Kravitz but Fleetwood Mac is a band because its named after more than one of its members? What the hell does the band name have to do with anything?

Edited May 5, 2022 by Guest

[Frayed Knot]

Getting a bit into semantics here but I wouldn't call Dylan a band because his stuff was with so many different musicians over the years. Springsteen, OTOH, even though technically billed as a solo act, has made the vast majority of his output with a remarkably stable backing unit for over half a century.

[kcmets]

7-1, Nola over 100 pitches. Time to stretch...



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