The Rolling Stones - "Dear Doctor"
Outkast - "Stankonia (Stanklove)"
Low - "Pretty People"
Neil Young - "Boxcar"
The Hold Steady - "Your Little Hoodrat Friend"
Creedence Clearwater Revival - "Up Around The Bend"
The Silos - "Hook In My Lip"
Calexico and Iron & Wine - "Dead Man's Will"
Radiohead - "All I Need"
The Roots - "Here I Come"
Low - "Hatchet"
I wanted an excuse to talk about it (not just because Pcup asked) and Low has provided the perfect segue. The hatchet did indeed fall on Willie Randolph today (or should I say last night?) via a 3:12 a.m. ET press release. [Before I get into it, this is a very cool song from the Minnesota slowcore trio. It's from their very good 2007 album Drums and Guns, and it brightens the mood of what is a mostly somber anti-war album - - thematically and musically. In this case the band's plea for world peace is caged in the funny line "Let's bury the hatchet like the Beatles and The Stones."] So... as a Mets fan I am not shocked that Willie was fired. However, I am shocked at how poorly the team handled the situation. Clearly Willie was already on the hot seat after last year's historic collapse. Add to that the fact that they have sputtered in the first 60 or so games this season; and Willie's strange comments to the press about how criticism of him was race related. But letting him fly all the way to Los Angeles, manage the team for the first game out there (which he won, btw), and sending him back to the hotel only to then shitcan him and tell the world in a press release in the middle of the night?! Classless! Just a total botch job by the Mets brain trust. Now, I'm not sure if GM Omar Minaya really had total autonomy in this decision or not (we'll probably know more after today's 5 p.m. press conference), but didn't anybody realize there was a better way to go about firing the manager (who incidentally ends his tenure with the second best winning percentage of any Mets skipper)? It's just embarrassing as a fan. The Mets seem to specialize in boneheaded moves and it hurts their credibility and ultimately impacts the team on the field. Obviously nothing changed between the weekend series and last night, so why didn't they just fire him in New York? It boggles the mind. Listen, I'm not sure getting rid of Willie is such a bad idea. I mean it's ultimately the players who are not performing, but there does seem to be a culture of mediocrity over the past year that has to be shaken up. Unfortunately they guy that was named the interim manager, Willie's bench coach Jerry Manuel, is said to have the same laid back personality as Randolph. How will the Mets respond? Only time will tell. At least, they have Pedro back in the rotation. Church should be back in the lineup soon. And the bullpen can't get worse. Maybe with the distractions behind them, they can just go out and play baseball. I, for one, think they'll play well, get back in the race and finally be eliminated in spectacularly heartbreaking fashion late in September in one of the last games ever at Shea Stadium. Meet the Mets...
Dean & Britta - "Teen Angel"
Joy Division - "These Days"
Dan Zanes - "Over The Rainbow"
David Bowie - "The Jean Genie"
And then I got to work.
Today's Stats
Total songs listened to: 15
Total minutes of music (approx.): 54
Song with the most previous plays: "Over The Rainbow" - 15
Miscellaneous factoid about my trip to work today: I got a cinnamon raisin bagel with butter and coffee.
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To be fair, it's worth noting that it wasn't actually 3am except back here in NYC. It probably happened at 11pm local time, after the game.
Doesn't make it much better, but this is a story that doesn't need overdramatization to be f-ed up.
Thank you.
Have you heard this? "Hatchet" was by far my favorite track off this record.
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