From: owner-lucy-list-digest@smoe.org (lucy-list-digest) To: lucy-list-digest@smoe.org Subject: lucy-list-digest V3 #241 Reply-To: lucy-list@smoe.org Sender: owner-lucy-list-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-lucy-list-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk lucy-list-digest Saturday, November 3 2001 Volume 03 : Number 241 In this issue: [lucy-list] Re: Volunteering [lucy-list] Take me out the the ball game...with a little Lucy content. [lucy-list] Angels in the outfield? Re: [lucy-list] Take me out the the ball game...with a little Lucy content. Re: [lucy-list] Take me out the the ball game...with a little Lucy content. Re: [lucy-list] Take me out the the ball game...with a little Lucy content. [lucy-list] Re: Take me out the the ball game...with a little Lucy content. [lucy-list] Take me out to the (minor league) ball game... [lucy-list] What does baseball have to do with folk music anyway? [lucy-list] Re: Take me out to the ballgame Re: [lucy-list] What does baseball have to do with folk music anyway? [lucy-list] Lucy across the pond ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2001 09:25:03 -0500 From: Donna Myers Subject: [lucy-list] Re: Volunteering I also volunteered last weekend at my local radio station in Lincroft, NJ-WBJB 90.5 The Night. It's great to meet the DJs and to talk with people who have the same musical interests on the phone. The best part about this experience....they are now playing "Song For Molly" on my local radio station!!! Volunteering has its sweet rewards! Donna(who didn't get the FUV Lucy tickets...I have my children's teacher conferences that evening) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2001 09:35:36 -0600 From: "Timothy Bruce" Subject: [lucy-list] Take me out the the ball game...with a little Lucy content. >>>The Yankees just won again. How do they keep doing that?<<< With all due respect to Sharon, I think we all know the reason why. There is no "even playing field" in major league baseball as in football and basketball where "salary caps" prevent one team from buying dominance. In baseball, one rich team can buy whatever player they set their sights on and the "small market" teams just wither away and fight to keep out of last place, mere "sparring partners" for the playoff teams. There's gonna be a meeting and vote right after the World Series ends with the owners and they are going to vote on unilaterally eliminating the Montreal Expos and the Minnesota Twins. They already have the votes to do it, they just need our owner to accept their offer of perhaps double the teams worth. Sure, he'll be hated for awhile, but it could be his way of getting back at the state for not allowing our citizens to be blackmailed into building a new public stadium where all the profits go into private hands. The Twins are not a deadbeat team! They had two players inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame this year (Kirby Puckett and Dave Winfield), came in second in their division this year and WON the World Series twice in the past 14 years. Furthermore, they were the first team in major league history to attract over 3 million fans in a single year. Still, there are players in the league that earn more money in one year than the Twins' entire team payroll! So does this smack of monopoly control or what? And the monopoly is controlled by owners such as the Yankees' Steinbrenner who has no incentive to give it up. The American Congress gave major league baseball an exemption from anti-trust litigation years ago to protect it. That will surely be re-examined if the owners vote for league "contraction" next week. The magic of the Yankees' wins this past week notwithstanding, people will be yawning about it next week if they succeed in winning their fourth World Series in a row and their fifth in six years. Yawn Yawn Yawn. I (and a solid majority of my fellow Minnesotans along with me) say let it all go. Who needs it? Let the smaller, growing metropolitan areas put a half billion dollars into attracting a new team and then get screwed. Let the Twins die for the greater cause of initiating much needed and long overdue reform. Lucy content? I once chased down a home-run ball at a Yankees game and had Lucy sign it in 1999 at Winnipeg. Me and my friend Lisa caught her eye playing catch out in front of the stage in our matching "I Love Lucy" shirts and black caps. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2001 09:54:17 -0600 From: "Timothy Bruce" Subject: [lucy-list] Angels in the outfield? There may of course be alternate reasons for the Yankees winning so dramatically this year. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2001 11:05:48 -0500 From: Tom Neff Subject: Re: [lucy-list] Take me out the the ball game...with a little Lucy content. The problem with this neat little theory is that the Yankees also had the highest payroll in baseball when they were losing every year. Money alone does not buy you championships. You have to know how to use the money to build a machine that generates championships. That is what the Yankees have done, and it is (for example) what the Mets and Red Sox have not done, so even though Boston spends a pile of cash, its trophy case has rusted shut. In my view any small-market city that CAN come up with a "good riddance" rationale for dumping its team SHOULD lose its team. The league will be better off playing in places where people would rather recall mayors and chain themselves to bulldozers than lose their beloved franchise. By the way, this includes towns like Chicago and Boston that never win a Series but sell out their parks anyway. It's mostly these win-today corporate vanity teams with acres of empty seats (which the TV cameras seldom show) that end up moving or closing. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2001 11:26:30 EST From: FISH1994@aol.com Subject: Re: [lucy-list] Take me out the the ball game...with a little Lucy content. Hmmmmmm........I thought Dave Winfield was chosen because of his wonderful playing days with the New York Yankees............. Regarding this year's World Series: it can go either way. The Diamondbacks are a fabulous team, and it was just luck and guts and heart and one heckuva crowd rooting them on that enabled the Yanks to win the last two games in extra innings (the first two games as you may recall were won by the Diamondbacks, they beat the heck out of us out there in Arizona.) If money alone was the tiebreaker we would have rolled over them in each and every game, and that certainly hasn't happened. GO YANKEES!!!!!!!!! ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2001 13:35:44 EST From: Sdgold60@aol.com Subject: Re: [lucy-list] Take me out the the ball game...with a little Lucy content. no offense taken...i am not a yankee fan dont get me started on the boston red sox... they are not being eliminated.. they will be sold My beloved..ball field will be replaced..for a bigger better new and improved timothy.. ill tell you a secret..the Brooklyn Cylcones were 10$ a tickets. not a bad seat in the house.. and the franks were Nathans from Coney island... baseball is back in brooklyn.. it is affordable.. i cannot afford a yankees game or a knicks game.. they have outpriced me..i can afford a liberty game.. the WNBA is popular with families.. and is affordable and is solid fundamental basketball so i settle for lucy kaplansky tickets.. NY doesnt need another world series to feel better boston needs a world series to feel better... i feel the pain of the twins elimination as well as the expos.. sharon ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2001 15:06:25 -0500 (EST) From: Phil Kalina Subject: [lucy-list] Re: Take me out the the ball game...with a little Lucy content. At 2 Nov 2001 09:35:36 -0600, 09:35:36 -0600 (cst), TimothyBruce@aeromix.com wrote: > ... > The magic of the Yankees' wins this past week notwithstanding, > ... It wasn't magic last night. The pressure of the situation, in Yankee Stadium in front of 56,018 screaming fans, got to Byung Hyun Kim, the Diamondbacks' twenty-two year old closer. Kim through a slider that didn't break and Scott Brosius smashed it. Not surprising as almost the same thing happened Wednesday night. Btw, even though I was born in the Bronx, went to Bronx public schools, the Bronx High School of Science, and Lehman College of the City University of New York in the Bronx; even though I went to Yankee Stadium at least ten times a year when I was growing up, I still hate the Yankees. Lets go Mets! I lived in Western Massachusetts for twelve years after leaving the Bronx, and I grew to love the Sox. Just as long as they aren't playing the Mets or the Cleveland Indians and aren't in the World Series. (Sorry, sharon.) I really hope someone decent buys the Sox. And that Manny continues to do well. Re lucy, she seems charmingly unaware of all baseball concerns. I've seen at least two lucy shows in Cleveland during the playoffs. Tribe fans (and that's every last person in Cleveland) would be worried about beating the Yankees and this would come up when lucy talked about living in New York. Lucy would explain that she had no idea who was in the playoffs, or that there is any such thing as playoffs, and she hoped she did not offend. Even in Cleveland, everyone loves lucy and she certainly did not offend. I didn't mean to take us off on a baseball tangent. Phil ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2001 14:26:54 -0600 From: "Timothy Bruce" Subject: [lucy-list] Take me out to the (minor league) ball game... Sharon wrote: >>>timothy.. ill tell you a secret..the Brooklyn Cylcones were 10$ a tickets. not a bad seat in the house.. and the franks were Nathans from Coney island... baseball is back in brooklyn.. it is affordable....<<< Yes, we have the Saint Paul Saints, who play in charming Midway Stadium in-between our two fair cities. Daryll Strawberry played for them for a season when he was undergoing treatment here. There are freight trains rolling by, geese flying overhead, a delta river paddlewheeler in left field, a trained pig who brings the new baseballs out to the umpire and lots of colorful promotions all year. Tickets start at $4.00 and every game is a sell-out. It's a ton of fun, (even when it rains). Timothy (who, by the way, made a vintage Yankees gray wool uniform to be Joe Dimagio two Halloweens ago so his wife could fulfill her dream of being Marilyn Monroe....Sharon should have the photo to prove it! And I got catcalls at the Halloween party!) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2001 15:29:14 -0600 From: "Timothy Bruce" Subject: [lucy-list] What does baseball have to do with folk music anyway? Say, I don't know who started this, but what does the music business have to do with major league baseball anyway? I could perhaps see the connection if a few large powerful groups pretty much controlled what talent we see in a pseudo-monopoly while the majority of the ticket-buying public has to sit way up in the nosebleed section seats to see their much-hyped prima donnas in action. Fortunately in baseball, we have the minor leagues...intimate, friendly, unpretentious -- a good value and a guaranteed fun night out. The talent often equals that in the majors and new discoveries are made there every day. Furthermore, if you stick around after the game, you might get your favorite player to sign your baseball...for free! For FREE! But what this has to do with the music industry in general, or for the folk scene in particular, is beyond me.... Timothy ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2001 16:33:45 -0500 From: Donna Myers Subject: [lucy-list] Re: Take me out to the ballgame With regard to Cleveland....Phil wrote: Lucy would explain that she had no idea who was in the playoffs, or that there is any such thing as playoffs. Lucy has a gig in Tucson tomorrow night. Do you think she knows about the World Series? Donna(Lets go Mets!!) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2001 18:06:13 -0500 (EST) From: "Elizabeth (Libby) Wiebel" Subject: Re: [lucy-list] What does baseball have to do with folk music anyway? On Fri, 2 Nov 2001, Timothy Bruce wrote: - -> Say, I don't know who started this, but what does the music business have to - -> do with major league baseball anyway? Geez... I'm behind... I was still trying to figure out what baseball had to do with cheese! *grin* Libby - -- - ---------------------------------------------------------------- Libby Wiebel | ewiebel@cs.wm.edu | http://www.cs.wm.edu/~ewiebel - ---------------------------------------------------------------- "Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it." - Helen Keller - ---------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2001 06:48:12 -0000 From: "Paul Castle" Subject: [lucy-list] Lucy across the pond Q. What does Lucy do in London? A. Spitz Just received this from Lucy's UK label >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> >LUCY KAPLANSKY >WITH SPECIAL GUEST >ALICE PEACOCK >DECEMBER 2001 >Wed 5 Bein Inn Glenfarg 01577 830216 >Thu 6 Renfrew Ferry Glasgow 0141 2875511 >Fri 7 Folk Club Westhoughton 01942 812301 >Sat 8 Folk Club Westhoughton 01942 812301 >Sun 9 Martlets Hall Burgess Hill 01444 242888 >Tue 11 Telfords Warehouse Chester 01244 390090 >Wed 12 Spitz London 020 7734 4444 >Thu 13 Huntingdon Hall Worcester 01905 611427 >Sat 15 Warwick Arts Centre Coventry 024 7652 4524 >Sun 16 City Memorial Hall Sheffield 01142 789789 >Mon17 Flowerpot Derby 01372 834438 >Wed19 Whelans Dublin 00353 1478 0766 >Thu 20 Empire Music Hall Belfast 02890 249276 LUCY KAPLANSKY CATALOGUE The Tide RHRCD 65 Flesh and Bone RHRCD 92 Ten Year Night RHRCD 126 Every Single Day RHRCD156 ALICE PEACOCK CATALOGUE Real Day PMI1001 >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> acrossthepondpaul ------------------------------ End of lucy-list-digest V3 #241 ******************************* This has been a posting from the Lucy Kaplansky mail list digest To unsubscribe send mail to Majordomo@smoe.org with "unsubscribe lucy-list-digest" in the body of the message