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Don't forget that part of the reason why Eckstein's RBI totals over the last few years have dropped off is that the Cards have a number of heavy-hitters in the line-up. As shortstops go, Eckstein is above average all-round.

Guys, Eckstein is a World Series MVP and is now on a Jays team that has virtually no playoff leadership. Eck is quite a bit better hitter than Mac or he wouldn't have been an all-star. It's no secret the Jays have been wanting to find a consistent bat from the shortstop position for a number of years. This is a win-win situation, unless Eck is on the Mitchell Report.

I love Johnny Mac, but he's a career light-hitter. Eckstein has a better than average OBA and slugging percentage. Johnny Mac is better suited as a utility infielder.

World Series MVP and a solid all-star shortstop? I like the deal. A career .286 and he batted .306 last year, plus he's not old in baseball years.

I hated Dykstra, but I agree with your assessment.

Dykstra is one of the guys that surprises me the least. And I wouldn't be surprised if they nailed most of the roster from that mullet-headed, muscle-bound Phillies teams from the late 80's through the late 90's.

Whatever happens, say like another Black Sox Scandal, Basher will still have front row season tickets and tell us about them after each game.

Dude, older women artists (and male ones too) don't have a long shelf life on the music charts, period. Video killed the aging radio star.

That is a good plan, and now you have the TV too. Don't watch anything that ain't HD.

If two Blue Jays bleeders Pat Hentken and Roy Halladay are on the list, there is no hope for humanity.

I'm not. They had a good 3 episode run around the 7th one but in the end I almost wish this season never existed. It was waaaaaaaaaaaay too rushed. Yup. And get on Deadwood immediately. Did you and Douglas ever finish season III? It's even better than Rome II.

Ditto.

Fuckin'-A! I love it when things actually get BETTER, just when you think they couldn't I know my westerns very, very well, and Deadwood is as good or better than the hundred or more films that I've seen. Also, Rome II is incredible, but it's sad that there will never be a Season III; I believe you've mixed-up Deadwood and Rome with reference to a future movie. Actually, Milch (Deadwood mastermind) said it's unlikely that he'll ever be able to finish Deadwood with the two movies her proposed.

Kev, Deadwood can stand amongst or above the greatest film westerns by the likes of Ford, Peckinpah, Hawks, Mann, Sturges and Leone. Season II of Rome kicks I's ass. Ask Booche for further proof.

Well Kev, Deadwood, Rome and Band of Brothers are three of my all-time favourite shows. Add in Carnivale too and TV doesn't get any better. Oh yeah, Battlestar Galactica deserves to be on the list too.

The last of the Mississippi Delta bluesmen, Honeyboy Edwards plays Hugh's Room in Toronto this Sunday. I can't go, but man, I really want to. He's performing with harp master Bobby Rush. Edwards may be old, but he's still winning contemporary awards. He won the W.C. Handy Acoustic Blues Acoustic Guitarist Award this year and has a Grammy nomination. Here's Greg Quill's Star article from today's paper: Even the blues are singing the blues Dec 13, 2007 04:30 AM GREG QUILL ENTERTAINMENT COLUMNIST The blues will always be with us, Mississippi Delta blues legend David "Honeyboy" Edwards admits over the phone from his home in Chicago, but he's worried about how to win over a new generation of African Americans who seem to have turned their backs on their own musical legacy. "More white people care about the blues these days," said the 92-year-old guitarist and singer. "The black kids are doing rap, and there's no feeling in rap. It's just rhymes and a beat. You need music to give a song its feeling. And that means you've got to learn to play an instrument. You need an instrument for the blues to survive. And the rap kids aren't interested." That's a sentiment shared by longtime Toronto concert promoter Richard Flohil, who got his start bringing blues masters B.B. King and Bobby "Blue" Bland to town back in the 1960s. He's promoting Edwards and harmonica virtuoso Bobby Rush at Hugh's Room Sunday night in a show he's billing as the blues concert of the year – no idle boast, considering that this year Edwards received the 2007 WC Handy Acoustic Blues Acoustic Guitarist Award, shares in the glory of a Grammy nomination for album Last of the Great Mississippi Bluesmen: Live in Dallas, and was the subject of a heartfelt tribute at the 30th annual Delta Blues and Heritage Festival in Greenville, Miss. "With the very last of the original Delta blues singers and guitar players, and an opening artist of the stature of Bobby Rush, you'd figure that every seat would have been long gone ... not so," says Flohil, who admits the blues have seen better times. Still, Edwards isn't exactly feeling the pinch. In the last 12 months he has performed more than 100 shows, more than half of them in Europe, where he's regarded as American musical royalty. He has just recorded an album with Rush, of popular pre-rock uptempo blues favourites, due for release in a couple of months. "My mind is as good as it's ever been, I don't need a wheelchair, and I'm feeling good," he says. Just the facts WHO: David ``Honeyboy'' Edwards and Bobby Rush WHEN: Sunday, 8:30 p.m. WHERE: Hugh's Room, 2261 Dundas St. W. TICKETS: $28.50 at 416-531-6604, $32.50 at the door

I did indeed play you some killer Hendrix. It was the Criterion box-set of The Montery Pop Festival with the complete Hendrix performance in DTS audio. Now, back to Page and Townshend...

I love being wrong. Great game!!

Page had a long-term affair with an underager in the 70's.

I'm sure he's playing. He was terrible last night. He's had a rough year. Where would Toronto be if they drafted Aldridge?

I remember, correctly, that you were inexcusably sober and your Hendrix dis was sobering.

Chief, pal, buddy, big shooter, guy, sir, Mr.

I remember when Ike Turner was on Letterman back in the early 90's. Letterman asked Ike why he hit Tina. Ike said: "Women be thinkin' too much". Sure Ike was a trailblazer, but he was a wife beater too. Still, R.I.P. to this man and important musical legend, even with his troubled and unforgivable past.

The Raps rebounding has improved over the last few games. The bench is playing with more confidence. Still, Dallas should win.

Great!