Banter TRTTT Part 16 - How good are fingerless gloves

[Contested Marx]

How contrarian

Rich coming from you

 

[edgie]

Rich coming from you

heck that's the first time I've ever been accused of being rich

 

[edgie]

What blues bar?

Some underground Blues bar in the city my mate is always telling me I need to go to, the Memphis or something

 

[JimmyBC]

Some underground Blues bar in the city my mate is always telling me I need to go to, the Memphis or something

Memphis Slims? never been there but blues in an atmospheric dungeon sounds alright, of course you could be just lumbered with white boy/white bread blues & overpriced drinks.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

Toronto - or Torono or even Trono - as the locals call it, won game 5 of the World Series 6-1, to take a 3-2 game lead back to Toronto for game 6, Friday night their time. I don't think LA have lost a 3 game stretch at home in an MLB play off post season series for years.

With the current 2-3-2 format, teams taking a 3-2 lead by winning Game 5 on the road before returning home for Games 6 and 7, have gone on to win the series 20 of 27 times.

And the World Series and post season records just keep piling up.

Great start for the Blue Jays - new lead off batter Schneider - whacks the first pitch of the game from LA's best pitcher in the post season Snell, to left field for a home run.

2 pitches later Vlad Junior - a Canadian, born in Quebec, Hall of Famer old man Senior played the last 8 seasons for Montreal Expos before MLB head office killed them off, Senior and a 4 year old Junior were on the field waving good bye to the fans in their last ever game in 2003, but when he was 4 or 5 mum and dad split up and he moved with mum back to his folks home in Dominican Republic, and then the Jays signed him up when he was 16 - smacks a home run to left field about 10 yards to the left of where Schneider hit his.

Never before have 2 home runs in a World Series in the first 3 pitches of a game, and never has a World Series started the game with back to back home runs from the first two batters.

Then in the 7th innings with some straight forward singles, stolen bases and base on balls they scored 2 runs and 1 in the 8th and just shut LA out of the game. They didn't walk Ohtani tonight and he didn't get a hit and he was struck out twice.

22 year old Blue Jays rookie pitcher Trey Yesavage started the season in their single A league team, worked his way up to the Jay's triple A team in Buffalo and made his MLB debut mid September. Tonight he earmarked greatness for his career.

He struck out 12 batters over seven full innings, setting the all-time rookie record for strikeouts in a World Series. He also became just the second pitcher in World Series history with 10 or more strikeouts through the first five innings, joining the Dodgers great Sandy Koufax, who did it in Game 1 of the 1963 World Series. Yesavage is also the first pitcher in MLB history to do that twice within the same postseason. He did it in the divisional series game 2, against the Yankees that knocked them out. That's the first game I saw him pitch.

This really has the feel of a champion team vs a team of champions going down to the wire battle. The team of champions might need 1 or 2 of their champions to have an exceptional last 2 games, for them to win the series.

 

[bomberclifford]

Some underground Blues bar in the city my mate is always telling me I need to go to, the Memphis or something

Memphis Slims. It's great if you get there on a good night.

Gwyn Ashton plays there on the odd occasion.

 

[Burningleviathan]

I have given this world series a go, decided to pick Toronto.
Has been good entertainment.
The introduction of the pitch clock has really kept the game moving compared to the glacial pace of the games I've tried to watch in the past.
Probably one example of the league changing rules that has actually worked.

 

[Doctor Feel]

Memphis Slims. It's great if you get there on a good night.

Gwyn Ashton plays there on the odd occasion.

Gwyn Ashton! Phoar! (?)

 

[Grave Danger]

Memphis Slims. It's great if you get there on a good night.

Gwyn Ashton plays there on the odd occasion.

Sliding Doors...

Encouraged by Billy Thorpe to jam with Mick Fleetwood, Ashton was suggested to replace Rick Vito in Fleetwood Mac, which did not eventuate as they reformed with the Buckingham-Nicks line-up.

 

[edgie]

Memphis Slims? never been there but blues in an atmospheric dungeon sounds alright, of course you could be just lumbered with white boy/white bread blues & overpriced drinks.

Mate no shit I just swung past and there was a group of girls recording a tiktok out the front and I was like wtf this shit is for posers and immediately noped the **** outta there without even going in.

https://media1.tenor.com/m/yTxA7WgkBEUAAAAd/grandpa-abe-exit.gif

Disappointed.

 

[edgie]

Memphis Slims. It's great if you get there on a good night.

Gwyn Ashton plays there on the odd occasion.

I can only imagine tonight was not a good night.

Maybe because I didn't make it past the door.

 

[DaTBird187]

Testeagles were great tonight.

 

[backtozero]

Mate no shit I just swung past and there was a group of girls recording a tiktok out the front and I was like wtf this shit is for posers and immediately noped the **** outta there without even going in.

https://media1.tenor.com/m/yTxA7WgkBEUAAAAd/grandpa-abe-exit.gif

Disappointed.

Oh edgie. You say the darndest things.

 

[bomberclifford]

Mate no shit I just swung past and there was a group of girls recording a tiktok out the front and I was like wtf this shit is for posers and immediately noped the **** outta there without even going in.

https://media1.tenor.com/m/yTxA7WgkBEUAAAAd/grandpa-abe-exit.gif

Disappointed.

Memphis Slim is downstairs in the basement. The tiktok girls were more likely focused on the two bars at street level.

 

[JimmyBC]

Mustaine has recorded Ride the Lightning for the last Megadeth album.. dude why!!

 

[edgie]

Mustaine has recorded Ride the Lightning for the last Megadeth album.. dude why!!

There's nothing more Mustaine than making the last song on his last album a Metallica song lol

 

[JimmyBC]

There's nothing more Mustaine than making the last song on his last album a Metallica song lol

Is it technically a cover if you co-wrote it?

My issue is it can't be improved on so why bother.

 

[DaTBird187]

Is it technically a cover if you co-wrote it?

My issue is it can't be improved on so why bother.

I'm sure like with every Metallica song, the drumming could be improved.

 

[Grave Danger]

I'm sure like with every Metallica song, the drumming could be improved.

They're playing at Optus tomorrow night - hope they stay clear of the centre wicket area.

 

[backtozero]

I'm sure like with every Metallica song, the drumming could be improved.

Shitting on Lars is eternal, however the drumming on those early albums is fine and doesn't detract from them at all. It's actually pretty impressive for someone self-taught a couple of years before hand to be playing to that level.
It was the 90s onwards where he let his chops turn to shit where the criticism is aimed at

 

[Grave Danger]

There was some sort of Metallica fan experience in the city this morning, with the queue stretching almost the length of the mall. It looked like the WWE mob had changed in to their other tee shirt.

 

[edgie]

Is it technically a cover if you co-wrote it?

My issue is it can't be improved on so why bother.

Anyone who didn't record and release it first is covering it. It will be different.

 

[edgie]

Shitting on Lars is eternal, however the drumming on those early albums is fine and doesn't detract from them at all. It's actually pretty impressive for someone self-taught a couple of years before hand to be playing to that level.
It was the 90s onwards where he let his chops turn to shit where the criticism is aimed at

Lars couldn't cope with the slowed down hard rock music and his inability to just maintain a steady beat in simplified music showed itself. He was better at thrash drumming.

 

[soafraid]

Lars couldn't cope with the slowed down hard rock music and his inability to just maintain a steady beat in simplified music showed itself. He was better at thrash drumming.

Nah his simple Oompa beats get old real fast. Plus the actual difficult songs like Dyers eve he basically never did because he couldn't play them live, and when he did he wouldn't do the double kick parts

 

[backtozero]

Lars couldn't cope with the slowed down hard rock music and his inability to just maintain a steady beat in simplified music showed itself. He was better at thrash drumming.

Completely disagree. His drumming on the rockier stuff is very good.
It's the live setting where the criticism comes from.