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Only the Beginning — IGT, 6/20 NYM@CHC

Edgy MD Jun 20 2019 05:28 AM

AT 8:05 tonight, the Mets visit Wrigley for the first time in 2019, as we pray Walker Locket don't put his finger in a socket. Tyler Chatwood goes for the Cubs. He's a righthander with a beard who has been a fringey starter, going in and out and in and out of MLB rotations since 2011, first with the Angels, then with the Rox, and the last two seasons with the Cubbies. He's been mostly bullpenning this season, however, and this will be only his second start. The Mets are reeling after taking an apple corer right up the butts last night in Atlanta. They need some new beginnings and Chicago is as good a place as any to find them. And so they turn to Robert Lamm and Walter "Walker" Parazaider's thunderous alto sax work with this track from Chicago's first album, Chicago Transit Authority. Sweet trumpet figures from Lee Loughlane on the intro, too. [YOUTUBE]pizRRft3_8Y[/YOUTUBE]

bmfc1 Jun 20 2019 06:04 AM Re: Only the Beginning — IGT, 6/20 NYM@CHC

Nicely done, Edgy.

whippoorwill Jun 20 2019 06:12 AM Re: Only the Beginning — IGT, 6/20 NYM@CHC

Whoever is picking these songs...Wowee My favorite Chicago tune

whippoorwill Jun 20 2019 06:20 AM Re: Only the Beginning — IGT, 6/20 NYM@CHC

Whoever is picking these songs...Wowee My favorite Chicago tune

whippoorwill Jun 20 2019 06:21 AM Re: Only the Beginning — IGT, 6/20 NYM@CHC

Ha! Reposted that after watching the excellent video!

Edgy MD Jun 20 2019 08:16 AM Re: Only the Beginning — IGT, 6/20 NYM@CHC

=whippoorwill post_id=13626 time=1561033218 user_id=79] Whoever is picking these songs...Wowee My favorite Chicago tune

The trombone is sometimes flat and the guitar sounds thin, but live performance vids are always a revelation. Hairy young Chicago is a fascinating Chicago.

Johnny Lunchbucket Jun 20 2019 09:21 AM Re: Only the Beginning — IGT, 6/20 NYM@CHC

There's all kinds of cool stuff but the connection there with Kath and drummer Danny Seraphine is pretty great too.

Frayed Knot Jun 20 2019 01:17 PM Re: Only the Beginning — IGT, 6/20 NYM@CHC

My only problem with that video is that I see Peter Cetera and I want to grab the rest of the band by the throats and beg them not to turn over writing/singing duties to him should anything happen to Terry Kath or else their stuff will turn into a bunch of sappy garbage. I mean, sure, they were already heading downhill by that point anyway, but by focusing on Cetera it put them on an express line to the yacht. And then he wound up leaving them anyway for a solo career which was also a bunch of sappy garbage to the point where I can't tell the difference between Cetera solo and Cetara-era Chicago. Cetera also skipped the band's HoF induction. I guess after such a stunning solo career he probably didn't want to admit he was ever in the band.

whippoorwill Jun 20 2019 02:38 PM Re: Only the Beginning — IGT, 6/20 NYM@CHC

I liked cetera as a Chicagoan (?) for this song and a few others (I've been searching so long, for example) but I agree his solo acts and later Chicago pap was awful

Johnny Lunchbucket Jun 20 2019 02:57 PM Re: Only the Beginning — IGT, 6/20 NYM@CHC

I'm reading a bio by guitarist Steve Lukather of Toto now. He was saying how producer David Foster basically bogarted Chicago out from under them, co-writing with Cetera and going as far as to hire the Toto guys to play on those albums 16-19 or whatever

G-Fafif Jun 20 2019 03:00 PM Re: Only the Beginning — IGT, 6/20 NYM@CHC

Jeff McNeil – LF Pete Alonso – 1B Robinson Canó – 2B Michael Conforto – RF Todd Frazier – 3B Wilson Ramos – C Amed Rosario – SS Carlos Gómez – CF Walker Lockett – RHP Zamora down to create space for Lockett.

Frayed Knot Jun 20 2019 04:52 PM Re: Only the Beginning — IGT, 6/20 NYM@CHC

Recently saw a low budget docu (on some low budget cable station) on Terry Kath produced by his daughter. She, being only a year or so old at the time of his death, never knew him so this was a "searching for" kind of thing. The remaining veteran band members (Pankow, Lamm, etc.) appeared as did his widow and brother. Didn't deal at all with the circumstances of his death -- which was basically a, "Don't worry, this thing's not loaded", type of situation -- and had some suggestions that maybe Kath wasn't long for the band at the time anyway. Kind of weird, definitely not winning any Oscars. We now return you to your regularly scheduled IGT, already in progress (even if the game is not): Cubs are 40-33, 1/2 game up on the Brewers atop the NLC Not one of their regular position players seems to be hurt at the moment (wonder what that's like?) unless you include Ben Zobrist who, for some reason, could possibly miss the remainder of the season dealing with his divorce the country/religious singer whom he accuses of "violating their marriage vows" (probably not code for: failure to take out the trash promptly). Eight different players currently have 200+ PA on the season (as opposed to five NYM) and I think Joe Maddon has had all eight players each play all eight positions on the field (although I'm still checking into that) Starter Kyle Hendricks is IL'd so we'll miss him, as is big money reliever Brandon Morrow who I'm not sure is ever NOT IL'd

bmfc1 Jun 20 2019 05:30 PM Re: Only the Beginning — IGT, 6/20 NYM@CHC

Frayed Knot wrote: Recently saw a low budget docu (on some low budget cable station) on Terry Kath produced by his daughter. She, being only a year or so old at the time of his death, never knew him so this was a "searching for" kind of thing. The remaining veteran band members (Pankow, Lamm, etc.) appeared as did his widow and brother. Didn't deal at all with the circumstances of his death -- which was basically a, "Don't worry, this thing's not loaded", type of situation -- and had some suggestions that maybe Kath wasn't long for the band at the time anyway. Kind of weird, definitely not winning any Oscars I saw that and I had the same impression, that he was going to leave (but not in this fashion). His daughter's step-father is Keifer Sutherland.

seawolf17 Jun 20 2019 05:51 PM Re: Only the Beginning — IGT, 6/20 NYM@CHC

https://twitter.com/cdorso/status/1141855746520440833?s=19

whippoorwill Jun 20 2019 06:37 PM Re: Only the Beginning — IGT, 6/20 NYM@CHC

Did this start yet?

bmfc1 Jun 20 2019 06:49 PM Re: Only the Beginning — IGT, 6/20 NYM@CHC

The game is on MLBN with the Mets feed. I hope that seawolf17 enjoyed Alonso's blast!

seawolf17 Jun 20 2019 06:55 PM Re: Only the Beginning — IGT, 6/20 NYM@CHC

Holy moley, that kid can hit. That was a rocket.

Johnny Lunchbucket Jun 20 2019 07:09 PM Re: Only the Beginning — IGT, 6/20 NYM@CHC

That was a rockett off Lickety. Poor guy looked like deGrom for 2 innings anyway

Johnny Lunchbucket Jun 20 2019 07:10 PM Re: Only the Beginning — IGT, 6/20 NYM@CHC

Spell check turns Lockett into Lickety

Johnny Lunchbucket Jun 20 2019 07:17 PM Re: Only the Beginning — IGT, 6/20 NYM@CHC

He was good only in the beginning

seawolf17 Jun 20 2019 07:19 PM Re: Only the Beginning — IGT, 6/20 NYM@CHC

Jeez, that fell apart quickly.

bmfc1 Jun 20 2019 07:26 PM Re: Only the Beginning — IGT, 6/20 NYM@CHC

Pounders VWP (very wild pitch) typifies this shitshow.

Edgy MD Jun 20 2019 07:31 PM Re: Only the Beginning — IGT, 6/20 NYM@CHC

Man, Contreras just bought it.

Johnny Lunchbucket Jun 20 2019 07:31 PM Re: Only the Beginning — IGT, 6/20 NYM@CHC

JDD pinch hitting here in the 4th as the tying run. Not giving up yet!!!

Edgy MD Jun 20 2019 07:34 PM Re: Only the Beginning — IGT, 6/20 NYM@CHC

My God, Regan looks 99.

Frayed Knot Jun 20 2019 07:34 PM Re: Only the Beginning — IGT, 6/20 NYM@CHC

GiDPs R Us

G-Fafif Jun 20 2019 07:36 PM Re: Only the Beginning — IGT, 6/20 NYM@CHC

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: Spell check turns Lockett into Lickety Cubs got to Lockett lickety-split.

ashie62 Jun 20 2019 07:37 PM Re: Only the Beginning — IGT, 6/20 NYM@CHC

It's Regan's fault dang it! Lockett, total joke My remaining interest in the Mets is centered on Pete Alonso, hit 50 dudu!

kcmets Jun 20 2019 07:50 PM Re: Only the Beginning — IGT, 6/20 NYM@CHC

=ashie62 post_id=13732 time=1561081038 user_id=90]My remaining interest in the Mets is centered on Pete Alonso

McNeil not on your roto team?

Johnny Lunchbucket Jun 20 2019 08:04 PM Re: Only the Beginning — IGT, 6/20 NYM@CHC

If we don't hit into 3 DPs we'd only lose the lead this inning instead of 2 innings ago

Edgy MD Jun 20 2019 08:29 PM Re: Only the Beginning — IGT, 6/20 NYM@CHC

Umpty Dumpty has been calling a massive strike zone.

Johnny Lunchbucket Jun 20 2019 08:55 PM Re: Only the Beginning — IGT, 6/20 NYM@CHC

Fraze goes bang.

Johnny Lunchbucket Jun 20 2019 09:04 PM Re: Only the Beginning — IGT, 6/20 NYM@CHC

Dom Smith batting, 2 outs, 1 on. He gets on and McNeil is the tying run.

Edgy MD Jun 20 2019 09:05 PM Re: Only the Beginning — IGT, 6/20 NYM@CHC

Right up to the ninth, we're getting strikes from the neck to the shins.

Johnny Lunchbucket Jun 20 2019 09:05 PM Re: Only the Beginning — IGT, 6/20 NYM@CHC

Ah, fukit. See you tomorrow in Wrigley

Edgy MD Jun 20 2019 09:07 PM Re: Only the Beginning — IGT, 6/20 NYM@CHC

And he beginning is the ending. Mets outplayed, and Lockett wasn't the answer. But the home plate umping sure was smelly. Nice to see Font put up another good showing, but I need to see some winnums.

Edgy MD Jun 20 2019 09:31 PM Re: Only the Beginning — IGT, 6/20 NYM@CHC

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: Ah, fukit. See you tomorrow in Wrigley You get first cracks at seeing Alonso tie (or possibly break) Darryl's rookie home run mark.

Fman99 Jun 21 2019 04:18 AM Re: Only the Beginning — IGT, 6/20 NYM@CHC

Great song to lead off this track. Great HR by Piss Missile Pete. The rest, well, meh.

Lefty Specialist Jun 21 2019 06:02 AM Re: Only the Beginning — IGT, 6/20 NYM@CHC

I'm beginning to see myself disengaging from this team. It's a process that's fairly frequent. They tease for a while then settle into the doldrums of less-than-mediocre. Seems to be happening again.

seawolf17 Jun 21 2019 06:23 AM Re: Only the Beginning — IGT, 6/20 NYM@CHC

It struck me last night that in the middle of June in a season where we were supposed to be contenders, we trotted out four guys who had like a combined twenty total major league innings before tonight (plus Gsellman). What the fricking hell? And of course, our guy making his major league debut gets lit up like a firecracker, and their guy making his major league debut looks like a fuckin' Hall of Famer out there, standing O after standing O.

Edgy MD Jun 21 2019 02:35 PM Re: Only the Beginning — IGT, 6/20 NYM@CHC

It struck me last night that a better title track for this thread would have been "Hard for Me to Say I'm Sorry."