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I did the same thing a few years ago. laughingly bad. Like a parody. And it was so familiar even though I hadn’t listened since the first few months it came out. CD was cool though.

It’s fake.

But the clips and sources I have seen were of people saying that at that time. i was born in ‘73 so I have no input. I once saw an anecdote that when people say “I like all music except country” there is a hidden bias against “rednecks”. When people say “I like all music except rap” there is a hidden bias against “black culture” if not blacks themselves. I wonder if the “I hate disco “ started that way. Sure many if not most were referring to Disco Duck type things. But like many things once it goes mainstream then it does suck, like many genres.

39 year old free agent gets $18 million raise.

Porcello just retired I think

Christ.... yeah that's why he opted out.

It's low risk for guys like Cruz to do what he did. It's a dynamic where your rights as a worker are important up until the point you can crash the economy. There's a reason certain industries have those kinds of rules, like the flight controllers. Not saying their demands were at all unreasonable.

When the Wings won in 1997 there was a big fuss about the 42 year wait..... that's not long for the Tigers unfortunately.

Here's an article that goes into more detail. https://signorile.substack.com/p/the-disco-sucks-movement-and-the To say "none of this" is a stretch as obviously at the time that was the feeling. It's not rewriting history. From a rolling stone piece in 1979 From the article above. I mean... why not just let people enjoy what they enjoy? The critique I see here is a musical one which is fine to have if it's not your cup of tea but it's not hurting anybody if an ostracized community finds comfort and pleasure from "house" music that may not live up to your standards of what music should be. this sounds to me like people in the 90's complaining that Rap and Hip Hop was not real music. That sentiment was very real and it isn't until the last 10-15 years that suddenly everybody seems to have been a fan when I can tell you as a young adult at the time they certainly were not. We'd never have nevisioned Ice T doing reverse mortage commercials or Snoop Dogg doing stuff with martha stewart. People wanted them in jail.

I learned from a recent Bee Gees documentary about the evolution of Disco and it's prominence in the gay community very early on. Then the Bee Gees made Saturday Night Fever and suddenly everybody decided to make disco and that's what ruined it. It had it's niche market and was fine but then it was over saturated. There was also some definite anti gay sentiment behind the drive against it. Not saying that's what people today are doing but within the times of the 70's that was a force.

I'm thinking the committee that picked the players on the ballot decided to give the steroid boys their shot (pun intended), then Lou will be on the next ballot for that era and will sail in. Did they know the voting members when they picked the players? Maybe they kept Lou off since Tram and Jack were on it? I think Leyland is going to be eligible very soon so we could see Lou and Jim go in together.

I’d also add technology along with consolidation was a deadly one two punch. Why pay two people to do the same job? A guy in Pittsburgh can record can do sound bites and all that and can be transmitted anywhere. You don’t need a jockey. Just pull it up off the computer. Preload the weeks worth of songs. Every city has the same 4 channels. Even across media. Jay Towers can anchor the morning show on Fox 2 and also do radio? a big memory of my college years is falling asleep to the guys on WJR and waking up at some point around like 5:30 am to hear Byron Macgregor give the news with the “teletype” playing in the background as if it were 1938. And somehow in my sleepy state I knew which button to hit to switch to FM and how many hits of static to dial to get to WRIF for Drew and Mike. Fall back asleep. Wake up. Go to class. Get back around noon. Go to sleep. Ah the life.

Radio went to shit. When JP died all the stations in the area went black for a few minutes. It was Dick Purtan’s idea. WJR had some very intelligent overnight hosts. To this day David Newman was the smartest person I ever heard on the radio. Just a former truck driver who read a lot of books.

Mitch Albom with a column today trying to both sides the media on this. Made no mention of the actual content being “censored”. And to top it off he claims to have been a journalist for 40 years and knows how to get thru the clutter. Check out this article from Detroit Free Press: Mitch Albom: How big was Elon Musk's bombshell? Depends on your news source https://www.freep.com/story/sports/columnists/mitch-albom/2022/12/04/elon-musk-twitter-bombshell-matt-taibbi-hunter-biden/69698638007/

I believe rouge had its own zip code and unique post office

A guy once jumped off the top floor in our building into the center atrium. You could see where they added a few feet of extra “wall”. It didn’t match. Used to be about hip high to me with a bar. Then it was solid to my chest.

Sure. But I don’t see anything in what he’s just said that’s different from what he’s been saying for 7 years now.

I don’t think he even wants it to happen. Just wants to raise money.

this is why things are... messed up.

yes, Trending is stupid. Usually it's just a bunch of tweets telling me something is trending.

Get Fulmer in here and keep Norris... the Boyd/Norris/Fulmer trio always had a special place to me. It's like when we brought Omar back to Ramon and once again we had Intantiago. Went to the WS and should have won in the year after... coincidence? I think not.

Preferred her over Stevie. Loved that soulful/bluesy voice. Say you Love Me and You Make Loving Fun are my top 2 Mac songs.