Okay but can he mix and master 6 tracks for under a grand?
Maybe. He started out in his parentsā living room.
Your point is spot-on. It makes all the difference in the world.
I saw them a couple years ago. Slash is great, Axel not so much.
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I saw them in November 1987 opening for Motley Crue.
Appetite had just been released.
17 year old me thought they were great.
My lasting inpressions: Axel ( shirtless) was so white he was practically transparent and Slash looked like a total rip off of Joe Perry
The latest CapitalOne commercial features Slash doing the intro guitar solo to Sweet Child of Mine. Itās on constant commercial rotation on any Paramount+ show and itās made me hate that intro. It I hear it one more timeā¦
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Richard Fortus the other guitarist in that band is an excellent guitarist. He is a St Louis guy and he is a real good friend with my old bandās bass player. Got to jam with him a couple of times in the early 90s and it was obvious back then he had something special going on.
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An interesting thread.
Thanks for sharing. Really interesting. I would think lawyers representing players would be better prepared for these things than Thompsonās apparently were. And how do the arbitrators get selected? Fascinating stuff.
As to your last questionā¦MLB and the MLBPA agree on a slate of certified independent labor arbitrators before the hearings begin. There is even a process of submitting names and allowing each side to strike certain prospective arbitrators, much like a jury selection, until a slate is chosen. From there, a panel of three is assigned to each hearing. A hearing is a rather quick affair, each side gets 1 hour to make their case then 30 minutes to rebut the other side. The panel makes a decision within 24 hours. The panel does not issue an opinion or rationale, just a decision for either the club or the player.
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My law firm was involved in the arbitration hearings each year in the early days of arbitration when the hearings were in different major cities. One of our partners (a college baseball player at UNC and now an ordained Presbyterian minister and still one of my closest friends) was on Tal Smithās āteamā and traveled with Smith et al. from city to city representing various MLB clubs in the hearings.
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I would love attend one of these hearings. Iāve heard first hand stories from the players rep side, but would love to be a fly on the wall myself.
I hear that. Chris and I shared the employment law practice area and baseball so I hoped I would be invited along. I never was, dang it, but I did hear the stories.
The sleeve patches will be on different arms depending on whether the batter is right handed or left handed.
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Is every team in baseball participating in this atrocity? I assume not the Yankees?
Even the Yankees were reportedly seeking an advertiser, at least as of last summer:
This depresses me further. If even they are immediately on the bus, there can be no prospect whatsoever of backing it up.
In other news, Padres v. Mariners just started. The pitch clock is in effect.
Vomit
I am going to reserve wailing and gnashing my teeth about the new rule changes until I see them in action for a while. I just get the feeling thereās a lot of caterwauling about nothing.
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The limits on pickoffs and larger bases actually intrigue me. Iām all for bringing back more running.
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