> > > It's a crappy team and not a huge market. The 
> > > estimated value of the team is 40% of the Red Sox
> > > or 30% of the Yankees.
> > Those sound generous.  I'm guessing the Pawsox are probably 
valued 
> > higher.
> 
> You'd be surprised, because of the tv advertising revenues.
> Anyway, starting in 2021, they're the WooSox, not PawSox.
> 
Worcester?  Cool.  

> > > Any woman I go out with is my personal driver.
> > If you're going anywhere, she's driving. Naturally.  
> 
> The dollar costs are less than Uber, but there are other
> costs as well.

It's that whole dating thing. 
 
> > > My father had a 280Z, made by that company. It
> > > was apparently not a basic car.
> > That was a sports car.  They were pretty nice, back in the day.
> 
> 170 hp, more than anybody needs. Especially a blind old
> coot who should have been driving a Trabant if anything.

No one should be driving a Trabbie.  A golf cart maybe; there's 
limited trouble you can get into with a golf cart, and they don't 
smoke like chimneys. 
 
> > > I'd find it hard to believe that a musician would
> > > characterize him/herself as an ocarinist.
> > Perhaps not here, but hard core players elsewhere in the world 
might 
> > make a living at it.  
> 
> Collecting money using baskets woven by their wives.

Or their mothers, the money a musician earns not being enough to 
attract a wife. 
 
> > > > > Bah. That was a catty remark.
> > > > Synthetic humor more like.
> > > Shedding a ray on your mental processes.
> > Just brushing up on my critical thinking. 
> 
> I'm not sweatering it.

Or shedding a tear, cats not being fond of sweaters. 
 
> > > If it had been really horrid, nobody would have
> > > played it half to death.
> > Possibly not to start with at least. It wasn't in the best of 
shape.
> 
> It doesn't take much time to get a piece of wood to
> look beat up. I played on the Betts Stradivarius, which

They played the varnish right off the back of the neck.  The bridge 
was a bridge to nowhere, since the bit that holds the strings on the 
bottom was only half there.  Etc.

> had been vaulted since the 18th century until the LoC
> got it a hundred years ago. It was hoarse and unpleasant
> to my ear, but it was pristine, probably the only originally 
> fitted classic never repaired violin I've ever seen.
> 
Can't say I've ever heard one.  Possibly just as well.


> > It's plastic, but looks and feels quite different from the modern 
> > acrylics.  It was a much heavier and higher quality material.
> 
> I seem to recall it as a hard black substance that made 
> a fairly hard noise when you hit it. I never thought of
> it as "higher quality" than anything.
> 
Two pieces of bakelite make a "clunk" when clinked together, and you 
can feel the difference sometimes too.  The black stuff doesn't 
chemically test too well, if at all, so that's no help.  Acrylic 
tends to feel like a cheaper material.  Lucite doesn't so much. 


> > > > Christie? I don't think she's related.  One of her daughters 
is 
> > > > modeling now too, and doing well at it apparently.
> > > Not within my radar. Is she also called Brinkley?
> > Not that I know of.  I think she uses it as a middle name.  
Sailor 
> > Cook, I think.
> 
> I knew a sailor cook, I think you could characterize Bryan 
> Shipp as such. I've known various other sailors and cooks
> but not at the same time.
> 
I've known my fair share of sailors, or ex-Navy at least, who cook. 
I've even known folks named Sailor, but it was a last name.
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