Progress Report

I have now got remixes for half of the "Amy & Me" album.

I have also replaced eight of the seven vocal tracks that I intended to replace. This is because the amount of P-popping on the Chambanacon recording of "Counting Up" was about to make me insane. And since it turns out that we *also* went in direct on both guitar and fiddle for that concert, swapping out the vocal track was an option.

The Chambanacon tracks were the first ones that I mixed down when I started playing with this idea last year, so they require the most massaging to get them into the shape that the latest tracks are in. The good news is that I'm getting better at this as I go along.

And that's important, since I still have half the set to go!

Anyway, if you have picked up any of the original versions on Bandcamp, trust that the album will be different when released. :)

Baseball Is a Funny Game

The Cardinals just got the second-best walk-off win of the night against a team that used to be from New York.

This is because the Orioles (who *used* to be from St. Louis) got the best walk-off win of the night against a team that used to be from New York.

The Cardinals were trailing the Giants 2-0 going to the bottom of the ninth. Their offense all night had been an exercise in futility. They proceeded to load the bases with no one out, got a single to score one run, followed by a double to plate two more, and suddenly they had won the game by a final of 3-2.

Pretty good, no?

But the Orioles had them beat. They were trailing the Dodgers 3-0 going to the bottom of the ninth. Yamamoto was pitching a *no-hitter* against them. There were two outs -- one out away from the no-hitter -- when Jackson Holliday hit a solo shot to make the score 3-1 and end Yamamoto's night. The next pitcher gave up a double, a hit-by-pitch, and a walk to load the bases, followed by another walk to make the score 3-2. It was now time for yet another new pitcher who gave up a two-run single on his third pitch to the next batter. If you are counting, you realize that this makes the score 4-3 for an Orioles win.

Quick Pitch will be interesting tonight.

ETA: Apparently, the Associated Press had the story on Yamamoto's no-hitter ready to go, because here is the headline that just arrived from the Post-Dispatch:

Dodgers pitcher Yoshinobu Yamamoto throws third career no-hitter, first in MLB

Oops!

I hear that Dewey defeated Truman too.