Rest in Peace, Moneypenny

Seen here with a future James Bond, Lois Maxwell will always be Moneypenny to the purists. She did a great job. God bless her.

Giants D Dominates as Giants Improve to 2 and 2

Osi had SIX of the Giants 12 sacks. The O was pretty terrible, but Osi, Kiwi (3 sacks), Tuck (2 sacks) and Strahan (1 sack), just kicked butt all night and the Giants won 16-3!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Next up is the Jets! Go Giants!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Giants Win the First Half

But they're only up 7-0. We were threatening with under two to play, but Eli threw another crazy int. These are an issue this season and it seems like something he should be able to overcome pretty easily. Otherwise, he's been excellent. Osi and Tuck have been great again and Strahan passed LT for the "official" Giant sack lead.

Yanks Second Season Starts Thursday

They're a better team than their record indicates (check their run differential) and I think they have a very good shot at #27 if they grind and get some pitching. They'll play the Indians starting Thursday and they have to remember to slow it down if there's trouble this year. I don't especially expect much, this is the best team we've had in awhile, and I expect them to prove it with #27.

Dexter is Back

The implausibly good show about the serial killer who only kills badguys is back. And as much as I don't like to root for serial killers and know there are no good ones, I do enjoy this Showtime show. Keep slicing, Dexter!

America

America is another group, like Three Dog Night, that critics somehow reviled. It's especially odd considering they made tuneful pop and were often produced by Beatle Genius Guy, George Martin. Actually, I think critics used to bash the lyrics. This is pretty much why the smartest people you know are not music critics. Lyrics don't need to be Byron, Shelley or Wordsworth. They need to be SINGABLE. If they're clever, more power to them, but if you can sing "alligator lizards in the air" when your driving, then mission accomplished by the songwriters.

Originally consisting of Gerry Beckley, Dan Peek and Dewey Bunnell, America started cooking in the early-`70's. Peek eventually split (cause the other two were singing all the hits) and became a top Christian/Country guy or something. In all, America, is another one of the early seventies groups that were making great post Beatles/Beach Boys/Bacharach pop.

BTW, the America logo was designed by the late, great Phil Hartman before he went into comedy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dd2Ch6WBeQU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQ3ax8NWNGA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-VGxYAVx-0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDL02th72u4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjdcd1pY2yk

Two Really Underrated Singers

When thinking of the great female singers of the rock/pop era, the name at the top is generally Aretha's, followed by Dionne Warwick, Gladys Knight, Mavis Staples, Chaka Kahn and Dusty Springfield. It is wrong, though, to overlook the great singing that came from Karen Carpenter and Marilyn McCoo. The Carpenters, who made a lot of good pop, have been historically underrated with that whol group of pop performers whose peaks surrounded to turn of the decade from the `60's to the `70's. Marilyn McCoo and the 5th Dimension were around at the same time, and she's probably been underrated for her role as Solid Gold host in the `80's. But in both of their primes Karen Carpenter and Marylin McCoo could sing with anybody.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPmbT5XC-q0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkMhWQgkZ8c

The Office is Back

Thank goodness. Cheers to my old friend Greg Daniels.

Earl is Back

And it's in its good, old, unique groove. I like Earl specifically because it doesn't try to be any other show. It's joke driven in a much more overt way than a lot of shows are these days. And they have a pretty good hit rate on their jokes. Oh and they also have Nadine Velazquez as Catalina. Keep it up, Earl!

Hughes Wins!

Phil Hughes, backed by the Yankee B team, held the Tampa A team to one run over 7 innings. Nice! Yanks back him up with 3 runs of their own, and both Alberto Gonzalez and Bronson Sardinha got their first major league hits. Strong finish for Mr. Hughes! Go Yanks!

Yanks Clinch!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And a lot of it's cause this guy didn't panic or do anything stupid. If they remember to grind and Joe doesn't do anything nuts with the pen, the Yanks can and should win it all. GO YANKS!

UPDATE: Here's a great interview with the Cash Man himself : http://yankees.scout.com/2/684366.html

Phil Spector Gets A Mistrial

Apparently the jury couldn't reach a verdict on his guilt of innocence. I think the state made a mistake by going for 2nd degree murder. This brilliant nutjob had been menacing women with guns for 40 years, and I think those jurors who couldn't be swayed to pronounce him guilty, could not find intent, but rather concluded it was a tragic and inhumanly negligent accident, which is not what murder 2 is. Now the state has the option of re-trying him and spending more of our dough. It's almost starting to seem like famous people can get away with stuff out here.

Soul's Best Lead Singers: Russell Thompkins Jr.

The Stylistics were a sweet soul group from Philly. They worked with great producers like Thom Bell and Burt Bacharach and waxed a lot of classic sided. The membership of the group seemed to fluctuate between 3 and 5, but at all times, the lead singing was done by Russell Thompkins, Jr. His falsetto, though not quite the equal of Kendricks' ,in my opinion, was really something else. Also, dig their steps! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDHDiDOJZmI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouv_6uSHJ9I

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXQJli06ag8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JJx_YWr-R4

You have to hang in there with the first clip. The Stylistics show up eventually.

House Still Rocks!

Excellent season opener. Pretty gritty. Surprised we didn't see the old team, but didn't especially miss them - yet. And they were great characters, so here's hoping they are back in some context.

Bones Still Rules!

It seems like that Judge or whatever she is is now a regular, but the really good news is Zack is back. He's a crucial piece of the ensemble chemistry, and it's good to see that he wasn't written out. Everything else is still rocking. Fun, fun, fun.

Yanks Lose

Up 5-1 Torre replaces Edwar Ramirez who walks people and gives up homers with Brian Bruney who walks people. Really should have clinched tonight.

Still Delightful

I've been taking some V-8 breaks lately, and I really must say, it's a great beverage. They have a few different formulas for it now, like low sodium, or spicey, but it really beats soda for a between meals treat. Give it a try.

ABBA

Were they a Swedish SuperTeam or something else entirely? They were certainly superstars in the `70's and one of them, was a certifiable pop-genius. Really? Yup. With nothing but records to work from, one of the members of ABBA was sharp enough to reverse engineer and then recreate a "Wall of Sound" with a kick. The genius would double Frida and Agnetha's voices, but right behind the beat instead of right on it, coupled with really creative counterpuntal lyric lines from the guys, it was just an amazing harmonic mix. He also dropped in tons of those piano triplets that Elvis Costello loved so. Anyway, do you know who it was? The picture will tell you, if you're sharp: it's the guy in the ascot, of course, Benny Andersson. Here's a look back at the sound;)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjt7eU88xUA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuB8xWeA59I

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hskKIsf-PAg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKDdaVRNGwE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GFpMb0sOaw

BTW, Mama Mia was not a huge hit in the US, but it was #1 for about a decade in Australia. I think it may be their best tune. That or Waterloo.

TV's Best Are Back

Tonight on FOX: Bones and House return and they are back to back again. I really feel like there are the two most compelling, engrossing and entertaining hours on network. Each features great characters we keep learning more about, interesting, high stake cases, and quirky humor. It's a winning recipe in both cases, though I do hope House stays away from bringing in an outsider to challenge House's ways, methods and motivations. It wasn't fun with Chi McBride and it was even less fun with David Morse as the cop who violated all sorts of ethical standards to try to bring down House in a totally implausible scenario. BTW, all of those outsider episodes were really well done and have moments to remember, but PLEASE knock it off already! Anyway, it's great to have these two back and back to back. Thanks FOX.

K-Ville

Just got done watching K-Ville. Fox has been kicking butt in one hours for what seems like a lot of years now, so I had high hopes for this show. And you know what? I kinda like it. So far, there's nothing really New Orleansy about it, like you'd find in, say, a Dave Robicheaux novel, but like House and Bones it seems to have a winning cast and characters that can work long term in a cop show. I think I'm gonna stick with this one for awhile and see where it goes.

The Big Bang Theory

Caught the premiere of The Big Bang Theory on CBS. Won't be catching anymore. The setup is two "nerds" with aggregate IQ's of 360 meet a "beautiful" new neighbor and start whining about her and acting goofy. Couple things: 1) the nerds are named "Sheldon" and "Leonard" in an obvious but ultimately misplaced homage to producer/actor Sheldon Leonard and 2) for guys with really high IQ's they prove to be utterly unresourceful in any situation they come across. Really smart people are good at solving problems. This show so far is a bunch of the same old cliches about gifted people and young pretty actresses for that matter and ultimately shows no grasp of how characters with the IQ's of Sheldon and Leonard would deal with the situations the show creates for them. Ugh.

Journeyman

Journeyman is pretty good. Like Heroes and some other quality hours, it pulls you in and along with a closed mystery for an arc ie: why does he keep going back in time. It's a little like the old Pretender show (or the Fugitive) in that he uses his gift/curse to help people through simple (storytelling wise) beats while he wrestles with the larger question of why this is/has all happened to him. This was an easier pilot than Chuck which needed to set up a ton of stuff to go forward, all Journeyman had to do was present the situation and let the characters and the audience wrestle with it. It will be interesting to see how both Chuck and Journeyman progress from here. Journeyman doesn't seem to have the tone and character problems that Chuck (is Chuck a nerd or is he a guy who goes and sits on the beach for deep thinking?) has, but Chuck could get better (it has no choice), so we'll have to see. I'm gonna try to check out K-Ville when it premieres in 45 minutes.

Heroes is Back

They're back and there's some weird doings with that Molly kid they found last year. Not all of the characters have been seen yet, but we are seeing some of them in their new situations and the new storylines are sort of intriguing with Hiro back in time and meeting his hero. I assume training sequences will follow, or maybe he will end up taking his heroes place. Also some of the old characters like Hiro's dad, Takei, and the evil mother of the Petrelli brothers have received death threats. This should be fun.

Chuck

I'm watching the hotly awaited premiere of Chuck and I am afraid they have already made an incredible mistake, and that is: far as I can tell they killed off the most interesting character on the show, Bryce Larkin, in the first five minutes of the series. What's more, there seems to be a tone issue: McG is directing and he just had a male ninja knock the crap out of Chuck and whoever his annoying friend is, only to have the ninja remove his mask and reveal he is instead the pretty female co-star. It was a hideous an implausible bit of schmuck bait, so we have to assume it was supposed to be ironic or something, instead it took us right out of the pilot. I'll update later with more, but so far no good.

UPDATE: Done watching it, and didn't dig it much. Not only did McG pull the crap with the ninja, and sort of crib a scene from Wasabi, but he or whoever his cohorts were dropped the extacy of gold music from The Good, The Bad and The Ugly over the mundane kiss-off. I'm a little ill. BTW, it was revealed that the pretty spy chick was in love with the late Bryce Larkin, who probably would have been a much better subject than the characters who lived in this one. I'll give it a few more chances, but there are tone problems and those are tough to overcome.

Did Three Dog Night Destroy The Grass Roots?

I mentioned last week that The Grass Roots were put together in the mid-`60's by Dunhill records to put across the music of Sloan&Barri and others. They were tremenously successful at doing that, but then in late `68 or `69 Dunhill signed another band to do exactly the same thing. They were Three Dog Night. Three Dog Night had the gimmick of three lead singers who didn't play instruments on stage. In a sense, they were more like the Supremes than like a standard rock band. Now, at times the Grass Roots had three lead singer types, but those guys always played instruments on stage. Not Three Dog Night; Cory Welles, Chuck Negron, and Danny Hutton would just stand three abreast and croon. In any event there are only so many good songs to go around at one time, and we can guess just by the relative # of hits The Grass Roots had once Three Dog Night was signed, that they were no longer getting dibs on top songs that Dunhill was getting. I was always more of a Grass Roots Fan, but here's what Three Dog Night was doing with some of the best songs Dunhill was getting. BTW, I think only Cory Welles could have cut it with The Roots. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2HH2Py4l_w

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAnVaGv9d2s

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fqumOeUGGc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7ITVD9A3hA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68i4tMmv9F4

Yanks Lose

Yanks didn't really show up today, and a couple of errors put them down early. They are now 2 behind the Red Sox. They can clinch a tie for the wild card if Detroit loses tonight. Go Yank

How Do You Do?

During the early `70's there were suddenly a bunch of Dutch Folks making proper pop. The best of the bunch was Mouth and MacNeal. Not only could they sing, but they were creative and funny, too - like all should be. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPwDqFf4NJI

Badfinger

There is an horrific GMC commercial on TV right now with a hideous version of Badfinger's "Come and Get it" playing over video of a truck. Yikes. Badfinger was a great group during that post Beatles/Beach Boys era of POP. In fact, the Beatles even signed them to Apple and tossed them songs, and worked with them in the studio. Brian Wilson was gonna do that for Redwood (Three Dog Night) but Mike Love put the kibosh on it. Regardless, they made fantastic rock/pop stuff in the early seventies and would probably be more popular today had Apple been more financially stable after the Beatles broke up and had Pete Ham, the group's key man, not hung himself in his garage in 1975 because their manager Stan Polley had embezzled all of their money. Fortunately, we have the music and even some videos. Anyway they sounded like this and not like the GMC commercial.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jWFSHwJnWo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsVPThOPlX4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C53QAuOoSgc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-K3fvaDEd_Y

BTW, that's Badfinger backing up Ringo on his hit single, "It Don't Come Easy."

Giants Rise Up and Win!

Eli engineered 3 second half TD drives and the D featuring great games from Tuck, Kiwi, Pierce, and Madison stone the stinking Skins and held them without a point in the second half. Wow! What a difference. Plax really woke up, too and made several plays including a TD. Shockey had a drop, but also made some plays, as did Ward. Great comeback win and way to do it on the road! Go Giants!

Giants Continue Embarrassing Their Fans

Giants down 2 TD's at the half. Plax once again has multiple drops and Eli threw a late pick that also lead to 3 of the Skins 17 points. The playcalling was crazy early and now the Giants find themselves in another hole. They needed to make a change after last leason, they didn't. Let's see if they can score in the second half.

Moose Wins #250!

And the Yanks moved to within 1 of the Sox. Joba Chamberlain got the 4 out save. Go Yanks!

Soul's Best Lead Singers: Levi Stubbs

Back in the mid-`70's Motown issued a box set called "The Motown Story," which mixed a lot of singles, with the artists' recollections. Levi's were the best! Anyway, at one point, he said, "I'm not much of a singer, I'm more of a stylist if you will," and a spectacular stylist he was. Some critics didn't dig the "histrionics." It's a shame they didn't get what everybody else got, but the Four Tops have always been a little underrated, in truth they were second only to the Temptations as a soul singing group. Check em out. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MX-1IJRHQEw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kl-v5bKyQQ4

Yankees Win!

Melky busted out of his slump and came through with the game winning hit in extras. ARod is also done slumping. Phil Hughes still doesn't look like Phil Hughes, but they won and that's what matters. Go Yanks!

The Tony Burrows Conspiracy

I don't know why Tony is smiling in this picture. Back in the late `60's and early `70's he was done out of pop music superstardom by manipulative record producers. If you are a fan of the post-Beatles/Beach Boys pop that was coming out at that time, you are a fan of Tony Burrows and may not know it. Remember "My Baby Loves Lovin'" by White Plains? That's Tony. Remember "Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes)" by The Edison Lighthouse? Tony. "United We Stand" by the Brotherhood of Man? Tony was the Brotherhood and the Man. "Gimme Dat Ding" by the Pipkins? More Tony. How about "Beach Baby" by The First Class? Tony was the valedictorian of the class. It's unclear why Tony wasn't allowed to have stardom under his name, or why all of those songs weren't credited to just one of the band names, but it's a little disturbing. These were big hits, and the man most responsible for them never got the credit. Here are a selection of videos of the various "bands" that had the hits. Notice how Tony would change his hair to look different in each group. Hilariously, there exists a video of The Edison Lighthouse that features Tony's voice coming out of some other guy's mouth, in a sort of pre-Vanilli bit of bs that was sent to TV stations. Anyway, had he been identified with and toured with all of his songs, he would be famous, rather than obscure, and really, really rich. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-LdEx-eaw0

here's the phony version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7v0--jTpsI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-bPmcqgb3o

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zn97hvjWZA8

UPDATE: I just read an old interview with Tony where he said he would sing lead in the studio, do a TV appearance or two around England, and then not tour, so I guess it was very much his decision not to have 1 big identity in pop. Interestingly, when after 3 of the groups he fronted all appeared on the same broadcast of TopofthePops in England, the BBC banned him for a few years, cause they didn't like the bands all having the same lead singer. How goofy is that?

Soul's Best Lead Singers: David Ruffin, Eddie Kendricks, Paul Williams and Dennis Edwards

These are the 4 reasons why the Temptations were the greatest soul group of the `60's and of all times. David Ruffin (who was replaced by the equally talented Dennis Edwards), Eddie Kendricks, and Paul Williams could all knock a song over the most distant fences. They combined with Melvin Franklin (aka David English) who was a fantastic baritone, and Otis Williams who was bad at singing but good at organizing things, to just dominate the group side of things from "The Way You Do The Things You Do" through "Papa Was A Rolling Stone." Ruffin, Kendricks and Edwards also had some solo success after they initially left the group. Sadly, I can't find a video of any of Paul Williams leads, but his magnificent voice is featured sort of prominently on both "I Can't Get Next To You" and singing the little bridge on "Just My Imagination." Check em out! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfyFI-4ZsaE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJeVEt5L61Y&mode=related&search=

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rv4zBbblUC8

Found a Paul Williams Lead! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lYVrM-zEpU

Rest in Peace, Alice Ghostley

We have lost one of our great character actors. Alice Ghostley, the distaff Paul Lynde (if that's truly appropriate to call anyone), was great in everything. Most of us remember her from Bewitched and Grease, but for a period of time encompassing the `60's, the `70's, `80's, and early `90's, she was literally in EVERYTHING. I don't know if we have any more like her, and that's a shame. Rest in Peace.

Sam and Dave

While I was looking for good videos for the best soul singers feature I found a great Sam and Dave video which I think is from the tour of England and Europe they did with Otis Redding back in `66 or early `67. Anyway, check it out Sam and Dave covering the Simms Twins "Soothe Me." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55yCPWdIz84

And "When Something is Wrong..." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89ddPhDZgUA

Yanks Lose

Yanks came back from 4 down in the ninth only to have Brian Bruney lose it in the 14th, after Mo, Joba and Vizcaino had pitched their hearts out to keep it even. Gotta win the next three.

Ranger Pre Season Begins!

Mark Staal will be playing for Tyutin tonight, and Jagr and Gomez will also miss the game, but we should see the kids like Dawes, Bourrett and Dubinsky get some work. The game goes off at 7pm on MSG and I'll be going back and forth between the game and the Yanks. Should be fun, enjoy!

Soul's Best Lead Singers: Philippe "Soul" Wynne

Behold the sensational Spinners! The Spinners were pretty clearly the BEST soul group of the `70's, though by that time they had already existed for years. They finally hit their peak after leaving Motown, and former lead singer G.C. Cameron (the It's a Shame guy), for Atlantic and new lead singer Philippe Soul Wynne. Like the Temptations at times, the Spinners were able to replace great with great. Philippe's style was cooler than G.C.'s and though he was called "Soul" what he really brought to the party was "Jazz" with his scat-style vocal runs. Sadly, there is not a lot of video available of Philippe and he died, tragically young, a few years after leaving the group to work on other projects. BTW, the dearth of video of some of the singers I had in mind for this feature is really gonna limit it, but here's Philippe and the Spinners doing "Rubberband Man." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0UFHOYFtIo&mode=related&search=

Sonny Geraci

I guess this has always happened more than we thought it was happening when we were listening to our radios: singers were switching bands and bands themselves were switching members at such a rate that the individuals involved could not conceivably hold the same band identity that we held for them on the other end of a radio speaker. In retrospect, we can look back and see that the reason we liked two or more different bands in a given genre was that they were really sort of one band. Good singers have been at a premium (at some point we'll explore the curious case of Tony Burrows), and more often than you might expect you were hearing the same guy or gal under various different band identities, or in the background on some other song you liked. Here's where you can find Sonny Geraci. In the first hit he's a teenager, in the second he's in his 20's. Now he's wearing shades all the time and probably singing with two dozen different bands throughout our country. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxghKjbgA_Y

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAxxXPDyY4I

Enjoy!

Latest Iron Man Trailer

Looks really cool. Robert Downey Jr. is perfect as Tony Stark. Check it out! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Wn4iYoMcAA

Festival Express on IFC

Festival Express a 2003 documentary about a 1970 tour across Canada is on IFC this month. It's very cool and also available on DVD. While the shows were pretty standard fare for the groups involved, the backstage stuff, especially on the train they all road across Canada is really interesting. I'm not a dead head, but it's great seeing the Grateful Dead at what was probably their peak, as well as the Band (who I do love) in such fine form. Janis is great, and though they have some Flying Burrito Brothers in the documentary, they don't have enough. Check it out.

Soul's Best Lead Singers: Ron Banks

Behold the Dramatics! They were really one of the powerhouse soul groups of the `70's. Unfortunately, they didn't have a good record deal and kept moving around. They had gotten together as 13 year olds in the `60's in Detroit. Motown gave them serious consideration but for some crazy ass reason didn't sign them. Nor did Holland-Dozier-Holland's label Invictus. Dumb. Finally they got a deal with Stax/Volt down in Memphis where they belted out In The Rain, Hey You (Get Off of My Mountain) and what you are about to see. They didn't stay at Stax terribly long and were soon as Chess in Chicago the on and on. They were great singers and tremendous entertainers, and they were lead by the smokey, powerful vocals of the great Ron Banks. Here's a video of them in their hey day, the sound is a little rough, but you'll get the picture. Ron's in the red suit. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHros1Oy4Ng&mode=related&search=

An Experiment Called The Grass Roots

The Grass Roots were sort of Dunhill Records answer to the Monkees, though they had no TV show from which to launch the singles. That said, they didn't need one, the singles were ear candy and very welcome on the radio. Interestingly, though famous songwriter/producers PF Sloan and Steve Barri started the group as a vehicle for their songs, they were soon replaceed by better singers, namely Rob Grill (bass), Dennis Provisor (keyboards) and Warren Entner (guitar). These cats could all croon and they took the group, including ace guitartist Creed Bratton (yup, he now plays Creed on The Office), in a pop-soul direction. Using a variety of Dunhill writers, the group produced a ton of listenable and singalongable (if you can sing) hits. Here's once of their last ones. That's Grill singing lead and Provisor singing second lead and apparently having a ball on keyboards. Check `em out! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yE2ZadyjJ_c

Btw, it turns out that Grill is still touring with a relatively new version of the Grass Roots, while Dennis Provisor is stuck touring around Wisconsin with a group called The HITS. I would never go see the Grass Roots without Dennis Provisor, he was sort of an American Winwood. Perhaps I should start a grass roots movement to reunite them.

Back to You

"Back to You" wich premiered tonight on Fox is a Quality Sit-Com. There is something really nice about watching pros like Grammar, Heaton and my old favorite Fred Willard do their thing in a medium they pretty much own. It's a familiar newsroom set-up with a bit of a personal twist between the anchors. I think it will get traction and really grow if it's left alone. It pairs up nicely with "`Til Death" which was the Quality Sit-Com Fox premiered last year. This is a good way for them to try to keep the audience they get from Idol, House and Bones. Nothing wrong with making Quality Shows.

Yanks Move to Within 1!

Andy Pettitte won his 200th game tonight 2-1. Matsui homered and Minky scored the other run on a wild pitch. Andy was strong for 7.2. Joba came in with two out in the 8th to blow away Mora swinging. Joe, as a matter of thoughless reflex, went to Mo in the 9th. Mo worked around a double, a walk, and serious squeezing from the homeplate ump to save it for his buddy Andy. Meanwhile, the Red Sox lost again and so did the Tigers, so the Yanks picked up a game on both. GO YANKS!!!!!!