Comments on: Hank Aaron receives an honorary degree from Princeton

By: drmonkeyarmy

drmonkeyarmy — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 11:49:27 +0000

Sorry…..I just hate that song. The rest of the album is so beautifully worded and supremely awesome, it just seems out of place to me.

By: danberman4

danberman4 — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 03:06:25 +0000

Great for Aaron. I was lucky enough to see him play for the Braves and Brewers.

http://pinetarandbrickbats.blogspot.com/2011/05/baseballs-unbreakable-records.html

By: fquaye149

fquaye149 — Tue, 31 May 2011 23:31:53 +0000

Why all the hating on “…Jack of Hearts”?

By: Pierre Cruzatte

Pierre Cruzatte — Tue, 31 May 2011 20:31:58 +0000

The Indians stopped winning, and suddenly Jones Day was all, “we’re more of a DC firm these days, tell you the truth.”

Uh-huh.

(“One Firm Worldwide” is all well and good, but they operate under an Ohio partnership agreement.)

By: Craig Calcaterra

Craig Calcaterra — Tue, 31 May 2011 20:05:26 +0000

Nope. Rawson already had a bachelor’s from Princeton, so he probably had an in.

And besides, those stuck up Jones Day people cringe if you suggest they are a “Cleveland firm.” Even the ones in the Cleveland office, even though until about 10 or 15 years ago they were without questions a “Cleveland firm.”

By: Pierre Cruzatte

Pierre Cruzatte — Tue, 31 May 2011 20:01:18 +0000

The MSNBC article says they also gave a degree to Bob Rawson, who was Partner-in-Charge of a certain firm’s Cleveland office for some time.

Coulda been you, Calcaterra. Coulda been you.

By: Professor Longnose

Professor Longnose — Tue, 31 May 2011 19:59:10 +0000

Craig, you’ve been beaten again. Here’s a baseball blog post from last year that lists both Dylan and Geddy Lee as baseball fans: http://www.deepleagues.com/?p=2044

By: Professor Longnose

Professor Longnose — Tue, 31 May 2011 19:52:01 +0000

I love Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts.

By: aceshigh11

aceshigh11 — Tue, 31 May 2011 19:29:22 +0000

Living on a lighted stage approaches the unreal…

By: Jonny 5

Jonny 5 — Tue, 31 May 2011 19:19:50 +0000

The Beetles can do wrong when it comes to entertaining. Until Yoko Ono anyway…

By: drmonkeyarmy

drmonkeyarmy — Tue, 31 May 2011 19:14:56 +0000

I always liked the Beatles movies though. Those lads had good senses of humor.

By: drmonkeyarmy

drmonkeyarmy — Tue, 31 May 2011 19:13:12 +0000

I’m pretty sure if you play Desolation Row backward it says that advanced baseball statistics are the work of the devil.

By: Jonny 5

Jonny 5 — Tue, 31 May 2011 19:06:15 +0000

I’m kinda glad about that. “The song remains the same” was hard enough to watch. It was cool. “The wall”. Now that was something for the ages….

By: Jonny 5

Jonny 5 — Tue, 31 May 2011 18:58:19 +0000

Dylan the writer was genius. Honorary degrees? Not a fan.

By: rebarratige

rebarratige — Tue, 31 May 2011 18:57:57 +0000

Craig, how in the world are we supposed to turn this post into an argument about sabermetrics?

By: drmonkeyarmy

drmonkeyarmy — Tue, 31 May 2011 18:41:10 +0000

Thank god for that. Of all the Dylan songs to turn into a movie, why that one? Probably some ego trip where he thought he could turn his worst song into a movie.

By: Craig Calcaterra

Craig Calcaterra — Tue, 31 May 2011 18:38:28 +0000

Fact: Dylan spent a few years in on-and-off conversations with people in Hollywood about possibly making Jack-of-Hearts into a movie. Never went anywhere.

By: drmonkeyarmy

drmonkeyarmy — Tue, 31 May 2011 18:36:24 +0000

Bob was and still is awesome. “Blood on the Tracks” is the greatest album of all time, in my opinion. Still trying to figure out how “Jack of Hearts” made the final cut, but it is the only throw away song on the album. Not relevant at all to the topic, but it needed to be said.