Final: Guardians 6, Cubs 5

Cleveland splits the twin bill and is now 6-4 to open the season, with two series wins and one tie against three postseason hopefuls. Not too shabby.

Good, because I was just about to make a phone call

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www.mlb.com/news/austin-... 🦔🦔🦔 Amazing game tonight, no notes.

I'm so glad you like it then. I don't know what it was for me, it just felt like too much of a tempo change or something like that at the time. It's been years though so who knows!

(So far as I am aware. Can only watch so many Dracula movies)

Yeah, by all means enjoy! You'll also see how weird it is that as famous as the story is, no adaptation has ever done the count the way he looks in the book.

I loved the whole first half, but once it gets to the letters it really dropped off for me.

If they can drop J Rod to make room for Hoskins, they should have been able to move Festa over for Allard. I'm so mad about how they've treated Kolby despite him giving us a career year last year.

Is it just me, or does D'Onofrio in the new Daredevil thing look like Cleveland's own kingpin Tim Misny?

Amazing photo, but a whole lotta nope for me

I may or may not have bought a Pasquantino jersey following Italy's stellar WBC game today. I feel like even though I'm a Cleveland lifer and my grandpa was a Yankees guy from upstate NY, the two of us would be rooting for this fantastic team together, if he could've been around for these games.

"Beezus Fuffoon?"

They don't! That was perhaps the most predictable part of the whole game.

Not ashamed to admit that I began this series cheering for the US, but I'm now firmly rooting for Italy. It's hard not to appreciate the pageantry of a pitcher with mostly MiLB experience closing a game against Judge like that. Absolutely wild, underdog stories are what makes me love baseball most.

Pretty sure Conan the Barbarian was shot that way. It's a cool format.

I still love this mix to death dude, if it weren't a shared piece I would have put it on an album, easily.

I love the dude but shouldn't we also just admit that Nolan Jones is a prospect too?

Evenson is always referring back to himself, sometimes from a different side of the same conversation, sometimes through that conversation happening between totally different people. It's like a dense Venn overlapping with a dozen others, and I've always felt it makes his work so much richer.

A lot of people are going to be listening to "Trilogie" around the world today. We lost our queen. For me, the way I experience sound at the deepest fundamental level can be divided into "Before I heard Eliane Radigue" and after.

Anyway something must be working out right, because it's now that "good problem" of not wanting to turn the machines off after a whole day of recording and testing because every new idea becomes something really good that tickles the ears and gives me more ideas. This is the best when it happens.

There's a pessimism in me as well, something grumbling out "You try making two-thousand records in uncomfortable spaces and see how you like it!" It makes me curious about what other artists that I admire were thinking when they set up their own creative spaces - is this just how it always is?

Of course, this could also just be the guy who is turning 43 talking, wanting things to be "just so" and obsessing over what is within arm's reach at any given angle in my chair. I can't find any good reasons to not see it this way, though, as pedantic as it all really is. Hm.

This was all meant to happen after the bunker-like windowless and freezing basement back in Dayton. I made a lot of music there but it became unnecessarily uncomfortable, and today I have resolved that the studio must be comfortable above all else, even at the cost of certain functionality.

The spatial aspects of it are new as well, with everything sorta built up around me in a big U shape. Keyboards, then mixer/racks, then desktop units and PC, then modular cases, then another rack shelf at the end. Once everything has a set place, I can get all the cables nice and neat too.

Having all my equipment arranged and turned on might seem like a given, but in this new studio space everything is novel and deserves consideration for placement, since this is probably the first time I've tried to set up a permanent workflow that isn't a constantly rotating list of machines.

Warm enough day in the basement to finally rig up the Juno, Poly 800 and TX81Z with the big Peavey board and MIDI arranged via the Kawai. It's grand to be able to integrate these old machines with my modular system, and to be able to sequence on them via several different key beds too.

I think it's a good idea, esp if it takes some of the heavy lifting off of CDL and George, who are both apparently made of glass

Seconded on both points ☕

José Ramírez stands near third base, looks towards the camera and holds up two fingers with his right hand. He wears sunglasses, a blue Guardians pullover and a red Guardians cap.

Hey J-Ram? How many more days until the first @CleGuardians #SpringTraining game?