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Sunday, April 21, 2013

NYT: Mike Mills: A Rock Star of Fantasy Sports

(www.nytimes.com)

posted on April 21, 2013 at 10:09 AM by Repoz to music | 9 comment(s)

I once named one of my jerkball teams “Monty Stratton Got A Raw Deal”. #stand

Mike Mills rose from a chair and strolled out to his car, but not to fetch a musical instrument to perform songs from the catalog of R.E.M., his seminal alternative-rock band. A fantasy draft of Masters golfers, involving Mills and a dozen others at a house not far from Augusta National Golf Club, had just concluded. And with baseball games in the East winding down, Mills was retrieving a laptop to take stock of his ...

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1. The Mighty Quintana posted on September 05, 2012 at 05:16 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

Ahh, the irony of over-the-hill rockers telling people they should retire!

2. charityslave is thinking about baseball posted on September 05, 2012 at 05:31 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

Until they get Malkmus' opinion, we don't care.

3. Guapo posted on September 05, 2012 at 05:49 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

I’d let him in the Hall if he promised to exile himself to Cabo or Margaritaville or somewhere like that.

How does Jimmy Buffett feel about this?

4. The Id of SugarBear Blanks

posted on September 05, 2012 at 05:51 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

I’d let him in the Hall if he promised to exile himself to Cabo or Margaritaville or somewhere like that.

How about 157 Riverside Avenue?

5. Downtown Bookie

posted on September 05, 2012 at 06:00 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

I’m in my 40s, and I injure myself around the house weekly. Dumb ####, like peeling a banana.

I used to be in my 40s, in days now gone; and I have no idea how you can possibly injure yourself peeling a banana.

DB

6. Gonfalon Bubble posted on September 05, 2012 at 06:07 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

I have no idea how you can possibly injure yourself peeling a banana.

Oh, it can (or technically, will) be done.

7. jobu posted on September 05, 2012 at 06:10 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

Without knowing Roger Clemens personally, my guess is that Steve Earle is correct.

8. frannyzoo posted on September 05, 2012 at 06:20 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

In that very possibly misinformed way we fans have of "knowing" celebrities, I can state that Mr. Earle is very possibly calling the kettle here.

9. dirk

posted on September 05, 2012 at 06:43 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

you said it franny. love a bunch of his work, but what an insufferable dbag.

10. dirk

posted on September 05, 2012 at 07:09 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

on second thought, maybe he was having a bad day. don't want to judge.

11. Fenderbelly is a leaf on the wind posted on September 05, 2012 at 08:14 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

Until they get Malkmus' opinion, we don't care.

It's probably this.

12. PreservedFish posted on September 05, 2012 at 08:20 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

Someone told me the latest Stephen Malkmus album is terrific. True or false?

13. Everybody Loves Tyrus Raymond posted on September 05, 2012 at 08:36 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

Funny how everyone just assumes he's not on the juice.

14. asinwreck posted on September 05, 2012 at 08:48 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

He’s a distraction from what is otherwise a pretty unique season.

That's one way to describe what the 2012 Houston Astros have done.

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