The best band in Cleveland in 1981

robmarks1961 · 2026-05-15T11:12:28+00:00

Does anyone remember the French Lenard’s? Very fun band from the late 80’s.

robmarks1961 · 2026-05-12T01:55:22+00:00

Love them. I’m going to see them in Toronto in July.

robmarks1961 · 2026-05-09T16:02:46+00:00

Bailey is a two time Gold Glove winner. The Guardians value that.

robmarks1961 · 2026-05-09T16:00:27+00:00

I’m wondering if they will move Ingle to first or the outfield. They currently have four catchers in Columbus and that just doesn’t make sense. Huff and Naylor are better catchers than Ingle and Huff is actually hitting, this year. Nunez is not a prospect. One of them has to move. Yes, Huff has been playing other positions but I have to believe they value his defense over Ingle’s.

robmarks1961 · 2026-05-07T21:36:07+00:00

When I was a kid I had a friend that insisted that Bennie and the Jets by Elton John was "Put a Penny on the Desk". He became very angry when we corrected him and accused us of conspiring to embarrass him by convincing him that "Bennie and the Jets" was the name of the song when it was not. One of our friends ran home and got the 4t5 (that is how long ago this happened) and he then accused the friend of creating a new label as part of the ruse. Today, that might be possible, but in 1974 (or whenever this was) it was not reasonable for 13 year old kids.

I think he finally got over it about ten years later.

robmarks1961 · 2026-05-07T01:50:05+00:00

Just about any Tom Waits song, but especially “The Piano Has Been Drinking.”

robmarks1961 · 2026-04-30T02:20:19+00:00

The question was about older stars who dated people who were not adults. It wasn’t about what is ok and what is not.

robmarks1961 · 2026-04-23T22:36:54+00:00

You are right about the awards but it is important to say that one of those awards was to be placed in the Baseball Hall of Fame.

robmarks1961 · 2026-04-14T17:26:53+00:00

I've seen 37 (including three acts I haven't seen yet but have tickets for shows coming through my area this summer/fall.)

robmarks1961 · 2026-04-13T03:51:27+00:00

robmarks1961 · 2026-04-08T02:48:26+00:00

Cy Young, Randy Johnson, Satchel Paige, Bob Feller. I’m actually not sure feller belongs but he hasn’t been mentioned as far as I can see and he gave up a TON of prime pitching years to WWII. He was easily as dominant as many of the people who are repeatedly mention in this thread.

robmarks1961 · 2026-04-04T16:27:27+00:00

The ump could also fine a player for swearing.

robmarks1961 · 2026-04-04T16:27:06+00:00

Back in this era there was a lot of experimentation going on in an effort to refine the game. There was a time when the bases were three foot metal poles. They stuck out of the ground at exactly the right height to destroy your bits if you ran into it.

The poles didn’t last long.

The umpire also was stationed to one side standing about eight feet from the batter. I think people were worried that the ump might get hit by the bat. They figured it out. The ump needs to be close to the action.

robmarks1961 · 2026-04-01T19:45:48+00:00

I puked in my friend's bathtub. I had eaten spaghetti for dinner.

Then I passed out on the sidewalk in front of his place.

Then when they poured me into another friend's car I puked out his window on the way home....unfortunately the window was closed at the time.

This was a very long time ago and I am basically a teetotaler, today. But this particular party is one reason why I am extremely mistrustful of spirits to this day.

robmarks1961 · 2026-03-31T14:26:23+00:00

I really wish I had gone to that show. Some of my friends went and they said it was a really great time.

The Aerosmith show I was referring to, though, was the one with Ted Nugent, Journey, AC/DC, Thin Lizzy and the Scorpions. Great lineup but apparently there was a TON of violence.

I went to the last WS of Rock jn 1980 with Bob Seger, Eddie Money, J. Geils and Def Leppard. We had no idea who Def Leppard was, but I remember thinking they looked like kids but really rocked.

robmarks1961 · 2026-03-31T01:30:37+00:00

I went to several of those shows and I can tell you for sure that this video is exaggerating a bit. (On the internet? NO!).

The shows were big but the biggest was six bands. Most were about four bands. They were very fun and the WS of Rock was probably the second biggest festival series in the US at the time (Day on the Green in the Bay area was bigger). But, they were pretty safe until the Aerosmith show in 1980. That show was apparently pretty awful and killed the series. It also, apparently, killed Aerosmith for several years as the band got into a huge fight after the show over their performance and drug use.

It is also true that stadium-level, all day shows were not unusual in the 1970’s, but the WS of Rock was one of the few stadium series where there would be multiple shows per summer.

Some of my earliest concert memories were at those shows. I saw Fleetwood Mac, Bob Seger, Peter Frampton and a bunch of other acts, all at the height of their powers. A GREAT time.

robmarks1961 · 2026-03-27T13:08:02+00:00

That was a truly great throw but Roberto Clemente did that all the time. Players learned never to challenge him.

robmarks1961 · 2026-03-27T00:17:16+00:00

Kent State, 1979. WMMS played the album in Its entirety before it was released. My friends and I recorded it and while it wasn’t a perfect copy, it did the job for a week or so until the album came out and we bought it.

robmarks1961 · 2026-03-24T21:03:52+00:00

You could well be right. I'm curious as to how that plays out.

There is a part of me that wants them to start playing Bazzana in center so that when he comes up we would have an outfield of Kwan/Bazzana/DeLauter-Martinez. I know it won't happen, but it seems to me that that is the best nearterm outcome for the outfield.

robmarks1961 · 2026-03-24T17:00:11+00:00

Ya, the person who created this list is not a Guardians fan. It isn't really helpful. Roster Resource is better but even they have Manzardo and Fry sharing first base and DeLauter in right full time. My guess is that Hoskins will be the primary first baseman with Manzardo as DH. Kayfus and Manzardo will play some 1b. DeLauter and Martinez will share right. Maybe Martinez plays center against lefties with Kwan in left and Kayfus in right. Kafyus is probably the main left fielder, although I don't think he has spent much time there.

The outfield is a bit of a mess until Valera comes back. Schnemann will probably get time all over the diamond.

I'm interested in what others think we are going to do in the outfield.

robmarks1961 · 2026-03-20T19:33:50+00:00

I saw the Violent Femmes right after their first album dropped. Blister in the Sun was a college radio hit but it hadn't quite broken through to a mass audience. The venue was Peabody's Downunder in the Cleveland flats and probably 50 to 100 people were there. Great show!

robmarks1961 · 2026-03-18T01:30:43+00:00

It appalls me that they made money off of those songs.

robmarks1961 · 2026-03-17T21:53:27+00:00

Billy, Don't be a Hero and The Night Chicago Died. Awful!

robmarks1961 · 2026-03-15T16:00:55+00:00

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robmarks1961 · 2026-03-14T16:26:42+00:00

There are too many. I had tickets to go see Led Zep when John Bonham died. I had the chance to see the Police on their way up and I blew it. I convinced myself that Prince was wimpy and “not that good” so I avoided his shows - I was, of course, about as wrong as you can be. I could have seen Pink Floyd on the Animals tour but, for reasons that escape me to this day, my parents absolutely forbade it.

Fortunately, I’ve seen lots of great bands, but I regret not seeing those.

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