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...past five years, a hierarchy has developed in baseball. Within the majors, there are really three classes: Single A teams, Triple A teams and the parent squads. Kansas City, Montreal and Tampa Bay are Single A clubs. Oakland, Cincinnati, the White Sox, Toronto and Minnesota are AAA teams. Anyone with a payroll of over 60 million dollars is a parent organization...
...parent clubs, meanwhile, only trade prospects for players. Sometimes the prospects turn out to be good players on these “minor league” teams. Tony Armas Jr. is a quality pitcher for Montreal. But once Armas’ contract is up, you know he will jump at the chance of actually playing for a “real” major league team...
...just as easily belong in an adult collection. One of the biggest names in children's literature, Maurice Sendak, contributes "Cereal Baby Keller," which begins, "Josh and Irene Keller, after horrendous effort produced, finally, a baby Keller." After this nod to reproduction issues the story turns into a new-parent anxiety metaphor. But for kids it's about a big baby who eats everything, including his folks...
Compounding such strains are pressures that discourage couples from expressing how they feel. "They're afraid to say the parent is the source of stress in a marriage," says Pauline Boss, a family psychologist at the University of Minnesota, "because their culture has taught them it's their duty to take care of family." Doris Roberts agrees: "You feel selfish saying 'I'd like to be out playing golf today.' You think, Good children do this...
...genesis for this whole record [the critically acclaimed Last Man on Earth]--was maybe the most profound event of my life. For the artwork for this album cover, we at first were thinking of an image of a kid in a department store who had lost a parent--to get at this sense not just of overpowering sadness and depression I'd been feeling but also panic, a feeling of being totally lost. I didn't want to do anything. I didn't write songs, didn't even feel like playing. I'd been living in London...