#greg pallante

[zoeology31]

The Minnesota Twins are an American professional baseball team based in Minneapolis. The Twins compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the American League (AL) Central Division. The team is named after the Twin Cities moniker for the two adjacent cities of Minneapolis and Saint Paul. The franchise was founded in Washington, D.C., in 1901 as the Washington Senators. The team moved to Minnesota and was renamed the Minnesota Twins for the start of the 1961 season. The Twins played in Metropolitan Stadium from 1961 to 1981 and in the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome from 1982 to 2009. The team has played at Target Field since 2010. The franchise won the World Series in 1924 as the Senators, and in 1987 and 1991 as the Twins.

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Okay, I'm starting to panic a little.

We have a much bigger cushion in the standings this season, but 2-8 in our last 10 with key player injuries stretching out toward the horizon is sounding definite 2022 alarm bells. We're now 1-5 on a homestand I felt we had to go 5-4 on. A different thing seems to be going wrong every night, except the unclutch defense and awful situational hitting, which is constant.

The offense made Andre Pallante look like prime Greg Maddux (and then the bullpen made it worse). Julien had the worst possible timing to turn a game-ending double play into second and third, one out. Ober got shelled into an unrecoverable deficit in a game that never should've started on time. Duran has 1d4-1 pitches working on a given night and a bad roll killed any late momentum. The offense couldn't muster up meaningful run support for Festa's career outing (and then the bullpen made it worse).

Players have had good stretches over this run. Larnach's hitting genuinely well lately, and Wallner, Castro, Jeffers, Margot, and others have turned in solid games. Festa and Matthews looked good in their last outings, and Pablo was excellent in the one win. Jax is still Jax, and Sands has been solid for a while now. They just haven't put these components together into complete, winning games.

We need guys back from the IL. The roster we've been running with this month has fight and potential, but it's not enough. Our lone deadline acquisition threw 7 wild pitches in 4 weeks and got promptly DFA'd, and all our offseason reliever acquisitions are either DFA'd or Justin Topa. Ryan is guaranteed done for the season and Paddack is likely playoff-only. The lineup and defense sorely miss Correa and Buxton, or hell, even Lee.

29 games remaining, 4 against Cleveland, 3 against KC. 16 total against teams with losing records. A late series in Boston with potential tiebreaker implications. We're gonna find out a lot of things these next few weeks, one way or another.

[chacha-5]

Prudential Center, Newark, New Jersey, 09.20.2022

📸 by Greg Pallante (insta gregpallante)

[cashinginoncreativitypodcast]

CC228 Best Episodes on the Cashing in on Creativity Podcast in 2020

Best Episodes on the Cashing in on Creativity Podcast in 2020

Bruce recaps his top podcast episodes from 2020 and offers insight into why they were good and the guests that were on. Put yourself through a mini class in this episode by reviewing the chosen podcasts and having a listen. Use the past to propel the future.

Best podcast episodes of 2020:

https://cashinginoncreativitypodcast.com/cc166-5-things-they-didnt-tell-you-about-being-an-entrepreneur

https://cashinginoncreativitypodcast.com/cc170-a-visit-to-nate-and-gregs-world https://cashinginoncreativitypodcast.com/cc172-marketing-your-book-with-juliet-clark

https://cashinginoncreativitypodcast.com/cc179-bass-player-terry-uttley-talks-about-his-40-year-career-on-stage-with-smokie

https://cashinginoncreativitypodcast.com/cc182-a-chat-between-friends-with-syndicated-cartoonist-sandra-bell-lundy

https://cashinginoncreativitypodcast.com/cc196-creating-a-creative-career-with-bonnie-d-graham

https://cashinginoncreativitypodcast.com/cc202-marketing-your-art-business-with-minette-riordan

https://cashinginoncreativitypodcast.com/cc208-a-successful-animation-career-with-thomas-estrada

https://cashinginoncreativitypodcast.com/cc214-beginning-a-singing-career-with-jessie-bower

https://cashinginoncreativitypodcast.com/cc215-focusing-on-a-success-mindset-with-rob-pallante

https://cashinginoncreativitypodcast.com/cc220-building-a-financial-foundation-for-creative-entrepreneurs

CC227 Goal Setting Techniques with Dave Rogers

Check out Bruce’s book How to Start an Artistic Business in 12 Easy Steps which you can download for free at www.cashinginoncreativitypodcast.com

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[adambstingus]

Beach Slang: meet the punk rockers who are ready to ‘bleed for you’

Dont be fooled by the bowties: Phillys finest might just be the most raucous band of the moment if they can hold it together

If James Alex ever gave up the day job, you suspect he could make a decent living as a motivational life coach. Barely a minute of conversation with the Beach Slang singer and guitarist goes by without him offering up a quotable nugget of existential advice: A life without regrets is not a life well lived; Theres an infinite amount of reasons to be happy to exist; Never retire from being alive! Theyre the sort of aphorisms you might see pinned up on an office noticeboard accompanied by dodgy clipart. Alex, though, really means this stuff, and he delivers it with such wide-eyed enthusiasm that, after an hour in his company, youre ready to believe it too.

Sadly for the lifestyle guru industry, Alex has chosen to use his powers of persuasion in the pursuit of punk rock, something he believes in with evangelical ardour. Rocknroll to me is holy. I want to honour it properly, he proclaims. Beach Slang are certainly living up to that aim. On record the Philadelphia band are making some of the most giddy guitar music of the moment, accompanied by live shows that are rarely less than a riot.

Perhaps Alexs zeal for punk rock is down to being afforded a second chance at practising it. He spent his 20s in a sloppy three-chord punk band called Weston but then gave up on the idea of making music for a living, went to art school and found a job in graphic design. The bug never left him, though. He spent his free time working on new music, which hed perform at open mics. When he played his songs to drummer JP Flexner, he in turn recruited bassist Ed McNulty and guitarist Ruben Gallego, and Beach Slang was born.

What followed is indicative of the strange accelerated world of the post-internet music industry. Before theyd ever done any live shows Beach Slang recorded an EP, which received a favourable review on Pitchfork and garnered buzz on social media. By the time the band got around to playing their first gig people at the show were singing every word.

In truth, Beach Slang are the kind of band you want to belt out every word to, preferably while showering yourself with a keg of beer. Their songs conjure up the sort of bratty but romantic visions of the Replacements and, latterly, the Hold Steady and Fucked Up adolescent in their outlook, conjuring up the confusion and excitement of negotiating adult life for the first time. That these songs of teenage abandon are sung by Alex, a man in his 40s, make them more rather than less affecting.

When I write I imagine that Im scoring a John Hughes film, Alex says. When youre hitting those teen years, its the first time youre tasting freedom, finding your voice, shaking things up. That doesnt stop after youre a teenager, but the thrill of that first awakening is what I tap into.

Beach Slang perform live at The First Unitarian Church in Philadelphia, December 2015. Photograph: Greg Pallante/PR

If the songs are stirring on record, live Beach Slang are something else. Alex likens the gigs to a huge drunk house party: crowd members are invited onstage to have a bash on bass, and in turn Alex spends much of the time splayed out on top of the audience. Stage curfews are ignored if not wilfully broken. At one recent gig the band played for 50 minutes and then returned for an encore. It went on for another hour and a half.

For Alex these sets of almost Springsteenian lengths are all about sending paying customers home happy. Its not a hostage situation, he laughs. But what we find is that people dont want to go home. Listen, I get the value for the money you work hard for. You go out and do the thing and you work hard and now youre spending that to come see me do the thing that I love? Im going to bleed for you.

In this Beach Slang take their cue from college rocks original hellraisers The Replacements, who wreaked their own booze-stained trail of havoc across the same venues 30 years before. To me they exemplify rock and roll, Alex explains. It felt a little dangerous, it could be a car crash or it could be brilliant, but it was never predictable.

Beach Slang perform at the Best Kept Secret Festival, Hilvarenbeek, June 2016. Photograph: Danny Payne/REX/Shutterstock

If Beach Slang have inherited the Replacements good points, theres a danger they may have also taken on some of the self-destructive spirit that resulted in that bands sorry demise. In April there were rumours that Beach Slang had split after a disastrous live show in Salt Lake City. Reports of the gig and the footage that emerged proved pretty damning. The bands usual exuberance is almost entirely lacking, with heads pointed at the floor. At the end of the set, as the rest of the band storm offstage, Alex tells the promoter to refund the audience. We were Beach Slang, he says ruefully.

Thankfully, reports of the bands demise were premature. Alex wrote a Facebook post a few days later stating that he was gigantically sorry for the performance, but denying the split rumours. If youre still in, we are, it ended. Looking back, he considers it the most cliched thing weve ever done, the result of frayed emotions at the end of a huge tour. We felt we were the Kinks for 40 minutes and we fought on stage. Since then, Flexner has left the band, but the rest of Beach Slang are powering on. Next month theyll release third album A Loud Bash Of Teenage Feelings, which Alex describes as more powerpoppy, with a Kerouac poet troubadour spirit. It will, of course, be followed by more of those house party gigs the band are known for.

Still, Alex sees the dangers of band life souring. Once it stops being fun, why are you doing it? That goes for anything I do in life. If for a season I really enjoy gardening, Im going to garden the hell out of that thing. But if next spring I go out there and its not doing it for me, Im going to stop gardening. Its the same thing as rocknroll.

For now though Alex is just happy to ride this out and see where it takes him. He switches back to motivational coach mode. I know the science is still out on this, but as far as we know we get one shot at this being alive thing. I just want to make sure that, whenever it is that my lungs start to collapse on me, I dont want to die saying I wish I wouldve… Man, I dont want to say that. Im doing what I can to not say that. If hes still in, we are.

A Loud Bash Of Teenage Feelings is out on 23 Sep; Beach Slang tour the UK from 22 Aug

from All Of Beer http://allofbeer.com/beach-slang-meet-the-punk-rockers-who-are-ready-to-bleed-for-you/ from All of Beer https://allofbeercom.tumblr.com/post/178431485277

[samanthasroberts]

Beach Slang: meet the punk rockers who are ready to ‘bleed for you’

Dont be fooled by the bowties: Phillys finest might just be the most raucous band of the moment if they can hold it together

If James Alex ever gave up the day job, you suspect he could make a decent living as a motivational life coach. Barely a minute of conversation with the Beach Slang singer and guitarist goes by without him offering up a quotable nugget of existential advice: A life without regrets is not a life well lived; Theres an infinite amount of reasons to be happy to exist; Never retire from being alive! Theyre the sort of aphorisms you might see pinned up on an office noticeboard accompanied by dodgy clipart. Alex, though, really means this stuff, and he delivers it with such wide-eyed enthusiasm that, after an hour in his company, youre ready to believe it too.

Sadly for the lifestyle guru industry, Alex has chosen to use his powers of persuasion in the pursuit of punk rock, something he believes in with evangelical ardour. Rocknroll to me is holy. I want to honour it properly, he proclaims. Beach Slang are certainly living up to that aim. On record the Philadelphia band are making some of the most giddy guitar music of the moment, accompanied by live shows that are rarely less than a riot.

Perhaps Alexs zeal for punk rock is down to being afforded a second chance at practising it. He spent his 20s in a sloppy three-chord punk band called Weston but then gave up on the idea of making music for a living, went to art school and found a job in graphic design. The bug never left him, though. He spent his free time working on new music, which hed perform at open mics. When he played his songs to drummer JP Flexner, he in turn recruited bassist Ed McNulty and guitarist Ruben Gallego, and Beach Slang was born.

What followed is indicative of the strange accelerated world of the post-internet music industry. Before theyd ever done any live shows Beach Slang recorded an EP, which received a favourable review on Pitchfork and garnered buzz on social media. By the time the band got around to playing their first gig people at the show were singing every word.

In truth, Beach Slang are the kind of band you want to belt out every word to, preferably while showering yourself with a keg of beer. Their songs conjure up the sort of bratty but romantic visions of the Replacements and, latterly, the Hold Steady and Fucked Up adolescent in their outlook, conjuring up the confusion and excitement of negotiating adult life for the first time. That these songs of teenage abandon are sung by Alex, a man in his 40s, make them more rather than less affecting.

When I write I imagine that Im scoring a John Hughes film, Alex says. When youre hitting those teen years, its the first time youre tasting freedom, finding your voice, shaking things up. That doesnt stop after youre a teenager, but the thrill of that first awakening is what I tap into.

Beach Slang perform live at The First Unitarian Church in Philadelphia, December 2015. Photograph: Greg Pallante/PR

If the songs are stirring on record, live Beach Slang are something else. Alex likens the gigs to a huge drunk house party: crowd members are invited onstage to have a bash on bass, and in turn Alex spends much of the time splayed out on top of the audience. Stage curfews are ignored if not wilfully broken. At one recent gig the band played for 50 minutes and then returned for an encore. It went on for another hour and a half.

For Alex these sets of almost Springsteenian lengths are all about sending paying customers home happy. Its not a hostage situation, he laughs. But what we find is that people dont want to go home. Listen, I get the value for the money you work hard for. You go out and do the thing and you work hard and now youre spending that to come see me do the thing that I love? Im going to bleed for you.

In this Beach Slang take their cue from college rocks original hellraisers The Replacements, who wreaked their own booze-stained trail of havoc across the same venues 30 years before. To me they exemplify rock and roll, Alex explains. It felt a little dangerous, it could be a car crash or it could be brilliant, but it was never predictable.

Beach Slang perform at the Best Kept Secret Festival, Hilvarenbeek, June 2016. Photograph: Danny Payne/REX/Shutterstock

If Beach Slang have inherited the Replacements good points, theres a danger they may have also taken on some of the self-destructive spirit that resulted in that bands sorry demise. In April there were rumours that Beach Slang had split after a disastrous live show in Salt Lake City. Reports of the gig and the footage that emerged proved pretty damning. The bands usual exuberance is almost entirely lacking, with heads pointed at the floor. At the end of the set, as the rest of the band storm offstage, Alex tells the promoter to refund the audience. We were Beach Slang, he says ruefully.

Thankfully, reports of the bands demise were premature. Alex wrote a Facebook post a few days later stating that he was gigantically sorry for the performance, but denying the split rumours. If youre still in, we are, it ended. Looking back, he considers it the most cliched thing weve ever done, the result of frayed emotions at the end of a huge tour. We felt we were the Kinks for 40 minutes and we fought on stage. Since then, Flexner has left the band, but the rest of Beach Slang are powering on. Next month theyll release third album A Loud Bash Of Teenage Feelings, which Alex describes as more powerpoppy, with a Kerouac poet troubadour spirit. It will, of course, be followed by more of those house party gigs the band are known for.

Still, Alex sees the dangers of band life souring. Once it stops being fun, why are you doing it? That goes for anything I do in life. If for a season I really enjoy gardening, Im going to garden the hell out of that thing. But if next spring I go out there and its not doing it for me, Im going to stop gardening. Its the same thing as rocknroll.

For now though Alex is just happy to ride this out and see where it takes him. He switches back to motivational coach mode. I know the science is still out on this, but as far as we know we get one shot at this being alive thing. I just want to make sure that, whenever it is that my lungs start to collapse on me, I dont want to die saying I wish I wouldve… Man, I dont want to say that. Im doing what I can to not say that. If hes still in, we are.

A Loud Bash Of Teenage Feelings is out on 23 Sep; Beach Slang tour the UK from 22 Aug

Source: http://allofbeer.com/beach-slang-meet-the-punk-rockers-who-are-ready-to-bleed-for-you/

from All of Beer https://allofbeer.wordpress.com/2018/09/25/beach-slang-meet-the-punk-rockers-who-are-ready-to-bleed-for-you/

[the-blues-mary]

Da boys!

[chacha-5]

Prudential Center, Newark, New Jersey, 09.20.2022

📸 by Greg Pallante (insta gregpallante)

[thebowerypresents]

Terminal 5 kicked off the New Year with old friends, Gogol Bordello, on Friday night. See the rest of our photos.

Photos courtesy of Greg Pallante | gregpallante.com

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[thebowerypresents]

It was an upbeat, energetic night of music at Terminal 5 with Foals, Cage the Elephant and J. Roddy Walston & the Business. And we've got plenty of photographic evidence to prove it.

Photos courtesy of Greg Pallante | gregpallante.com

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