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Regarding the SOOR (sufferer of Ocular Rectitis="a shitty outlook on everything") who's currently gracing the room with his presence...i feel called to share something (I'm actually recycling from Si1ly's pre-season SABRmetrics thread a few day's back under similar circumstance)
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there was an excellent 4-hour documentary a few years back about Jazz (not the basketball team...but the uniquely-American form of music)...one of the things i remember clearly about it, was
...the musicians (mostly black) touring the country in the 30s and 40s had to deal with considerable bigotry from much less talented, generally unsuccessful non-blacks (aka. "crackers") who just could not "get" what they were doing and were jealous of their success
the great tenor-saxophonist, Lester Brown, developed a signature expression for when he felt trouble was possibly brewing with a local shit-disturbing square...and that the crew should all just politely ignore and get themselves away from the frustrated cracker...
he would say..."I feel a draft"...and everyone understood Lester's meaning...and where (ie. who) it came from...and everyone politely backed off all interactions with the a-hole, and continued interacting to those many blacks and non-blacks who were "hip" to the music and the underlying philosophy and attitudes behind it...
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This has been and is a real hip thread...and it must continue...but i must observe..."I feel a draft"
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there was an excellent 4-hour documentary a few years back about Jazz (not the basketball team...but the uniquely-American form of music)...one of the things i remember clearly about it, was
...the musicians (mostly black) touring the country in the 30s and 40s had to deal with considerable bigotry from much less talented, generally unsuccessful non-blacks (aka. "crackers") who just could not "get" what they were doing and were jealous of their success
the great tenor-saxophonist, Lester Brown, developed a signature expression for when he felt trouble was possibly brewing with a local shit-disturbing square...and that the crew should all just politely ignore and get themselves away from the frustrated cracker...
he would say..."I feel a draft"...and everyone understood Lester's meaning...and where (ie. who) it came from...and everyone politely backed off all interactions with the a-hole, and continued interacting to those many blacks and non-blacks who were "hip" to the music and the underlying philosophy and attitudes behind it...
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This has been and is a real hip thread...and it must continue...but i must observe..."I feel a draft"
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That. Was. Awesome. 
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