Second fiddle
 Washburn is one of the oldest guitar makers in America, but the Fender Strat's, Gibson Les Paul 's, and Rickenbacker's are build elsewhere. Apparently, the M's got tired of playing second fiddle and air guitar in the free agent market and got their own real one, a Washburn model named "Jarrod". The price is steep and they intend to play with it for 4 years. It maybe a solid guitar with a great, soft sound but it surely isn't the Riffmaster we all hoped for. Joe Satriani would have spent the money elsewhere. I don't know if Washburn owns a Washburn or if he knows how to play at all. He is a good pitcher, with the 4th best ERA in the AL last year. He is very familiar with the AL West and Safeco. But he won more than 11 games only once in his career which got him a ring. He is not the ace everyone was hoping for. He is not the second part of the 1-2 punch (with Felix) at the top of our rotation. Steve Kelly from the Times puts him nicely in perspective (title link). I believe it takes more than a Washburn to get back near the top of the Billboard charts, not to mention a number one hit. |
posted by Inka-Wolfy @ 12/17/2005 10:05:00 AM
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Heh. I bought a Washburn fretless bass guitar precisely because it was cheap. Interestingly enough, when I took my wife in to get her permission, I played a 5-string Yamaha that I liked much better (and was more expensive) first, and then played the Washburn for her. I had the money to buy either of them, but for some reason my wife liked the sound out of the fretless Washburn better (and was sold when I showed her the price tag). So, she approved of me buying the Washburn.
I'm not sure what I mean by this, but my wife does have a pretty fine-tuned musical ear. Now if Bavasi would only go out and get Manny for her :-)
hah, one more guitar lover at last. :-)
well, getting Manny would be like getting SRV's "Number One" or Clapton's Gibson 335. And I don't mean replicas.
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