I like you're 'extra innings game that's gone too long' analogy, it fitting. And correct. However I think Tejas is right, we've hear 10? of the songs already. I will feel a similar restrained joy when I buy the album. Glad I finally got it, but I don't think I'll have the crazed or surreal feeling I would have thought I'd have had.

Very cute. Any word on his name?

Nahh the way he said it it didn't seem like hearsay. It seemed like he was reading something.

I heard it!!!!  Yeah!!!

They announced it on the popular moning show here & went to commercial, they came back, intro'd it and off it went. It has the same talking beginning, then the acoustic plucking(?) then bangs out the rock. Slight difference is there are drum hits which sound like gunshots during the first of those 3 intro chords.. Other than that it sounds VERY similar. Myb some of you will pick up nuances but there really is very little difference. Myb an extra (higher pitched) vocal track underneath, but myb it was on the original. Anyway, afterwards the host just says "Wow, that was different than I thought" and one of the sidekicks said "Yeah, that was good."

I had pulled up to work & was already late so I couldn't listen longer, but they were going to take callers to get their reactions, but they had to do traffic, news etc.. I had to go.