The Final Score

Tyler Kepner, NY Times Yankees beat writer and loyal TFS reader, gave me a CD on Saturday in Houston. Not just any CD.

Seems Tyler's two brothers (Tim and Dave) are in a band called "Full Service" out of Austin, Texas, and the band played at Minute Maid Park before Saturday's Yankees-Astros game.

I didn't really listen to them on Saturday because I was busy trying to ferret out some piece of information about the Yankees or eating the delicous pregame spread or something, and I didn't want to plug the band here until I listened to the CD. I can't have the awesome power of TFS used for evil purposes no matter how much I like Tyler. What if Best picks up the plug and then his 14 million blog readers per day crash the Full Service web site? I didn't want to be responsible for that.

So I listened to the CD today in the car. It's rockin'. So now I feel like I can honestly tell you to check out Full Service's Web site and get the 411 on their shows and stuff.

They will be playing in Manhattan's Sullivan Hall on July 12 and at KeySpan Park in Brooklyn on July 16 -- the day after the All-Star Game.