Anatomy of a KB Tell-Off

Nothing gets my hackles up like bullying. I’ve never stood for it when it happens to me (which usually surprises the bully-er for some reason), and it almost gets me more angry when I see it happening to other people. The same goes for hecklers at Yankee games. Oh, sure, maybe heckling isn’t quite as [...]

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Quote of the Day

“That’s a real G move–as the kids would say–or as Lil Wayne raps, “‘real Gs move in silence like Lasagna.’” – Dexter, on a sudden opportunity in my life.

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Exchange of the Day

After seeing how there’s going to be a temporary roller rink under the High Line: KB: I’d love it if it was disco music. It would be SO New York in the 70s, minus the graffiti and crime. Ken: The good ole days KB: No Justin Bieber Ken: Just the Summer of Sam. KB: YES.

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Separated At Birth

These two have been doing a lot of this wall-leaning-next-to-each-other thing this week, which made me think of this: I swear, The Great Pumpkin had better come and bring some bats and make Swish happy, because these low-scoring affairs are for the birds. And not The Yankee Chicken kind of birds, either.

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It’s Not Rain, But…

…Friday’s game is going to be super-duper fun, y’all: I’m remembering that game where we had to buy blankets back in April to keep from dying a hypothermic death in the Everest-like conditions of the upperdeck. What does one buy at the (over-priced) gift shop to stay cool??

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Favorite Image of the Night

I glance up from outlining a new story to see Thumper run down a foul ball for an out, and end up looking like so: It’s a little Doc-from-the-Love Boat or Steff-from-Pretty in Pink in its smarminess*, like “Why, I catch foul balls while lounging all the time, don’t you? This isn’t uncomfortable in the [...]

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Haven’t Done This in A While: More Fun With Comments

As always, it’s the commenters on an NY Times story that always make me more irate than anything written in the story they’re commenting on. In this case, people reacting to Christian Lopez giving back Jeter’s home run ball, and how he may get taxed for the loot the Yankees gave him in return. First [...]

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The Captain of Magic. And Mashed Potatoes.

It’s a pretty good crowd for a Saturday and the manager gives me a smile. Cuz he knows that it’s me they’ve been coming to see to forget about life for awhile. – Billy Joel, Piano Man It was the first hit of the day that really got me. For some reason, 2,999 was the [...]

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Hey, It’s My Blog – Why Not?

Friends of the C&TB: I am looking for work! If you know of anyone who needs a copy editor/proofreader with 12 years of experience (and 11 of those years in a weekly deadline environment – I’m fast, y’all) or even a writer (yes, I do have some experience in that), be it freelance or full-time, [...]

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Dear Mr. Derek Jeter:

Could you find it in your heart to get those two hits tonight? It’s been quite the vexing two weeks for me – and Yankee magic is always a great tonic for that sort of thing. Also, Tonya, all the way from Iowa, is coming. And also a soap opera villain. And Steph and I [...]

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Quote of the Holiday

“I felt that in my pants.” – Julianna, on a particularly loud kaboom from the Macy’s fireworks. Some photos from the Jersey side, which, sidebar, where the hell were all the people who swamped Hoboken tonight the last two years? It’s usually a little crowded, but today, I swear to god, I saw a bus [...]

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