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Rec/Link Round-Up
September 26, 2007 – 2:03 PM | 6 Comments

Premiere-week hell continues over at TWoP, but we’ve got a boatload of new content going up, including my latest Brothers & Sisters Classic; a weecap of the Chuck pilot, which I really liked a lot …

From the TN mailbag
September 21, 2007 – 8:52 AM | 11 Comments
From the TN mailbag

“OMAR! I CAN STILL GET THE SLIDER OVER, OMAR! CALL ME, DUDER! OMAR, HI!”

Subject line: “The Mets:”
Body of email: “…what the hell?”

I don’t know, dude! I’ll cop to finding this death swoon pretty funny for …

The Vine: September 18, 2007
September 18, 2007 – 7:11 PM | 42 Comments
The Vine: September 18, 2007

“Will It Float?”

Sars,
Oh goddess of all things baseball, can you explain this to me at all? I see this “magic number” posted around Chicago (Cubs fans — can’t live with ’em…) but I don’t understand …

Car fire at 30 Rock
September 18, 2007 – 2:35 PM | 12 Comments

I can’t believe how much smoke one taxi creates when it catches on fire — these “inferno” headlines aren’t kidding, when we went down to the street the smoke was almost too thick to see …

“Posada, that bastard”
August 16, 2007 – 9:15 AM | 11 Comments

I’d be laughing harder if we hadn’t dropped two straight.

“Holy cow!”, R.I.P.
August 14, 2007 – 9:12 PM | 15 Comments

So long, Scooter.
Yogi Berra came up to the YES Network booth to reminisce a bit about Rizzuto with Michael Kay and Ken Singleton, which produced a couple of nice bits, like Yogi claiming that Rizzuto …

Still somewhat vacated
July 31, 2007 – 9:09 AM | 16 Comments

I would have updated more extensively yesterday, but Wing and I finally got a TV in our office and the time I’d planned to spend on an entry was devoted instead to staring at a …

…And so, I vacate
July 21, 2007 – 8:42 AM | No Comment

I’ll be on vacation for the next week; in the meantime, take a spin through the archives — or, since Bonds’s record-breaker seems imminent, read Tommy Craggs’s take on Bonds and Aaron.
And if you’re neither …

Crying wolf
July 17, 2007 – 1:32 PM | 25 Comments

Bronx Banter’s Will Weiss is my favorite of the columnists over there; today, he takes on The Sheffield Thing. It’s a good piece, but I take some issue with one of his main points, namely …

The Scout
July 2, 2007 – 11:21 AM | 8 Comments

I’d read a number of reviews prior to seeing this movie which suggested that it suffers from a split personality — the first half is a genial, Albert-Brooks-flavored baseball movie, while the second half is …