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“I wrote 63 songs this year. They’re all about Jeter.” Just kidding. The game we love, the players we hate, and more.

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Stories, True and Otherwise

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The Vine

The Tomato Nation advice column addresses your questions on etiquette, grammar, romance, and pet misbehavior. Ask The Readers about books or fashion today!

Department Of Famous Boyfriends: Walter Kirn
July 6, 2008 · 31 Comments
Department Of Famous Boyfriends: Walter Kirn

Walter Kirn’s zero-Fahrenheit appraisal of James Frey’s new novel, Bright Shiny Morning, is a reviewing masterpiece, opening with a sharp observation about the L.A.-novel genre and building through concisely dismissive observations about Frey’s prose to …

Support Local Business: July 3, 2008
July 3, 2008 · 4 Comments
Support Local Business: July 3, 2008

Last weekend’s heavy rains caused a lot of flooding here at the bottom of the Slope, and the Root Hill Café got hit with heavy inventory losses.The RHC is a nice little place that makes …

The Chris Farley Show
July 3, 2008 · 9 Comments
<I>The Chris Farley Show</I>

Reading The Chris Farley Show immediately after Wired is perhaps not the best idea if the goal is to lighten one’s mood, but I figured, what the hell — I have them both in the …

Wired
July 2, 2008 · 34 Comments
<I>Wired</I>

I have always had trouble…accessing John Belushi, I guess is the right term.The guy is just not funny to me.A lot of early/”classic” SNL is not funny to me, which stems partly from hearing the …

The Vine: July 2, 2008
July 2, 2008 · 60 Comments

Hey Sars,
I met a guy a few months ago and we fell hard and fast for one another.Things have been terrific except for one thing.He doesn’t think I’m sexy.He loves me, thinks I’m attractive, smart, …

Just curious
July 1, 2008 · 112 Comments

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Minding Baseball’s Business
June 30, 2008 · 41 Comments
Minding Baseball’s Business

A couple weeks ago, Maury Brown at Biz Of Baseball posted “a mosaic” he’d put together — “a multi-faceted, exceptionally broad view of Major League Baseball in 2008.”The site asked various figures who follow the …

The Vine: June 27, 2008
June 27, 2008 · 28 Comments

Hey Sars,
I’m hoping this would be a good and hopefully fun challenge for your Vine readers.
I’ve got some old reel-to-reels that I’m converting to digital before they disintegrate. They’re recordings of an old radio show …

The Vine: June 25, 2008
June 25, 2008 · 32 Comments

Dear Sars,
I’m hoping you can give me a bit of advice regarding a difficult situation at work. I was placed in my current job through a temp agency last summer, and it has mostly worked …

Notes from the Western Slope
June 24, 2008 · 13 Comments
Notes from the Western Slope

Congratulations on buying $8000 worth of fireworks, guy who lives one block from me, but do you think maybe you want to save a few of them for the actual Fourth Of July, instead of …