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recessionomics
There Once Was a Man From Nantucket. He Died Broke.
The Way We Live Now: Sucked of our nectar. How far does this hellacious recession reach? All the way into Nantucket, hallowed home of corporate titans. Jack Welch now supports himself by re-selling home run balls he caught, fact. More »
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Comment by eXXX: There's also the recent disembodied hand infestation. 3 Responses | Other threads
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tribune
Unlovable Loser Sells Lovable Losers
The bankrupt Tribune Co. has finally reached a deal to sell the Chicago Cubs, reportedly for close to $900 million. Only, ah, $11 billion more until Sam Zell has that debt knocked out! [Pic: AP]
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Comment by shostakobitch: Willie Nelson had a shitload of debt a while ago and he figured it out, so why not look exactly... 1 Responses | Other threads
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inside baseball
Sony Knew What Soderbergh Was Up to on Moneyball Script
Yesterday we posted Sony's take on why Moneyball, the Soderbergh/Pitt film based on Michael Lewis' book, died five days before shooting was to start. Now someone close to the project has provided us with a different version of events.
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fandom
Barack Bobbleheads Don't Go Over Well in Brooklyn
Last night the Brooklyn Cyclones, a minor league affiliate of the New York Mets, transformed into the "Baracklyn Cyclones" to honor Barack Obama in "a night of patriotic partying at the ballpark." Some Cyclone fans were not pleased. More »
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Comment by Ohcaptainmycaptain: Obama-worship is creepy. Can't we limit it to the media? 3 Responses | Other threads
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shutdown
Brad Pitt's Steven Soderbergh-Directed Adaptation Of 'Moneyball' Strikes Out
Columbia Pictures was aghast when the latest script for the adaptation of Michael Lewis' Moneyball arrived. So much so that they've put the project in turnaround. Oh, and: production was supposed to start next week. More » -
Sulzbergheir
Young Sulzberger At The Bat
The outlook wasn't brilliant for Young Sulzberger that day; His stories had been boring, tho' his wit's on full display; But then an editor cried out, "AG! Come earn your pay!"; "Your presence is required at the baseball game—hey hey!" More »
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Comment by Botswana Meat Commission FC: You know how I know you're gay? You're a grown man autograph hunter. 1 Responses | Other threads
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Media Crack
Let Us Count The Ways That Print Is Dead
In your suddenly Tuesday media column: Conde Nast moves its B-team, Larry Hackett despises humanity, and print is dead, along with baseball and apple pie and puppies: More »
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Comment by unclevanya: You will take baseball from me when you pry it from my cold, dead hands. This I vow to my future... 1 Responses | Other threads
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feuds
Selena Roberts vs. The New York Times: Behind the Correction
Media minutiae feud alert! The combatants: Selena Roberts, former star NYT sports reporter now at Sports Illustrated; and her former paper. Did the Times try, and fail, to take her down, journalistically? Details! [UPDATED]: More » -
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recessionomics
Things To Give Up On
The Way We Live Now: In rubble, soaked in our own urine. Americans are giving up on baseball. Iraqis are giving up on jobs. And entire cities are giving up on existence and bulldozing themselves. More »
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Comment by crumb-bun: That is one very sinister-looking apple pie, somehow. 7 Responses | Other threads
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dicks
Worst Senator Promises Imminent Death of Lovable Supreme Court Justice
Jim Bunning, who is a Senator pretty much because he was once a major league pitcher, is the Senate's biggest prick. More »
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By PareeneComment by Nice Beaver: Hey, Pareene, did YOU pitch a perfect game in your first year with the Phillies?!?!? Haven't there been whispers for years... 6 Responses | Other threads
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media
Baseball Teams Will Save Newspapers! Not Really.
Should the New York Times Co. sell its stake in the Boston Red Sox? Some people say yes. But this clever Monopoly metaphor says NO: More »
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Comment by nehru: It's not fair to show that ball without also showing the clues. 2 Responses | Other threads
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mark cuban
Mouthy Mark Cuban Charged With Insider Trading
Tech billionaire, anger-driven blogger, and owner of the Dallas Mavericks Mark Cuban has just been charged with insider trading by the SEC. The (civil, not criminal) charges center on an incident in 2004 in which Cuban allegedly got early insider information about a company he had an ownership stake in, and used that info to avoid a loss of $750,000. We have no idea whether the charges are true, but if they are, it's a foolish business move by a guy who's already been fined more than twice that much by the NBA just for running his mouth. Though it is possible to formulate a wild conspiracy theory about this!
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Comment by ADismalScience: The complaint is hilarious. [www.sec.gov] Read items 14-20. The CEO basically says "Hey, we're doing this PIPE thing." Then Cuban says "Fuck,... 7 Responses | Other threads
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George King
Post Sportswriter Loves To Spank Baseball Players
New York Post sportswriter George King just can't get enough spanking! A tipster with plenty of time on his hands went back through King's baseball coverage and found that he takes every available opportunity to relate how the Yankees or Mets were "spanked." It's his favorite word! Just today King wrote about the "14-3 spanking administered by the Blue Jays." But that's just the beginning of his spankfest: More »
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Comment by AndyWhoreWall: To everyone who has commented so far, you have all brought a smile to my face today. This is why... more » | Other threads
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scandals
Roger Clemens Can't Stop With The Cheating
Geez Roger Clemens, do you mind if we go a single day without being bombarded by news of yet another one of your past trysts with a Southern blond woman somehow vaguely connected to pop culture? Monday we learned that scowling baseball great Clemens, self-proclaimed paragon of family virtue, cheated on his wife with a continuously intoxicated country music star. More girlfriends came out in the subsequent days. And now we're battered with the news that the rich pitcher may have had a romance with the ex-wife of a fat, drunk professional golfer [NYDN]. Is nothing sacred? More »
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Comment by scroll_lock: @BalknChain: Just the way your mother likes it. more » | Other threads
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scandals
Roger Clemens: Baseball's Eliot Spitzer
Here on day two of the Roger Clemens Infidelity Scandal And Schadenfreude Festival Of '08, it's becoming more clear that the brawny former Yankees ace pitcher and full time jerk did in fact cheat on his wife with the wild country singer Mindy McCready. Because now she's admitted it! McCready said the two did have an ongoing affair, although the sex didn't start until she was of legal age. They first met when she was only 15, (Miley Cyrus joke). But the most entertaining aspect of this scandal is how Clemens—heroic, honored, self-righteous, dismissive of critics, a King of New York—is turning into an uncanny baseball version of another recently fallen hero: Eliot Spitzer. More »
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roger clemens
Baseball's Meanest Star In Alleged Affair With Country Version Of Amy Winehouse
Roger Clemens, the recently retired former Yankees ace pitcher and full time Class A jerk, has used his commitment to his wife (pictured) and family as a defense of his own character, which has been impugned by steroid allegations. And, you know, by his own general asshole demeanor that causes him to do things like throw a fastball at his own son. But today the Daily News says that Clemens carried on a ten year affair with train wreck country singer Mindy McCready—although they never trot out any real proof. And their lead, which seems to imply Clemens is a statutory rapist, is a little problematic: More »
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things we actually like
Improv Everywhere Gives Little League Team Their Best Game Ever
Improv Everywhere is the cosmic balance to Gawker: a group of real-world performance artists who generally make people feel like the world is a magical place. And in this clip that's been making the rounds, they turn a little league baseball game into a major league match, with an NBC sportscaster, a Jumbotron, and I won't ruin the rest. See below. More »
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By Nick DouglasComment by Nick Douglas: @PrincessKashmir: Or is that the upside to Jakob? AHA! more » | Other threads
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resurrection
Chris Farley Returns To Earth For Yankees Game
Some AP photographer was roaming around Yankee stadium during the rain delay, and who did he stumble upon but overweight deceased SNL comedic maniac Chris Farley! Farley, who passed away in 1997, apparently assumed human form once again in order to take in the historic final opening day in the classic ballpark. The identity of his female companion remains unknown. Click to enlarge the pic, via the WSJ.
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Comment by scroll_lock: This reminds me of the time John Belushi came back to go to the Ice Capades. more » | Other threads
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In Brief
Play Ball!
It's opening day of baseball season at Yankee Stadium, y'all! And you know what that means: Where did you come from, where did you go? Where did you come from, Cotton-Eyed Joe? Whether you KNOW, or you don't know, click through to watch the video, then buy your Yankees tickets before they tear down the House That Ruth And Cotton-Eyed Joe Built! Sports fandom minute over. (WATCH IT) More » -
loss of innocence
New York Scandal Of Shame Video: Billy Crystal Bats
The shameful scandal that has engulfed New York over the past week to the outrage of one and all has finally come to a close. That's right: comedian Billy Crystal has now had his single at-bat in a Yankees spring training game. The ballclub's decision to offer Crystal a one-day contract as a promotional stunt threw a pall over the entire Empire State. Video from the stands of the funnyman's game appearance (not a bad swing!), which the New York Post suspects may have destroyed baseball's integrity, after the jump. Hopefully we can all now move forward with our lives. More »
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Comment by In Other News...: @CaptainFantastic: @mitchel_stevens: @acridsheep: @Hamilton Nolan: @pre555soul: That swing was so good, I'll forgive him for the bad makeup job in... more » | Other threads
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josh booty
Drunk And Tased Superathlete Broadcaster Thought He Could Handle Anything
Athlete and sportscaster Josh Booty thought he could drive just fine, even though he was drunk, and then he thought he could take on taser-wielding Orange County Sheriff's deputies, who of course tased him right before he cracked his head. But is it a surprise the 32-year-old thought he was invincible, or that he was acting out? First he was "the most highly recruited high school quarterback in the country," according to the New York Times. Then he drew a record-setting $1.6 million draft bonus to play for the Florida Marlins' minor league franchise. When he got bored of that, he went to college for a year, until he was drafted into the NFL. He was a quarterback for the Seattle Seahawks, then the Cleveland Browns, then the Oakland Raiders. The free-agent quarterback parted ways with the Raiders in 2007 and has been killing time as a sportscaster for Fox, ESPN and the NFL Network. So why the self-destructive behavior? A possible answer, plus a larger shot of Booty's booking photo, after the jump. More »
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have you no sense of decency, sir?
Politician Disappointed The Media Is Covering Huge Story
Congressman Dan Burton today, at the vitally important Congressional hearings on Yankee pitcher Roger Clemens' alleged steroid use, was all, "Damn this trial-by-media thing is so messed up, innocent until proven guilty, everybody point your camera at me as I drone on about the outrageous media circus here." Click to watch the video, in which he comes off entirely like a greasy small-town lawyer who just landed a big case and is trying to act like everything is normal. But our question is, what's up with his teeth? The top row just looks like a porcelain mouthguard in there.
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scandals
Mets Jock Fights Cocks
Potential tabloid sports shocker! The Post stumbled onto a YouTube video of Mets' pitching ace Pedro Martinez presiding over a cockfight in the Dominican Republic. In a sinister twist, the video has now been pulled, and the owner of the blog that posted it did not immediately respond to the Post's emails. WHAT COULD HAVE HAPPENED? The Daily News was lagging on the story as of early this morning, meaning the Post is bound to hype it up as much as possible while they still have the competitive advantage. Just look at how much mileage the Atlanta papers (and everybody else) got out of the Michael Vick dogfighting scandal. But ask yourself, before the hysteria strikes: Is this story really a big deal? More »
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Comment by heroinandpeeps: Cockfighting doesn't worry me--it's the practice of "snoodling" I find personally offensive. more » | Other threads
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scary
EXTENDED BASEBALL METAPHOR EXPLAINS EVERYTHING TERRIBLE ABOUT RUDY GIULIANI! "For most of Giuliani's life, the Yankees have been the richest, most powerful, and usually winningest team in baseball. Yet the ultimate fan of baseball's biggest overdog thinks he's a brave, oppressed partisan of an underdog. Giuliani won back the city from the mongrel hordes—the descendants of Brooklyn Dodgers fans—and now he's proposing to win back the world for America." [NYM] -
new york times
'NYT' Goes Three-For-Five In Asian Illo
Here's the image that the Times got when it hired Bob Kessel to illustrate an article about "kantoku shou," the Japanese tradition of rewarding baseball players with gifts (including cash) for superior performance. It's pretty good: Rising sun? Check! Bowing? Check! Slanty eyes? Check! In fact, the only bit we're missing is a bowl of rice and a samurai sword. Nice! Click to enlarge. More » -
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World Series Wager: Just Happy To Be Here
You may recall our World Series wager with Will Leitch of Deadspin: Should Leitch's Cardinals win it all, we'd do a full day of his posts on the sports site in addition to our duties here, while if our Tigers prevailed Will would be forced to do twenty-four posts in a day across the sites. Well, after last night's 5-4 Cardinals victory, it's looking increasingly likely that you're stuck with us. Yeah, you gotta believe, anything could happen, teams have come back from bigger deficits before, etc.; barring inclement weather the whole thing will be over one way or the other by Sunday. We're reminding you of this bet not to elicit any sympathy for our plight (don't worry about us, we've got a shoebox full of crank and a copy of The Sporting News) but as a warning: Should we, in fact, be manning both helms on Tuesday we have a very strong suspicion that Deadspin's commenters will be following us over here and, to be frank, those people are animals. Be prepared.
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baseball
Detroit Tigers Offer You Opportunity To Be Free of Us For a Day
So if you're a New York baseball fan of any variety your last remaining postseason hopes died last night on Carlos Beltran's called third strike. But fear not, New Yorkers: Much like walking angioplasty advertisement Tommy Lasorda, we're here to tell you that even though the Mets and Yankees are out of the playoffs, you still have a reason to watch the World Series. As it turns out, an editor of this site is, for reasons too complicated and extensive to go into here, a longtime fan of the Detroit Tigers. The editor of Deadspin (pictured above), Gawker Media's sports blog, is, for reasons of geography, a fan of the St. Louis Cardinals, Motown's Series rival. Much like publicity-seeking big city mayors who engage in jerkoff bets in the hopes of favorable news coverage, these two editors have also engaged in a wager, the terms of which are this: The editor whose team loses the Fall Classic will, on the Tuesday after the competition's conclusion, be forced to cover not only his own site's post requirements, but additionally pick up the other guy's posts for the day. So if you hate our guts and would much prefer to have the dynamic Mr. Leitch guest here for a day, you'll be rooting for the Tigers. Conversely, should you wish to see how we handle pictures of drunken backup QBs, you'll be pulling for the Cardinals. Who will prevail? Will it be Balk and human chimney Jimmy Leyland of the Tigers or Leitch and Tony "My only World Series win required an act of God" LaRussa of the Cards? Ultimately, the only real losers are the readers.
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britney spears
There Is No Joy In Malibu
The Newark Bears, whose previous promotion (a "Bird Flu Awareness Night" featuring a chicken wing eating contest) caused much mirth in these quarters, are at it again: This Friday is Britney Spears Baby Safety Night. What does such an evening consist of? Full, hilarious details after the jump. We're almost considering going to Newark. But, you know, no. More »
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