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Re-Re-Checkin’ NECN
For those of you keeping score at home, this is the third time the hardworking staff at Campaign Outsider has written about regional cable news outfit NECN and its slow-motion dismantling of the traditional firewall between advertising and editorial content. … Continue reading
Yank You Very Much
Bits & pieces from the Yankees’ 2009 World’s Serious win: • If Game 6 was Hideki Matsui’s swan song in the Bronx, that was one sweet sound. • Andy Pettitte is what used to be called a hoss – as … Continue reading
Dead Blogging Election Day
So I woke up Election Day and here’s what I found in my emailbox: “Mayor Tom Menino is now following you on Twitter!” My first instinct, of course, was “that can’t be good.” But then I thought, “it must be … Continue reading
Yanked Around, Part Three
Well that was tantalizing, yes? The question going into Game 5 of the Yankees-Phillies World Series bakeoff (or is that baseoff?) was: Who can replicate his first pitching gem from this Series – Philadelphia’s Cliff Lee or New York’s A.J. … Continue reading
Ads ‘n’ Ends: Mass. Senate Race
From the race to (don’t say) replace Ted Kennedy: • If you only watched television, you’d think Steve Pagliuca was running unopposed for the U.S. Senate. (He’s got ads on USA’s NCIS retreads for heaven’s sake.) Pagliuca (accent on the “pal”) … Continue reading
Kinda Yanked Around
Joba the Hurt. That’s how Game 4 of the World’s Serious felt in the bottom of the eighth when the Phillies’ light-hitting (at best) third baseman Pedro Feliz homered off Yankee reliever Joba Chamberlain. But then it all turned around … Continue reading
The Googletron Makes a House Call?
No sooner had the hardworking staff at Campaign Outsider filed a post about The Googletron than – lo and behold! – The Googletron seemed to post us. Email from admin.official@google.com: Thank you enter MP3-FREE.ro We thought that this site can help … Continue reading
Not Yanked Around
Finally (!) the Yankees played like the Yankees in Game 3 of the World’s Serious. And for once I agree with Fox Sportscaster Tim McCarver: After Carlos Ruiz homered off Phil Hughes in the bottom of the ninth, Yankee manager … Continue reading
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Use Your Bean, Wall Street Journal
Very smart piece in the Weekend Wall Street Journal about Pedro Martinez. Headline: “Pedro: Baseball’s Last Great Ego.” Too bad the Pedro paean also included this: During his career, teammates have seen him singing and dancing in the clubhouse in his underwear … Continue reading
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Tom Menino Comes Out of the Closet
Saturday’s Boston Globe features a full-throated “Tom Menino for Mayor” endorsement, along with Menino’s head-scratching contribution to the Globe’s Quotes of note: “This is the me you’re going to get. I’m not going to get a haircut, new clothes, new … Continue reading
