So let’s get this straight. Trump pranks Rubio, then his campaign leaks the details of the prank, then media right and left write fawning, uncritical writeups of the prank that allow Trump to look like a fun, entertaining guy and remind everyone that Rubio is a chump.

Nope.

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Have you ever said “esports” at a party and then the person you’re talking to suddenly sees a friend across the room?

I cannot imagine anything stupider in the world than paying nerds millions of dollars to win at Mario Kong (or whatever the fuck this dumb game is).

If a five foot tall Bolivian immigrant in a Cookie Monster costume can scream at you enough to get you to give him three dollars, that money wasn’t really yours to begin with.

Everybody has ideas about what they don’t want Times Square to be, but no one has good ideas about what they want it to be.

The shell game would be great. I also miss the guys who try to sell tourists copies of Metro and AM New York.

Desnuda-and-Hello-Kitty infested Times Square is awful, but mostly because Times Square itself is awful. At least it once again has character based around the ingenuity and entrepreneurial hustle of lower-class New Yorkers trying to get naive tourists to fork over cash. I’m not crazy nostalgic for the Times Square of…

I make it a point not to watch Yankees games, and will only go to Yankee Stadium every three years when they play the Giants, so someone please explain to me why no one even close to them is wearing any bit of Yankees swag? Like, I know these seats are mostly owned by corporations trying to impress clients, but is no…

You get a sense that Tarquin and Felicity have never been to a baseball game before, but one or the other’s turn came up for the office’s season tickets.

I mean, if they roll foul they are, but the dirt in front of home plate is fair territory. Hell, home plate is fair territory. He should’ve run like lightning the moment he connected — no self-respecting umpire would be able to claim he was intentionally disrupting the play by taking a direct line to first.

I know Cool Pope is like, super cool and really progressive by 18th century standards, but it doesn’t surprise me at all that he took some time to wink at a lady making a lot of news for holding the hard line for Old Tyme Relijun.

“He’s our closer” is exactly the same boneheaded thinking that caused the Nats to lose the five-hour eighteen-inning Game 2 against the Giants in the NLDS last year. The Giants only rallied to tie in the ninth because Williams took out Jordan Zimmerman for dumb “conventional wisdom” thinking — he had just walked Joe…