No one 'needs' prostitutes. However, they serve a function and are worthy of respect and patronage.

Bonnie 'Prince' Billy Corgan

I suspect if they wind up getting irritating, they're going to be irritating in the same measure the team will be. Because that fucking team is stacked.

"Is (insert player here) a True Yankee?"
(Bela dies)

Said it better than I could have.

We hear opposing viewpoints all the time that don't start with "shameless lefty propagandists".

7 Willow was still there for a while, at least, when I was in school, but I hear PC's gone high-end now that they've revamped the waterfront. Brisas is still kicking, mercifully. (I was '98-'02.)

We used to do the Lazy Boy in White Plains and this real hole, the Radillac, in Port Chester. I do miss Port Chester sometimes. There was a Mexican place, Las Brisas (I think?) where you could get a huge plate of fajitas and refried beans for like four bucks.

Former. I fancied myself an artiste for a while there.

Come on over, Shens. I got wine.

I don't even care any more. Do what you want. See you in hell.

I went to undergrad not far from there. We used to call White Plains "the shit Manhattan didn't want." (There was one bar I liked all right.)

If you can call that living.

That was certainly one of them. He seemed to view it as unethical or something to enter into arrangements with minor-league teams, and he didn't seem to give much of a shit about the Cubs at all. Strange dude.

And say what you want about the payroll: down 0-3 to the 101-win Yankees and coming back to win is a comeback for the ages.

The mediocre stadium and out-of-the-way location probably had a little to do with it (it's not really out of the way, but the perception is that it is) but my theory is that it's got a lot to do with the fact that they didn't play any glamour teams in that postseason. The Red Sox, who weren't that good and who…

Not really. They've historically been middle of the pack at best, spending-wise, except for a couple of years earlier in this decade. And when the Trib owned them, they barely ever spent money on them. It's one of the reasons they sucked for so long - that, and that the Trib didn't care about winning. (And like…

They were still the Cubs.

"Hey, what happened to the B Street Band?"
"There is no B Street Band."

Yeah, trying to pass the leader of a band off as a separate headliner is kind of a stretch. (I'm going to go out on a limb and assume Tweedy didn't come out and do all of, say, Astral Weeks or something like that.)