CYC Update
Hey hey. I've been lax on the posting the last few days, in part due to the lack of baseball and partly due to the fact I'm still bringing my health/well-being back to a respectable level, but that's no excuse.Anyways, just wanted to thank everyone for reading over the season. Seriously. It was really cool and, I mean, I would have written even if no one was reading, but the fact that there were people who actually DID made it even more enjoyable.(Especially you guys who always made a point to comment and egg on my craziness!! Jim ny/Strange and his many monikers/Iowa Jeff/Mike Glass/Recalled Toys/John M./UNC guy/d_c guy/Deron/Ramondo/Jennifer V./George H./Joey

Objection Handler: The World Series Champs Edition
There's this episode of "Friends" when Phoebe takes a job as some kind of telemarketer, and they give her a handbook that provides a scripted answer for anything a call-ee might throw your way. There should really be stuff like this for every aspect of life. I have to write them as part of my day job for pharmaceutical sales reps. And in college, I wrote more than a couple for friends who were "cold-calling" a guy they met out.(Which, as a side note, typically worked brilliantly until the time when my friend never even made it to the meat of phone-call-flow-chart, because when she called and asked for "Matt" the guy who picked up the phone asked, "Which Matt?" Best laid plans, e

Non-Yankee Fans' Reactions to the World Series: The Best and the Worst
"We have fought this fight as long, and as well as we know how. We have been defeated...there is now but one course to pursue. We must accept the situation."--Robert E. LeeIn anything, any sport, any competition, an

Epilogue to a Championship Season
"We can't all be heroes. Someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by." --Will RogersMy cousin texted me after the World Series ended: "As they say in the end of the 'The Can

I don't really get the tagline but I love it anyway