October 27, 2015
How could a curse born from a supposed slight to a goat be lifted by outlandish cruelty toward other goats?
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October 27, 2015
How could a curse born from a supposed slight to a goat be lifted by outlandish cruelty toward other goats?
October 12, 2015
On the Mets
There are two New York sensibilities: Yankee and Met. If the teams’ fans aren’t divided by class—there are plenty of impoverished Yankees fans, if not that many well-heeled Mets fans—they’re divided in how they think of their city. The former are the New York of “New York, New York”; the aura of the new Yankee Stadium, with its wide moat between the nice seats and the not-so-nice, is that of Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps—expensive, bloated, and dumb.
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April 6, 2012
I don’t think we watch baseball only to see a winning team—the World Series is won by so few teams.
November 23, 2009
I have plenty of reasons not to hate the Yankees. . . In any case, I’m glad to be a Mets fan.