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I'm traditionally very cautious when it comes to joining social networking sites. I was once, and possibly still am, a member of Friendster, which was basically modern social networking's caveman to Facebook's fully-evolved human. I like to think being on the ground floor for this stuff makes me a groundbreaking Jackie Robinson-type (minus the whole "brave black man" angle and ability to steal home on Yogi Berra). Being on Friendster also means I'm ...

I don't want to talk about him anymore. I just don't. I've already done it here, and here, and here, and here. It's all too much at this point. But I don't have a choice. I write a Yankees Web log and Joba Chamberlain is the biggest story about the Yankees as the postseason approaches. I am tied to him, and he is tied to me. I kind of feel like Whitney ...

With pennant races ending in a whimper in every division but AL Central Casting, baseball writers across the country are apparently starved for interesting storylines these days. How else to explain the dizzying takes of late on the Yankees' playoff aspirations? Last week, a stumble against the Mariners and a series-opening loss to the Angels in Anaheim led to a barrage of stories hinting that the mighty Yankees were heading toward ...

There are times when you're watching the Yankees play at Angel Stadium and all you want to do is change the damn channel. And so you do. You surf around in anger, until you realize that it's past midnight and Dharma and Greg reruns or Late Night with Carson Daly aren't better options, only an alternate form of torture. You keep surfing, wondering why your pitching and defense can't execute, why your fly ...

As a baseball season reaches its final month of regular season games, you should be able to tell what you have in a first-year player. You usually know well before that. We figured out by the All-Star break that Mark Teixeira was well worth the investment. Same goes for CC Sabathia. Nick Swisher was a bit more tricky, but as the summer wore on it became clear we had a productive goofball ...

I look forward to a potential American League Championship Series matchup with the Angels in the same way I anticipate turning 40 and having my wife tell me I need a fully invasive prostate exam. To clarify, I dread the future worse than Chris Russo. The Yankees beat the Angels at their own game on Monday in the Bronx, manufacturing the go-ahead run thanks to the infinitely valuable Brett Gardner and a ...

All I want to do in my life is to sit in Derek Jeter's private suite at Yankee Stadium. Seriously. That's all I want. What could be better? You get the deep leather seats. The unlimited Premio sausages. The constant face time on YES. The opportunity to make off-color jokes with Jeter's friends. The chance to awkwardly hug Minka Kelly and perhaps inadvertently brush up against her firm buttocks once or ...