They are putting a Phillies farm team in Allentown, and it's going to be called the Lehigh Valley IronPigs. Their logo:

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From ESPN:

The verbal sparring continued Friday in the aftermath of comments by Marlins president David Samson objecting to the Seattle Mariners for the five-year, $90 million contract the team awarded to All-Star outfielder Ichiro Suzuki.

Samson said the lucrative contract would ''take the sport down,'' among other thingsl. Mariners president ( Read more... )

So I'm having one of those moments, the ones where I have to pull the car over I like a song so much. New Clap Your Hans Say Yeah, first track: Some Loud Thunder. I've heard some critics bitch that the first song sounds like it was fed through a paper shredder. But to me it's the perfect morsel of melodic candy. It starts off like this ( Read more... )

So I haven't been posting much. It's amazing how much less time you have to play with when you're working a set 9-5 schedule and going out to ten-person dinners every single night.

Anyway, if you've never seen this, you must: Rumsfeld Fighting Technique!

And this:

Ipod Blending

Also, I have a new Citypaper article to pimp. Here 'tisSoon I ( Read more... )

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The temporary hiatus of Ice, Scotch, and Soda has come to a close. It was you, gentle readers, with your persistent letter-writing campaign, that got me to change my mind and give the people what they want: More excruciating baseball talk followed by two-week lulls in posting ( Read more... )

Okay so they don't have the balls to get us out of Iraq, but it is still better to have Dems in office than Repubs. This is why.

When I cast my vote for Michael Nutter at around 4 o'clock yesterday, I was still pretty skeptical about his chances, despite a few polls showing him in the lead. I had always figured he was too much of an egghead to win a citywide primary. Well I was wrong. He was by far the most progressive candidate in the election, with a plan for greening this ( Read more... )

I finally made it to Campus Watch! Dan Pipes
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