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		<description><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignleft" src="http://nyoobserver.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/2077000-2.jpg?w=300&h=200" />The <em>Post</em> sports page has <a href="http://www.nypost.com/p/sports/yankees/cc_lackey_ready_for_cold_wet_alcs_tIzHQFhB2laCItZ0AsHQTO">your weather forecast</a> for the Yankees game tonight: "<span style="color: #000000;font-family: Arial, sans-serif;line-height: normal">It will be as cold as Hillary Clinton&rsquo;s freezer face." So dress accordingly.</span></p>
<p>C.C. Sabathia is not worried about the weather, because he will play video games if it rains&mdash;as the lead of <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/yankees/2009/10/16/2009-10-16_cc_sabathia.html">this <em>Daily News </em>story</a>, and <a href="http://www.nypost.com/p/sports/yankees/weather_or_not_cc_says_he_ready_Bk2EimOp529erV6zBsGctM">this<em> Post </em>story</a>, and <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/16/sports/baseball/16yankees.html?ref=sports">this <em>Times </em>story</a> each tell us. Well, which video game amuses a 300-pound ace starter, a young reader might wonder? You certainly wouldn't know from the<em> Post</em>, which offers up only the bracketed "" The <em>Daily News</em> is slightly more forthcoming; it reveals that Sabathia likes the vintage Nintendo game R.B.I. Baseball. But it's <em>The Times </em>that really blows this story out of the water&mdash;and even connects it to tonight's game. Witness:</p>
<blockquote><p><span style="color: #000000;font-family: Georgia, serif;font-size: 15px;line-height: 22px">In R.B.I. Baseball,&nbsp;the 1980s video game&nbsp;that is popular in the&nbsp;Yankees&rsquo; clubhouse, Sabathia&rsquo;s favorite player is&nbsp;Bert Blyleven&nbsp;of the 1987&nbsp;Minnesota Twins. If he can channel the real Blyleven on the mound, the Yankees will be thrilled: Blyleven won twice in the A.L.C.S. that season to lead his team to the World Series.</span></p>
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<p><span style="color: #000000;font-family: Georgia, serif;font-size: 15px;line-height: 22px">That's how you do it, folks. Clearly, they were all standing there for the same three-minute interview, but without <em>The Times</em>, we wouldn't know that Sabathia likes to channel a 200-pound Dutch pitcher (his given name was Rik Aalbert Blyleven) from 20 years ago who sported a handlebar moustache, a periodic mullet and&mdash;at least once&mdash;a T-shirt that read "<a href="http://a5.vox.com/6a00e398b8ecae000300e398dbab350005-500pi">I [Heart] To Fart.</a>"</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;color: #000000;font-size: medium"><span style="font-size: 15px;line-height: 22px">Back to the weather: The <em>Post</em> calls this swirling nor'easter "anti-baseball weather." Jorge Posada calls it "Yankee weather" in the <em>Daily News</em>. Make of that what you will.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;color: #000000;font-size: medium"><span style="font-size: 15px;line-height: 22px">Outside the Bronx, there's less about the waning Rush Limbaugh martyrdom than you might expect, and more about the nascent Brandon Jacobs martyrdom. Steve Serby gives us <a href="http://www.nypost.com/p/sports/giants/jacobs_turns_into_raging_bull_RC7dSBJeUwlvEVih66CJRO">the transcript of an unhappy interview</a> with the bruising running back, who's been overshadowed so far this year by his diminutive backup, Ahmad Bradshaw. Best line: "<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;font-size: 12px;line-height: normal">"Any more questions about the&nbsp;New Orleans Saints&nbsp;or the Giants' success? Let 'em fly, if not, get the hell away from my locker." Over at ESPN, Matt Mosley transcribes <a href="http://espn.go.com/blog/nfceast/post/_/id/4960/coughlin-rushes-to-jacobs-defense">Tom Coughlin's more diplomatic thoughts</a> on the matter.</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;color: #000000;font-size: medium"><span style="font-size: 15px;line-height: 22px"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;font-size: 12px;line-height: normal">And there's a Stephon Marbury sighting <a href="http://www.nypost.com/p/sports/knicks/marbury_rips_knicks_coach_says_he_jdyocVkmhjzZQDyjyIqzIP">in the <em>Post</em></a><em>.</em> This is just low-hanging fruit. The man ate Vaseline in a 24-hour webcast recently. You could conduct an entire J-school seminar on whether this guy is fit to be reported upon. But it's probably always good to give someone who has been attacked as often as Marbury a chance to defend himself&mdash;especially when it's for something like eating Vaseline.</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;color: #000000;font-size: medium"><span style="font-size: 15px;line-height: 22px"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;font-size: 12px;line-height: normal"><span style="font-family: Arial">"It wasn't a trick, it's a black heritage thing and I did it to help me when I lost my voice," Marbury tells the <em>Post</em>. "People saw I was drinking a lot of tea. They said I was crazy. But if I'm hurt, why wouldn't I do something that helps me?"</span></span></span></span></p>
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignleft" src="http://nyoobserver.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/2077000-2.jpg?w=300&h=200" />The <em>Post</em> sports page has <a href="http://www.nypost.com/p/sports/yankees/cc_lackey_ready_for_cold_wet_alcs_tIzHQFhB2laCItZ0AsHQTO">your weather forecast</a> for the Yankees game tonight: "<span style="color: #000000;font-family: Arial, sans-serif;line-height: normal">It will be as cold as Hillary Clinton&rsquo;s freezer face." So dress accordingly.</span></p>
<p>C.C. Sabathia is not worried about the weather, because he will play video games if it rains&mdash;as the lead of <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/yankees/2009/10/16/2009-10-16_cc_sabathia.html">this <em>Daily News </em>story</a>, and <a href="http://www.nypost.com/p/sports/yankees/weather_or_not_cc_says_he_ready_Bk2EimOp529erV6zBsGctM">this<em> Post </em>story</a>, and <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/16/sports/baseball/16yankees.html?ref=sports">this <em>Times </em>story</a> each tell us. Well, which video game amuses a 300-pound ace starter, a young reader might wonder? You certainly wouldn't know from the<em> Post</em>, which offers up only the bracketed "" The <em>Daily News</em> is slightly more forthcoming; it reveals that Sabathia likes the vintage Nintendo game R.B.I. Baseball. But it's <em>The Times </em>that really blows this story out of the water&mdash;and even connects it to tonight's game. Witness:</p>
<blockquote><p><span style="color: #000000;font-family: Georgia, serif;font-size: 15px;line-height: 22px">In R.B.I. Baseball,&nbsp;the 1980s video game&nbsp;that is popular in the&nbsp;Yankees&rsquo; clubhouse, Sabathia&rsquo;s favorite player is&nbsp;Bert Blyleven&nbsp;of the 1987&nbsp;Minnesota Twins. If he can channel the real Blyleven on the mound, the Yankees will be thrilled: Blyleven won twice in the A.L.C.S. that season to lead his team to the World Series.</span></p>
</blockquote>
<p><span style="color: #000000;font-family: Georgia, serif;font-size: 15px;line-height: 22px">That's how you do it, folks. Clearly, they were all standing there for the same three-minute interview, but without <em>The Times</em>, we wouldn't know that Sabathia likes to channel a 200-pound Dutch pitcher (his given name was Rik Aalbert Blyleven) from 20 years ago who sported a handlebar moustache, a periodic mullet and&mdash;at least once&mdash;a T-shirt that read "<a href="http://a5.vox.com/6a00e398b8ecae000300e398dbab350005-500pi">I [Heart] To Fart.</a>"</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;color: #000000;font-size: medium"><span style="font-size: 15px;line-height: 22px">Back to the weather: The <em>Post</em> calls this swirling nor'easter "anti-baseball weather." Jorge Posada calls it "Yankee weather" in the <em>Daily News</em>. Make of that what you will.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;color: #000000;font-size: medium"><span style="font-size: 15px;line-height: 22px">Outside the Bronx, there's less about the waning Rush Limbaugh martyrdom than you might expect, and more about the nascent Brandon Jacobs martyrdom. Steve Serby gives us <a href="http://www.nypost.com/p/sports/giants/jacobs_turns_into_raging_bull_RC7dSBJeUwlvEVih66CJRO">the transcript of an unhappy interview</a> with the bruising running back, who's been overshadowed so far this year by his diminutive backup, Ahmad Bradshaw. Best line: "<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;font-size: 12px;line-height: normal">"Any more questions about the&nbsp;New Orleans Saints&nbsp;or the Giants' success? Let 'em fly, if not, get the hell away from my locker." Over at ESPN, Matt Mosley transcribes <a href="http://espn.go.com/blog/nfceast/post/_/id/4960/coughlin-rushes-to-jacobs-defense">Tom Coughlin's more diplomatic thoughts</a> on the matter.</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;color: #000000;font-size: medium"><span style="font-size: 15px;line-height: 22px"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;font-size: 12px;line-height: normal">And there's a Stephon Marbury sighting <a href="http://www.nypost.com/p/sports/knicks/marbury_rips_knicks_coach_says_he_jdyocVkmhjzZQDyjyIqzIP">in the <em>Post</em></a><em>.</em> This is just low-hanging fruit. The man ate Vaseline in a 24-hour webcast recently. You could conduct an entire J-school seminar on whether this guy is fit to be reported upon. But it's probably always good to give someone who has been attacked as often as Marbury a chance to defend himself&mdash;especially when it's for something like eating Vaseline.</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;color: #000000;font-size: medium"><span style="font-size: 15px;line-height: 22px"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;font-size: 12px;line-height: normal"><span style="font-family: Arial">"It wasn't a trick, it's a black heritage thing and I did it to help me when I lost my voice," Marbury tells the <em>Post</em>. "People saw I was drinking a lot of tea. They said I was crazy. But if I'm hurt, why wouldn't I do something that helps me?"</span></span></span></span></p>
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