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A new lookalike pres will take away your civil liberties too
The price looks right from here: cheap
Look out, Michael Flatley, you've got competition
Sorry, little lady, only the boys get the "special" blessing around here
He'd probably pray she doesn't have herpes
This week's interview is with model/actress Kelli Graham
Check out Candy Lee's new fan club
Personal trainer Chloe James
Ria Armas. Mama Ria!
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NYC LINKS
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MurphGuide.com — A daily guide to bar specials and events
Who's on First — Upper East Side bar with superstars Chaundra and Liani on Thursday nights
Mr. Hipster — Hands-down the wittiest bar and restaurant reviews in the city. If the Mr. Hipster hasn't reviewed it, it's not worth going to.
NYCBP.com — If you pick your bar depending on what hot bartenders are working, this is your resource.
NetworkingGirl — Christan's always organizing events for NYC singles to get in bed with each other. Go see what she's got going on this week. Also see her Singles of the Week.
NYsolo.com — Coordinates activities for busy New Yorkers. Use "Molly McMillan" as reference.
Dodgeball — NYCers rate bars and post reviews — and without the bridge-and-tunnel reviews that infect CitySearch.
* Got an NYC-centric site to plug? Let me know.
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PK.com fans in Boston, Atlanta and the dump we call Queens might disagree, but I don't think I spend enough time talking about the Yankees. After all, our — yep, our — baseball history consists of more than one groundball through the legs of a broken-down first baseman.
With summer in full swing and the Yanks making kids cry on roadtrips all across the country, I thought I'd run down my favorite Yankees of my time.
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10. DAVID CONE
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Why He's Great: The most clutch Yankees starting pitcher in the last quarter-century, Cone was a badass postseason performer from 1995-2000. He had all the tools of a great pitcher: power, control, deception, guts. And even when he sucked ass in 2000 he got a big out against Mike Piazza when the Yanks creamed the Big Apple's second bananas, 4-1, in the World Series.
Did You Know?: Making $12 million in 2000, Cone was the third-highest-paid player in baseball and went 4-14.
Link: David Cone's perfect day
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9. PAUL O'NEILL
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Why He's Great: Opposing fans may have hated him for his temper, but he never showed up opponents or tried to do anything more than pull his weight for the Yanks. He arrived in 1993 in a ridiculous straight-up trade for Roberto Kelly and hit over .300 the next six seasons.
Did You Know?: O'Neill won a batting title with a .359 average in 1994, the year a strike cost the Yanks a World Series. That crap better not happen again in 2002.
Link: O'Neill among ESPN.com readers' most disliked (tough shit)
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8. RON GUIDRY
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Why He's Great: For many years, young Yankees fans had buy one stud to emulate on the mound: The Gator, Louisiana Lightning. His 25-3, 1.74 ERA season in 1978, when he threw nine complete game shutouts, is clearly one of the greatest single-season performances of all-time.
Did You Know?: Guidry's 1978 ERA remains the lowest for an AL pitcher since the DH came into play.
Link: 1978 Cy Young Award analysis
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7. MARIANO RIVERA
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Why He's Great: The greatest reliever of all-time, this guy is taken for granted more than a casual sex partner. He'll strike out Chipper Jones to end the 2002 World Series and erase the memory of a bad inning in 2001 that included an error and a bloop single.
Did You Know?: His postseason record is as follows: 52 G, 6-1, 24 saves, 79 IP, 47 H, 0.91 ERA. No one can touch that.
Link: Rivera's career stats
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6. DAVE WINFIELD
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Why He's Great: The are some players you admire for their sheer athleticism, and no one awed more than Dave Winfield. The long swing, the cannon arm, the loping strides when going from first to third. He hit rockets, he threw bullets, and defined the word weapon. Enough war cliches for ya'?
Did You Know?: Winfield was drafted by MLB, the NBA, ABA and NFL. Also romantically linked to Robin Givens' mom. I'm not kidding.
Link: Hall of Fame speech in which he thanks Steinbrenner
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5. WILLIE RANDOLPH
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Why He's Great: A rock at second base, Randolph got stuck playing with 32 different shortstops, including the forgettable duo of Bobby Meacham and Dale Berra. He was my first favorite Yankee, and I traded a Graig Nettles bat for a Randolph model at my first game, Bat Day in 1980.
Did You Know?: During Randolph's first six seasons with the Yankees, they won five division championships, four AL pennants and World Series titles in 1977 and 1978.
Link: Randolph's career stats
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4. BUCKY DENT
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Why He's Great: Sainthood should be granted to any player who unexpectedly drives a go-ahead home run in a one-game playoff against the Red Sox, ripping the hearts out of Boston fans everywhere. Saint Bucky.
Spotting: I never met the guy, but when I was a youngster I did send a note to Yankee Stadium inviting him to my birthday party. I never got a response, so I can only assume that George Steinbrenner burned it.
Link: Dent's homer No. 14 on Sporting News' greatest moments
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3. DEREK JETER
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Why He's Great: It took, what?, two years to safely assume that this guy would align himself with the greats in Yankees history? Ruth, DiMaggio, Mantle ... they were more movie stars than athletes, more icons than people. Jeter might retire with 342 rings. I saw his Jeffrey Maier homer in person.
Spotting: A few years ago, I saw Jeter standing outside Mustang on Second Ave. on the Upper East Side. People on all four corners froze and stared. The guy just exuded celebrity.
Link: Find Jeter a nickname
Link: Mr. November photo
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2. BERNIE WILLIAMS
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Why He's Great: Like your gas, Williams is best described as the silent assassin. His career paralleled the Yanks of the '90s. Budding potential grew into greatness. He drilled two game-ending postseason homers with me in the stands, including one against the Red Sox, which is about the greatest thing anyone has ever done for me. Well, except that girl in Cancuun.
Spotting: After signing his $87.5 million deal after the 1998 season, Bernie took in the same afternoon Knicks game as me. As I stood under an umbrella at an Eighth Ave. street corner, I saw Bernie and his young son right next to me. "Bernie!" I said instinctively (as if I knew him). He asked, instinctively, "Hey, what's up?" The light changed and I walked on, wondering why in the world a man worth $87.5 million was standing in the rain without an umbrella.
Link: How I gave Bernie Williams Olympia Dukakis' breasts
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1. DON MATTINGLY
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Why He's Great: My favorite athlete in any sport at any time. If you ever want to break the stereotype of a heartless New Yorker or unruly Yankees fan, look no further than the adulation bestowed upon this Indiana product who never brought a championship to New York; just dignity.
Spotting: Donnie signed his 1984 Topps rookie card for me at an autograph signing at Eye Lab in after the 1985 season. "Good luck winning MVP," was all this 12-year-old could muster. He said, "thanks." I still have the card proudly displayed in my apartment.
Link: Mattingly tribute page
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RANDOM WEIRDNESS
* Rent a Jerk — No time to harass the assholes in your life? Let this guy do it for you with an assortment of services, including e-mail, phone calls and mail redirection. Now, where is that number for Mike Piazza?
* Christian Lingerie — What would Jesus do ... when it's time to get freaky?
* The KISS Credit Card — There's no better way to look suave on a date then to pay for your bill at Chuck E. Cheese with a card featuring Gene, Paul, Ace and Peter.
* Is My Blog Hot or Not — I guess it depends how many midgets are featured on it.
* Game Shows '75 — An extensive site with images and info of TV game shows from 27 years ago. Check out that stud Bob Barker with dark hair and young hotties on The Price is Right. And don't forget super-flamer Charles Nelson Reilly on Match Game.
* Why Nice Guys Are Often Such Losers — Moral of the story: don't be a puss.
* Save Karyn — Some cheap chick is begging for donations to help her pay off her $20,000 debt. Vibrators ain't cheap, you know.
* Goth Pick-Up Lines — The next time you're looking to score at the local cemetary, try one of these: “You remind me of my dead ex-girlfriend," "You’re depressed, TOO?!" and "That’s a nice black lace Victorian-era corset. But it would look nicer crumpled up in a ball on my bedroom floor!"
* So You Wanna Be on Cribs? — If so, you gotta do it right, so follow these simple rules, including "ending all sentences with 'at'." Try it like this: "This is where I do my eating at." It works!
FULL DISCLOSURE
Interviews with fellow webmasters. Want to be interviewed? E-mail Paul.
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KelliGraham.com
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Kelli Graham is an Orlando-based model, actress, dancer and body double. This week, I asked Kelli about her busy career and how her website is going, and I once again found time to crack on Frenchies.
PK.com: Even though you've appeared in six of Playboy's newsstands specials, there's no nude photos of you on KelliGraham.com. (I know because I checked 400 times.) Is the absence of those photos a rights issue, or do you think there's not enough of an audience online looking for T&A?
KELLIGRAHAM.com: We both know that there is a large audience for T&A on the Internet. I keep all semi-nude or nude pictures off my website because that is not what I want to be known as, a nude model. Actually the only nudes that I have done were for Playboy. Playboy is probably the onle nudes that I would do. Being in Playboy is amazing, but I want to be known for more than just taking my clothes off.
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GUYCRITICAL.COM QUESTION OF THE WEEK
A guy who portends to know nothing about women, but everything about the better sex answers one question a week from anonymous women using the GuyCritical.com service.
THE SPORTSDESK
* Athletes Who Should Get Lost — Some biting words from CNNSI.com on such dignitaries as George Steinbrenner (the king!), Patrick Ewing (moody man) and Mia Hamm (boooring!) among others. Interesting to see an SI baseball writer bash a couple of the sports' heavyweights. There go there the exclusive interviews.
* NY Times Magazine Profiles ESPN's Rich Eisen — Probably my favorite ESPN guy, for his sarcasm and impersonations of Phil Rizzuto and Skip Caray.
* The Jayson Williams Nightmare — ESPN the Magazine's cover story on a tragedy that, in effect, killed two lives: the limo drivers and Williams'. Leaving the NBA with $60 million in insurance money ain't what it's cracked up to be.
* Just how far did Bonds' Yankee Stadium HR go? — The Village Voice examines the upper-deck blast that officially went 385 feet, but could have cleared the old Yankee Stadium. Whatever. He's still a dick.
* ESPN SportsNation — Survey results of sports fans across the U.S. Baseball rules in New York, which has the lowest percentage of college sports fans, while Nebraska has the highest percentage of people who follow college football.
* FOXSports.com's College Hoops Preseason Top 25 — Three Big 12 teams in the top 6, and that was supposed to be a football conference. Pittsburgh, Xavier and Western Kentucky are all ranked in the top 10 — ahead of Duke — which will happen as soon as those monkeys fly out of my ass. Again.
THE NEWSDESK
* Ex-dictator broke, living with mom — It's gotta be tough to o from delivering "Bring me his head" to hearing "Go to your room."
* Man dies in vat of chocolate — New from Hershey's: creamy nugat and intestine.
* Woman forced to expose vibrator at airport — I guess she never leaves home without it. (Thanks, Mike)
* Most Wanted Violent Felons in New York City — Pictures of some guys (no women) whom you do not want to run into in our charming, quaint town. Remember, no profiling.
* Why I'm Leaving Catholicism — A former coworker of mine penned this essay for BeliefNet. She can no longer ignore the church's questionable politics and antiquaited views on homosexuality. Sing it sister.
* Michael Kelly: A Plea for More Openness on Rape — A columnist who's daughter was robbed, shot and raped calls for the media to be more open about reporting the rape part. Why, he asks, should there be more shame in being a rape victim than a gunshot victim? It's a couragous stand by his daughter and his family. The only way to erase unfair stigmas is to confront them. There is no shame in being a victim of any kind.
THE WEEKLY LADIES
* Chloe James — A Baltimore-based personal trainer who shows off her work. We have the same favorite show, "Seinfeld," so I guess marriage isn't too far off.
* Candy Lee — One of our favorites e-mailed this week to tell us that her fan club is up and running. So go hit it.
* Ria Armas — A bi-coatal model who works out of L.A. and Miami. And she's got a kick-ass site.
NEXT WEEK
I'm not sure yet what I'll do next week.
Send your link suggestions now.
THE ARCHIVE
Missed a week of PaulKatcher.com? Shame on you.
Hit the archive and see what you missed.
Recent issues include Spring Break, the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue. Before that we (un)covered Mardi Gras 2002.
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