Appearing on Sports Bloggers Live, Baseball Prospectus columnist Will Carroll suggested that an American League outfielder from this season's playoffs has tested positive for steroids…

The same buzz appeared in this morning's USA Today Sports Weekly…

Fore more on this, check out Baseball Musings and Deadspin…

For what it's worth, Johnny Damon, Trot Nixon, Manny Ramirez, Garret Anderson, Steve Finley, Vladdy Guerrero, Hideki Matsui, Gary Sheffield, Bernie Williams, Aaron Rowand, Scott Podsednik and Jermaine Dye make up this season's AL outfielders who played in the playoffs….

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from NY Times

Quote:October 28, 2005
Good Smell Perplexes New Yorkers
By KAREEM FAHIM

An unseen, sweet-smelling cloud drifted through parts of Manhattan last night. Arturo Padilla walked through it and declared that it was awesome.

"It's like maple syrup. With Eggos. Or pancakes," he said. "It's pleasant."

The odor had followed Mr. Padilla and his friend along their walk in Lower Manhattan, from a dormitory on Fulton Street, to Pace University on Spruce Street, and back down again, to where they stood now, near a Dunkin' Donuts. Maybe it was from there, he said. But it wasn't.

Mr. Padilla was not alone. Reports of the syrupy cloud poured in from across Manhattan after 9 p.m. Some feared that it was something sinister.

There were so many calls that the city's Office of Emergency Management coordinated efforts with the Police and Fire Departments, the Coast Guard and the City Department of Environmental Protection to look into it.

By 11 p. m., the search had turned up nothing harmful, according to tests of the air. Reports continued to come in from as far north as 112th Street shortly before midnight. In Lower Manhattan, where the smell had begun to fade, it was back, stronger than before, by 1 a.m.

"We are continuing to sample the air throughout the affected area to make sure there's nothing hazardous," said Jarrod Bernstein, an emergency management spokesman. "What the actual cause of the smell is, we really don't know."

There were conflicting accounts as to its nature. A police officer who had thrown out her French vanilla coffee earlier compared it to that. Two diplomats from the Netherlands disagreed, politely. Rieneke Buisman said it smelled like roasted peanuts. Her friend Joris Geeven said it reminded him of a Dutch cake called peperkoek, though he could not describe that smell.

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I'm wondering how big a percentage of people are taking away from watching television by being on the internet.

Infinity stations to adopt new format

BY RAFER GUZMÁN on Newsday.com

K-ROCK won't be the same without Howard Stern - in fact, it will be a whole new station.

Though it recently switched from alternative rock to classic rock, K-ROCK (WXRK/92.3 FM) is about to ditch music almost completely. Its owner, Infinity Broadcasting, announced yesterday that K-ROCK and eight other stations around the country are switching to a new, all-talk format called Free FM.

Starting Jan. 3, K-ROCK will play music only on weekends. What will happen to the current hosts is unclear.

The new format will focus on pop culture, sports, politics and lifestyles, and will target adults 18-49, particularly males, says Les Hollander, senior vice president and regional manager of Infinity. "There's a hole for FM talk and exclusive content in New York, and not only with the void that Howard is leaving," Hollander says. "There's clearly a market for this format."

The move comes as Infinity is preparing to face life without Stern, who will leave Dec. 16 to begin broadcasting on Sirius Satellite Radio in January. Stern's departure has been widely predicted to come as a blow to Infinity stations such as K-ROCK, which depend on Stern for high ratings. Stern's show airs on 27 Infinity stations.

Infinity announced yesterday that David Lee Roth, the swaggering front man for the 1980s hair-metal band Van Halen, will take over Stern's morning slot in New York and six other cities, confirming rumors that had been circulating for months.

The complete Free FM schedule isn't nailed down, but early signs point to an affinity with Comedy Central or Maxim magazine, and not only because of Roth. Jimmy Kimmel will be Infinity's creative consultant. Adam Carolla, a late-night host and a collaborator with Kimmel on Comedy Central's "Crank Yankers" and "The Man Show," will be the morning host in Los Angeles. The magician-comedian Penn Jillette is also getting a show. Some Infinity stations outside New York will feature morning hosts with proven track records of drawing male listeners. "'The Man Show' is not the model," Hollander says. "It just happens to be that Jimmy and Adam worked together on the show and were wildly successful."

Three Infinity stations now airing Stern will convert to the company's Jack format; the Houston station will air CNN Radio News.

Stern's departure probably isn't the only driving force behind the switch to all-talk, says Michael Harrison, publisher of the radio trade magazine Talkers. "Even if Stern were still around, they'd be considering doing this," he says. "There's been a tremendous interest on the part of operators to think about going talk on FM with music stations that might not be doing that well."

Just as music migrated away from AM stations and onto FM, it's now migrating to the Internet and iPods, Harrison predicts. "The future of FM music is far more perilous than the future of talk radio."

This isn't the first time Infinity has tried a mostly talk FM station. The onetime rock outlet WNEW/102.7 FM tried it from 1999 to 2003 with mixed results, ending in scandal after hosts Opie and Anthony detailed the sexual antics of a couple frolicking in St. Patrick's Cathedral. The station now airs classic dance music as Mix 102.7.

"We know more than we did about FM talk then," Hollander says. "We believe that there's a need for more exclusive content with the advent of technology. And with Howard leaving, there's an available audience there that we can corner."

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watch for yourself

-----Original Message-----
From: [mailto:********]
Sent: Monday, October 24, 2005 9:50 AM
To: ******
Subject: ugh

Brad,

It would be difficult for me to be any more miserable right now,
I feel like the worst person ever. First, let me start by saying
that I m truly truly sorry, and I hate myself for hurting you. Of all
the people in the whole entire world, you were honestly the last
person that I would ever want to wrong in any way. There is no excuse at
all for anything that happened, so I won't even try other than to say
all of us had WAY too much to drink, and I did a stupid thing. I can
handle you being pissed at me, I absolutely deserve it, I can
even handle the ugly words that were exchanged between us, what I
can't handle is thinking that you see me as a different person. It is
weird, I feel like I just went through a horrible break up or something.
The world looked funny yesterday, I couldn't crack a smile if you
paid me, there are songs I can't listen to, and I just ! feel beyond
crushed. I don't know if you meant everything you said to me, and I am
hoping that you didn't. I know that I was wrong on many levels, but I am
also hoping that this is something that we can deal with. I know it
sounds totally crazy and stupid, but you have come to play such a
significant role in my life, I can't imagine my days without you. It is
totally strange and weird to say that, and you could say that my behavior
didn't reflect that, and you would be correct. I hate feeling like you
hate me, and I hate feeling like all of your friends think I am a
terrible person, because I am not. I know there is nothing I can say or do to take back
what happened, but I just want you to know that fighting with you was
just about the worst thing I could have ever imagined. It was right up
there with one of the ugliest nights of my life, and I would give
anything in the world to rewind and fix it.

I am not sure if you will respond to this, part of me thinks that
you won't. If not today, then maybe some other time. Also, thanks for
getting my stuff together, although I think my sunglasses are
still at your house, if you could keep your eyes peeled for them that
would be great. I can't even focus or work today, I can't eat, I seriously
feel like it was an ugly break up, and I am hoping against hopes that
it was not that and you are not done with me. Please don't cut me
off, I really don't think I can handle that.

I am so sorry.

Elizabeth




-----Original Message-----
Sent: Monday, October 24, 2005 12:02 PM
Subject: Re: Ugh....enjoy.

Dear Elizabeth,

Thank you for your concern. I'll be sure to file it away under

"L" for "Long-winded diatribes from drunken whores I couldn't care
less about".

You did a stupid thing huh? No...doing long division and
forgetting to carry the one is "a stupid thing"; Mixing in a red sock with a
load of whites is "a stupid thing"; Blowing some guy in a bathroom for
45 minutes while I sit at the bar wondering if you're taking so long
because you ate too much bran that morning isn't as much a
"Stupid thing" as it is grounds for permanent removal from my social
calendar.

To be honest, I'm not sure if it was more amusing that you went
and degraded yourself in a public toilet not once but twice in a 2
hour span, or that you seemed to think that by saying "Well, I didn't
Fuck him" somehow gave you a clean slate.

So forgive me if I couldn't care less if the world "looked funny"
to you yesterday. Since your world revolves around blow dryers,
golden retrievers, Prada Bags and Jelly Beans, I'm sure it must have
been most unsettling to actually have to consider someone else's
feelings for 24 hours straight. The good news for you is that my friends
don't think you're a terrible person, they just think you're the
average run of the mill cum-guzzling blond who commands about as much respect
as your average child porn collector. I could be wrong but, it's
pretty hard to respect some B&T chick who comes out to spend the night
at my place even though she's seeing someone else in New jersey and
winds up tongue-bathing the taint of anyone who decides 30 minutes of
droning commentary on Colin Farrell's new haircut is worth putting up
with for a h!*d job in the men's room. The good thing about being a guy
is that when I eventually bump into the young lad who finger-blasted
you n top of a towel dispenser last saturday, we'll have a shot and
laugh our heads off about the time it happened.

By the way, for the amount of time you claim to spend in spin
class you really must be doing something wrong to sport the thunder
thighs you do. Watching you parade around my bedroom in a thong was a
little like watching sea lions mate. Thought you might like to know.

PS. I BCC'd about 100 people on this email.

Talk to you never,
Brad

I haven't seen it in like 15 years and figured i'd give it a watch cause I remembered how awesome it was. Wow how that movie fuckin sucks, except for the scenes with Rutger Hauer, this movie fuckin blows. No wonder harrison ford refuses to even acknowledge this movie exists.