Here’s me and Brian Bassett previewing Sunday’s Jets-Dolphins matchup:

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Over at the Perpetual Post this week, Jillian Lovejoy Lowery and I listed our horror movie Top 5s for Halloween.
Jill includes movies like Dead Alive, an early Peter Jackson campfest that I loved, but I only listed movies that actually scared me.
I love lists, but not really ordered lists. I find it really difficult to [...]

Wow. According to US Weekly, citing a former lover, A-Rod had paintings of himself as a centaur over his bed.
Wow.
Wow.
I don’t even know what to say. I didn’t think it could get funnier than the Details photoshoot, but I think it just did. A-Rod is the comedy gift that keeps on giving.
A centaur. Half-horse half-man.
You [...]

OK, there are two things you should read before continuing here. First, this from Jon Heyman, who suggests that “Omar Minaya is on thin ice” and “some Mets people believe the biggest reason Minaya is being kept for now is the three years and $3.5 million remaining on his contract.”
Second, this from Jeff Sackmann at [...]

I was just discussing autographs with two co-workers. I don’t really understand the point of autographs and I never have, because I don’t understand why I should want an example of someone’s handwriting just because they are famous.
Cerrone pointed out that, in a lot of cases, people just use autographs to prove that they met [...]

At NorthJersey.com, Bob Klapisch relates the story of how a young Jay-Z once indirectly bought him a car.
I’m hoping Jay-Z can very directly buy me a car.
My current ride is a 1999 white Infiniti G20 that belonged to my grandmother until she was no longer capable of driving. A couple of weeks ago, [...]

I haven’t been scouring, but I haven’t seen anyone note how cool it was that Pedro Martinez and Mariano Rivera, the all-time No. 1 and No. 2 pitchers in ERA+ and two total studs in the twilight of their careers, pitched in the same World Series game last night. They’ve pitched in the same game [...]

So Deadspin got a copy of ousted NBA ref Tim Donaghy’s tell-all about the league and its willingness to fix games.The excerpts are pretty magical.
Certainly there are reasons to doubt a guy writing from jail, and a guy already judged to have compromised his integrity for money. But the excerpts from Donaghy’s book mostly just [...]

And in this case, that actually means what it sounds like.
In a column for the Daily News today, Joanna Molloy details Alex Rodriguez’s new habit of dropping in on Little League games and stickball games around Washington Heights and the Bronx.
Molloy wonders if that has something to do with A-Rod’s playoff efforts. I seriously doubt [...]

That Cliff Lee guy is good, huh? It feels like Lee is now pretty good all the time, but for whatever reason has the capacity for ridiculous runs of dominance like the one in this postseason and his first seven starts of last season, when he went 6-0 with a 0.67 ERA.
Lost in the Yankees [...]