Bronx Banter: Look at Me! I Can Be, Centerfield (Really, I Can!)

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Billy Crystal will suit up and play in an exhibition game with the Yankees tomorrow. It's a frivolous, ego-driven stunt, that is being promoted as a good, light-hearted time for all. The Yankee players, management and announcers, seem to fawn over celebrities like Crystal, and, as we well know, stars like Crystal just love being around jocks. Maybe I'm turned off by it because I wish I was ... [link]

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Will he look mahvelous?
Published 3/13/2008 by jake at Luft On Deck
... It’s hard to muster too much indignation for Crystal, who at least is only doing this for one day, unlike Brooks who stuck around like a case of herpes. (If indignation is what you want, Bronx Banter summed it up best earlier today in this post.) ...

Game Thread: Billy Crystal Day
Published 3/13/2008 by Ben K. at River Ave. Blues
... will be devoted to none other than the Yankee DH-for-a-day Billy Crystal. Wearing number 60 in honor of his birthday, the comedian will lead off the bottom of the first against the Pirates’ Pat Maholm. Opinion in Yankeeland over Billy Crystal is divided. I personally have no qualms with this little stunt. It’s a one at-bat honor bestowed upon a prominent baseball fan for his birthday. The Pirates, as iYankees tells us, are amused by this as well. However, Alex Belth at the Banter is rather skeptical of the movie, and Jason at My Baseball Bias ...

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