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Although I grew up an Oakland A’s fan, I started listening to the Yankees on the radio after I got a car two years ago. I get it; the Yankees are capitalism, blah blah blah. But it’s worth it for their play-by-play guy, John Sterling, the Voice Of The Yankees. He has a gorgeous baritone and does these unbelievable home run calls: “All rise, here comes the Judge! Aaron Judge homers to center field, a two-run Judgian blast!” He’s 84 year years old and 33 seasons into his career, so catch him while you still can, every night on WFAN 101.9.
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Even though I live in New Jersey at the moment I’m lucky to get all of the New York radio stations because I live close enough. i have a radio/CD player in my room that has been playing nonstop since October of last year. I go to sleep with it on, but at a really low volume so it can add some depth and dimension to my dreams. My favorite station is 107.5 WBLS. in my opinion it’s one of the few stations that doesn’t keep playing the same songs over and over… there’s something different to hear every day from that station and I think that’s great
May 8, 2023
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Flexes your visualization skills, plus you often get more detail about the game and teams versus watching on the tv. I follow the Phillies, SF Giants, and Liverpool - each of them have free online radio streams, making it real easy to listen whenever they might be playing.
I used to fall asleep to the Phils on the radio in the summertime growing up, helped grow my imagination in ways I didn’t realize until getting older.
Apr 25, 2024
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Completely outside of the algorithm. Still has funny local commercials. Can be exciting, soothing, meditative depending on the game and the broadcast team.
Jan 21, 2025
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The year is 2007; reality TV is an unstoppable cultural juggernaut. So they went for it: Survivor with kids. 40 of them, ages 8 to 15, sent to a Nevada ranch (coincidentally the same one where Alec Baldwin would later shoot two people) and left alone to create their own “society.” Split into four teams, they compete in challenges; the losers have to cook and clean for the winners. Each episode the kids vote for one among them to win a $20,000 prize. It went about as well as you’d expect: the show was canceled after a season, one participant was severely injured, and CBS was investigated for child labor law violations. It’s all on Youtube.
Jun 28, 2022
It’s an Irish pub somehow located in the interior plaza of a FiDi housing complex. The blinds are down; the red vinyl booths are empty. There’s an octagonal painting of the Twin Towers; Tiffany lampshades; a dim back room with stained glass windows; an ancient waiter who wears a suit; a horrific porcelain leprechaun. The wings are pretty good.One of the few bars in the vicinity to predate 9/11, Byrnes is a holdout against the mass extinction of normal places for normal people to get a drink in the city. For every haunt like Forlini’s that closes we’re treated to half a dozen new TikTok-bait establishments called, like, Ghosted & Fried that serve TUNA POKE WONTON TACOS and MEXICAN STREET CORN RAVIOLI (real menu items at Beauty & Essex) to Syracuse marketing majors in Allbirds. And don’t get me started on the neon signs…Even more insidious are the places like Bernie’s that mimic suburban taverns in order to sell homesick creative directors a plate of five mozzarella sticks for $17. Skip all that, go to Byrnes.
Jun 28, 2022
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This 2007 cult classic from Richard Kelly has it all: An insane ensemble cast including The Rock, Justin Timberlake, Mandy Moore, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Janeane Garofalo, and Wallace Shawn. An original score from Moby. Nonstop schizzed-out nonsense about the end of the world, quantum entanglement, psychic porn stars, exploding blimps, and, as Timberlake helpfully informs his drug dealer, “angels under a sea of black umbrellas, angels who can see through time.” Then he pours a can of Bud on his head and lip-syncs a Killers song to an arcade full of strippers.
Jun 28, 2022