Deputy Editor, Culture at The New York Times david.malitz@nytimes.com

Brooklyn
Joined August 2008
This one could set a new standard for the Pirates usual signing of someone who hits .179 over 240 at bats and is never seen in MLB again
Tommy Pham and the Pirates are reportedly in agreement on a one-year deal.
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My Terps fandom
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🎬🔥🐰 Fuego camina conmigo.
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The frontman of Yuck lost a Golden Globe to Trent Reznor last night.
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What’s “wrong” with the NBA? How about Russell Westbrook becoming a poster child for “bad” basketball? All he does is go all out always, rack up triple doubles, try to dunk on everyone, not only launch 3s… yet all the NBA intelligentsia decided he was prohibitively “inefficient”
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What's going to happen when Man City's trial punishment is a one year banishment to the Championship if they are already going to be relegated? 🤔
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"My particular idols, Coleman Hawkins and Lester Young, were both in that picture... I’m put in that great group of people," Rollins said incredulously. "It’s really too much to realize." S.R. speaks to the NY Times about Art Kane's iconic 1958 photo: nytimes.com/interactive/2024…
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Thank god. Gimme a Bad Man over an accumulator any day
The Cobra is heading to the Hall of Fame! 👏 Dave Parker has been voted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
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Every NFL team seriously needs to hire a guy whose one and only job is to have a direct line to the coach’s headset and say “whatever you do, you cannot call a timeout right now (you absolute moron)”
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RIP to Will Cullen Hart. Seeing Olivia Tremor Control live in the late-'90s was definitely to be in the presence of one of the best bands in the world. chunklet.bandcamp.com/track/…
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Announcer just said this about Bournemouth. A fate certainly worse than relegation.
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Watched 27 episodes of FROM over the last few weeks so I'm all caught up. I appreciate that for all the shows of the last 15 years that were like "LOST meets [something]" they finally said screw it and just did LOST again but with a fraction of the budget.
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Saw my first Pavement show 30 years ago today. First club show, too. Not a bad way to start
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Forgot one of the best parts: F'in David Kilgour was the opener!! (I will admit I did have anything close to full appreciation of this at the time.)
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Pavement played “Easily Fooled” tonight kinda think Bill Clinton was president last time that happened
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New worst Game Day Experience of my lifetime just dropped
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Not everything needs to be a zero sum game and it’s easy to celebrate the excellence of many. That said, if Paul Skenes - a top 3 (at least) pitcher in all MLB - loses Rookie of the Year to “Jackson Merrill” of the “San Diego Padres” then just abolish the award.
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Amazing Pulp show tonight how can one band have so many perfect songs about awkwardly trying to cop a feel
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Great, now the way every Pirates fan clenches up if Cruz has to slide into home plate, we get to do that every single time he chases down a fly ball.
Manager Derek Shelton said Oneil Cruz will move from SS to CF for the foreseeable future Cruz will DH at first. Shelton said Cruz’s season-ending injury LY played into this decision, among other factors
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The Pirates could lose 20 in a row and I still think it would only be 60/40 that Cherington gets fired. The accepted inertia and lack of any ambition is what defines the franchise.
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