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Candidates running to be mayor of New York City have a lot of tough and substantive policy questions to answer: How will they approach specialized high schools and school segregation? What are their ideas for affordable housing? Where do they stand on the NYPD’s budget?
Candidates also have some non-substantive questions they need to answer: What’s their favorite pizza place? Do they have a favorite New York City movie? Which New York sports teams do they root for? It’s a fraught balancing act to project authenticity while blatantly pandering. Past mayors and candidates have played themselves, as New Yorkers might say: Mike Bloomberg admitted to being a Red Sox fan, then backtracked, and Bill de Blasio got clowned on for eating pizza with a fork. More recently, Andrew Yang became the butt of Twitter jokes for claiming allegiance to bodegas from the confines of what some considered a full-fledged grocery store. With less than five months until the Democratic primary, we
Hey Yankees, you better wake up: The Mets are for real and they’re spectacular after Francisco Lindor trade | Klapisch
Updated Jan 08, 2021;
Posted Jan 08, 2021
Francisco Lindor has turned the Mets into instant contenders for the National League pennant. Joshua Gunter, cleveland.com
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This story goes back a few years, but it helps you understand the battle for baseball-supremacy in New York. The Mets had just said goodbye to general manager Sandy Alderson, who was going home to recover from cancer. One of the candidates being considered to replace him was Chaim Bloom, who at the time was a hotshot in the Rays’ baseball operations department. He was young and smart and had a new-age plan to return the Mets to their glory days as New York’s No. 1 team.