Inside Baseball: Magazine and Newspaper League Softball Report
It's hot and fugly, and to us, that means moving less and having the interns put more ice in the drinks. For others, the heat is somehow a cue to play sports. Last night in Central Park, for no apparent sane reason, the New York Times played softball against the New Yorker, and Vanity Fair played against Details.
Photographs, of course, by Slower. Above: Kathy Park, NYT's Public Relations Manager, as catcher, with NYT advertising account manager Amanda Dean bringing on the slow-pitch just like the gals in Park Slope do it. I tell ya, the NYT team must have learned how to lob softballs from their WMD reporter Judith Miller.
Final results: the mailroom boys of Vanity Fair beat the hell out of the limpwristed Details team, score unknown. The NYT left the diamond strewn with monocles and top hats after they pounded the beer-loving New Yorker team.
According to the NYT's Ms. Dean, "New York Times bragging rights have been saved for yet another year with the Headliners handing the 38 players of the New Yorker a 15-10 loss." 38 players??? What the huh?
Jason Krebs, VP of sales and marketing for NYTimes.com: he could totally market our sales anyday. I think we can all agree that this is what sports is all about: hot guys in shorts.
The New Yorker's poetry assistant Emily Moore smokes it up in the bullpen — hey, just like Sylvia Plath would have!
It's always fashion first for the NYT headliners. Yeesh, people.
Getting super points for pitching-lesbonistry is New Yorker illustrator (and pitcher) Glen Tremaldi.
A New Yorker at bat: what's that tucked in his back pocket? Typical: a damn magazine. Don't these people think about anything else?
In summary, this is the first — and most probably last — time we've done sports coverage on Gawker. Even though a decent post-game liquoring up took place at Tap-a-Keg, we found this outing way too athletic for us.
