Pete Croatto

What’s shocking is that Phillies ownership vehemently objected to this but were totally OK with leeching.

Free Press columnist; Crossfire retread with Reingold or Weiss.

Meet your new columnist for The Free Press!

Oh, no, I’m afraid you’re right.

I am seeing some comments like “what if pro athletes really did kiss???” and I am excited for those people to learn about the WNBA

Oh, and just to be clear: Don't do that. Act like you've been there before.

"Project Runway host Heidi Klum" and "superstar stand-up comedian Kevin Hart" are totally fine. "Global icons" sounds like you're angling to get a selfie after the press conference.

Just because you use information from a press release in your article that does not, under any circumstances, mean you have to use the language from the press release.

"To engage football greats..." And I'm out.

That makes sense.

🎵Oh, the weather inside is frightful.🎵

That he’s wearing a shirt under his jersey makes this at least 10 percent more amusing.

“I drive a Dodge Stratus!”

Spot on. She also seems to think that whatever is in the memoir is enough of an explanation, when it’s really a jumping off point for any halfway decent interviewer. And she cannot control that side. So here we are.

(Gavin Rossdale voice) 🎵Salad Cream🎵

Can't wait to get a great interest rate on a personal loan after I eat a bucket full of cockroaches.

"OK, I'll give you a 5.5 percent rate on this mortgage, but you have to light yourself on fire."

Home A-Moan was right there!

The first 2 Home Alone Movies are such classics! But they've been going downhill ever since! So happy they tried something new at last.

Thank you for getting the musty reference. It is deeply appreciated.

What Lana Del Rey song is this?

One reason: In mainstream political journalism, your bosses reward you for coming off as dry, unsurprisable, immune to alarm. "Everybody needs to calm down" is a signal to them that you are not volatile, and thus not prone to bad judgment. This is exactly what should not be rewarded right now. >

Ding, ding, ding!

He's going to be swapping harmonica solos with Dolan by February.

And he made a Rod Stewart ballad tolerable. A giant.

Steve Cropper, Legendary Guitarist for Booker T. & the MG’s, Otis Redding and the Blues Brothers, Dies at 84 Steve Cropper, guitarist for Booker T. & the MG's, Otis Redding, the Blues Brothers and many more, has died. He was 84.

if I could only listen to one kind of music for the rest of my life, the answer would be Memphis soul. RIP Steve Cropper, whose guitar and production defined the Stax sound as much as Booker T’s organ or Otis Redding’s shout

My daughter said the same thing about seeing Santa in 2022.

The biggest surprise in this whole story is learning that Lawrence Frank is a high-ranking exec for an NBA team.

YouTube video by AWS MTV Fat Camp (but it's ONLY Tony)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVLc...

Now I'm imagining Lawrence Frank as Tony Sparber in MTV's FAT CAMP calling Chris Paul's parents.

"You have to send someone to pick him up. I can't have him mixing with the population. You're going to have to deal with him."