Talk Bronx New York

It’s the dead of winter, it turns dark by 5 o’clock, the temperature is sliding way below zero again and the economy is in shambles.

But fear not, baseball fans, all is right with the world.

Why? Because it’s OK to hate the Yankees again. In fact, I encourage it.

While I must point out that some of my best friends are Yankees fans, I submit that it’s our patriotic duty to hate the Bronx Bombers. It’s part of our heritage.

More than 50 years ago, when the Yankee Dynasty really was a dynasty, a wise old sage summed it up nicely, famously saying, “Rooting for the Yankees is like rooting for U.S. Steel.”

Famed sports writer Jimmy Cannon once wrote: “I imagine rooting for the Yankees is like owning a yacht.” Read more..

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Automotive improved to 5-0 in Brooklyn A West with an 89-44 demolition of Secondary School for Law, Journalism and Research on Monday. Jonathan Delacruz led the Pistons with 16 points and Eli Richardson and Clareld Stabler had 12 apiece.

Coach Will Stasiuk is enjoying the ride. Automotive was expected to return 13 players, but only seven have showed. A few have been injured and others quit. It has made them a small team: Richardson, a 6-foot-5 center, is their tallest player.

“I’m pleasantly surprised with how well we’re playing this year,” Stasiuk said. Read more..

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CC Sabathia shows up at his hotel in preparation for Thursday’s unveiling

 c but it doesn’t look like the center fielder will be Bronx-bound in the coming days.

Talks between the Yankees and Brewers were put on hold, according to a source, as Yankees general manager Brian Cashman didn’t speak with Brewers GM Doug Melvin Monday.

The trade has centered around Cameron and Yankees outfielder Melky Cabrera, though the Bombers are also expected to dump Kei Igawa, and part of the $12 million he is owed, to Milwaukee in the deal. Although the two sides didn’t talk Monday, a Yankees official said the trade should still get done at some point.

“There’s no hurry,” the official said. “There are a lot of issues.”

The amount of money the Yankees will send to the Brewers seems to be the sticking point, though it’s possible that more players - such as Milwaukee third baseman/outfielder Bill Hall - might also become part of the deal.

Although it may take some time for Cameron to join the Yankees, his former Brewers teammate Sabathia is expected to take center stage in the Bronx on Thursday. Sabathia will undergo a physical and do some house-hunting today and tomorrow, then meet the press and slip into his XXL pinstriped jersey on Thursday. Read more..

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Daniel Meyers monitoring scanners for the Breaking News Network, a subscription-based service used mainly by news outlets.

A giant crane topples on the East Side of Manhattan and seven people are killed. A steam pipe explodes near Grand Central Terminal, leaving one passer-by dead, injuring dozens of others and forcing a number of businesses to close. A fire rips through a home in the Bronx, killing 10 members of two immigrant families from West Africa.

Most people got news of these major New York stories from television, radio, the newspaper or, more and more, the Web.

But some of the first hints that something big was happening came from a series of transmissions from outside the five boroughs. Those messages came from a strip mall in New Jersey and were sent to pagers and computers in newsrooms in New York City and beyond.

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