New Yawkey Fan All The Way

Hillary has an opening here to become the one true Yankees fan running for President:

As he moves about the country campaigning for the White House, Rudolph W. Giuliani is not always kind in describing where he comes from. New York City, he will say, is a tough town, hard to govern. It’s liberal to a fault and unruly as a child.

Now, however, there has come what is for many the true unpardonable insult: Mr. Giuliani has declared he will be rooting for the dreaded Boston Red Sox against the Colorado Rockies in the World Series, which began last night. From the Bronx to his childhood haunts in Brooklyn, there was a baffled anger bordering on rage.

“They should burn his seat that he sat in at Yankee Stadium — how’s that?” said George Patsin, a Brooklyn restaurateur. “They should burn it on TV so I can watch.”

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By way of explanation, Mr. Giuliani couched his shift in loyalty as support for the American League. (“I’m an American League fan and I go with the American League team,” he told reporters — not coincidentally — in the primary state and Boston neighbor of New Hampshire.) “I thought he was loyal to New York,” said Kebrae H. Scott, 30, a maintenance worker who wore a Yankees cap as he was heading to his home in the Ebbets Fields Apartments in Brooklyn near where Mr. Giuliani grew up.

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Of course, his most revealing comment on the subject was perhaps the answer he provided to The Providence Journal in Rhode Island when asked, this June, if he would agree to be president if it hinged on his becoming a Red Sox fan.

“I have great respect for people who really are fans of the team they say they are fans of,” Mr. Giuliani said. “But probably that’s a deal I could not make.”

“Sexy Philanthropist” Costume Not Popular This Year

Community groups have turned down help from Scores before, but even on the sexiest of holidays, volunteers from Scores still can’t catch a break:

Scores strippers set to help out at a Halloween festival held at a Brooklyn middle school have been told thanks, but no thanks.

Ladies from the jiggle club were scheduled to volunteer at the Puppetry Arts Theater’s Halloween Carnival Benefit at MS 51 in Park Slope on Saturday, but wouldn’t have worn their, uh, work uniforms.

“The benefit is not an appropriate venue for volunteers identified as adult dancers,” said Department of Education spokesman David Cantor.

Clarke Represents!

Maybe Congress is the best place for her after all:

Nine months into her tenure as congresswoman for New York’s 11th district in Brooklyn, a freshman Representative, Yvette Clarke, submitted her first bill this week. She was the only remaining first-term congresswoman to have not yet introduced legislation. Her lack of activity contributed to her earning a “D” grade last month from a congressional watchdog, CBC Monitor.

From The Dept. Of Corrections

It turns out that the big Post story about 30 NYPD officers being investigated for taking steroids was off by about a zero:

Yesterday’s Post incorrectly reported that as many as 30 cops were rounded up to take drug tests as part of the NYPD steroid investigation. In fact, three officers were ordered to an NYPD medical facility, and a total of six are being probed.

You Know Bloomberg’s Not Running For President . . .

. . . when he compares the Iraqi insurgency to George Washington’s militia:

In his most detailed comments on the Iraq war, Mayor Bloomberg last night suggested the United States was in the same difficult position as the British in the Revolutionary War — facing a determined band of insurgents.

Bloomberg said the comparison occurred to him when he visited his mother recently and was driving through Lexington, Mass., where a scrubby group of farmers rose up against a well-trained militia more than 200 years ago.

“We’re the British,” the mayor said during an interview with Tom Brokaw at Cooper Union, part of a series featuring potential presidential contenders hosted by former Gov. Mario Cuomo.

Pitch perfect and ready for prime time!