On baseball and beats

I'm a huge baseball fan. A Yankees fan by birth. Blogs have truly changed the sport for fans. (Check out this story I did for NPR on this.)

My favorite Yankees blog is Bronx Banter. My man, Alex Belth, is a tremendous writer, but what makes BB really work is he mixes in his other passions into the baseball mix. I've never met the guy, but I know he's an old school hip hop fan, worked for the Coen Brothers at one point, loves sports journalism, and has a keen eye for New York City street life and food.

Over the weekend he posted a YouTube video of Digital Underground's "Humpty Dance". Aww, yeah, one of the bumpinest jams of the 90s. DU's Shock G had a unique combo of sillyness, sleaziness, and just plain shmoove rapping that made the group special, especially on "Sex Packets" and "Sons of the P". Plus they idolized of George Clinton and Parliament/ Funkadelic, and brought those phat bass lines into their music.

"Humpty Dance" has one hysterical line after another. Check it. And hat tip to Alex B. at Bronx Banter.