The platform of the northbound 161st IRT station provides an odd view these days, as the Yankees prepare to move into their spotless new stadium just a few feet from the tracks, with its gilt-lettered Decline-and-Fall sense of imperiousness, its arched retro façade vainly trying to evoke the grandeur of the original empire. But the [...]

So here’s what’s overwhelmingly weird about writing today’s Parade Magazine cover story:
30 million people will read it, give or take 11 people or so. That’s the Rose Bowl, filled to capacity, times three hundred. What’s more overwhelming is the notion that 30 million people are reading about Jon Lester, who beat cancer to a) win [...]