Jaret Wright<\/a>?”<\/p>\nI’m a mean person AND a Yankees fan. Sue me.<\/p>\n
(Back in college, my buddy Toure responded to the news of Stevie Ray Vaughan’s helicopter crash with “Damn! Why couldn’t it have been Eric Clapton?”)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"No one needs to remind me that I’m a mean person. I get pretty constant reinforcement. For example, when Amy said, “It looks like Cory Lidle was the pilot of that plane that crashed in NYC,” my first response was, “It couldn’t have been Jaret Wright?” I’m a mean person AND a Yankees fan. Sue … <\/p>\n
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