We understand the Yankees need pitching. We understand Javier Vasquez had a 2.87 ERA last season. Men lie, women lie, numbers don’t right? Not when it comes to the Melk Man, Melky Mantle, Leche, the Melky Way. Melky Cabrera earned everyone of those nicknames. Let’s take a look back on what made Melky so special.

Pitchfork Released Their Annual Top 50 Albums List [Pitchfork]

Harvard Business Review Breaks Down Myspace’s Decline [HBR]

It’s over for that Damon. Yankees to sign Nick Johnson [NY Daily News]

New Rich Hil - Welcome To My Nightmares [Rich's Twitter]

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Oliver Peoples 2010 Spring Ad Campaign With Elijah Wood [Hello Francis]

Diddy sat down with Playboy Magazine for one of his most candid interviews ever. We couldn’t pick just one quote:

…on people calling him a theif

You can call me a murderer, a womanizer, but I ain’t no motherfucking thief

…on younger artists coming for his spot

It will take any young artist a long time to reach my status. It will take them a long time to be looking at themselves on a billboard in Times Square as they eat lunch doing a ­PLAYBOY interview. It will take them a long time to get mobbed in Africa, Bolivia and Russia. It will take them a long time to drop an hour of hits. I have become the American rap-star dream

…on his legacy

If I’m not inspiring you at this point, you’re a lost hope. I’m one of the baddest motherfuckers to ever do this shit, and I’m not saying that in an arrogant way. That’s a fact, in black and white. I dare you to write down all my achievements. It will be overwhelming

…on him losing passion for music

It’s hard to stay passionate. It’s hard to go from working with artists such as Biggie, Mary J. Blige, Jodeci and the LOX to the new generation of artists. The rules of the game have changed

…on drug dealing

“Growing up in my neighborhood you didn’t want to be a basketball player or a rapper. You wanted to be a drug dealer—that was a great job to have. If you had a chance to be a doctor and make $300,000 a year or be a drug dealer and make $300,000 a year, most people would have picked drug dealer. It’s a ridiculous, stupid, ignorant way to think, but that’s the way we were programmed.

…on sex

For any woman trying to please me, that is a real tall order. She has to have poise. She has to be classy. But when we get in that bedroom she got to turn me out, Jack. She has to put a porno to shame and she’s got to be sexually open

…on the current business

It’s greed. In the music business it is every man for himself. This wouldn’t happen in the Screen Actors Guild or the Writers Guild. We’re the only multi­billion-dollar industry that has no union. Now it’s so far gone that an artist who’s thinking about making money from a record is a caveman.

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“All these kids who say they want to be famous, they don’t know what they’re talking about. You can become famous by showing your dick in Macy’s window.” -Sting

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