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Bringing back Hiroki, losing Sori? Shifting outfielders? Chasing Torii Hunter? Ah, yes, the Hot Stove is here.

[Photo Via: Nell’s Dish Du’Jour]

This looks like fun.

Serious Eats chips in.

Real nice piece over at SB Nation’s Longform on the Branding of Brooklyn by Brandon K. Thorp:

Outside Modell’s on Oct. 3 stood an elderly black man almost entirely dressed up in precisely that blue and orange crap — a Knicks windbreaker over a Carmelo Anthony jersey over a white tee-shirt, and an old-timey New York Knicks cap that actually said “Knickerbockers.” This man’s name was, it happens, Oscar Modell. “No relation,” he said.

Modell lives in Bed Stuy, and always has. “I just took a walk to see [Barclays],” After he did a walk-around of the arena, Oscar said he’d go to Junior’s, in downtown Brooklyn, for a piece of cheesecake.

“This is looking real good here,” he said. “I never thought I’d see something like it. I look forward to seeing the Knicks beat the stuffing out of the Nets here.”

Asked why he, a lifelong Brooklynite, wouldn’t root for a Brooklyn basketball team, he laughed.

“Brooklyn doesn’t have a basketball team,” he said. “Brooklyn’s got an arena. But I read the boys on the Nets don’t even live in Brooklyn. They don’t even live in New York.”

This is true. The Nets mostly still live in Jersey, near their practice facility. Small forward Gerald Wallace remarked recently that he’d never move to Brooklyn; that he’s too frightened of New York City to ever live in it.

“The boys on the Knicks, maybe they’re not from New York, but at least they want to come here,” he said. “Just like people from all over the world want to come here. That makes it a hometown team. But the Nets? The Brooklyn Nets? The Brooklyn Nets is just a logo. Maybe one day it’ll be more than that, but not yet. Not for a long time.”

Here’s the Nets bandwagon: I ain’t on it.

Via Laughing Squid, check out these long exposure photographs by Randy Scott Slavin.

Also found at Laughing Squid, this time lapse movie of the hurricane.

Some disturbing Yankee-related news today.

First, this on Brien Taylor. And this report on the death of Pascual Perez.

This is so dope.

Illustrations by Waldemar von Kozak.

The view from my apartment this morning.

Time to go back to work.

Here’s a slept-on classic:

As expected, Rafael Soriano has opted out of his contract and is now a free agent.

[Photo Credit: Mike Stobe/Getty Images]

Man, still hard to believe what hit us.

Picture by Jonathan Percy.

Here Comes The Gravediggaz

Boom Bip, competition ain’t shit.

[Photo Via: Space Ghost Zombie]

I think we’re going to need a bigger boat.

Just had to share this Halloween outfit with you.

[Photo Via: Super Punch]

Nevermore. Illustration by Edmund Dulac.

Food 52 helps us get along.

Man, it’s just been surreal the past few days here in New York. I didn’t have the energy or the inclination to blog about anything but the storm but today I’m going to try to get back to some kind of routine.

We’re safe here in the Bronx and we’re damn fortunate for that. So many others have suffered.

Hope you are all okay.

[Photo Via: Noah Kalina]

A good place for Sandy links: Kottke.

We’re okay here in our part of the Bronx. The same, obviously, can’t be said for thousands of other brothers and sisters. The power outage at NYU Medical was and is a nightmare.

Hope you are all okay.

Some picture via The Atlantic.

[Photo Credit: Reuters/Lucas Jackson; 6WABC News]

More photos via The Atlantic. 

We’ve still got power at 9:30 but it’s not much fun waiting this out right about now. But we’re okay. Hope you are too.