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How does it affect my team?
The rest is just posturing and mind-numbing jargon
: escrow tax, BRI, repeater tax, the cliff, nontax
payer midlevel exception.
Somehow, these issues and phrases found a dedicate
d audience which, through the beauty of modern tec
hnology, could respond to all of us in real time a
s we drifted into a late-night stupor at the Waldo
rf, or the Sheraton, or the Lowell Hotel.
Twitter provided instant gratification — Look, peo
ple care! — reassuring us in 140-character bursts
that the endless stakeouts were worthwhile.
The fans helped keep us sane — along with reruns o
f “Seinfeld” streaming on the touchpad screens of
Ken Berger of CBSSports.com and Alan Hahn of Newsd
ay.
The fans kept us fed, too. A network of generous b
loggers, coordinated by the salary-cap savant Larr
y Coon — out of pity or support — regularly sent u
s stacks of pizza. Marc Cornstein, a New York-base
d player agent, sent two massive deli platters (th
us inspiring a new sandwich title, the Cornstein o
n rye). The Brooklyn-bound Nets also sent pizza on
e afternoon, to the chagrin of the Waldorf securit
y staff, which harrumphed at the stack of cardboar
d boxes in their pristine lobby. (That lobby was r
outinely chilled to what felt like 55 degrees, whi
ch at least helped keep us awake.)
The various hotel staffs generally tolerated us as
we gradually took over every couch, every table a
nd every wall outlet, our own little Occupy moveme
nt.
It was while waiting in the Waldorf lobby, on Oct.
26, that we had our Betty White sighting. She was