Jesus, Elie. This story is so old.

Actually, she doesn't need the tickets. This story is a few days old and more developed than your post:

http://www.philly.com/philly/news/breaking/67196962.html?cmpid=15585797

http://www.philly.com/philly/sports/phillies/67136702.html?cmpid=15585797

let's go phillies! yankees suck!!!

welcome to earlier this week fatso- you must be hanging out with molina too much

Wow, what a scoop. You guys are all over this story 3 days after it broke.

"Does anyone sense a double standard here? If a guy offered to have sex with a woman to get World Series tickets, he’d be called a super fan. Hell, if a guy offered to have sex with a woman to get tickets to a sorry-ass Knicks game, he would be called resourceful, not a prostitute."

Out of sheer curiosity, is there a name for the rhetorical device where you force unsupported assertions on others as fact in order to further your own personal agenda?

7- you realize this chick has become a celebrity?

God, I'm old. What does going around the bases the other way mean?

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I think it's one of those unique Philly expressions. Like how they call making a U-turn "pulling a ubie" or a sandwich a "hoagie."

I see nothing wrong with this proposed transaction, other than the fact that the provider is not the least bit attractive.

Priceless. From #16 on the CBS Photo spread:

Asked why she listed herself as a "buxom blonde," Susan Finkelstein's lawyer William Brennan told the Burlington County Times in an Oct. 28, 2009 article, "I guess if she put 'little bridge troll' nobody would respond."

I like it that ATL is now getting its leads from Chelsea Handler.

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I don't know why anyone would debase themslves like this for a basketball game

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9 -- I agree, I didn't get that one either. Does it mean taking it in the ass? Does it mean she was going to do a double penetration with the guys? I'm stumped.

Independence from England Declared!!!

I love that in under 15 minutes Elie had to post an "update". Elie, you had three days to proofread and fact check. It's called Google. Takes about .3 seconds. Lat please fire Elie already, you are now depending on your readers to correct your stories.

----..-.. -.... - ...-... ----.--- ...-...- ....----.-.--.

/Morse'd

Jesus Christ is born!!!

Ha ha guys. I was actually going to post this early yesterday morning, but we had breaking news. Then I was going to post it last night during the game. But then another "homespun" manager decided to leave a tiring Pedro in the game to pitch to Matsui, and I became distracted.
--Elie

Hear Ye, Hear Ye: The British are coming. The British are coming.

/ATL Scoop

Ellie- the only question is "whose your daddy?"

Opie & Anthony have had her on their show TWICE before this story posted on ATL.

Tell Dr Finkelstein we can forget about mom for awhile as we have a whole new set of issues

Extra, extra, read all about it:
Pangaea splits into separate continents!

News on the March: Hitler Advances on Europe!

/ATL scoop

Hey Elie, did you hear about that BIG BANG several billion years ago?

what i don't understand is if a dood wanted sex why doesn't he sell the tickets for like 1500 bucks online and then hire a cheap prostitute--> profit

I think I know her- did she used to be an editor for a journal on global politics?

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/ An even older story than the Phillies ticket story

9 ad 20:
Whoever said "going around the bases the other way" was trying to explain the baseball metaphor to a lay audience (or at least, an audience unaccustomed to hooking up with members of the opposite sex, such as ATL's readership).
What he or she (not clear if it was the cop or the woman) was trying to say was, "[She] wanted to go around the bases, in the sexual sense, not in the baseball sense- that OTHER way in which we use the expression." It was not a reference to clockwise base-running, or deviant sex.
hth

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/Sccop'd

PE,
You never mentioned your clerkship with Judge Learned Hand. Very impressive.

http://www.sullcrom.com/aidinoffmbernard/

BSTBCSICSTJI!

The best part of the story is how she described herself

"gorgeous, tall, buxom blonde diehard Phillies fan"

I think Barclay probably gets hit on more than her

wonder how she is paying her lawyer....

Great logic, Ellie: One fan = all female fans. Did they teach you that at HLS?

Maybe she should hire an IP attorney as well. Is it a copyright violation for CBS to copy sixteen of her Facebook photos to their own website to create a gallery?

36, thanks for the attempt, but I don't know what you're trying to say either. I fully understand that no one is referring to running actual bases -- I just don't get the running them "the other way" part. I'm old enough to remember when people actually referred to some guy "getting to second base," etc.

Guess I don't really need to know this anyway.

Elie, my boss also lets me submit late, unshepardized work product all the time. Isn't it great?!?

Happy employee of Fantasyland, LLP.

36 was clear.

47th to say good grief, welcome to a few days ago.

BTW, did you know Jerome Bettis is from Detroit? Pretty cool the Super Bowl is there this year.

"Astronauts on the Moon! Yes, we did it!" - Lloyd Christmas

Elie/25-
Glad to know you just were too lazy to do your job. Besides your response only explains why it took you three days to post a non-story. It doesn't explain why when you finally did post it, it was wrong. Hang on I have a great story for you ::: Breaking news, world is flat, will fall off edge of world and into the mouth of a giant sea beast if you sail too far east, news at 11::: Why not just post that for all of us? I

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Ha ha guys. I was actually going to post this early yesterday morning, but I suck at my job. Then I was going to post it last night during the game. But then I saw an add for Papa Johns and I became distracted.
--Elie

48 - Congratulations on totally butchering that quote.

I agree 100% with #39.

Nice pic of two dogs.

With respect to Elie's crappy, gender-baiting argument, a couple points:

1. Don't try to blame men for the illegality of prostitution. Prostitution is illegal primarily because of 2 groups (i) the religious nuts and (ii) the feminists. Since the former has been continuing to lose influence for decades, it's only because of the latter that prostitution continues to be illegal in so many places.

2. With respect to whether there's actually a double-standard, the only people who would call a man who offers to have sex for tickets a super fan are the ones who don't have a problem with this woman's actions. Freedom-hating liberals like Mystal would have equal problems with both men and women whoring themselves out.

3. I don't think a man has ever offered to have sex for World Series tickets. Not that they wouldn't, a man would have sex for a half-eaten two-day old ham sandwich, but because they know noone would take them up on their offer so they wouldn't bother. As a result, I doubt there's ever been an occasion to call such a man a super fan.

52, I could have checked imdb.com for the exact quote, but I figured most people would get the point because if they are familiar with the movie, they aren't idiots.

Sounds like you have more time on your hands than I do, why don't you go and cut and paste the quote if it bothers you so much.

Disagree with 55 on point #1. Most lawmakers are men, so it's doubtful that the feminists are responsible for prostitution remaining illegal. There are also some radical feminists who advocate legalizing it, arguing that women should have control over what they do with their bodies. I think your other group, religious nuts or moralists more generally, are the reason.

Hey, maybe somebody could chime in with a witty comment sarcastically saying that some really old event is actually breaking news. ATL is a beating the dead horse-free zone (and no, that's not a euphemism).

( . )( . )s for tickets

priceless

"Freedom-hating liberals like Mystal," 55? I cannot believe how much some of you suck.

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this is why we need to end womens suffrage, because women clearly suffrage way too much.

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hey if ATL wants to make some money maybe it should be a connections network- hook this girl up with that small law firm from last week which wanted a full service secretary

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55 is right though he could have said it in a better way. People like Mystal see everything as unfair, bitching that she only is in trouble because she is a woman and that a man would have been fine if he had done the same thing. Liberals push through rediculous laws curtailing certain freedoms because they claim things are unfair. (I.e. Hate Crimes legislation curtailing freedom of speech, Prositution laws curtailing right to contract, right to privacy, and right to one's body (though to be fair both liberals and conservatives are in favor of this with only libertarians being in favor of legalizing prostitution. Or just making things rediculous like the school policies in today's earlier post about Halloween) Now to be fair and balanced, (religious) Conservatives have done the exact same thing so it is not all one sided.

There's republicans posting on here?!

Fuck, I'm out. They're douchebags

63 ftw

57 - While it might be true that most lawmakers are men, if it were simply true that theocrats/moralists continued to drive the illegality of prostitution, you'd see relaxed restrictions on prostitution in jurisdictions where religion has taken a much less prominent role. It's not like we don't have states where things like gambling (or, prior to Roe v. Wade, abortion) are legal, despite the fact most major religions that address such topics condemn them. And while I don't doubt that some minority of feminists advocate legalizing it, the vast majority of the kinds of women that drive policy (namely, educated upper middle to upper class) remain staunchly opposed to it (at least in my experience).

59 - Don't blame me because liberals like Mystal and yourself hate freedom. Search your feelings. You know it to be true.

- 55

I think this woman is somewhat delusional that anyone would want to offer her anything of value in exchange for sexual favors. But then, there are a LOT of GOP legislators with extra time on their hands. See the previous post for details...

68 - Maybe I have a bad memory, but I thought it was the Bush administration that set up "free speech" areas far away from where he appeared in public so that protesters exercising their free speech rights couldn't be seen or heard? Or maybe he did do that and I was wrong all these years in thinking that Bush wasn't a liberal? Either way -- My bad.

I think this woman is somewhat delusional that anyone would want to offer her anything of value in exchange for sexual favors. But then, there are a LOT of GOP legislators with extra time on their hands. See the previous post for details...

68, 57 here. I don't disagree that most feminists are against prostitution. As for why it's still illegal most places, I guess looking at Nevada -- the one state where it is legal in some counties -- might be informative. I don't know enough about Nevada politics to intelligently opine whether prostitution (and gambling for that matter) is legal due to the absence of religious/moralist influence or lack of feminist influence in the legislature and voting constituencies (or other reasons). But I would guess that most feminists don't have gambling very high on their agenda, whereas moralists do. Anyway, food for thought.

I really think the opinion that held by the proves how incredibly stupid they are

Finkle is Einhorn! Einhorn is Finkle!

Seriously, I feel sorry for this broad. Prostitution is way over-demonized in this country. If a woman of legal age want to provide her valuable services in exchange for other valuable consideration, then god bless her.

55- I will have sex with your wife for two World Series Tickets. If she is good and hot, I will even let her cum (err, come).

55- I will have sex with your wife for two World Series Tickets. If she is good and hot, I will even let her cum (err, come).

"Ha ha guys. I was actually going to post this early yesterday morning, but we had breaking news. Then I was going to post it last night during the game. But then another "homespun" manager decided to leave a tiring Pedro in the game to pitch to Matsui, and I became distracted."

Elie is not just incompetent, but lazy and incompetent.

Also, if this woman is guilty of anything, it's overpricing.

Finally, I want to be paid to read porn (I mean CL CE section) like the cop that busted her. What a racket!

72 - IIRC, the oldest profession is legal in Rhode Island as well. Interestingly enough about Nevada, prostitution is illegal in Clark County, despite recent efforts to increase its breadth. I don't know what that means (perhaps nothing). Regardless, I don't think you'd see the continued prohibition of prostitution without the support of both the religious and the feminists. It's certainly not a natural outgrowth of a "progressive" agenda - most countries that are considerably more liberal than the US (Brazil, Netherlands, Germany, France, etc.) have some form of legalized prostitution.

I guess I put it this way - I don't expect much from those who would use religion to fashion our country's laws. I have my own views on whether we should base our positions on important issues like criminal law, family structure, reproductive rights, sexual freedom, etc on a thousands year text allegedly written/inspired by a deity whose existence remains, shall we say, unconfirmed, but for these purposes, those positions are what they are, and I don't expect the religious to change them. Feminists at least hold themselves out as being driven by logic and reason and have no such excuse.

- 55

"if there are any girls in Philly that need a hook-up to get into the Georgia Women’s Lawyers event in Atlanta on Monday, give me a call."

You won't hear David Lat say something like that.

Prostitution is a crime without a victim. If you're morally against it for whatever reason, fine, don't engage in it. Don't force your morals on everybody else.

-Never purchased services from a prostitute

This post and the CBS post are totally disciminatory. The faces of other people in her photos are blurred out but the poor beagle's face is right there in clear view for all to see?? What did this poor little beagle do to merit outing him like that??? I hope he sues for invasion of privacy.