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• Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: a bank robbery on Canal St. between Baxter and Perry Sts. in Manhattan, a separate bank robbery on West 6th St. and Neptune Ave. in Brooklyn, and yet another amputation (that's the third reported this week!) on Gardener Ave. in Brooklyn.
• The Queens man, who drove his known-suicidal wife to the edge of an upstate cliff and then watched as she drove the minivan containing their two children over the precipice, received three years probation. His lawyer called it "a bad judgement call."
• Online feminism for the 21st century at Feministing.com.
• Gambino mob associate Robert DeCicco was shot four times while exiting a pharmacy in Brooklyn Tuesday.
• JFK's AirTrain broke down this morning, trapping 30 passengers inside the shuttle for an hour before they could be walked along a platform to safety.
• The New York Times has Pac-Man Fever, as did ten contestants competing in Times Square at the Pac-Man World Championship. The paper sardonically notes that no women were involved.
• On the 63rd anniversary of the D-Day invasion, the USS Intrepid moved from dry-dock to Staten Island, with much enthusiasm elicited from veterans and fans of the aircraft carrier.
• The Boston Globe thinks NYC is the place to be for anyone interested in good olive oil.

If Radomski is 37 now, then he would've been sixteen years old when the Mets won their last World Championship in 1986. Barely to his or the team's credit, he wouldn't start dealing drugs to players for another nine years. Radomski has plead guilty to drug-dealing charges and is cooperating with the league's investigation into the use of steroids by its players.

Mets fans, your wait is finally over. No, not because it's Spring Training, and not because of a World Championship, but because one member of the New York Mets will finally be enshrined in...Madame Tussauds. The 204-figure museum, which bills itself as "New York's most famous tourist attraction" (get it? famous), will unveil its first wax Mets figure on April 2. The house of wax already has five Yankees figures - Derek Jeter, Babe Ruth, Joe DiMaggio, Mickey Mantle (under repair), and George Steinbrenner.

How perfect. 2006 is the 20th Anniversary of the 1986 World Championship for the Mets and San Diego Serenade made an amazin' re-enactment of one of the signature moments of the World Series. As a tribute to RBI Baseball, Serenade's "favorite video game of all time," he made the video above, re-enacting the bottom of the 10th inning in game 6 and setting it to Vin Scully's broadcast of the same game. If you have 10 minutes so spare, we highly recommend watching and listening to the re-enactment. After all, can you imagine the time that was put into the re-enactment? Every pitch in the inning, every foul ball, and the final tough at bat by Mookie Wilson.

The Yankees head into the season hoping to capture their 27th World Championship. Once again they have the highest payroll in baseball and once again anything less than total victory will be a failure in the eyes of their bombastic owner.

Joel Sherman, Professional Scrabble® Player

John Hodgman, Writer