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during this time period, have liked what I do. They understand authentic chanel bagsthat there’s a tradeoff.”Girardi returning to the booth in some capacity for a year or two, allowing him to spend more time at home. Girardi said he doesn’t envision himself “doing something besides managing,” though he didn’t rule out the idea of taking a year or two away from the game. At the same time, Girardi acknowledged it would be “pretty special” to lead the Yankees back to the postseason following this disappointing year.

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Kanye West’s new album Yeezus is a recent example – praised as “brilliant” by Rolling Stone magazine and “wilful provocation” by the website Pitchfork, and filled with misogynist invective: an aggressively hyper-sexualised view of the world in which women are as disposable as West’s hastily composed rhymes. “Blurred Lines” that has received scant attention. Not only is the music industry male-dominated: so, too, is the market in which it pitches its wares. According to the British Phonographic Industry’s 2013 yearbook, males are the principal consumers of music in the UK, responsible for 65 per cent of sales. The proportion rises to 70 per cent for digital music (technology in this respect seems to be enhancing, not erasing, the gender gap). There has been plenty of speculation that the Cubs’ managerial job could be open, something Girardi – a former Cub, an Illinois native and Northwestern grad – was connected to three years ago. Sunday, Girardi made it sound as if Chicago was the furthest thing from his mind. RELATED: YANKEES INSIDER: MO GETS ONE Chanel CocoFINAL FAREWELL “Our home has been (in New York); my kids are engrossed in schools here,” Girardi said. “We haven’t lived (in Chicago) since 2006. … My father’s gone, my mother’s gone; there’s not as much there as there used to be.”