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Blogging's the ticket for notorious Phils fan

She wants to be known for more than sex and baseball. But Susan Finkelstein - the protagonist in last year's sex-for-Series-tickets scandal - focuses on just those two things, "all intertwined together in dark and wonderful ways," in the inaugural entries of her new blog, "Rounding Third Base"

She wants to be known for more than sex and baseball.

But Susan Finkelstein - the protagonist in last year's sex-for-Series-tickets scandal - focuses on just those two things, "all intertwined together in dark and wonderful ways," in the inaugural entries of her new blog, "Rounding Third Base"

As a 14-year-old Phillies' fan in 1980, Finkelstein writes, she used to have sexual fantasies in the bathtub "thinking about tall blond pitcher Larry 'L.C.' Christenson, although I believe most of them eventually got a turn."

Even Pete Rose?

"I said most of them," she clarified during a phone interview. "I had a thing for blonds . . . "

The blog, Rounding 3rd with Susan Finkelstein, serves a few purposes for Finkelstein, whose Craigslist ad for 2009 World Series tickets and subsequent meeting with an undercover Bensalem police officer led to her arrest and conviction on charges of attempted prostitution.

Earlier this month, a judge sentenced her to a year of probation and 100 hours of community service.

For starters, Finkelstein has the time to blog, being unemployed, a result of the arrest. She's also a writer who misses plying her trade. Plus, she has thought about turning her story into a book and, now that her legal case is behind her, what better way to showcase her writing?

"I feel a lot freer about communicating in a public forum," she said. "But maybe Bensalem can find a way to make it illegal."

The 44-year-old Southwest Philadelphia woman debuted her blog Monday with the post, "Pregame: Why Fifteen Minutes Isn't Long Enough." The double entendre refers to Andy Warhol's quote about 15 minutes of fame, not foreplay.

Double entendres, intentional or not, are Finkelstein's thing. She claimed her original Craigslist ad - with lines like "Price negotiable - I'm the creative type! Maybe we can help each other!" - had been misconstrued.

Her second post, "Inning 1: The Phillies Kidnapped Me in 1980," details her love of that team, both for its play and for its players.

She writes that in her dark bedroom in Northeast Philadelphia, where she grew up, a pillow was "transformed into each Phillie who, one by one, forced himself on me, rough and hard and smelling like Spray and Starch. I had a very active sex life (though still a virgin) with turn-ons even then that would be categorized as abnormal."

Finkelstein said people are focusing on the sexy parts of her posts and ignoring the sweeter stories of her learning the sport from her mother and wanting to be the first female professional baseball player.

"I started with [sex and baseball] because that's what people know about me and that's what's expected," she said. "I haven't decided what my next entry will be about. Some of them might be pedestrian and have nothing to do with sex."