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I couldn't find stats for last year, but it looks like back in 2018 and 2019, they had the best average attendance in the league at around 10,000.

Rochester Raptors. Looks like they made it a whole year. https://www.mascotdb.com/teams/rochester-raptors

Nope. I don’t even think I’ve ever considered it, actually!

Albany Empire has always put out a competitive and successful team, but no one goes to the games. @LeviF could likely provide more color, as he is mor of a local than I am.

Holy crap, he is hammered!! 😘

Local (Albany, NY) radio station DJ posted on Facebook that Antonio Brown “has an announcement” in Albany tomorrow. Coincidentally, the Albany Empire (AFL team) has a press conference scheduled for tomorrow. Antonio’s father, Eddie, was an AFL player for Albany for years. Looks like AB is joining the ownership group and his dad will have a role, as well. https://www.timesunion.com/sports/article/albany-empire-adding-antonio-brown-ownership-group-17814407.php "Albany, New York. I'm here," Antonio Brown, standing on a balcony, said in a video posted Wednesday evening on his Twitter account. "It's a big announcement in the morning. Stay tuned."

Did you tread on him?!?

I cannot tell you how disgusted I am with what Rob Manfred is doing to baseball. Sh!t Changes: Larger bases. - This is just one of the changes that, to me, are making MLB look more like Bantam League Girls Softball. Bigger bases means shorter baselines. Add this to the next idiotic change listed and we'll see a lot more steal attempts and I'd imagine the success rate will skyrocket. Limiting pickoff attempts to two/plate appearance. - See above. This allows the hitting team to have the baserunners take bigger leads and, depending on the batter, call more hit and runs without having to worry about a pickoff attempt. Beginning extra innings with a runner on 2nd. - See bullet number one ... Little League horseshit. What's next? A rover? Banning the shift. - This one infuriates me. There is data that shows that, statistically, the shift actually benefits the batter. I don't particularly care for the shift, but the Mets have gotten good at beating it, and so have all teams, generally speaking. Most of the hits off the shift are extra-base hits. That numbers show that teams/batters have been getting better at beating the shift. I've always believed that the shift would result in youth, high school, collegiate and pro baseball getting back to fundamentals with regard to hitting and dissuade batters from getting up there and trying to pull the ball with every swing. (Do you remember in Dom Smith's rookie season when he came up to bat in a clear bunting situation and swung away/ended the inning? Callaway's postgame quote: "We thought about bunting, but Dom's never bunted in his professional career, so we didn't think that would be a good idea." NOT GOOD Expanded playoffs. - One MAJOR change I'd welcome is a shorter season. I think the regular season needs to be cut not only back to the 154-game season, but I'd be fine if they cut more than that. Now, we're saddled with 162 regular season games and a postseason that nearly goes into the second week of November. The Mets won game 7 of the World Series on October 27, 1986. I know it's not a huge difference, but I think the playoffs are going to get watered down. Changes I Can Live With/Understand: Limiting position players taking the mound. - This one makes sense to me. I've always thought it was fun for a position player to pitch, but with the goal of shorter games, I think this is logical. Pitch clock. - This is one that I've been in favor or since it began being discussed. I was THRILLED to learn that it also applies to batters. Three-plus hour games never bothered me, but I've always enjoyed the shorter ones. This helps and I think it makes the game-watching experience better. Universal DH - We all know this was discussed for YEARS before MLB finally pulled the trigger on it. During most of those years, I was dead-set against the Universal DH. I loved that the AL and NL were played differently. I still love small ball more than watching 162 Home Run Derbies every season. But, as the years went on, I softened my stance. By the time last season came around, I was ready to embrace the change. Nostalgia was the only thing that kept me from doing that in previous years and it felt good to finally come around. I'm just glad we get to see Big Sexy hit a bomb. That will forever be one of my favorite baseball moments of all time and now, there would be nearly no chance of that ever happening. In summary, I think Rob Manfred is a colossal douchebag and he's destroying baseball. #LFGM

It was actually a joke which had sexual undertones, but thanks for edumacating me!

I had no idea dolphins had ears.

Between every pitch, Jeter had to: Take his helmet off and put it back on. Take each of his batting gloves off/put them back on ... twice. Touch his nuts seven times. Look at his bat like he wanted to bang it. Take a deep breath ... huge exhale. Then .. maybe .. he'd get into the batter's box.

At this point, I'm afraid that retaining Sean McDermott - period - is a mistake. Regular season success, aside, this team has been an absolute shitshow since the day he came to Buffalo.

Rob Manfred has proposed and made a lot of changes that have thoroughly pissed me off. But the pitch clock is one change that I am okay with. The best part about the rule is that it also applies to batter. Derek Jeter would perform an entire Catholic mass between every single pitch. It was ridiculous. I read an article today in which a pitcher praised the clock. Players don't like longer games anymore than fans do.

List of dome teams who've won the Super Bowl: 1999 St. Louis Rams 2006 Indianapolis Colts 2009 New Orleans Saints The End

I don't even think Bandito would do something like this.

Either way, I've already called CPS on his ass.

Yeah, I've definitely experienced this. Normally when I'm exhausted and in the midst of an hours-long drive.

You're really good at following instructions.

Agreed. And I also think that it was Marino who didn’t want any kind of significant run game, which if true, was pretty dumb. As far as the Bills go, the sooner Beane and McDermott (and the Pegulas) understand that defense doesn’t win championships anymore, the better off the Bills will be. Going into seasons planning on Josh and Diggs to somehow make this offense work deep into the playoffs has proven to be a pretty crappy plan. F*ck defense. Build an offensive powerhouse.

Steve Young won the Super Bowl in his 4th season starting for the 49ers.

My knock isn’t on Josh Allen.

Most stupid name and logo in the entire league.

We have an ECHL team here, locally. I actually went to a game about a month ago and had a great time. But I'm in no hurry to go back and that is primarily because I hate the cold. Park the car ... walk 10 minutes in the freezing cold. Spend a couple hours inside a cold arena. Walk back out into the freezing cold and get into the cold car. It's super affordable to go, but it's still not worth it to me.

I think it's more likely (and accurate) to say that the Dolphins (as a team and an organization) underachieved during Marino's tenure after getting to the Super Bowl. And before anyone pokes fun at them or calls them out, this is exactly what we're seeing with the Bills and Josh Allen's tenure ... minus going to a Super Bowl.

.076?? 99% of Hammer’s Lot is at .076 by 8:30am!