SinceThe70s

Never been there. Which is an oddity since I've a big fan of the game and the history (thanks in large part to my grandfather).

@ExWNYer @Another Fan @Gugny RIP Octavio Dotel. As a young player (rookie?) I always thought he should have been brought in instead of Kenny Rogers against the Braves in the 1999 NLCS. He went on to have a long career playing for many teams - if you play https://www.immaculategrid.com/ he's what my boys would call a cheat code. Sad to hear of his (and others) tragic passing.

Wow, forgot about him. Wasn't that in his first year with the Angels? I could be misremembering but I think he came up with the Twins and the parallel between him and Carew both going from the Twins to the Angels.

The fact that it came in one game less is nuts. But that's a thin limb you went out on imo. Gretzky was by far the greatest player of his era, probably ever. Can't remember anyone ever thinking/saying that about Ovechkin. Ovechkin is still 1200 points shy of Gretzky in the same number of games. Gretzky's game was much more than goal scoring - and yet he still held the goal scoring record until the other day.

And Dock Ellis was on acid when he threw his no-hitter.

I think you're right. And if so, I think it was also the last time they sold beer at a game after halftime.

She lives in Mojave in a Winnebago

Flashback to '72, another summer in the neighborhood Hanging out with nothing to do Sometimes we'd go driving around in my sister's Pinto Cruisin' with the windows rolled down

I'm not a native and it's a bit off the grid from Buffalo but Letchworth State Park is outstanding.

That's classy as hell. Hope he doesn't get it against my Isles on Sunday and instead gets it front of his home crowd. Early 1990's I was working in the DC area and went to an Caps game. Had a verbal spat (that I provoked) with a Caps fan a few rows down which amounted to nothing. A month or two later went to another Caps game and recognized the dude walking the concourse. True fan. Hope he gets to see Ovi break the record live.

1. Len Dawson was a legendary player and had a great run on HBO's Inside the NFL. 2. Derrick Thomas was a great player and by all accounts a great guy... I made an honest attempt at this but stopped at #2 when I refreshed my memory of the circumstances surrounding his death. Yikes. I'll end with: 3. Enough folks on TBD have shared their great experiences with Chefs fans to remind me that fan bases aren't necessarily a reflection of the team they root for.

With three+ minutes left and the Caps up by one I told my son it was lining up for an empty net hat trick in front of the home crowd - which would have been epic. Sadly someone else on the Caps got the empty netter. He'll probably get it Sunday on the road in a meaningless game against my Islanders. Shame.

Cadillac appears to be the clear winner. Here are two more

Does it count if the car is a persons name in a song? Buick Studebaker

El Dorado

Does this one count my so-called droogs?

At a minimum there's a chip in the ball that should be able to determine whether the ball ever crossed the first down line. Unfortunately that doesn't help wrt whether a knee was down before the ball crossed the line. I'm skeptical that there will ever be a fool proof system, more skeptical that relying on the refs is a good idea and most skeptical that the NFL even cares. Controversial plays/games dates back to the Immaculate Reception (and probably before) and has never negatively affected the bottom line.

You oughta lobby for Camera Eye - lol. Seriously, congrats to you and your band. Good times!

So which Rush songs are in the rotation? I'm going to go out on a limb and guess Limelight but probably not Didacts and Narpets or Xanadu.

Fred McGriff? Crime dog!

I've been running a March Madness knockout pool since 2019. What makes the pool fun are the upsets and covers (if your team covers the spread you steal the winning team). Granted this isn't scientific as it's a small sample set and doesn't consider that a 2.5 spread and a 10.5 spread aren't equal but the numbers are interesting