SinceThe70s

White collar conservative flashin' down the street Pointin' their plastic finger at me, ha ! They're hopin' soon my kind will drop and die but uh I'm gonna wave my freak flag high, high !

I'm not an X's and O's guy but the difference in the Bills pass rush before and after he left the game looked noticeable to me. If someone here has compared him to Bruce by all means call that person out. In the mean time I'll be thrilled if I see the same pass rush going forward without Hoecht

Should we file this under "Don't hate the player, hate the game"?

Or jump on the first one that looks good?

It was more of a Mets sentiment

If the Jays don't win it here they will lose

Thats the juice. And baseball has a history of the small guy coming up big in the big situation

Raise your hand if you thought the Rojas at bat would be the compelling one and the Ohtani at bat would be a one swing nothing. It's emblematic of why I love the game

One of my favorite lines ever came from (at the time) Mets relief pitcher Braden Looper after a game where he hit a guy and the benches emptied. When asked after the game whether he was throwing at the guy in retaliation for a Met getting HBP earlier he said "Sometimes in a game things happen. And then sometimes other things happen".

The guy on the Blue Jays threw his hand out to try to get HBP. Wroblewski obliged on the next pitch. And then the Blue Jay was upset he got hit. Good times.

In game interviews detract from the broadcast.

Bichette is on third. Two more hits and he scores.

I've noticed this too. I'm on the fence on rigged vs. poor officiating but more and more I wonder if it's because I don't want rigged to be true. As soon as I'm convinced it's true I'll walk away from something that I've enjoyed since...well you know.

I took a deep dive into The Mighty Mighty Bosstones lately and found some gems: Great song and lyrics This one goes in a bunch of different directions in a short period of time - all of which I like Classic ska song

A defensive swing for a double to the wall. Wow.

The number of young pitchers coming in and dominating from the jump lately is impressive with Skenes being the poster child. Hunter Greene, Schlittler, Yesavage,...even my Mets had Nolan McLean this year. These young pitchers are coming in looking poised and not overwhelmed than in the past.

I love a good troll thread. At it's height Spags/Howard was my favorite. Another I remember was when we were looking for a QB and there was a thread about a French QB playing in a European league that was touted as a can't miss by the OP. Good times.

@itaos Care to elaborate on your thumbs down? I'm always interested in dissenting opinions.

Hyping young players is nothing new or surprising. You do it yourself and I appreciate your insight on up and coming players. But you are WAY too fixated on Volpe for some reason. And for the record, neither Lin or Tommy Cutlets were ever hyped before they had the small measures of success they had, they were both just fun stories for starving fan bases. And your assertion that Skattebo sucks speaks more to your bias than anything else imo. From what I saw he was a productive player.

When a team is capable of backing it up this is the best philosophy imo.

Mantle? Do you really think folks were saying he was the next Mantle? And was Mantle even Eye-talian?

Your fixation on "NY things" is palpable. Equating Volpe to Mantle is a figment of your imagination.

And so are you.

Including you - unless you intentionally butchered his name. For the record it was Jeremy Lin and Linsanity.

Went to a Jets/Bills game years ago and my bud bought a Mangold jersey. As much as I hate the Jets always thought that was a great purchase.