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Nobody outside of Bruins fans likes Boston. You have permission to cheer for the Sabres. They lost a tough one tonight, 2-1 in OT, but still lead the series 3-2. They'll need to close out the bean eaters in Boston on Friday. BTW, the Mets won tonight, 8-0. Nice game by Holmes and HRs from Bichette and Soto.

Mattingly was on a first ballot HOF trajectory when back problems curtailed his career. I'm opposed to the watering down of the HOF, it smacks of the Hall of Very Good and imo Mattingly doesn't belong. But he's a Yankee I can never hate if only for this moment:

just an aside that is pretty weird IMO seeing Mattingly as a Phillie. With how watered down the Hall of Fame has gotten in the last few years he seems a pretty solid candidate for it. Being from Jersey I was always more a Devils fan but I'm sort of on the Sabres bandwagon. I say sort of because I'd be a phony to say all of a sudden I'm a fan

Too true. Speaking of the Dodgers, we'll be seeing the Dodgers in Diaz's first game back to CitiField this year. Seems unlikely to end well, but if he gets into the game at least I'll have the opportunity to give him a warm NY welcome home. Unfortunately with the fun regulator (wife) there I won't be able to fully express myself. Good luck to the Sabres tonight. I've been watching on and off - Bruins had a good start to the series but the cream is rising to the top.

Watch him eventually get DFA'd, get picked up by the Dodgers, and then regain his old form. Such is the life of a Met fan...

@ExWNYer @Gugny - just yesterday WFAN was talking about what the Mets could do with Senga and the options presented were 1) send him to the minors 2) DFA him 3) put him in the bullpen or 4) create a phantom injury. On the broadcast the other day they showed his before/after stats and he went from elite to bum like a switch was flipped.

Senga is a bum. Add Soto back to the IL now, too.

@SinceThe70s @Gugny @Another Fan The Phillies canned Rob Thomson today and promoted Don Mattingly to interim manager. I'll bet they take a run at Alex Cora this off season. GM Dave Dombrowski hired Cora as the Red Sox’s manager back in 2017 and they won a World Series together in 2018. Seems like a no-brainer. I have a feeling that Mendy will not be fired...maybe I'm wrong. If the team was healthy then I could see it more but they haven't had Soto and Lindor together for much of the time. There will probably be player shuffling and lineup shuffling to see if anything changes. This is more the result of an unprecedented entire team not playing up to the backs of their baseball cards. Most of the new guys they brought in have solid track records but, for whatever reason, they are all scuffling simultaneously. The offense has scored 2 or fewer runs in 14 of their 28 games. Let that sink in for a minute. Half their games. That is beyond putrid and no amount of managing is going to change that. Regardless, this is a complete sh!t show right now. I agree with you @SinceThe70s...I can't remember the last time I was this ambivalent about a Mets team. It's not even May and I am already periodically checking scores and peeking in on games rather than watching them. It was easier to accept when they were a tightwad franchise and just bad but it's just disgusting to be a perennial top 3 payroll and still play like ass. I have no desire to watch a bunch of overpaid prima donnas perform like the Keystone Kops of the diamond. And just as I was finishing this post, this came in... "The Mets placed Senga on the 15-day injured list Tuesday, retroactive to April 27, due to lumbar spine inflammation." https://www.cbssports.com/fantasy/baseball/news/mets-kodai-senga-lands-on-injured-list/ I was wondering how long it would take for them to come up with a bogus injury designation so they could get his ineffective carcass out of the rotation. I wouldn't be surprised if it mysteriously becomes a 60-day IL stint. GO SABRES!!!

Beltran is just a bad rash that somehow won't ever really go away for this franchise. Even the 2012 Santana no hitter.... who got the questionable hit that night. But the Mets are to blame a lot of times as well for enabling..... like retiring his #. Wtf?

I don't think I've cared less about this team since the Vince Coleman years. LMFAO - last night I jokingly texted friends that the Mets would hire Alex Cora and make Beltran the bench coach.

I’ve been hopeful that Mendoza wouldn’t be fired. Until the other night when Vientos ignored the STOP signal and got tagged out at home by a country mile. That is a blatant lack of respect for leadership and speaks volumes. Add that to Lindor’s “don’t GAF” attitude and mental errors .. and Soto’s comments about not speaking to anyone during the losing streak and ot screams to me that Mendoza has lost the locker room. Once that happens, it’s over. All I hope is that no one thinks Beltran is the answer. He’s a f-cking bum and I will be pissed if he gets the nod.

@SinceThe70s @Gugny They are horrendous and pretty much unwatchable at this point. When is rock bottom? They just got swept at home by a bad Rockies team while scoring a grand total of 4 runs AND with Peralta and McLean throwing 2 of the 3 games. Rightly or wrongly, if this garbage continues, someone is going to end up paying the price and getting scapegoated...maybe it's Mendy, maybe it's Stearns, maybe it's a player(s). It was yet another "quality" start <insert sarcasm here> for Senga in the second game of the doubleheader...2 2/3 innings pitched, 3 walks, 3 earned runs, and 2 men still on base when he was yanked. I honestly wouldn't care if they DFA'd him right now. If they insist on using him. I'd throw him in the pen for mop up duty.

I expect Mendoza will be the fall guy pretty soon if they don't turn it around. I don't think he's the problem, but a change for the sake of change move would be fine with me. The guy in my crosshairs is still Stearns. But I don't think Cohen is impulsive enough to can him now - and I'm cool with that as long as the leash is getting shorter. Personally I'd be thrilled if they canned Stearns yesterday.

@SinceThe70s @Gugny @ExWNYer Well I did find one positive thing this weekend: I was able to find a nice deal on a Mets sweatshirt for $20 at Marshalls. That and some fans looking to blame Lindor as being toxic to the clubhouse. The team is still losing with him injured now. It's just a bad team at the moment.

I am pumped! Thanks. I was worried about Swayman but in the 'Aud Club' GDT on Sabre Space I was saying that he wasn't going to stop them all and the dam would eventually break. It took a while but it finally happened. I agree with you about Boston's style. It also reminded me of that God awful, boring neutral zone trap the NJ Devils used to play. Boston basically runs one line with Pasta and they have Swayman and playoff experience. The Sabres are faster, deeper, and more skilled. I picked them in six. We'll see how it plays out but getting the first was huge...and tasted so sweet. 17 years in the abyss with the Bills and 14 with the Sabres. Say what you want about Buffalo fans but there is no doubting our loyalty. We are a resilient lot.

@ExWNYer - Congrats on the Sabres win, you gotta be pumped! I watched and the Bruins reminded me of the Islanders a few years back. Relentlessly focused on defense and opportunistic. With that style you have to bury your chances when you get them and the Bruins missed a few. When it went to 2-0 I didn't think it was over, in my mind the Sabres had to score next and by the 4:00 mark. Obviously they did that and more. Problem with the defensive mindset is that when things goes south and you need to score it's a difficult pivot.

Pick your poison. There is no shortage of frustrating things from which to choose. If they don't wake up starting with their next game, the season will slip away. To paraphrase Yogi Berra, "It's getting late early."

Yeah Devin Williams with the blown save wasn’t good. But he’s at the bottom of my lists of frustrations for today

I watched the whole game. My biggest frustrations today: Mets first two batters in the 10th didn't move the runner off 2nd. In addition to the WP in the 10th, Tyrod misplayed Conforto's double in the 9th into the tying run. Granted it was a tough bounce off the wall but wasn't Stearns preaching run prevention this off season? How has that worked out? There was also another brutal throw by Bichette where Vientos save dhim. 1-0 and we're hanging our hats on a HR by MJ Melendez.

@SinceThe70s @Gugny @Another Fan I was out and about earlier today and happened to catch the end of today's game on Sirius/XM. I wish I hadn't. They keep coming up with new and painful ways to give away games. 11 in a row and counting... The Mets were up, 1-0, heading to the bottom of the 9th & Devin Williams blew another game. Gave up a single and then the Cubs tied it on a pinch hit double by useless ex-Met Michael Conforto. The Mets then proceeded to strand runners at 2nd & 3rd in the top of the 10th and, in the bottom of the inning, Craig Kimbrel threw a wild pitch allowing the inherited runner to advance to 3rd then he gave up a sac fly and the Mets lost again, 2-1. You just can't make up this garbage. It's insane, even by Mets standards. Oh, and they were 0-8 with RISP. They were in first place when this losing streak started, now they are 7.5 games out of first pending the outcome of Atlanta's game tonight so it could be a full 8 games. Even worse, we have to watch the Braves become the Braves again after their disastrous last season. Usually, the Mets' season is over by Memorial Day. This year it may be over by the NFL draft. smh

I really don't have any real issues with Mendoza. But I do dream of him being manager now with a certain amount of authority. But I'd probably have a better chance of being J Lo's next husband.

@Gugny Still opposed to her now being a partial owner? 😊 Gotta have some laughs with this year

Islanders collapse overlapped with Mets losing streak and it was brutal. There was a night where the Islanders got 1 goal and I told my son the Mets wouldn't outscore them that night. They didn't. Not sure how much I'll watch but I'll be rooting for the Sabres. It'll be interesting to see how ready they are for playoff hockey which is a completely different animal than regular season. It should help that they were the better regular season team and get the home ice advantage and have some Cup winners on the roster.

@Gugny My whipping boy? Everyone from the owner down to the players and coaches...except Juan Soto and Nolan McLean who is apparently destined to be our new Jacob deGrom...awesome with no run support. When I was a kid I could tolerate the losing. They were "lovable losers" and had cheap, horrible owners. I love baseball and just hoped they would win. They often didn't and that was okay then. The Wilpons later continued that crappy tradition after Nelson Doubleday sold his stake in the club. But this? With the richest owner in baseball? With a top five payroll in the entire sport? It infuriates me to no end. We all hoped and prayed for real owners who would make this team competitive in the same market as the Skanks, not the continual, perennial butt of jokes. I can handle losing...I'm a Met fan after all...but what I don't like is that they shipped out a bunch of guys to change the culture and become a strong defensive unit reliant upon pitching and they are nothing as advertised. No hitting, constantly stranding RISP (like last year), bad pitching, mental errors...they have been horrendous since June of last year. This isn't just a ten game sample size. I'm also tired of everyone else's top prospects panning out, producing, and becoming household names while ours turn into the likes of Vientos and Baty. Even Carson Benge is overmatched at this point. They are already 7 games out of first in the NL East and 5.5 games out of the last Wild Card spot and are almost buried already on April 19th. They have nine teams to climb over just to get into the last WC spot not to mention that they have the worst record in the entire NL and are tied with the Royals and White Sox for the worst record in the majors. It's now or never. A team with this much payroll and supposed talent should not be this non competitive. Something is just really off with this cursed franchise. BTW, sorry about your Islanders, @SinceThe70s. LET'S GO SABRES!!! I hate the f*cking Bruins. If the city of Boston never wins anything again, it will be too soon. I would say "LGM!" but what's the point? I will drop in on a game to see what's happening and check scores at the end of the day...and of course converse with our little devoted group here...but I will not be watching games any more until they prove they have some heart and desire and are worthy of my time.

Yeah. Without getting well too political here I'll just say her politics apparently differed a lot from McNeil and Nimmo. Which some people think to as the real reason the clubhouse got gutted last year. Some fans think Lindor and his wife are clubhouse cancers.