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I think he meant Stefon...

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.

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...

@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!!!

@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.

Soak it in...

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.

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."

@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

Burrow & Co with a defense. This should be fun... ...not.

It must be the playoffs. As much as I love this franchise, I haven't been this nervous or excited for a game in what seems like forever and that includes the games down the stretch to clinch not only the playoffs but the division. Sabres in six. LET'S GO BUFFALO!!!

@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.

J-E-S-T...JEST!, JEST!!, JEST!!!

I thought they typically put new stadiums in prime time during Week 2 so they got the majority of the spotlight. There is so much excitement and fanfare for Week 1 that a stadium opening kind of gets swallowed up during the first week of games. Maybe I'm wrong about that but that was my impression.