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this ******* place

@Gugny @Another Fan Maybe I did see you! Was that you in the orange & blue feather boa and matching heels? Outstanding! I was shocked to see Pete back already but he looked rusty. In all honesty, he wasn't contributing much at the time he was injured. He needs to get back into the groove sooner rather than later although I'm not sure at this point if it even matters. After winning two in a row, they dropped 2 out of 3 to an old team with the worst record in the NL...at home...and now head to Houston. They were already 5 games out of the final Wild Card spot heading into today and they simply cannot get on a roll. The division is also no longer in play and Buck continues to irritate me, as well. He brought in Robertson today in the 8th in a 7-7 tie and did not bring him back for the 9th despite having only thrown 8 pitches. In comes Ottavino in the 9th to serve up a meat pitch to Arenado. Game over. You can't save Robertson for Houston as they may not even be in the game. Go for the win at hand and worry about tomorrow's game tomorrow. Then, to pour salt in the wound, he uses Vogelbach to PH in the 9th. You saw Vogie's only highlight of the year the other night after a 9 day 'mental rest' hiatus and Buck acts like the big man has suddenly turned the corner by going back to him. One good AB does not make up for a horrible season. I agree 100% on Vientos. He should have been sent down if he wasn't going to get sufficient playing time and his use/non-use during his call-up was a travesty on the part of the manager and the front office. But, hey, at least Danny V is tan, rested and ready...

@Gugny I watched that game. I'm not sure I believe you...I didn't see you anywhere in the crowd. 😁 (j/k) BTW, unfortunately for you, you were witness to the fastest Met game so far this season (2:01). The previous fastest was either 2:03 or 2:04. Lastly, I am not a fan of the black jerseys. I can handle the Friday night black jersey games, I guess, but I was pissed to see them earlier in the week for the first game against the Skanks. Cool that you got to make it out to a game, even if it was a loss. In fairness to Canha, he was one of the only guys delivering over the last couple of weeks but he has since gone belly up, too. Nobody else stepped up to help him out and here we are. Canha is supposed to be a piece, not one of the main pieces. You never know what you're going to get with this team. Just as you leave them for dead after a 2-9 stretch, they win two in a row to make you raise an eyebrow only to fall at home yet again to another lousy team throwing an ancient pitcher on his last legs. This squad really misses Alonso but, even with him in the lineup, they were still scuffling. As an aside, I think Verlander still has something in the tank and will give them a good outing more often than not but I am almost fully convinced at this point that Scherzer is cooked for good. I hope he proves me wrong. If they get nothing out of him & Lindor and Lindor continues to be a huge waste of oxygen and payroll, this team will be relegated to second division status anyway. Lindor is barely above 'The Mendoza Line' 70 games into the season. Hey, Francisco, it's not early anymore. At least we have one Francisco worth cheering for...when Buck decides to leave him in the lineup. Thanks for being a Met prospect who seems to be living up to the billing and then some, Mr. Alvarez. Happy Father's Day to all. LGM!!!

Definitely a Vikings fan. He has stated it on more than one occasion.

Is this the same Dak Prescott who has never even gotten his team to an NFC Championship Game and has a whopping 2-4 playoff record? That Dak Prescott?

We have some 'Bram Stokers' here, as well. Real pains in the neck... Ironic considering he's a fan of the Vikings who haven't been in a Super Bowl since the 1970s and sport the same 0-4 record in the big game as the Bills.

1) "If they yank my tackle eligible play over dis sh*t, you and me gon' come to blows." 2) "So somebody says to you, 'Let's go roll a fatty!' and you think they talkin' 'bout da ShnowMan??"

I don't see him getting the axe either but if they get off to a slow start again next year I could see them pulling the plug early and going with Beltran again. BTW, how Metsy would it be to see Buck get eighty-sixed either during this year or right after just a season removed from winning 'NL Manager of the Year'? Fun times...

@Gugny @SinceThe70s @Another Fan I know Cohen said last week that he's not ready to blow things up. Saw this today, FWIW... "It was around this time last year when the first manager was fired in Major League Baseball, and it's somewhat unusual for the season to reach the All-Star break without at least one canned. Two months ago, the favorite via oddsmakers to be the first manager dismissed in 2023 was Detroit's AJ Hinch, and he's still in that spot. However, closing fast is the New York Mets' Buck Showalter. New York lost 2-1 in Pittsburgh on Sunday, its eighth defeat in nine games, to fall to 31-35. The team is much closer to last place in the NL East than first despite an MLB-record payroll of approximately $340 million. To make the playoffs at DraftKings, the Mets are currently +125 and -145 to go home early. One might think having a seven-game losing streak as New York just did would be a playoff killer, but the Mets have made the playoffs twice when having at least a seven-game skid in the regular season, doing so in 1999 and 2015. It's certainly not Showalter's fault that All-Star closer Edwin Diaz suffered a serious injury in the World Baseball Classic and is likely out for the entire season, or Showalter's fault that the Carlos Correa contract situation didn't work out. Or that Justin Verlander looks past his prime at age 40. Or that mega-durable All-Star first baseman and NL MVP candidate Pete Alonso, with an MLB-best 22 homers, was hit on the wrist by a pitch last week and could miss another month. The 'Mets Fire Showalter' columns are likely being pre-written as we speak. While it's likely not time to move on from the highly respected manager just yet, time is running out to save this all-in World Series season. Just looking at the division, the Phillies' 2022 campaign completely changed whey then fired Joe Girardi early last June and promoted Rob Thomson to manager. He led them to the World Series."

@Gugny @SinceThe70s Ditto to the bolded. I know hindsight is 20/20 but Lindor is one of the biggest wastes of money in a long time, IMO. He was hitting .218 entering play today and did nothing again in a 2-1 loss. Even his defense has been subpar the last several games. I am at the point that I wish they had held on to Amed Rosario & Andres Gimenez and used the money elsewhere...either for some power bats or starting pitching. Gimenez is coming into his own and is a helluva lot cheaper than Lindor. You guys may not agree but that is just my two cents.

When I saw this topic thread, I actually thought the prognostication might have been from MJD who is probably the worst employee at NFLN. I'm not sure if he would even concede 9 wins for the Bills. He's a shill for the LA teams and rarely utters an intelligent sentence. If I see him on air, I flip the channel. He's just a waste of my time. NFLN has a ton of their 'analysts' make these on air predictions which are just fluffy, worthless air time filler. If it had been Michael Robinson, he probably would have had the Bills going 14-3 or something. It's all just individual perspective and not worth any more or less than the next guy or gal. As far as Adam Rank is concerned, he's a Bears homer and his shtick is trying to be funny. Sometimes he succeeds, often times he falls flat. It's difficult for me to ever take any of his 'objective' analysis seriously because I just don't find him to be very credible, believable, or knowledgeable. He rarely picks against the Bears no matter how bad they are. I remember him laughably picking the Bears over the Bills last year when the Bills were 11-3 at the time and fighting for home field advantage and his beloved Bears were 3-11 and staring at the #1 overall selection in the 2023 draft. The Bills promptly smoked them in Chicago, 35-13. I also find his fantasy football analysis to be subpar. In fairness to him, I don't find anyone's fantasy football analysis on NFLN to be informative. As someone else said upthread, Rank is harmless and can be taken with a grain of salt like just about everyone else on that network.

@Gugny @Another Fan Jose Quintana I saw the same article and I'm glad that Cohen is not a reactionary hothead like Steinbrenner. That said, seeing is believing. I need some empirical evidence that this organization is truly changing and will be building correctly for the future. We'll see if they foolishly deal some of their better prospects for stop-gap pieces who give the fans some 'hope' but ultimately turn out to be window dressing or if they bite the bullet and try to retool (not rebuild) next year. One other note: Vientos is playing today but he is not getting enough playing time to be up with the big club. He needs a run of at least a dozen games or so to see if he can show anything. Whether they want to see if he is a building block of the future or whether they want to showcase him as part of a potential deadline deal, sitting him so much will accomplish neither goal. He should either be playing first base while Alonso is out or DHing with Vogelbach's fat ass glued to the bench, lefty/righty match-up be damned. Currently, neither is being done which is the typically inept and shortsighted Met way.

@Gugny @SinceThe70s Everything these days is driven by analytics and lineups are largely determined by the GM and the analytics team with very little say by the on field manager. You would think that someone with Buck's experience and years in the game would have more input but I'm not sure if that is actually the case. Managers used to determine lineups, not the pencil-pushers and nerds in the front office. FWIW, I hope the majority of this is not Buck because, if it is, the game has passed him by, IMO. In no world should a team that is supposed to be a contender be trotting out Daniel Vogelbach on a nearly nightly basis. He should have already been DFA'd. Can you imagine a well-run organization like Atlanta regularly playing Vogelbach as their DH? Not a chance in hell. Nothing ever changes with this franchise. They went from penny-pinching owners to the richest owner in baseball and yet the ineptitude continues despite the bloated payroll. Alonso, Alvarez and, to an extent, Baty are the only reasons to even pay attention to this team right now, at least for me. And now Alonso is day-to-day after getting plunked the other night. 1986 seems like a million years ago in the rearview mirror now. I'm starting to think I'll never see another title in my lifetime. <sigh>

Just announced. It's official. https://www.buffalobills.com/news/bills-qb-josh-allen-featured-on-madden-nfl-24-cover

@Gugny @SinceThe70s @Another Fan This team sucks. That is all. #SOFM

It's also interesting (frustrating?) that people continue to engage...and give a platform to...the same handful of trolls who continually contribute nothing constructive to this community. By any objective measure, the pass rush got better with the addition of Leonard Floyd.

Congrats to the Bandits. I watched the entire series and thoroughly enjoyed it; however, it was a little disappointing that the deciding game was only available via ESPN+. I get that's the way the world is going now but to televise the first two games 'conventionally' and then air the deciding game over stream only seemed odd to me but I managed to watch regardless. It did not bring me the joy that a title for the Bills or Sabres would but I was happy they won for sure. My younger son was even more into it than me which I thought was cool since he has never lived a day in WNY but is everything Buffalo for his sports teams.

...getting way more guaranteed money than anyone else was willing to offer.

If you honestly don't see any upgrades/improvements to this roster then you're either myopic, obtuse, or both. Look a little closer.

Look one post above yours. De nada.

Sal said he does think it matters who you retain when thinking about next year. He said he asked Beane before the draft about a contract extension for Gabe Davis and Beane said, "After the draft, we'll evaluate what our room looks like going forward" so they do think about that for sure. Joe agreed and said he believes that the Bills operate as though it does play in, as well. Sal finished up with, "Thanks a lot Virgil, it's a great conversation. You have to think of the long-term, you have to think of the short-term and all that goes into it."

@Virgil just got done speaking with Sal on the radio. Nice job. BTW, did I hear @Gugny gurgling in the background?