SinceThe70s

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.

I'm always looking for ways to not like guys that play for the Jets, but this guy never gave me a reason. Complete opposite actually. Way too early, sad to hear.

Every few years this song pops up and I like it as much as the last time I heard it. Lyrics are biting. "3:15, I'm running. From a fourth grade lynch mob" "Good Lord, I've birthed a coward"