SinceThe70s

Frustrating off season thus far. And I don't blame Stearns completely for players lost to free agency but wtf is the plan to go into next year with a stronger core than came up short this year? I'll reserve judgement but I'm struggling to come up with reasons to believe in Stearns.

Lets not get carried away assuming Polanco is the replacement for Pete at first. If true - epic fail. But it doesn't add up. I'm wondering whether the plan is to try Vientos at first - which sounds better than Polanco at first - but still highly questionable I'm waiting for that move that Stearns makes that makes it all make sense. With every day that passes I'm more skeptical

Oh man, I didn't hear that. I assumed it was a precursor to a bigger deal involving the likes of Maurico/Acuna/Baty/Vientos. I'm at a loss but losing confidence in Stearns more and more each day. I posed this question yesterday: what's the best move Stearns has made since he's been here, Iglesias? Torrens? (I don't give him credit for Soto, that was all Cohen imo)

LOL, this was out of my lane when it came out but I liked it then and still do. Still have a bunch of their songs on a playlist. Came across this one a few years ago which was new to me at the time:

Any team complaining about not making the field of 12 doesn't have my sympathy. Oh wait, maybe if we expand the field to 16 these issues will go away.

You may need to reinstate the Mr. Met giving the middle finger avatar cuz that's what these past two days feel like.

Nothing good. From what I read they had some dollars and years in mind and when the offers surpassed that they walked away. I'm starting to wonder whether Stearns is capable of running a big market team. I hope he has a backup plan because as my son said it's a bad week to be a Mets fan.

Completely agree on Evan's trajectory. I probably mentioned this but over the summer I sat directly behind him at a Mets game. When I texted my friends they wanted me to slap him upside the head - which I was perfectly positioned to do, lol. On a humorous note I have a couple of Met fan friends who are highly reactionary and lean towards negativity. The group text this morning had some moments. One take was that it was Juan Soto's negative effect on the clubhouse that made Diaz want to leave. I had some fun with that one.

3rd quarter duds was definitely a narrative/reality a few years back. But if memory serves we were still winning games on the regular. JMO, but some folks expect 4 quarters of domination 17 games a year and ignore the fact that even during the drought years we often had better teams on the ropes....until the 4th quarter.

I didn't get to listen to WFAN today, but agreed that Evan has become a whiny maggot. He has an encyclopedic memory but that's his only redeeming quality. I think his downfall started when they paired him with Carton and to @Another Fan's point the drive time slot became very Barstoolish. Back in the Mike and the Mad Dog days I could tune in and hear actual sports talk and opinions. Nowadays it's just a lot of faux outrage over who said or who did what. It starts in the morning with Gio - great impersonations but no other redeeming qualities. The only good thing about the return of Carton (I was glad when he left) is it bumps Sal Licata and Brandon Tierney out of the afternoon slot. Addition by subtraction.

What concerns me about Pete is Bor-ass. His modus operandi is to let things drag out as long as possible which means there might not be a good backup plan OR we end up overpaying.

I knew something was up when I started getting a ton of text messages this morning. I'm also very disappointed to see him go both from a baseball standpoint (he and Williams could've been lockdown) and also it's the end of an era. I'm going to miss the trumpets and I'm gonna ralph if I hear them in LA. I wonder if Stearns knew the writing was on the wall and that's why he got Williams signed so quickly.

My son and I weren't wearing any Bills gear for the first half. At halftime he put on his drought-era Bills Santa hat and I put on a Bills hat. I think my Bills hat didn't contribute and we can chalk this up to a pre-Christmas miracle.

Easy yes for me. Came across this one recently.

Too bad it's not the Manningcast, that could be entertaining.

Responses in this thread have been savage - once again TBD slaying it!

If the Steelers move on from Tomlin I don't think he'd be in the class of ex-coaches who have to settle for a coordinator position.

Definitely a good signing. It'll be a great signing if they bring Diaz back. It's a shame that Helsley was a complete bust as a Met - I expect both he and Devin Williams will have bounce back seasons.

Similar story except that when I left the bar it was 0-0, when I got home it was 0-7 and then we went on the 26-0 run.

What do you think Lamar is?

Not Sabre related but every hockey fan can appreciate this. Palmieri blew out his ACL and is out 6-8 months but got an assist as he was hobbling towards the bench.

Job security doesn't appear to be something he's been concerned about the past 15 years.

lmfao - I saw him freshman year of college in a campus building/room that I had classes in over the years. Had no idea who he was. We got drunk and it was an enjoyable show. Good times.

Not really sharing music here, more like a track from an album I had completely forgotten about until it came on the other day.

Ironically he got replaced by one of my Immaculate Grid cheat codes: Brandin Cooks.