SinceThe70s

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"

Lyric thread jogged my memory

I'm still alive and well still alive and well Every now and then I know it's kinda hard to tell But I'm still alive and well

That was the year before my freshman year when I first listened to Genesis - my roommate was a big fan. Liked that Gabriel solo album from the jump.

That's awesome! My first game was in 1971.

Metal on metal It's the only way To Hell with tomorrow Let's live for today

My take is it's a jab at the lack of elite players on THE Buffalo Bills vs. potentially elite players on Ohio State.

Just read that 47 years ago today Alternative Ulster was released. Can't say I followed Stiff Little Fingers but Hanx! was great!

I was surprised to see a topic on the main board about the punch rule divert to a discussion of the SB halftime performers. Good times. For the most part I could care less who the half-time performer is. Half time is for something more substantial to eat, refreshing my drink of choice and taking care of any gastrointestinal imperatives. Not too far off from how I look at SB commercials. By and large I don't gaf and it's just time between what interests me (the game). On the rare occasion I'm interested in the half time performer I'm mildly annoyed that I have to cram in the food/drink/bio necessities.

Maybe I'm splitting hairs, but bad poll imo. The poll asks "Should Josh play hardball with the organization?". There's a tacit assumption in that question that Josh is unhappy. First sentence of OP "Like if he genuinely feels McDermott and Brady are holding him back". If that's not part of the poll question you've poisoned the pool imo.

LOL, I saw the Who on their farewell tour in 1982.

Thread was prompted in part by ticket prices for Rush! Appreciate your point of view.