SinceThe70s

Up in the mornin' and out to school The teacher is teachin' the Golden Rule American history and practical math You study 'em hard and hopin' to pass

@ExWNYer - you got your DH!

Strange to me that a Steeler fan thinks that Diggs could be the last piece of the puzzle to solidify their WR room while a Bills fan wants to remove the best piece of the puzzle in our WR room - presumably because of tweets.

The second side of Abbey Road deserves a mention (with no disrespect to the first side).

Do you think Diggs sucks?

Love this band!

It's worse than that - Red Wings have lost 7 straight. Meanwhile my Islanders have been shutout twice in a row after they won 6 straight. I had left them for dead before the win streak, then was high as a kite last weekend - it's a roller coaster. Still time for the Sabres to make a playoff push when your chasing teams like the Red Wings and Islanders.

In addition to beating the Islanders, they also got help with the Red Wings and Flyers losing.

Someone posted this in a music thread awhile back. A great version of of the original (1975) by (presumably some) band members in 2011

I'm sure I've shared this before, but I just found out that Dweezil is touring again and it's likely he'll play this so forgive me. One of my guilty pleasures is Frank's extended guitar solos. Dweezil crushes this one imo:

Just learned that Dweezil will be playing at my local venue celebrating the Apostrophe and Roxy Live albums - happy to see that whatever legal impediments to playing Frank's music have been overcome. Dweezil has always been cool about highlighting his Dad's albums from anniversary years and these were both from 1974. Can't wait. And then I have a conundrum. On May 3 I had every intention of seeing Queensryche and Armored Saint at the same local venue as Dweezil with my heavy metal friends. Just found out that the Scofflaws (local ska band with a modicum of success but mostly unknown) will be playing the same night at a local bar. There's a venn diagram of friends who would go to both, gotta figure that one out.

As an Islanders/Bills fan I'm checking in to say holy heads - thanks for the Red Wings beat down. But don't do it to us on Thursday !

This is a few weeks old - and maybe belongs in a baseball blooper thread - but since it's 2024 spring training Yankees and happened while Boone was doing an in-game interview I'm putting it here. https://nypost.com/2024/03/05/sports/aaron-boone-horrified-by-yankees-awful-play-during-espn-interview/ BTW, doesn't bother me in the least that they were playing the Mets. Good times.

Too many to mention but the one I'd really like to watch has been mentioned multiple times already: Curb Your Enthusiasm.

I'm so disappointed that injuries took away such a great and fun Bill from us. I remember sharing a clip of some of Tre's on-field antics with a Jets fan and he thought it was awesome. Good times.

For most leagues the collective winning percentage is .500. Not so with the NHL where the collective winning percentage is currently (assuming I did the math right) at .560. Logically I have a problem with having more winning teams than losing teams. Emotionally I'm not OK with handing out a winner 'trophy' based on same. I love hockey, but I stopped looking at wins/losses/ties awhile ago. Points and games played/remaining are what matter to me - and yes I understand that a regulation win counts more than an OT win for tie-breaker - for now I put that in the same category as many NFL tie-breakers, be aware but worry about it when it matters.

All good, but then how do you define having a winning record? Usually it's more wins than losses and there's a tacit assumption - at least on my part - that there will be as many teams with winning records as there are with losing records. Not the case with the NHL. It devalues the notion of having a winning record IMO.

Not sure exactly why you think the league is run so badly - but if your point is that teams are incentivized to play for a tie towards the end of tie games I agree.

This doesn't qualify as backyard birding, but back in January my two sons and I were playing a round of disc golf at Heckscher State Park on Long Island - it's right on the Great South Bay. It was a foggy day to begin with that got progressively worse and then as it got late in the day and was getting dark visibility was ridiculously low. The course was empty and there were no bikers or dog walkers. Not gonna lie - it was getting kind of creepy without what happened next. Walking between holes there's a marshy area that you cross and all of a sudden to our left we here this extremely loud noise, look over through the fog and can barely make out a freaking huge bird taking off to fly away from us. I'm gonna guess it was 10 yards away but it all happened so fast and was so disconcerting that I can't say for sure - except that this bird was freaking huge and close and the flapping wings was loud. After consultation with an expert - my sister who does a lot of boating on the Great South Bay - the operative guess is it was a Great Blue Heron (up to 6 foot wingspan) but honestly there's no way to know for sure, could have been a pterodactyl as far as I was concerned. Good times.

I've been following along at home cuz I think this is an interesting topic - and (like most topics) I'm not entrenched in the side I lean towards. I lean towards distrusting the breed - but it's anecdotal, I've never actually witnessed a bad incident. I have a friend with a pit rescue. He views the dog as a harmless adorable lap dog. I view it as a dog that has a generally good temperament, but could be better disciplined - but cuz it's a pit I wonder if it'll go off the deep end if it's unhappy. I actually put the dog in it's place a few months ago. My friend thought the dog felt offended, I wondered whether I had crossed it's line - nothing happened but I do not trust that dog, Very few breeds that I feel that way about.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hear_'n_Aid

Sometimes I lose sight of the greatness of the past. Yippy-Ty-O-Ty-Ay

Yup - not interested in your line of questioning. I'm happy to hold my opinion - and equally happy for you to hold yours.