SinceThe70s

I have a hard time figuring out what constitutes a penalty. As best as I can tell it's the difference between assault and felonious assault. And who the hell wants to play goalie? Much respect for those that play the position without pads.

Agreed. Having an emotional tie to a team is huge for me. I got into UMD lacrosse when my son was a freshman and he was playing in the pep band so we went to a game and loved it. Turned out they were national champs that year which made it more fun to watch. My guess is that after my son graduates I'll drift away from lacrosse.

I don't watch indoor but I've watched some college lax (Maryland) the past few years. Just saw them beat Duke today to make it to the semi's next weekend. It's a fun sport to watch even though I'm not 100% on all the rules. I think our local indoor team is relocating off Long Island, but that's a non-issue for me.

As I've gotten older and endured countless losing seasons and/or disappointments by the Mets, Bills and Islanders I've walked back my hatred of rival teams success. Their success still rankles me, just not like it used to. In the past I stopped watching hockey after both the Isles and Rangers seasons ended. If the Rangers were still alive I was heavily invested in their demise and watched a lot of the games until they got eliminated. More recently I just follow them through the headlines and hope they lose. Didn't see a minute of the past series but was still hoping they'd have an epic collapse after going up 3-0. Oh well, hopefully their fanbase (including some close friends) will have their hearts ripped out next round. Either way it doesn't materially change my life.

@Gugny @Another Fan @ExWNYer Diaz blows another one. Off the top of my head I can't think of another player who I had zero confidence in (2019) and then had the utmost confidence in (2022) and now I'm trending back to no confidence. Hopefully just bumps in the road coming off the injury. If not, he could be part of another trade deadline purge - along with Polar Bear.

Why else would there be a lid?

Brad Marchand is probably my most hated pro athlete. He's gonna have some esplaining to do the next time he pulls one of his punk moves after his latest comments, which include: "People don't want to say it, but part of playoffs is trying to hurt every player on the other team." https://www.espn.com/nhl/story/_/id/40158531/bruins-brad-marchand-injuring-opponents-part-playoffs

Sports talk radio shills trying to convince me what I should bet on. Honorable mention: radio ads for online betting sites. These things make me wanna light one up and the next thing you know I'm hard on the brakes and my car smells like a Yuengling. Double whammy.

Spilling my beer to avoid rear ending the car I didn't notice stopping in front of me while I was lighting up a spliff.

Agreed on the runner on second. badol had a great line, he calls it the Manfred Man. I was in the not worried about Diaz camp before last night, but this is starting to look like history repeating. The difference this time around is we've seen him be dominant.

Last night was great, tonight was brutal. Definitely concerned about Diaz. Have a great vacation!

@Another Fan @Gugny @ExWNYer Pretty deflating watching the Mets getting no-hit two outs into the 9th on Saturday. But the decision by the Braves to go with their closer up 4 just to preserve the no-hitter bit them on Sunday when they couldn't hold a 1 run lead.

I know next to nothing about Roger Corman except he was referenced in a Ramones song. Good enough for me to pay respects. RIP. Vin Scelsa is on the radio Ramones are hanging out in Kokomo Roger Corman’s on a talk show With Allan Arkush and Stephen King, you know

JMO, but that view is short-sighted. If you're a SB contender there's a good chance you'll need a big kick to win or tie a post season game at some point. Since other teams have that capability I want/expect it too.

I agree with some of that but not all. My goal is always to flip just once. It makes it easier for me to judge how well done the steak is as I rely heavily on seeing the juices rising before the flip to determine doneness. The other thing is that for presentation purposes I like the one set of grill marks you get from a single flip. I try to avoid cutting into the steak, but sometimes I will. I've never noticed a difference in how the steak comes out but again the presentation suffers.

Had same conversation about hockey playoffs with a friend this past week. Hard to argue against the player safety rules, but I'm not watching the same sports I watched growing up. I don't recall my father or grandfather making that point to me.

Just checked out the setlist. Saints in Hell would be worth the cost of admission to me. Manalishi too? Awesome!

@Gugny @Another Fan @ExWNYer Anyone catch the last play of the game tonight? A lot to unpack. Here are my scatterbrained thoughts: I'm a bit surprised that the call on the field was out. Ump's view was probably blocked but from a side view it looked like Pete was in. Tie goes to the runner? That's what it looked like to me on replay with the tag and Pete's hand hitting the plate after bouncing in front of it. Slow-motion instant replay is a waste of everyone's time - in every sport - unfortunately we've crossed the Rubicon. Did the Mets challenge whether Pete was safe or whether the plate was blocked? Not sure whether they did or whether they had to specify what they were challenging. For the record I hate the blocking the plate rules but.... ....Mendoza was pretty adamant that MLB had made it clear that standing on or straddling the plate constituted blocking and Narvaez backed it up in a post-game interview. The SNY live feed caught the exchange between Mendoza and the ump after the replay decision and it was awesome. Some salty language from Mendoza wrt standing/straddling and the ump telling him it was out of his hands. Sports could do with more of that live interaction between refs and players/coaches. One of the upstart football leagues had a mike on the replay official walking through the decision process and if you ever caught any hot mikes of NHL refs warning players during live play to tone things or they'll get called it's awesome.

Good on ya for backing off on the limelight comment and substituting lifestyle. For the record I'd be less enamored with an owner that didn't love the lifestyle of an NFL owner, but I suppose others prefer corporate ownership.

I listened to a few songs from their most recent a few weeks back and loved it. Enjoy! I'm going back to the early 80's Friday night for Armored Saint and Queensryche.

I had other stuff going on and saw next to none of the game. When my son told me the no-hitter was in progress I think it was middle of the 6th and the game was about an hour and 10 minutes in, wtf. I didn't have the option of watching the rest - listened to the bloop hit on the radio in the car and quickly turned it off. On a humorous note, the last thing I told my son before I headed out with the no-hitter in tact was to text his uncle and get him to Citi Field asap - Uncle Scott was at Citi Field for both 'no hitters'. LAMP time. Went to the game Friday night and I have the picture to prove it. When J.D. put one off the wall I was sure it was going out and went into arms up celebration mode. And you can't tell, but that's a Bills hoodie I'm wearing. Good times.

I try your sister On the Jersey shore She said you might be stopping by But she's just not sure So I call your mother On Long Island Sound She said it must be summer 'Cause you're never around

Inside my future life What I see just makes me cry I'm way down now I'm way down now The clocks will all run backwards All the sheep will have two heads And Thursday night and Friday Will be on Tuesday night instead

A team that gets one shot on goal in 30 minutes. That was brutal, you could see it coming before the third period started.

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