SinceThe70s

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100% agree on DeGrom, Thor and Harvey. I'm not giving up on Matz yet, he's just way too young, but I hear ya. My guess on Smith is he starts the season back at Triple A. Best case scenario is he gets his head together and comes up mid season either because Gonzalez is hurt or unproductive. But I'm very skeptical that he'll ever amount to anything. My comments about Reyes were more about Rosario. I'll be very disappointed if he doesn't establish himself as the Mets starting SS this year.

I'm not a deadhead but I do like some of their music so take this for what it's worth. Shakedown Street is utter pop crap.

We can start the season with Reyes at short. But we can't finish the season with him at short. Just saw that Thor struck out 7 straight. This is far more important to me than DeGrom being ready for opening day.

I agree with the sentiment. Maybe it's because the position is valued/compensated very highly for the top end performers. The Haynesworth contract a few years back was a nightmare. At the same time I'm not sure if any team that signed Ted Washington was disappointed.

Age notwithstanding, I like his skills, hate his attitude, glad he's out of conference.

I have a friend who has a desk job with the Long Island Railroad. On snow days they get sent to the stations to "bang doors". The train doors freeze up and won't open automatically without an impact adjustment.

Yup, I work for a not-for-profit publisher and they announced the closing yesterday.

Always is never right and never is always wrong. Apart from that I hope we draft a QB this year.

My wife gets great seats for the family through work once a year. First row Caesar/Foxwoods level, behind home plate. The fact that it's only once a year is aggravating and merits it's own thread. I'll go to a few other games with friends and my brother-in-law. I think my first game at Shea was 1971. I can't imagine a year without going to a Mets game, but I've probably never been to more than 10 in any given year.

Has Cousins led a team to 10 wins yet? Fair point about Manning/Favre being on their last legs when Woody wanted them. I'm just not convinced that five years from now we'll be using Cousins, Favre and Manning in the same sentence.

Yup, I know he's been an Ambassador for the past year, but I assume he's still involved in Jets decision making. You may be right about Cousins going to the Vikes, my point had more to do with the Jets interest in Cousins making sense.

It does add up. Woody Johnson likes the big splash and the Jets have been drafting bad QB's for years. The laughable part to me is that he used to go after guys like Peyton Manning and Favre. I think breaking the bank on Cousins is a mistake.

I'm concerned about Matz's health more than anything. If the bad outings are health-related I'll be concerned. I try to take spring training performances (good and bad) with a grain of salt. But I agree, if it continues to be a pattern and he can't get his **** together at least we have other options like Vargas.

Sad news regarding Mets old-timer Rusty Staub. https://www.newsday.com/sports/baseball/mets/former-met-rusty-staub-dealing-with-kidney-failure-source-confirms-1.17047782

An all time great song for me, never get tired of it.

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If I'm dropping $300 for two it better be outstanding or I'm never coming back. A send back on two identical orders is hard to understand or excuse. Someone suggested OP should've switched steaks. A nice thought, I don't disagree, but at a minimum I would not have touched mine until the other one came back. Either way, the $300 meal is compromised. I put it on the restaurant to try to make things right. Sure the customer can complain and probably get free drinks/desserts/whatever. But as soon as that steak got sent back they should've gone into damage control. The customer should not have had to complain any more.

Great one. Years ago I had super boring video of my sons soccer game. This was back when the kids were like a giant swarm of bees chasing the soccer ball all over the field. I sped up the video and used this as the background audio and it was hysterical.

I've noticed that about Grand Cherokees too, thought t was just me. I had one yesterday morning that came flying up with his lights flashing at me on a two-lane double yellow road when there was someone ahead of me and literally nowhere to go.

Cespedes said the shoulder was from throwing. Said he doesn't throw in the off-season. As someone who played softball for 30 years I know exactly what he means and it's should be no big deal.

I'd have a hard time knocking Barney Miller off the top of the mountain, maybe Looney Toons. Besides the ones already mentioned, here's a few more: Happy Days Laverne And Shirley What's Happening The Monkeys Get Smart Not sure if its a theme song but the Twilight Zone opening was iconic Munsters

Yup, knew the first, not the second. I see Isaac and I'm thinking Ted Lange on Love Boat first and probably Isaac Hayes second.

It does for me. Clarification: the original with the Howard Cosell voice-over.

..and here's where I got confused. You guys are talking about Robert Guillaume in Sports Night, no? Never saw it, had to google. I thought it was still a Soap reference, which he was in. When I saw Isaac I was thinking Love Boat...which he also appeared in.