SinceThe70s

It was a water pistol - who cares?

In essence they did when they failed to draft Mahomes. Don't get me wrong, I understand why some Bills fans enjoy the self-flagellation over the trade - very similar to the hand-wringing about not drafting Brady well after the fact. To each their own.

What about the teams that drafted 1-9? BTW, nice memory wrt @jeffismagic I seem to recall a few other people lobbying for Mahomes and the debate swirling around the Air Raid offense and whether it would translate to the NFL. We'll always be linked to Mahomes due to the trade out of 10 - but that's hindsight. If his greatness was so obvious he never would have made it to 10 - let alone past Mitch Trubisky.

ANNIHILATED!!! How bad would the loss have been? More than 6 points?

Or maybe this? To be clear I am not fully in Sean's corner - I think it's a great point of debate on both sides of the coin. But the insistence on one side that Sean is destined to be Marty II with no acknowledgement that any other outcome is possible is an exceedingly weak argument imo. History suggests to me that either outcome is possible.

Great song. Love this cover:

Re-watched Rock 'N Roll High School yesterday. Some forgotten songs from the soundtrack:

I tip my hat to folks who change their opinion - I don't think there's anything of interest discussed here that is inherently right or wrong.

Counterpoint: Jane you ignorant slut! Folks who think Josh Allen is not good enough are akin to the folks who didn't give Elway his props until he took home the Lombardi late his career. Elway was actually a better QB and more than 'good enough' well before he got the hardware.

From what I can tell from this thread both the McDermott supporters and the McDermott haters think they're opinion is unpopular. My unpopular Bills opinion is that many Bills fans are so entrenched in their opinions that they lose perspective.

The way I felt for so many games this year: Sheer Heart Attack

Patriots for me, but Chiefs are climbing the ladder. I have a college friend who is a Pats fan. He was insufferable during the Brady years.

That stinks....I ran a box pool years ago and I split the final payout between 4th quarter and final score. I don't remember the numbers but I made sure that the final still paid the most.

Do you think what SF has at HC is acceptable?

An ill-advised moment for him that is utterly meaningless - unless Andy Reid thinks otherwise.

Not disagreeing with any of this but what's missing for me is the props for the KC defense. Pretty sure they didn't give up 30 all year. Underrated part of their success this year imo.

Dropping back in to show appreciation for the the responses (I watched one God awful contribution from beginning to end) and add another fave that includes notable B actress Mary Woronov.

Always appreciate your perspective - didn't come off as argumentative at all. I have no issue with differing opinions, actually just the opposite - love to hear them. Sometimes they change my perspective, sometimes not.

@ExWNYer Looks like Mets are in line with your thinking regarding DH: https://nypost.com/2024/02/06/sports/mets-talking-with-j-d-martinez-as-possible-dh-option/

Awesome, thanks for sharing! I meant to respond sooner but life intervened. Looking forward to hearing about your day at PNC. That's top-of-list of the many stadiums I've never been to. As to feeling bad/guilty: another one of my lines after my boys chose to follow my Bills fanhood was that it was a form of child abuse that I'm ashamed of. They grew up during the drought. But we watched the Dalton/Boyd play together and it was amazing and by and large it's been a fun ride ever since.

I think you're right about Seaver, but that synapse isn't firing completely for me so I can't say for sure Did McCarver also go from the Mets booth to the Yankees? I credit McCarver for teaching me so much about the game. But I grew tired of him. He was like a pit bull on a soup bone. In the 8th inning he'd still be harping on something that happened in the 2nd inning.

For sure Mets were on WOR/9 and Yankees were on WPIX/11 for as long as I can remember. I don't remember when it flipped but these days when the Mets are on broadcast they are on WPIX/11. It's something I've never gotten used to. I grew up with Bob Murphy, Ralph Kiner and Lindsey Nelson. Yankees had Phil 'Scooter' Rizzuto and Bill White. My favorite Scooter story is that he would score the games and at some point it came out that one of his notations was WW. When asked he said it stood for Wasn't Watching.

TBH, I think both approaches are fine depending on the roster make up and who's available. For this Mets team I like the DH by committee route but that may be in part because I'm scarred by Ruf/Vogie. I never pushed the Bills on my kids, I figured since we are out of market that wasn't fair to them. I'm thrilled that they chose them anyway. But when it comes to baseball the line I used was "You can root for any baseball team you want - as long as it's the Mets".

Didn't think you were. All I've been suggesting is that I think with the right roster you don't necessarily need to use one roster spot solely for DH. I was using Bobby V as an example of a guy who I think could get the most out of the DH position in that scenario.

Yikes. IMO bullpens these days are pretty much handled the same way he handled them - although obviously bullpens are taxed more these days. But that aside I was referring to his use of positional players. His use of the rotation and bullpen was entirely predictable (except for that time he left Leiter in an inning too long), his lineups not so much. Which is kind of how analytics treat lineups these days - put the best lineup out there each night based on matchups.