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It was a scheduled event that I had no idea about. He was sitting at a table signing stuff, taking pictures and he was totally chill.

Gee our old LaSalle ran great!

@Another Fan @ExWNYer @Gugny Had to run up to Home Depot this morning to pick up a toilet part and decided to throw on my Mets hat. Found the part and was going to check out when they announced over the intercom that Dwight Gooden was signing autographs in aisle 30. Good times!

I saw the post-game of the Twins game and Lindor blew himself up over the error. It was unnecessary, but appreciated. And your comment reminded me of a forgotten memory from last night that was a new one on me (but not to my son). Lindor's walk-up song has been My Girl for awhile. Fans have taken to singing it after the fade out when he's in the batter box. Very cool. My son said it started last year.

@Another Fan @Gugny @ExWNYer Attended my first game of the year at Citi Field last night. Decent sized crowd for an April mid-week game. Kind of a lackluster game, looked like it might be a blow-out after the Mets 4 run second, but it settled into a pitchers duel. Canning was impressive and the Card pitcher settled down after after the rocky start. Tons of weak grounders to shortstop for both teams. Besides the Vientos HR maybe one batted ball reached the warning track. Biggest takeaway for me was the crowd stayed all game and gave Soto a really nice ovation when he came up in the 8th despite his rough start. Might have been a different story if the team hadn't been winning. LGM!

They were talking about this on local radio the other day and said that prior to 2005 it was illegal. They made it legal because it was too difficult to officiate. If true it took around 20 years for teams to exploit the rule. This article backs up what I heard on the radio: https://www.latimes.com/sports/story/2022-12-30/pushing-the-pile-nfl-rule-officiating

Couldn't throw the nerf ball far enough. I ended up with a knock-off brand that was better for me but not so much for the door trim that got beat up a bit or the stuff on my dresser that got knocked off when I missed with the heavier ball.

What distinction are you trying to make?

Never been there. Which is an oddity since I've a big fan of the game and the history (thanks in large part to my grandfather).

@ExWNYer @Another Fan @Gugny RIP Octavio Dotel. As a young player (rookie?) I always thought he should have been brought in instead of Kenny Rogers against the Braves in the 1999 NLCS. He went on to have a long career playing for many teams - if you play https://www.immaculategrid.com/ he's what my boys would call a cheat code. Sad to hear of his (and others) tragic passing.

Wow, forgot about him. Wasn't that in his first year with the Angels? I could be misremembering but I think he came up with the Twins and the parallel between him and Carew both going from the Twins to the Angels.

The fact that it came in one game less is nuts. But that's a thin limb you went out on imo. Gretzky was by far the greatest player of his era, probably ever. Can't remember anyone ever thinking/saying that about Ovechkin. Ovechkin is still 1200 points shy of Gretzky in the same number of games. Gretzky's game was much more than goal scoring - and yet he still held the goal scoring record until the other day.

And Dock Ellis was on acid when he threw his no-hitter.

I think you're right. And if so, I think it was also the last time they sold beer at a game after halftime.

She lives in Mojave in a Winnebago

Flashback to '72, another summer in the neighborhood Hanging out with nothing to do Sometimes we'd go driving around in my sister's Pinto Cruisin' with the windows rolled down

I'm not a native and it's a bit off the grid from Buffalo but Letchworth State Park is outstanding.

That's classy as hell. Hope he doesn't get it against my Isles on Sunday and instead gets it front of his home crowd. Early 1990's I was working in the DC area and went to an Caps game. Had a verbal spat (that I provoked) with a Caps fan a few rows down which amounted to nothing. A month or two later went to another Caps game and recognized the dude walking the concourse. True fan. Hope he gets to see Ovi break the record live.

1. Len Dawson was a legendary player and had a great run on HBO's Inside the NFL. 2. Derrick Thomas was a great player and by all accounts a great guy... I made an honest attempt at this but stopped at #2 when I refreshed my memory of the circumstances surrounding his death. Yikes. I'll end with: 3. Enough folks on TBD have shared their great experiences with Chefs fans to remind me that fan bases aren't necessarily a reflection of the team they root for.

With three+ minutes left and the Caps up by one I told my son it was lining up for an empty net hat trick in front of the home crowd - which would have been epic. Sadly someone else on the Caps got the empty netter. He'll probably get it Sunday on the road in a meaningless game against my Islanders. Shame.

Cadillac appears to be the clear winner. Here are two more

Does it count if the car is a persons name in a song? Buick Studebaker

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