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  1. 21 hours ago, SinceThe70s said:

    @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. 

     

     

     

       

    I thought he looked safe at first but slowing it down I'm not 100% sure Pete's hand after touched home plate.  

     

    Maybe because they had a nice come from behind win today I'm not as upset about it.  Lindor had a nice day.  

  2. I know as a kid growing up that magazine along with Playboy TV seemed the ultimate in risque adult stuff growing up.  Little did I know though that that was just the tip of the iceberg then.  Lol

     

     

    I have a couple magazines I hold as collector items/nostalgia kind of thing.  It usually involved me being a fan or liking whomever was on the cover.  I have the physical copies of the issues where Geri Halliwell, Cindy Crawford, and Lisa Rinna (pre-housewives) were on the cover.  I still have the Maxim and Blender magazines Christina Aguilera was on the cover in the early 2000s.

     

     

    Funny story if anything this thread is making me think of my late Uncle (R.I.P).  He lead a pretty minimalist lifestyle in general.  When my aunt and uncle went to his apartment to clean it out well it seemed he had years and years subscriptions to Playboy magazine.  Apparently he had hundreds of them in his apartment.  

  3. 14 hours ago, SinceThe70s said:

     

    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.

     

     

     

     

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    Yeah when no hitters threat today deep into the games with teams we like (in this case the Mets) via texts with friends/families and or other notifications we get through or phones or what not it's really not that hard to miss.  Not a case of you need to be glued to the TV to catch stuff like that.  

     

     

     

    One of my first Mets memories as a kid was watching this game in my grandmother's bedroom while she was babysitting me.  

     

    https://sabr.org/gamesproj/game/september-10-1991-rookie-pete-schoureks-1-hitter-leads-mets-past-expos/

     

     

    Even as a little kid that felt kind of intense in the 5th inning watching that as I knew he didn't give up a hit yet and for him to keep that one hitter going.  As you like to say, good times!  

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  4. 2 minutes ago, Gugny said:


    I watched the whole game. I thought we were finally going to get our first legitimate no-hitter. 
     

    Bummed about losing he no-no more than I am for losing the game. 
     

    I hear ya.

     

    But I mean the dude goes 8 innings and only gives up one hit and one run.  I mean what's like the actual odds of that the starter not getting a W?   

  5. @SinceThe70s @Gugny @ExWNYer

     

    Condolences anyone who caught most of the game tonight.  I just checked out the brief highlights and scores.

     

    While I'm not the type of Mets fan to get upset over April games.....  tonight would have pissed me off if I watched.   Severino pitched his heart out carrying the no hitter into the 8th and the team couldn't even win the game for him.

     

     

     

     

  6. I like a lot old school Vanessa Williams songs.  This one is okay.  But she seems to have found the fountain of youth.  I'll say that.  

     

     

    I know she sung the Star Spangled Banner at a Bills game before.  I'm not sure she's a Bills fan but she has Buffalo ties and seems proud of them.  

     

     

     

  7. I do it sometimes as well but it always feels a little awkward to me when somebody asks how’s mom not how’s your mom when addressing someone about their mother.  

  8. 1 minute ago, Augie said:

     

    At 83, if anybody catches it you get points in my book.

     

    Make it happen FAST so you don’t get vaporized. 

     

    You HAD to go there???   

     

    😂

    I couldn't help myself.  Even watching that at time that was my 1st thought.  I could have completed that pass 😄

  9. @SinceThe70s@Gugny. @ExWNYer

     

    Was out and about today but saw the Mets had a nice win.  The Mets team that comes to mind a little with this year is 2005 for me.  I saw they started that year 0-4 as well.  Willie, Pedro, and Beltran's first year with the team.  I remember that year arguably being a success and led to the foundation for 2006.  Realistically that's what I hope for this year's club.  But I mean they've bee showing some grit of late.

     

     

    Perhaps this is an unpopular opinion but the whole retiring Doc's number doesn't really do much for me.  And I'm person that loves nostalgia.  I guess to be fair I only recall Doc like a little as a Met and it was toward the end of his career in the early 90s.  I think then his issues were spilling out on the field.  I remember him more as a Yankee.  And that's the team I think he retired with.  Mets Hall of Fame for sure was deserved for Doc.  But I mean I can't help but think what more could have been with Doc.  I know we are all flawed creatures but just not really feeling checking out the ceremony.  Not actually as a Met but Rick Aguilera had at least if not a better career than Doc.  And he was the 5th starter on a lot of those clubs.  

  10. 1 minute ago, Brian Higgins hair said:

    Here’s hoping that Hell actually exists. He’ll have plenty of lawyer friends to cook with. 

    I mean I’m not one to speak of ill of the recent departed but I mean he did indirectly introduce us to the Kardashian family.  

  11. On 3/31/2024 at 11:10 AM, Miyagi-Do Karate said:


    I was thinking of that same UNLV team the other day.
     

    UConn winning it all is not a given. I actually think Purdue or NC State could match up well with them, if either of them make it.

    Nah, I told you since the beginning I'd be very shocked anyone but UConn.

     

    Dan Hurley wasn't letting that happen.  I can only imagine the speech he gave to his players before the game yesterday.  I know how intense he is like his dad.  This was his pops years back the night before the state championship game where his senior class at St. Anthony's might become the only players not to win a state championship under his reign.  NSFW

     

     

    I say employ him to talk to the Bills before they play the Chiefs in the playoffs again!!

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  12. The Sabres remind me a little of the Jauron Bills that were 7-9 every year.  They weren’t good teams at all but not awful awful.  They did enough for the fans to still have some hope.

     

     

    I’m hardly an expert on Buffalo hockey but seems the team needs an aggressive off season.  

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  13. 15 hours ago, BringMetheHeadofLeonLett said:

    I mean, good call on starting this with Sagat.  I think he's absolute garbage, but I appreciate your fond memories- nobody can take those from you. 
     

    I'm basically not very good at cheese- I identify cheese, and it's pretty well locked out for good, but there are exceptions, and the Enchanted Water Show at Enchanted Forest (somewhere around Salem, Oregon) is one of them.  
     

    To place the scene, you walk into the most budget-friendly food option of Oregon's finest amusement park.  The park is based on non-copyrighted fairytales- think, Old Mother Hubbard and Humpty Dumpty.  Beyond some crazy ish, it's got a very respectable log-ride, tiny but fun coaster and a bad-ass haunted house.
     

    Everything about it is terrible... except, it's not- it's kinda fun having to crawl though the various nursery rhymes...

     

    Without a doubt, though, the worst attraction in the park has got to be the Enchanted Water Show... except it's my favorite thing there.  )
     

    So you walk into the cheapest place to eat in the park and get your mediocre burger, served by very sweet pimply folks, and sit down for the entertainment- with your packets of French's mustard in hand. 

     

    I've only been here as an adult, but I'm just somewhere between blown-away, and in love

     

     

     

    This post reminds me of this amusement park my parents took me to as a kid, The Land of Make Believe.  It seemed real big and exciting when I was little.

     

    Then one day working years back an older woman there talked about going there a lot with her kids.  She seemed to like it but think it was kind of a cheesy cheap place.

     

    Yeah this commercial brings back memories below as does seeing YouTube videos of it not that long ago.  It yeah definitely felt a lot bigger as a kid!

     

    All in all it can be seen as a cheesy place but I still think fondly of it.

     

     

     

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  14. Thurman Thomas.

     

    I was in high school then but I kind of realized at that age no matter how much good history someone has with a team it's What Have or What Can You Do For Me Lately.  I don't get emotionally attached.

     

    That being said actually T.O leaving made me a little sad after just a year.  I thought for the most part he behaved well and looked proud to be a Bill.  

     

     

     

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