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@ExWNYer @SinceThe70s @Gugny I've just been checking the scores of late. I certainly respect you guys/fans that watch the games now for the late calls up but it's hard for me to get excited about them. Perhaps you've seen this clip but only now I came across it. I understand I'm really grasping for straws and part of this is nostalgia but I wouldn't mind considering Terry again for manager. I mean if I recall correctly it felt like his tenure ran its course more than he deserved to be fired? If the team is going young this is the kind of fiery/passionate manager I'm looking for. Or has the game been completely overrun by stats at this point

Well I mean obviously I hope you are correct as well But it's hard for me to really get all in on them at this point before the bullets start flying so to speak. The tough love element you speak of I think is needed with this team. I thought the team burnt out physically and emotionally after all they were through last year. Milano was one of the few guys I thought that brought it in the Bengals playoff game. The ultimate test of that to me is how they perform come December/playoff time. To me that's when the tough love of training camp will pay dividends

It must have been 1991 but I do recall watching clips of a very tight contest between the Bills and Jets from 90/91 at the old Giants Stadium. I thought it was this game at first. Yeah I recall when Kent Hull died in 2011 it was very bittersweet for me. As a kid I really couldn't appreciate him then. By the age I was in 2011 I was able to see how special a player and person he was. Just too bad his death was what made me research him like that

While it's not a movie that has the mood of Fall per say, I would say Rocky The first fight with Spider Rico took place on Thanksgiving in the movie I believe. If you look at that clip of Rocky running the weather outside seems Fallish as well as when he runs up the steps. Rocky has on long sleeves and sweatpants but you see no ice or snow on the ground. Also, the lakes or water he ran by haven't iced up yet. And oh yeah this is the same focus I expect from Josh and crew Monday night after watching that 😁

Sort of but not like too sappy imo. I mean we are on a football message board 😉

One of my favorite movies primarily because it had the very very young Jennifer Connelly in it. But it does remind me of innocence and it does have a fall like atmosphere to it. Leaves changing on the trees in the background The house Jennifer lived in in the movie I drive past it’s in Montclair, New Jersey. Also cool to see Shea Stadium make a cameo in it. But um just don’t take my man card away now 😊

I bet you’re a lot of fun at parties

Tbh 0 for 3 on your quiz 🙁 Good trivia though. The discussion on Matz made me look him up. Seems he's with the Cardinals and is doing okay for himself I guess? Got a recent 4 year 44 million dollar deal there. I liked Matz but if I recall right he wasn't like mentally strong to be a starting pitcher? Or at least not yet in that point of his career. Nonetheless I liked him and wish him well. But yeah even when more recent guys like Canha I like get traded the are out of mind out of sight for me for the most part

I was just a teenager then but I never really quite got over Jason Phillips in a way when it comes to getting excited about late season call ups. I thought he was going to be like for sure the next big thing. I think the Mets brass then did as well as they wanted Mike to play 1st base to make room for him as catcher going forward. I also thought the whole Buddy Holly glasses he wore made him seem him even cooler. But it didnt quite work out 😞. Damn that was 20 years ago already. Just two other notes: I mean DeGrom I would have been cool with but what was the deal with the Scherzer tribute video. Just seriously.... His passing was also almost 20 years ago today. Sean Kimmerling. https://nypost.com/2003/09/10/kimerling-will-be-missed/ I still remember being upset about that when I heard it. If I recall correctly he was a sideline reporter when the Mets used to be on Channel 11 WB. He seemed a nice, handsome, healthy guy. I mean still kind of stunning in a way thinking about him. But there is a Cancer memorial named after him https://www.seankimerling.org And I feel Sean himself would laugh at that 1st picture on that site! A serious topic in a light manner there

@ExWNYer@SinceThe70s. @Gugny I've just been following the box scores of late. Just checking in here with you guys and some thoughts: - While Dan Vogelbach is like the least of the team's issues, I can't help but notice he seems to only hit home runs when the Mets are up big or down big. Dean Palmer was the king of that I thought. A Rod as well I used to joke was always good for hitting home runs with the Yankees when the game was already decided. - Again I think I mentioned I would have still kept Verlander (I have not followed him at all since he left the team though) I am okay with a youth movement. But I guess I'm of the opinion in New York you still have to sort of field or give the appearance of fielding a competitive team with what the tickets costs are for the Mets? I understand you really cant compare the cost of living in Cincinnati or Milwaukee but they are 2 teams now yielding competitive teams where tickets costs are significantly cheaper. I mean I went to a game this year first time since 2015. Just not sure sentiments of season ticket holders shelling out their $$$ -While I was pretty disappointed with Buck overall this year I didnt think he deserved to necessarily be fired. But I am 50/50 on bringing him back. To me more than anything this year the thing that frustrated me the most was the team looking unmotivated/undisciplined/could care less. I have to think a little of that falls on the manager. But I mean to be fair I'm not sure if fiery managers even exist in baseball anymore in 2023? I just dont know enough about other teams besides maybe the Reds and Yankees. And Aaron Boone doesn't exactly strike me as someone who puts much fear in his team. With how baseball is set up these days is analytics/ the number guys the king?

Yeah I get that. Despite being useless at home though your wife still seems to never gain weight and is hot.

You certainly have an appropriate avatar

He or she is living their best life When someone starts out a conversation, "You probably don't know this" but yada yada yada........ to me there's hidden passive aggressiveness there

What was the deal with the Reds hat on that one guy with the Steve Young Jersey. I mean know it’s the same color but still…

Doug Rugrats Scooby Doo Dennis the Menace Casper Babar Garfield Peanuts Theres The Simpsons as well but that was when I was more middle school age

It isn’t a coincidence the Yanks haven’t won or been to a World Series since George died.

I recall and this has to be 20 years ago already (wow) the subject of that topic came up on his show. He made a joke there should just be a separate bathroom with a big question mark for transgender people. It got laughs from Artie and the crew Time has changed

Is there any sort of fear with you people with the disorder get pathologized? Thats one part of mental health that bothers me. People are just treated as labels and all their “quirks” are because of such and such.

This. Although I like the phrase different more than disease per say. I cannot tell you how many times I got made fun of growing up for not speaking. In front of whole classes as well and in family parties. But really to me I make the same comparison as somebody with a broken leg being made fun of because they can't run fast. People just wouldn't do that. Internalizing a lot of that over the years turned me into a bitter, jaded person.

My dad and uncle were diagnosed with bipolar disorder. I just tended to think of them as moody at times more than anything growing up. The one time he had an episode that reminds me a little of what you talk about is when he impulsively bought a new car which he found out was like a bad fit for him weeks later and he wound up turning it in. At the time I didnt really think much of at all... I'm a very sort of people are people kind of person and if you're not doing something to harm someone else it's more or less whatever. My mom's cousin I am told has bipolar. This came about when I was at a wedding with him and he said some things like really inappropriate to me like out of the blue. It totally shocked me as the image I had of him was like a sort of jolly loves life kind of fellow. I just attributed it to him being really drunk. But when I asked someone what the hell was that about I'm told his daughter has bipolar and he most likely does as well. I imagine like autism though it's kind of a spectrum disorder in how severe you have it? I got officially diagnosed with autism last year. While no one else in the family was diagnosed officially a fair amount of relatives have similar traits to me where I never really stood out so to speak.

I can understand people change and evolve as they get older. But he really did a 180 to make me sorta go what a fake with certain things..... Like for example for years he would obsess and beat up Rosie O'Donnell on his show where I thought he would go over the line sometimes. And now they are like best friends. He spent like 30 years beating up and hating on Kathie Lee Gifford and now he says this is because she is everything he isn't. Pathetic

Last night I was watching when Crazzie Cabbie fought Stuttering John from 2002 in Atlantic City. The whole thing was a laugh riot. Bettlejuice as well coming out in the ring with Don King. I was never a big fan but I would listen to him occasionally in the Artie Lange days and knew all the players and wack packers on his show. But since he went to satellite radio, became pretty pc, and seems like more of an entertainment reporter today I lost interest. How about you?

It makes me smile

I saw a bowling alley I went too quite a bit growing up closed recently. While I hadnt been there for years that did make me feel a little sad. In middle school we had a club in school where we'd go to the lanes after school like twice am month or something like that. Fun times. We used to even have other kids birthday parties at the lanes sometimes. Bowl, play arcade games, and watch MTV. Back at the age well before teenagers lose their innocence. It's a hobby I wouldn't mind trying to take up again someday. I have heard though Buffalo is/was a big bowling town with a number of alleys?

Feel this is a song every kid of the 90s danced to at last once including me