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We've seen some bad ones over the years and this ranks right up there

You are free to oppose my opinion, but I see a three and out loss in the first round as a failure for this organization. We tied the record for the most consecutive post season losses in a row with our last post season loss in NY. I'm not OK with that as a fan.

I never claimed to know the future, but I wouldn't put a dollar on us TODAY in a playoff series against the Yankees.

It's nice to be glass half full, but I don't brush aside history or warning signs. We certainly had a great run this year. There is no denying that, but there is still a lot of baseball to be played and we are now neck and neck with a team that has momentum. If fans want to be confident then I say good for them. I'm not in that camp, though If I subscribed to the gumdrops and lollipops angle then we are going all the way. I don't think anyone is that over-confident (although I remain hopeful as long as we have a shot) Being a fan for well over 40 years and understanding the shifts and twists and turns in a baseball season I can't be too optimistic. We've lost key guys and they will be out for a while. We have no pitching depth. Even with our cited record against the American League East I have no confidence that we can beat the Yankees in a short series. That brutal loss a couple of weeks ago joins a long line of brutal losses against that team which began with that Friday night Giambi walk-off grand slam in May of 2002. We have lost the last 13 post season games against them. Show me something first before I get excited. I (all of us) have seen that rerun and it's old. I will nothing from a one and done sweep at the hands of the Yankees. I would rather we not get in at all if that were to happen That's just me

Exactly...and that is why it will be easy to let go if this team falters through all that. That said, if this team bows out in the first round without so much as a peep I will be pretty irate. Funny how that works For me we just can't have that without massive changes in the approach. I'm talking about playing for revenge if it's the Yankees that take us out again. If somehow we meet them and fall down AGAIN....it's time to start beaning some dudes in pinstripes in 2020

Oh no, you didn't

Pat Summetsk running down the lineup after Sunday football

Why do I bother?

Oh hey. You're so right about that. Lose tonight and what stops us from being swept?

I upgraded to a '78 Fairmont in 1986 I'm feeling you

Holy carp! My first car was a 1972 Galaxie 500 which looked almost like that. Same color only that is a Mercury. By the way... This was 1983 when I got that car so it was 11 years old. Back in my day teenagers were not seen driving cars that were less than five years old. That just didn't happen

Get us through six today, Jake. Somebody has to put on the big boy pants here AND FAST. The last halfway decent start was Jake's last start but AGAIN his pitch counts are absurd so he couldn't go deep. Give me six freaking innings like last time, preferably more

Had to look at you're profile. I figured you were born in the 60s lol

I remember my cousin and I playing with Walkie-Talkies outside and my uncle came outside to tell us to stop because what we said was broadcast over his TV Remember UHF channels?

Man. I knew we were behind but sheesh

I hate to say it but this feels like we got here with smoke and mirrors now. Although this team is comprised totally differently it appears to be on the same trajectory as the 2001 club.

When there were debates over who was the best guitarist, drummer etc.... When beer companies required jingles... And when phones were on kitchen walls covered with wallpaper

We got it in 1982. One of the first shows I liked was "Not Necessarily the News" Rich Hall and "sniglets" was my favorite sketch. I submitted a sniglet "lefferts" (inspired by the pitcher Craig Lefferts). They were the crumbly pieces of paper left begin when you opened an envelope. (It didn't get on the air)

In my day I bought albums and wore concert t-shirts. The first band I saw was the Kinks. Then I saw Rush a couple of months later (right when Tom Sawyer and Limelight came out). Those monster tours just don't happen anymore and that is a shame

I remember when I was taking statitics in college my professor made a big deal about a program called RPG Minitab. A year or two later I discovered Excel. Computing made a huge leap when I was in college. I wasn't computer savvy at all my first year at school. I typed reports on a Smith Corona. My sophomore year was when Windows came out and when that happened I jumped all over it. (Was never a Mac guy)

When I was in high school my town got cable TV. We also got a garage door opener and a microwave. MTV came on the scene and hippies were not cool (neither was MTV I my opinion)

Funny thread. I worked for the highway department in my town one summer when I was in college. One of the old timers there always went on about "back in my day" and all the college temps would mimic him (not to be disrespectful) He was part of the WW2 generation

Yup. And I disobeyed and grounded into a force out. Had the 3rd highest BA on the team but didn't get a whole lot of at bats after that. Got chewed out pretty good ....I had a Gardy-like coach

I remember when we won the gold in hockey. I lived only about 100 miles from where it happened and didn't get to know about the results until hours later. Crazy how that stuff didn't leak. My friends and I couldn't even find anything on the radio. We had to watch the tape delay

And boys occasionally used their fists to settle scores