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Mets won 101 games last season and Buck was voted Manager of the Year. This year was a disappointment, but it certainly wasn't all on Buck. I don't see them pushing him out. He has one year left on his contract, so 2024 may be his last season as manager. The Mets didn't change their GM. They are hiring David Stern to be their President of Baseball Operations, expected to be announced Monday. Stern and Billy Eppler, current GM, have worked together in the past, and it is expected that Eppler will remain GM working under Stern.

Yes, and that's something I've always hated - she has someone on, but spends 10 minutes reading paragraphs of material from their book, rather than spend that time actually speaking with them.

I put the game on and that was the first thing I thought!

Let's set the Wayback Machine to June 28, 1969... Been going a lot of old boxes of stuff and came across this ticket. It was the first Met game I ever attended; Dad took me a few days after my ninth birthday. Mets played (and lost to) the Pirates that night. It was also Old Timers Day at Shea, and they had a bunch of old Brooklyn Dodger, New York Giant, and Yankee players - I got to see Joe DiMaggio play. I didn't know who he was, but Dad grew up a Yankee fan in Joe's prime, and I could tell by his reaction that he was someone special.

If it's not an everyday meal, I don't see the big deal with an occasional meal if it is something the dog likes. In a prior life, we had a couple of poodles, and on holidays (Thanksgiving, Christmas, etc.) we would make up a bowl with some turkey, gravy, and such, along with some kibble for them. They didn't get it every meal.

I'm thinking that if the dog likes it, it must be good!

On the subject of checks - I write one or two a year...maybe. I stopped ordering checks years ago, and instead got a software program that writes them, and I print them on blank check stock.

We didn't need no stinkin' ejection seats in the tanker! We did carry parachutes, but realistically, there was no way to safely get out of that airplane unless it was stopped on the ground.

No, the KC-135...

I've caught a couple of episodes because I had the news on and didn't bother changing the channel when it was over while doing other stuff, but I haven't actively sought out the show to watch during the strike.

What? Over? Did you say 'over'? Nothing is over until we decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell no!...

One time I had a manager who said we could take 'Blue Sky' days - it's a nice day out, and you don't feel like coming in, just say so. I started working from home full time when we went into the COVID shut downs in March 2020. Before that, I would WFH occasionally, including most Fridays. That was a contract role which ended in late 2021, and I found a new, permanent position at a 'remote first' company - over half of our staff works remotely. I'm fully remote, my manager is in San Fransisco, his boss is in Denver, and our company is out of Utah. The last time I worked in an office was March 13, 2020 and I hope I never have to set foot in one for work again. Unless it is for an internal position, and company policy requires it, do not say anything to your manager - or really anyone else in your company - until you have accepted a new position and have a confirmed start date. You have nothing to gain by having your manager know you are looking for a new job. I earned an aerospace engineering degree in college, then went on to fly jets in the Air Force. Now I'm an business analyst...

All that effort only to end up in Staten Island... 😉 Make that three...I'm a sucker for anything Sorkin does, been a fan since A Few Good Men.

At least Vinny Testaverde made it to the second quarter of the season opener before rupturing his Achilles tendon...

Not very well. 15 of 28 for 104 yards, 2 INTs...

I've complained when someone scheduled a meeting when I was already booked, and they said, "That was the only time everyone was free." If you bothered to look at my calendar, you would have seen that wasn't the case. It probably was the time most convenient to them.

Preece's crash was absolutely frightening, but he was fortunate that the car tumbled and didn't come to a sudden stop. Blaney's wreck was worse in that standpoint, getting turned into the wall. It looked eerily similar to Dale Earnhardt's crash in the Daytona 500 at almost the same spot. 20+ years of NASCAR safety improvements led to a much better outcome for Young Ryan Blaney.

Jake was lurking this morning...

You accept Job A, and if Job B comes back with a better offer, you tell Job A that you had a change in your situation and won't be taking it after all.

I was in the car, listening to the game on Sirius. I got out when it was 13-3 in the 8th. I had no idea the Barves scored 8 in the top of the 9th until I saw it online later. At least Howie Rose on the radio kept it entertaining. He wasn't talking much about the game, but it was entertaining.

I think they are showing it on the main Paramount network now, so it may be part of your regular cable/television package. We watched the first episode when it aired following Yellowstone when it originally premiered, and it didn't tempt us to pay for Paramount+ to watch the rest of it.

A bad day at the ballpark is better than a good day at work...

You say that like it's a bad thing. I've always liked him.

Maybe there was a misspelling - perhaps a chicken was suspected in the stabbing, and it was supposed to say possible fowl play...

Years ago, we called it 'pleather'. I remember when Naugahyde came out, and the joke would be 'do you know how many naughas died to make that?'