Johnny Lunchbucket

The best days were the early ones where they had the Midtown studio that overlooked 6th Ave. It was obvious they were always on a budget but they at least tried to create programming that wasn't 2nd rate WFAN guys yelling at each other. LOL, they tried anyway

I have been using DAZN for Islanders this year. So far so good. I'm in a weird spot where I get those games for free because I still pay for cable; without it I'd have to pay more to Verizon since they this year put the different MSG channels on different pay tiers, basically daring people like me to cut the cord

They will probably make a deal with DAZN, they are the Euro sports streamer that now has Yankees, Knicks, Rangers, Devils, Islanders. There's no reason for SNY to exist other than to broadcast Met games.

I pictured a small-time hustler in a 1970s episode of Mod Squad

He was a baseball outsider whose openness to new ideas allowed for guys like Billy Beane and Paul DePodesta to challenge conventional team building strategies; which became important at a time when disparity between rich and poor teams was widening. He was a also a doer who straightened out a scandal over Dominican players and agents. Took over a Mets team decimated by financial scandal and took it to the World Series . Not just take over -- he was basically installed by MLB as one of the only capable of saving the franchise after the Wilpons fucked it up so bad. Nobody ever appreciated that.

Wore number 2. Smallish guy with a big ass.

Sandy, Dusty, Maddon. They are all qualified to some degree

I biked by there the other day. Three of those massive 50-foot boring tubes positioned in the northwest corner of the parking lot getting set to build Steve's Stupid Casino. Also, the frame of a new parking garage is already out of the ground behind left field. Also also, they learned their lesson last year withholding single-game seats until March and restricting them to the first half only. I hope they fired the guy who thought up that idea. This year single-gamers go on sale Nov 12, which is next week, and the earliest in decades. I guess this is in anticipation of a work stoppage deadening demand closer to the season.

One of those Ike Davis hits was a game winner so huge I thought it would turn the season around EDIT: Couldn't find evidence of that. Instead it was a 9th inning single in 2013 that snapped Ike's 1-for-42 slump. we lost the game anyway and Kimbrel got the save

His actual nickname is Pierson Ohl "Go Fuck Yourself." Its hard to imagine Ronnie actually saying that though

Joelmon was the best

25 years of shitty Mets baseball! 01: Frustrating and ultimately sharply disappointing and unnerving year. 02: Steve Phillips Frankenstein year leads to Valentine firing 03: Howe Era begins, Phillips fired, team sucks cock but Reyes debuts 04: Duquette Era kneecapped from the start, Kazmir trade, Wilpons self-destruct, Wright arrives 05: Omar begins era of showy free agent deals, march toward respectability. In many ways, the best year of the CPF era. 06: Omar completes near powerhouse, but team struggles with injuries and slumps late, falls short of winnable WS 07: Slump continues all year, intensifies in historic collapse 08: Willie gets whacked, 2nd collapse, Omar & Jerry pointlessly re-upped 09: New stadium opens as a monument to management's dismissiveness of fan base and ignorance of relevant history, Bernazard bizarreness, team sucks 10: Jerry lame-ducks the team to new lows, Omar deservedly fired, management discovers fan-friendliness only as a means to shield coming financial disaster 11: Financial woes -- not baseball woes! -- necessitate radical changes and birth of long-term financial and operational turnaround. 12: Santana no-hitter, Dickey Cy Young, OK start but 24 games out a yearend 13: All-Star Game or the first time since 64, but out of contention all year, same record (74-88) as 2012. Wheeler joins Harvey in rotattion 14: deGrom debuts, Colon arrives, Harvey out, Duda takes over from Davis. Promising year but never really in contention 15: Best season of the CPF era? Grandy, Conforto, Muffy, Syndergaard. Losing a winnable World Series hurts 16: Exciting buildup but ultimately disappointing 1 and out playoff appearance. Lotta injuries 17: 92-loss season ends the Terry Era. Everyone gut injured 18: Mickey Era begins; 11-1 start wasted by June; Nimmo establishes himself; Wright says goodbe;deGrom with the Cy Young 19: Brodie Era begins with cringey note to fans, team has a decent year (86-76) behind deGrom and newcomer Pete Alonso; new arrivals Cano and Diaz suck 20: Pandemic; Mickey fired between seasons on inappropriate conduct; Beltran hire then fired, Luis Rojas takes the reigns. Forgettable 26-34 year capped news that Cohen would buy the Mets and Brodie would hit the road 21: Sandy returns as president. Jared Porter named GM but dick-pick scandal outs him after a month (a month that included the Lindor trade); Zack Scott named GM, makes the Javier Baez-Pete Crow Armstrong trade, team finished in 3rd place anyway 22: Buck Showalter era begins. Billy Eppler Era also behins. Awesome year (101 wins!) with a disappointing wild-card finish. McNutty wins the batting title. Max Scherzer arrives 23: Cohen buys Verlander, team is a massive disappointment 24: New leadership in Mendy & Stearns. Magical year behind stealth pitching acquisitions like Manaea and Severino, spirit from Jose Iglesias & the Grmace. Darn near made the World Series 25: Adds Juan Soto, team has a great start but rapidly drops 26: Stearns fucks up the roster, terrible start costs Mendy his job, Green takes over

6 outta 10. A couple riveting scenes and things to think about but overall only okay. It was probably possible to tell a less true version of the story and have a better movie

Like the title says--horror hijinks for a conflicted French Canadian teen vampire.