FUNNY LINK "Explain what it's like being a [JEST] fan, using the best analogy or example you can think of"

[Rob0729]

I'm telling you guys that the new Jets GM Darren Mougey is excellent.

Last year I think the Jets set a record for one measure of futility: last six games lost by 20 or more points, a first in the NFL.

No INTs.

But the off season moves and the draft by Mougey have been highly competent.

I'm telling you ole geezers--I feel like that ole Jewish geezer in Rocky warning about Mr T, Clubber sumthin--that the Jets, though still a year away, will start making some noise.

The last two or three GMs for the Jets have been highly touted in their first few years and then exposed as duds. So I will wait to see Mougey actually be successful before I will give him a passing grade.

 

[NCPATSFAN1971]

Oh, I am one of them. Rico Petrocelli was my favorite player and I remember seeing them play in 1967 - it's one of my earliest sports recollections. I distinctly remember eating popcorn from a tube that became a megaphone when you finished.

Besides, they came closer in 1975 - that WAS catcher interference! - and again in 1986... Bob #$*& Stanley. In 1967 Bob Gibson was un-hittable. It only went to 7 games because Gibson couldn't pitch every game.

That said, Red Sox fans are the perfect analogy to Jets fans. Joe Namath is their Babe Ruth.

I can still name from memory most if not all of the starting lineup of the 1967 Red Sox. That was the year I got hooked that lasted for a few decades. The 1975 and 1986 Seasons ended in heartbreak. I agree about Stanley but we had the 86 WS won until Bill Buckners error in the 10th inning forced a game 7 which we lost. That #$%^ error and game 6 loss was almost as bad as the Patriots losing the Perfect Season to the Giants.

Here is Buckner"s error: BTW, I could have made this play even today at 80. LOL


I've finally became a total "fair weather" fan of the Red Sox and there hasn't been too much fair weather lately.

 

[bresna]

I can still name from memory most if not all of the starting lineup of the 1967 Red Sox. That was the year I got hooked that lasted for a few decades. The 1975 and 1986 Seasons ended in heartbrake. I agree about Stanley but we had the 86 WS won until Bill Buckners error in the 10th inning forced a game 7 which we lost. That #$%^ error and game 6 loss was almost as bad as the Patriots losing the Perfect Season to the Giants.

Here is Buckner"s error: BTW, I could have made this play even today at 80. LOL


I've finally became a total "fair weather" fan of the Red Sox and there hasn't been too much fair weather lately.

I never blamed Buckner for that ground ball. Look who was on the mound! Bob #@%& Stanley!! That guy seemed to let every batter hit the ball. He was a sinkerball pitcher who laid the ball out there to be hit. Almost every out he got was on a ground ball. He blew several games that year already. I'll tell you this - I was in a bar when Stanley came out that inning and people were throwing stuff at the big screen TVs and booing.

Nobody wanted to see that guy on the mound.

I haven't watched a full playoff or World Series game since this %$@*&%$ game. And I was a partial season ticket holder at the time. I gave them up that offseason. Life is too short to put that kind of stress on yourself over a baseball game.

 

[NCPATSFAN1971]

I never blamed Buckner for that ground ball. Look who was on the mound! Bob #@%& Stanley!! That guy seemed to let every batter hit the ball. He was a sinkerball pitcher who laid the ball out there to be hit. Almost every out he got was on a ground ball. He blew several games that year already. I'll tell you this - I was in a bar when Stanley came out that inning and people were throwing stuff at the big screen TVs and booing.

Nobody wanted to see that guy on the mound.

I haven't watched a full playoff or World Series game since this %$@*&%$ game. And I was a partial season ticket holder at the time. I gave them up that offseason. Life is too short to put that kind of stress on yourself over a baseball game.

I agree that Stanley sucked but that ground ball to Buckner wasn't smoked. Buckner had been around a long time in baseball and he should have made a relatively easy play.

 

[bresna]

I agree that Stanley sucked but that ground ball to Buckner wasn't smoked. Buckner had been around a long time in baseball and he should have made a relatively easy play.

All of which plays into this topic: The Red Sox were the Jets back then. Jinxed to lose.

 

[n1997y]

I agree that Stanley sucked but that ground ball to Buckner wasn't smoked. Buckner had been around a long time in baseball and he should have made a relatively easy play.

IIRC Bucker was greatly hobbled by injury, which is why he couldn’t get town enough to even block that ball.

I remember it well. Sprained my ankle very badly playing basketball in my work league, came home to put my leg up and ice it and watch the Sox game. Terrible night.

 

[Uptown]

 

[1960Pats]

I can still name from memory most if not all of the starting lineup of the 1967 Red Sox. That was the year I got hooked that lasted for a few decades. The 1975 and 1986 Seasons ended in heartbreak. I agree about Stanley but we had the 86 WS won until Bill Buckners error in the 10th inning forced a game 7 which we lost. That #$%^ error and game 6 loss was almost as bad as the Patriots losing the Perfect Season to the Giants.

Here is Buckner"s error: BTW, I could have made this play even today at 80. LOL


I've finally became a total "fair weather" fan of the Red Sox and there hasn't been too much fair weather lately.

I knew the Sox were in trouble when Buckner got up in a big situation in the top of the 9th. That meant that Dave Stapleton wasn't going to replace Buckner for defense, which is what they had done throughout the playoffs. After Buckner looked foolish vs lefty (Jessie Orosco?) he then went out to first where he looked just as foolish and lost the game and series.

I ended up dumping MLB after the strike in 99 and I haven't missed it one bit.

 

[1960Pats]

I agree that Stanley sucked but that ground ball to Buckner wasn't smoked. Buckner had been around a long time in baseball and he should have made a relatively easy play.

Buckner shouldn't have been out there.

 

[Bill Lee]

I can still name from memory most if not all of the starting lineup of the 1967 Red Sox. That was the year I got hooked that lasted for a few decades.

For me it was the 74-75 era. I can't remember what I had for supper yesterday but I can remember Denny Doyle played second, and when I recall the lineup I hear it in Ned Martin's voice. I was a bored teenager in the days before Internet and Cable TV so I listened to almost every single game on the radio.

I ended up dumping MLB after the strike in 99 and I haven't missed it one bit.

Life just got too busy to put that much time into the sport once I hit college then career demands meant I was tuning in for the playoffs at best. After the success of the early 00s a lot of the drama just isn't what it once was. Now that Henry won't pay to keep the home-grown talent, I'm almost completely out.

All of which plays into this topic: The Red Sox were the Jets back then. Jinxed to lose.

The difference is the Sox were jinxed, but The Jete Suck.

We had some actual great teams while da Jete simply have not.

The '75 Sox were an amazing team.

'75 Sox:
C — Carlton Fisk
1B — Carl Yastrzemski / Cecil Cooper
2B — Denny Doyle
SS — Rick Burleson
3B — Rico Petrocelli
LF — Jim Rice
CF — Fred Lynn
RF — Dwight Evans
P — Luis Tiant
P — Bill Lee
P — Rick Wise
P — Reggie Cleveland

Their biggest problem was they went up against The Big Red Machine, an all-time great team.

'75 Reds:
C — Johnny Bench
1B — Tony Pérez
2B — Joe Morgan
SS — Dave Concepción
3B — Pete Rose
LF — George Foster
CF — César Gerónimo
RF — Ken Griffey Sr.
P — Don Gullett
P — Gary Nolan
P — Fred Norman
P — Jack Billingham

I mean, Denny Doyle was a nice player, but he was no Joe Morgan.
Rico Petrocelli was a nice player, but no Pete Rose.
George Foster in his prime in left, holy crap.
Not to mention the original Ken Griffey, Bench, Perez, ....
Of course they didn't have a single pitcher as great as Bill Lee though..

Overall, when you look at that lineup, the fact we won any WS games at all (especially with Jim Rice gone due to his broken wrist) is a pure testament to how tight the '75 Sox were.

 

[bresna]

For me it was the 74-75 era. I can't remember what I had for supper yesterday but I can remember Denny Doyle played second, and when I recall the lineup I hear it in Ned Martin's voice. I was a bored teenager in the days before Internet and Cable TV so I listened to almost every single game on the radio.


Life just got too busy to put that much time into the sport once I hit college then career demands meant I was tuning in for the playoffs at best. After the success of the early 00s a lot of the drama just isn't what it once was. Now that Henry won't pay to keep the home-grown talent, I'm almost completely out.


The difference is the Sox were jinxed, but The Jete Suck.

We had some actual great teams while da Jete simply have not.

The '75 Sox were an amazing team.

'75 Sox:
C — Carlton Fisk
1B — Carl Yastrzemski / Cecil Cooper
2B — Denny Doyle
SS — Rick Burleson
3B — Rico Petrocelli
LF — Jim Rice
CF — Fred Lynn
RF — Dwight Evans
P — Luis Tiant
P — Bill Lee
P — Rick Wise
P — Reggie Cleveland

Their biggest problem was they went up against The Big Red Machine, an all-time great team.

'75 Reds:
C — Johnny Bench
1B — Tony Pérez
2B — Joe Morgan
SS — Dave Concepción
3B — Pete Rose
LF — George Foster
CF — César Gerónimo
RF — Ken Griffey Sr.
P — Don Gullett
P — Gary Nolan
P — Fred Norman
P — Jack Billingham

I mean, Denny Doyle was a nice player, but he was no Joe Morgan.
Rico Petrocelli was a nice player, but no Pete Rose.
George Foster in his prime in left, holy crap.
Not to mention the original Ken Griffey, Bench, Perez, ....
Of course they didn't have a single pitcher as great as Bill Lee though..

Overall, when you look at that lineup, the fact we won any WS games at all (especially with Jim Rice gone due to his broken wrist) is a pure testament to how tight the '75 Sox were.

The Jets aren't jinxed?? What else could explain this?

 

[Bill Lee]

The Jets aren't jinxed?? What else could explain this?

IDK, I think a pure lack of talent and skill can explain it, but I'm okay with going with it's both suckage and being jinxed too!