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Quote from: Trotsky on November 14, 2025, 07:26:49 PM

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Quote from: Trotsky on November 14, 2025, 11:17:00 AMCHN has CHIP. 

I looked it up so you* don't have to: CHIP is a comprehensive-quality stat comparable to baseball's WAR.

* person like me

I still had to look up WAR, though.

(It's not all that relevant to the Mets, you see.)

We're about to piss away Pete's 23.3 career WAR.  Relevance.

There's a miserable, miserable part of me that says let Pete walk, let Edwin walk, and try to have an under the luxury tax threshold reset year.

Just as long as the Mets don't throw crazy $ at Josh Naylor. The Mariners fanbase is on pins and needles hoping they can sign him, despite our notoriously cheap ownership.

Mets-Mariners fan here too.  There are a surprising number of us, in steerage on the ship of the damned.

Good news for the Mariners - looks like they are about to sign Naylor to a 5 year deal, per the Seattle Times.
"The exact contract figures are not immediately known, but the deal will most certainly end up as the largest free-agent contract the Mariners have given to a position player in the last decade under Jerry Dipoto, the club's president of baseball operations."

Climbing off my thread-drift soap box now......

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Quote from: Jeff Hopkins '82 on November 15, 2025, 11:49:40 PMIn the second period, I turned to the friend I was with and said "They look gassed."  Fortunately, they found their legs in the third to tie it up.

But my god, the officiating was pathetic.

Dude. I dragged an exchange student friend to this weekend's games. After the Colgate game, she looked at me and said, and I quote, "I didn't understand why you said when we lose it's the ref's fault. Now I do. I understand that I'm blind, I'm deaf chant."

Second hockey game EVER, mind you.

She is a Cornellian, so maybe not so surprising?

Quote from: Dafatone on November 14, 2025, 12:01:59 PM

Quote from: Trotsky on November 14, 2025, 11:58:43 AM

Quote from: Beeeej on November 14, 2025, 11:37:11 AM

Quote from: ugarte on November 14, 2025, 11:31:16 AM

Quote from: Trotsky on November 14, 2025, 11:17:00 AMCHN has CHIP. 

I looked it up so you* don't have to: CHIP is a comprehensive-quality stat comparable to baseball's WAR.

* person like me

I still had to look up WAR, though.

(It's not all that relevant to the Mets, you see.)

We're about to piss away Pete's 23.3 career WAR.  Relevance.

There's a miserable, miserable part of me that says let Pete walk, let Edwin walk, and try to have an under the luxury tax threshold reset year.

Just as long as the Mets don't throw crazy $ at Josh Naylor. The Mariners fanbase is on pins and needles hoping they can sign him, despite our notoriously cheap ownership.

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Quote from: Chris H82 on October 22, 2025, 01:07:12 PMHey, technical question here.

The new software shows me that there are new posts on a topic.  But, unlike the old software, when I click on the link for the thread, it takes me to the start of the topic, rather than the location as to where the new post is at. I am logged in.  Is there something in the settings that would enable me to land directly at the new post?  I've looked in the settings, but can't seem to find it.  I have this problem both on my PC (Brave browser) and my Android phone (again, Brave browser). Any suggestions greatly appreciated.

https://elf.elynah.com/index.php?msg=272326

Badda boom badda bing! Thanks!

Hey, technical question here.

The new software shows me that there are new posts on a topic.  But, unlike the old software, when I click on the link for the thread, it takes me to the start of the topic, rather than the location as to where the new post is at. I am logged in.  Is there something in the settings that would enable me to land directly at the new post?  I've looked in the settings, but can't seem to find it.  I have this problem both on my PC (Brave browser) and my Android phone (again, Brave browser). Any suggestions greatly appreciated.

Had to wait a day or so to let my thoughts settle out after that ALCS Game 7 loss. Another good article summed up the pain, and I think this quote could apply to our continued wish for another CU hockey natty:

"Why does it hurt? Because seasons such as this don't happen here. That's not hyperbole.

Until the Mariners drafted and developed one of baseball's best starting rotations. Until Raleigh hit 65 home runs, the most in a regular and postseason in AL history. Until Woo lasted at least six innings in 25 consecutive starts. Until Seattle dealt for Naylor and Suárez at the trade deadline. Until Víctor Robles soared to snag a liner and unseat the Astros. Until a million separate pieces all slid into place.

Even then, it's not enough. Will it ever be?

It came to this, the same consuming question and a new plummet. A further fall than ever before. Another celebration at Seattle's expense.

It had to be Springer. It had to happen in the most eternally tortuous way. It had to be the kind of devastating cruelty that leaves Raleigh — who had already homered — standing on deck.

Baseball, like life, isn't fair.

But you already know that. You're a Mariners fan."
https://www.seattletimes.com/sports/mariners/the-mariners-most-magical-season-in-recent-memory-was-not-enough-will-it-ever-be/

I've posted before about the angst of being a Mariners fan. In advance of tonight's Game 5 ALDS vs the Tigers (and Tarik Skubal), there's a wonderful article about being an M's fan and just being a sports fan in general. Written by a non-sports reporter, no less. I realize that most of you won't be able to read the full article due to the paywall, so I'll quote a bit of it below.
https://www.seattletimes.com/sports/mariners/in-rare-mariners-game-5-seattle-battles-history/

"A team can consume a city — its attention, its passion, its pride — like little else. Theater, dance, cinema, literature, art — all worthy pursuits. None unite people, masses of people, the way a winning team does.

Paul Blackburn, a Vermont-born poet (who happens to share a name with a Yankees pitcher), wrote about days like this. It was 65 years ago this month, Game 7 of the 1960 World Series, which would end with the greatest hit in baseball history, Bill Mazeroski's series-ending home run.

"Nice day,
sweet October afternoon
Men walk the sun-shot avenues,
                                                     Second, Third, eyes
                                                     intent elsewhere
ears communing with transistors in shirt pockets
                                    Bars are full, quiet,
discussion during commercials
                                                     only"

Swap the transistors for smartphones and he could be writing about today.
......
There is an exquisite powerlessness to fandom. To wanting something so bad it consumes your thoughts, soars or shatters your mood, seems to be all that matters, and still, there is nothing you can do.

Or is there?

Knocking on wood, lighting candles, rally caps, rally shoes, lucky jerseys, lucky earrings, lucky Cheetos, lucky seats, switching seats, switching rooms, switching televisions, Etsy witches, pre-game snacks. The team plays better when I watch standing up. The team plays better when I'm there in person. The team plays better when I don't watch. Don't shave, don't change shirts, don't talk about any of it.

We all have superstitions, traditions, charms, prayers, none of them able to alter the outcome one iota.

But, collectively, maybe there's something there? Something to the pure karmic energy created by thousands of desperate fans putting everything into willing an outcome, summoning a hit, a run, an out. Tens, hundreds of thousands of people pushing, metaphorically, psychically, emotionally the same way. Could their force alter a ball's flight? Give a pitch an extra mile per hour or an inch of dip? Cause a short hop?

Nah, that's wishful nonsense.

And then you see Cal Raleigh hit home run 61, a number dripping in baseball history. And it lands, amid an absolute sea of blue and orange Tigers fans, precisely in the glove of the one guy in a teal T-shirt with "Dump 61 Here" printed across it. How does that happen?

A city — almost certainly — cannot will a team to victory. But you can try."

I'm on Vancouver Island for a few days, and the CBC radio station out of Victoria had a 10-minute story today about the impact of the NCAA rule changes allowing CHL players to now play in the NCAA. Nothing particularly new in the story, but some good examples of the impacts to the local CHL (WHL) team, the Victoria Royals.

https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-48-on-the-island/clip/16166042-how-ncaa-changes-mens-hockey-eligibility-impacting-hockey

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Quote from: TrotskyI discovered long range AM by growing up a Mariners fan on Long Island in the mid-late 70s.  

Wow, they were NOT good at all back then. And I'll bet you didn't have much company rooting for the Ms on Long Island.

it's ok he was able to enjoy baseball by rooting for the mets as well *touches earpiece*

TBH the Mariners have been the perfect pairing with the Mets.

This is why I will never, ever, ever be down on Cornell hockey.  "Fire?  I was born of this."

Yeah, my wife and sons love to watch me suffer endlessly with the yearly disappointment by the Mariners.

Quote from: TrotskyI discovered long range AM by growing up a Mariners fan on Long Island in the mid-late 70s.  

Wow, they were NOT good at all back then. And I'll bet you didn't have much company rooting for the Ms on Long Island.

Quote from: RichHThe end of WHCU broadcasts saddens me greatly, but I can't say it wasn't expected. Having two home broadcast teams was pretty out-of-the-ordinary. I really enjoyed listening to Jason over the years and it was the only reason I ever used a radio app. I wish there's a way to retain him and Grady somehow.

My other wish is for there being a way to just have an audio-only stream in the app for Car use like MLB has.

My third wish is for infinite wishes.

+1

Came across another T-shirt design. Dodges the NC$$ by not referring to them. Yet another Bear, and the Terrapin (it's just a turtle here) looks too happy.
https://competitive-edge.co/products/2025-champs-tee?variant=46328073355521&country=US¤cy=USD&com_cvv=8fb3d522dc163aeadb66e08cd7450cbbdddc64c6cf2e8891f6d48747c6d56d2c

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Quote from: sah67he ran the powerplay

"We must imagine Sisyphus happy."

Considering ours was beyond awful, any help is a bonus

The power play did struggle - except this one time! CU-MSU

I liked that one

I'm keeping this youtube link handy, for whenever I'm in need of an emotional pickup.

This is a different sort of angry Bear on the shirts...

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Quote from: upprdeckOther than the hat there is nothing in that list that I would ever buy and actually wear in public

Those are very busy pieces of clothing.

At the pre-game tailgate, I saw some guys with red hats that said something about Cornell National Lax Champs '76(?), and on the side it had the Cornell score above the Maryland (?) score. I would LOVE to have a hat like that for this championship.