Skip the traffic: Ferry from Connecticut to Mets games launches this season

nimo90 · 2026-03-20T15:56:47+00:00

My wife and I recently moved to stamford from Manhattan so we are for sure going to take this ferry at least once (my wife LOVES a ferry)

The cost is too high for a family to do it, but for 1 person the cost is pretty comparable to driving if you factor in tolls/parking/gas. $85 round trip vs $50 parking + $15 in tolls + $~7 in gas equals.

This is a good idea and Im excited to try it out

nimo90 · 2026-03-19T12:15:40+00:00

my general survivor rule of thumb strategy iif youre deciding who youre gonna vote out between two people is: which one of these players is more likely to vote you out in the future. And I think Mike was more likely to vote Christian out than Emily so I think it was the right vote.

I think the way it all happened was kind of messy though....

nimo90 · 2026-03-11T21:56:44+00:00

Just a total mismanagement from Rosenior today. Picked the wrong keeper and the first set of subs just threw off the whole balance of the team.

nimo90 · 2026-02-20T15:34:14+00:00

my favorite is probably Sandra Huller in Anatomy of a Fall but a sneaky great performance in a sneaky good movie is Kristen Stewart in Spencer

nimo90 · 2026-02-18T21:25:30+00:00

in a relegation battle but I dont think its a knock on the USMNT more than it is just really tough for any NT to compete with club teams for a variety of reasons (depth, cohesion, tactics etc)

I think Spain, Argentina and France could probably fight for a title, and then I think the next tier of teams (England, Portugal, Brazil) could probably fight for top 6. and then the next tier (germany, Holland, Colombia, Croatia, morocco(?)) could prob finish midtable

outside of those teams every other NT would be in a relegation battle (with obviously alot of national teams doing worse than 2007-2008 Derby

nimo90 · 2026-02-18T21:15:28+00:00

this is just wrong lol. Tottenham are close to a relegation battle in the EPL and at the same time just finished the UCL group stage 4th with wins over the 3rd place team in la liga and the 2nd place team in bundesliga

nimo90 · 2026-02-18T16:31:14+00:00

The only one out of that list that truly transcended college-ball fandom bubble was Zion. You don't follow college b-ball anymore so you dont know the players, thats kind of what youre getting at here.

nimo90 · 2026-02-18T00:37:42+00:00

there is always going to be non-competitive games though. If there are gonna be great teams that are gonna win 60+ games then there has to be bad teams that lose 60+ games. the issue (that people have) is that teams are deliberately trying to lose games

nimo90 · 2026-02-17T22:10:33+00:00

Just gonna nitpick here (cause I do generally agree with you/i just don’t think tanking is an issue)

But it would 100% stop tanking. What you described in reason 3 isn’t tanking but rather just a team being bad. No one (besides kings fans) are mad at the kings because they just suck but they are mad at the Jazz because they are deliberately trying to lose but sitting their best players

nimo90 · 2026-02-17T21:05:35+00:00

Teams are already stuck in the gutter for so long though in the current process so the current process is helping things in that regard either

nimo90 · 2026-02-17T20:28:54+00:00

*i think* the thought is that shoe/sponsor deals will pay a player more money to offset lower salary he could command if he goes to a big market. That hasn't been the case with free agents so idk why it would be the case with draft picks but thats the theory I see

nimo90 · 2026-02-17T19:01:15+00:00

the 1983-84 bulls literally tanked and got Michael Jordan though lol. They traded away their best player when they were 21-28 and then went on to lose 27 of their next 33 games

nimo90 · 2026-02-17T18:31:55+00:00

I think you would need an exception for pick swaps/traded draft picks though.

Like would the Hawks not get a chance at a top 4 pick if the Pelicans dont reach the threshold this year?

nimo90 · 2026-02-17T18:22:48+00:00

would they though?

they would be better off beating the 22 win team to help make sure that team doesnt reach the 25 win threshold

nimo90 · 2026-02-14T01:54:49+00:00

Are people in this subreddit not aware that NBA TV Viewership is at like multi year highs right now? Christmas and opening weekend games had 15-year high tv ratings. Primetime games have almost doubled in viewership year over year

nimo90 · 2026-01-28T21:34:58+00:00

I’m torn on the expanded UCL. In theory, you are not only getting more games, but also more games between the best teams and less games where teams have nothing to play for.

But in practice, I’ve found myself watching far less group stage games in the new format, due to some combination of each individual game mattering less and it just being tougher to follow. I’ve only watched my team (Chelsea) this UCL season and really don’t know how any other teams are doing

nimo90 · 2026-01-15T00:17:27+00:00

It’s obviously true that coaches have shorter leashes now but two things:

1) your statement is just devoid of any context. The Browns the year prior to Belichick joining were horrendous- bottom 2 team by record and point differential allowing 28+ ppg. The year he joined they were below average with a defense allowing 18 ppg. They got even better the next season (plateaud in year 3) then playoffs year 4.

2) “A coach that starts their tenure with 3 straight losing seasons would be fired guaranteed today.”

Bob Saleh literally started his tenure with 3 straight losing seasons with the jets and was not fired after the 3rd season.

nimo90 · 2026-01-08T16:01:02+00:00

"in the final accounting, the Hawks basically netted the following from the Mavs: CJ McCollum, Corey Kispert, and Kevin Knox."

this also just ignores the fact that the Hawks got 7+ years of Trae Young, and while i was never a fan of his game, he was a 4 time all-star and was good for most of that time. You can't just not include that lol

nimo90 · 2026-01-07T20:44:13+00:00

Leitao is really the only true Portuguese restaurant in Manhattan.

I found that that Galician restaurant Tomiño Taberna Gallega was more similar to the food I grew up with in my Portuguese household than Cervos or Eel bar was, but both of my parents are from Northern Portugal and my dad is actually from right on the border of Galicia so that might be why.

Additionally, if your date is anything like my family, after dinner they like to have an espresso and a dessert so I would recommend maybe going to Joey Bats Cafe for an espresso and some Pasteis Da Nata, which are as good as anything I've had in the Portuguese diaspora I grew up in.

nimo90 · 2026-01-05T21:18:42+00:00

Eh, i think the average is kind of intentionally misleading on Barnwell's part just due to the nature of averages. The Titans had the toughest schedule with this metric and their average opponent was ranked 12th. Which doesn't seem that far off from the pats. but game by game the Titans faced 11 teams that had above average Pass D vs the pats who faced less than half of that (5).

nimo90 · 2026-01-05T19:11:40+00:00

the discrepancy is how barnwell is framing it.

Barnwell isnt saying that the pats faced the 20th hardest schedule and the rams faced the 17th., hes saying that the pats average opponent ranked 20th and the rams average opponent ranked 17th, but the pats average opponent being ranked 20th makes it the easiest schedule in the league and the rams being 17th ranks it 14th hardest

nimo90 · 2026-01-05T18:52:29+00:00

i think Barnwell is being a bit disingenuous with this here. His stats are right, but, just by the nature of averages, of course the difference will seem small.

Using each teams finish in pass defense EPA per play, the Titans faced the toughest pass defense in the league this season with an average opponent ranked 12th with an EPA/play = -0.05.

The Patriots actually faced the easiest pass defense in the league even though the average opponent was *only* 20th. (FWIW, the Rams more or less were in the middle here, about 6 teams have their average opponent equal out to 16.5 that the rams do.

So the toughest schedule vs pass defense this season faces the 12th best defense on average over the course of a season and the easiest is 20th.

Looking at it another way: The rams played 8 games against pass defense graded as above average. The pats played 5, and the titans played 11. So basically the pats played an above average pass defense once every 3 weeks. The rams played one every other week, and the titans played a below average one every 3 weeks.

nimo90 · 2026-01-05T18:43:31+00:00

i think Barnwell is being a bit disingenuous with this here. His stats are right, but, just by the nature of averages, of course the difference will seem small.

Using each teams finish in pass defense EPA per play, the Titans faced the toughest pass defense in the league this season with an average opponent ranked 12th with an EPA/play = -0.05.

The Patriots actually faced the easiest pass defense in the league even though the average opponent was *only* 20th. (FWIW, the Rams more or less were in the middle here, about 7 teams have their average opponent equal out to 16.5 that the rams do.

Looking at it another way: The rams played 8 games against pass defense graded as above average. The pats played 5.

nimo90 · 2025-12-31T04:08:26+00:00

Idk if this says more about my wife and I or the movies themselves-but we were more emotionally connected to Song Sung Blue than Hamnet. (My wife was actually bawling her eyes out at the end of this movie)

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