{"id":40908,"date":"2025-11-16T00:11:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T00:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/40908\/"},"modified":"2025-11-16T00:11:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T00:11:09","slug":"the-matthew-schaefer-experience-has-a-1984-feeling-to-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/40908\/","title":{"rendered":"The Matthew Schaefer Experience has a 1984 feeling to it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You never want to get too crazy about these things. The easiest thing to do is get carried away with young talent. You start projecting 15 games over the next 15 years. You book passage on the bus to Cooperstown\/Canton\/Springfield\/Toronto.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>More often than not, that winds up looking silly.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Or have you forgotten Gary S\u00e1nchez? Or Mike Vail?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This seems different \u2014 although, if you\u2019re old enough to remember 1984, it actually feels quite similar. Here is what I did Friday night: Despite a very long week, with my bed beckoning, I clicked on the television and watched a hockey game from Salt Lake City.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"You never want to get too crazy about these things. The easiest thing to do is get carried&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40909,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[23625,16790,9,11,6821,10,539,23626,319,431,428],"class_list":{"0":"post-40908","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-dwight-gooden","9":"tag-matthew-schaefer","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-headlines","12":"tag-new-york-islanders","13":"tag-new-york-news","14":"tag-nhl","15":"tag-open-mike","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-sports-columnists","18":"tag-sports-plus"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40908\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}