@robert I’m still trying to figure out what that taste was you didn’t like. Too bland? Too watery?
Just like any fruit some people like one variety over another. There was nothing bad about it, it just wasn’t as good as others I have. To me. If you try something and it’s not up to your standards you graft it over to something better.
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Hot summers aren’t good for sweet cherries. They like cool temperate climates, not continental climates like most of the Midwest. Only exception would be if you are in lower Michigan, where the lake effect moderates the temperatures.
I’m on team Stanley. Prolific, easy tree, and it’s pretty to look at, too. Fruit is good, (maybe not the most amazing, but I really enjoy them!). Nice to eat fresh, but also adaptable for baking, jams, etc. Yes, squirrels like them. (Get a dog?)
Cherries in my experience are more problematic. Birds like them, too.
I would plant them both and plan to cull the looser in a couple years. If you had peach trees. You should in theory have room for both these small trees. Until your gut tells you a winner. Maybe you will love them both and keep them both in a two tree one hole planting.
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Good point
Mine do,for Brown Rot Blossom Blight and Curly Leaf Plum Aphid.
That’s new to me 
when i was in Kent and had a Plum tree, i never had to spray. Same in Seatac for us
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Stanley is a fairly large tree among plums, with a correspondingly larger fruit, which ripens early-mid September in most regions. There were two enormous Stanleys (standards, no doubt) on campus way back when I first began studying at Pacific Lutheran U., near Tacoma. WA. The plums were so big I had to look 'em up to learn the name.
You probably have your whip/maiden on something dwarfing, if the suggested height is truly represented.
If you like Stanley, you may find it worth trying to bud graft another plum to a branch. I’ve done this with a dormant bud to a stock with nearly mature leaves. This will give you some comparison, ramp up seed set & extend your harvest. Seneca gets plenty of thumbs up, from what I’ve read. Its bloom time will easily overlap Stanley’s.
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