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1 hour ago, nfreeman said:
Now this is a fair clarification.
However, it’s also fair to point out that, like Trotter, plenty of these guys go back and forth between independent media gigs and working “in house.” It’s highly likely that quite a few of the 40 NFL media members who were allegedly present on the zoom call in September 2020 have since gone independent. Some of those people would presumably have spilled the beans about TP’s alleged statement.
Of course, we don’t know who was at the meeting, and those people can’t be asked about it, since they weren’t identified in the complaint.
I don't think the bold is fair if you're implying "well, no one else has reported it so it's not true". As Trotter is finding out, you don't embarrass the league and expect to continue working with it. Entirely likely anyone who reported something like this would quickly find closed doors and be looking for a new career outside football and probably sports media.
26 minutes ago, Marvin said:Furthering your point: the biggest racist I have ever known was my Chinese grandmother. She called me a half-breed to my face in front of my Chinese relatives. She looked down at every other nationality, skin colour, etc., but held a specific contempt for Caucasians. She knew the struggles of the capitalist Chinese forwards and backwards, but she was somewhere between oblivious to aggressively ignorant about any other group. And she thought that she treated people equally, but it was relative to the elitist hierarchy in her mind.
Careful, you're wandering close to "it's okay, they do it too". 🙂 (to be clear, I absolutely don't think you're saying that)
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36 minutes ago, shrader said:
Taking a single sentence out of an entire conversation (or however those comments allegedly came about) is a dangerous game. Zero context provided by a twitter post? That’s a first.
Either comment could have been preceded by something like “some people may say…” or “those stupid Ns…”. Those two options paint completely different pictures. I caught the beginning of My Cousin Vinny last night. Go watch what the cop uses as Danny LaRusso’s murder confession.
Wait for more information before any owner is getting thrown out of the league.
Edit: And also wait before giving either owner a pass.
Fair, and we all need to slow down. I will say there aren't too many contexts where saying, "If you don't like it, go back to XXXX" is a good look.
Disclaimer: I've been known to say, "Go back Canada ya hosers; Leafs suck eh" to Canadian geese. And no, I'm not OSP.
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3 minutes ago, Eleven said:
Yeah, the guy who married a woman of a different race and who has several brown kids is going to say something like that. Eyeroll thingy.
He wouldn't be the first dude to be into Asian women while still being racist in the more traditional American way. But, I digress. I know nothing about the specifics of this case. I hope he didn't say it. I'd even be a bit surprised if he did. But it's a possibility that we'll just have to wait and see.
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52 minutes ago, Crusader1969 said:
I can’t imagine Terry being dumb enough to think such a thing And if he is dumb enough to think that -there is no way in hell he says it out loud
I can certainly imagine him thinking it, growing up where he did during the decades he did. I too can't imagine he'd say it out loud. That being said, the last decade of the internet and politics should be all anyone needs to prove that purportedly "smart" people think and say some really ***** things.
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No one is going to be surprised if the Sabres are really good this year. That was the magic with 2005-06 to me.
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2 hours ago, SwampD said:
People always say this as a pejorative (not sure if you are), but is that really a bad thing and isn't that one of the reasons we like it? I know I do. I hope it's always a boutique sport,... at least then I can afford the tickets.
I think it can go too far, but I totally get what you're saying. If it becomes too boutique, the money starts to dry up and some of the nice things go away, like high-quality broadcast/streaming coverage of games. If the dollars aren't there cuts have to be made.
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The late 90s Sabres were popular, this feels like ESPN trying to play that up.
If we're doing obscure things, how's this:
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1 hour ago, CallawaySabres said:
Still Spectrum, really? Go F yourself. And as far as college football, the scheduling is an absolute joke. They really can't manage to get more than 1 matchup per weekend between 2 top 25 teams?
Doesn't college football still do the "the first four weeks are sacrificial games for minor schools to get some exposure and the top-50 teams can all be 4-0"?
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3 hours ago, mjd1001 said:
The game is not on ESPN+ though is it?
There is so much talk about this that my impression is...if you have spectrum even ESPN+ won't get you the game. You'd have to go the over-the-air antenna route (unless you want to do something like HULU Live TV, Fubo, Youtube TV or one of those other pricy options)?
The antenna option can still be a problem for many of us. Buffalo and the immediate suburbs no problem, but if you live in Niagara or western Orleans county (Lewiston, Youngstown, Wilson, Newfane, Lyndonville,) you may or may not get the over-the-air signal. If you live in a very dense neighborhood or have your TV in a bad part of the house (facing the wrong direction, basement, etc) some in Niagara Falls, Albion, Medina may also have problems with an Antenna.
To my knowledge, the ABC signals come either from the OTHER side of the Rochester Airport, or from the Boston Hills/Colden area in the southtowns.
This is only vaguely related, but for awhile I lived in a townhouse with the TV in the basement in a hilly area. I got very little TV signal down there, but what did work was a powered HD antenna that I put in the upstairs bedroom window and ran the signal line down through the cable TV jack in that room down to the TV jack in the basement. It worked reasonably. In the middle, it was just disconnecting the two cables for those jacks where the service comes in and using an adapter to connect them to each other.
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29 minutes ago, Claude Balls said:
That's a lot of smoke for a tiny dip n' dots cart.
The polystyrene base the dip-n-dots are made of makes a lot of smoke when you burn it.
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9 minutes ago, PASabreFan said:
There's one full service gas station here and I like to patronize it. But the older dude will not listen when I ask him to not top it off. I pay with plastic so I see no reason to end up with an even dollar amount. 14 year old car so I guess it really doesn't matter anymore. Not a good practice tho.
If you want a job done right, do it yourself.
- Terry Pegula, on Buffalo Sabres personnel decisions
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36 minutes ago, Sabres Fan in NS said:
Where did I say he was not a fan. My point was he had to know that the Sabres wer for sale back then, but he could not buy them since he did nto have the $. Your reasons are also perfectly valid and part of the reaason he did not buy the team until he did.
Sorry, replied to your post but that wasn't directed at you. Just the general "Terry isn't a fan because he doesn't know that Satan wore 18 for one year" mindset.
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38 minutes ago, Sabres Fan in NS said:
Mr Pegula could not have purchased the Sabres back then. He did not have his $ at the time. That is the better and more accurate answer than not knowing it was available for sale. The NHL friggin' was publicly running the team at the time.
And running a business and I think had young kids. Believe it or not, even if you're a fan sometimes life gets in the way. I barely paid attention to the Sabres 2002-2005. I couldn't watch the games live, I lived in Maryland where no one cared about hockey. And I was just working and hanging out. The suggestion that "oh, he's not a *REAL* fan because he was busy 20 years ago" is kinda silly.
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1 minute ago, JohnC said:
I don't know if anyone else posted this Paul Hamilton WGRZ commentary on the business restructuring. He gave a simple explanation why it was done. He basically stated that by separating the two sports entities it simplified and clarified the finances and accounting of each operation. It pointed out that the impetus for the change was done by the person he brought in to oversee his sprawling enterprises. Terry P has gotten rid of his extraneous businesses associated with hotel and restaurant businesses that weren't profitable.
According to Paul Hamilton, the simplifying and streamlining of his businesses had nothing to do with selling either of the franchises. Terry P basically followed the advice of the financial expert he brought in.
Interesting, and makes sense. If you had one accounting dept or whatever split between the two, there's overhead to keep track or what each person is working on and even billing hours depending how detailed they want to be. Unless you have a lot of areas to cover, it probably makes sense to just split the people into whatever org and not try to consolidate.
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It's not unreasonable to think that KP was the driving force for the greater Pegula media/product empire, and if she's no longer capable of running it day to day it would be jettisoned. I can't see TP being the guy for the ancillary stuff (music, products, etc.) at his age. If the whole thing was going like gangbusters they'd find someone to continue it, but I don't get the feeling it's going anywhere.
Side note: If the Healthy Scratch restaurant served up fresh-made whole foods it's a fantastic name. And I can see why it failed in Buffalo, especially at a sports venue; Buffalo eats some *unhealthy* food.
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9 minutes ago, LGR4GM said:
Again, I can't vote because I think the most likely option isn't there. He will be given a 2-5 game experience tour and sent back to jrs. I suppose option 2 covers that.
I think Savoie and Benson doing 1 more year of jrs will be very good and prep both for the 2024 NHL season.
Yep, exactly. He gets 9-game (or less) try-out. With where the Sabres forwards are, he goes back as to not waste a year in a crowded forward situation. I voted "doesn't last the year" since that's the closest.
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On 8/23/2023 at 5:11 PM, Brawndo said:
https://twitter.com/reporterchris/status/1694457191963468184?s=46&t=h0yvSDHtOEJBIIBDkE7IaQ
Matthews signs a 4 year extension at 13.25 million AAV with Toronto
This has a "I want to give Arizona some time to stabilize" vibe to it, lol.
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15 hours ago, thewookie1 said:
He still wowed 2 years ago, last year he was dealing with a serious hip injury. So I wouldn’t consider him washed up; only over the hill at this stage of his career
Would it be fair to say that Patrick Kane = (Eric Johnson + baggage)? Similar points in their careers, successful in the past. I'm not sure EJ was ever as highly regarded as PK though.
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I don't think Kane is the player he once was, and the Sabres aren't short on promising forwards. However, if he's a more mature person than he's shown in the past... An SC winner that loves Buffalo wouldn't be the worst thing in the world to have around the locker room.
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9 minutes ago, Crusader1969 said:
how long till Threads takes over? I kinda like it better but not enough hockey posts as of yet
Meh, not sure. From what I heard (and I haven't been following it), Threads has seen some fall-off already. Reminds me of Google Plus, everyone was excited for it but not enough people really went with it and we all fell back to Facebook. I logged out of my Twitter account when Musk took over and I'm never going back, lol.
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2 hours ago, Doohickie said:
NPC?
Non-player character, although I don't entirely understand the reference (unless it's "the general public is getting uglier"). In which case, he needs to leave the Erie County Fair and it'll go back to normal.
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8 minutes ago, LGR4GM said:
So you're theory is that Boosh will be suddenly better for the exact 3 months a team needs him?
My theory is that if I'm Boosh, that's the better gamble for my career. It's unlikely he'll see a good contract playing in and out of the Sabres line-up for this season. It's also unlikely that the Sabres trade him at the deadline if they're in playoff contention unless he's literally not played at all or has to move out to make room, and then it's not going to be a contender on the other end of that trade. If I'm him, I ask for a trade because that gives me a chance to play more this season, maybe get traded to a playoff team, and maybe play well enough to earn a good contract for 2024-2025 and beyond. Whether Boosh make all this happen is questionable, but he's looking out for his career by setting himself up with a chance.
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On 8/17/2023 at 3:34 PM, Weave said:
Speaking of twitter…
https://x.com/jayzawaski/status/1692212771117576605?s=46&t=p3ru85CQsNxLZ4fOTNRLJQ
oh man. Does twitter no longer embed?
I'm guessing x.com links don't, but twitter.com does. I'd guess the board software will fix that in some update.
Some troubling comments attributed to Terry Pegula (and denied by Pegula) and Jerry Jones from SI Writer Jim Trotter’s Lawsuit against the NFL
in The Aud Club
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As the other have pointed out, there doesn't need to be hard evidence of the statement, since that's not actually what the lawsuit is about. The lawsuit (as I understand it) is that John Trotter heard from a colleague that someone said that, reported it through the NFL's process, it wasn't really followed up on, and then Trotter was sent packing. This is classic whistle-blower stuff as it's laid out. It's kinda slimy that the complaint mentions an owner by name, but I'd think that'd come out in the evidence since presumably the NFL has records of the investigation. Unless there wasn't one, and that's the point. I'd hope that Trotter "kept the receipts" and has the evidence on what he directly experienced since that's the actual question.
As a side note, I think some people wonder why the original person isn't making the complaint or named. Where I work, people are encouraged to report things even if they only witnessed or were told of the issue and not directly involved. There's a lot of reasons someone would be afraid to report something, such as (oh, I dunno) losing their job or getting blackballed in the industry despite "protections". So I don't find that part odd. I'm reasonably senior and established where I work, so I could absolutely imagine a situation where one of the junior people I work with would be wary of being branded as a troublemaker where I could report and not have it be a career-destroying move (even if I got forced out of this job).