MattPie
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12 hours ago, PASabreFan said:
The population is not dropping fast. It even appears to be ticking up after a decade of very modest declines year by year. Same for Erie Co. It's not the 70s and 80s anymore.
Brawndo's comment is more researched, but anecdotally I see a lot of people on Reddit and other places moving to Buffalo. It's regularly listed as a good place to live and inexpensive compared to other cities that the people that dream of owning a home can actually do it.
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On 3/3/2024 at 12:23 PM, WhenWillItEnd66 said:
Ask this again after we finish our next ten games.
And win at bare minimum 7 or 8 of those 10. Otherwise it's pointless.
19 hours ago, Thorny said:We share a space in the Venn diagram. We absolutely can make it, and it’s absolutely a failure of a season if we don’t
Prepare thyself for failure.
Sabres are 6-4-0 in the last 10. That's a nice playoff 5-8 seed level of play, but nowhere near good enough to make up for the rest of the season. If the Sabres made the playoffs this season, we'd be talking about it years later because of how unlikely it is. Kinda like that Colorado team that went 23-2 or something to finish the season a bunch of years ago.
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45 minutes ago, Thorny said:
Very possible, but 92 made it last year. It could be the same this year
True. They can go 7-2-1, 7-2-1, and then 2-2-0 instead of 3-1-0 and hit 92. 🙂
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31 minutes ago, Doohickie said:
But no one is talking about doing this for a full season. I think everyone here sees that this is only possible if, say, the do a 10 game streak (or 9-1 or similar), follow it up with maybe stretch with a couple of losses, then go on another run. It's unlikely; we all know that, but to a large extent their fate is in their own hands.
From the Sabres standpoint, what does this mean?
- UPL remains the hottest goalie in the league
- One or two of the sleeping giants in the forward ranks needs to wake up and start scoring. We've had the scoring in the past, most of the players are the same. They need to live up to expecations
- With the increase in scoring, they need to continue to support defense and keep goals against down
- They need to win by multiple goals because hanging on by the skin of their teeth late in the game is not sustainable
- They need to keep games close if they're losing so they can grab as many loser points as possible
Unlikely but possible.
And really, Bullet 2 (and related Bullet 4) are the items that aren't happening right now.
Oh, it's possible they go 7-2-1 per 20 for 1/4 of a season. But just so unlikely it's not worth having hope.
Re "WSH is on a 91 point pace, etc.". Every year people say this, and yet, every year the cut-off is higher than that. Every team in the hunt is going to pick things up in the last few weeks of the season, especially against teams that sold off at the trade deadline and are just playing out the season. 0.750 might get us it, nothing less unless it's an odd year.
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I didn't care enough to run the numbers, but I'm sure we're in "need to be the best team in hockey for the rest of the season to get to mid-90s points" neighborhood. It doesn't matter how many points back of team X, but there are like 6 teams all in the same boat and it only takes one other team to make a run too.
OK, can't resist: 58 points in 58 games today. Let's say 94 points (although 96 is more sure). Getting 36 points in the remaining 24 games, a nice even 1.5 points per game, or 0.750 point%, is 94 points. That's very close to the 2005-2006 Red Wings, which had the 7th best NHL season in history. No team in the league is over 0.700 right now.
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7 minutes ago, spndnchz said:
Oh ? Who? I’m curious to see it
I like this surly chz thing that's going on.
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The only tough part about the trades is being 50 and working outside on job site with 30 years of hard miles on the clock. Initially they make a lot of sense.
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1 hour ago, Marvin said:
I survived the big layoff, but I imagine just.
Thank you all for your support.
EDIT: I don't know what got me a thumbs-down, so I whole-heartedly say: I had no malicious intent and I'm sorry.
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Y'all kinda sound like entitled customers. I'd be damned if I'd go salute a bunch of people that have been booing me for the last three hours. It's funny, we all love stories when some customer throws a tantrum, demands to have someone fired, and they get schooled.
If you don't like the product, don't go.
On 2/18/2024 at 9:33 AM, That Aud Smell said:@PASabreFan crystallized it and now I’m even more pissed off.
How’d that conversation go? JFC. A few hundred people are hollering to “fire Donny”, so it’s “f*ck all y’all”?
To be fair, a few hundred people is half the crowd.
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2 hours ago, JohnC said:
Thanks for your informed response. Does the new AI realm make the text sector more volatile and precarious for the workers or does it create a greater need for those workers?
I was going to answer, but Marvin's is better.
AI will kinda throw stuff out there that kinda works for general cases, but you need to be careful about QA on the code. It reminds me of how a friend described the initial wave of offshoring manufacturing to the far east. You cut costs on creation, but you better be on your A game with test and QA processes. Especially at the time, the far east would just kinda ship it and it was up to you to make sure it met the requirements. AI is no different; it doesn't actually understand or care about your problem, it just creates something that looks like the way someone else solved it.
8 minutes ago, Weave said:Hate hearing this. I’ve been through it 4 times in my career. I’m at a point where I worry about my marketability now. I need this gig to be my last one, I think.
You and me both. I might have a move left in the next couple years if I have to, but there are certainly people that aren't going to look twice at an IT resume going back to the 90s. I am lucky that my current gig is doing AI infrastructure, so I have a certain amount of leverage there.
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2 minutes ago, Marvin said:
The consulting firm that I work for is doing a big round of IT layoffs. I am worried because I have been on the bench a while. I am lucky that I can work anywhere in the entire tech stack, so AI might survive this round.
Dude, that sucks. I've been there. I hope you make out OK.
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13 minutes ago, inkman said:
Can we close this topic? Season is done.
Yep, time for "Buffalo Bills 2024 - This is our year!"
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New Bike Day!
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54 minutes ago, PASabreFan said:
Is the Chiefs' win in any way good for the Bills? Gamblers phallacy, I'm sure, but three in a row? Really?
For once I'll leave my brain fart. As Terry once said, hoo boy.
Only if other teams go mining the Chiefs staff for new coaches and coordinators, or players want big paydays.
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1 hour ago, shrader said:
The Reilly thing got me thinking. If there actually was a penalty for the Ottawa guy being a douche, what would the signal be for the call?
I mean, Unsportsmanlike Conduct, right?
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4 hours ago, Flashsabre said:
How bout KO, Girgs and Pegula for the Jacobs and a pick😁
Jacobs has ties to the area and already spends his summers here.
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1 hour ago, shrader said:
The story as written, yes, I don't believe that happened. If you exaggerate and modify the story to make people look as bad as possible, the story is no longer true. I do believe that some jackasses treated her poorly, but I very highly doubt that she was chased around for the entire game post-hit and was driven to tears. We are talking about a D1 athlete here.
And there's a huge difference between not believing womEn when they make an accusation vs. not believing womAn. I prefer to judge each incident individually and not just throw a blanket over everything. This specific story, as presented in that article and the twitter post, it just feels like it's a bit too far off in fantasy land to me. It doesn't add up. Even little things like sitting around in the lobby expecting an apology. Who does that?
FWIW, I 100% believe a bunch of bros "chased [her] around for the entire game post-hit" chripping. That's like the most plausible bro thing I can think of, other than one taking another run at her to really "teach her a lesson". Have you been around sports bros? (I'm asking in jest, I'm sure you have)
If I was trying to do something I enjoyed and a bunch of bros kept harassing me, I'd probably be driven to tears too. I aware of myself enough to know that. FWIW, I wouldn't have waited around after the game though, toxic bros gonna toxic and there's nothing that's going to break through that tough-guy shell to the fragile little child inside.
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3 hours ago, Norcal said:
They have vets.
Just none with playoff experience, or what it takes to make them, to lean on.
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3 hours ago, Thorny said:
absurd. Wrong thread, don’t care: people need to see
the once affordable food champion of the people has turned its back on us
Man, it'd be terrible if McD's got so expensive that people turned to eating food that isn't terrible for their health. 🙂
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1 hour ago, bunomatic said:
If you take 6Ks away from his name he becomes Uopea luuonen which is brick wall in finnish I kid you not. Well its a good story but has no basis in reality but henseforth he shall be known as Uopea Luuonen !
Huh, Google translate has the translation as "A beautiful bone". Anyone know if that's the case? 😉
(I really kid you not: https://translate.google.com/?sl=fi&tl=en&text=Uopea luuonen&op=translate; but it's one of those where you translate the English and the Finnish comes out completely different, so 🤷♂️)
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6 minutes ago, Thorny said:
I’ve gotten a thumbs down or an eye roll on nearly every critical post I’ve made of this team in this thread. In most threads of late. Hank follows me around doing it. NS does it. Others too. Times have changed. The ones that are ok with never being good have had it: I suppose they have a point - it’s not getting any better and if you aren’t good with the team as is, why bother being around? The reactions don’t bother me but honestly I keep coming back to the same thing:
I like the fans. If the fans would be happier around here just burying their faces in the sand I will honestly try to post less. I’m starting to feel kind of bad for telling the truth
there really is more than one way to be a fan. The loveable losers thing can work. It’s not for me when it comes to the sabres but I do get it
somewhat of a paradise lost situation. Better to reign in hell. I get it
Soooooo, if it doesn't bother you why post about it?
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54 minutes ago, WhenWillItEnd66 said:
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- Lots of hard skating and pressure!! You will win 8 out of 10 of those games!!!
This team needs a gritty scorer and a gritty dman! If we get that this team can possible make a run! 6K and the defense are doing their job, time for the offense to do theirs!!!!
Luckily, they'll need to win 8 out of 10 for the rest of the season to make a run.
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15 hours ago, #freejame said:
How does any of this apply to bar league hockey? It’s already divided by skill. If a woman is good enough to skate in that division, nothing else really matters.
It doesn't have anything to do with bar league hockey, poster is just spouting drivel to because they're so tough.
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I forgot that you existed
And I thought that it would kill me, but it didn't
And it was so nice
So peaceful and quiet
I forgot that you existed
It isn't love, it isn't hate, it's just indifference
Ten points out, two games in hand, play Tampa last game of season and some of the teams ahead of are slumping. Is it really that impossible?
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I think most people moving to the City of Buffalo (I should have spelled that out, my mistake) aren't in the "Taxation is theft" crowd. Not as many people are talking about moving to the Buffalo suburbs. It seems like a number of people that are moving because they can get the metropolitan life they want with out the cost of living in a large city.