MattPie

I heard on the radio that Tracy Morgan and Paul Rubens (Pee-Wee Herman) are lining up a bid. :)

I tend to agree. I know from my experience rec sports, even at that level I just don't see the ball (or whatever) move the as well as other people do. It's like the "frame rate" of my eyes isn't as quick as others. And that's just the literal vision, not the processing of where stuff is and where it's going. For instance, I just took this test and averaged 239ms for 5 clicks, which is slower than average. When taking a similar test with a bunch of my motorcycle friends, I was behind almost everyone despite many of my friends being 50 or 60+ years old (I'm 37). I'd be curious to see other people's results here. http://www.humanbenchmark.com/tests/reactiontime/

Surprisingly, my passenger and I walked away unscathed.

Failure to yield to an oncoming car. (I had a head-on collision that totalled my parents car). I want to say Talley was there for a speeding ticket, but that's a long time ago for me to remember. Brown sweater and a big gold chain though.

I'm 80% sure I saw Talley at Elma town court when I was a teenager pleading to a traffic offence of some kind. Real classy. :) :)

I'm trying to figure out what you're asking. Speaking as someone who's reasonably well educated (and paid), I wouldn't say I'm "offended" or trying to "support" anything, but I'll express my disagreement given the forum. I know that I have a tough time processing the reality that Stirling believes what he was saying (I'm not saying he doesn't, I just can't get my mind around how someone could think that way).

I give him a bit of a pass, it was a crappy season and next year looks like it too. I don't doubt that he'll put the effort in (at least when it looks like the games matter) next year. I know someone will start spouting about how good players blah, blah, blah, and they want him out of town. If you follow that logic, we'll see an entirely new USA Olympic Hockey team in 2018 since they entire team quit on the bronze medal game at Sochi.

Fixed that. :) It's like everything else, if there's a group of racially/gender/economic people some other people will assume that all the people in that group are alike. What I've figured out (in my short time on earth) is that for the most part people are people, and most of them are similar enough that we're arguing about fine points. Let's bring this around to hockey: most of the people I talk to around about the Flyers are reasonable, well-informed, and not the meatheads we like to make them out to be. They're much like the folks around here, they just like that ugly orange color instead.

I don't go to many games, but we usually sit around for a bit get up and take a leak, maybe walk a lap or two around the arena, etc. Bar would be a good idea, depending on the town.

Well, there is a certain inbuilt fear of people who don't look like you (or your family, really, since before mirrors you wouldn't know what you looked like). One of those natural selection things, I'd guess. But realistically after around age 5 in our society it's a learned behavior.

I'm just the opposite, in the grand scheme of things, NBA and NHL playoffs are a drop in the bucket. Human decency is perhaps a bit more important for the long-term survival of the species. Shipping slaves from England to Ireland was big business during the middle ages, but that's probably a little early (and from the sounds of it, not something your family partook in in). Slattern would be a good one (I bet it's not even caught by the filter here). Or calling someone "yellow" at one point would be "fightin' words", but now you'd probably just get a chuckle and asked, "are you 80 or something?".

It kind of reminds me of my boss: he's 100% behind his people and rarely has anything bad to say, but he has no issues getting into it with his peers or superiors and telling it like it is. I've only seen that side when I've been in a meeting with him and his peers and superiors, which I doubt the players would be. Apparently some of the west-coast folks in my org used to refer to him and "The Hammer" (although he's mellowed out a bit in the last couple years).

I thought about writing something to that effect early on in this thread, but decided it might take it in ugly directions. Suffice to say, you're correct, and the NBA and owners have voted to exercise their free-speech by saying "I want no part of this guy's nonsense".

Another black eye for Buffalo, the once proud Buffalo Braves reduced to this.

For the first time in 19 years I'm going to change up my prediction to 7-9 (upgraded from 6-10). Turns out, 7-9 +-1 covers 10 of the last 14 seasons and I haven't seen anything that makes me think this year is going to change. 6-10 +-1 only covers 9 of the last 14 seasons.

While not playoffs, didn't the Sabres allow 4 against Carolina in the 90s (but still won 5-4)? If I remember right, Canes pulled the GT with 5 minutes left down 5-0.

I don't watch him much either, and it's almost always through the eyes of playing against the Sabres. I have to wonder if it has to do with the concussions. I remember him being pretty clutch and the go-to guy when he was younger.

Manual? I don't know if anything other some Jeep models would fill that. My 99 Cherokee had a 5-speed. I'm not sure I'd recommend a Jeep though, mine was starting to show some issues at 75k, although I did a little off-roading in it and it was in a deer accident so I'm not going to 100% blame the brand on that one.

Ah you're right. I'm shocked that the Internets don't have a good picture and technical write-up on these things.

A "Rackets" racket, maybe? That's my best guess after Googling "uk racket sports" (who else would wear white sweaters?). The game sounds a bit like squash (squash used to be called "squash rackets", apparently) but with a hard ball and racket.

The only, and I mean only, way Kane comes here (other than late career) is if he has a burning desire to help Buffalo win a cup.

And they say no one plays defence in the Q. :)

21 years ago today:

But how many WINS! :)

I'm wondering if it really put on steam with Darcy Regier, since it's difficult to spell.