PASabreFan
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Inspiration: qwk's black kitty.
This is Gus. He's 12, weighs 25 pounds and has diabetes. He's really not ferocious, but he has people he doesn't like, and those people fear him.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/14674041@N08/4015125091/
OK, after making fun of Ink and others earlier for struggling to post a pic, now I realize I can't do it.
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Great nickname, too. Glengarry.
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This should just be the Beards of Sabrespace thread.
Can we talk about Noureen?
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Nothing irks you more than being in a crowded waiting room, the appointments are running late, and some sales rep saunters in to meet the doc.
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That was happening long before Obama Care
Sorry. I wasn't clear. The reporting requirement is part of the Affordable Care Act.
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At daybreak today, Mars, Jupiter, Venus and Regulus lined up on almost a perfect semicircle in the eastern sky. Then on the way back from Erie later in the morning on I-86, I saw a bald eagle sitting on the trunk of a dead tree just a few yards off the highway. Incredible sights. What a great fall day.
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This is kind of like when Kevin Spacey looks at the camera in House of Cards. Breaking the fourth wall, I think it's called. I don't know. I guess I've always thought that such things should be left to the imagination or shouldn't even apply — after all, it's just a bunch of mind- by the virtual representations of our intellects. It's not the people we see in these pics. Whooaaaaaa... now I'm seeing stars and halos around lights.
That said, I think I look like the love child of Pierre McGuire, former press secretary Ari Fleischer, NBA commissioner Adam Silver and former USA men's volleyball coach Hugh McCutcheon. I was mistaken — twice! — for Jim Kelly while wearing a Bills hat in my younger days. I was also told on numerous occasions back in the day that I looked like Balki from Perfect Strangers. Oh to have hair again. If ya'll are confused, I have done my job well.
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They did a segment on how pharma reps try and get doctors to write scripts for their "product." Free lunches, payments in exchange for the docs becoming "thought leaders" who sell to other docs, travel, speaking engagements and the like. They put up a link to a government site that publishes the data pharma is required to submit regarding these relationships. I found out one doctor here got lunches almost every other day last year to the tune of almost $3k. A local surgeon hauled in over $24,000. Thanks Obama(care)!
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That's some Scotty Hartnell action right thur. I've never wanted to tousle someone's hair more than right now.
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The paper bag illustration was done because you weren't there and d4rk was hopeless without you.
I believe I ended up wearing the paper bag part of the night so d4rk wasn't lost forever.
No. Just no. Stop it, PA.
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Looking over some random numbers, the Sabres are a significantly improved team through their first 5 games. Corsi is way up, time of possession is way up, and shots against are way way way down. Statistically speaking we are under producing according to what should be our baseline. I would expect that we see a return to what we actually are sometime in the next couple weeks. The team will finally build chemistry and players will start to slide into their long term roles. The return on investment is coming.
I'm pretty sure the statheads will say that five games is much too small a sample size to say what we are. I think what you're suggesting is that if we keep up these stats, the wins have to come.
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Ok. wasn't there something like an 8 goal loss to Ottawa in there somewhere too?
10-4 loss at home. They also got pounded twice in Ottawa in the early going. The second of those losses, in mid-November, marked the beginning of 36-7-5 stretch. Incredible.
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Strange as it may be, studies show that texting while talking on the phone and eating a breakfast sandwich actually increases the drivers awareness of his surroundings in the ICU.
Fixed.
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I seem to remember the 05-06 Sabres starting out extremely poorly. No, I'm not saying this team can or will reach those heights....yet. Just trying to lend some perspective.
Yes and no. They won six of eight to start then lost seven of nine. Just before Thanksgiving they went on a torrid tear that lasted through March.
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Whoever that special teamer is that celebrated his (pretty nice) tackle by leaning over the returner, taunting and getting a 15-yarder should be released tonight.
This team is a complete fraud, especially the D. No heart and no brains.
They've played 4 teams with credible offenses. 3 of them have done whatever they wanted against this zillion-dollar D (which the Bills are married to, BTW). Their genius GM has handed out huge contracts to this D like Halloween candy. They have 9 sacks in 6 games.
There is a grave and gathering danger that this team is going to limp to a 7-9 or 8-8 finish. If that happens they are going to have to decide whether to fire Whaley and Ryan (and eat something like $20MM on Ryan's contract), or bring the band back again with no rational basis to think that it will be any better next year -- because they are locked into so many big contracts to underperforming big names that there won't be anything substantial they can do to improve the roster.
It's really starting to look like Darcy retention redux.
That's juicy, but I have a resolution to maintain. Unless it doesn't apply to the Bills New Year.
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I'm sad I missed what may have been the best performance of the season, but I am happy to see the O'Reilly bandwagon seems to rapidly be gaining members :D
O'Reilly seems to be the only one who isn't on it.
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I'm funnin' ya. Relax.
I know! I'm dead serious though.
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Less than an inch here. And we were part of ground zero for the October Surprise. This is just a little seasonal variation.
Good to hear. It's always strange how we'll get a couple of inches and just 30 minutes to north in Ellicottville they'll get 18 inches.
And I'd be careful with your phraseology. You're going to give SDS new fodder for his sig.
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It's only an inch so far down in north central PA, but we're usually only on the extreme edge of lake effect. Are the traditional hot spots getting hit any harder?
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You gotta put that quote in the context of the thread it came from weave. PA was using the players only meeting to take a shot at the posters who were telling other posters to stop panicking. It wasn't praise for Gionta. He was using it to justify overreacting.
No. My point was that Gionta wasn't panicking, just like some of the fans weren't panicking. "Good for him" tends to indicate praise.
I'd usually attribute stuff like this to the difficulty of communicating virtually, but there seems to be a deliberate pattern of distorting my points to make me look bad. I've had it.
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You're a glutton for punishment. :P
Speaking of which, my other angle, and it's a juicy one, is that Terry was behind all the baby-eating in Carolina. I know, it's shocking. But hear me out. He was in those parking lots, in disguise (no one knew him at the time, but he couldn't risk being recognized later or appearing in photos), seeing how the infant loin was basted, seared, lightly sauced, thinly shaved and absolutely devoured. He already had his team of scientists, led by Dr. Karamanoukian, studying the composition of WNY baby fat, known to be similar to North Carolina baby fat, and he knew that Buffalo's babies were even more fatty and delectable, highest in LDL cholesterol and triglycerides. (Buffalo didn't have the highest heart attack rate in the industrialized world for nothing.) Their mothers had eaten wings, pizza logs, beefs on weck and Paula's Donuts during their many hormone-driven gorges, and that stuff is known to get passed through the placenta. He knew these babies would be marketable as the finest tasting in the world. But there was one problem: getting people to want to eat them. That wouldn't be easy. Grown men were delighting in baby-cue in Raleigh, driven by raw hatred for Rod Brind'Amour alone. You can't, however, replicate Hurricane Hate on a worldwide scale. What would be needed would be a global environmental crisis that would wipe out virtually every other food source. Of course, Terry had been working on such an environmental calamity for decades, and all of the fracking would surely soon pay off. The truth of his first visit to the arena with "Cliff" Benson isn't that they looked out the front of the arena and saw the possibilities for the Webster Block, but that they looked out the back, at the huge grain silos, and saw the answer to the last logistical problem with their plan (they even already had the face of their product, an adorable, tiny tot of a man with the perfect name). Pegula and Benson reached the same conclusion at the exact same time. "They could hold millions of babies!" they said in unison, then tried to high five each other, to no avail. Dr. Karamanoukian, who had cured Brian Campbell's hyperhidrosis years before, in an experiment that was actually all about how to keep salty brine inside infants, had assured Pegula that the little ones could be kept tender and moist with such a solution. Where to store all these crotch turds had been the sticking point. One final problem, seeking one final solution: "How to get the men of this region to want to breed that many babies," Benson pondered. "Well, Kim can design a cute little onesy. That'll take care of the ladies," Terry said. "But the men, I mean, we've already talked about showing off Kim's legs to prime the pump. We'll need more, though." Terry suddenly remembered a funny story Mike Ilitch told him at the Bilderberg Conference, about how each time the Wings won a Cup, there was a mini baby boom nine in Michigan nine months later. "Yes, that's it! These fellows will have to be feel a pride like they've never felt before for the little Sabres logo that will be stitched directly over the left breast on the onesy. The close calls have been great, especially in — what year was that they almost won the Cup? — but they won't move the needle this time. What it will take is the whole enchilada." After polishing off his bag of Bugles, Pegula turned to Battista, who had been standing back in deference, and, following a very pregnant pause, first uttered those infamous words. "Starting today..."
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I think the difference between how fans view this season and how the players view it will be interesting to follow. O'Reilly said, "We have to find a way to win that game. It's not okay. Of course we did some good things right, but it's not okay." See also the players-only meeting called by Gionta. This is good. It has to be this way. They can't be happy with being better than one of the all-time worst teams and giving the fans some ooh-ahh moments. They'll almost certainly fall short this season, but they're trying to put in place the attitude of a champion.
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So, it was all about mind control. Now we're getting somewhere.
“When we bought the Sabres, I said to Kim, ‘We need to change the way people in the area think.”
http://www.buffalonews.com/sports/kim-pegula-is-buffalos-first-lady-of-sports-20151018
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It's amazing how many people who aren't interested in this topic have felt the need to read it and post their thoughts. And ignore the point: Pegula's close advisor revealed possibly the main reason he bought the team. It could have been a good discussion, the role of a sports team, a sports owner, in revitalizing a city... where does Pegula go from here?... and so on. But the usual suspects hijacked it. #shocker
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Dollars to donuts, there's a split pea in that stache somewhere.