PASabreFan
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Welp. Anyone else want to tackle this one? :wallbash:
Not sure I would call her a glorified prostitute. More like co-conspirator in the rape of the next woman. I honestly don't know how a woman could live with herself after being bought like that. How do you go on with your life? IMHO putting the scumbug away and protecting other women is a huge start in the healing process.
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The league is the one flexing their muscles to keep this quiet. They'll own anybody that leaks info.
So they own the people who spoke to the News?
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What in the world?
Odd, innit?
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He was specifically addressing people who are more concerned with the implications to Patrick Kane's career than the female involved. They self-identify and are the same people who came out here in support for Ray Rice here in Baltimore.
However, none of those people are in this thread from what I have seen.
How many people can that possibly be? Are we defining ourselves as a culture based on how a small number of people behave anonymously online?
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That is the most well thought and well written piece on this topic that I have seen so far.
Massive strawman. He creates this awful bogeyman that he has to valiantly slay. Sorry to channel Sizzle here, but... WHO? Who is he chastising? Maybe the story is playing differently in Chicago, I don't know.
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Tim Baffoe of CBS Chicago with an interesting take...
http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2015/08/07/baffoe-patrick-kane-is-not-your-friend/
That's some awful dreck right there.
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I'm named as the thread's starter. Do I have that power? I always forget how to edit the thread's title.
Edit your first post and click on Full Editor. You'll see that the subject box is editable. (Editing any of your posts in the thread might lead you to that option; not sure.) Edit: Nope, has to be the first post.
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The subject of this thread is due for a refreshing, innit?
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Is the whole statutory rape angle coming from that one Tweet? It sounds more like an alleged rape rape in this story:
No charges have been filed, and police are under a strict gag order from superiors not to discuss the investigation. But sources close to the case disclosed the following information Thursday to The Buffalo News:
• A young local woman has alleged that Kane, 26, took her to his Hamburg waterfront home and raped her after meeting her in a downtown Buffalo nightclub Saturday night or early Sunday.
If it's true, we should applaud the woman for coming forward. She and the family will be under immense pressure. Unfortunately, especially with social media, her abuse is likely to continue.
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Sawyer's a Black guy. Patrick has links to both Black and Sawyer.
What do they do?
How long do they have?
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Given the criticism of Pegula for the hiring in the first place, does he get any recognition for parting ways with him?
I recognize the gentleman from Carbondale.
I actually do think lessons have been learned and good people are in place on the hockey and business side. It galls me that so many mistakes had to be made. If Terry had cleaned house at first, set the mission, hired good people, written the checks and gotten out of the way, we wouldn't have gone through the hell we just went through. But being Terry's toy was the real reason for existence of the franchise. I hope he got it out of his system.
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Very good, Smell. The claim that Battista ran only on the business side is a lie. As usual, people here don't want to believe their eyes and ears. Remember when Battista offered a quote to the effect that a particular prospect (can't think of who) would have a great shot of making the team? If the organization is in culling mode, I think GMTM took full advantage of the opportunity to get rid of the guy. If so, it makes me feel good about the power Murray has to speak truth to power and win out.
Or... it was just the killer commute.
The time spent in Buffalo, and the four-hour drive each way through rural northwest Pennsylvania and western New York, was wearing on the energetic and outgoing Battista, whose family stayed in State College.
He had been with the NHL team, and owners Terry and Kim Pegula, since late 2013.
“Been working on this (decision) with Terry and Kim since May,” Battista said in the text message. “I gave it a shot but being away from my family was taking its toll, as was driving up and down (U.S. Route) 219!”
http://www.centredaily.com/2015/08/03/4861081_former-penn-state-hockey-coach.html?rh=1
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But you are perhaps obliged (expected) to respond to the bazinga and bazoinga points above.
No one ever disputed that Battista was an unqualified crony who received a manufactured job title and no defined responsibilities.
It was the idea that he was running amok in the hockey department that most rolled their eyes at.
He did accompany Patty to Ottawa for the GMTM interview. That doesn't strike me as someone without power in the hockey department. That, and notifying Nolan that Miller had been traded, and then signing Vinz, and bragging about signing Vinz in a Tweet, were his claims to fame. After that, it was more of a running joke than anything else.
Maybe, like Bucky wrote, Murray had no use for Battista and wanted him out of the picture.
We need a Ken Sawyer website modeled after abevigoda.com.
What's he selling?
Pressers and overpriced peanut butter-filled donuts.
The conspiracy around Battista was that he meddled in hockey matters. That he was canned by the new business president does, in fact, suggest the conspiracy theorists were totally out to lunch. As is usually the case.
Perhaps an issue was what Joe thought he was doing went beyond the scope of what he was hired to do. Would you like to read this LinkedIn profile if you were GMTM?
Joe Battista serves as vice president of hockey and business administration for the Buffalo Sabres. He is responsible for overseeing hockey department administration, budgets, personnel, and technology, and serves as the hockey department’s liaison to the Sabres business operations, Harbor Center, and Pegula Sports and Entertainment. -
I love how everyone likes to feel good about what they like to feel good about.
The "tinfoil hat" folk have been questioning Battista's qualifications, his duties, etc since he arrived, saying it was part of TPeg's old boys club, meddling way. So now when TPegs brings in an actual president to take the place of that club that wasn't working, the "tinfoil hat" crew is somehow wrong?
Whatever.
Thank you. Now I don't have to say it.
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How's PA doing? It can be rough when your reason for living suddenly goes away.
This is true. I want my hockey team back.
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Maybe a better question would have been, what does this mean for Dunleavy's future? Few things are more important to a team's brand than the voice and face of the franchise. He was Black's hire.
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That is a fantastic fish story, PA.
Careful observers will note that my edit was making the osprey two feet tall instead of a foot and a half. What's a rod thread without exaggerated measurements?
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Some of us love the Navy and just wish to see some metallic gold.
And this will not affect RJ's future at all. RJ is in charge of his future, and that's that.
Ted was with the Penguins when FSN fired longtime legendary voice Mike Lange. Now, FSN had the contractual right to hire its announcers; and the Pens ended up hiring Lange to do play by play on the radio. Maybe Ted had something similar in mind here — move the franchise on from a legendary voice. I am talking out my hat as usual. My thinking is more along the lines of Brandon the marketing whiz coming in and realizing how important Rick still is to the brand and wooing him to stay a while longer.
I speculated this could happen anyway as no one, above all Rick, knew he'd come down with cancer and kick its ass. See also: Eichel and maybe the long-awaited Cup isn't all that far off.
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Oh, fishing and hunting. Never mind. teehee
I have a whopper of a story. May Jack Eichel come down with Jack Eichel's Disease and never play a game for the Sabres if it's not true. I took my 16-year-old nephew fishing at the Marilla Reservoir just outside Bradford. Beautiful spot. He was reeling in a smallmouth bass. He almost had it out of the water; he was letting it tire itself out, whatever that means in fishing parlance. I don't fish. I just watch.
I was talking to a guy on a bridge overlooking my nephew just below us and we turned away from him for a second when he shouted. We turned back to see an osprey attacking the fish, all within an arm's length of my nephew. This very impressive bird of prey, probably two feet tall, took the fish, the hook, the fly, the kitchen sink, and flew away, showing off its five-foot wing span. My nephew looked like the father from A Christmas Story after the dogs carried the turkey away. He was just dumbstruck. We all were. Quite a smart bird. We figure it was up in a tree watching the scene, biding its time.
The night before, same spot, a bald eagle sat way up in a pine tree for 10 minutes, intently watching a beaver swim around. I had time to job back around the reservoir and tell my nephew to come look. He wasn't interested. He's seen eagles before. The moral of the story is: either you come to the bird prey of prey or it comes to you.
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Wonder how this might affect Rick's future...
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This clears a path for Jack Eichel to start not just at, but also under, center this fall.
Beauty, hoser.
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Here's what's interesting to me: On the non-hockey side of things, what exactly were the Sabres doing poorly?
--There are the new security procedures, but I know that's happening league-wide.
Does one of the new procedures involve waving people through who set off the metal detector? Because I set if off at the scrimmage and the worker took my word that it was my keys.
I'd add the ticket increase letter going out on fan appeciation day. There have been quite a few PR bumbles and stumbles under Black.
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Meh. Who cares. Nothing is moving below my belt. Pegulas gonna pegool.
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When you think of Buffalo, Van is one of the first people that comes to mind.
His calls were emblematic of the hopes and aspirations of the town. When
he said "Wide right," you could've heard a pin drop in the entire city. No
matter, it was a glorious run and Van Miller was a classic announcer we
were blessed to have represent us. Here's how it should've ended.
Rest in peace Van.
He also went on to say, "It's only a game," mentioning the real game that was going on in the Middle East at the time. Van actually said later in life that's what he wanted on his "condo" at the cemetery: "It's only a game."
Patrick Kane: [Updated] D.A. Decides Not to Prosecute; NHL Determines Claims "Unfounded"
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It's highly likely that I have.