PromoTheRobot
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Wow. At first I thought it was Risto that got beat, but then I realized it was Myers. How does a vet lose his jock like that?
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First (716) food review I've read on Facebook: The $9 stuffed peppers sucked. So did the wings.
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And probably every other minor 1-A school, too.
Actually no. But feel free to assume.
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Think about how incredibly low that is. ESPN needs to fill five networks with college football on Saturdays and two or three on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. $13M through 2026? Laughable.
Maybe....but you'd think there would be endless other options besides UB to give a million to, no? And yet they do.
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I know you and I have gone back and forth over the years, but I'll waste everyone's time and reiterate my opinion just because, well, anyway....
I don't see Buffalonians watching Erie and NF (Canada) junior hockey teams other than in the rare year where there is a can't-miss prospect playing for them.
UB football barely gets viewers as it is.
Canisius and Niagara hockey probably would draw; so would some Big 4 basketball.
Cities with regional sports networks usually have three or four major league sports and/or major college sports. (UB is not major college sports.) Buffalo isn't there. This would be a commercial failure.
Forget about AAA baseball, local golf and fishing shows, and probably the "and so on."
You say no one watches UB football yet ESPN just gave them a million a year for 13 years to show their games nationally. They also gave them their own portal on WatchESPN to show all their sports.
Even if the Sabres were the only thing people wanted to watch, to fully control the revenue of their own broadcasts is huge. I also feel slightly insulted that WNY has to depend on an NYC cable channel for our games, as if we aren't capable of handling that.
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Truly doubt that it would. It's AAA baseball and there isn't an underlying pent up demand for minor league baseball. The 1 way it MIGHT move the needle is if people believed Buffalo had a shot at getting an MLB franchise. The place was packed when it was brand new and Bob Rich had people believing he could get one of the expansion teams that ultimately went to Miami and Denver.
No but there is more than enough potential content available to fill a week. Not everything is going to be major league but really few regional sports networks are. Sabres are your flagship, throw in Amerks, Jackals, Otter and Ice Dog games, Buffalo Bills ancillary programs, Canisius, RIT and Niagara hockey, Big 4 basketball, UB football, high school sports, Bisons and Red Wings baseball local golf and fishing shows, and so on. There is plenty to show and still be 99% local.
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A WNY sports network could work.
(This is basically going to be like Ink's post):
All Sabres games
Amerks games
Bandits games
Bisons games
St. Bonaventure (who have TV rights available outside of A-10 commitments)
Canisius (hello college hockey)
UB
Niagara
Maybe even go just outside of the area for the Otters.
Bills and the rest of these teams will have content to fill some live shows.
High schools...load up with high school sports.
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3. Wasn't this a home game? Why did the cheers sound so damn loud when Montreal won?
Because people were dumping their tickets for this game for $10 on StubHub.
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Did you miss the blurb at the end about the 2nd and 3rd paragraphs being written by Oilers fans?
He just cobbled together all the choice quotes from Oilers fans after this news broke to illustrate how ridiculous they were.
Yes I know it's from an Oilers fan site (Copper & Blue) but this link was on Yahoo's front page right next to legitimate news sources. I know Yahoo, and other sites, aggregate content from other sites but obviously quality control is not high on Yahoo's to-do list.
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Proof that anyone, and I do mean ANYONE, can be a sports columnist. :doh:
http://www.coppernbl...orever-poisoned
I'd be willing to bet this guy never saw him play one game for the Sabres.
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I watched him play and he was a key part of the Sabres. I have no problem with putting up a statue and a museum display at HC. In fact it's pretty cool. You get all the travel hockey players and their parents coming to Harborcenter who never knew Tim Horton was a hockey player and a Sabre. If you are going to have a Tim Horton's at Harborcenter, why not make it the coolest Tim Horton's anywhere?
I agree with you on a lot of the rest of the stuff, though. Buffalo has about as much claim to Horton as Ottawa has to Dominik Hasek. Yeah, he brought some credibility and helped bring up some of the younger guys, but that's about it.
Then a TH's in Toronto could have built it, but they didn't.
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Could the Amerks beat the Sabres right now?
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Why does that have to be the case? The Penguins were a 5 seed with 105 points in Crosby's sophomore season.
Why? Because the team around McDavid will still be awful.
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So great, we get Eichel or maybe McDavid, or even both. The team still stinks and will stink for years. There is no switch to flip to suddenly become a contender.
To paraphrase Rick Jeanneret this team is "scary bad." Like bad-enough-to-lose-to-an-AHL-team bad. Paul Hamilton says Nolan is "mad" and blames himself for being "too easy" on the team. That's nice he's mad but maybe he should be mad at himself? I assume we have NHL-level talent on this team. If they can't play hockey at this level the finger will eventually get pointed at the head coach. And frankly I don't think that would be unfair.
I know we're tanking but we are worse than we have to be. And my confidence in Nolan is eroding rapidly.
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I know it's the nature of internet chat boards to overreact to everything so it's probably unfair for me to bring this up...but I will anyway.
I remember people demanding this team be blown up and rebuilt after suffering the "indignity" of ninth place finishes. People really thought you could crash a team into a pile of pillows. That we'd wind up with a team of spunky lovable scamps who would play hard every night but fall just short but we'd love 'em anyway.
Well this genetically modified puppy has morphed into a Frankenstein's monster. A grotesque mess that we are stuck with for years.
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Hope everyone is enjoying "The Tank." It's what you wanted, isn't it?
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Nolan has no room to complain about effort when he can't provide direction. He knew the task. Change the direction. Not radically, but put some structure to the rebuild. Teach the youngsters. But that is tough to do when the only direction you can give is what's in your soul. There is no tactical plan game in and game out. It looks like a Chinese fire drill. A monkey can throw a puck on the ice and sit at the podium 60 minutes later. He may a great motivator, but to lead successfully you have to provide direction and I never felt he knew where he wanted to go.
No kidding. If they're playing like pee-wees isn't that on the coach?
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As bad as we are, I still feel like the Canes and a couple of other teams are just as bad. We are far from the odds on favorite for McEichle. It's a big game tonight. First real test of the season.
I'll predict we lose 4-1. I don't think we could compete in the AHL right now.
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Obviously confidence runs higher here than on the Bills board. I think the Sabres were a lot more vulnerable than you all realize back then, long before we heard of Pegula or Harborcenter. Buffalo was a market with a half-empty papered arena.
Also love how taking an opposing view to the SabreSpace coffee klatch is seen as "fellating the commish."
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My point is that the Sabres being moved was never going to happen, and it had nothing to do with Bettman doing this great favor to the fans of Buffalo.
You are offering no evidence whatsoever to your claim. You act like it's self-evident, saying the Sabres were never in danger of moving because they were never in danger of moving. :blink: Why weren't they going to move? Because Bettman did all he could to prop them up. The fact he did it in other markets doesn't alter the fact that he did it here. A less committed commissioner, or one who saw sexier markets that wanted a team, might have let them go.
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Phoenix and Florida(Panthers) continue to still have teams despite poor attendance and ownership issues. You really think the Sabres were ever going to be moved? I think not.
You're making my point. Bettman does not want to see any teams relocate. Another commissioner might want to just cut-and-run to greener (as in $$$) pastures.
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You don't get over this level of bad quickly. Anyone who thinks we are competitive even with McDavid is kidding themselves. The tank is much longer than you realize.