Eleven
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13 minutes ago, Weave said:
Rick Martin walked in with his foursome. He sat next to me at the bar. We had a pretty good conversation about the state of the Sabres. He was quite vocal in his disapproval of the state and direction of the team. He was very personable.
I had a feeling that the one time I met him, he just was in non-conversational mood.
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Yahoo Sports had an article on my phone this morning--I can't find it now--predicting the 5 teams most likely to break their playoff droughts. #1 is the Sabres. but #2 is Ottawa and #3 is Detroit, and I'm wondering just which of Boston, Toronto, Florida, and Tampa they think are going to nosedive, since only 5 teams from the division can get in. Boston is somewhat still Boston even without Bergeron and Kreiji, and I don't see the other three of that group missing.
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Luce I: McDonald's, breakfast after Mass. About 1976. Signed an autograph on a McDonald's napkin for me. This was an exercise devised by my father to give me confidence approaching strangers on my own. 'Cause that's smart policy for a five-year-old.
Perreault: Numerous times starting in about 1978. Basically, whenever we were late for Mass and had to stand in the back. Yeah, he would say hi and pat me on the head and all that. Good dude. It greatly annoyed my mother that I paid more attention to Perreault than to the altar.
Luce II: 2004. Soho. I told him the McDonald's story and bought him a beer. He really seemed to enjoy that I had remembered him.
Peters I: The Arena. Around the same time. He was a scratch for a camp scrimmage and my father and I had met up at the scrimmage for lunch and we sat near Peters in the stands. I made fun of Peters's clothing (seriously he was dressed like a pauper) for a guy who had so much money. He was not happy with me.
Peters II: Some bar about a month later. He remembered me and started antagonizing me before a mutual friend intervened.
Lorentz: A few times, in a few restaurants. Always a nice guy to talk to.
Martin, Brennan's Bowery Bar, about a year before he died. I don't know whether he's a conversationalist, but he definitely wasn't that night.
Afinogenov and Numminen: Hutch's, April or May 2007. Had a brief conversation about them taking the Isles--or was it Rags--down the next day. Playoff time, though, definitely.
Simonick, was it around 2010? NHLHQ, Toronto. I posted about it here at the time.
Pegula I: Avant Building bar, the day after he bought the team. My friend wanted a picture with him but was afraid to ask, so I went up to him and said, "Hey, Terry, would you take a picture with my friend?" He looked like he never had had such a request before. And yes he let me take the picture with her.
Pegula II / Jeanneret I: They were having dinner at the bar at Chop House, and so were my brother-in-law and I. We didn't chat for too long, only a couple of minutes.
Black: A few times. Not my favorite guy, to be honest.
Miller: A few times, in a few restaurants and one Walgreens. I never talked to him until the Walgreens, which was about a month before the trade deadline, and I wished him luck. Also Noureen is very cute in public but definitely doesn't wear the "stripper look" from magazine covers when she's out and about.
Ray: A few times in a few restaurants, also once at the arena in between periods, and then I sat down next to him in a club last month, and he recognized me, which I thought was pretty cool, and which made my friends wonder how the hell Rob Ray knew my face, which was even funnier.
I think that's it.
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1 hour ago, Porous Five Hole said:
I’m not inclined to agree. For the amount of times the Bills hand the ball off, I think investing more money into the position is a bad move. I get that the Bills need to get Josh out of running the ball, but this team is going to win by attacking defenses in the passing game. James Cook, Damien Harris, and Latavius Murray will be more than sufficient.
I'm not sure about your specifics (Murray is a ? to me) but I agree w/ the general sentiment. I'm much more concerned about WR2 than about KR/RB2.
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1 hour ago, LGR4GM said:
From everything I'm seeing about him today on the larger Internet, this indeed is his legacy.
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46 minutes ago, mjd1001 said:
Saudi's trying to dip into other sports now....
Oh they've been in soccer for quite a while already.
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5 minutes ago, That Aud Smell said:
That's an interesting insight @Eleven. I've done winter vacations to southern Florida over the past several years. There are jet ski rental outfits everywhere. You regularly see groups of tourists (be it a family or whatever) idling on those marine crotch rockets as they prepare to go out into open water, and it's there, in that situation, where the problems occur. Someone doesn't know how to operate the machine, and then BOOM, they've put half the machine up on a dock or whatever.
("Or whatever" apparently also refers to causing a catastrophic knee injury to a neighbouring jet ski operator.)
I was being sarcastic. Jet skiing alone isn't a good idea.
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19 minutes ago, Taro T said:
Apparenlty Hynes injury occurred while he was sitting on a jet ski and another jet skier crashed into his jet ski.
Yikes!
This is why you should always jet ski alone.
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Just now, That Aud Smell said:
Those two kick returns for touchdown notwithstanding (in that post Damar Hamlin game), Hines' biggest asset was how sure-handed he was on kick returns. The team needs someone -- not named Jordan Poyer -- who can reliably field kicks (mostly punts now (wasn't there some rule change that makes kickoff returns even less important?)).
Yes, the new rule is a touchback inside the 25 rather than just in the end zone.
1 minute ago, That Aud Smell said:You would? Bro. They're Twitter reply guys. A total puddle dive, at best.
I enjoy a hot take as much as the next guy.
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1 minute ago, That Aud Smell said:
Yeah that's big dumb. Which is par for the course on Twitt-- ahh, I mean on "X".
My bet is that it's twitter again w/i 30 days but I don't really care.
I would like to know these people's theories on Dalvin Cook though.
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6 minutes ago, inkman said:
Based on the tweeter comments, non Bills fans don’t understand the team at all. They are mentioning Dalvin Cook as a replacement. SMH.
Is the idea that he'd take a discount to join his brother? Or...?
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1 hour ago, That Aud Smell said:
I am not.
Good, because the last time it had decent hockey coverage, I think I was carrying it. (Exaggeration, but....)
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37 minutes ago, shrader said:
Autocorrect can be so strange sometimes.
So can we all.
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If you're looking for hockey coverage in TBN, just stop. They gave the reins to Lysowski well before he was ready, and Harrington is Harrington.
Bill Hoppe is the better local paper guy, and then there are Yerdon, Graham, etc.
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1 hour ago, shrader said:
it’s blah wry clear
What?
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43 minutes ago, GASabresIUFAN said:
I play immaculate grid for baseball. Haven’t tried the hockey one.
There's no way I could succeed at a baseball version. None.
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Hey are any of you playing puckdoku? I struggle with it but I think some of you would be very good at it.
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I can't decide whether Megan Rapinoe's current haircut more resembles Casey from Mr. Dressup or Corky St. Clair from Waiting for Guffman. Either way, she needs to get a new stylist.
But kickass win tonight!
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3 minutes ago, GASabresIUFAN said:
Shoeny and Eichel were both 22.
And Schoeny was a month or two younger.
3 minutes ago, GASabresIUFAN said:He knows Savoie and Benson
Liger was not captain of the Sabres.
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42 minutes ago, That Aud Smell said:
Today's report is that the Pegulas sold AdPro to Legends.
Graham tweeted yesterday about how - whenever he reported that PSE owned AdPro - Raccuia would send him a stern text about how Raccuia still owned it.
Today's report makes Raccuia's reported behaviour even weirder.
I dunno. I'm sensing something off about that guy or perhaps just that relationship.
Oh, and the report makes clear that Raccuia's not going to Legends either.
ADPRO was founded by Ron Raccuia, who was also the Bills' executive vice president and chief operating officer until parting ways with the team Wednesday.
Raccuia sold a majority share of ADPRO to Kim Pegula and her three children, Jessica, Kelly and Matthew, in 2017. He remained a minority shareholder and president of the company, and with the acquisition by Legends, is leaving ADPRO.
Just read the article myself and was going to post a bit of it, but the same bits you posted.
The whole thing is just weirdness--but it's Graham's tweets, which isn't sourced journalism, that makes it weird. So Imma ignore those tweets and just see the deal for what has been reported.
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8 minutes ago, Taro T said:
Oldest would likely be Gionta.
Nice call. His wife's name is "Harvest Gionta" which is just weird.
I think Schoeny still is the youngest and Eichel never should have been captain anyway. It STILL bothers me that if they had just given that to O'Reilly, the rebuild would have been over forever ago.
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1 hour ago, GASabresIUFAN said:
Who served as Captain of the Sabres for the least number of games?
Not counting the rotating captains of a couple of seasons in the 2000s and 2010s?
1 hour ago, GASabresIUFAN said:Who served as Captain of the Sabres for the least number of games?
Who was the oldest player to serve as Captain of the Sabres?
Who was the youngest player to serve as Captain of the Sabres?
With the caveat above, I am guessing Mogilny. Okposo (maybe Smith?) and Schoenfeld are probably the other two.
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1 hour ago, Brawndo said:
Jeff Spicoli.
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3 hours ago, Taro T said:
Well, it is possible that Raccuia did sell a majority stake to the Pegulas, that he stayed the managing partner/owner and that now it is getting sold to Jones' Legends. (All part of the scratching of each other's backs by the boys (and girls) in the club. And like Carlin said "it's a big club, and you aren't in it.")
Meh, the club sux. You don't want to be in it.
Looking at the Atlantic Division
in The Aud Club
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That's why I wrote 5.