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There are quite a few pepper beers and none of them are Ed' Cave Creek Chili beer. There are much better ways of making them than slapping a pepper in a bottle. Ballast Point Habanero Sculpin is an IPA. Horsehead Hot Jala-heim was already mentioned. Rogue does make on. You'll find ancho chillies in quite a few beers as well. But that's only a hint of spice. There are also beers that use black pepper (many times in a saison). You could get Ghost Face Killah. That's a ghost pepper beer. Not sure how the beer is.. I use ghost pepper sauce sparingly at times but drinking a beer tainted with it would not be for me.

Cigar City has no true distributor in Rochester. We see Jai Alai from them every once in awhile when the distributorship that is owned by the people who own AJ's Beer Warehouse go on a run downstate and bring some up here. I don't think anything else sees wide distribution and certainly not in this area.

Saw Wooten play on the SMV Thunder tour stop at Jazz fest a few years ago. Stanley Clarke, Marcus Miller, Victor Wooten.. one stage... no words to describe that awesomeness. And yea.. George put on a helluva show.

Thanks for pointing it out. It was a great read. Always some interesting things that come out in those.

Totally unplanned but saw George Clinton and Parliament last night in Rochester. Great time.. great music, entertaining crowd to say the least. $5 ticket. Worth it. Victor Wooten plays in a few weeks but I'll be out of town. sigh.

I hit'em up.

It's a horrible decision. I would have considered going but I have a pre-existing commitment to help run the championship games for a youth baseball tournament. So, no chance of me driving in from Rochester. However, it'd be nice to some of the game. Oh well.. I guess I will have to go out with my wife instead.

We don't need a law for this. We need consumers and constituents to uphold their responsibility. Fans make the owners rich. Fans also elect public officials. If enough people want to support a team and enough people keep electing officials who will cater to the whims of these teams then it should continue to happen. I like to posit this test to people. What happened on the last Game of Thrones episode (or insert some other popular show, or Sabres prospect camp)? Now, what happened at your last town government meeting, state government meeting, etc.? Which are you better equipped to answer? I'll hazard a guess that television and the Sabres win out handily and until that's not the case...

Even in his avatar I swear RJ looks angrier than he did a week ago.

Jack announced his number... It is...

Sure, I think you can say they'd be hungrier going forward, but even just missing should keep them hungry and by just missing they do have a shot at the top 3 in the draft. Unless this team somehow is near the top of the league near the trade deadline there's little chance Murray is buying. This entire season is tweak mode.

Semin is Russian. As I see it... there is 1 Russian left in the Sabres ranks. I don't think Murray is even answering the phone if Semin's agent calls.

But picked up on waivers removes all control he has over where he ends up. He's still constrained to go to whatever team that wanted him. For what it's worth we've seen NFL and NBA players talk about not playing hard at times. We've seen players pull themselves from a game when "injured", we've seen teammates question each other when they don't return from injury. We've seen athletes straight up talk about how they are preserving themselves from getting injured because they have a future to think about. I think the mentality that professional athletes can never look out for themselves over the team is incorrect. And traded removes his control as well. I'm just saying, there were times last year when we wondered how Hodgson could be so bad. We had seen him play the season before and he was much better. So, I'll be curious how he does this season. He's not the talent he had been projected to be but I don't believe he is as bad as he was last year either.

So.. they could improve 40 points and still not be in the playoffs. They'd be winning more, in the game more, but still not be in the playoffs. Remember, they were so bad that a winning culture could still be developed without making the playoffs. 94 points last year puts them in 10th just behind Boston. That's 20 more wins in the season.

You want me to email him? I coached his son a few years ago. :) I'm not going to though. No need. It'll be whatever number he wants it to be and if it's above 30, 49, 55, 65, 82.. so be it... I think the only number that would be out of bounds should be 69. Hell.. I don't even care if he wears 99. Everyone wears 9 and 4 and there were some damn good players in hockey history who wore those. :)

I think it's fine if they miss the playoffs this year. In fact.. Murray is probably gearing up for that 9/10 spot and just missing. He'll probably laugh his butt off if the Sabres end up in the top 3 when that happens due to the changes. On the other hand.. if they squeak in at 7/8 then he'll be praised heavily. Either way.. win.

Umm.. you are missing what I am saying. Assumption: Hodgson doesn't want to stay in Buffalo. He doesn't like what his role will be. Assumption: He believes there is a 95% chance he'll be bought out anyway. (Murray didn't give him that horrible contract). Since the team was already going to suck. He's simply not going to try very hard. Why not do the little bit extra it might take to make the buyout 100%? Why? 1. He doesn't want to be in Buffalo. 2. He was going to get bought out anyway. 3. If he's bought out, he's not going to get any kind of good contract offer. He's on his third team in a short time frame. I'm not saying he was out there shooting the puck into his own net. I am saying that he gave up on the season and didn't even bother trying. He pushed the right buttons with Nolan to get himself reduced playing time. Reduced chance of injury, get through the season, get bought out, move on. All he did was assure it. Because what's the alternative? He plays well enough that Buffalo keeps him? Think about it. If he performed well enough for some other team to sign him to a contract worth even half of what he was getting from the Sabres do you really think the Sabres would have bought him out? I don't. Everyone is hung up on he's throwing away this money. If I was him, I would have assumed it was already gone.

He's too small. He'll never be successful. Loved watching him play. All the best to him.

He did. But he did sign another one. As I worked through all of this more... The initial thought is.. he wants out of Buffalo. There's already a solid chance he is going to get bought out. His contract is a dog and the end of the this league year presents the best chance of this happening. He knows this, everyone knows this. The other thing he knows is that if he's bought out he's likely to NOT receive a long term contract from anyone else nor will it be much money... at first. So, you try a little less harder than you can because.. you want to assure the buyout gets done. Then you hit the UFA market, you don't have to worry about signing a 1.5m year deal because you are still getting paid by the Sabres. Perhaps you have multiple offers, perhaps you don't. But you sign that 1 year deal like he did on Nashville. Let's say that he really has potential and can shine in Nashville. Next year he'll be on the market again and likely able to choose a location that he wants at a decent dollar amount and he'll still be getting paid by the Sabres. So, for 1 year of trying a little less harder, on a team that was already not trying hard. He assured himself of the opportunity to perhaps earn a solid contract after this upcoming season. And hey.. why try hard anyway on a team when you are pretty certain you aren't going to be around anyway. Always fun to think about.. the solid news is... he's gone. He's following the Derek Roy tour.. although Hodgson started his tour in Vancouver.

So.. quick primer. Uncompressed HD video is 18Mbps. Everyone uses compression, so you'll do just fine with 15M. The gaming thing is a different story. it depends on the games. The biggest impact to your gaming experience will be latency and packet loss. The second biggest will be any limitations or contention for bandwidth on your upstream as it is usually lower than your downstream and your system will likely send a lot of data to the gaming server. Latency - how long it takes the information to arrive and packet loss (how many packets have to be resent or might be lost for good) will impact the efficiency of your network connection. This is why some network connection types are absolutely horrible for gaming, no matter what you do. Still.. when it's all said and done.. 24/3 should be fine for you as long as you don't have a ton of connected devices using a lot of bandwidth.

Good call on Pittsburgh trying to up the value of the franchise before it begins to decline.

It's a dry tank though.

Sportsnet Stats @SNstats BREAKING: #Leafs trade Phil Kessel to Penguins pic.twitter.com/NWg9QDOeBd And it goes down..

Pierre LeBrun @Real_ESPNLeBrun Flyers have signed goalie Michal Neuvirth to two-year deal, $1.5 M in Year 1 and $1.75 million in Year 2 gave it a shot.

I think that gets harder when using Tweetdeck interface over twitter. Hmm.. I'll have to research.