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I've talked to some beer vendors and they've told me to just take whatever. Along the lines of "People are going to do it anyway, we can't stop it, so feel free we don't care." Now to contract my previous beer, one I dislike: Victory Berliner Weisse. I generally love Victory's offerings, so I took a flyer on this...but man, way way way too sour for my taste. Every sip I'm making the face that people who don't like beer but pretend they do make when drinking.

On a whim, purchased a Fuller's ESB as part of a Wegmans craft pack (which is arguably the greatest creation in modern grocery shopping history)...and wow, I don't know what my expectations were, but this greatly exceeded them. I don't have the pallet/knowledge to write a Weave-like description, but man, what a beer! I'm sad I only had the one bottle.

A) I just call it "the stadium". In fact, my only problem with the new naming rights deal is that it's apparently going to be a Field now, not a Stadium. Not a fan of that change. B) Sure, but $300 million isn't really in the same ballpark of rich as $3.5 billion. So I have to be thankful to a Sith lord for my football team remaining in Buffalo? :(

But does he flash his abs at every camera that points his direction?

Maybe the stadium is, but the name isn't. Ralph's name never should have been on it anyway, since he was always bitching about the small market. Move games to Toronto for the money? Sure! Take my name off the stadium for money? Hell no! (I say this knowing full well the Toronto deal was worth substantially more than any naming rights deal. It's the optics maaaaan.) I'm not even remotely interested in venturing down that path, as we can't even begin to have the information necessary for such a venture.

To the best of my recollection, Pegula didn't have really big money (not that any of us would sneeze at being worth a few hundred million) until certain natural resources were discovered on land his company owned. I believe the banned poster formerly known as Drane had the timeline all mapped out at some point so you could probably search it, but it was within the last decade that his personal wealth skyrocketed. I think he's even made mention of the fact that when Golisano bought the Sabres, he couldn't have, as he didn't have the resources at that time. Undoubtedly he was a wealthy man when he and Kim started dating and eventually got married, but he wasn't even close to a multibillionaire. So no, he couldn't have just cashed in some assets and purchased the Bills pre-Kim.

Why do you wish this on such an esteemed forum member? ;)

Documentary on Finnish training, including Risto (stuff on him starts around the 3:45 mark).

I just love Usain Bolt. Wish more athletes were like him. Make athletes fun again!

How do we know this stuff is useless when we've never had it before to study? That said, I agree that the last things sports needs are more utterly meaningless stats being spewed on broadcasts.

If you're the one who makes more money, and you ever tried to claim ownership to a higher percentage...how long do you think you'd be allowed to live in said house? :p

Well then, I 100% missed that. By chance was it in the midst of a string of Pi posts? Because that would explain it :lol:

On what issues? The only things I can think of where it's more centrist than in 1936 is some economic stuff. Anywho, I was thinking more the modern Democratic party since after the Dixiecrats started to break off. The metrics are the DW-NOMINATE scores developed by Poole and Rosenthal. In (very) layman's terms, they code every single vote cast by every single member of Congress since the founding, and essentially aggregate it to get overall party scores. To be completely fair to your side, most of the movement in the Democratic Party has resulted from the defection of the Dixiecrats, moreso than true movement left by the party. That said, the party definitely hasn't moved more center on anything outside of some economic issues (principally going from protectionist to free trade). The ACA was liberal, the party has moved left on the environment and social & racial issues, education, immigration, and foreign policy (I know you point to the chickenhawks, as you call them...but helllloooo Vietnam, and Kennedy today would be Republican-ish on foreign policy). And while you could certainly say Bill Clinton was more centrist than Jimmy Carter, I really don't think that withstands scrutiny when applied to the party as a whole.

Are you referring to me? Because if so, your reading comprehension has failed you. I said, and I quote, "Plenty of cities have a good night life."

I don't know how I missed this, but freaking awesome. Wonder if the data will be publicly available.

Who knows? Terry himself didn't have anywhere near enough to buy the team until relatively recently.

I don't think anyone outside of the Vesey camp has any idea what they're talking about. I'd say check for condoms next time you visit, but at that age, why bother? Okay I'm done, promise.

He said he didn't understand the perspective. If there's a rule he thinks is dumb where he works, then he should understand it. One can agree to a rule in order to have a job and also think that rule is stupid. That's all I was trying to get at.

Senior citizen orgies at the assisted living, obviously :p

But why does it matter how she got there? As you say, why don't other women do what she doing? She's pushing involvement more than all but a select few women ever have in an amazingly male-dominated arena. That's the very definition of being a trail blazer.

She probably wouldn't have had $1.4 billion in cash to buy the team. But I'll be honest, I don't even know what point you're trying to make with this whole thing.

So you fully agree with every single rule and policy at your place of employment?

I don't even think the difference is staying in vs going out. Plenty of cities have a good night life without the, I dunno, density (probably the wrong word) of NYC.

I'd say visiting is different than living. I loved it when I went on vacation, but not sure it's the atmosphere I'd want to live in.

Sabres, top-6, 10-15 (although I kinda wish I had voted 16-20).