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meanwhile Buffalo is about to post a record warm September and the likely the only one ever to average 68+ degrees on record. Previous record warm month was 67.3 degrees in 2015. Currently at 67.9 and if forecast holds should come in around 68 or 68.1 for the month.

I was in Essen, Dusseldorf and Koln a few weeks ago...never made it to Munich.

Nope...was in Europe this summer for 3 weeks and made it to 5 countries but never got that far East... Explore everything is my advice!

Damn...what is up with key Buffalo sports figures living forever? Levy 99 and still kicking... Ralph Wilson, Bills owner lived til 95 Bowman 91... Lou Saban. multiple AFL Championship winning coach in the 60s with the Bills lived til 87... I guess McDermott is in a great place...want to live til you are 90? Come to Buffalo and do something great for one of the teams. 😂

I think culture isn't the word you want there...it was terrible when Eichel/Reinhart/Kane, etc were here when players had factions in the locker room and nobody seemed to really care. That's not the case now...these players care a lot and want to be good...they all like being around each other...they just haven't had someone that showed them how to channel that into consistency and wins. That's what Ruff's job is.

we were told to make physical copies of the passport and keep them separate just in case you somehow lost the passports themselves or they got stolen

browsers are probably synced across devices

Understand people's trepidation about it but it's like trying to take a small garden trowel and dig out from an avalanche. There are stores now where there are no humans, but the AI sees what you take and then charges you for it based on the information on file with your credit card, etc. A guy who is a leader in AI was talking about how he was in one of these stores in NYC and he looked at some chocolate bars, decided against it and put them back, then got a drink instead. Walked out and was charged for the drink. But guess what he started having ads pop up for while he was browsing within the next 15 minutes? Yup...you guessed it...chocolate.

Why wouldn't you want a 4.75 million a year contract for a goalie in the middle of his prime versus having to potentially pay a much higher number?

Not a bad contract...I mean he had to file for arbitration to get that? Seems like the two sides could have gotten to that without the arbitration.

Spending big money on UFA's is among the worst allocation of resources you can have. Most of them are overpaid on day 1 that they sign the contract.

Just like with women, it plays a certain role that is beneficial. Also just like with women, if you don't know what to do with your size and are not a technician that puts in the work, it won't be very useful to you.

Well last week was due to Hurricane Beryl which is highly unusual for that early in the season, let alone to be a Cat 4 in June then a Cat 5 the first day of July. That was packing a TON of gulf moisture with it. Actually unheard of and honestly kinda terrifying. However yesterday we actually had the most rain for the month at 1.27 inches...last week with Beryl officially only got .69 inches, but obviously some places got a lot more...just dependent on where the heaviest T-Storms were. For the month we are a tad under 4 degrees above normal temp wise and only half an inch of rain so that isn't too much of an outlier. Average wind speed for the month has been 8.0 mph, so that is definitely well within normal range if not a tad low. We had some gusty winds due to downdrafts with the T-Storms and maybe one or two other days had some wind but all in all it has't been too bad, IMO. Warmer temps usually mean more gulf moisture and higher humidity levels which lead to more potential T-Storms...also Lake Erie temp is warmer than usual which offers less protection against T-Storms being able to form.

if healthy, 25-30 goals, 65-75 points...Quinn is a real one. Was our best player more than a few nights when he came back.

Went to school in Saint Louis and spent some time in Kansas...thought I was going to die one night, had a huge tornado outbreak that spawned like 40 tornadoes within a 200 mile radius of where I was. Got woke up around midnight to the sound of what I could only describe as a jet engine literally directly overhead and outside my hotel room that lasted for like 30-40 seconds straight....I was scared sh!tless...thought it was a tornado, nope... Next day I'm talking to one of the locals and asked them about that and they laughed and said "Yeah...I haven't heard that in a while...it happens but not very often...". Apparently it's basically non-stop thunder being caused by the intensity and frequency of the lightning happening...hope I never experience that again.

Speaking of Tornadoes... Strong T-Storms caused by very humid, warm air masses...all it takes is a minor disturbance passing thru to act as a trigger. Also spawned 2 tornadoes. The lake usually protects us a great deal, but it can't do much when it's that warm and humid.

Do the two 17.5" guns attached to my shoulders count? 😂

Out of all the free agents signed every year to big dollar contracts, how many of them work out well for the team that signed them in terms of their play justifying their contract size? Maybe 15%? Everyone loves talking about all the p[layers who worked out but nobody talks about the 85% who never came close to justifying what the team paid them. Remember that next time you get mad about the Sabres "not doing more". For the most part, the worst cap dollars you will ever spend are the ones you spend in free agency and that has been born out over decades of analytics on the topic. This is just a study from 2019-2020 that highlights how bad free agency is at providing what you actually want ion terms of dollars spent. Teams paid for 844 wins at free agency to players expected to generate 593 wins, but who actually delivered just 217 wins - just 25.7% of what they paid for. More than half of all free agent contracts are an overpayment on day 1 In their first contract year, free agents deliver only about 28% of the value they are paid for. 2/3rds of players given 6 or 7 year contracts don't finish the contracts due to things like injury "The worst deals aren’t worth it almost 90 percent of the time and even the best deals don’t live up to expectations even half the time."

Sometimes the best moves you make are the ones you don't...FA signings by and in large are not worth the money they cost in terms of production per point and that's been born out over many years of studying the data.

nice Pornstache

There really is no reason for it when you have big guys who play physical at times like Greenway, Tuch, Robinson, Girgensons, etc...but it's like they only chose to do it once every 4 or 5 games.

I thought Benson was consistently highest in that category in TOO many games last year for an 18 year old rookie. Kinda inexcusable really.

"To get more than you gave... And I wanted what I got... When you got skin in the game, you stay in the game... But you don't get a win unless you play in the game... Oh, you get love for it.. You get hate for it... But you get nothing if you... wait for it...wait for it...wait for it... God help and forgive me... I want to build something that's gonna outlive me... What do you want Adams? What do you want Adams? If you stand for nothing Adams, what'll you fall for? I want to be in the room where it happens...the room where it happens...the room where it happens..."