Contempt
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I was in the car when that interview was about to come in and was like "who on Earth gives a flip what Berglund thinks about anything? In what way is he relevant?"
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Just now, Randall Flagg said:
It's not immediately obvious to me which team I will want to lose more.
Cthulu 2023 - why choose a lesser evil?
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I know it's the Leafs, but I just can't root for Tampa....
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1 hour ago, Kr632 said:
Where would you recommend for a good cheese steak. I went to the two that were across the street from each other and a bar near downtown who's name is escaping me ATM that a friend recommended and I wasn't a fan of them. Seemed like food you'd get at a sporting event.
The two across the street from each other aren't good. I mean they are what they are, it's not a fancy thing, but those two are hype over substance.
John's Roast Pork (that's the name of the place), D'Alessandro's, and Donkey's Place would probably be my choices. Donkeys is in Camden and comes on a different sort of roll. They also close early and Camden isn't a place to fiddle around after dark.
FWIW roast pork with sharp provolone and broccoli rabe is a vastly superior sandwich and it's the one the tourists don't ask for.
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44 minutes ago, matter2003 said:
Paul Hamilton follows them with WGR 550...we would still have one even if the newspaper didn't have one.
Terrestrial radio bleeds money too.
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40 minutes ago, matter2003 said:
Definitely not from WNY. Banned. I fought the ranch on wings crusade for years in the Midwest, don't need to fight it here.
Ranch is Beelzebub's condiment of choice.
My 13 year old puts ranch in everything...except wings. I'll take that as a win.
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1 hour ago, French Collection said:
Watching the Rangers/Devils OT.
I like Ray Ferraro doing colour commentary. He was on TSN forever but retired and now does a bit of ESPN. Smart guy.
I've always liked chicken parm.
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3 hours ago, Dr. Who said:
Living in Philly explains a lot.
I know. Before I moved here I used to really be pessimistic.
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7 hours ago, Andrew Amerk said:
People in a Rochester thread not knowing what Red Osier roast beef is, is a bigger loss than the one the Amerks took.
I think I've been to Rochester once in my life.
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47 minutes ago, PerreaultForever said:
Is this accurate and indicative of how they play? I ask because it plays into my fear of how and what Adams is building in Buffalo.
You and I agree on this point. But we agree on lots of things and the mob doesn't like us so there's that.
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1 minute ago, Bangarang said:
You ask your buddies to empty their pockets to make sure someone wasn’t trying to pocket the 2 missing wings?
Lol, no I didn't ask my children to empty their pockets, but we did count wings and line them up because I knew it felt short as we were eating. I knew how many I had eaten, and I quickly counted my youngest son's pile and knew my older son's pile wasn't that much bigger. Counted up, got 28.
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4 minutes ago, Billssabres33 said:
I live in south jersey…a couple of decent places over here…Jay’s Elbow Room, Jug Handle Inn and PJ Whelihand’s. If you haven’t been over all are worth a try
I've been to several PJ Whelihan's including the original one on Haddon Ave. They are fine. Nothing comparable to an actual wing from Buffalo. Like I said, you do what you need to do to get a fix and you forget what actual "good" is until you go home and have something that's really good. Bar Bill and PJ's are not the same product.
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5 minutes ago, French Collection said:
I guess it may be tough to determine a win in some cases. A C can lose a draw cleanly that goes to open space where a teammate gets it. Your team gets possession but you lost the draw.
If it were me, and I ran this department with a team of interns breaking down film, I think I'd determine it whether or not my C won the draw into an area that I felt we should obtain the puck from and then define that space. Clearly it's possible to lose to draw and win possession but that not the goal right? You want to put the draw into places where your team statistically is most most likely to win possession. All of that is definable and intern labor is cheap so why not? This is why I say it's privately available. Team aren't going to tell you what they feel like is a won faceoff by the center compared to a lost faceoff by everyone else. The teams know what the center is instructed to do in each scenario while the rest of us might not.
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2 minutes ago, French Collection said:
With all of the stats tracked by analytics people you would think someone is on top of that.
I'd bet they are privately.
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1 minute ago, DarthEbriate said:
It's also more of a team stat than just the player taking the draw because winning the initial draw vs. gaining possession are two different things.
I don't worry about the FOs between the bluelines, but in-zone... If you can take away 6 out of 10 clean opposition possessions-turned-point shots on the PK, or get 6 out of 10 draws on your powerplay to run set plays to TNT's snipe... that adds up to massive improvement over what the Sabres did this year (4 out of 10). The good thing from a Sabres perspective is that FO %s generally increase as a player gets more experienced. You can handle 50%, you just don't want it to be a liability.
I really wish they'd count them differently. PP and SH faceoffs in the respective zones are HUGE. Faceoffs int eh offensive/defensive zone with the goalie pulled? Also important. The draw the start the game? Who cares?
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12 minutes ago, JoeSchmoe said:
I'm not sure if it's the same in the US, but the Canadian BWW use wings that have clearly been injected with whatever that filler stuff they use in cheap frozen chicken breasts (meat protein?). It really doesn't get much worse.
Making decent wings isn't rocket science.
Basically, if you can find a corner bar that has decent sized wings, fries them well, shakes in a simple Frank's and butter mix, you're lightyears ahead of any chain restaurant. Gotta be a place in somewhere in Philly that can do that.
There really isn't, I've been here for almost 30 years and haven't found anything I'd call really good. You'd be appalled at the atrocities that people serve up around this country called "Buffalo wings" or the like. Everyone has their own regional specialty, Buffalo has wings and if people try to tell you different justifiably spit on them.
A Philly steak in Buffalo is an abomination against God compared to what you get in Philly. There's no part of it that's "hard" but nobody gets it right. Though, the cheesesteak is Philly's second best sandwich but that's a different conversation. Even within Philly there is debate upon what is proper. American, Provolone or Whiz. IMO each have their benefits. The better sandwich is roast pork with provolone and broccoli rabe. If you ever come here and haven't had that, get it, and thank me later.
An underrated part of what makes it right it is roll and the roll relies on the water (wooder LOL) because baking is chemistry and that's different in each place. Wings should be easier, but somehow they aren't.
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1 minute ago, Doohickie said:
For this... I took you off Ignore, @Contempt. 😄
You have a chicken on your head. I've eaten so many of your brethren, I understand the ignore.
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9 minutes ago, Marvin said:
If I recall, all of Dallas's GWG in games 2, 3, and 5 came immediately after the Sabres lost a defencive zone face-off.
It's literally this that cause certain schisms in debates on this board because many of us remember that that too. It's like how stolen bases don't matter until Dave Roberts swipes one in the WS in a huge spot. In the aggregate, sure. In individual trial? Nope, totally matter.
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13 minutes ago, French Collection said:
Why do I think klepto when I see Crypto.com arena?
because you see krypto for what it is.
11 minutes ago, DarthEbriate said:It's not always important, but on PP, PK, late-game situations it's absolutely critical. Especially once the playoffs start and you're playing matchups every single shift.
All we have to do is think back to 1999. The Sabres couldn't win a draw in the Final and were chasing constantly. Zinger won that one cleanly in OT and Patrick put the shot off the crossbar... but during the draw scuffle super-vet Carbonneau got his sleeve on the shot (now, we'll never know if that sleeve made it hit the bar instead of going directly in, or if the shot would've missed entirely and the sleeve got it to clang of the post.)
But I've been told repeatedly that faceoffs don't matter. LOL
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9 minutes ago, SDS said:
I've got a high school shot put thrower, a middle school shot thrower/football player and me. The game we used to play in HS was whoever ate the most wings on 15 cent night didn't have to pay and everyone else split the check equally. My boys both have jobs so they need to bring cash to play the game. Let's see if either can take me down. I lost once in HS, LOL. I'd love to drive to Big Tree, eat a stupid amount of wings, and have my kids pick up the tab. LOL
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Also, FTR, I tipped the waitress her normal 20% because kitchen f ups aren't her fault and she got it fixed.
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Just now, matter2003 said:
YTA for going to BWW...that place sucks. 😂
When you live in suburban Philly you do what you need to do. If you learn how to order properly it's tolerable, but's it's not even close to the real thing. To be fair if I go to B-Lo and order a cheesesteak what I will get is crap compared to what I get in Philly.
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1 minute ago, French Collection said:
It’s easier to verify you’re getting screwed when you’re ordering a number vs by the pound like some places do.
I remember being annoyed that I was ordering by 10s instead of 12s. Those were the days.
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Just now, SABRES 0311 said:
Depends on how many you’re sharing with. The more people, the less likely you are an AH.😁
3 people 30 wings. I'm paying for everyone.
The upshot is that it prompted stories about 15 cent wing night where my friends and I tried to do as much damage as possible that pivoted into my boys and I driving up to a 50 cent wing night in WNY where my boys and I actively try bankrupt the place. That will be fun and it might even be wife sanctioned.
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It ridiculous when they dig someone out of the dustbin of history just for the sake of doing it. It's moreso when that person throws shade on people rather than just enjoying being out of the dustbin for 4 minutes.