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2 minutes ago, Porous Five Hole said:
Goat heads on and UPL in goal means they’ll prolly score six. 🤞
[Place laughing thumbs up emoji here]
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31 minutes ago, dudacek said:
Love the way Granato has developed the young talent and the team’s trend line under his leadership. I think he’s a smart hockey mind and a good human being. For me at least, he’s successfully managed expectations and instilled hope.
But I agree that the point of my earlier post doesn’t apply when it comes to him. He has yet prove himself as a capable NHL coach and if the season plays out as it has started, I’d fire him too.
Both McD and Granato are admirable human beings. You want them to succeed, and I hope they do. In the contemporary NFL, the trend line is to hire an offensive minded HC. The league is never going to return to the old blood-and-guts days where RB is the premier position and defenses can consistently dominate. You don't want to have to continually replace OC. In our case, Dorsey is more competent, I think, than his critics admit, though the shotgun runs on third and short are infuriating. We've had some devastating injuries on one side of the ball. Nonetheless, McD is wasting prime years of a franchise qb. Josh Allen not winning a SB in Buffalo would be an absolute travesty. I think if things implode this year, Pegula may be forced to make a change. I still think there is an outside chance they get it together and make a run.
Pimlach's take on Granato is right on the money, imo.
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1 hour ago, Skooby said:
All you guys begging for confirmation went silent when it arrived, I was hoping for a little more sympathy for us all instead of skepticism. Are you hater all under 25 YO ?? Grow up.
Let’s clean up the rumor in the title too
What's wrong with you? It's Sunday morning. And why don't you show a modicum of restraint and decency. A young man has died and you want to crow? You grow up.
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37 minutes ago, Slack_in_MA said:
ChatGPT?
Extreme boredom. I am a novelist in my spare time.
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Mystical winesong miraculously whitens musky whiskers mystified when mercantile weasels mendaciously wrinkle midsummer wool made wormtongue mitigating wonders while many murkily wrought majestic wishes wax munificent mesmerizing wild mostly winsome musical wenches ministering wholesale melancholy wantonness whereupon mordant wizards mimic winters meantime we must wrestle mumbling woebegone miserable whining muttonhead workdoomers magically whisk much whining maximally `way made wondrously mute when men with martial weapons mightily win.
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19 minutes ago, Taro T said:
Yuck. But at least he knows the system. Would rather have Wallace back if the Stillers aren't outrageous in a potential ask for him.
There aren't any good options. After yesterday, I'm starting to believe that God hates the Buffalo Bills. Went from a solid SB contender to a team that will struggle to make the wild card, imo. The single worst day for injuries I can recollect in over 50 years of watching the team. The last two weeks has just devastated what was shaping up to be a really superior D.
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3 minutes ago, HOUSE said:
Wow, their really packing the arena tonight
Lots of folks can't find their wallets.
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28 minutes ago, dudacek said:
If Benson makes the team, why can’t it simply mean that:
a) they think he’s ready? and
b) they think he helps them win?
And if he doesn’t, why can’t it mean they think he’s not, and they don’t?
I see you're related to William of Occam. I believe Sherlock Holmes was a lifelong bachelor and fictional character, but maybe him, too.
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1 hour ago, Mango said:
Not to beat a dead horse, but to me that response pairs with his unwillingness to sign more than a 4-5 year extension without the franchise delivering.
I don't buy it. I don't think Dahlin is uncertain about the future of the team. He's part of it, he knows the pipeline is filled with young and emerging talent. The holdup is calculating term when the cap is likely going to escalate and payoff if you're not locked in for eight years.
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24 minutes ago, Taro T said:
The D will need to bring their A game, but if they can keep Hill and the rest from getting away clean at the line, it will force Tua to hold the ball longer. And if the D-line can do against Miami's O-line what it did the 1st 3 games (even though they had few sacks the 1st 2 games, they had plenty of pressure) well then we might be able to see if the Jujitsu training has actually worked for Tua or if he'll suffer another "ankle" injury.
Allen tends to play his best against these guys. The O-line dominated one of the most heralded front 4's this past Sunday and Spencer Brown handled Crosby the week before (one week after looking like a turnstile). Miami's D is nowhere near as formidible as their O is. The Bills can keep up in a shootout if it comes to that.
Am really looking forward to Sunday's game. (And should the Bills win, and they should ;) , then the entire AFC East a mere 4 weeks in will have daisy chained each other to a 1-1 divisional record.)
I hope Elam has gotten enough confidence back to play man coverage, because they need his speed to cover Hill. He's their best press cb, so unless Elam is a total lost cause, I expect he will not be a healthy scratch on Sunday. Miami's oline is not great, but Tua is getting rid of the ball so quickly. The scheme is helping them. Have to find a way to make him hesitate just a bit. I think if that happens, the Dline will cause him problems.
Still not confident about how Dorsey is calling a game. I am glad that he is genuinely incorporating the rbs, though. Cook, Murray, and Harris each bring something to the table. I think Cook could be a star, actually, but I am a biased UGA fan. I hope Kincaid gets more play than last week. We need those yards out of the slot position.
Overall, I am cautiously optimistic. Folks are going to hype Miami after 70. The Broncos are bad and they gave up. It should be a different story against a D that is starting to hit on all cylinders.
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I hate those Fife-Flyers almost as much as I hate the Bruins. Nasty, thuggish brutes. No taste in single-malt Scotch.
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29 minutes ago, mjd1001 said:
I like this. I don't need it but I like it. Nothing to me looks more un-natural and not like hockey than when a guy comes in on the shootout and just slows it down REALLY slow.
Of course, what happens when its possibly a deciding shootout goal and you have a possible penalty (hooking, tripping) when the chaser takes down the shooter. What do you do when you get a penalty on a shootout, and what if it is a close/judgement call?
If it is a penalty, according to the proposal, a goal is awarded. Don't know about judgement calls, but that is the trouble spot in the idea. Right now, it's either a goal or not. I think the idea here is terrific and it closes down the excessive slow play (though I don't mind that when it benefits the Sabres, I'm fickle that way), but now you introduce a gray area and I don't generally want to let a ref's interpretation intrude if you can avoid it.
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6 hours ago, Doohickie said:
The Hockey Guy's Sabres jersey collection:
Very nicely done. I agree with pretty much all of his aesthetic judgments.
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I don't have high hopes for Bernard, but it appears they thought of him as a real consideration at MLB. The hamstring injury early on has kept him out the entire preseason. We'll have to see if he can play better than most expect. Dodson had his best game against the Bears, which isn't a high bar. They should have brought in a free agent who can at least play the position at NFL mediocre level. Maybe someone will shake loose after the cutdowns, but it's not a great situation. Elam was never a good fit for what McD typically asks of his corners. I think it's up to the coaching staff to find a way to use him to his strengths. They've tried to turn him into a different player and now he has regressed because he's thinking too much and has lost confidence. That's on Beane and McD more than the player, imo. 2022 looks like a terrible draft, though I believe Cook is going to be solid. 2023 appears promising. Kincaid and Torrence could both turn out well. Overall, Beane needs to hit more, especially on day 2 picks. The Bills are still a very strong team. MLB, OT depth, and QB2 ought to be where one hopes they can scavenge some kind of improvement through trade or waiver pick ups.
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14 minutes ago, That Aud Smell said:
It is?
I’m asking.
If you execute them, everyone respects you, but it's harder to sign free agents.
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43 minutes ago, PASabreFan said:
It seems to me KA believes he can rationally control the progress of the Buffalo Sabres. That, in Darcy's lexicon, there is "continuous improvement." The beauty and wonder we are missing while waiting for E3 to full take effect in 2027 is the running outside on a warm spring night to shout your glee to the heavens after an OT win... Then stopping and hearing peepers and believing they are Sabres fans.
My friends, we were absolutely robbed of this, and their hands are still in our pockets. It is criminal.
Rather astute use of analogical reasoning. I do think KA needs to "let go" a bit. The desire to control everything for optimum outcome is an unrealistic ambition. It could also foster a spirit of fear, lest you lose out on "maximum efficiency." It's a fault of an age of anxiety.
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1 hour ago, PASabreFan said:
Your theories on economic and effective?
Is Gallifrey near the arena?
1) It is easy to ask a glib, enigmatic question in pithy manner. Long to expound what could encompass a monograph or even a book length exposition. Economy is ultimately a function of metaphysics. Ontology discovers the capacity of beings. Efficiency as it is now generally understood normally follows a univocal, pragmatic utilitarian criteria that is inattentive to the equivocities of Being. At another level, the modern project judges efficiency as one aspect of material and efficient causality. It leaves out Aristotle's final and formal causalities which are not addressed by the common considerations and orthodox methods apprised by institutions that propose what is normative, if not true. My views on economy and effective derive from a more robust metaphysics, though the typical response of modernity and the so-called post-modern is to call into question metaphysics of that sort as fascist.
2) It depends which arena you are talking about.
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8 hours ago, Weave said:
Depends on what you are doing with it
Depends on what you are doing with it
You need to turn off your redundancy echo amplifier. Ironically, it is inefficient.
I have always preferred an aesthetic that allows for the drama of the unplanned. Efficiency is rooted in a rationality of control that among other things adjusts expectations for reality to what can be comprehended by method. It leaves too much of importance out. Beauty, love, wonder, none of that can genuinely be commanded, so it cannot be a product of efficiency. Gallifrey became decadent and arrogant when they forgot all that.
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6 minutes ago, JoeSchmoe said:
My buddy has been saying disclosure on aliens is imminent for so long now, and every single time it's a total nothing-burger.
There's so many people that want to believe in aliens so bad (like my buddy) that they take any little tidbit of info and blow it up into something it's not.
The worst is you consider the size of massive organizations such as NASA or the military. In those orgs, there's bound to be more than a few that REALLY want aliens to be real. Out of these tens of thousands of employees , all it takes is one so-called "expert" who thinks of themself as a whistleblower and then people like my buddy are addicted to UAP Twitter for another 6 months.
It's all a bunch of BS.
There's an entire race of planted aliens who are here to subvert knowledge of aliens. They undergo a thorough process of memory erasure so that they can't be subject to advanced memory recall by earth operatives. Of course, Timelords know their tells, even if they are unaware of their true provenance. One of them is a penchant to go on message boards of diverse nature -- and when triggered by the proper catalyzing declaration, eg. supposition that there might, indeed, be aliens with advanced technology, they loudly proclaim the opposite. The chief phrase in German they inevitably repeat with contempt and absolute certitude is "Es ist alles Haufen Blödsinn."
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On 8/11/2023 at 10:49 AM, RochesterExpat said:
Maybe what we're really learning is you can travel through all of time and space but you still can't escape lowest bidder contracts and preventative maintenance.
I'm just saying, if the TARDIS were built to industry standards instead of simply going to the lowest bidder, and if the Time Lords weren't so cheap as to forgo maintenance contracts, Doctor Who would have been a far less interesting show.Efficiency is boring as hell.
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1 hour ago, PerreaultForever said:
Or I just read the title of one thread without reading the other.
You're bored this summer aren't you?
Saw an opportunity for a joke that included quantum physics and took it.
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1 hour ago, PerreaultForever said:
I'm still iffy on Adams. I thought a tear down was necessary and he did that, so he gets kudos on that, but otherwise he's only done 2 things (or 3 depending on how you look at it) that I really like and a few that I hate so I'm 50/50.
I don't give him great kudos for the tear down cause those players were likely to get back assets no matter who the GM was. Vegas wanted Eichel bad so getting Tuch back as part of the deal was a no brainer to any GM who pays any attention at all. They were good trades, but no way to know if they were Adams wins or just what was possible at the time.
The 2 (or 3) things are signing Tage and Cozens long term for what turns out to be good value by NHL standards. Solid decisions it seems.
The other thing is getting Clifton, a guy I had targeted as best value out there and a perfect fit.
But, he's botched goaltending so far (Levi pending)and imo he really hasn't done enough in terms of free agency.
As for drafting, like most GMs for pathetically bad teams it's hard to get them all wrong and you should get good players back. How many lower picks stick one day will determine how good or bad he is at that. Still remains to be seen.
I feel like you are struggling with the concept of these threads. OTOH, you've given voice to ambivalence with a low hum of perduring disgruntlement in an intelligent manner. OTOH, you've failed to grasp the polar-dichotomy of point-counterpoint represented by two diverse threads of this particular nature. In reality, you want to occupy an ambiguous quantum state between two universal polarities, which places you high on the Heisenberg scale with a relatively strong undercurrent of Schrödinger syndrome.
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2 hours ago, GASabresIUFAN said:
McDavid's next team will be the new Atlanta Thrashers or the new Houston Pilots
If Atlanta gets another shot (I'd be surprised, but I've read your reasoning and it's not implausible), I hope they go with something other than the Thrashers. The Flames were just perfect. (I was a kid then, but that team was very likeable and I loved the sweaters.)
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GDT: Avalanche @ Sabres Sunday Oct 29th- 1pm
in The Aud Club
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I'm checking with my Evangelical friends if that is a sign of the apocalypse.