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Ha. I gotchu. No such analysis needed.

I am not. I do stumble across it occasionally. I rely on this board for coverage and analysis. My issue was that he was noting those players in answering how the team would compensate for the loss of Quinn.

I like Lance well enough, but it’s difficult to take him seriously when he writes this in response to a question about how the Sabres will compensate for Quinn’s injury. Brett Murray, for one, has absolutely zero bearing on how the Sabres will fill the void left by Quinn’s injury.

Cake’s a different matter, in my experience. For whatever reason. “To each their own … but some people are idiots.”

By way of corollaries: I have found it largely impossible to improve on Duncan Hines brownies by making scratch brownies. Giant Eagle sheet cake is as good as any cake I’ve had from a mom/pop bakery. Baked goods and baking are curiously susceptible to being scaled up and even industrialized to an extent.

I trust that scratch dough made by a skilled … dough maker (?) is superior to an excellent frozen dough product. Otoh, top-end frozen dough products are *pretty* damn good. Or even if not frozen, just commercial refrigerated dough bought at wholesale.

I saw this clip and it prompted me to think of this debate. Can Granato do this, or do something like it?

The guy got fired. (That’s my sense of it anyway.)

Graham's tweets aren't based on information he got from sources. They're based on information he himself learned and possesses. So unless we're going to say that Graham's lying about the texts he would get from Raccuia about AdPro, the weirdness persists (and grows).

Today's report is that the Pegulas sold AdPro to Legends. https://buffalonews.com/sports/bills/pegula-family-sells-adpro-sports-to-legends/article_8d618b94-27f7-11ee-b530-b3fb90df22f3.html#tracking-source=home-top-story Graham tweeted yesterday about how - whenever he reported that PSE owned AdPro - Raccuia would send him a stern text about how Raccuia still owned it. Today's report makes Raccuia's reported behaviour even weirder. I dunno. I'm sensing something off about that guy or perhaps just that relationship. Oh, and the report makes clear that Raccuia's not going to Legends either. ADPRO was founded by Ron Raccuia, who was also the Bills' executive vice president and chief operating officer until parting ways with the team Wednesday. Raccuia sold a majority share of ADPRO to Kim Pegula and her three children, Jessica, Kelly and Matthew, in 2017. He remained a minority shareholder and president of the company, and with the acquisition by Legends, is leaving ADPRO.

Bengals. Eagles. 49ers. I was going to nominate the Chargers, but it's tough to put them top-5 with the Chiefs in their division.

Plenty. And not for nothing, that dough is probably pretty damn good. And it probably bakes beautifully if you have a powerful pizza oven and a good cook overseeing things.

Yep. Odd.

All true and possible. It is especially true that TP churns his c-suite. That should change once he starts installing his adult children in those positions.

Sure. No way the entity gets sold without the majority owners’ approval though. As I think about it: It seems like this sale may be a product of — necessitated by — the two sides “parting ways.”

They took over several storefronts in that plaza in order to expand it and create a large facility. That store was, I think, the template for their Transit Road store. I avoid Transit Road at all costs. But there’s no denying that it’s among the most potentially profitable locations for restaurants in WNY.

I Googled it. It was widely and unequivocally reported that the Pegulas had acquired a majority take in AdPro back in 2017. Strange.

Raccuia still owned it? How odd. The language about him joining PSE always implied -- maybe expressly stated -- that PSE had acquired Adpro.

I like what the family did in terms of creating a comfortable pizza pub sports bar. I am bummed that they're leaving their Millersport location (near UB North) -- they're turning it over to the Wing Nutz people.

the who now? no.

Been a minute. I was gonna say 400, gas oven.

That thing must be a beast. And it must carry a robust clawback provision.

Applying your most recent language to your first edit, we have this (new language bolded): "We would like to thank Ron for his many years OF hard work and FOR HIS dedication TO the Bills and PSE," Terry Pegula said.

So they can thank him for his hard work to the Buffalo Bills?

I don't know much about this Ron Raccuia as a dude. I am familiar with another Ron Raccuia - his dad. It is of course folly to hold the son responsible for the father's sins. That said, I was surprised when young Ron parlayed (ha) his Adpro company into a pathway to the top of the PSE org chart. My gut sense at the time was that Raccuia would be, as you say, a bad fit with the Pegulas. I don't get the sense that this is a true parting of the ways. I infer that the guy was fired. Past being prelude, we will hear nothing from him about the matter. No idea. I was just spitballing. If he's that age, yeah, you'd think his kids would be in or around their 20s.