That Aud Smell

wth is going on here, man. you a PR flack or sum?

It might just be the days getting longer and the recent thaw, but I'm enjoying watching the Sabres play well - even if the odds of them getting into the playoff mix are so remote. I'll dissent from one consensus I see upthread: Samuelsson remains a boat anchor for whomever he's paired with. I started counting poor decisions and/or poor execution on his part and then just stopped -- too many to track -- especially so when things got dicey late in the third.

Sabres rolling to start the 3rd.

"every consequential moment. you always think they're gonna live forever, right? but they're not. nothing will. and that's okay. it's good. you're a winner if you feel it. you're a winner if you see it. somewhere along the way, if you see it -- for a second. and you don't have to remember forever. you never will. but if you see it for a second, man. you've won." https://www.instagram.com/reel/DGTWtQxuY6E/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA== Further to my post above. Give the clip a watch. I love this young man's artistry (though he's probably not as young as I'd imagine). And, since I'm here, here's the song he's talking about. Buffalo forever.

This is a challenging thought project.

"Mike Ramsey style" for the old(er) timers. Also - are there many players who regularly block shots that way anymore? Ramsey was infamous for it. I commend you to that Reddit discussion I linked upthread. I think it's a fascinating discussion to have and there's a lot of nuance to it. It also appears to be an open question among the #fancystats crowd - at least as far as I can tell so far. Which is also fascinating in its own right. As Dom Hasek used to absolutely screech from his crease "I MUST SEE! I MUST SEE!" (I think there was a TV ad that got made that riffed on that habit of his? If memory serves, the ad featured him yelling that ... in a way that worked for the ad? It was not an ad for an optical store -- but you get the idea.) haha - there it is!

BC's inability to win that goddamned tournament is maddening.

that 4-year humanities degree continues to pay dividends, i tell ya. actually, as i think about it, it was a girlfriend from my college days who educated me to the concept. she was trained in classical music and explained how to recognize leitmotifs in a composition. years later, i recalled that teaching as the kids dove into the harry potter movies (the scores from those films are brilliant with leitmotifs for certain characters (hagrid, for example), places (the hogwarts castles), abstract concepts (harry's yearning for his parents)).

Seems like he was a leitmotif nonetheless.

i found a considered discussion of the issue in a 9 year old reddit thread.

Don't give up, man. The apparent dearth of analysis on this issue is ... weird.

God I hope so.

We're still waiting on someone linking to a good article or post that addresses how #fancystats views blocked shots. I Googled around a bit, but didn't readily find anything.

You say that now ...

As explained to me by one of my kids: "A minor" can be played on the piano with only white keys. So, in addition to being a reference to Drake's preference for underaged girls, Kendrick is dissing Drake for being far more white than black. Clever business.

And GAH - yes of course now Goonies as well.

Such a good scene! He is absolutely brilliant, as you say. I just don't catalog movie information like that - not anymore anyway. Holy smokes - I do recall The Fugitive role. I still need to watch that show.

Remember that scene in The Matrix where the guy who's betraying the rebel squad is eating a steak that he knows isn't real? Sometimes it's a bit like that. Not entirely. But a bit. Lol - not quite? I didn't know that'd stick in your craw. Sorry, man.

I'm a big fan of rap and hip-hop. I don't have an ear for Kendrick. That said, the 20-somethings in my life were losing their ever loving minds. So - I reckon it wasn't for me.

it’s a fair question. what do the fancy stat people say about blocked shots?

there’s our guy.

I am sure he is. But he doesn't - as far as I know? - have the right to emblazon his merch with Bills trademarks, does he? The details of the Bills acquiring #BillsMafia "from him" remain murky to me.