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I do peddle in the truth, and how it gets shaded, massaged, enhanced … okay, I’ll stop. Golisano doesn’t need a reason to lie in order to remember things in a self-serving way. He just needs to be human. And the tendency to self-serve with memory is stronger when you’re a rich as*hole. Also, you argue at cross purposes when you say Golisano would have no clear memory of the fallout of 7/1/07. It’s even more difficult to be truthful when you don’t have a clear memory — some would say damn near impossible. Fair! Sometimes better to be lucky than good.

You evidently have a bizarre (or maybe no) understanding of how "the truth" works when pushed through the sausage grinder of an individual's ego and subjectivity. Even wonkier still when we add in the passage of time.

By all accounts and by his own words, Golisano is/was a monstrous as*hole. He was also an enormously effective and successful (and, yes, imperfect) owner of my favourite hockey team.

How’d you get the strike through text? I’d thought it was gone.

Pipeline needs.

The 2nd round goalie thread gets more chatter than the threads for each of the 3 1st rounders. This team needs a 1A goalie.

You say that because of all the film you’ve watched in the kid? Who pissed in your cheerios? I’ll take that action.

per @inkman, Hamilton said we need size. j/k - i like the sound of the pick.

That OTT-CHI trade somehow seems bad for both clubs ... unless the player is extending his contract with OTT.

How's that not being nice? I agree with what you've said. As a cis normative heterosexual fella, I also dig how they dress in leather (?) pants and bras for their shows. Also, the sister who plays bass makes the best bass faces I've ever seen.

They were great - lots of fun. You are unlikely to get a Jerry Korab reference, though. But I'm betting they'll be prepared with some local in-jokes. EXTREME BASS FACE! Ngl - I have been digging the footage of those girls in their matching leather concert costumes.

nah man - this ain't it.

I am confusion.

that letang deal seems ... like a lot. isn't he old?

WHY IS TOMMER NEKKID - DID THEY JUST GET FINISHED MAKING THE BABY AND THEN IT WAS BORN?

Another thought: Maybe he only wants to go somewhere where the team plays a "low event" style that will enable him to rehabilitate his reputation, future value. He might look at Buffalo's open ice style and young roster, and think "no thanks."

I was at the Barenaked Ladies' show at Artpark this week. Toad the Wet Sprocket and Gin Blossoms were on the bill as well. I've always enjoyed BNL's music and especially their shows - that's with Steven Page and without. As to the latter, I have come to appreciate that the guys are true professionals - they deliver the goods. A fun wrinkle for Buffalo-area shows is how familiar they all are with cultural references that are peculiar to WNY. Among other things, they clearly grew up watching our local ABC affiliate (they drop many references to and even do impersonations of Irv Weinstein, Commander Tom, @PromoTheRobot). At the end of the show, the BNL drummer (Tyler Stewart) got out from behind the kit and did lead vocals on a medley of covers (with Ed going on drums). Fun stuff. At the conclusion of the songs - they're just grooving along to a cover of Zeppelin's Whole Lotta Love - Stewart enthusiastically introduced the members of the band, and when it came back around to himself, he bellowed: "MY NAME! ... IS JERRRRRRY KORRRRAB!" 🤘 It was epic.

is he really saying that? weird.

swing and a miss by weekes.

personal reasons could be a factor - who knows.

I recall reports - fwiw - that Beane would have preferred Darnold to Allen, but he wasn't getting up into the top-3 in order to get him. So they resolved to move up from 12 and choose Allen ahead of some other QB-needy team (Arizona, iirc). Accepting that as true: It's funny how random success can be in pro sports. OTOH, if Darnold had come into the McBeane-led Bills, maybe things go very differently for him. Maybe? (Who cares.) Also, it never gets old to shoutout Jeremy White's pre-draft devotion to Josh Rosen. What an absolutely brutal take for someone in the takery business. Allen and Jackson as the successful QB's from 2018 seem to confirm: Don't play it safe. Go get the guy with the upside.

had the same thought. i think they're okay - but, yeah. can't be too careful nowadays.

yeah - i think "linked" is almost always 100% agent-driven, and intended to pump up a client's market value.

Drafting a Russian at #9 would sure be something. But hey - this franchise has an excellent track record with acquiring the rights to highly talented Russians who are presumably unable to play in North America.

The news gets a solid *meh* from me. I'd imagine that the station and team want the show to be distanced from the brand that the former hosts had developed.