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Ah, quite so. I was imprecise. So, maybe .01 in the black? What I really meant was “thou shalt lose no money” — the sort of edict pursuant to which an as*hole boss keeps his reports in an uncomfortably warm 45 minute silence until someone offers to pay him for the unanticipated $250K bonus incurred during a Cup run season. Also, I think you’re being pedantic and obtuse.

That looks fun. The NFL will presumably be learning a lesson from European soccer, where clubs with long histories tweak their main uniforms every year and come up with entirely new alternates/thirds every year as well. It’s like printing money.

I’m just confused now.

I’m going inferential again. We’ve got his story about what a monstrous d1ck ge was to senior management. I’m imagining how he likely spoke about that matter to those who reported to him.

Wtf is with Gaudreau going to Columbus on a discount?

Obnoxious.

“According to Tom” = expressed by Tom in a spitting vein popping rage?

Inferentially: This seems like more good news regarding KP’s health.

So Golisano’s bag man and water carrier is also on record. No one’s on record with the story that there was a deal in principle in the fall, that Golisano balked because of the price, and then the price went up because Drury lit it up and there was an infusion of money. In terms of known facts: Do we accept as fact that Golisano demanded the team operate in the black, that he was extremely cost conscious, and that he was at times a cruel as1hole to his direct reports? (The latter assertion is my inference from his own story about an unaccounted for bonus (250K?!) and a 45 minute silent treatment in his warm sunroom that didn’t end until Darcy said he’d pay the bonus back to his boss. (Btw - query whether that’d even be legal - to have an employee pay the company back for an error/omission in the course of their duties. The analysis might be peculiar when it’s a key employee with a detailed contract. Whatever. What an as1hole that guy is.)

Also - who else is likely to go on record about this? Sourced information is in play, imo.

Larry Quinn, possibly?

I’ve read PA’s suggestions that the franchise should jettison a long-tenured equipment manager and a longtime anthem singer — in the interest of purging bad juju (?) — maybe PA sees our continued discussion of 7/1/07 as being bad karma (?).

Daddy issues?

Lots of people care. This is our team. This is its history. 7/1/07 is a day that lives in infamy. This will always be discussed and debated among those who remember and care. I just can’t sort out your “nothing to see here, folks — move along — better yet, stop caring” take on this.

Desire is beside the point. Why not just be analytical and make reasonable inferences from facts or putative facts?

Because you’re generally an iconoclast around here, who, among other things, consistently unloads on the bullsh-t and hypocrisy of the team’s current owners. Such BS and hypocrisy being largely part and parcel of belonging to the billionaire class. And yet with Tom G … . Like I said: Baffling.

The visual is funny. Your desire to prop up Golisano’s version of events is baffling.

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.