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  1. That Aud Smell
    I agree wholeheartedly with the first paragraph above. Good Lord, I'd welcome the thread's return for that reason alone. (I have no interest in political talk on this board, and so would welcome the ability to say "hey - take that stuff to the politics thread.") On the second paragraph, the reality is that a few (two? one?) select OT subjects are uniquely divisive. I understood the mods' decision to try to manage the issue by eliminating the subject. I just don't think it's a realistic way of trying to manage the issue.
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    Sure. That works too. Listen: I have no issue with the desire for political talk on this board. But I also know the rules. And I want my Bills thread re-opened. This is fine by me. I stepped foot in the politics thread once, maybe twice, in my entire time on the board. I avoided it like the goddamned plague. My sense: Those who want to talk politics on this board find value in that thread being open to all comers, even if it's dominated by a handful of devoted posters.
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    The hell is going on. Re-open the goddamned Bills thread, please. And to those who got it shut down: Govern yourselves.
  4. That Aud Smell
    This belongs here, too. Greg Brady Tweeted: That’s that for Tavares w/ the Isles. Have heard from far too many connected people that the only way JT was staying was a reaffirmed commitment to Weight as head coach. Isles will attempt to trade his rights before July 1.
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    From a guy named Greg Brady: That’s that for Tavares w/ the Isles. Have heard from far too many connected people that the only way JT was staying was a reaffirmed commitment to Weight as head coach. Isles will attempt to trade his rights before July 1. Hmmm.
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    to include, maybe, the nature of Lou's departure from Toronto? I am a little curious: If you were the Leafs, could you not figure out a way to pay Lou not to work for the next 2 months, so that he's not with another franchise maybe making use of intell that your franchise developed regarding the draft?
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    appears so
  8. That Aud Smell
    Holy sh1tballs.
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    You may have seen me post to the effect that we spent an overnight -- a game night, as it turned out -- in Las Vegas in early April in connection with travels elsewhere. We stayed in the hotel that's basically connected to the arena. We were totally wow'd and charmed by the vibe, energy, and spirit surrounding the arena, the game, and so on.
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    It'd be ... it'd be funking stooopid if he legit chose to leave strictly because the Bills chose Allen and he'd said he'd quit if that came to pass with Mayfield or Rosen still on the board. There's gotta be more at play. The most likely factor being that he was strongly considering a move anyway, for whatever reason(s).
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    i'm usually one who's apt to get exercised about bad hits -- but that one didn't seem awful. a penalty, for sure. maybe it was the angle?
  12. That Aud Smell
    Skinner as a major piece in a deal for ROR? Blechk. Was Hanifin drafted in Eichel's year? He should, in time, become a good top-4 d-man.
  13. That Aud Smell
    ^ @BradleyGelber May 2 Replying to @HarrisonBacon 11+6=17. 17 year playoff drought ended. During the '17 season. Josh Allen selected (rd) 1 (#) 7. Will wear number 17. ++ And that is to say nothing of the significance of the #11 for Buffalo sports -- the Perreault lottery and number, Norwood's number.
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    ^ Read something else and saw that Fleury hasn't been bad, per se, but the Capitals are getting really, really high percentage chances. But, whatever. Fleury and the Knights were riding his ridiculous SV% during the playoffs. There was a good chance it would regress. And it has.
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    Did not watch the game, but saw the SV%. Fleury's been ... not good during the SCF.
  16. That Aud Smell
    Preach.
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    It's a fun story, on several levels. And then it gets even more fun and weird when you hear that the error got permanently fixed at one point (removed his name entirely), only to have the league be like, "nah, man -- put that old codger's name BACK on that band of silver and X THAT SH1T OUT ALL OVER AGAIN."
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    My favourite Cup snafu is how Basil Pocklington's name is X'd out (on the original - not the replica). There's a story about how the band of silver that had the elder Pocklington's name on it had to be re-made at one point, but it was re-made omitting his name entirely. The league (or the Cup's owners?) insisted that it be re-made *again* so that Pocklington's name was there and X'd out yet again.
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    Amazing.
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    Also: Buffet didn’t get rich by squandering assets.
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    You keep referencing him. The people who run TBN report to Buffet. They want good numbers and good news (ha) to report to him. Those are the folks I have on mind.
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    The principal observation is that TBN has, of late, become weirdly solicitous of local business interests (including the biggest “business interest,” the Empire State Development Corp. (Cuomo)). The principal theory, that I floated, is that TBN’s solicitousness of business interests extends to PSE. The further flung theory is that TBN may even be trying to stay cool with PSE so as to ensure a role or voice in downtown stadium development. I’m no tinfoil hat jabroni. I think that last piece is plausible.
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    Smart move by JBOT. (Am I doing this right?)
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    No idea. I'll admit that it's a little out there, as theories go, but it's far from wackadoo, imo. I've been saying it for a while (and I'm hardly alone): There's something genuinely weird going on at TBN.
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    Or, as was just floated by someone on the Twitter, maybe TBN wants to be well positioned to sell their land when PSE comes looking for a downtown stadium site.
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