That Aud Smell

That's how I've always done it. But it doesn't work for me anymore. The giphy-sourced .gifs seem to be the issue. EDIT: When I try to paste in one of those gifs into the Image option, that's the result I get. Ahh, but this .gif from a non-giphy source will post for me. Must be something about the giphy platform.

And asking the players for theirs. Which is cool.

^ I trust McCoy was your top pick. I stand by those core rules of FFB. One of them: Never sit your studs. Never. The other one I always try to keep in mind: No one cares about your FFB team.* *I mean that for situations other than ones like this one where you're posting a request for feedback, advice. What I work to avoid is telling tales that are ONLY of interest to me (and maybe people in my leagues) about how ... "holy cow, that one garbage time TD after 7:00 pm on a Sunday was HILARIOUS. My buddy Stewart lost his mind on that one because he thought he had the game won." No one cares. No one.

Unfortunately, I think that's the issue.

Fair. As I think you know, I don't care for the vision or vibe of much of what PSE does on the creative side of things. They just lack the things I enjoy about modern internet-based humour -- things like irony and self-awareness. Damn. Death by Curmudgeon-bludgeon. Seriously, though. I did this without incident for years. Now, it doesn't work for me.

^ Man. How'd that guy live so long? EDIT: I swear to God - that was intended for the Giants rant radio guy.

Been trying to post a confused face .gif for a few minutes, and can't. Anyone else noticed how most of the .gif's out there are now, suddenly it seems, giphy's and that they can't/won't post here?

All fair points. Again: How do you know that the current digital content editor was a friend of a friend? Fwiw, that's how a lot of hiring occurs everywhere. People often want to hire people that come endorsed and recommended as solid people, etc. I have seen some of those from time to time, and agree. Hall is quite lovely (and I mean more than "pretty" -- she has a warm and engaging manner about her) and does a good job. Where do those get posted? Twitter? I need to look out for them.

As always with mocks, I think there are too few QBs going early. I wonder: Are mocks what the writer thinks should happen or will happen? I mean: Are the the Browns really going to stand pat with Kizer?

Spot on. I actually thought the Vegas chirp of MTL was a little bit too ... something. There's a lot of imitation of the LAK Twitter going on -- much of it is quite derivative. DAMMIT. Right. And that's not a cheap knock-off of anything, as I recall. They are good. Report back when, in the midst of the season, you've eyeballed a month's worth of every team's TL. I'm only half kidding. I just went and looked at the STL Twitter. It seemed quite plain, straightforward.

Effing ow, man. Who's friend was/is he? As for the mediocre characterization, I won't disagree based on the content that is pushed. It is a big bucket of *meh*. However, that's not really the digital media editor's fault, per se. The creative people doing the hiring knew what and who they wanted -- and were either not interested in or ignorant to other, bigger, larger possibilities. Who knows. Maybe Kanalley is chomping at the bit to do some funky weird stuff. And maybe the people at PSE aren't having it. It's for reasons like this that I chirp PSE's devotion to sh1tty pop country music. The overall sense of art and creativity within that organization is unimpressive. They like stuff on the nose, not tongue in cheek.

As you can see from the reaction upthread, “Injured” in the world of pro sports fandom has a specific meaning. I think we all would do well to avoid using that term unless we have information that someone is in fact ... injured. Especially so in the case of the franchise player who did suffer an injury during camp last season. Would’ve been easy to stick to observable facts here: “Looked to me like Eichel was grimacing after his GWG because the d-man swept out his legs and he fell into the goalie.”

Who’ll have more points: Eichel or the Sabres?

The stadium subsidy chatter is enough of a tangent. No need to push ot further OT with excessive tax talk.

Unfortunately, that's not quite how betting works. It may well be that the Bills have a winning ATS record in games they've lost at home during the course of the drought. I'm not sure anyone aggregates that data -- it's probably out there somewhere. So, if you were to have bet against the Bills for all of their drought home games, you'd probably be upside down financially as well as emotionally/spiritually. EDIT: I found one site that indicates that the Bills are a 53.7% winner at home ATS since 2003. So, if you were betting against the Bills for all those games, you'd have lost more than you won.

Um. Yeah.

*Excellent* (Monty Burns voice) p.s. I could not, for the life of me, embed a .gif of this, despite a few tries.

From an interview I heard a few days ago, it sounded like Housley wants to reward him for a strong showing.

Well. If'n you say so.

Srsly. Da fook. I know chz is a mod and all, but that should be a punishable offence to lay that out there without more foundation.

All taxes can be tough to manage. But regressive taxes are the toughest.

Oy. The absolutely overwhelming majority (in fact, I've never seen reference to a paper to the contrary) of all published and analyzed data unambiguously refutes this concept. Yep. That is what it will come down to. I'm past agonizing over the morality, the fairness, the justness (?), etc. of this scenario. It is what it is. Your town/region/state pays up per the owner's demands (whatever those may be), or the team leaves. Just ask Oakland or, maybe to a lesser degree, St. Louis. Granted, we seem to have a better owner than the ones involved in the Rams and Raiders situations, but ... even so. That's true. That's not really part of equation. It's a simple proposition: Pay up, or say goodbye. The promise of ancillary benefits and development is little more than a fiction. The best Erie County can hope for is (1) a reasonable demand from the Pegulas and (2) a lotta money from NYS.

Fair, true, and accurate points. Which brings me back around to my antipathy for the NFL -- what it is and what it seeks to be. There's no actual economic benefit in the deal for anyone (other than the team and league) -- it's just that warm and fuzzy (I guess?) feeling you get from having your team in town. Blechk. No thanks. I'd sooner move on with my life rather than strike that sort of bargain. But I also know that I'm in a distinct minority on that score. Also, not for nothing, but the "everyone" you reference above is most likely going to be people outside of the 8 counties of WNY. The Pegulas will be looking for NYS money. I'll be curious to see how that plays out. These things are also true. I also think that this is an area of operations where his skill set is a good fit. I just don't like or trust the guy, with regard to the Bills or much of anything else. So I'd much rather see him gone before a big, big decision or set of decisions needs to be made. A guy can dream, after all.

^ That would be entirely consistent with what I'd expect the numbers were/are.

If I have to choose, I want the latter. Because that means he ripped it up this season.