That Aud Smell

And if a frog had wings? Would it bump its ass a'hoppin? As a whole, I think that the fan base absolutely hoped he'd sign here. He was seen as a premier HOF-level coach who would immediately turn around a moribund franchise. And then he didn't. BOOOOO! But then he didn't cut it in Toronto. HAHA! And then he was out of the league. SEE YA! And then things got freaky deeky weird with Columbus. And he was fired before he even coached a game. COMEDY! So, no hard feelings on my end based on how things went with the Sabres. And there's plenty to laugh at, cringe at, and shake your head at based on this recent story standing alone.

Nonsense.

Oof.

I don't think how certain fans may choose to fan (e.g., some may want to temper expectations and insulate themselves from crushing disappointment) has anything to do with how the players approach their season. For my own part, and I know I've posted it here in the past, I'm a recovered fan of my favourite pro sports teams. Of all games that did it, it was a Ryan Fitzpatrick era road game against the Bengals when the Bills' unexpected success started to fall apart. I'm in it for the upside and the fun. If things take a turn for the worse -- either in a particular game or over a stretch of time -- I work to divert my energy and attention to other things. Darcy's parting Sabres mantra notwithstanding, I'm not into the suffering.

Jettisoning prospect talk to another forum? That is pretty out there, Hoss. Not @Hoss -- just, like, Hoss. There are Sabre topics that get discussed here that do not interest me. I do my best to avoid those threads.

This is true. This season, they need to be good. No qualifiers. On balance and over the course of 82 games, a good NHL team. That should be enough to get them into the playoffs. (And, I mean, they missed the playoffs by a whisker last season.)

They should be a good NHL team this season. The risks being taken with goaltending and the injury to Quinn are the only things dragging on my optimism.

I saw a screenshot of his social media reply. He was not having her apology. Shocker. He's an emotional and eccentric guy. I would not imagine that he'd laugh that off. She seems like a diligent worker and an earnest person. So, in that way, I feel bad for her. On the other hand, though, that was just a horrendous idea and terrible judgment to talk like that about one of the team's superstars when there are microphones in the room. Fwiw, I suspect that what she said is more true than not true.

I read earlier today that Musk plans to charge a subscription fee for X going forward. He says one of the main purposes of the subscription fee would be to cut down on bots. Maybe so. I suspect that embedding would be impossible if Twitter (X) ends up behind a paywall. If the subscription fee is modest (~$30 annually), I will probably subscribe. I really like that platform and don't know of any viable replacement.

When I go to that post on X (Twitter) and use X's internal tools to "copy the link" I wind up with a URL that uses x.com to share the link. No embedding results. However, if, from that same post's page, I look at the URL in my browser, I see a twitter.com address. If I copy/cut that address and paste it here, the post embeds.

A neat bit of PR. Good for the Sabres to associate the helmet sponsor with the word/field "nursing." Because who doesn't love and respect nurses? Total frontline warriors. OTOH, the sponsor here is a staffing agency that provides nurses to entities in need of them. Staffing agencies like this have many nonprofits over a barrel when it comes to getting the nurses that are needed -- a lucrative industry, I infer, since the rates these agencies charge can be budget-busters.

Also, hat tips continue for this year's draft class -- Kincaid and Torrence are both looking like they belong.

The turnaround was startling. Otoh, there's a gulf between the quality of the Jets D and the Raiders D. Otoh yet again, the Jets D didn't look too special against the Cowboys. Otoh yet again and again, there seems to be something about the Jets D that tends to confound Allen. And that's been true maybe even before Saleh arrived and the Jets had mostly different personnel on D? That big fella the Jets have in the middle is terrifying - probably the main reason that the Bills drafted Torrence.

Pffffffffffffffff. Swing and a miss, guvnah.

Hear, hear. What an incurable POS this guy is.

No bueno. Heal up, kid.

Awful story. That said: Who?!

Butchered is right. I think I know what he was going for -- something in the vein of "you kiss your mother with that mouth?" -- but, yeah. An insult that you would not repeat aloud in church is ... not saying much.

There's a significant part of any committed fan base that uses their fandom as an outlet for their frustrations, unhappiness with life in general. There's a STH who sits a few rows up and several seats over from where we sit at the stadium. The way that this guy just SCREAMS the most horrendous things about players, coaches, FO people when things aren't going the home team's way ... I just want to take him aside, give him a hug, and ask him what's really bothering him.

Because it's Babcock, first and foremost. The guy is an incurable a-hole. The players who came out and defended him appeared to have been towing a company line. Or perhaps they were personally okay with whatever it was that the HC did with their phones. There are apparently unnamed players who were not okay with what Babcock did -- taking their phones and perusing the camera roll (and DM inboxes?) for several minutes.

Has it been quoted? Is it the one where he’s suggesting that the Kaep/BLM stuff could be troweled over if the NFL could find an appropriate … black person* to serve as the face of the league on the issue? That’s how I recall hearing it. * I typed and deleted other terms here.

I recall reports of TP stepping in it - verbally - during the heat of the Kaepernick/BLM matters. Why would this surprise anyone? It would strike me as utterly ordinary for a horseshoe up his butt Boomer billionaire from Podunk, PA to say some dumb sh1t about black people agitating for civil rights. It doesn’t make him a bad person. It doesn’t mean he holds malice in his heart towards black people generally or any black person specifically (because they’re black). He’d just be a product of societal forces and norms with the potentiating force of ungodly wealth added into the mix.

I did not read this post.