That Aud Smell

Ha. Oops. I took it the other way, based on how commonplace it is and how dangerous it looks for a group of inexperienced jet skiers to be idling around a dock. VROOM! (sh1t!) WHAP!

That point is more than fair. And it reminds that I meant to ask: Is this something that a coach needs to be able to do?

That's an interesting insight @Eleven. I've done winter vacations to southern Florida over the past several years. There are jet ski rental outfits everywhere. You regularly see groups of tourists (be it a family or whatever) idling on those marine crotch rockets as they prepare to go out into open water, and it's there, in that situation, where the problems occur. Someone doesn't know how to operate the machine, and then BOOM, they've put half the machine up on a dock or whatever. ("Or whatever" apparently also refers to causing a catastrophic knee injury to a neighbouring jet ski operator.)

His management of the Twitter platform and brand has been absolutely bizarre. He may as well have taken a billion or whatever dollars - in paper money - and burned it.

Those two kick returns for touchdown notwithstanding (in that post Damar Hamlin game), Hines' biggest asset was how sure-handed he was on kick returns. The team needs someone -- not named Jordan Poyer -- who can reliably field kicks (mostly punts now (wasn't there some rule change that makes kickoff returns even less important?)). You would? Bro. They're Twitter reply guys. A total puddle dive, at best.

Yeah that's big dumb. Which is par for the course on Twitt-- ahh, I mean on "X".

One thing is for sure: TP picked a helluva time for a significant change in senior leadership. That stadium's gotta get built (and there's already a lot of squawking about how contracts are being handed out). Personal seat licenses gotta get sold (and that is gonna be TRICKY). There is an absolute sh1t ton of work ahead of the franchise. And who's TP got riding up front with him? (1) Roth. A financial planner whom he met and got to know (and like and trust) because the guy was helping the Pegulas with wealth management. No prior experience with professional sports management. (The guy does have an MIT MBA, so there's that.) (2) D'Angelo. A still somewhat junior lawyer (just shy of 40 years old by my math) who didn't get hired directly into a job right out of law school. She spent a couple years with the DA's office and then a few in private practice with a local law firm that the Bills use. The Bills hired her in 2016 to be part of the in-house legal group. (3) Josh Alphabet. A Michigan-educated CPA (who's about 42 years old). He did three years with a public accounting firm and then joined the Bills in 2007. I wish them well. We need them to succeed. As presently constituted, I don't especially like their chances. TP would do well to add a seasoned war horse. Otoh, his past experience with such hires probably tells him that those kinds of people don't add much to the mix, may not be a fit with what he's got going on, and aren't worth the money they get paid.

Former … newspaper.

There are of course many possibilities here. The simplest explanation (Occam’s razor!) is that TP decided to move on from Raccuia (because reasons), and everything else followed from there.

I figured people would be chirping him. I put any manner of beans in chili when I make it. But I know most Texans are insistent that beans have no place in chili.

Beans in a Texas chili?

Oh good - please don’t then. Sir. SIR! Yes, it is.

We cook with and eat mostly whole foods (but don’t shop there much). And I stand by my Duncan Hines brownie and Giant Eagle sheet cake takes above.

Addictive chemicals you say? *Cuckoo*

Ha. I gotchu. No such analysis needed.

I am not. I do stumble across it occasionally. I rely on this board for coverage and analysis. My issue was that he was noting those players in answering how the team would compensate for the loss of Quinn.

I like Lance well enough, but it’s difficult to take him seriously when he writes this in response to a question about how the Sabres will compensate for Quinn’s injury. Brett Murray, for one, has absolutely zero bearing on how the Sabres will fill the void left by Quinn’s injury.

Cake’s a different matter, in my experience. For whatever reason. “To each their own … but some people are idiots.”

By way of corollaries: I have found it largely impossible to improve on Duncan Hines brownies by making scratch brownies. Giant Eagle sheet cake is as good as any cake I’ve had from a mom/pop bakery. Baked goods and baking are curiously susceptible to being scaled up and even industrialized to an extent.

I trust that scratch dough made by a skilled … dough maker (?) is superior to an excellent frozen dough product. Otoh, top-end frozen dough products are *pretty* damn good. Or even if not frozen, just commercial refrigerated dough bought at wholesale.

I saw this clip and it prompted me to think of this debate. Can Granato do this, or do something like it?

The guy got fired. (That’s my sense of it anyway.)

Graham's tweets aren't based on information he got from sources. They're based on information he himself learned and possesses. So unless we're going to say that Graham's lying about the texts he would get from Raccuia about AdPro, the weirdness persists (and grows).

Today's report is that the Pegulas sold AdPro to Legends. https://buffalonews.com/sports/bills/pegula-family-sells-adpro-sports-to-legends/article_8d618b94-27f7-11ee-b530-b3fb90df22f3.html#tracking-source=home-top-story Graham tweeted yesterday about how - whenever he reported that PSE owned AdPro - Raccuia would send him a stern text about how Raccuia still owned it. Today's report makes Raccuia's reported behaviour even weirder. I dunno. I'm sensing something off about that guy or perhaps just that relationship. Oh, and the report makes clear that Raccuia's not going to Legends either. ADPRO was founded by Ron Raccuia, who was also the Bills' executive vice president and chief operating officer until parting ways with the team Wednesday. Raccuia sold a majority share of ADPRO to Kim Pegula and her three children, Jessica, Kelly and Matthew, in 2017. He remained a minority shareholder and president of the company, and with the acquisition by Legends, is leaving ADPRO.

Bengals. Eagles. 49ers. I was going to nominate the Chargers, but it's tough to put them top-5 with the Chiefs in their division.