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In some places, yes, that isn't considered normal. (And be cause I grew up in WNY, I consider them not normal, those teatotaling weirdos). But there are lots of places where it's completely normal. Example: Wisconsin. #1 in DUI (###### yeah!). Great Lakes cities are hard drinkin', hard livin' towns, but it extends beyond the lakes into the upper midwest. The Dakotas, Iowa, Wisconsin, Minnesota, etc all lead in binge drinking studies.

Stephen Colbert, from "The Colbert Report," is leaving to take over for Letterman. Colbert will be replaced by Larry Wilmore, who will host "The Minority Report."

According to section 49.3(d) of the CBA, teams that have gate receipts less than 75% of the league average are eligible for revenue sharing, as subject by the Revenue Sharing Oversight Comittee. Clubs that are eligible must submit a business plan to the RSOC, and funds are subject to plan approval and successful execution of the plans. According to Forbes, Sabres are 20th in revenue. The total gate receipts for the NHL are $906M, averaging $30.2M. Sabres gate receipts are $22M, 72.8% of the league average. That makes us eligible for revenue sharing, but those funds are subject to providing RSOC with a plan ans successfully executing that plan. Hence the Sabres' ticket price increase. Note that gate receipt increases trail ticket price increases by about 1%, so the Sabres effectively have planned to increase ticket prices 4%, expecting a gate receipt increase of 3%. This plan, added to the 72.8%, safely meets the required 75%. Within 1%, they're executing the plan that RSOC required of them to be eligible for revenue sharing. I couldn't find the revenue sharing amounts, but it's definitely more than the planned ($22M x 3%) $0.66M increase of the gate receipts. And the season ticket holders, who pay for much of the increase in ticket prices, are getting rebates in SabreBucks to the tune of 6.5%, which by my math is probably between $1M and $1.5M, more than the actual increase in gate receipts. I think it's a good circumvention of the CBA: increase the gate receipts to appease the league and remain eligible for revenue sharing and give the money back in rebates to season ticket holders. The only downsides are that only STH's are benefitted and rebate are only in SabreBucks.

It was meant to sound like that. It was more so a play on words because he was suspended for a game for a groin kick.

Believeable. Glad he's getting his shot.

This is what I see. Seems like a good RB that just didn't get playing time. Should grow into a good role if/when FJ leaves/is carted off.

This pick kicks nuts.

Interesting angle. We take the money to keep it out of the mitts of other franchises.

Haha, the board's starting to crap out, presumably because the TBD tire fire just went critical with news of Johnson's trading.

As am I, because, like so-and-so's mother, we have holes to fill. I welcome this unfamiliar sense of urgency.

Ok. Good. There's so many of those toilet bowl collars pictured at the online retailers (especially NFL.com) that I don't know what to Billieve any more.

Are we going back to the stupid collars? What's the story?

Welcome BYU laureate! Just kidding. The only time I've ralphed on myself was when the only choice was either to do it on me or a random stranger, and I'm just not that kind of person.

So I've pretty much paid no attention to draft hype. Therefore my question is one born from both ignorance and bliss. I estimate that the Bills really need some help on either offensive or defensive lines in the form of first-round talent. That may or may not be true. In any case, is it at all in the cards that the Bills trade up to a high draft position (I'm guessing top five, probably top three required) and then instead of taking a lineman or other high-priority need, they select Khalil Mack? Would that be stupid and and wasteful of a high pick (and assets used to acquire that pick)?

Lookin' to be told twice!

Huh. Maybe the sign of a long-term deal with Miller? Especially now that Corsi's out with Buffalo, Corsi could be headed to St Louis too. Or maybe just Hitchcock shuffling guys around for his extension.

Weird ###### happens when you're drunk and covered with vomit.

After loving the Lagavulin 16, my first (Is)lay, I picked up bottles of Ardbeg Uigeadail and Laphroaig 10. It'll be my first bottles of each, though I seem to remember tasting Laphroaig about a decade ago with a novice tongue. Definitely looking forward to these. Yeah. Scotch and laundry tonight.

Maybe a goalie will fix their never-ending goalie problems? Nah.

Cup holders on the pissers. Which is funny to me. But also half-serious. We've improved a lot of game-night things. More/better digital display rings around the arena. More concession staff (read: more beer kiosks on the 300 level with shorter lines). Then there's Harbor Center, which gives us more parking options, another bar to watch games downtown, a donut shop that I hope to god is open until bar time for drunken donut revelry. Oh, and the hockey rinks, which bring their own enormous slew of benefits. I think the television broadcast improved substantially (despite RJ calling fewer games for obvious, well thought-out reasons). We have better alumni relations- he flew alumni from around the continent (world?) into Buffalo for alumni night. These resources improve the franchise, and since his ownership began, the franchise has improved. Just not the product on the ice. I'm well aware of how important winning the Cup is, and like many, I'd throw all that other stuff down the toilet to win the Cup. But the things accomplished off-ice so far are quite nice and only getting nicer. And as LTS said, this franchise is much more financially stable than it was. And the future of the Sabres is firmly cemented in the City of Buffalo. Which is nice. The Bills' uncertainty cats an enormous looming shadow on the franchise from a fan's perspective. As a franchise, we are poised destine for greatness. We just have so far to go on the ice, that's it's hard to see. Nice.

Jesus, it's like Sherman's March to the Sea, but with hockey. And tanks.

More back-to-backs? I guess it doesn't matter (maybe it helps?) when you're tanking.

Oh, don't worry. There's an all new repetitive narrative. Much more imaginative than those.

All hail the Leader of the Resistance, Jenny McCarthy.

Let's not forget Chz's best-ever Tyler Ennis avatar.