MattPie

GBiD: Y'all best stay down there in Dallas for a bit.

He's on waivers yesterday, has he passed yet? When do the $125 waivers or buyout start?

Try the kale and quinoa patties from the Wegmans deli case, they're pretty good!

I find this lack of Leino news... disturbing.

The only caveat is if he immediately trades for a center, but I doubt anyone is going to give up a prospect of Bennet/Reinhart/etc. caliber in a trade.

I heard on NPR last night a story about Univision's coverage of the World Cup. (Side note: I'm mad at myself that I didn't think to check Univision to watch games since I get it on my antenna (but not ABC)). Anyways, during a match involving Costa Rico, the Univision announcers were calling the one Afro-Costa Rican player the Spanish equivalent of "the black guy" or referencing his dreds, "the hair guy". "Ruiz passes back to the black guy, back to Ruiz, to Cubero, to Mr. Hair". :doh:

Yep, lots of good UFAs will be banging down the Sabres door to go 20-52-10 next year. Hopefully, they'll all take overpaid short-term contracts so we can dump them when the team gets good. In reality, the only way the Sabres are going to attract players is overpay them in both money and years. Not many players are going to sign up to "The Sabres should be good in a couple years just when my contract is running out" vs. "The Rangers have a shot next year" or "The Pens are retooling a bit for a few more runs before Crosby/Malkin are too old/broken". Paying extra sounds fine now because we have cap space, but I'll be pretty pissed if we have Hecht or Leino-like albatross contracts hanging around when these promising draft picks are looking for their next contracts. (I didn't mind Hecht, just not for the money he was getting paid)

Meeting one: "we're buying out Leino." "Yeah, it hasn't been good. Have you called around to see if anyone wants him?" ".... Not.. really..." "OK, tell you what: make a few calls and if by tomorrow nothing turns up, cut him lose." Meeting two: "Yeah, I got nothing." "OK, cut him lose. It's only money."

I'll just leave this here: http://msn.foxsports.com/buzzer/story/ryan-fitzpatrick-named-texans-starting-quarterback-061714?cmpid=tsmtw%3Afscom%3Anflonfox

Sure, and next you'll tell me he can't play center either.

So where does the line get drawn? If the accused detained is a citizen? If the crime happens on US soil? What if the crime happens on a slippery slope? This country was built on the premise that you couldn't throw people into a hole and forget about them for any reason. The deny any person that fundamental human right goes against everything we are.

I REFUSE TO BELIEVE THEY'D JUST GIVE UP ON HIM!

I think he means that (unlikely as it may be), someone might actually trade something for Leino. I can't really imagine it, but maybe a low pick or a different albatross contract for Leino. But, it's due diligence to make a few calls and find out.

But from the sounds of it, Callahan is looking for something more like $6M+/6+ yrs. That's too much and too long.

William the Conqueror might make an exception too (or do Normans not count)?

Personally, I like Bulleit Bourbon and Rye, and they're not too expensive either. Scotch is a bit tougher, since there's a huge variation between basic blended stuff (Dewars, Chivas) and single-malt (MacCallan, Lavulgin (SP)).

I'm guessing this is all on cable, right? ANything on broadcast TV? EDIT: ah, there are a few games on weekend afternoons that are on ABC. Which my antenna doesn't pick up (and I'm not going to carve out time from my weekend to watch somewhere else). Ah well.

You're right that it's all a gamble, but gambling with what will be at least 10% of of your cap space (in the worst case, and if the cap is $100M by then) is a pretty big gamble.

He easily could. Or he could have a series of knee injuries (a la Drury) and call it quits at 34. That could happen here, but the Sabres could at least convince him (hopefully) to play it out on LITR (like Pronger) and not kill the teams cap. Another team may not give him the option or actively encourage him to retire to screw the Sabres. I'm in the keep him or buy out, but not trade camp.

I messed my thumb up over the winter (luckily it didn't make me any worse at volleyball since I rarely set), but I still don't have (and probably will never have) the same flexibility in it that I used to. You might want to get it looked at.

I think there's a certain lobby that would flip out "Obama is trying to take guns away" regardless of who was holding them. Semi-automatic (I think) covers almost every handgun since the Single-action Colt (mid-1800s) and a lot of shotguns. I don't see that as a problem, unless people are afraid of the word "automatic". Unless there's a subtlety in there I don't know about (and I'm not a gun person), semi-automatic is one trigger pull, one shot.

Don't tell Sabres Fan in NS that, his head will swell up. :) (he's ahead of the curve partially because Ehlers places for his local QMJHL team, and he's a giant homer! :) :))

Oops, got 2014 and 2015 mixed up, my bad. I guess it'd be the Sabres 2nd rounder (#31). In any case, I don't think I'd make the trade as a Sabre, but it would be temping for EDM.

I don't think I agree with that one, the Captain is even less likely to see something or have access to a replay. How many times do we see players motion that a goal was scored with a kick or high stick when the replay shows it clearly wasn't. I doubt coaches want to blow their only time-out on that.

Well, if I'm Edmonton, the conversation starts with one of Buffalo's defensemen. Ehrhoff? Probably although I doubt EDM takes him straight up. You'd probably have to do something like Ehrhoff and Myers/Pysyk for #3 and maybe a young forward prospect. I might make that trade. EDIT: need to add the Buffalo pick in the 20s too.