MattPie

Tage Thompson goes one on one with a Florida defender?

Same really. I'm sure it's party BecauseBuffalo, there's no way we're allowed to have something that nice and not break it.

I kinda feel the same way. Unless LGR was parading around saying he never doubted Allen or the Bills, there are plenty of people in this thread that have since admitted they were wrong after seeing the result. I expect you'll continue doing these for all those people. You can start with me, I didn't like the Allen pick and I'm sure there are some posts here that show that.

The breakfast sausage patties are pretty good too. Not quite as good as pork, but meat isn't really the star of any sausage.

This. The Sabres of the last several years have made it easy to just not watch hockey.

Real question is whether Houser's hockey name is "Doogie" or "Doogsie". I think that'll go a long way in determining his future with the team.

Oops, though this might be serious so I did the math; to get to 96 points and have a really good shot at the playoffs, 1.53 points per game so 7-8 wins per 10 games. I'd say if the Sabres picked up 49 points (~0.6 ppg) and hit a nice even 82 points this season, that'd be great news. They'd be on a playoff pace and hopefully have similar results next year. That's unlikely given roster turnover at the deadline and other teams getting desperate I suppose.

Looking like Bar Bill there.

It's airborne now, so capable to reaching that height.

I worked with a guy that refused to go out to lunch at one place because they had Hunt's and not Heinz. I eat very little ketchup these days, so I'm not sure I could tell the difference. We might have some Wegman's Organic in the fridge from the summer; MsPie likes it on the Beyond burgers, I much prefer BBQ sauce in just about every situation ketchup applies.

I think "hitting top to bottom" too much to ask for. The draft is still fraught with peril, but going from 30% success to 40% success means one more player every other year or something, which doesn't sound like much but means that you become a team that has players pushing to get into the NHL, which makes trade capital to fill in holes where they come up.

A lot of people in WNY don't need no internet, da yellow pages is right dere yaknow. Also, had someone give me a 7-digit phone number here in Ithaca yesterday; I forgot people did that. I've lived in areas that have multiple overlay area codes for a long time. Related Complaint: back when I used to ride around a lot (especially pre-smartphone), I'd be on a trip and see an advertisement for something useful with a 7-digit phone number. No idea what area code I was in, so couldn't even call if I wanted.

+10 on that, I'm a young (or emotionally stunted) 45. Microsoft Word did what a string of English teachers couldn't: taught me how to use a semi-colon. 🙂 If you want to go down the rabbit-hole, there's an article linked from my previous about "Logical Punctuation". I tend to use it (contrary to American style) based on doing IT/code/etc. work since I was little, good to know it's a legitimate controversy rather than me just being a jerk. https://slate.com/human-interest/2011/05/logical-punctuation-should-we-start-placing-commas-outside-quotation-marks.html

Meh, that was going around several years ago (probably 10). I adapted pretty quickly somehow, and I don't even think about it. Interesting that it's coming back around as "new" and "cancel". Who knows, this may be the article I read back then, not sure: https://slate.com/technology/2011/01/two-spaces-after-a-period-why-you-should-never-ever-do-it.html TL;DR: it was a product of monospace font typewriters in, mostly in the 1950-1980 period before computers came along. Before and after, typographers (people who lay out printed stuff) used proportional fonts (like nearly all computer fonts are now) and it wasn't needed. The various style guides agree on one space, so that's good enough for me.

I doubt you'd be alone. My economics 101 class taught me doubling the price will not double revenue unless the demand is inelastic. The demand for beer and nachos at a Bills game is fairly elastic, people we either pregame more or just skip that second (or fourth through eighth) beer; your revenue ends up roughly in the same place or some moderate gain. Ticket demand, being a constrained resource, are probably inelastic; as long as the Bills are good people will sell the place out.

Jaro Halak.

Data Engineers (as I understand the ones on my team) generally bring in data and clean/process/etc it from whatever format and weirdness it started into something you can use to train models, as well as merge it in with other data. Plus maintain the data set history, etc. Someone above mentioned garbage in, garbage out, and this is taking the raw data and making sure it makes sense. Depend on the job environment, that might extend to other adjacent roles, like developing models and whatnot (which seems to be the case based on that rpubs link above, seems like Mr Barlowe doesn't just massage the data).

Disclaimer: I know nothing of Buffalo restaurants and whatnot; I've been to Salvatore's once or twice a couple decades ago My guess are the ads are aimed at getting middle-class-, middle-age+ men to remember that the place exists for when it's "time to get gussied up and go somewhere fancy", so they're probably doing their job. I'd guess that people in Buffalo that *frequent* upscale restaurants know all the options and their pros and cons already. On the topic of Salvatore's (the original one), it always struck me as what a poor or middle-class person's idea of what a fancy restaurant looks like. Maybe my time being a coastal elite (lol) has made me jaded, but the few really upscale places I've been to were very understated in comparison.

Surprisingly few players with only one game, most of all Joel Armia. Did he really only play one game with the Sabres? And I never got to use my "Armia: One" joke when he scored.

Mark Astley, never gonna give you up. (Only reason I remember him is whatever NHL9x game I had at the time had him on the starting lineup for quick games)

While that looks good on paper, have you ever had some part of your life that just isn't worth the financial gain? For me, it was moving and trying to sell things. In the end, giving stuff away for free was so much easier[0] that while having a bit more cash would be nice the annoyance of it wasn't worth it. It's possible Pegulas are there too, they're sick of running a crappy team (their own part in that to be debated) so they'd rather just sell it or give control away so they don't have to think about it. [0] I'm not talking about high-value items here

What a child.