PASabreFan

Speaking of the stroke of midnight... whenever Woody replies to me.

Only with a dx of anxiety, depression or pain, so obv it's only a few who can benefit. Fine. I'm in a furry outfit and will be out back of Bud's Buzz Hut in Killbuck tonight.

I propose on this evening before the start of the season, we all assume a different posting identity. No name changes, please! But from now until midnight, try your hand at a different posting style or outlook on the team. Candy checks, pumpkin smashing and same old same old SabreSpace can commence/recommence at the stroke of midnight.

I feel like this could be a separate thread. If the players are owning the drought and the responsibility to end it, that's a huge shift and a great sign.

So you double down on insulting a good fan like John? I'm certain he would rather see the Sabres win.

The tire pumpers are in midseason form. So the rest of the season will be sold out?

They're not that cheap. Yet.

See also 2005-2006. I think you are spot on. The next season felt so different. Man, we are due for another breakout year. So NFL decision? Seriously, it has to be tough on the quarterback especially.

Were you surprised the offense rallied to tie the game only to allow NE to come right back and win? Yes. I would not be surprised if they even contributed to how poorly the Bills played. Jarring. Dumb.

I can't believe there's anyone left defending Terry Pegula. It doesn't add up!

Why wait to say it... one of the great tragedies of Buffalo sports will be the Bills wasting Josh Allen. The D continues to suck.

The NFL needs to make it harder to make kicks.

Yeah, we all saw it. The day of the PowerPoint.

How is it naive to say that the mission of the franchise is to win a championship? What was and remains naive is Terry's belief that he can be the POHO of achieving that mission without hiring good hockey people and letting them decide how best to do it. On second thought, scratch the "remains." It pretty clearly is no longer the mission of the franchise.

That escalated slowly.

I've wondered if the Sabres also have something on file, thought of as the team foundered and Rick got up in years. Fwiw, Rick was always bad at the fake play by play stuff. The 75 vs. 99 game was OK tho.

AI Rick 1.0 would already be better. What I'm intrigued by is AI Rick 5.0, when the inflections, the rhythms, the pauses, the vocabulary, the creativity are perfected.

It occurred to me that it won't be long before an AI Rick could call Sabres games and be a reasonable facsimile if not indistinguishable from the real deal. Would you want to have an AI Rick?

Rick didn't. At least he didn't say it the way Dom said it. Should that be the determining factor? One of Schopp's dumber takes was that pronouncing names phonetically is acceptable vs. player preference. It's HAWsheck, btw.

"Starting today" was a lie?

Hardly anyone pronounced Dom's last name right.

Ticket sales 60 million. Napkin math. Low confidence I am even close lol.

I'm hung up on the word made. Made implies profit to me. I think it refers to revenues tho.

Hell is a naughty word, so...

PA got a police escort to the stadium. Lights and siren (whoopwhoops not woowoowoowoos).