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@LGR4GMcan you translate please? You speak meme. It looks like a puffin, which means it's not that tasty despite what it might say on your menu in Iceland, and other than that, I have no idea what is going on.

So. How come we can put a rover on Mars, but Texans can't turn on their lights? SPOILER BELOW Because the Mars program is run by scientists and Texas is run by Republicans.

Yes. Finns should learn how to use paragraphs. Also, I hope he gets well.

He was freaking awesome today.

(Silently thanking the heavens that he wrote "beard"....)

I agree with you in principle, but I wonder if they're receiving "a little coaching and tough love" to begin with.

Like you were going to go to class anyway...

Depends on what else you did with your time. If you watched 50 First Dates for the 200th time instead, well, that's on you.

I've gotta go on vacation with you sometime. Or somehow otherwise figure out your headspace, just for an hour or something.

So what was different today? For one thing, the Sabres played the most aggressive two periods of hockey that I've seen so far. They kept the puck in the Jersey zone and they kept firing it on net. That worked. Any other ideas?

Pay attention.

Either Grecian Formula really works (yes, please!) or this is a nicely photoshopped pic.

It should. He's the best stay-at-home defenseman on the team.

Likely lines / pairings: https://www.dailyfaceoff.com/teams/buffalo-sabres/line-combinations/

There's a whole thread on it

I think I want to see them start a fight. I normally don't love fighting for the sake of it, but this team needs it.

That guy who celebrates wildly in the end zone when he scores his team's first touchdown to make it 21-6 with 7 minutes left? I usually make fun of him. Nothing wrong with a businesslike fist-bump when you know there's still a lot of work to do.

Definitely. I have problems with Rumore and the BTF, but not with teachers as a group. Teachers should be allowed to be vaccinated before they are required to go back into classrooms.

Ok, I should have used the plural.

This is one heck of a vacation you're on...

Again, we are drifting far from the subject, but it is not only parents who pay school taxes. Especially for NYS's five largest school districts, one of which is Buffalo. I pay taxes that fund schools because I don't want to live in a society of uneducated people. I don't have children. That's kind of rather REALLY REALLY IMPORTANT. I also think you're confusing the purpose of the BTF with the purpose of teachers. Anyway. Back to COVID?

Biron today (I am paraphrasing): Just wreck it and rebuild again. It's been ten years, what's the difference if it's another two or three? I am having a very hard time disagreeing.

No, please, no.

I don't expect The Instigators to understand sports psychology. In fact, I don't expect Peters to be able to add his uniform numbers together and come up with anything other than 15,* or maybe he just refuses to add and comes up with 76. Rivet, I do think, could do basic addition. I do know that for the first time I've heard, Marty Biron had some strong words for the team. He's not a believer anymore. Perhaps he realizes that he's got a better future at RDS than he does with MSG/WGR. (He'd likely be correct.) Now, to the point. If Kruger thinks the problem is mental, then he needs to fix the problem. The whole point in hiring him was that he is supposedly some Svengali motivator, right? So if he can't do his Mesmer act, then what's the point of having him here? Certainly, it isn't because he can put lines together or evaluate defensemen. *Yes, it's wrong; that's the point.

Has any parent actually said that?! But we are drifting from the subject.