#freejame

I am hoping my reply to Eleven merges with this because it is more or less the same. Regardless, I am very appreciative of the overall tone of this topic so far and for that I thank everyone involved.

While I agree on a whole, one of the greatest issues facing us today is the degradation of our relationships with our immediate neighbors. I do not believe neighborhoods being fully vaccinated will cure this, but it has the ability to help. We (USA) have been in trying times for longer than most care to admit, and it is repairing these relationships that will allow us to grow strong to where we can be the country leading the world in vaccinations on a global scale. This is the type of American exceptionalism we should all be able to rally behind, but without Americans being taken care of I worry that will not be the case.

I cut this for space, but at the end of the day we are the United States of America. We need to help our own, but the America I believe in was a leader of the free world. We have an absolute responsibility to continue to vaccinate our own as quickly and responsibly as possible so we can spread the vaccine as far and wide as possible. I think we are on the same page, albeit possibly for different reasons.

I was trying my best to keep it public board best I could. I understand and respect where you are coming from, I’m just not certain, right or wrong, that those communities would embrace.

One thing that has bothered me is that many people aren’t admitting their own flaws when it comes to their risks of Covid. I fully understood my actions would likely result in me getting Covid and lo and behold I got Covid. I don’t know if there are many overweight individuals who have that same stance. We all live the lives we lead. We all need to acknowledge our risks and judge them against what alternatives do to our quality of life. I spent the first two months by myself as a single man living alone and would not have lasted this long had I continued to down that path. It was not worth it to me to keep living that way, but that does not mean I threw caution to the wind. It took me five exposures to finally get it though and now I’m negative, still quarantining since I’m about to travel, but fully prepared to continue living my best life. Anyway, give professional athletes vaccines sooner than later. Another nonsense baseball season like last season isn’t worth it. Based on the science I’ve seen, NHL isn’t practical without vaccines either, but it’s too soon into distribution to jump the line. Allegedly Congress reached out to the MLBPA about delaying the season (which the owners want) in order to vaccinate players. Congress will always care about baseball more than other sports so it wouldn’t surprise me if baseball players are the first athletes to “jump the line.” I more or less agree with this, which is why I think MLB players will be the first to do so (not counting the LeBrons of the world).

Are minorities not more likely to refuse the vaccine for the very reasons you listed? Pretty sure historically speaking that is true. Also don’t think that’s the best idea, prioritizing one race over another is not the way to go about things. I don’t know a single young and healthy person not living their normal life outside of working from home. At the same, I know probably about 30 people who have tested positive (myself included) and only two or three have been sick. Cant say many in the under 30 crowd give a *****, at least not here.

If someone said I shouldn’t be vaccinated for smoking, drinking, eating smoked meats, and having unprotected sex with strangers I would have a hard time disagreeing with them (I don’t touch coffee, that stuff will kill you). I would say the exact same thing towards others in that group. We control what we control as individuals. There are people who have paused their lives, let them start living again. I’m going to continue living mine with or without a vaccine.

Can I give my vaccine to Juan Soto?

I had to look this up because Ray Liotta looked way too young in the screencap. Sure enough, it's eight years old. He's easily one of my favorite actors. What did you watch it on?

So does everyone think this was malicious on the part of the Devils?

This is easily my biggest issue right now—right or (likely) wrong.

The fans are already in revolt. The overwhelming majority of people clamoring to keep Skinner were of the more casual variety anyway. As it was pointed out yesterday, those fans come and go with the tides and I bet they’re gone now anyway.

But I thought we were good?

But didn’t you hear, the fans would have revolted if we didn’t re-sign him!

There is no panic about this team, they are fully living up to expectations. The only panic I have is the feeling I’m losing my mind because half of this board has seemingly been trying to gaslight me for months.

Shhhh you’re just depressed in your normal life and need help.

We are -7 in goal differential if you take out the 6-1 game, with two goals coming from the shootout.

Like I’ve said, good teams have good analytics because they play good hockey, not because they formulate their game towards analytics. Teams that look for good analytical players independent of other things are dumb. Look for good players and the results will follow. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart's_law

Minuses might not mean anything to the smart folk out there but they certainly mean something to players.

I'm definitely far from the kind of person to throw around the "probably a racist" card but everything about him is off-putting. Watched a TSN piece on him a few weeks ago and he and his dad both seem like royal pieces of *****.

Red (bordeaux). A bottle of wine is far from excess. This team is trash, sober or intoxicated. Like I said upthread, this team does nothing for my day to day level of happiness, which is the problem. I am divorcing myself from the love of my life. You either get it or you don't. There will be outburst and there have been. But one day I'll wake up and have no desire to visit this board or spend an hour reading about the team or watch a game and a significant part of my life will be gone and I will probably be better off. But hey, the Bills showed me it can come back. Wake me when we have our Allen.

Crazy how many years this can be said for a number of guys.

DeAngelo can't play D, is probably a racist, is definitely a piece of *****, and could have been had for free on waivers. Why would they spend extra money on waivers for a longer term when they can bury bury DeAngelo now for a lesser amount?

Where is the “you’ve got to earn your playing time” crowd?

If I cared any less I wouldn’t be following the team a single iota. I’ve had a great day and still am. I bought 9 books for $64 dollars, made a giant lunch, had a bottle of vino and am listening to some great jams. I can fully break away my complete and utter disdain of the Sabres from my actual life. I’m frustrated because there was a time when the Sabres were a part of my life that actually had an impact on me beyond these isolated feelings of frustration and anger. What makes me pissed isnt the Sabres being god awful, I dealt with that growing up pre-lockout and the last ten years. I’m pissed because the Sabres damn-near mean nothing to me. But I’ll step away from the board and my life will go back to being great and five weeks from now after doing this for another half of a season, all that will have come from it is Terry losing a fan who has been to hundreds of games and spent thousands of dollars and invested countless hours of his time and energy in this team.