That Aud Smell

I saw mostly the second half of the game (most of second, all of 3rd and OT). I understand saying that they competed. It looked to me like the Penguins were running (skating) them out of the building most of the time.

Holy Christ - it sure looked that way when I watched that video of his throws in garbage time against NOLA. It was jarring how zip-less the ball looked.

A tad over-stated for my taste, but that may echo a point re how game planning seems to have led to the team's successes. The games against ATL and OAK seemed like games that -- almost by chance on some level -- the way the Bills staff planned wound up matching up really well against how the other teams' staffs planned. And I'm sure execution played a role, as we hear over and over from McDermott.

Peterman should be okay so long as the defense and special teams can recover 3 fumbles against the Chargers.

I’m not buying it. It’s a whack a mole approach, sure. But then that forces your neighbors to take similar actions. Until such time that the geese are persuaded to congregate on public unimproved land. Exactly. I’m all for management of nuisance geese, btw. The green space in the City of Tonawanda along the river (forget the name of the park) is mostly unusable because of all the goose poop. Oh, and hey. The land I’m concerned with is public in nature. Cheering Golisano is worse than cheering for the house in gambling — it’s cheering for a house that is reasonably thought to be crooked.

^ The effing truth. I won some primo seats as part of a silent auction a few years back -- covered, heated, etc. So I took my fairly aged father, who used to take me to frickin' Jets games in December when I was a kid and we'd sit in the upper deck. Dear Lord. All was well getting into the stadium; we arrived early and parked as close as we possibly could. Getting out was another story. The Bills won, so that was cool. We waited in/around our seats to avoid the rush. And even with that, we still almost caught a beer can in the head on our trek back to the car (not intentionally, as far as I could tell).

23 back with 15. I didn't watch much over the weekend. Is that new?

The Golisano thing is pretty breath-taking. From what I had read (not much), part of the problem is that he's only at the property intermittently throughout the year. And when things are quiet on the grounds, the geese congregate and defecate. But, as Chz suggested, ... DUDE. Buy a couple of high energy herding dogs and loose them on the grounds. And hire someone to handle and care for the dogs; that person can generally oversee the dispersal efforts. My sense is that if a landowner disrupted the geese's visits for a long enough time, the geese would just stay away. Golisano is a grade A arsehole.

Well, they played a good game against the Caps about a week ago. So ... Let's go, Buffalo!

The Bills are just trending back toward what they were at the beginning of the year. They had some good fortune that made them look better than they are -- turnovers (especially fumble recoveries) were a big source as was some good luck with how certain teams planned for them and how they in turn planned for the opponent (Atlanta seems like a prime example). Before the season started, I figured them for 7-9 or 8-8 -- that's about where I think they'll end up. It does sting that they got gashed up the middle yesterday, after Dareus was traded. But I've read and heard from sources I trust that Dareus was largely loafing around anyway, not buying in, and only occasionally showing flashes of what he can do -- I'm not sure how much help he would have been in those games.

Reinhart loafed it back on one of the EN’s. I say pair him with Jack to pump the value and then move him. Knee jerk? Sure. But something is rotten with this core.

Confidence. It’s a motherfukcer.

Eff it.

Oh, man. You are in danger of having the *one* beer I absolutely cannot stand: No beer.

I ... I had no idea the incident was so recent (well within my lifetime even). Damn. I have a family friend -- well into his 80s now -- who spent his career on commercial vessels navigating the Great Lakes; the last third of his career was at the rank of captain. I reckon he would've known some of the sailors who died on that ship.

Someone in my group did, yes. I think it happens with some frequency -- whether by human hands or naturally occurring conditions.

Shootsie. (I still love that old joke.)

want.

Are the Panthers good? I'm asking. I know I harken to it all the time: The Panthers were held up here several years ago -- by an information-rich member who no longer posts regularly? -- as a team on the rise. ^^ Which role is that? Buck?

I've definitely smelled rotten eggs. We used to hide dozens of actual hard boiled eggs at my parents' house for an Easter egg hunt. Then I'd find them mowing the lawn throughout the summer months. The distinctive aspect of the odor is, as I understand it, sulfuric in nature. My grandfather used well water at his place out in Catt County -- we'd get a similar smell there as well. The public safety additive to natural gas is sulfuric as well. As you'd heard, natural gas itself has no smell ahtall. I remember learning this when I hiked to the eternal flame at Chestnut Ridge in my early 20s. Someone in our group put out the flame with a bucket of water (so that we could re-light it). I heard that low hiss of natural gas escaping the ground, and there was no smell detectable.

It's in a select class of things that have lived to its hype, in my experience. An astonishing brew. My crew even did a blind taste test last year -- we had at least top-50 Beer Advocate IPAs and DIPAs -- and everyone was able to pick out the HT. Having put back 4 in a sitting, I will say 8% is accurate. It's part of its miraculousness. Ha! I've had that same experience. I've been twice to buy as much as I could (there are retail limits wherever you go). Another time, the first store that I first stopped at had the delivery truck on-site when I arrived (I think they self-distribute?). Anyway, I just followed that guy around like a lost puppy for hours.

No you’re right.

And Bowl-you and Gorges (?) reportedly close to returning.