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"multiple days of presenting" be like:

how the fook does Bennett not get a suspension? … or was the Leafs goalie likely concussed first by that wicked Rheinhardt wrist shot?

“multiple days of presenting.” lol.

did that multi-page “changes potentially coming” thread get deleted? I had wanted to pore over the Italian food content there.

So, I'm fairly rational, but in this case I'm overreacting. So it doesn't track? I'm just trying to keep things straight. No shortage of coffee in my life -- although I stick to two 8 oz. servings a day anyway.

Lol. Yes, indeed. If nothing else, my content here is characterized by overreactions.

It registers with me. I’m not sure why you fail to understand or acknowledge why I view the staffing and hiring processes as suboptimal in this instance. But that tracks, like I said.

I speak only for myself. The local “newspaper” has come to the same conclusion that … most have: The Sabres don’t matter.

That tracks.

No, I saw it. The local “newspaper” still “has someone” “covering” the local “pro hockey team.” He’s been assigned to covering the Bills, but will “pull double duty” for the time being. It’s horsesh1t. Of course, the decayed corpse that is the former animated journalistic body of The Buffalo News is now so far gone that it hardly smells of rot anymore. Barely anything for the vultures to pick at. It’s a sadly fitting development for “the Sabres.”

i don’t follow. i’m also pretty sure that i don’t want to follow and will regret asking for clarification. it’s a mickey mouse move to announce lysowski’s reassignment without having someone on staff to take over the beat.

Also that burner with the unusual name — Shenault?

WR room is now … Shakir, Samuel, Palmer, Coleman, Moore … and someone like Shavers maybe?

Everybody eats!

I too am glad that I've avoided the gambling bug. I do the normal stuff -- March Madness brackets, Super Bowl squares, fantasy football -- but have always stayed away from the real sh1t. Somewhat ironically, I sort of enjoy the "degenerate gambling" banter on a podcast I regularly listen to. Maybe it's akin to getting a contact high from someone else's smoke.

And with due respect, I still don't think he's any great shakes. He benefited from being in a fairly thin WR room (and the team not having a good option for "the X") and from having an All-Pro QB. If the guy weren't such a character (the walk-in outfits, the life hack videos on Instagram), his offseason departure would have been far less newsworthy than it was.

Interesting. I watched a lot of pro wrestling as a kid and enjoy listening to people (insiders) talk about the business of pro wrestling as an adult. I especially enjoy the vernacular that has grown up around pro wrestling. With that context and in light of the observation you've made above, I'm now getting to wonder: Was Beane cussing out the WGR guys a "work?"

lol - it is absolutely true. and i’m dead serious when i say that i don’t like whatever thought process, personality evolution, own fart sniffing that led to him coming in so hot with the *WGR* guys. (the ***** WGR guys, people.) and i don’t much like what it may portend. i hope he has someone he trusts who can say that sort of thing to him. he desperately wanted darnold. it was pegula who said allen’s our guy.

Beane’s tone and approach with WGR leaves me to infer that he most likely has a personalized “Big Baller Beane” gift somewhere among his office tchotchkes. Easy, boss. If Allen hadn’t defied the odds to become a future HOF’er, you’d have been out of a job years ago.

Who? Jeremy White? Joe DiBiase (sp?)? Reportedly not very good at all.

Not sure I follow you.

I wonder if the influence of the no holds barred vibe on podcasts — including the use of spicy language as the norm — played a role here.

Yeah. The fact that he unmasked in this way seems to suggest to me that he might be smelling his own farts (??), reading his own press clippings … or just generally taking undue pride in the team’s accomplishments under his tenure. Stay humble. Keep grinding. Growth mindset. And so on.