Ticket Sales: It's a Bloodbath

[Kruppstahl]

So now Bruins fans are snatching up the tickets Sabres fans don't want.

This game a week from tomorrow is shaping up to be really interesting.  It may force Pegula's hand.

Keep an eye on this one.

 

 

[Scottysabres]

I've been looking for that perfect gift for a certain co-worker.....

Oh to hear his children during the 2nd period...

"Ummm, Dad? Take the PS4, can we go now?"

Lol

[Marvin]

9 minutes ago, Kruppstahl said:

So now Bruins fans are snatching up the tickets Sabres fans don't want.

This game a week from tomorrow is shaping up to be really interesting.  It may force Pegula's hand.

Keep an eye on this one.

This is so damn funny if it weren't for all the calls for Pegula to move the team to Hamilton which we will have to hear for the next two decades.

[Eleven]

"We're doing this for our fans and to experience the journey together with them."

What I do in the morning while solving word puzzles on my phone?  Yeah, Ralph, that takes a journey, too.  You don't see me inviting you to experience that journey with it, do you?

[Scottysabres]

Just now, Eleven said:

"We're doing this for our fans and to experience the journey together with them."

What I do in the morning while solving word puzzles on my phone?  Yeah, Ralph, that takes a journey, too.  You don't see me inviting you to experience that journey with it, do you?

Don't entice him to learn new cliché's lol

[7+6=13]

48 minutes ago, Claude Balls said:

Wtf does this even mean? They need more time to decide to play better? This makes absolutely zero sense. 

It's just some hypothetical guesses.  Will you psychos relax.  

I said I want him fired but obviously there's something holding them back, other than they're dumb.

[Pimlach]

I cherish those days of 16,433 every game.  Every year.  
 

RIP to The Aud, and better hockey.  

[Andrew Amerk]

I barely even care anymore. In the last decade, I went from a STH, to a Mini-Pack holder, to only going to a couple games a year. 

Now I don’t even want to watch them on TV anymore. It’s wasting my time. They are showing no interest in improving the team, so why should I think anything is changing anytime soon. 

[Marvin]

26 minutes ago, 7+6=13 said:

It's just some hypothetical guesses.  Will you psychos relax.  

I said I want him fired but obviously there's something holding them back, other than they're dumb.

I always assume that people have a reason for doing something that seems good to them, no matter what I think.  Let me use a silly idea which my brother hit on that is consistent with the facts but would seem ridiculous from every other angle.

Repeat, this is a hypothetical, silly idea merely to show that it is entirely possible that everyone we know who has spoken publicly is completely above board.

Suppose you are KA and have complete control from T&KP and that money is no object.  Let us assume that you want to fire RK because you agree with your fans and former peers from the Sabres that he is a bad coach.  But you have a logical directive from above to keep Jack and Sam happy -- and Jack and Sam like RK so much that their condition for not demanding a trade is that RK stays coach.  You would be in an impossible spot.

I personally would fire RK so fast it would make your head spin even though defying your boss in this situation would essentially have you blackballed.  Do you take that chance?

Now this is obviously ridiculous, but KA could be in a bind like this, probably with some combination of money, control, inexperience, and players' feelings each having a role.  But he would still be in a similar bind.  How do you feel about taking that chance?

I have taken chances like that.  Most of the time, it worked out fine, but let me give you a few negative examples.  I defended my religiosity against atheists in the math department I was in and would not accept that this, ipso facto, made me intellectually inferior to even the dumbest atheist..  When asked why my students did not do as well in Math Reform classes in the 1990's, I told the Math Ed specialists that I was philosophically opposed to the New New Math.  Both groups made my life hell for my last 2 years of grad school and I see a psychiatrist now in part because I have so much negativity associated with what is my dream job of being a research mathematician -- and I will never take my dream job because of this.  That was aside from being blackballed from the Columbus, OH. bridge centre for defending being a Buffalo sports fan in 1997; they asserted that I was inferior as a bridge player because I was from Buffalo and am an N-word.

From my angle, the obvious is suddenly not so obvious.

[Andrew Amerk]

5 minutes ago, Marvin, Sabres Fan said:

I always assume that people have a reason for doing something that seems good to them, no matter what I think.  Let me use a silly idea which my brother hit on that is consistent with the facts but would seem ridiculous from every other angle.

Repeat, this is a hypothetical, silly idea merely to show that it is entirely possible that everyone we know who has spoken publicly is completely above board.

Suppose you are KA and have complete control from T&KP and that money is no object.  Let us assume that you want to fire RK because you agree with your fans and former peers from the Sabres that he is a bad coach.  But you have a logical directive from above to keep Jack and Sam happy -- and Jack and Sam like RK so much that their condition for not demanding a trade is that RK stays coach.  You would be in an impossible spot.

I personally would fire RK so fast it would make your head spin even though defying your boss in this situation would essentially have you blackballed.  Do you take that chance?

Now this is obviously ridiculous, but KA could be in a bind like this, probably with some combination of money, control, inexperience, and players' feelings each having a role.  But he would still be in a similar bind.  How do you feel about taking that chance?

I have taken chances like that.  Most of the time, it worked out fine, but let me give you a few negative examples.  I defended my religiosity against atheists in the math department I was in and would not accept that this, ipso facto, made me intellectually inferior to even the dumbest atheist..  When asked why my students did not do as well in Math Reform classes in the 1990's, I told the Math Ed specialists that I was philosophically opposed to the New New Math.  Both groups made my life hell for my last 2 years of grad school and I see a psychiatrist now in part because I have so much negativity associated with what is my dream job of being a research mathematician -- and I will never take my dream job because of this.  That was aside from being blackballed from the Columbus, OH. bridge centre for defending being a Buffalo sports fan in 1997; they asserted that I was inferior as a bridge player because I was from Buffalo and am an N-word.

From my angle, the obvious is suddenly not so obvious.

I think that the simple answer here is obvious, even to a passing fan. The Pegula regime though, has made it clear they know better and more than us mere peons. 

The answers are so simple, but because ownership won’t solve them, we devolve into all kinds of reasons as to why they won’t. And SS will keep doing so because this is beyond ridiculous.

[SabresBillsFan]

I’m shocked they sold that many tickets unless the fans that do want to go want to show their disapproval with how this team is being run.

[Andrew Amerk]

5 minutes ago, SabresBillsFan said:

I’m shocked they sold that many tickets unless the fans that do want to go want to show their disapproval with how this team is being run.

It’s more likely that 900 Chet and Muffys just want a night out away from their kids. 

You’d have to be a pretty super fan to spend $200+ just to go and boo Matt Irwin. 

[Claude Balls]

1 minute ago, Andrew Amerk said:

It’s more likely that 900 Chet and Muffys just want a night out away from their kids. 

You’d have to be a pretty super fan to spend $200+ just to go and boo Matt Irwin. 

I'd rather spend $20 and take a ride to Goat Island and watch the falls for 2 hours. Much more entertainment, lol. 

[woods-racer]

If they give out a free *BS* hat and make everyone (including Kruger) sign it I will go.

[#freejame]

20 years ago I routinely went to games with under 10,000 folks in the stands. We are rapidly approaching this again. 

[woods-racer]

2 minutes ago, #freejame said:

20 years ago I routinely went to games with under 10,000 folks in the stands. We are rapidly approaching this again. 

You wore bell bottoms and listened to music on the AM radio also. May all those things come back again. 🙂

 

[#freejame]

Just now, woods-racer said:

You wore bell bottoms and listened to music on the AM radio also. May all those things come back again. 🙂

 

I am 29 and wear tapered jeans thank you very much. AM radio is good for one thing and that's baseball (don't tell Toronto though).

1 minute ago, woods-racer said:

You wore bell bottoms and listened to music on the AM radio also. May all those things come back again. 🙂

 

Also, 20 years ago was 2001. For whatever reason people seem to forget about the post-cup pre-lockout years. Sabres "fans" certainly forget about them at the time too. 

[woods-racer]

Just now, #freejame said:

I am 29 and wear tapered jeans thank you very much. AM radio is good for one thing and that's baseball (don't tell Toronto though).

Bell bottoms are way more attractive than tapered jeans. 

 

 

[#freejame]

Just now, woods-racer said:

Bell bottoms are way more attractive than tapered jeans. 

 

 

Says you! It's all in the profile these days. Slim and trim, my friend. Slim and trim. 

[Andrew Amerk]

5 minutes ago, woods-racer said:

Bell bottoms are way more attractive than tapered jeans. 

 

 

You are severely underrating trip pants. They’re gonna make a comeback. 

[#freejame]

Just now, Andrew Amerk said:

You are severely underrating trip pants. They’re gonna make a comeback. 

Read this as zip pants and thought we were on the same page for a second. 

[woods-racer]

10 minutes ago, #freejame said:

Says you! It's all in the profile these days. Slim and trim, my friend. Slim and trim. 

 

5 minutes ago, Andrew Amerk said:

You are severely underrating trip pants. They’re gonna make a comeback. 

 

5 minutes ago, #freejame said:

Read this as zip pants and thought we were on the same page for a second. 

Slim and trim? Not where I live. More like fruit shaped in a pair of to tight yoga pants.

Trip pants are not bell bottoms. No fricking way you're going roller skating with your boom box in trip pants.

[Andrew Amerk]

13 minutes ago, #freejame said:

Read this as zip pants and thought we were on the same page for a second. 

 

[#freejame]

4 minutes ago, woods-racer said:

 

 

Slim and trim? Not where I live. More like fruit shaped in a pair of to tight yoga pants.

Trip pants are not bell bottoms. No fricking way you're going roller skating with your boom box in trip pants.

Yoga pants are both slim and trim and create a nice profile (especially of the fruit shaped objects of the male and female form). I'm chalking this one up to a win, I need it after this week. 

[GASabresIUFAN]

Apparently the hospital workers and first responders turned down free tickets.  The spokesman said they had seen enough pain and heartache already over the last year.