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Hiring a HC against your GM's wishes then firing a HC without consulting your GM is bad ownership. This is a 14 year pattern with Pegula and the Sabres.

My right arm no longer works (throwing a ball) from my baseball days. Obviously, I made zero money and have no regrets. I couldn’t possibly care less for poor Drew Brees:

I am willing to bet coverage of the NFL Draft had higher ratings than any NHL game this year, and likely far higher ratings.

The problem with selling the Sabres is finding an new owner that a) wants to spend a billion dollars on the team and b) then keep them in Buffalo. With Canadians not crossing the border, that really hurts Sabres attendance even beyond their underperformance the last decade plus. A sale of the Sabres means 99% likely the team moves.

I think it's hard for people not in WNY to understand how little attention the NHL gets in the U.S. in non-traditional hockey markets. I live in Cincinnati. We have an NHL team an hour and a half away in Columbus, and they might as well not exist. The Cavs get a lot more attention here, and Cleveland is three hours away.

NHL teams don't have their entire payroll covered by the TV Contract Revenue. Far more of a "Have and Have Not" situation in the NHL.

As far as actual policy goes, look at the farmworkers. An immigration attorney I knew who was active at the time of Reagan's "amnesty" bill used to joke that the way to eliminate a farmworker was to give him legal status. The Reagan "Special Agricultural Worker" path to legal residence applied to those who could show they were working in the fields; as soon as they got legal status, off to the cities they went for better paying/less back-breaking work. So how do we pick the crops without illegal aliens? Is there some kind of temporary visa that would work? Legalization doesn't. Keeping them illegal just allows them to be abused by their employers. Some say the old "bracero" program, where Mexicans worked seasonally and had money deposited into a Mexican account (to be withdrawn only when they returned) was better, but that program was fraught with abuses too. All I can say is that the current debate/positions is not productive. It ignores reality. It will never result in good policy, whether it is Biden's "let 'em in/let 'em stay" or Trump's "mass deportations." Congress: do your job. Listen to people who know the field. At least try to fashion sensible policy.

Has anyone told these guys that cease means stop? No?

Absolutely! But I thought it was interesting how close to the Watson signing those meetings were and how much that impacted the Lamar Jackson negotiations.

50% of the NHL makes the playoffs every year.

That graph above is from Krugman's blog. I've been involved off and on with immigration enforcement and policy ever since I got sworn in as a lawyer. I'm a realist. Neither political side has embraced realism for more than a few moments. Democrats typically think that because most immigrants, legal or illegal, are hardworking and generally law-abiding (save for that illegal entry), it follow that enforcement of immigration laws is bad. Republicans typically think that illegal entry is an offense to the very concept of a law-abiding nation, and that strenuous enforcement will right that wrong with little or no cost to Americans. In fact, they think it may be a net benefit. The reality is ... the reality. We have an illegal immigration system in America, and the American economy has come to rely on it. Both Republicans and Democrats need a dose of reality here.

Probably, but that doesn't mean it's not illegal.

You seem to be painting them all with the same brush?

I’m looking for 2 tickets. Will pay

I wanted the Bills to draft him back in 2001 so bad and we had the draft picks to make it happen. I knew he would be a good NFL quarterback, I remember him throwing 90 times in Purdue game once. Instead we decided to roll with Travis Brown, RJ, and AVP. Sad to read this news though.

The NFL is, by far, the biggest sports league on the planet, so by default any team that is essentially tied with futility with an NHL team is automatically far more futile, especially considering the much more even playing field of the NFL and how much parity there is. Also, I don't care how many times the Browns made the playoffs, they are among the most inept teams in the NFL and are equally a laughingstock for their QB situation they have mired themselves in.

Those owners meetings took place from 3/27-3/30, 2022. DeShawn Watson signed that contract on 3/18, 2022. The owners were in shock.

Of course he was aware, he probably had the attacked already planned, but gave their biggest ally a chance to negotiate peace and honored the deadline he gave. It not some conspiracy or well played thing he did. The attack was probably going to happen and Trump got wind and told him to hold off and let him try and get them to come to the table and avoid all of this. Just as likely a scenario as the one you gave. Iran didnt deal so the attack went ahead that was going to happen anyway. Trump probably used the missiles to help save Israeli and others lives, as they would have had to go in on the ground to take them facilities out and it would have cost everyone a lot. See I can do that game too, but the fact is we do not know what happened. But I get it, you have already decided orange man bad based on previous admittances on your part, so you predictably chose the path that fits that lens.

Very well said. The constant thing gnawing at me: in order to get to this point, the US and even Israel have gone all in on the Saudis as the lesser of two evils. (In reality, it appears the Trump believes there is nothing evil at all about them.) Evil or not, have we overestimated the stability of that regime? Has anyone taken a close look at the ridiculous projects they've been funding while the oil money continues to shower down on them? Granted, the Saudi feudal rulers may well continue in place for long while - maybe even a generation or even two - but when it all ends it won't end pretty.

Wow....that could be a bombshell and open the NFL up to serious litigation and monetary damages... However an even stranger narrative is that both the NFL and NFLPA fought to keep the information secret. Why would the NFLPA not want this to get out? https://www.yahoo.com/sports/nfl/breaking-news/article/nfl-collusion-ruling-arbitrator-reportedly-finds-nfl-roger-goodell-encouraged-teams-to-reduce-guarantees-for-veterans-144903905.html the arbitrator, Christopher Droney, wrote the following: "There is little question that the NFL Management Council, with the blessing of the Commissioner, encouraged the 32 NFL Clubs to reduce guarantees in veterans’ contracts at the March 2022 annual owners’ meeting." That suggests both the NFL and Goodell wanted teams to collude to reduce guaranteed money when handing out contracts to veteran players.

Josh doing Josh things

I'll be visiting the area solo for the first time since I took my son to see Tyrod and the Rex crew some ten years back. Really hoping I could get a ticket for one of the practices but haven't heard anything yet.

Karlos Williams the buffet king in his first season scoring all of those TD’s.

It's right in front of your face. Are we supposed to believe that Netanyahu was not aware of this 60 day deal and that it was just a coincidence Israel attacked on day 61 with an operation that clearly took extensive time and planning? Perhaps long enough to date back to Trumps first term? Further do you think Netanyahu was not aware at how limited Iran would be in negotiating with Trump/US on this subject? It was a simple check mate from a smarter leader. Hell, he even pulled us into it. You would better served arguing that it was all planned by both of them the whole time.