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And the Bills and Amerks are both pretty strong. Only the Sabres lag. In other words, it all sucks. 🙄

RIP guitarist Mick Ralphs. His lost (stolen) six-string razor inspired this classic. (He went on to make worse but more lucrative music in Bad Co.)

You're painting this like the US has no control over what Israel does. Yet for the entire existence of Israel, despite wanting to attack Iran for most of it, they didn't do so until now. All I had to do was use nearly 80 years of Israeli and Iran interactions to come to such a conclusion. So lets throw in your version for consideration, it still results in Israel thinking Trump is a weak, dumb, or both. No other outcomes. Your version means Israel held the strongest military power in the world hostage and forced our hand. Logic isn't your friend, friend.

if 3 years is now "a minute" then you're right again doc!

Who would have thought the big ginger smug multi millionaire was untrustworthy. He always seems so sincere when he hugs the players on draft day

True, but the Sabres are still worth a billion+ according to Forbes. The next round of expansion may come with a $2 billion fee. He hit the jackpot with McDermott, didn't he?

As long as, the last one is the Superbowl!

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. That is a really bad excuse for the Pegula run Sabres.

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.