SageAgainstTheMachine

I'm game for that prediction. I'm sick of these wimpy fans who are too busy pissing down their legs over when the other shoe is going to drop to notice that the Bills are actually playing good football.

Objectively, the Bills have been the best team in the AFC East through 7 games. They have scored more points than the Patriots and surrendered fewer. You could argue the Bills have been the best team in the AFC in 2011. Now, I'm not saying that any of this guarantees future results, but 5-2 is a damn good record relative to the Bills' strength of schedule.

Absolutely.

You imply, I infer. Just seemed like an odd statement haha.

No way are we home 'dogs after 23-0.

Are those mutually exclusive?

I'll take that as a compliment.

It's prudent at this point to tell you that I and the OP were being sarcastic and lampooning a prior thread about how the Bills' penchant for getting turnovers meant that our winning was "unsustainable."

Hate to say it, but I agree. I would have felt much more comfortable if we had allowed somewhere around 10-13 points instead of shutting them out. Between the comebacks and all the turnovers and now a shutout, I wish the Bills could get non-flukish wins. Can't they just be average?

Zombies would be devoured by maggots.

Occupy WalMart.

That's just 1.5 million more self empowered farmers, though. Or something.

*Hugs*

Washington fans think that Beck is where it's at, but I think he's a loser. I sea change and mutations in the way that the Redskins have played since the golden age of Week 1 and I now believe that they're a lost cause. Yeah, I think Washington sucks but it makes me kinda nervous to say so.

If I'm making millions upon millions of dollars, but I think that there's even more money potentially on the table, you can bet your ass that I'm going to try to get it.

My interpretation was that Chef was criticizing the Fox Network for their bizarre fascination with Nolan Ryan, not the man himself. But I could be wrong.

Not to even mention the baffling decision to pitch Matt Harrison in Game 7. The decision to start Derek Holland should have been made immediately after he left the mound in game 4. The kid looked pressure in the face and pissed all over it, not unlike Freese, and you don't put the ball back in his hand? C'mon Ron.

Fair enough. I'm a big believer in OPS, but like most stats you need more than a small handful of games to determine anything. Freese's 2011 OPS was .791 and Molina's was .814. Molina has decent power and has done great things in the playoffs during his career. Again, he's no schlub. If someone like Punto or Schumacker was coming up, I'd be more likely to play those odds. So to answer your question, yes, I would have pitched to Freese. My opinion has always been that walking the bases loaded = asking for trouble because the margin of error sinks to nil. And trouble is exactly what the Rangers got. But you know what they say about opinions...

Any youtube vids where we can check your stuff out?

Another great song for rolling down the open highway is Radar Love by Golden Earring.

The intentional walk of Freese to load the bases in the 5th, when Feldman was having trouble finding the plate, that to me was when the game ended. What a stupid, cowardly move. Yadier Molina is no chump.

I feel sorry for the Rangers and their fans for Game 6. They had the Cards up against the ropes twice and couldn't deal that knockout punch. I'm still wondering how that ball got over Nelson Cruz' head with the outfield in a doubles-prevention set. I don't feel sorry one bit for Game 7. They did the cowardly thing in intentionally walking Freese and the 2 runs that followed pretty well ended the game.

Umm, what? If you have a problem with Sweet Home Alabama, you're either tone deaf or take yourself way too seriously. Like Jim said, one of the best cruising songs ever. I put it up there with Running Down a Dream.

That, sir, was no rant. I just don't see the value in mocking somebody who successfully beat such a tough addiction. "This thing we call failure is not falling down. It is staying down."

We're on the same page, Chef. I thought you were taking exception to the potty humor itself, a well that Matt and Trey have have dipped into hundreds of times. I agree that the current episodes lack depth. I still found myself laughing on Wednesday night though. Anything that introduces the concept of Elton John as a beer-swilling frat bro will get a chuckle or two from me.