May Day 10

Holy stock market

What are the wages, working conditions, and quality of life of the 400,000 Vietnamese? That does not work here unless we crater human and workers rights domestically. Or pay out the nose for things we buy on the routine. It is not 1955. The world has moved on. I don't comment here, and have had a very open mind with 2nd term trump, and even agree with a few of the things thus far. This stuff is just madness though. We can't install suicide nets at factories/employee bunkers in US soil. Our strength needs to be innovation.

The "mill" isn't coming back. "Dad" lost his job in the 70s or 80s and is elderly, collecting SS now. I am "dad" present and dont want to work in any mill.

I've had a wait and see approach with trump this time around I'm really pissed at this. I don't see how this does any good or benefits me. I live a comfortable life with a decent retirement nest egg (that is taking a beating right now with this self-own). Stuff is undoubtedly going to go up in price. I don't see any way the consumer doesn't take the serious brunt of this. The end game is for us to go back 75 years to when a manufacturing plant is basically the town and everyone works there, wears a suit and hat every day, everyone goes to the same church, everything is based around the plant, apple pies warming in every window sill, and we have 4 TV channels and no internet? I don't think any of that is feasible and appealing. Unemployment is not bad right now. Where my sneakers and phone are made there are suicide nets for the workers.

They shouldn't lock a team into a/the Christmas slot. I find it annoying that we have to watch the lions and cowboys every Thanksgiving in soulless venues. The Chiefs won't be good and interesting forever.

I wish that they scripted the show more. Its just Brown and Tasker, sometimes Glab just flying by the seat of their pants, taking callers, bad radio. The Sabres show does this as well, but its a little better because they need to avoid talking about the Sabres as much as possible. Murphy, in the early days of One Bills Live (late afternoon/evening) had a great production. It was all blocked off like a real show. Had a lot of interviews that were really good, things like that. WGR in general is just a lot of the same shows over and over and over again and I cant listen to it any more. The younger guys are OK because they are still honing their craft, they are hungry, and they try, but overall it is just a bunch of people going through the motions.

I remember him, vaguely. Had long hair and seemed a bit lanky for that position. Looked it up and cant believe it was 1996. Would have pegged him as early drought years

His George foreman grill was a phenomenon like I have never seen.

Im sure they studied the possible events vs the cost and schedule of an indoor venue (both in place and downtown, and likely Amherst as well). It wasnt worth it I dont think Buffalo the market is a big draw for large events that require a football stadium. The downtown arena is adequate for 99% of possible events. The indoor stadium space has become quite crowded and competitive. Especially with Cleveland and Nashville joining the fray.

The Sabres are such garbage

Is Cleveland known as the city of triangles or something? Did the designing firm of the stadium have some sort of bonus structure based on the number of triangles crobarred into the design? In my opinion, the stadium is super ugly. That triagular wall that just has that corporate logo on it is gross. Reminds me of the giant pointless blue wall around the Sabres' arena.

The Bruins are an absolute tire fire right now.

Shenault or shinola?

Cant have this guy starting again. Physically unable to play in the NFL

Lots of norris' points come on the pp. I wish they sabres had someone coaching our special teams. Appert really should be coaching Buff State or SUNY Oswego. I don't expect the pp to be any more productive. The sabres are treating the symptoms and not the problem.

Seems like a bad trade. My friends from Ottawa seem to think that Norris is a hit away from retirement. Cant keep his shoulder healthy

They are actually worse than the year before adams took over 5 years to go backwards

Watched elimination chamber... or much of it. I thought it was very decent. Girls match was excellent, men's was pretty blah until the end... which was awesome. KO vs zayn was good too and the return of randy orton.

The craziest thing were the old smoking areas that would be set aside in the '00s. At halftime it would be absolutely packed and you would see so much/the most drought-era hijinks

Bass rebounded quite well and made some big kicks. Kicking all over the league seemed uneven last year.

I had some doubts, but this has been a smashing success for the NHL. It has infiltrated the main stream. Its great that fist fights were the backbone of that (and shows why Bettman has resisted out-lawing fighting). Im one who doesnt mind the ASG for what it is. Same goes with MLB too. Some kind of international tournament seems like it should be a permanent replacement though, I agree. With how this has gone its a no-brainer. Its a good way to increase participation from 32 teams. Also you get to host it in multiple venues. Possibly even work a 4(5?)-way skills competition in there too.

The team has as favorable of a travel schedule as I can remember. Id like to keep it that way. Id also like them to stay away from the dubious laying surfaces (although whats worse? Tottenham or Met Life?)

I strongly suspect that this will/would lose its lustre if it is a regular thing. The US/Canada thing was a result of NHL players not being able to represent their countries in quite some time and a whole generation of stars at the ready. There are international tournaments in the years to come, better tournaments that are more inclusive than just NHL players that make it better (Finland will be much stronger, as will Russia... well, Russia will be in the tournaments I think). Plus you get some other nations like Slovakia. We will have Olympics and World Cup. This tournament will (rightly) seem like small potatoes after that and I can see a lot of players opting out. This "Four Nations" thing wont nearly come close to re-creating what we have this year IMO. It would need to change. Playing the International card is something the NHL needed/needs to do though. The strong footing overseas is something unique to the sport that the other major NA sports don't have. It brings out all sorts of possibilities.

I wouldnt boo an anthem. Just feels like bad mojo. I honestly dont blame canadians for booing though to be honest. The sitting president has recently stated that he wants to make their country the 51st state. I would think we would be pretty pissed off too if the shoe was on the other foot.

Lindy has always been a wimp. Wimpy player and a wimpy coach with wimpy teams. this is the outlier incident.