MarkyMannn

My first job was pushing carts for a supermarket. I'll be damned if I'm going to do it 30 years later cause some store is trying to save $$$ by cutting cart pushers.

Man I love this topic!!! Nothing gets my blood pressure up more. What I see: 1) time for the county to punish the taxpayers. Parks, when closed, it was still OK to go in. Now they will charge you with tresspassing. Guess that is why we need all those Sheriff Deputies 2) DMV drops Saturday and night hours to inconvenient you more. How about working noon-9 Tuesday-Friday and all day Saturday. Business does it 3) Sheriff Galivan cannot cut his budget at all and do with less. Meanwhile, 1000 deputies and about a third make $100,000+. At the Ralph, how many even get out of their cars? 4) how much county/town tax money is being spent on the Cheektowaga deer lady? A harmless old lady is escorted out of the park by town police the other day for trying to assist an injured deer from a poacher. Her half dozen apples she feeds them a day could hurt their health. With police, DEC, park workers, courts, prison, I bet we spent $500,000 to stop a woman from giving deer apples. Meanwhile, in Amherst, hundreds of deer die annually from cars. It's nuts!!! 5) County labor leader still doesn't get it. Borgalski. Won't budge on any givebacks. These guys work a 7 hour day, and less in the summer. Go to 8 hours and a 10% pay cut. Like it or quit

My understanding is that the Buff news presses were down and they were short 80,000 papers. Hope they donate $80,000 to make up for the shortfall of papers

There's that comment in there where Sly says he has 884 weekends left in his life. There's a wake-up call for all of us. If I go at the same age my dad went I've got 1,040 left. They really will go by fast. And here I was planning on stayng home tonight. BS!!! Goin' out and having fun!!!!

Maybe Bain Capital Partners LLC could also buy Erie County Government and try running that too

I seem to remember that Big Ted reworked his contract so as to provide $$$ and cap space to keep Pat Williams. The 2 were very tight friends at the time

I've been around a long time and can honestly say solutions to problems like that are hard to come by. Business is spontaneous and evolving though. Like the weather, don't like it now, wait awhile. Re-organizations always happen, and maybe a year or 2 from now, things will be different. That time can be tough waiting for it to pass. You mention the new guy, if she hired him, to criticize him is criticizing her. And for her to come down on this guy would be for here to admit her own mistake, and that may not happen. I've seen mgr's who dislike everyone in a dept who they didn't hire. Last thing, I've seen people have parts of their job they don't want to do, intentionally screw it up, and then watch it come to me. So, I've got more to do, and their jobs are cake! That's why they call it WORK!!!

Below average. All Duffs does is make them hotter, not better.

Where did you here that one? I wouldn't mind a couple preseason games............

That's how I see him, average, mediocre. Figure there are 32 starting LT's in the league, he is in the middle of the pack. And has problems staying on the field, which won't get better with age. I believe Miami was like $17 mil over, but has already cleared $15 with some releases, like Fiedler. But the article I read on that made it seem as though that was just salaries. Of course there is always the accelerated cap hit

OK, as a Nascar and local track fan, let me say the D 500 SUCKED!!!! 4 hours of watching 40+ cars go round the track in single file. The only lead changes were the result of pit stops. The only real action was the last 10-15 laps. Nascar has ruined restrictor plate racing in my opinion with all its rule changes to break up the packs. The packs was what made RP racing the best

The best example of complaceny is Jagr. After he signed that mega Caps contract, he has done diddly. You really have wonder what was going thru that owner's head when he signed that one

Yeah, I was only kind of playing devil's advocate. It's just that the whole concept of closing the parks I believe to be nothing more than taxpayer punishment. If the county is going to play hard ball and use the parks for leverage, my initial feeling is to lash back and say fine, then sell them off. You do know parks have been closed for 3 weeks before any staff reduction even took place. What the hell was that all about?

Dude, you got that right! The cap will now HAVE to be linked to rev's because whenever they play, rev's are going to be mighty low. Also, if the NHLPA takes this to the NLRB or wherever these negotiations go, I don't see how they can get a favorable ruling IF the clubs can honestly produce financials showing losses. How can the PA expect a favorable ruling that says the owners should lose money. Any logical ruling has to entitle ownership to profits

Does any one ever see a scenario in which the parks will EVER open again? If not, some of that property is in areas of high property values. The county should then consider selling these to developers to create cash. Any thoughts?

So if the Sabres loose $10,000,000, which they do, and clear an extra mil per playoff game, they would have to make it to the finals every year just to break even..........yeah they could do that Actually I agree with your entire post. At $45 there is still a problem for maybe half the clubs

Yep! Sabres can't compete with a $45 cap. And if they did have salaries of $45, where do the Sab's get the revenue to support that without TV? Uh, maybe from us in higher ticket prices. Or better yet county subsidies that ultimately go to the Sabre players. So we some day raise taxes, today lay off workers, close parks, so Tim Connolly can get the $2,000,000 he deserves. Laughable. There is no way A Buffalo fan of hockey can logically take the players side. Really the owner's goals help us.......................if they also lower ticket prices when they get their low cap

Yeah, I'd llike to know the answer to that one too. There salary last year was 34, and they lost about 10. Their salary this year is 39, in a full season they would now loose 15. With a cap of 45, they loose $21 million. Hope Golisano knows what he is up against. You know I honestly believe the NHL owners should have still held firm to $42 and linkage. They really don't solve all the costs issues with this deal. Good luck on rev sharing. If you are a money making club, why would you share, and loose profits and lower the value of your club. Doesn't make sense

I met Jeff Gordon about 8 years ago. A class act that few people could match. Very personable and patient. Talked a minute or 2, and posed for a pic with my 2 sons. The guy expresses himself very well and comes across very smooth

All right, a serious reply. When Giambra took office he talked about consolidation of state, county & town services so as to eliminate waste and lower costs. I thought the best opportunity would have been to consolidate all snow plowing within the county. It should have been relatively easy and painless, at least compared to other political hot-beds. The county needs a more consistent effort to clear all streets within the county. We do a poor job when in the suburbs streets are cleared 3-4 times, while city streets have yet to see a plow. Everyone in the county should see the same results. Especially with so many suburb people working in the city, it is the right thing to do for everyone

You forgot: "stop and see what that hooker is charging"

Was it last year or 2 years ago, when he was headed to the Ralph on gameday and rolled his truck. And then, uninjured, sat out the game brcause he was shaken up. I guess they had to cut his belts when he landed upside down. That must have been a helluva landing after that. Still, Farve would have played, no question. What upset Mike? His spinner rims won't spin any more?

This morning's news: Unemployment benefits- the county is self-insured. What that means is the county, after laying someone off, must pay their severance and unemployment benefits. In the short term, it costs less to keep people. What a mess!!! Giambra was at the airport, flying out on vacation. See ya in a couple weeks. When the going gets tough, the county exec leaves town

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EXACTLY! I split my seasons last year, and was going to do the same this year. But now not having spent the $$$ I usually spend to go to 4-6 Sabre games, no reason to split. Thanks Goodenow I don't give Bettman near the same amount of blame