KnightRider
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As a Bills Devotee living in *Pats fan hell(Boston), this is great to hear. I'm only wondering how long it takes for the resulting uproar to cost this reporter, honest as he is, his job.
Howie Carr? Not likely... He revels in stirring stuff up.
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basically it thanks me for showing up for the pre-season game and gives a reminder of the Miami game in December. Interesting thing is that it wasn't mailed from Toronto, it was from Buffalo zip code 14212. Signed by Phil Lind, Vice Chairman of Rogers Communications. According to the letter, about 48,000 were there for the Pitt game.
The Canadian Postal Service makes the USPS look like FedEx, at least in my experience. They trucked'm over to make sure they got delivered.
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kinda scary... the bills turf caused that injury.
I'm not sure it was the turf... He came up gimpy with the same leg/knee a play or two earlier. It might have even been the previous series.
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Compare how? Admitting that they were, or weren't dirty?
(I'm assuming not dirty.)
You assume correct, sir...
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Wow, when asked if the hit was dirty, Belichick just compared the hit to the one Wilfork laid on Losman last year...
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just heard on radio...
Brady to miss rest of seasonThe Patriots just announced that Tom Brady will have season-ending surgery on his left knee. "After extensive tests this morning, it was revealed that New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady's left knee, which was injured in the first quarter of (Sunday's) game, will require surgery. He will be placed on injured reserve and will miss the remainder of the 2008 season." -- Mike Petraglia (Sept. 8, 2:45 p.m.)
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I agree; this was a strange game for stats.
For instance, Kelsay had 0 tackles/1 assist yet I think that he played a fine game.
Also, we held the ball for 31 minutes/19 seconds. Sure, this is winning the t.o.p. battle, but we did an even better job than stats would indicate. Remember, 14 points were scored on special teams., and I am guessing that a good deal of Seattle's t.o.p. came in the 4th quarter, much of it with the game out of reach.
Actually, it was even in the 1st (7:41 to 7:19 in favor of the Bills), 8:10 to 6:50 Bills in the 2nd, 8:19 to 6:41 Seahawks in the third, and 8:47 to 6:13 Bills in the fourth...
I checked this because, the one bone I had to pick, was that we didn't run the ball that well once the game was in hand. To me, the less the defense is on the field at that point, the better.
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Maybe it is because of last year, but the fact no one seemed to get too banged up seemed to stand out to me.
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OMG!
I had some tough luck in the late 80s... The next one, a 76 LeMans that looked a lot like the link (without the lightbar and labels), lasted a few years...
btw, if you stick with the beater car for a while like /dev and save the payment you'd make with a loan, you'd be amazed how quickly you can afford to pay for a nicer car.
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1. 1980 Sunbird with 70k miles on it. Drove it 20 minutes and it threw a rod. While towing it home, it caught fire.
2. 1981 Mercury Capri with ~90k. Drove that about 3 days and a van hit me at Maple and North Bailey.
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Whoever told them that was the way to go doesn't know the job. You don't expand your market by limiting content, you do the exact opposite, unless your market won't expand further.
It's like being happy getting a nickel-->Insider, when you could get a dollar-->WebMd.I remember 10 years ago telling them in a survey that I wasn't going to pay for additional content.
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To be honest? ESPN's made a ton of recent moves designed to improve their product.
Not saying your point isn't valid, but they are making the effort.
I honestly hadn't noticed until reading Tim's column on Peters, today. Tim, you told me something new in that column WRT the other agents disapproval of the hold-out. I started to add the comment "Tim Graham may just make me a regular visitor to ESPN.com, again." at the bottom, but when it asked for a registration, I said no thanks.
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Vic Carucci/Milt Northrup/Larry Felser or Mark Gaughan/Allen Wilson/Jerry Sullivan? There's some large boots to fill, and for whatever reason, they are not. I guess my feeling is that the first trio were reporters first, commentators second, and radio talk show personalities occasionally. Jerry Sullivan just seems to look for something controversial to write about. Larry always seemed to be fair imho. It gets wearying after a while. The other guys are mostly fine, but they are lumped in with the editorial staff.
PS- I actively look for Chuck Pollock's stuff. He most reminds me of what I used to get with the News.
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Please, Jason, for the love of God. Report to camp so threads like these go away forever.
I'll second that ...
Sorry, I've avoided this subject for the most part, but got sucked in a little...
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That's interesting. Who was that player? How'd it turn out for him? I'm not being a wiseass, I'm serious. I had no idea.
Based on a google search on holdout "three years" left on contract and came up with a lot of threats to hold out. Though they had three years (Marshall Faulk and Plaxico Burress) left, but no one else has actually gone through with it except GB CB Mike McKenzie, and his agent quit when he did. He eventually reported to the Packers and faked an injury. A few weeks later he was traded to the Saints.
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Schobel held out by skipping some off season stuff. They let him know they were going to give him a new deal so he came in. The numbers were all worked out before training camp though some details delayed the signing of it for a few weeks. I am sure that if they committed to a new deal for Peters in February, with the numbers and all to be negotiated, we wouldn't be having this discussion. The team has made it clear, he isn't going to get a new deal this year.
If you want to look at it closely enough, there are differences that work in Peters' favor. What differences there are, don't justify the radically different treatment. One guy gets a spectacular new deal shortly after already getting a spectaculary good deal, the other guy gets bupkus. The situations are certainly close enough for Peters to argue he is getting shafted compared to how they treated Schobel. Frankly, no one thinks Schobel is the best DE in the league and never will. There are some who already think Peters is the best in the league. I don't agree but I do think he is in the top 3 and may end up the best before he is done. We have likely already seen the best of Schobel. Peters made the pro bowl earlier in his career. Like I said, you could find many reasons to favor Peters. Overall, the situations are close enough.
Schobel did show up to the stuff he was contractually obligated to...
I think one of the main goals of the FO since Levy replaced TD has been to repair the image of the Bills franchise. Redoing Schobel's deal is an example. This thing with Peters puts them in a very difficult position.
BTW, I agree Peters is a special talent and that he should get a huge raise. I just don't think holdouts are usually good for the player or the team.
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Ummm....... I never said countless others have held out with 3 years left, I said countless others have held out. Can't you read?
But the point being argued, as opposed to your childish game of gotcha, is whether Peters is a pos for trying to get what he is worth. I don't think he is. I do think that a lot of fans around here seem to feel personally betrayed at the notion of a pro bowler wanting to be paid like one and have been bitching and crying about it for weeks. Your fantasies to the contrary little boy, the NFL is about money. The players want all they can get their hands on and the teams want to keep all they can. But if it helps you, go ahead and paint one side as villainous and the other as heroic.
It's hardly childish and it is a important to point out that you are glossing over the fact that this is anything but a typical holdout.
You are right though about the NFL being money driven. That may eventually drive me away from the NFL, though.
"To be the highest-paid, or anything like that, is not going to make me feel any better,'' he told me. "That's not what makes me happy. In this game, the more one player gets, the more he takes away from what others can get. Is it going to make me feel any better to make an extra million, which, after taxes, is about $500,000? That million might be more important to the team.''My fantasy is that Peters were a little more like Tom Brady. I only played HS ball, and I never thought I would make a dime on it. But damn did I love to play the game. I wish these guys did, too, and most simply don't.
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I don't think Peters, comparing his situation to Schobel's would agree that they have been reasonable. We don't know the team's specific strategy anymore than we do Parkers.
Schobel had a much larger body of work behind him when they extended him. It was also done after a training camp that Schobel attended. Schobel attended all the off season stuff, too last year.
The guy was hurt the last time the Bills saw Peters. They're supposed to bend over when he hasn't shown up to even demonstrate he is healthy?
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Oh he has leverage, the question is whether he has enough this year to get what he wants. This very well could be part of a plan to make sure he gets a new deal next year. The team hasn't committed to giving him a new deal if he comes in, but they have come close. If he has another good year, he can make the same argument next year and with 2 years on his deal still left, he will just as little leverage as he has now. This holdout might be to create some leverage for next year. Only Parker and Peter know for sure.
The Bills likely would have redone the deal anyway after this season. They have not been unreasonable in recent history...
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And if he does, he will demand to be traded and if they don't he will sit, again. After the childish whining in the media about him that Brandon did, he will want out of here as soon as he can get out of here. After seeing how they treated Schobel, giving him a new deal before camp, he will justly wonder why he is getting shafted.
"crap like this" ??? Do you mean holding out like countless players before him? Or do you mean holding out when he actually had a valid arguement that he was getting paid way below his value? Or do you mean the way we he didn't bawl and posture in public but respectfully kept his yap shut? Or do you mean the way he asked for the same treatment they gave Saint Schobel last year?
If they don't pay him now, they may get him back on the field but in the long run, they will simply be guaranteeing that the majority of his hall of fame career will be spent for the benefit of some other team.
One other player in the history of the league has held out when they had three years remaining.
Can you not count to one?
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I'd start discussions with Cinci about a trade involving Levi Jones and a draft pick. I'd also start whatever paperwork is necessary to have the signing bonus he was paid in 2006 returned ASAP.
Holding out with one year? Fine. Holding out with three left? Absurd, and nearly unprecedented.
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We plan on having kids soon... I got one of those home tests at various parts in the house, but no reaction at spots I suspected. Why should we not do an inspection?
For Mass, the inspector is required by law to report all positive tests to the state. We got a positive when we bought in 2001 which had to be disclosed in the listing when we sold it in 2007. If we'd done our own tests, we could have fixed it and the listing would say unknown like 95% of the other houses. The laws in MA are also not surprisingly goofy regarding lead removal. If you are doing repairs specifically to remove lead, you need to let the health dept. know and have conspicuous signage outside stating that is what you are doing. No one is allowed in the dwelling until a lead inspector re-inspects (the dust generated during lead removal gets everywhere, and a hepa vacuum is needed) and says it is safe for occupation. On the other hand, if your motivation to remodel just happens to involve a piece of wood that may or may not contain lead, you don't need to inform anyone, nor do you have to get approval to move back in. Maybe your state isn't quite a dumb about it as Massachusetts.
Wacka, the guy I had doing the lead inspection was using an x-ray gun that went right through all layers of paint. In MA, lead gets a failure no matter how deep. Then, and only then, can you encapsulate. You would still have to list it as positive/mitigated should you re-sell. It seems a pretty good racket <sp?> for inspectors and lead removal contractors, to me.
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So I recently moved into a house I just bought that was built in the early 1960s. It has had extension renovations downstairs, but upstairs the floors and walls need some work in the future.
So we did the whole lead disclosure thing where the seller's said they knew nothing and we were told that you have to expect lead paint in pre-78 homes. But we were like, we'll just have to be careful about peeling paint and whatnot. Now, we are working on painting some of the rooms and are wondering whether maybe my wife and I should have been concerned about this more than we were. The place has new windows and new siding.
This is all new to me having grown up in a house built in 1979. Does anyone have any thoughts? Should we shell out for the risk assessment to have some idea what we got ourselves into? Is this all overblown?
I paid $250 (I think - it was 2002 when I did the class) to get a license to do lead paint removal in Massachusetts. Basically, it can harm children if ingested or inhaled. It really isn't a huge issue with adults. If you don't have kids, yet, don't worry about it unless you plan to. Then, replace the stuff you think may have lead (there are self test kits out there- use them, not an inspector) before they are born. At the very least, keep the dust levels low where lead is possible. When you sell, you do the same thing about knowing nothing. BTW, even newer than 1978 housing claims unknown because you never know if an old can of lead paint might have been used.
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work machine on XP.... FF should be platform independent here.
It's not working for me either... FF3.01 XP on the work PC.
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