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20 hours ago, Pine Barrens Mafia said:
Delightful!
But the fact remains that were it not for a miracle run at the end of last season, they'd have won it.
I agree. I’ll add, if not for the sun we’d live in darkness.
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On 4/8/2024 at 3:57 PM, BillStime said:On 4/8/2024 at 3:57 PM, BillStime said:
Let's go B!
Birthday parties can be cancelled. They haven’t happened, yet. Debt can’t be cancelled. You can only change who repays. More honest than “I’m canceling debt” is “I’m shifting the loan payments to working families who pay taxes.”
If it’s a good idea, why not cancel credit card debt, auto debt and mortgage debt? The answer, of course, is that pandering at that scale would reveal the transparently absurd that goes unrecognized at a smaller scale.
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On 1/17/2024 at 4:00 PM, Tommy Callahan said:
Moore’s finest moment. Trump is the symptom, not the disease. You get Trump when you leave “everyman” behind.
I am not aware of a politician less understood by those who oppose him. He was created and is sustained by those who oppose or dispise him most.
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I don’t know Kristi Noem from Adam. I cannot attack or defend her character or behavior.
I do know good people who I would defend who’ve put untrainable working dogs and unevenly tempered family dogs down.
I know some who’ve used vets and some who’ve done it themselves.
One of the more powerful memories of my youth was talking to a family friend who shot his own dog. From my eight year old point of view, living with my divorced single mom, he was a “man’s man.” He worked, hunted and fished. He was polite and quiet. The dog was elderly and in pain. It was a hunting dog and lifelong family companion. The man felt a responsibility, born in his love for the dog and his understanding of what it meant to be a man, to do the merciful thing with his own hand. He took the dog hunting one last time and shot it in a field. Hunting was the dog’s greatest joy. This memory is one of many that formed my view of what a man is.
Imagine him talking to an eight year old with tears in his eyes. I hope I grew to become son. brother, husband and father who’d do the same thing the same way.
Life lesson … there are dozens of cultures that are not your own, but are gracious, compassionate, thoughtful and honorable just the same.
Call a shelter and tell them you have an untrainable dog that kills chickens and bites people. The dog was going to be put down.
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1 hour ago, BillsFanNC said:
But remember, they're not Marxists!
Her Biography. Keep in mind, kids borrow money and give it to colleges. Colleges then give the money to the King-Slutzkys of the world. The kids then don’t pay the lenders back. The government then collects from you, and me, the taxpayers, for the loan. Loans can’t be cancelled. Lenders can only be stiffed.
The bright side? Our kids spent four years with this … with your tax dollars in her pocket. People get the government they deserve.
Biography
My dissertation is on fantasies of limitless energy in the transatlantic Romantic imagination from 1760-1860. My goal is to write a prehistory of metabolic rift, Marx’s term for the disruption of energy circuits caused by industrialization under capitalism. I am particularly interested in theories of the imagination and poetry as interpreted through a Marxian lens in order to update and propose an alternative to historicist ideological critiques of the Romantic imagination. Prior to joining Columbia, I worked as a political strategist for leftist and progressive causes and remain active in the higher education labor movement.
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We’re handling it a little differently here in Florida.
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On 4/8/2024 at 5:20 PM, WotAGuy said:
The Wikipedia and other articles about the making of the album are really interesting. And the female singer in Great Gig in the Sky sued for a writing credit and won, even though she doesn’t sing any words.
Clare Torry. Great story of her walking in and performing with little or no instruction.
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For those interested, I watched “recaps” on Agadamator’s Chess Channel, YouTube. He’s very good and he gives some current event or historical context.
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On 4/29/2024 at 1:11 PM, Ridgewaycynic2013 said:
"Now here's a guy who leaves a one star review for the French fry truck, because the chef didn't use enough vinegar..."
😉😁I understand your point. But, if fries are lacking vinegar and its not available on the side, I can understand a one star review.
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I like the kid. Waffle House. Say no more.
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19 hours ago, Beck Water said:
I think they must appeal to a certain demographic, by which I mean the guys who grew up watching Bradshaw as a QB and admiring Jimmy Johnson as a coach.
Fox wants to stick with that demographic, while CBS wants to update from Phil Simms and Boomer Esiason.
The Google Webs will tell you the exact opposite in terms of the Fox Network demographic and the CBS Network demographic. Now, I’m no marketing guy, but some comments made me curious. Browse at your own pace and consistent with your own tastes.
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Regarding trading with a bitter rival. You compete with them by assembling talent, coaching talent and deploying talent. If you fear outcome or criticism in any of the categories, you’re in the wrong business. Memes and jokes arise because there is a large portion of the population who react to the fear and create an audience for the memes. They're not NFL decision makers and leaders.
7 hours ago, Boatdrinks said:Actually we do. The Bills would have simply stayed put and drafted Worthy if they had him higher or wanted to draft him. Thats fairly obvious.
We know the Bills valued Coleman and a pick exchange greater than they valued Worthy, They may very well have preferred, and therefore taken, Worthy at 28 without a trade if both were available.
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17 minutes ago, Low Positive said:
That's a serious place. I would get the Ossobuco Alla Milanese myself.
Great choice, great choice.
My wife’s birthday AND her sister is arriving to stay with us. The Big Night!
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https://donatellotampa.com/italian-dinner-menu/
Plans and menu …. with my cell phone in my lap.
Vorrei un Brunello di Montalcino, per favore.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper_Lion
I read this in middle school a million years ago. Great book for “everyman” fans.
Athletic culture, teamwork, personalities, and the real gulf between pro athletes and the rest of us.
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30 minutes ago, Chandler#81 said:
Few here even remember Simpson’s college career. I followed it intensely. Most -if not all USC games in his senior year were televised because of his on field exploits. As a forlorned Bills fan then, 1968 was a terrible year. We lost 5 QBs to serious injury, eventually turning to seldom used WR Ed Rutkowski to finish the season. Throughout that bitter campaign, all Bills fans kept an eye on O.J. as we may well earn 1st overall pick in ‘69. I vividly recall the fear and tenseness the final weeks of that season as Philly was equally inept on the field and it very close. Then Philly won a game very late and we ‘earned’ the 1st pick. WNY was beside itself with anticipation and when he 1st reported he was swarmed over at the airport. One of my favorite players at the time was Gary McDermott (no relation) who wore #32. So O.J. was issued #36 and there are many pics available of him wearing that number. But McDermott was cut at final cutdown and the number given to Simpson. Gil Perrault and Bob McAdoo were huge 1st rounders but they paled in comparison to the arrival of O.J.
I had two turtles I kept in one of those little oval turtle habitats with the plastic palm tree. They were named OJ and Sogge. Steve Sogge was the USC quarterback. That’s how big OJ was. Knowing he could be a Bill had a seven year old following USC’s college team.
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18 minutes ago, K-9 said:
None of those three could hold a candle to John Hummer!
Princeton’s finest!
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There are few opportunities richer for inter-web flaming and faux outrage than those in which two things can be true at the same time. Choose one truth and launch into the other with not-so-clever rhetorical shading and misrepresentation.
Shame, too., This story is perhaps the most remarkable of my life with regard to accomplishment, celebrity, failure and tragedy .. complete with charismatic and beautiful people. It is the closest thing to classic Greek Tragedy than anything else I can think of. There is a kingdom, ordinary people, a great king, jealousy, infidelity, a slain wife … wealth, power, fame, blood and gore and mystery.
I hope all involved rest in peace, a sentiment that’s true at the same time as any recognizing dastardly evil.
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3 hours ago, ControllerOfPlanetX said:
Just need to perfect this:
Hornung and Kramer …
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Because he’s put the best product on the field in thirty years.
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4 hours ago, PBF81 said:
Isn't it kind of like that everywhere though? Consider here, when a player's here, he's great, much better than they typically are in reality, especially upon us signing them. When the leave, if they didn't perform, not to historical patterns, but to unfounded narratives, then they're worthless, a cancer, a detriment, "good riddance," etc. LOL
That's just human nature. Trying to slice through it all is where the work is. Most people don't put in the time. I'll give one good example.
Most people, everywhere, talk about draft prospects as if they know all about them, but most people merely read a few draft profiles and carry those. There's zero personal risk that way. If they're wrong, oh well, everyone was wrong, even Kiper or whomever. It takes a ton of time to evaluate a draft prospect. Back in the day you could order the offensive/defensive coaches' view video from sideline and endzone of every play that a particular player had, by player. Call/write the school, tell them you're a journalist, and they'd send them to you free of charge. I'm sure they'd still do that today. Today there's youtube, but that's far from comprehensive. But evaluating that video takes time, but it also allows you to come to your own conclusions.
I love those highlight reels of some player from a Power-5 school beating up on Bowling Green, but is that a really good data point? How many players on Bowling Green are headed to the NFL, especially from that team for example. Who cares how a top prospect performed against the NCAA equivalent of a JV team. A better approach is to look at the tougher games against similar P5 competition that features opposing players that are headed to the NFL, right.
But all that takes time, lots of time. By my estimation it takes a good 10+ hours to properly evaluate a player as if I were on a staff considering drafting him. But think about the ramifications. For just 30 players, at a 40 hr. work week, that's about two months of work, for someone doing it full-time. Reviewing most of the draft field is not even remotely possible for any single person. Hence, most people simply refer to the draft profiles, which are really all more or less scripted from one another in one or more forms. All of these "independent" draft sites, if you look, really don't have much different info than nfl.com's draft site, Kiper, etc.
Any player can be made to look like he should be the first overall pick from highlight videos. Any player can be made to appear to be among the most overrated. That's where teams should be earning their keep, in their independent analyses. It's why, for example, anyone looking back in the day, could easily see that Mike Evans would be the far better overall prospect than Watkins. Watkins made his collegiate living as a man among boys and largely on plays that simply do not work at the NFL level. So why would it be any different simply because a bunch of draft analysts said so. And on that note, how much work, on top of all the other stuff that they do, are those analysts really putting in besides highlight reels, which again, are often against week and feeble opponents. The very first thing that anyone should look at for top prospects on highlight reels, is the helmets of the team that they playing, and how good the opposing players on that team are. The second thing is how well they performed in their biggest of games. I'm not a big Caleb Williams fan for that reason, to me he's got a high percentage to bust. BJT OTOH hits those notes. That's not to say that he's a "can't miss" prospect, but if he's there he'd be a good choice but I wouldn't trade up at the cost of additional relevant pics to get him either.
Anyway, again, just my two cents.
Insight! I’ve said at work many times, the quickest way to go from “critical to our success” to “an under-performer we’ll replace and be better” is to resign.
1 hour ago, BeastMaster said:Like most of the media (not just sports) their takes are lazy and part of the hive mind/group think mentality.
It's so bad now that I usually end up tuning out within a few minutes.
When you feel like numerous posters here and even you could do a better job than they do, it's a sad state of affairs
Add deadline pressure to your analysis. Reporters need to report NOW and often have to fill minutes or column inches regardless of the thoroughness of their investigating. That was true in the old 24 hour news cycle. It’s now minute to minute. A Buffalo Sports HOF reporter once called me with questions about something in the news. He told me what he thought he knew which was incomplete and, therefore, wrong. I told him I couldn’t / wouldn’t answer questions. He said something along the lines of “well, that’s what I have and I’m going with it” if I didn’t correct things. I didn’t He did.
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6 hours ago, BarleyNY said:
Is anyone else more disgusted than usual with the media regarding the Diggs trade? Virtually every Bills centric media member was dismissive about the possibility of him being traded beforehand. Some went so far as to be rude about it and acted like people making the suggestion were idiots for even thinking it was a possibility.
Fast forward to the aftermath and I’ve yet to hear one utter anything in the way of a mea culpa. I literally heard one of the more dismissive ones start off their podcast with “Well, it finally happened!” Like it was something he’d been expecting.
It’s a good reminder that so many media people are just playing a game. I shared here that an NFL reporter who’d been in Vegas for SB week had said that the big rumor among teams that week was that the Bills would be trying to trade Diggs this offseason. I don’t write that here to LAMP. But if it’s something that can make it to someone like me, how do they not hear it. They’re supposedly so well connected. Or is it that they collectively kept a lid on it? I dunno, either way it’s not a good look. I lost a lot of respect for many of them.
I felt that as well. Frankly, the same thing happened here to the Diggs must go crowd in some threads. As an admitted non-capoligist with only high school football XandO knowledge, I get some snarky responses. Self awareness, I post some snark, as well. Life goes on!
I specifically thought of you and your Vegas post at the announcement. @transient had a gambling insight with the Texans, also.
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11 minutes ago, cale said:
In what planet does this make sense?
1) 2025 2nd round pick
2) 31M in dead cap space
Our draft better be a 10/10. Or they just plan to tank.
One that cures you of cancer and sends a down sloping diva to another time zone. I have more confidence in Beane’s ability to work with a complicated salary structure than a complicated head. One is predictable, dependable and adds up. One is unpredictable, undependable, and subtracts.
The calculus here is as much “are 51 other guys better or worse with Diggs” as it is “are we WR1 better or worse with Diggs.”
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35 minutes ago, Ethan in Cleveland said:
A 2025 2nd round pick!
Beane got had.
This is all to placate McD's fragile ego.
This is really stupid move for this year.
Only way Beane recovers from this is to mortgage multiple picks to move up and get one of the top 3 WR.
Sad sad day when you chose the loser HC over the guy that was the heart and soul of the team for years.
If you’re on a team or in an organization, and Diggs is your “heart and soul,” you should run. We often allow destructive behavior to be cloaked by the adjective “passionate.”
Question or topic of the day - a new idea for the board
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Ingrid Bergman or Sophia Loren?