That's No Moon

To be fair, it has been so long that I'm not sure I remember watching the draft the last time the Bills picked this late. It may have been communicated via telegraph or smoke signals.

And furiously gnawing her own arm off...

Douche Noodle

Yes, I recall this happening also, just not this Jets game. I recall Smerlas saying in the post game that they put wing sauce on the ball and told Ballard to go get it. I think it was the Patriots game from October of 1988. https://buffalonews.com/news/norwood-provides-bills-as-a-pat-answer-for-overcoming-first-half-turnovers/article_227521f3-1583-5a09-ad43-e1f7ebd97c0e.html

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Because he's hanging out with Tom Pelissero or his use of per? The me is correct and shouldn't be I.

All of this is exactly correct. You buy a car once every couple years. These guys spend their lives doing it. They are going to be better at it than you. That's just reality. You aren't going to win. You can't win. You can just do the best you can to limit the damage. You are welcome to go in and pay sticker. They won't argue with you.

Because they murder people on trade-ins. People go in focused on the price of the new car they want not the value of what they drove in. They'll go to the mat for $500 on the new car and then get hammered for $4,000 on the trade without blinking an eye. When thinking about what to offer for a used car look at Kelly Blue Book to see roughly what dealerships are offering for that car in trade-in value. You'll get a range. I use the median of that range as a base price for what I assume they paid for the car then offer $1,000 over that. For example, If KBB says they pay 13k in trade FOR the car then I'd offer them 14k to BUY the car. They may have paid a little more than average, they may have paid a little less, but they throw blue book value around when it suits them and the dealers have the right to make a little money. They certainly aren't paying MORE than what KBB says in trade because you know they'd come show the customer that and tell them they cant do the deal. If they aren't making money in the deal you won't get the deal, it's that simple. The idea is to minimize their margin, you're never going to eliminate it and you're never really going to know what it is on a given car so you have to work in aggregate. I got my last car for 30% off the sticker and all it took me was 2 emails and knowing some information. Could I have done better? Maybe. I'll never know what they actually paid for the car to the penny but I think I got at least reasonably close. I don't feel like I got skinned though and that's all you're trying to do. You can also see how they got the car. The Carfax shows the transaction records when the car was bought and sold. If it came from out of state somewhere (especially far away) just before the dealership owned it they got it at auction which means it was even less than KBB more than likely. If it was an auction car I offer less than normal because I know there is more room. The Carfax will also show you how long they've had the car. It shows you transaction record, when and where a car was sold. You want it to have been on that dealer's lot as long as possible. The longer the better. If they've had a car longer than a month they want it gone, 45 days they want it gone real bad, 60 days and they hate looking at it anymore. Those are the cars you want to buy. They will be cheaper because the dealer is more motivated to get its money out of it and bring in fresh inventory. If you look at a car and they've had it 3 days you aren't going to get a lot of price movement. 53 days? Big difference.

I've negotiated my last three cars (2 certified pre-owned, 1 new for my dad) over e-mail and didn't go to the dealership except to sign papers and take the car. I was there an hour and most of that time was me looking at the car. I strongly suggest buying certified pre-owned over new. You still have factory warranty, you have a dealership to B word to if something is wrong, you don't eat NEARLY the depreciation hit that you do with a new car. You'll end up with a much nicer car that is much better equipped for the same money.

I like to walk in the door with my own financing. If they can beat it fine, if not then I know what I have. New car guys really do have quotas and the end of the month matters to them. If you really feel like being ballsy go in on the last day of the month about 60 minutes before close of business, with all your financing in hand, knowing exactly what you want that is on their lot right at that second and see how you do. Be ready to leave if you don't get what you want. If you get a guy that needs to sell one more car that month to keep his job or hit his bonus or the dealership needs to sell one more car to hit a factory incentive you'll do really well. The difference to you between the last day and first day of the month is negligible. You can buy a car any day. That specific day matters a lot to the sales guys. If you're going to do that you can't piss around. You need to know exactly which car you want that they have on the lot, what you want to pay for it, and have your financing in hand when you walk in the door. If they give it to you, take it, sign the papers and take the car. You won't do better the next day by shopping the number. Give them an aggressive, but not stupid, price.

You don't have to do a trade in. You can just straight up sell your car. If the place that you are trading in with wants it then they need to pay what I can get in a stand alone deal for it. They usually don't want to do that and it's easier to do both deals separately. On that note, never go to CarSense or something to sell a car. I did that once just to see. I sold the car to another dealer a block away for double what they offered me and I wasn't really trying very hard.

Got my second shot (Pfizer) last week, sore arm arm and moderate fatigue. Wife got J&J last week, spiked a fever and felt like complete ass for 48 hours.

NFL *****...You... You decide after the fact who you screwed and used it as an instructional video. Kiss the wide parts of my ass. The lesson to be learned here is you want to be is marketable. If you are marketable you get the calls. If not, you aren't. In 2019 Watson was more marketable than Allen. Now? Not so much. The NFL just told you you, if this happened today this is how it would be called.

It depends on the the role and the price paid.

I was going to pull your chain, but this flat-Earth nonsense aggravates me so much I decided not to put any more of that energy into the world. I'm going to sleep on my not quite flat mattress on the definitely not flat Earth. If any of this annoys any other readers, find the edge of the world and I will gladly jump off for you.

I broke a piece of furniture that day. Not proud of it, but it happened.

It's my understanding that the upper decks need to be replaced. That makes sense in a 50 year old concrete and steel structure that lives in a nasty winter environment in a place where they use rock salt. If it were a bridge nobody would argue why it needs to be replaced at this point. The supporting columns have already had work done to them at least once. That kind of work can't be done in one off-season. Even if you start immediately in January or February you can't have everything torn down and reconstructed by August. There would likely be a season with no upper decks at all if they were able to even play in the stadium during the construction. The Bears played at U of Illinois for a year while Soldier Field had an upper deck added, etc. UBs facility isn't up to snuff, even on a temporary basis, and frankly I doubt that the 40 year old Carrier Dome is either. What does that leave? Hamilton? Toronto? Think of it this way, the current stadium is already older than the Rockpile when it was replaced. That opened in 1937 and was vacated in 1972. 45 years. The current stadium has been in use from 1973 to 2021. 48 years.

Tom's Discount ***** Warehouse Field

Yeah it only took the Bills a quarter of a century to get someone we think might be the guy. Totally simple.

All of this is only smart if Tua ends up better than the QB they could have taken at 3.

Inside Out when Bing Bong sacrifices himself for the life of the little girl who will forget he exists as a result of his sacrifice. Kids movies are cold blooded.

Only missing three games would represent massive improvement for him. He should talk to Baltimore people about working their little jobs. I'm sure that will work out well.

Is he on short term IR with a sprained pinky after inking that deal?

The Natural, when the kid brings Hobbs the bat they made together. Every. Freaking. Time.