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Ridgewaycynic2013

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  1. Before the interweb, you might pick up a stray wire story about your team's predicted performance.  Nowadays anybody with a keyboard who uses the term 'analytics' is an expert with plenty of exposure on the internet.  Until the players start wiping out on shower mats in training camp, I'll say that most of the pundits are throwing darts at a dart board.

  2. On 2018-01-12 at 8:55 AM, Helpmenow said:

    Saw the police there and Los lobos

    I'm sure you did.  Just Cheektowaga, or did they need the Erie County Sheriff's Department to assist?

  3. 1 hour ago, The Poojer said:

    Did you ever blow bubbles when you were a kid?:lol:

     

     

    Actually, Bobcat Goldthwait's contention that that was one of Michael Jackson's pastimes got Goldthwait in trouble with the legal department of 'the Hollywood Squares'.

  4. 29 minutes ago, teef said:

     

    i went to a dealer an hour and a half away to get my new car two weeks ago.  why?  they gave me the best deal, and i felt like they wanted my business.  it's a tough business it seems.

    My son saw a sedan online through a mega used car group over a hundred miles away.  The salesman and car were here the next day for a test drive, a few days later after the deal closed the salesman, the car, and a chase car and driver were back to deliver it.  Things have changed, haven't they!  My dad was a truck driver hauling various routes throughout New York State, he would stop at various dealers if something on a lot caught his eye, or if he had previous 'good' dealings with a dealership.  Al Zimmerman Oldsmobile in Akron (old location) got a couple of sales simply because my father thought him a good honest person selling a good product.

  5. 6 minutes ago, teef said:

    at another dealer down the street, who is not part of a large group, acted like it was lucky to be there, offered me the least on my trade it, and made me wait for 45 mins even though i had an appt.  i didn't go back.

    You would think the smaller dealer would be bending over backwards to get your business.  I'm that old that I remember brand loyalty and dealership / salesperson loyalty factoring into choices made by my father and grandfather.

    8 minutes ago, teef said:

    by shill do you mean a paid spokesman?  wouldn't you take money to say a few words in front of the camera?

     

    edit:  or on radio

    It depends.  If it's me,  I would have to approve of the practices of whatever entity I'm acting as a spokesperson for.  When viewing a high profile third party acting as a spokesperson, they're all shills until I get the backstory.  It's the cynic in me. ?

  6. 10 minutes ago, row_33 said:

    Go ahead, what is your personal interest in this?

     

     

    I'm always interested in trends and how things are heading in the business world....

    Hearing Tasker on the radio on Murphy's show, and remembering hearing him shill for one of the car lines associated with a mega group.  

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  7. Years ago, if a Ford dealer announced he was seeking a Chevy franchise, Ford Motor Corporation would have been over taking down the Ford sign before the ink on the Chevy contract dried.  Nowadays it seems that big automotive groups will sell you anything from the Big 3, as well as just about any import.  I suppose there's some merit in volume buying, but haven't state and federal governments always equated monopolies not in the public's interest?  Small new car dealers years ago were not only competing against other brands, they were competing against the dealer in Akron, or Orchard Park, who also sold the same brand.  When did the dynamics get turned around?

  8. 1 hour ago, RollBillsRoll said:

     

    A placeholder that maybe can get you some championship rings!

    alabama.jpg

    He's a professional football player AND a 'fence'?!

    3 hours ago, Call_Of_Ktulu said:

    Peterman looks hammered, he must've stopped at big tree for some wings and a few cocktails.

    Maybe still 'shell shocked' from the 5 pick performance against S.D. / L.A.?

  9. 1 hour ago, row_33 said:

     

    somebody famous's father was supposed to get the Coach role but took on a loser of a movie instead, so basically Woody Harrelson wouldn't have had a career without that decision.

     

    Care to substantiate?  Or are you just working up draft day prediction skills?

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  10. 3 hours ago, Gugny said:

     

    At the risk of going off topic (apologies to the OP), I still believe "Cheers," is the best sitcom, ever.

    Phone rings:

    "Cheers...is there an Ernie Pantuso here?"

    "That's you, Coach."

    "Speaking."

     

    Definitely in my top 5 all time sitcom dialogue exchanges.

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