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I remember arguing this for several years with fans who still wanted to run it back with “the core” of Eichel, Reinhart, Risto and roster tweeks. I have never been a professional athlete, but I have worked in business long enough to know how critical attitude and culture is to any effective team. If your super star performer has a poor attitude and infects those around him, THEY ARE NOT WORTH IT. I have found this to be true in business/life, and there is no reason to think pro sports is different. Changing culture involves changing people. Sometimes it’s clear and obvious and sometimes there are some collateral loses (Reinhart). On this board we already have a perfect example with what McBeane has done with our favorite team.

I was most surprised because you have to think he’s encountered countless people like this over the years looking to instigate their way into a lawsuit.

https://amp.tmz.com/2022/04/21/mike-tyson-repeatedly-punches-man-face-plane-bloodies-passenger/ After reading this I’m sure this guy deserved it. Stinks for Tyson that this loser got to him.

Water is wet. Losing the Bills wasn’t an option we could stomach. It is what it is. Glad they are staying.

They were running fundraisers to make needed repairs. The Pegulas should carve them off some of that stadium money to properly maintain an important piece of our history from WW2….

I can’t argue with the analytics side. There is so much out about pitch counts, injuries, etc. I can’t argue that hard about the decision in itself. I think what the OP is venting about is how analytics has cut out a lot of opportunities for special moments. I’m a fan at the end of the day. Cutting out more and more opportunities for these moments and you’re left with a very long, dry, and boring season in a sport that is hemorrhaging fans for years. Furthermore, and I know I may get dragged for this, but if Kershaw was ok with coming out of the game here it further confirms my long doubts on him. His playoff splits tell the story. One of the best pitchers of our time, but he’s not the assassin type competitor that distinguishes the true greats. He’s always seemed soft to me. May be unfair but has been my opinion for a while on him.

Honestly pathetic. It’s one thing if his pitch count is out of control and, yes I also understand the abbreviated spring training issue, but 7 perfect with only 80 pitches? How do you not let the guy go out for the 8th? It’s sadly where the game is at. I don’t even blame the manager, GMs run everything in baseball.

I hate being petty…..but between the Sabres being watchable and Eichel getting dragged online as Vegas teeters on missing the playoffs I am really enjoying the end to this NHL season!

Keyshaun said late in the season he would still take a healthy Lamar Jackson over Allen. He’s just an Allen hater.

As others have mentioned, Severance on Apple is a must watch.

They do list subgrades and can be looked up through Becketts population report. I love my RPA /25 it’s a four color patch that looks really sharp. Centering- 9.5 Edges - 9.5 Corners - 9.5 surface -9 auto -10 I don’t have the glove card in front of me but was similar. I’ve thought about waiting and having PSA regrade them because there seems to be a slight price premium between PSA 10 and BGS 9.5 even if quality is the same. The long lead times have turned me off to that. Just holding and admiring! I agree with your other points. I have a lot of NBA prizms due to the value people place on them, but there’s so much garbage hard to get anything valuable. Football seems to be QB or bust, which is why I never bought a lot apart from Allen.

This. There are a ton of variations between sports, between lines of cards, low runs of certain cards, etc. Unless you are very up to date a lot can seem inconsistent. Huge money in NBA cards. Hunting for a Doncic rookie luckily got me back in long enough to grab some Allen rookies. In general it’s an overly expensive hobby these days. My Josh cards are out of 25 (flawless gold rookie patch auto) and out of 15 (flawless signature glove) both grades BGS 9.5. I see no reason to sell now, but I doubt they ever hit some of these lofty marks.

I have two higher end Josh cards (Panini Flawless RPAs) that I spent a few hundred on between purchase and grading. They are currently worth several thousand each. Need a couple super bowls and MVPs now!

This may already be a top 5 internet meme photo!

I don’t believe it was staged. Guess I’m one of the dumb sheep.

Seems like Will is going through some stuff. Real tough look for him last night. Wow.

It would honestly depend on the return for me. At first thought it seems insane to trade your #1 with established chemistry with Allen. Diggs frustrated me last season though. He seemed to give up on plays and lobby for a flag early instead of continuing to fight for the ball. Cost him both the catch and any potential flag. They don’t want you waving your arms for a flag before the ball even gets to you. Bothered me a lot last season and I partially blame the Tampa loss on that alone. I still doubt they’d get a good enough return, but we’ll see.

One that continues to stick out in my head was actually coming home from a Bills game. There has been a few bad rides home with weather, but this one was an out of town trip. I forget the exact year, 07 or 08 against Cleveland. Both teams had a playoff chance still and I was desperate to be at the game. Drove in the night before because they were saying we were getting a bad storm and slept at some dock we later tailgated at the next morning. Storm eventually came and if you remember it was a brutal unplayable game in Cleveland the Bills lost. The drive home still haunts me. I was on very little sleep and shot and soaked from standing in the blizzard. Drunk Browns fans were torturing us as well. If took nearly 8 hours to drive home from Cleveland in a total whiteout. By far the worst drive I’ve had to take.

I was as low as possible with this franchise over the summer and didn’t expect anything from this season. It’s been such a pleasant surprise to be excited and interested in The Sabres again. I’m looking forward to next season for the first time in a long time. People tiptoed around the Eichel issue for years. The fact all the confirming stories are pouring in now isn’t particularly surprising. The guy dragged this team down with his ***** attitude. The trade is looking very lopsided for Buffalo from my viewpoint.

Spot on. I couldn’t believe he leaned in like that. I thought the quotes were fake until I saw the video, which was somehow worse. He just seems extremely immature and unprofessional.

Sorry Jack I grew up watching playoff series. Hard to get into your games when the team was eliminated every year by January. Love to see he’s salty after tonight!

Great win tonight fun game! Where do you stand on the Eichel tribute video? I figured they would do one, but I wouldn’t have.

Not surprised at all. All the talk about going to an AFC team made no sense whatsoever to me, especially Denver. Guy wants to get to another Super Bowl then joins a division with Mahomes/Herbert plus Allen/Burrow/Jackson/probably forgetting someone in the conference? Staying in Green Bay seemed very obvious.

I’m currently watching all of us are dead. I think its ok but I’m invested enough to want to know what happens. I loved squid game. I haven’t gotten deep into Korean shows, but got really into their films the past decade. I love a good Korean revenge film.

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