***PetrinoInAlbany***

This is the actual letter I just sent to CableVision ... Thought you guys might get a kick out of it... I cannot wait to hear their response! ********************************************************** TO: The person in charge Where to start? OK ... I just went through the pleasant experience of trying to get my service reconnected. Total ... seven hours lost work time at $40.00/hour ... three-and-a-half HOURS on the phone last night with your tech support staff ... countless time on hold ... three hours spent waiting for the guy to show yesterday ... It's fixed for now. It's back on. Here's the best part. Turned out the problem is that you have my address WRONG on YOUR damn records. You have me at apartment A, not apartment F ! So your auditors went and disconnected apartment F - my apartrment - because I was a "non-paying customer." With me so far? Good. So I call your "customer service" number and tell them to change my records to show the CORRECT ADDRESS so it doesn't happen again. I am told that this has to be done in writing. I explain to the lady that it's a simple correction to YOUR records and should be easy to do without written correspondence. THEN she explains that "we have no contact with the people who change addresses." Excuse me?!? It's the same FU<#ING company! YOUR mistake costs me $280.00 in time off AND hours of my precious time - and I mean HOURS - of my valuable time, and now you won't fix it? Who's running that company??!? They are going to send me some form to correct this. Whether or not I ever get it is a crap-shoot because, again - YOU have the WRONG address on YOUR records!!! (Read that last sentence again so it sinks in... I'm not sure anyone there is getting that aspect of it.) I live at APARTMENT F !!! I do NOT reside at Apartment "A" as your records indicate. I live at APARTMENT F !!! That's "F" as in "who's running this FU<#ING company?!?!!" So go ahead and mail the change-of-address paperwork to the wrong address. In the meantime, please at least tell your auditors NOT to come out (AGAIN) and disconnect Apartment F (again) because YOUR records are in error. Because, if this happens again, I am going immediately to Radio Shack and purchasing a dish. My neighbors all have them. I'm beginning to understand why. John Petrino XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX APARTMENT F xxxxxxxxxxxx, xx xxxxx

There's a lesson in this... If you or anyone you know has even the slightest hint that they might be suffering from depression, see a doctor. It's so easy to treat. It's a simple chemical imbalance and it's the easiest thing in the world to treat. Kelly used to e-mail me from time to time when he found out I lived in East Greenbush, about fifteen miles south of Granville. He was a true Bills fan and reached out his hand in friendship on more than one occasion. We had our tongue-in-cheek "arguments" out in the open forums of PP&P and The Wall, but individually he was a gentleman and - like the rest of us - a Bills fan and a family man. Let's all pray for his family. As a Christian, I know that God forgives anything a person does that's not of his own will. Depression is no joke, and it causes irational actions if not treated. It's a disease. May Jesus welcome him in Heaven.

"In my day, you got ONE game! Your team got clobbered, and you took it like a man."

It was a nice trip back. Beautiful driving weather. Drew just hit TO for a TD with 2 minutes left ... 24-17 Jags ... stay tuned!

... they didn't give up 6.5 yards-per-carry on running plays on first down. (*sigh*) I'm in a bad mood. The home-job by the refs didn't help things either ... I feel bad for DJ because his team almost won for him in his first game. But no points in the second half won't cut it ... actually, munus-two points if you count the Losman square dance in the end zone. Like I said, I'm in a bad mood.

Please save one GENERAL spot for the Albany/Amherst contingent! Thanks ...

Well, it was indeed an awesome show. Best concert I've seen in years. Anyone else make it up there last night? Neil Young stole the show - he always does. They played for three-and-a-half hours, and the breaks weren't that long, either. Man, it's like a romp through the history of rock music. It was an amazing show! The closing is an incredible long version of Rockin' In The Fee World, featuring Steven Stills and Neil Yound playing twin lead guitars, and Neil jamming like I haven't seen him do since Crazy Horse was touring for Rust. They play almost all of the new Young album Living With War ... he's got his anger back, and it jump-started his song-writing again. Great protest songs, great rock & roll. They also played a lot of their oldest (and best) classics. They throw in a few tunes (the best ones, actually) off of David Crosby's new album. (Everybody loved Treetop Pilot ... a humorous rock ditty about a military pilot who comes back from 'Nam and becomes a smuggler pilot.) Plus a few off of Steven Stills newest studio release. The version of Flags Of Freedom was amazing. Great show. If they come out your way, I HIGHLY, HIGHLY recommend catching this tour ...

Harv and I will post pics of Rob at Giants training camp in Albany ...

I am enamoured by the idea of an ex-LB fullback running downfield to cover kickoffs. I think this guy will be a special teams stud! Just got a feeling ... - It's ... it's ... it's as if I want to SING! Like in the SPRING! He'll play gunner and hit guys so hard they won't remember a THING! And in year four when he negotiates his new contract? ??? ... Ka-CHING!!!!!!!

I can't reveal who this year's Ode subject will be. (Superstition, gotta be revealed the week before he actually takes the field as a Bill ...) But I can say this: In the future, when you hear me talk about the "Ming Dynasty" ... Well, I ain't talkin' vases, baby! Let the Ming Dynasty begin!!!!!!!

You know whose name I haven't heard mentioned in a while? Mike Williams. Wonder what ever happened to him ...

The only organized team activity I care about him actively and productively participating in on Sundays.

My "other" was for neglecting the ofensive line, and entrenching (or even merely enabling) a mentality at One Bills Drive that seemed to say, "The offensive line? Big deal ... we can address that in free agency. Offensive linemen are a dime a dozen. You can pretty much toss anyone in there with less than a year in our offense, and they should do just fine."

I bought my car in Malta. Um... the one in Saratoga County, not the island. You go there to ship back Ferraris, not Hyundais ...

I actually do remember you. Me? I've been a Waller since about ... wow, been so long I can't remember. Years ago, I noticed your tag and commented with what started a Rush thread, since a lot of us are big Rush fans from growing up in the Western New York area. Don't be offended that I can't place a true name or face ith your tag - as I'm certainly not offended that you don't remember me - because these forums are like that. The tag is the important thing. Life's grand, and I hope all's well with you too! By the way, in the real world, my name's John...

Hey, what ever happened to Mike Williams?

Not many true fullbacks crack a thousand yards. He did it his Pro Bowl season. I feel so bad for his family. He was only 39.

... when I go back up to Albany this summer to visit friends, we can go to UAlbany and watch the Giants camp and laugh at Rob. I got a kick out of the 'positive' angle to the story on the Giants official web-site... (Find it at www.giants.com\news\ ) Read it and you come away with the impression that the guy was the (statistically, anyway) best and most efficient passer in Bills history. They don't mention sacks. I'm having the best year of my life. I haven't been on in a while, so later I'm going to post a "catching up" post and say "hey" to my friends in here. Short version, got my hearing back ( a surgery that didn't exist fifteen years ago ) and got promoted into the job I can retire in. Live in Wappingers Falls now, actually in Chelsea (on the Hudson, across the river and about 13 miles north of West Point) ... Been too damn busy to post. Not just the job, but I have an 82-year old mother selling a house and moving. Work - despite the 12 hour days and constant fires - is like my peace & quiet after a weekend with Mom. (*sigh*) Miss you all and wonder ... Can I still be "PIA"? I'm not in Abany any more... What's the rule on that? It was never covered on Seinfeld ...

I wonder what the implications are for season ticket holders. The Bills are a regional team. A lot of the season-ticket base travels in for home games. I go 300 as it is, and now the Toronto thing would make it 410 ... to a HOME game. (*sigh*)

I know what it is. With the line we have, he probably gets sacked too much in practice, too...

Beat you to it. Mine was donned at 35-0. Somehow, it didn't get confiscated...

I was on Coach's show after the game on 1180 describing the incident "Albany,n.y." mentions in this thread. My seats are first row atop the luxury boxes, and there was snow on the 'shelf' created by the roof. Harv writes with his finger in the snow "FIRE MULARKEY." It was so inoccuous we forgot it was even there... All of a sudden, later in the quarter, we see three security/staff/cops/whatever... They are coming at us with walkie-talkies and very serious looks. We're looking behind us and around us for the fight, the glass bottle, the knife, the displayed weapon ... whatever it was that was apparently happening right where we were sitting, and was serious enough for them to send a cadre of three officers. Then Harv realizes, "Hey, they're looking at US!" Sure enough, they make him erase it.... letters in snow, for Christ's sake! Harv went along because he didn't want to get ejected. I just had to go on Coach's show with THAT one. Is that slightly paranoid behavior on the team's part, or is it just me? Even Ghost couldn't believe it and he saw it too. Wow.

OK... We're missing each other by miles here. Mularkey SHOULD HAVE backed off. And both knew it was not so bad he couldn't go back in. If you read it before responding, what I said was that they BOTH should have called it a misunderstanding and played the hurt thing. At least my way doesn't make us the laughingstock of the league. Oh, and if you miss thirty minutes of a game to add four years to your career because you maybe are hurt, you're not a "kitty." unless "kitty" means NOT an idiot. If a guy in any sport goes back into a game hurt and aggrivates it to where he can't walk or play again, then the coach, the fans, the people saying "kitty", Kelly, none of them are going to pay his bills.

And here's the point you're not getting. The fact that he said his tendon was twingeing (is that a word?) was the perfect reason/excuse for Mularkey to back off and keep the whole thing from becoming a flashfire. I don't really believe he was too hurt to come back in. But it should've been the lifesaver Mularkey and Moulds both reached for together before trying to to throw each other overboard. Tell you what... here's how we can settle it. We'll watch the situation for a year and let's just see if Eric really does lose his pay for the game or games he misses. And if he doesn't get it now, but gets it in a year in a grievance or a settlement with the Bills, that counts as getting it. I don't think he's really out the money, and I think Mularkey and the rest of them are NUTS for not just saying he was hurt and putting the whole thing to bed. - - I'm in a bad mood because my beloved Bills are a national laughingstock. Have you been listening to ESPN Radio the past two days? It's unbelievable. I never thought I would say this, but PLEASE, can we have MORE stories about the Colorado football coach?