PetermansRedemption

Beanie playing 4D Chess, as always

Bell is extremely lucky that his situation worked out as good as it did. If the Jets were not there to outbid themselves in their overpayment then he would have not been paid nearly as much.

Interesting off season for RB’s. Two are seeing the Le’Veon Bell overpay and thinking it’s the new market value. I think they are sorely mistaking.

Belichick. His record with backup QBs speaks for itself.

I love the idea of having an 18 game season with players restricted to 16. It would add another layer of strategy to this amazing game. Do you rest your starting QB the first two games of the season and hope your starter doesn’t get injured? Do you play your backup QB against a team who suffered an injury to their starter? Do you just go all out for the first 16 and hope you have the playoffs locked by week 17?

Their customer service is maddening inconsistent. Even more so since they were acquired by ATT.

Some people that happens to. No idea why everyone isn’t the same. When I went through that back in December I tried calling about five different times before it came to me actually cancelling. Was hoping I would get a decent customer service rep. Tried at different times of the month too. They were not willing to give me anything worth while until I actually cancelled.

My contract was up at the time I called. I was told always remain a free agent if you can help it. I did end up giving in and giving them a year for what they gave me though. I figured a year locked in at around $50 a month with free Sunday ticket is not too bad. My bill total comes to 67 with taxes and fees and that includes the 9.99 I pay per month for HBO.

If you call to actually cancel, you will get a deal as good as those who are newly signing up. But you have to actually go through with calling and cancelling. Here is what will happen. You call to cancel. The first rep is the basic retention department, they can’t do much. They will offer you some bare bones credit. When you refuse they will ask you what date you want to cancel and go through the whole spiel about how to send the boxes back and everything. Pick a date like 20 days in advance just to be safe. Now one of two things will happen. Most likely they will say something like “since you’ve been a loyal customer for so long we have a customer retention expert that would like to speak with you, would you speak to him?” Of course say yes. That guy can offer a lot. Last time I got a $60 credit for 12 months, $15 credit for 6 months, free movies and sports packages for 3 months, and free Sunday ticket max. It’s possible (unlikely) that you don’t get transferred to the special retention department. If not, don’t panic. Someone will call you from that department and offer you the same things. This scenario is why you want a cancel date 20-25 days out. To give them time to call you.

Depends on the return. For a garbage pick, sure. But I’m never in the camp of paying a premium pick for the privilege to overpay a RB. An argument can be made that there isn’t a more easily replaceable position in all of the NFL currently. If Beane wanted to overpay a RB he would have just done it for free with Le’Veon Bell.

Does anyone have a link to this recording?

Then he gets hurt and would complain to the hills if the team tried to get out of paying his contract ?

As Teddy KGB says “Pay that man his money”

“Market value” AKA, the insane deal Le’Veon Bell received from the Jets who were bidding against themselves.

I currently have nothing but DIRECTV. My last bill (and the bills prior to that) was $47/month. I have the choice package I believe. It isn;t the lowest package but it isn’t the highest package either. I think its a middle of the road one. My main problem with streaming is I really couldn’t find something that had every channel we desire, and that we currently have with DIRECTV. I was calling back in December to cancel and cut the cord after 5 years with DIRECTV. But they kept my bill cheap and gave me the free Sunday Ticket for this year. In return I had to agree to a 1 year contract, which expires this December. At that time I will call to cancel again and see if they give me the same deal.

My reason so far with keeping DIRECTV was/is the cost to value over most streaming services. I looked into “cutting the cord” and by the time I get a Netflix subscription and a HULU/VUE/SLING subscription I’m at the $50 a month I pay for DIRECTV. I hate that dish on my roof but until they stop giving me a good amount of credits per month, they have me suckered in.

My favorite part is asking for a supervisor as he’s wrestling with the cop ?. Whether he had a legitimate gripe or not, I think it’s a little too late to negotiate your way out of it at that point.

Going away for training camp is an unnecessary, antiquated practice that is thankfully coming to an end. I don’t see the Bills remaining in St John Fisher much longer. You have a brand new training facility in Orchard Park, use it. Have open practices in New Era where fans can actually enjoy the experience. SJF is horrendous for fans. Too little parking, too slow of a process to enter, too small of an area, not enough seating.

Classic. I just love Ed Oliver and the culture this team seems to have. Hopefully it translates to more wins this season. I have an optimistic feeling it will.

I have a similar mindset of you, in that I’ll deal with blizzards everyday rather than an earthquake, tornado or hurricane. Those things kill and destroy. A blizzard isn’t going to destroy your house and, except in extreme cases, isn’t going to kill you either. More on topi , earthquakes scare the sh-poop out of me. Isn’t Californian due for something like an 8.2+ sooner rather than later?

I don’t believe thats in the scope of standard practice of any EMS agency in the country. If anything, it was a “SMART” team, a team of doctors that respond to serious accidents in a fly car (typically a Chevy Tahoe). They obviously have the medical scope to do anything necessary. The only exception I could see is, as others have mentioned, it was literally dangling by a flap of skin and needed to be removed to get him from the vehicle.

Flo from progressive ?. I will never, ever get a quote from them because of those commercials. The only other commercials I hate nearly as much are the Buick commercials. “Buy our car because, shockingly, we don’t suck anymore.”

No more cringeworthy than the rest of their TV ads. Here in WNY we really have the “cream of the crop” with Fucillo and West Herr’s horrendous commercials.

If they really want it downtown, it’s too bad they can’t find a way to make a football/hockey stadium. As the current Sabres arena is also in need of a rebuild. Personally, the idea I like the most is keeping New Era Field where it is. Either with a massive retrofit of the current stadium, or the building of a new stadium in an adjacent parking lot. If I were Pegula I would really push for a Super Bowl to be guaranteed if I sink one billion into a domed stadium.

It can’t even handle the 19,000 ?