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Except for the fact that the beaches are warmer and probably have better scenery than those in Buffalo, I don't think that Miami wins hands down. Miami seems to get credit for good weather, but for about 6 months out of the year, it is way too hot (IMHO) to be outside unless you are at the beach. I am sure that I am in the minority nationally, but I much prefer WNY's weather to that of SFla. I'm sure there are alot of things to do in Miami, but there are a lot of things to do in WNY as well. There are sports leagues you can join year round; there's good museums; there's Letchworth and the Falls; there's skiing in the winter; you can go sailing; can't forget the Bills; lots of good music comes to the area; there's pretty much a festival going on every weekend somewhere during the summer. I've never fully understood the "there's nothing to do in Buffalo" gripe or the "Buffalo is very boring" gripe that I hear a lot.

Ding, ding, ding. We have a winner!!!!! (Or since you aren't in Congress either, a loser like the rest of us.)

Jesus saves ... Gretzky gets the rebound, he shoots, he scores!

I disagree. If Tim doesn't have the accident, he ends up in Sabres lore with Roger Crozier. A truly fantastic player that finished his career with the Sabres. Horton absolutely was a mentor to players like Schoenfeld and Robitaille. You don't end up having your sweater retired because you were a mentor. With what he meant to the team and considering the way he left the team, he deserves to have his sweater retired and it is up in the rafters.

OK, I'll bite. How is the marginal tax rate on the top 25% of earners 0%?

I do not agree with either of these statements. A great number of scientists believe in God; in Christian leaning nations this tends to be the Christian God. And actually, evolution states that man and apes evolved from common ancestors, not that man evolved directly from apes. Based on the overwhelming complexity inherent in our world and the substructures therein, I have an extremely difficult time imagining that God did not have a hand in our getting here (and keeping us here).

How do you figure they'll have only retired 5 numbers? After 16 and 18 go up, there'll be 6 numbers in the rafters and #39 will go up sometime in the next few years.

It doesn't seem to be based on home / away for which broadcast is shown on CI. On Friday, the TO/Atlanta game was in TO and used Atlanta's feed. The Pens/Flyers was in Philly and used Pittsburgh feed. Vancouver/Minny was in Minny and used the Canucks feed.

I think the team can still win the division, but I don't expect them to. If they beat the Jest on Sunday; they'll be 3-3. With all the Patriots injuries and coaching losses and injuries / team quality on the other 2 teams; 9-7 can win the division. The Bills COULD sweep miami and the Jest and split with the Pats. That gets them to 6 wins and most likely any tie breakers. If they can beat Oakland and either KC or Denver at home (a split is possible, either team would kill the Bills if Buffalo had to travel) then they need to scrape out one more win. Didn't Carolina lose at miami. If so, why can't they lose in Buffalo as well? Maybe Cincy will be locked into a wild card when the Bills go there. My gut feel at this point is 7-9 assuming they win this week, but I haven't totally ruled the playoffs out (wild card yes, playoffs no).

I don't think the NFL teams are picking up the tabs at most stadiums. In Cincy they don't do the searches because the City/County was paying for the stadium workers and they refused to pay people to conduct the searches. I know in Buffalo, the County picks up the maintenance costs of the Ralph; I always assumed the security was included in that cost.

I'm sure that I would listen to GR a lot more often if they'd move HS to afternoons and let him do the show the way it was on NSA and moved BR to mornings. I can't listen to MS more than about 5 minutes. When I can pick it up, I listen to Fan 590 out of TO.

Considering that Ralph has tried many times in the past to ban people bringing in food to the games unsuccessfully, the pat downs are rather half arsed, and it didn't appear that anyone was being patted down at the Club Seats / Luxury Box entrances; it sure does appear that the whole point of this (in Buffalo and league-wide) is to increase concession stand revenues. I'm sure the reasoning for no patdowns at the high fallutin entrance is something along the lines of "a terrorist wouldn't buy an expensive ticket".

No doubt.

You will some of the time. No data on how the NHL choses which feed to provide to CI. Over on the Sabres board they were saying that depending upon which provider you had you got either the TSN feed or the Tampa Bay feed last night (MSG feed only in WNY for that one). As for go/no go. I say GO. At a minimum, you get to watch nearly all the Sabres games for about what it would cost to take a date to one game (much less if airline tickets & hotel room are included). Best case scenario, watching Sabres, Ottawa, and other high flying teams' games, your roommates get hooked and chip in next year.

I've got it up to 0-20 (0-7 Sens, 0-5 Pens, 0-8 Bolts). They scored on their last pp vs Boston. For the record - Home 4-23 (14th) Road 0-16 (Tied for last w/ 4 others).

Don't people normally go up that creek without the paddle?

The thing about Mensa is: if you really are that smart, why do you have to tell people you are? Shouldn't your words and actions let the people around you know whether or not you are intelligent? Oh, silly me. I forgot that saying "I'm in Mensa" provide the words that let people know you're smart and that holding up a piece of paper that says "I'm smart" is the action that lets people around you know you're smart.

I guess I'm missing something here. Why would he automatically be a traitor for signing on with a media organization that has traditionally been unfriendly to US causes? Perhaps he is there to provide a different perspective on things. You know, kind of like the "Counter-point" in "Point/Counter-Point". Until and unless he is giving "aid & comfort to the enemy", I think this is or will be blown way out of proportion. It isn't like he joined the other Al...

LMFAO! Still, not one of the recipes called for the secret ingredient of pickle juice. I think they're holding out! But imagine how good retatta would be wrapped in raw bacon. Ummm, bacon.

You think they make that much? Wow, you must be counting the value of the free buffets at the Bills and Sabres games that those guys obviously partake in waaaaaay too heartily.

Well, yeah, if you're using 4,000 year old noodles; I can see it taking an hour to cook. F'ing hilarious!!!!

So you don't like ties. I have no problem with that. My questions are: why not have them play overtime to decide tie games like most every other sport? Do you think football should be decided by fieldgoal contests or baseball by homerun derbys? If not, why should a hockey game be decided by a single subsidiary individual skill? It is a team sport, shouldn't the game be decided by the teams?

As long as we are on absurd hypotheicals, how about one more? Suppose a liberal, while trying to make a point, stayed on topic and didn't resort to the sophistry of using absurd hypotheticals to make his point? Nah, too absurd and hypothetical. Sorry, my bad.

Agreed.