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Thanks. That's a lot of hard work to prove that water essentially went under the bridge....

He'll be in high demand given the thin UFA crop. He'd be a great pickup, but will have a lot of offers to sift through and may want to go to a contender rather than a rebuilding Sabres team....

Pretty telling stuff. Too bad the Bills OL was not equiped to run that type of "here's what we're going to do, try and stop us" scheme.... On the other hand, the Jason Garrett comments about how the Coyboys are being built in Vic's column (build a dominant O-line) are what you can do when you've got the players to run the same play 15 times per game...

Well, TMGM could have picked up an UFA like Niemi or traded for an older guy with 2-3 years left if he wanted a goalie "now." I hate giving up #21 in the deepest draft in many years for a guy with a concussion history (pick #51 or even #31 would have been more acceptable, but still open to debate). Packaging #21 and other assets for a Ryan O'Reiley trade is now off the table, which would have been the most transformative thing Tim could have pulled off, IMO... Except with the above average depth in this year's draft class, pick #21 is more like #11-14 or even top 10 in a typical year...

It's a bad deal in both sports, IMO. It's a buyers market for goalies and Tim way overpaid when he didn't have to...

Huh. Just because you don't know the prospects after 1-2 doesn't mean you waste valuable draft picks. How'd you feel if the Bills traded a first round pick for Brice Brown, let alone a 4th...

LOL! Hard to tell which one's working for Buffalo on this deal...

Whoa! What kind of statement is that? Is that supposed to be a joke that only Tim gets?

And yet, a few blades of Poa on 18 may have scrambled that headline... http://www.businessinsider.com/dustin-johnson-us-open-greens-chambers-bay-2015-6 Jordan needed a four to beat Oousthuizen and Johnson needed a four to tie Spieth--both guys would have attacked it either way. One guy got his and the other didn't.

Agreed.

I guess I would then. Being up three strokes with two holes to play is pretty 'in control' to me. I'll give him props for getting a stroke back on 18 but he's lucky the USGA decided to make it a five instead of a four. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/22/sports/golf/an-unexpected-par-5-at-usopen-possibly-thanks-to-spieth.html If Johnson makes his eagle on 18, the storyline today is how Jordan three-putted away the tourney...

So if Jordan's double bogey on 17 cost him the win, would he still have been 'in control?' Or if 18 was played as a par four, rather than a five? IMO, Dustin deserved to lose, given his back nine putting woes. But tee to green I thought he was the best guy on the course. It's a shame he's getting mocked the way I'm seeing around the web today....

Amazing to think they were putting on this: https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTgWBSIIJZieKg3pakV8SsNcceNBfmeWsPdn5aXoWbH6TQEmyGp https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTOYs4d-cX1yHzTIQswT4DVK89Nz1YjPMSXnNZlBdhJt5819rnp

Gotta love Gary Player... http://www.golfchannel.com/news/golf-central-blog/excerpts-players-teardown-chambers-bay/

Who pissed in your Cherios? He probably cound handle a RB by committee role for a few games, which is all he's saying...

Well, there you go...

Whatcha talkin bout Willis? When I bought my Bills season tickets in 1984, Erkie Kailbourne and the "Business Backs the Bills" group were scrambling to find ways to get fanny's in the Rich Stadium seats with massively discounted prices. Local companies were footing 25% of the cost of a season ticket just to get prices low enough that people would say, "what the hell this is too cheap to pass up." I paid a whopping $200 for a pair of 50-yard line seats in the 12th row of the upper deck ($400 in today's money). Try finding a deal like that in today's NFL. Attendance didn't improve until Kelly and company came along. Just as it did with the Blackhawks when their current core began to develop 5-7 years ago.

Nah. There's nothing relevant to be gained from this media coverage. I shudder to think how we would have perceived the Kelly-era teams this time of year if they had OTAs back in the day...

As much as the NFL's goal is to make football a 12-month a year concept, it's not. At best, it's good for 10 months...with 2 months of media masterbation filling in the gap.

Media coverage of OTAs and padless minicamps is the worst idea ever. Unfortunately, there appears to be a market for it, just like reality TV, soap operas and Taylor Swift, so here we are...

He's auditioning for Rodak's job...

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/the-history-and-psychology-of-clowns-being-scary-20394516/?no-ist

IMO, right where they should have been. Not supporting a bad product or bad business practices. Would Rocky have made the necessary changes if the empty seats and bad will toward Bill had not occurred? Highly unlikely. As for the NHL going the way of the NFL (or life itself), that's to be expected when the population continues to grow and the number of seats for sale are finite. Supply and demand isn't exactly a new concept....

Not at all. It gets people through the work day. Productivity be damned...