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She Can't Be That Dumb
Sure, maybe Snozzi or snoozi or what ever her name is, is pulling down the IQ of humanity, I get it, but come on give her some credit, thats two beers tipped upside down into a margherita, thats pretty damn innovative if you ask me. So, while she may be the poster girl for trailer trash/stupidty and ignorance, the first chance I get this summer Im tipping two Alexander Keith's Pale Ales into a margherita this summer, thats just awesome.
And I got a dollar saying no one can list everyone on the left without cheating.
Category: Miscellaneous
Tim "The Tool" Thomas
Tim Thomas, as if Buffalo Sabre fans, at least the rational ones don't have enough reasons to hate the Boston Bruins, you have yet another one to add to the man between the pipes. Tim Thomas proved what a "tool" he is by dissing the traditional meeting with the President.
Tim Thomas tried to play it that he disagrees with all of our government but lets face it, he doesn't like the politics of one man. President Obama. The guy is a self proclaimed fan of nutbag Glenn Beck which says all you need to know about what he means by saying he disagrees with all government.
Okay, disagree with President Obama on politics, don't like the way our government is going, thats fine, but save it for a day when that's the issue. Save it for a side conversation with the President either before or after the photo-ops, but to not show up because you disagree with the politics is just insane.
Presidents for years have gone out of their way from doing much more important things to invite championship teams to the White House and to turn that opportunity down over a disagreement on politics is just plain disrespectful. Don't like the politics fine, but have a mutual respect for the man who invited you and show up, smile and take your picture with your team.
There used to be a day where you could disagree on politics and still have a mutual respect for one another and for the most part, that is still there, except for dickheads like Tim Thomas who have to voice up to prove what kind of a man they are, He is a tool, plain and simple. Stick to playing hockey, thats what you get paid millions to do. What a poor example he sets too for the youth of this country who look up to him. Tim Thomas is one big tool.
Fans, Media, Players Need to Relax
I have pledged to stop watching the Sabres until they straighten themselves out. They are pretty awful right now, its not the pre lock out awful. Its awful in the sense that you know they are capable of so much more.
I have been listening to the media, fans and players and all I hear makes me feel like everyone just needs to shut up and relax. Yes, me the biggest critic of this team. Just relax.
1. The fans/media: I have heard so much nonsense from the fans and media over the last few days its enough to make you just wonder if the fans you hear actually watch the game and the media is just leading most of the ignorant fans by the nose.
Enough already with the "fire Lindy" and "trade Miller or Roy or insert other scapegoat".
First, Lindy should go no where. They have in Lindy possibly one of the top 3 coaches in the NHL. Regardless of their current record, he is. You don't stay around for 13 years without being good. Lindy is well respected and over the 13 years he has had bad teams and great teams and everything in between and if anything he has shown that its not him. If they play his system, if they play the game he wants this team is good, if not great. If they don't then they are what they are now.
Second, who are you going to trade? Ryan Milller? He had a concussion and I believe he has not fully recovered from it. Why he is still playing I have no idea but he is and they are suffering the consequences, but you can't trade him. He is a great goalie when hes right and right now hes going through his first really bad stretch and besides that, name one team that wants him the way he is playing?
Roy? no one wants him
Stafford? Inconsistent and non one wants him.
Leino...we just got him, and after watching him play, no one wants him.
The players teams would want I don't want to trade. Maybe is Roy/Stafford start showing a little life you can trade them for draft picks at the dead line to clear salary for the offseason.
2. The players need to relax, they are uptight because of the media and fans and some due to ownership and their Stanley Cup pledge. Look, as bad as it is, this team isn't this bad. Maybe they aren't a cup contender, but they are not as bad as they have been recently either. I think at this point they are a deflated team that can't catch a break. They need to loosen up, and just play hockey. Do what they do best, relax, go out and just let it happen. Don't listen to the media, don't listen to the fans. Lindy needs to tell them to just go out and let it fly, who cares right now, just play hockey, it can't get any worse than what its been.
Will they make the playoffs this year? Probably not at this point. But hey you never know. They pulled it off last year. At this point they have been so bitten by the injury bug I think its time to sit Miller until they know he is 100% and get the rest of this team healthy and see what happens. At the deadline Roy and Stafford might get you 2nd or 3rd rounders, you take them. Jochen Hecht is done here after the season and Sekera might be trade bait as well. Go out, sign someone to lead your offense. They have enough on the blueline, but not up front.
In the mean time, relax. Lindy and Miller are staying put, no one is getting fired or traded. This is a good team that simply needs to relax, and it needs to start by not listening to fans or the media.
Category: Buffalo Sabres Hockey
Damn That Hurt
We have all done it, out shoveling snow along the sidewalk, shovel hits a crack and you take the butt end of the shovel in the midsection or worse.
Today it was worse and I don't admit to it but my already painful neck, shoulders and back are screaming at me right now.
I was out shoveling today after I got home from work and was 90% done and decided to shovel the front sidewalk. I lined up for that one last shovel full and threw my shoulders/weight into it a little because it was going to be a big scoop and WHAM that shovel hit the lip of the curb at the end of the sidewalk and it sent shockwaves down my left shoulder, through my neck and down my spine and my whole right side right now feels like someone punched me in the ribs about four times.
So, just a warning, when out shoveling, watch for cracks/lips in the sidewalk that fuckin hurts.
Category: Miscellaneous
Ditch the Valet
I went to the Factory Outlets yesterday to do some shopping and what I saw was a little frustrating. New Years Eve, one of the busier shopping days of the year, certainly not as busy as before Christmas or Boxing Day, but it was busy.
Like many times though going to that mall on a weekend very few good parking spots, on this occasion...there were no parking spaces in front of the mall which is where I wanted to park.
Why weren't there any? Not because there weren't any, but because the Factory Outlet Mall has decided to make like a high end mall/casino/resort and offer valet parking. Yes. Valet parking at the Factory Outlet Mall, thus what is probably a few hundred very good parking spaces in front of the mall are roped off to protect them for the valet service.
I drove by and to my astonishment 75% of those valet spots were EMPTY!
That officially ends my time spent at any mall for future shopping. Is valet parking really necessary at a mall? Have we become so lazy that we are actually willing to pay to have someone park our car for us so we don't have to walk? I get valet at a casino or high end resort I totally get it, but at a mall?
The old fashioned way is fine with me. Park my car myself and unless you are handicap, if the spot requires a lil walking so be it, we are one of the more obese countries in the world, a little walking might actually be good for many of us.
Dozens of customers drove through that parking lot looking for decent parking and seeing all the spots unoccupied I couldn't have been the only one pissed off that they had them roped off. I ended up parking on the back side of the mall on the opposite side of where I wanted to be all because the Factory Outlet Mall thinks it needs to be high class. I hope that was just for the holidays and not permanent....even if it isn't permanent, Im shopping online from now on.
Category: Miscellaneous
Christmas Sucks Balls
Don't take this the wrong way, I like Christmas, I do. I like the lights, Santa, family, friends. Its a time of year that gets you through the darkest, coldest parts of winter, only it seems like the last 10 years or so its gone completely in the other direction. Greed, shelfishness and down right rudeness is the overall vibe.
You want to see what Im talking about? Go to the Best Buy/Target/Barnes and Nobles plaza in Amherst and try negotiating your way through that friggin mess. It was like trying to leave Darien Lake after a rock concert only people weren't in cheery moods or seemingly having a good time.
I recieved no fewer than five middle fingers from drivers in that parking lot because they couldn't go another 50 feet and all I was trying to do was get across a lane to get to another portion of the parking lot and then you have the assholes who won't let you through because they think you are going to get in front of them and so they refuse to budge, never mind that letting you in isn't going to speed things up.
When I left Best Buy, two cars almost hit each other trying to go for my spot at the same time, comical but at the same time disappointing.
Is this really what Christmas has become? Middle fingers, stuffed parking lots with people being rude to each other just because they are trying to negotiate their way through that parking lot. Its over the top. Next year everything I do will be done online and I will only do it through EBay or Amazon.com because I will no longer support these big retail stores that build these massive plazas that ultimately are a safety hazard and only get people more aggitated.
I don't pay any attention to the religious side of Christmas but Im pretty sure that Jesus didn't have the craziness I was witness to in mind yesterday when we celebrate his birthday. Its time to take a step back, maybe stop the midnight and Thanksgiving Day sales that get people hyped up and materialistic about this holiday. Stop making people believe they are getting deals that they will never get again on stuff. It is simply not the case. Christmas has become a holiday for greedy coorporations looking to maximize profit and when they get people like they were yesterday it has totally defeated any meaning this holiday has for me.
Not to mention, that parking lot in that plaza is a safety hazard, if I was having a medical condition.....a heart attack or there was a fire in any one of those stores or a car accident how would any safety or emergency vehicle get through there? Local government should step in and force those stores to come up with a plan to decrease traffic flow during their busiest season or knock some of them down and relocate to better areas that can handle the traffic flow and make that whole area safer for shoppers and maybe, just maybe the Christmas spirit would return.
A word of advice: Slow down, be nice, let people into traffic and don't be so greedy and shelfish around a holiday that is supposed to mean the opposite
Category: Christmas
Not A Playoff Team
As of yesterday before their total collapse against the Pittsburgh Penguins the Sabres were an equal number of points out of third in the Eastern Conference as they were out of 13th place. After last night they might as well be in last because all signs point to this team not being a playoff team.
You can throw all the excuses you want at it and I have heard all the excuses but, here we are in mid, going on late December and this team is coughing up one, two and even three goal leads at home on a regular basis despte investing in a $10 million a year defenseman who is barely earning a quarter of that with his play, a trade for a hard nosed defenseman from Calgary who also is barely paying dividends and a $6 million forward who was starting to turn things around from a horrid start who is currently going to be out for a while.
Add to that that they are piling up injuries and playing with close to a third of their on ice team as rookies and average goaltending at best and you get a team that is already in trouble. Ted Black can preach patience all he wants but I am starting to believe that until the coach and GM change, this thing is going to continue to crash. What else does Lindy Ruff have left to do to stimulate this team? He changed goalies last night three times, whats next? No goalie? Maybe try a third goalie on the bench so that way we don't have to go back to Miller or Enroth...granted Im not pinning all of their woes on Lindy Ruff or the goal tending, any hockey fan watching can see the defensive lapses and mental breakdowns that leave these goalies and their coach hung out to dry.
After last night they are a .500 team 16-16. Sorry folks I count that third column as nothing more than a loss, the NHL chooses to give pity points for losing, I don't. That makes this team one loss away from being a sub .500 team. Add to that their goal differential (goals for vs. goals against) is now a -5. They have scores 5 fewer goals than they have allowed, That is a big sign of a non playoff team.
Ultimately, I hold Darcy Regier accountable he spent the money and brought these new players in who have not paid off. $10 million on a defenseman whose name isn't Bobby Orr, Paul Coffey, Ray Bourque or Niklas Lidstrom is unacceptable. They could have gotten two solid defenseman or forwards for what they paid for Erhoff who may have some offensive upside but defensively he isn't exactly an elite defenseman yet he is the highest paid player in the league this year and next.
Of course, Darcy Regier can fix it, he has the power to make trades and lets not forget the good trades he has made....Mike Wilson turned into Rhett Warrener, he nabbed Mike Peca out of Vancouver and Chris Gratton became Daniel Briere.....given the resources he has, and the position this team is in, in need of a serious wake up call maybe its time for an uncharacteristic mid season trade to shake things up.
Derek Roy, Drew Stafford, Brad Boyes, name your defensive prospect, hell even throw Ryan Miller's or Enroth's name around and see what you get. You might be surprised if you include a draft pick or a prospect with one of those above mentioned players and it might even help shake up and improve the team chemistry a little.
Its Mid-December and they are a .500 team, its time to worry, not panic, but its definitely worry time if this doesn't get righted and righted soon. January usually starts to signal its time to start making the playoff push, if this thing isn't going well by then, it will be panic time. They can start by winning two games in a row at HOME.
Category: Buffalo Sabres Hockey
GOP: Proving You Don't Have To Be Smart To Be Successful
News flash, in case you haven't been watching the circus of GOP political debates and sound clips coming from the field of what is the GOP candidates for president, you don't have to be smart to run for president of the United States or at least attempt to run. Hell you don't even have to be faithful or honest. All you have to do is hide behind "God" and spew your version of the truth and some group of people is A) gullible enough to believe you and B) they will donate to your campaign.
Seriously, why doesn't more people in this country look at the selections the Republican party has to offer and just scratch their heads. I do. I wonder daily how did Herman Cain become a wealthy, successful anything when he knows nothing more than how to make a pizza and cheat on his wife.
Michelle Bachman...she constantly makes up shit she doesn't know to the point where at times she looks like the deer I had in my high beams a few weeks ago driving home from work one night when you ask her anything that remotely challenges her to be knowledgeable, hell she gets basic American history wrong, Her and Sarah Palin must have had the same Social Studies teachers in high school.
Rick Perry is another God toting over the top Christian who doesn't know the basics that it takes to run a country nevermind a state. He doesn't even know the agencys of our government struggling with coming up with three he would cut. Does he even know what cutting the EPA would do to this country? Its pure ignorance and its dangerous ignorance.
Newt Gingrich has cheated on how many wives? He calls for the arrests of democrats involved with Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae yet he gets more money than most people make in a year per month to consult with these entities. He is a hypocrite and a liar yet he may very well end up leading this country if people don't wake up.
I could go on and on, Romney who at least might be one of the smarter ones but the guy still talks out of both sides of his mouth depending on whose ass he is trying to kiss for campaign donations.
The only decent candidate amonst them is John Huntsman yet for some reason he is down at the bottom of this group. He is the only one of them that believes in science and actually knows something about foreign policy and actually gets that Social Security and Medicare aren't broken they just need to be funded appropriately.
Michelle Bachman, Rick Perry, Newt Gingrich and Herman Cain have all come out and said that God chose them to be president......either God doesn't know that only one person can be president or all of them are lying......
Folks, wake up, you don't have to be smart to run for any political office in this country, you just have to have a degree in BBS....Bigtime Bullshit and ass kissing. I wasted a fortune on getting a bachelors/masters degree when all you really have to do flat out lie, steal and cheat your way to the top and it took this group of GOP candidates who are supposed to be part of the party of morals and decency to teach me that and it only took 38 years to learn it.
Forget your education, learn how to be a good liar and bullshitter and there is no reason why any of us could be president or at least make a fortune trying. Sarah Palin may be dumb but she stole a lot of money selling crappy biographys, bad reality TV and fundraising her way to not running for president.
Category: Politics
Going Old School
Jays/baseball fans, what do you think about the new logo? So far the reviews Im reading and the one Im giving here are great! I love it, slimmed it down a little more modern looking but all the elements from the old logo are there.
Now, go get Prince Fielder and a closer to fill the new jerseys so we can show these things off in October!
Category: Toronto Blue Jays
This Is Not a Joke
But, I blurted out in brief laughter in the middle of the grocery aisle in front of an old lady tonight when I saw this label staring at me clear as could be at Wegmans. Couldn't help it. But apparently its okay to say I saw a spotted dick in public, referring to the pudding of course.
Category: Miscellaneous
