jimmy10

I call dibs on Max Power.

What's stupider, making up nicknames for coworkers or sending memos to Presidents of professional sports teams on message boards not even owned by the team?

I've always had additional teams I pull for after my main favorites. For example, I grew up in a big Notre Dame family, and was a kid during Joe Montana's prime, so I've always had a soft spot for the Niners. But if the Niners and Bills play in the Super Bowl? It's Bills all day. I think the same is acceptable within the same league/conference too. Like in baseball, I'm a Jays fan first, foremost and always. But like the Niners when I was a kid, the Twins '87 WS team was the first WS I vividly remember, and they had a lot of great players, so I've always kind of liked the Twins too. The fact that my hometown Rochester Red Wings are now the Twins' farm club adds another element of interest there. I think fandom can absolutely be shades of grey, but at the same time, you must have your prime, unwavering favorite above all others.

Well, I'm sure they're currently losing their minds on the message board for whatever juco Zamora's uncle played ball at.

The better question is probably: If he WASN'T Jimbo's nephew, would he warrant a fraction of this heat on TSW?

He finally got his rectal-cranial inversion treated?

Isn't OL the hardest position group for rookies to pick up, because of the communication and teamwork necessary? I'm ok shying away from them in the draft. I think we are pretty solid on the line anyway.

Believe it or not, he was the first UNC QB to start a game in the NFL. I was working at UNC when he was filling in for what's his name in Houston, and was surprised to learn that. Not that the school is a football factory or anything, but it still has a long history of turning out a few decent players.

Fitzpatrick? Wasn't he the guy that kept his wedding ring ground up and in the freezer?

The only thing hanging up the whole deal is a location for the Amerks since ownership rules also stipulate a minimum distance between parent clubs and affiliated minor league teams. If the Bills and Sabres move to Batavia, the current leading site for the Amerks is a frozen segment of the canal next to a lock just past Lyons.

It's a local yokel Genesee County columnist talking about how cool it would be to have the Bills play in his backyard. The "talk" about it was three years ago from a stadium commission that had nothing to do with the Pegulas or any actual decision-makers. Move along, nothing to see here. ...except this thread, which is right at the top of the page when searching for the term "Batavia." http://forums.twobillsdrive.com/topic/167774-batavia-possible-stadium-site/?hl=batavia

Facebook is useful to me for one thing only these days: Private groups. I'm in one for my family and one for my fraternity buddies. It's an easy way to share pictures, plan events, and generally keep in touch. Otherwise I agree with most of the sentiment here, it's a huge waste of time and energy.

Exactly. Nice PR is still PR.

Right. I can't believe a place for people to blast the organization, on the organization's dime, existed for as long as it did.

If that place was "moderated" at all, it was using the loosest possible definition of the term. If BBMB was an animal, it would've been a cat chasing a laser beam while tweaking on low-grade biker crank.

The Bills logo in those godawful colors makes we want to cry.

No, we fired them for the compensatory picks.

Not worked up, and I get that it's a fun exercise for some... To me it's just the time and energy one would have to invest in paying attention to college football to know anything at all about these guys coming out. And then look at all 32 NFL teams and their needs. And then try to predict success at the pro level. And then slot dozens if not hundreds of those college players? For what? Bragging rights on those few you may hit on? Again, I get that people love doing it. I just can't wrap my head around why.

Mock drafts really seem like a monumental waste of time. Even so called "experts" are rarely correct. It's one of the most mystifying things in sports, why so many care so deeply about them and try to predict the mental processes of 32 different groups of professional talent evaluators who rarely have any interest in telegraphing their actual thoughts.

Many times I've dealt with the surge, especially during all the woes the D.C. Metro subway system was experiencing last year. A couple of times while I was in town fires in the metro tunnels led to 2x, 3x, I even saw 5x surge pricing. But you know what? It's communicated to you clearly ahead of time. You know exactly what you're going pay when you request a car. So on those rare occasions when demand outpaces supply, you pay more. That's how a free market is supposed to work. And like nobody ever got sexually harassed in a cab. At least with ridesharing, I know who the driver is, they know who I am, both our phones indicate where we are via GPS, and again, no cash changes hands. Ridesharing rules.

I use ridesharing all the time in DC and Philly when there for work. It rules. Time for WNY to join the 21st century. Cabs are horses and buggies, only smellier and way less reliable. Arrived by train in DC a few months back, my phone died so I couldn't call an Uber. So I went to the taxi stand at Union Station. Naturally, the cab driver's credit card machine was "broken" so he could only take cash, which meant a stop at an ATM on the way to my hotel. Cash never changes hands, one of the best things about ridesharing.

Yeah, I'm going to reserve final judgement until the season begins. But I have no reason to believe things will improve by then. I fear TSW may have jumped the shark with the recent influx. I've never met him, but by all accounts SDS seems like a solid dude. I hope he finds a way to monetize all the extra traffic, make it an advantage somehow.

Everyone has their place in life. Mine is in the back of the room shooting spitballs.