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On 6/8/2024 at 10:52 AM, aristocrat said:
So the mlb barred them from the league and now is taking their stats? They better not just erase the ***** leagues from the history books. They better have giant asterisks next to their names forever with an explanation in large print at the bottom of every page.
Why would you think that the Negr0 Leagues' history would be "erased"? There are 37 members of the Negr0 Leagues in the Baseball HOF, only three of them having played in National or American Leagues, so the Negr0 Leagues are considered on a level with the "major leagues" during the Jim Crow era. There is also the Negr0 Leagues Baseball Museum in Kansas City.
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20 hours ago, Fleezoid said:
I think some folks are misinterpreting miserable fans with lack of team success. Some teams have a bunch of success, but their fan base can be miserable butt-holes if they don't win a championship
That's why the Jests are #1. They've had some decent teams over the years but they've always been unhappy because they've always known they're "second stringers". They've played in another team's real home stadium since the early 90s. They've suffered not being good enough to the Bills in the 1990s. They've suffered not being good enough to the Pats in the 2000s ... and now they know they're not good enough to take on the Bills again. Maybe their 41-year-old QB can get them a playoff berth this year. Maybe.
16 hours ago, May Day 10 said:It was largely divided into a couple camps who would always argue, and any topic went back to:
Russ Brandon is really the defacto GM, Ralph Wilson doesnt care, the (current) coach is just happy to be here, and is agreeable to working under Russ brandon with limited resources and there was no attempt at a real coaching search.
vs
Russ brandon is a marketing genius and has nothing to do with the football team, and would be scooped up by another franchise in 30 seconds if they fired him. Nix, Whaley, etc are smart. The previous seasons are the fault of *fill in ex coach or front office name*.
Guess which camp was right?
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On 4/18/2024 at 8:35 PM, ExiledInIllinois said:
Yeah... But the wheel is basic. Of course it's great, I don't think that's ever in question. BUT, it's like saying primary colors are the greatest.
Stuff like the wheel should get a look over to greater things. The wheel is an innately human invention that was bound to happen.
Not necessarily. The wheel as a tool was unknown in the Western Hemisphere although the Aztecs and maybe some other groups used wheels in toys. The most likely explanation is that the people who migrated into the Americas left before the use of the wheel as a tool had spread to their area of Eurasia.
On 6/5/2024 at 2:23 AM, Doc Brown said:Surprised penicillin hasn't been mentioned yet. Antibiotics are the greatest medical invention at least.
I think that people today take good health for granted so they don't even think about how important preventing and/or combating infectious diseases has been. The first successful vaccine was Jenner's smallpox vaccine in 1796 but Pasteur didn't prove that germs spread disease until 1861 ... which led to other improvements in dealing with infectious diseases. The 600,000+ deaths during the Civil War is more than all the other American deaths in all the other American wars, but most of those deaths came from disease not combat.
11 hours ago, Tiberius said:Plumbing might be a luxury, but sewage systems are a public health measure that makes life in cities possible.
^^^
10 hours ago, ExiledInIllinois said:Maybe. But places like Kolkata & Mumbai exist...
Okay, maybe Tiberius should have said "comfortable life in cities possible".
On 6/4/2024 at 11:42 PM, bleve said:The Antikythera Mechanism
Civilization has progressed pretty far without anybody figuring out the purpose of the Antikythera Mechanism or how it worked or was used.
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Tomorrow, June 6, 2024, marks the 80th anniversary of the D-Day invasion. World leaders, including the POTUS, will gather in France for the ceremonies. There will be numerous television programs to remember the battle, including a program on WIVB in Buffalo (Channel 4) at 7pm tonight with a local slant (according to the ads for it).
It's likely that most TSW members had fathers, grandfathers, great-grandfathers, and/or other relatives who served in WW II. My father, two uncles, and at least 3 of my mother's cousins served in Europe and the Pacific, including the Japanese invasion of some isolated islands in the Aleutians.
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I have had some new "regulars" to my yard this spring ... nesting robins, mourning doves, grackles, and a pair of goldfinches that must be considering nesting nearby since they visit several times a day (goldfinches nest later in the summer than many birds). I added two new tube feeders and a bin feeder plus I added white millet and a "finch mix" from Runnings to my usual offerings of black oil sunflower seed and peanuts.
Of course, one of the best ways to attract birds to your yard in summer is to provide fresh water for drinking and bathing, especially when the weather is dry. I have a pond with a waterfall that the birds enjoy using for bathing and drinking plus a couple of bird baths. You should change your bird bath water daily if it becomes popular with the neighborhood birds.
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21 hours ago, Mr. WEO said:
one of the biggest let downs in years. tank for Trevor...
Trevor joins a long list of highly anticipated collegiate QBs who have underwhelmed in the NFL. I think Andrew Luck came the closest to actually being the "savior" he was predicted to be. I think "lose out for Luck" might have been the slogan, and certainly Indy was accused by some fans of tanking the 2011 season in order to get Luck. Unfortunately, injuries short-circuited his career, so he didn't really work out long term.
If you look at the careers of the QBs taken #1 overall since 2000 -- Michael Vick, David Carr, Carson Palmer, Eli Manning, Alex Smith, JaMarcus Russell, Matthew Stafford, Sam Bradford, Cam Newton, Andrew Luck, Jameis Winston, Jared Goff, Baker Mayfield, Kyler Murray, Joe Burrow, Trevor Lawrence, and Bryce Young -- most have been underwhelming as NFL QBs compared to what was expected of them.
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Like others, I was born into Bills fandom. Both my parents were Bills fans. We lived on a farm in rural Cattaraugus County back in the day when families had 1 TV (usually a large console model in the living room). Our tv would always go "on the fritz" some time in May, and my Dad would never be able to get it "fixed" until the first Bills TV game. In reality, we probably would have been too busy to watch tv anyway since we raised fruits and vegetables for sale at our farm stand, and we kids not only had to help with growing and harvesting but we also manned the stand.
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13 minutes ago, Beck Water said:
Poor Danica Patrick thought she and Rogers were gonna get married. She said her heart was broken how it ended. Rumors she was cheated on by Rodgers. Then "Next Up!" actual fiancee Shailene Woodley was ditched and left in the dust.
If we're gonna dis off famous guys for their relationship behavior (which, I do not suggest) Rodgers is A Lot to keep up with.
Me, I think famous football players are famous because they're good at playing the game of football, not because they're easy to live with or good at personal relationships. I don't want them to be sick ***** like DeSean Watson is alleged to be, but I don't expect them to be moral preceptors or of exemplary character or deep thinkers.
IMHO that's a problem with society today that a lot of folks seem to be looking at celebrities of one or another sort for these things, instead of looking around us for people who actually, quietly, ARE moral preceptors and show exemplary character or who actually have deep knowledge of stuff.
I don't think that fans assuming that celebrities, especially professional athletes, to be "exemplary" outside of their professions/careers is particularly limited to the present day. Hero-worship of famous people of the day in the US goes back at least to the founding of the nation where George Washington is immortalized on the ceiling of the US Capitol in the form of a fresco as well as Parson Weems' tale of Washington and the cherry tree.
13 minutes ago, Putin said:I’m a Bills fan so yeah F the jets and because Rogers plays for them F him 2
I would say that's probably the sentiment of 99% of the fans of any sports team vis-a-vis any or all of the players on their divisional rivals. My hatred of Tom Brady declined significantly when he left to play for the Bucs.
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19 minutes ago, EasternOHBillsFan said:
The terrible people are now out in the open and their numbers are increasing... sad but true.
Really? IIRC, there were some Bills fans who harassed HC Gregg Williams' family because the Bills weren't playing well. Nobody here's said more than "F Rodgers". On a scale of "terrible people", they don't even rank a positive number.
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4 minutes ago, ExiledInIllinois said:
Was the law of the land for 60 years.
"Separate but equal" started with "Plessy" in 1896 and ended with "Brown" in 1954 with "Separate is inherently unequal."
It really took 70 years to integrate the stats, a decade longer than Jim Crow! You gotta be kidding!
Sad but true.
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When you think about it, it's long overdue since the reason the ***** Leaguess existed only was because African Americans were barred from MLB. The best players in the ***** Leagues were every bit as good as the best players in the National and American Leagues.
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22 minutes ago, Bill from NYC said:
Why do you get so angry when people don't parrot your own political philosophy? Do you really hate the concepts of free speech and freedom of opinion THAT much? You just called a man a "bigot" and a "disgrace" for having views that differ from yours.
And I notice that in your last sentence, you appear to care about Jews. I suppose this means that you support Israel in their plight against terrorist Hamas right? Yeah, sure.
Opposing bigotry is not a "political philosophy" but an ethical stance. The United States in 2024 is a large country with a diverse population. All American citizens have equal rights regardless of their gender, race, sexual orientation, religion or national origin. In the past -- and well into the 1960s -- that idea was given lip service as too many people in power on local, state and national levels looked the other way when Blacks, Hispanics and/or Asians were lynched or when Irish Catholics and/or other immigrants were denied jobs or when Japanese Americans were sent to internment camps or when even wealthy Jews were barred from prestigious schools and colleges or when women were barred from numerous careers and job opportunities by prejudice and by law.
Butker expressed views on women and LGBTQ people that might have been respectable for many in 1924 or 1954 but are not in 2024. He used religion to justify those bigoted views although his views don't conform to the Church's teachings. Butker is certainly free to express his views, but I also have the right to call him out for what he revealed he is: a reactionary bigot hiding behind religion.
If your "political philosophy" embraces bigotry and/or the acceptance of bigotry, then you need to examine your own political beliefs -- and your moral compass.
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1 hour ago, ProcessTruster said:
I agree with him. Up until 40-50 years ago and the invention of the pill, the world largely worked just fine like this for hundreds, thousands of years. Seems like the last 50 years are the problem, not the previous hundreds/thousands.
Oh, it worked just fine if you were a white male Christian who wasn't known to be a homosexual. Not so fine for everybody else.
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On 4/29/2024 at 6:35 PM, ExiledInIllinois said:
Not sure if I posted these. Found them on my phone. It's the time for the finches and orioles to be passing through!
We have a pair nesting around our camp in northern Cattaraugus County, NY. I saw a male in the big black locust tree near our cabin several times when I was out there last week. The locust tree was just leafing out so he was easy to see hunting . I think he was hunting insects, as locusts are often afflicted with aphids. He always came and left in the same direction, so I think the nest was in one of the taller maples surrounded by a thicket of smaller trees about 50 or 60 yards away.
5 hours ago, US Egg said:No pics unfortunately, but, I got a bunny murdering Grey Heron in my yard.
It happened about 250 ft. from the back of the house. I didn’t see if it landed or walked up, but, it had it pinned and was stabbing it repeatedly.
Then swallowed it whole and flew away.
I think you mean a Great Blue Heron, which look more gray than blue. They are big (4' or 5' foot tall), nasty birds. They usually hunt in ponds or quiet pools in creeks or rivers, but they're not shy about their prey, especially in nesting season. I expect he/she will regurgitate the bunny for the young when it gets to its nest.
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8 hours ago, babulator said:
TBH there's a serious case to be made to going back to leather helmets. Joe Paterno was championing the cause before he passed. He believed the helmet is what led to all the CTE injuries we have now, and that no one would ever lead with their heads in leather. Just saying. Im a purist, chains are part of the drama for A 100 years, stop trying to make everything into Madden NFL. Chains aren't perfect, but I'll wager people won't be perfectly happy with all of the results from a digital measure. Money and careers are on the line, no system will be perfect, I like what we have.
If everyone was a "purist", we as a species would probably still be wandering naked on the plains of Africa grubbing and living on fruit, nuts, roots, grubs, insects, and the occasional not too overripe animal carcass.
2 hours ago, Utah John said:The problem isn't the chains, it's where the ball is spotted. If the ref gets the spot wrong by an inch or two (which isn't hard to do -- I'm not blaming the refs) and the chain measurement comes down to a sliver, what difference will the electronic system make? (And there are times when the spot is quite wrong, not that often but usually critical when it happens.)
The only electronic system change I'd really like to see is to have a horn go off when the play clock expires. The current system, where the ref sees the clock go to zero and then looks to see if the ball is snapped, is inconsistent and subject to error. Too many times the ball is snapped when the clock had clearly already run out, and the offense gets to make a big play when it should have been penalized five yards. This should be the easiest system of all to implement. Ask the NBA how to do it if the NFL can't figure it out.
Maybe I misunderstood or misread the article, but I thought that the tech would depend upon a sensor in the ball that would record precisely where the ball landed as well as an electronic line-to-gain. That would be similar to what they use in tennis matches.
I think a horn signaling the clock expiration is a really such a simple fix that it's surprising that it doesn't come up every time there's one of those controversial plays.
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12 hours ago, babulator said:
I like the drama of the chains and measurement. Games should be able to be played without electronics imho.
No electronic scoreboards or instant replay then. Should we also go back to leather helmets???
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On 5/21/2024 at 7:18 PM, Bob Jones said:
One big, BIG difference between Kap and Butker is that Kap did his thing on “company time.” To me, and to many others, that makes a world of difference. An analogy would be if right after the SB win, down on the field in post game interviews, Butker would have said some of the stuff he said at the college commencement speech.
The biggest difference between Kaepernick and Butker is that Kaepernick protested against the numerous and well documented instances of police brutality against African American men while Butker ranted against aspects of American society/culture that he personally doesn't like.
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I voted better. I think that the Bills plan a more balanced offense this season which, hopefully, will take the pressure off Allen to play "hero ball" -- and make fewer mistakes. I don't think "making receivers better than they are" causes pressure on a QB like Allen (or Mahomes); they do that automatically even with great receivers.
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13 minutes ago, boyst said:
The biggest selling jersey of the last week. 🤷🏼♂️
I am amazed how people groupthink and isolate themselves. Especially here. This is a community of maybe 200-300 regularly active users. High users probably under 100.
Of them they are folks who specifically sought out an online venue to hyper focus on their favorite sports team. These folks generally share traits I've noticed over the last few years. Many in some sort of tech field, for example. Many whom have limited experience playing organized sports, as well.
If we hyper focus on this issue like we do the Bills we end up forgetting there is a whole lot bigger world out there and forget the Bluffton University existence. Or the Iowa Wesleyan University. Or BYU. Or Liberty.
A lot of people don't hold views like us and appreciate when someone like Butker is willing to do something many are afraid to in today's world: mention them.
Do you also "appreciate" that some neo-Nazis and KKKers aren't afraid to "mention" their views?
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4 hours ago, What a Tuel said:
Transgender and gender dysphoric youth have a much higher chance of suicide. It is literally dangerous. Whether or not they are right with their feelings or justified in portraying themselves is secondary to that fact. There should be a lot more care in what we expose children to.
4 hours ago, What a Tuel said:May be true but the same could be said of putting a child through unnecessary trials in their social life.
You guys act as if this is a concrete subject, as if you either have gender dysphoria or not. There is no middle ground with you in which someone may feel confused but ultimately affirm their born gender but in the meantime they have a significant pressure from the certain groups that this makes them "unique" and "special" and "heroic" and who wouldn't want to feel those things? Then how dumb do they feel when they ultimately change their mind? Maybe some cant bear to change their mind?
Im not sure what you mean by communicable here. No i didnt say anything like that.
I have a transgender person in my family. Being transgender is not something somebody chooses or learns, and "dysphoria" doesn't come close to describing what transgender people suffer because of the mismatch between their biological sex and their gender identification. They know they are "miswired" even as very young children.
4 hours ago, Steptide said:I have zero issue with anything he said. I have catholic friends who have 9 kids while the wife is a stay at home mom and the dad works to support the family. This isn't terribly uncommon with Catholics. 2nd, he never said woman have to be home makers. The first thing he said was how many of them will have amazing careers, promotions etc. I can't believe we live in a world where celebrating the nuclear family is negative. I don't expect every woman to be stay at home moms and cook and clean all day, but my wife would kill for that opportunity. We both work full time and raise our family, but if she had the choice, she'd absolutely be at home. That doesn't mean all woman want that, but alot do. The fact that people are outraged over this really blows my mind
This statement is bogus. Maybe you have 1 Catholic "friend" who has 9 kids, but having 9 kids is just as uncommon among American born Catholics as it is among Americans of any other faith. I was born Catholic during the baby boom, and families with 9 kids were exceedingly rare even then.
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On 5/15/2024 at 1:59 PM, BillsFooteball said:
America is divided so I don’t even care about the irrelevant political rant he went on. Issue is it was homophobic and misogynistic.
That's the crux of the issue with Butker's speech. He revealed himself as just another privileged straight male using religion to justify his homophobia and misogyny.
On 5/15/2024 at 4:50 PM, RkFast said:A Catholic person at a gathering of Catholic individuals gave a speech where he/she/they promoted the values of living as a Catholic.
Now replace the word "Catholic" with the name of any other social/political identity or class and let me know if its still something to be "outraged and offended" about.
Always amazes me how in the modern world where literally everything is looked at through the prism of extreme dogma, the group that basically invented the damned word is the only one thats denounced for practicing it.
Butker's views are a perversion of modern Roman Catholic teaching and practice going back to the 1960s and the Second Vatican Council. When the Pope blesses homosexuals and working mothers, who the hell is Butker and people who think like him to promote homophobia and misogyny in the name of the Church?
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1 hour ago, Doc said:
Then what/why are you trying to argue here?
In FC's universe, any nameless WR taken after the Bills drafted Ray Davis (#28 in the fourth round) would have been a better pick simply because Davis is RB and not a WR. That Davis has a skill set that is exactly what the Bills would like in a backup RB, that he likely upgrades the position significantly, and has very reasonable chance of making the Bills 53 man roster is immaterial.
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5 hours ago, GoBills808 said:
if we hold the ball for 38 mins we likely win
similarly if Diggs comes down w that catch we likely win
both those are addressed by having a legit wr1
Wasn't Diggs a "legit wr1"? He dropped a pass. Guess what, even HOF WRs drop passes. People aren't robots; they screw up frequently.
5 hours ago, SCBills said:If you're going to go in on a big investment at WR, either via FA or a trade next year, why wait?
That's the part I don't really get.
Why purposefully leave that bullet out of the chamber this year, in one of Allen's prime years, if you plan on doing it anyway next year.
To what?... Save your RD2 pick and provide a slightly cleaner cap because you didn't have to make room/push money down the road by bringing said player in this year?
To me that seems illogical.
If you're looking to make that move next year, you should explore making it this year.
If you want to see how Coleman, Shakir and Kincaid show out this year before seeing if that move is necessary, then you wait.
Maybe because you don't have the cap space to pay that WR franchise savior?
4 hours ago, FireChans said:Would you like to answer my questions?
LOL. This is funny coming from you because you never did answer my question mucho pages ago. In case you've forgotten, I asked you to name one of the WRs you would have taken instead of Ray Davis in the 4th round because you've been continually whining that the Bills should have taken another WR on Day 3 and you singled out Davis.
1 hour ago, FireChans said:The guy who said, “I bet you won’t say that when you watch him play.”
I think when you draft a 25 year old running back, he better be contributing week 1, because his career countdown begins.
LOL. You're still trashing the Davis pick even though you don't have any idea of the WRs who were left when the Bills picked in Round 4. Here are the WRs taken after the Bills picked at #28 in the 4th round in the order they were drafted in rounds 4-7: Jacob Cowing, Anthony Gould, Ainais Smith, Jaman Thrash, Bub Means, Jha'Quan Jackson, Malik Washington, Johnny Wilson, Casey Washington, Tejhaun Painter, Jordan Whittington, Ryan Flournoy, Brenden Rice, Devaughn Vele, Tahj Washington, Cornelius Johnson. So, who would you have picked?
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12 hours ago, DrMaxPower said:
This place has been miserable AF since the draft. The worst it's been since 'Wrong Josh'.
Everyone wanted a Playstation for Christmas but when they came downstairs, there was a bike with socks and underwear. Instead of realizing that there's nothing wrong with a bike and we really needed new socks and gotch, it's tantrum time.
Are we going to have to endure this endless whining for the next 6 months? Sounds like a fun way to be a fan...
Last off-season people were losing their minds because they intended to run Spencer Brown back out there and they didn't sign a MLB. They said their guys were in house and they believed in their development. Seems to have worked out OK. That's what good teams do.
Can we not take a breath and wait and see? 2nd best record in the league over the last 5 years says they deserve at least a bit of confidence. They aren't the morons people want to make them out to be.
Perfectly said! Kudos!
Have you known of anyone that faked their death?
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I think it was much easier in the past, say before WW II, when our society was much more insular and people lived in much smaller places with their "worlds" literally bound by their small towns or by their local neighborhoods. It wasn't until after WW II that Americans began to see the world as a much larger place, probably because of television and the automobile.
My grandfather and three of his brothers immigrated to the US prior to WW I. One of the brothers -- Tony -- who lived in Lackawana was a truck driver who disappeared while on a job that had him driving between Buffalo and Rochester. This was in the late 1920s (his son was born in 1925 and his daughter in 1927 IIRC). His wife and children assumed he was dead. My grandfather died in 1959. No strangers came to visit him while he was sick and/or attended his funeral. My grandfather (who hadn't driven since an accident prior to WW II) never attended a funeral for anybody not known to the rest of his immediate family. It was very common then for women who had been abandoned by their husbands or divorced to claim to be widows, but Tony's children never had any contact with their father after he left on his last route. If their mother knew her husband was alive, she never told anyone -- unless it was on her death bed or something.
Fast forward to 2016 when I was doing genealogy of my grandfather's family. I was trying to find my grandfather's two other brothers who disappeared from the US census records after 1920. I went on a genealogy message board and asked for some help, and low and behold, somebody searched the Lackawana city directories and found the supposedly deceased Tony living about 10 or 15 blocks from his supposed widow and children in the late 1930s. (The other two brothers had returned to Poland after WW I when Poland became an independent nation.) I never told Tony's son about my discovery because at that time he was 90+ years old, and it would have served no purpose.