Comments on: Lindy and Buffalo

By: Housekeeping « The Willful Caboose

Housekeeping « The Willful Caboose — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 16:04:47 +0000

[...] Three of the posts that I added to “Favorites” (Coach Killing, Please Come Home, and Lindy and Buffalo) were all written in one week. They all have a different tone, but they all are reflect a sort of [...]

By: wnylibrarian

wnylibrarian — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 13:36:29 +0000

Sometimes change is needed. I keep comparing Lindy Ruff (who’s won nothing) and Joe Torre, who won 4 championships in 5 years. However, after 12 years the Yankees started to get too soft, and started to repeat mistakes. That was the problem. No one said Torre was suddenly a bad manager, but for the team’s sake and Torre’s sake it was time for a change after 11 years. Torre is with the Dodgers now, and he may win a championship out there this year. Good for Torre. However, 11 and 12 seasons is an eon in pro sports, and that’s not good. Coaches and players need to be replenished or the team starts to stale. That is what has happened to the Sabres. A change would do both sides a world of good right now. Never let your strength become your weakness. Right now, stability which was their strength, has now become their achilles heel.

By: Katebits

Katebits — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 06:30:15 +0000

Ha! Lauren, if I were Golisano I would actually eat that microphone. Okay, not the whole thing, but maybe just that weird detachable foam piece. I bet old Tom could get that down if it was cut up into little pieces. He should have to do that for us. Seeing Tom Golisano eat a big piece of foam would TOTALLY make me feel a little better about the Sabres. :D

By: Lauren

Lauren — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 01:48:56 +0000

Totally off subject and not that I want anyone yelling at me for bringing this up, but does anyone remember at the beginning of the season when Tom Golisano said he was certain the Sabres would make the playoffs, and if they didn’t he would eat the microphone in front of him? If the Sabres don’t make the playoffs, Katebits you might want to look into enforcing this, if anyone can, you can.

By: Katebits

Katebits — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 22:42:58 +0000

danielleia, thanks for your comment! I totally agree that talking like this takes some of the fun out of sports, which is partly why I hesitate to do it very often! This is so serious, and, sports should be fun.

Okay, I’m off to the game now! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

Let’s go Buff-a-lo!

By: Katebits

Katebits — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 22:27:22 +0000

AAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHA I love you, piece_of_etc, and you’re totally right. Even winning the Stanley Cup wouldn’t get that damn Peace Bridge built.

By: danielleia

danielleia — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 22:27:08 +0000

“I assure you, it has not gone unnoticed that very few of you are rushing to agree with me in the comment threads.”

This isn’t going to be a very insightful comment… I just didn’t say anything because I didn’t want to come off as bitchy when that’s not my intention. :/ My thoughts are, we are a mediocre team in a poor town and that is really all we will ever be… but its fun. Glutton for punishment complex maybe? That or the hockey gods totally hate us.

By: CrotchetyOriginalSam

CrotchetyOriginalSam — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 21:21:11 +0000

Sam, I’ve always been a little perplexed by your aversion to my anti-Lindy sentiment especially since you’re not a Sabres fan.

Actually, I don’t wholly disagree with you, especially the part about legendary coaches needing to not be given a lifetime pass from criticism. (I’ve questioned whether Lemaire is the right coach for the Wild several times over the years.) I just think Buffalo’s larger problem is the decisions that have been made by the front office, so I’d be inclined to dump Darcy Regier and give Lindy a chance to try to work his magic with a new regime in place.

By: A response to Katebits « Life is like a bowl of porkchops…

A response to Katebits « Life is like a bowl of porkchops… — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 20:16:57 +0000

[...] contentious upstate right now from all the blogs I read and yet I have trouble taking it seriously. Katebits put up an insightful post yesterday on the topic that I mostly agree with logically, but one idea expressed therein bothers [...]

By: piece_of_etc

piece_of_etc — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 20:16:18 +0000

Kate, I appreciate the thoughtful and nuanced tone of the debate, the carefully worded responses, and the empathy and compassion that you bring to the questions of regional psyche-sports championship interplay.

As a New Englander, I just wanted to say that, as I walk the streets paved with gold and only-recently fallen confetti, as I look into the beaming faces of the intelligent and kind children who respect their elders, as I traverse the aged halls of knowledge both spiritual and pure, reclining on my chaise of velvet and marble, opening my mouth gently, to receive the sweet grapes from the hills of elysium, freshly-picked by vestal virgins, then washing it down with the finest mead of the glittering halls of valhalla, engaging in discourse stimulating and wise with the gentle common folk that abound in the beautiful cities and town of this area, I can safely say that, yes, there is a correlation between the two, because we’re ALL STILL MISERABLE, thanks to DAVID TYREE’S EFFING HELMET CATCH. AND THE BRUINS’ SLUMP.