OT: Local sports coverage talk (the Athletic/Local TV/TBN/WGR/Charging Buffalo/LGA, etc)

[sabrebuild]

Schopp is in his glory of speculation with the McCoy stuff right now.

Tries to connect things from bad tipping to a fight with off duty cops to he is a bad guy and why would the gf’s friend lie. But hey idk what’s going on and maybe I’ll regret what I’m saying here, because I’m hot.

Then a caller says something similar, but instead of assuming McCoy did something he says it appears the gf has some motivation for lieing, and the caller finishes with but I could be wrong.

Hypocrite Schopp takes that opportunity to attack his own customer, and says he can’t understand how callers could say things they might regret later. Endless lulz with this guy.

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[Husko]

The new app continues cutting off mid sentence during programming. I’m on the verge of abandoning WGR altogether.

 

[ZZamboni]

For those that hate the Radio.com app ...

I just go to the WBEN and WGR website and click on listen. Works perfectly.

 

[Ruman Ndur]

Is there a good hockey talk show to listen to? Ive streamed wgr on my commute from time to time because I get nostalgic for Buffalo, but I’d like to change it up for so w better hocney discussion.

A couple of podcasts I enjoy:

31 Thoughts (Marek and Friedman)
Biscuits (Down Goes Brown and Lozo)
ESPN on Ice (Wyshinski & Kaplan)
Hockey PDO Cast (Dmitri Filipovic)
Puck Soup (Wysh and Lozo)
The Full 60 (Custance)...this one is more about hockey media
BobCast (McKenzie)...this one is kinda dry

The Instigator Podcast (Sabres Centric, done by locals)

 

[Jim Bob]

Uh oh...

 

[Tsyolin]

Uh oh...

Good, keep things interesting. It's what I'm paying for. I love Vogl but I need some spicy articles to go with his easy going ones.

 

[jc17]

Good, keep things interesting. It's what I'm paying for. I love Vogl but I need some spicy articles to go with his easy going ones.

He's says it involves someone not well remembered and not talked about in a while. Is he just going to make a Darcy/Botterill comparison?

 

[UnleashRasmus]

Uh oh...

Good, always unearth the truth!

 

[haseoke39]

Uh oh...

Bets?

Jack is the cancer.
Pegula won't spend money anymore.
Housley ripped by his players.
Dahlin's arthritis starting up.
Reinhart negotiations stalled, player wants out.
Sabretooth on HGH.

....

Could they all be true??

 

[struckbyaparkedcar]

Bets?

Jack is the cancer.
Pegula won't spend money anymore.
Housley ripped by his players.
Dahlin's arthritis starting up.
Reinhart negotiations stalled, player wants out.
Sabretooth on HGH.

....

Could they all be true??

Money on a cultural critique/Housley unhappiness.

I feel like a Dahlin medical issue would have leaked to bigger sources, but that’s the thing I’m also totally emotionally unprepared to handle.

 

[sabrebuild]

Cody Hodgson has similar ppg to Reinhart as an older player, and his longer term low cost deal didn’t work out....

A tease like that deserves a punch right in the kisser.

 

[Sabre Dance]

Uh oh...

Guessing it's one of those future is bright but there will be suffering type articles.

 

[Jim Bob]

Cody Hodgson has similar ppg to Reinhart as an older player, and his longer term low cost deal didn’t work out....

A tease like that deserves a punch right in the kisser.

For people that missed the article.

 

[Der Jaeger]

For people that missed the article.

That was the uneasiness?

 

[Jim Bob]

That was the uneasiness?

Like @sabrebuild said, he said that there is a statistical comparison of Reinhart to Hodgson at a similar age.

He figured that would make fans uneasy because of how Hodgson's career unfolded.

 

[Duddy]

Didn't Hodgson have some sort of back injury?

Makes no sense to compare Reinhart to a guy whos career was undermined by a thing he couldn't do anything about.

 

[Royal Thunder]

I'm pretty relieved that this was the "uneasiness". I mean, Hodgson is the exception more than the rule. Young promising player with some medical issues who slowly declined in his early 20s all the way out of the league. Not exactly worried about Reinhart following a similar path.

 

[jc17]

If it makes people feel any better Reinhart has been better at getting scoring chances which should suggest his production is more sustainable than Hodgson.

 

[struckbyaparkedcar]

Like @sabrebuild said, he said that there is a statistical comparison of Reinhart to Hodgson at a similar age.

He figured that would make fans uneasy because of how Hodgson's career unfolded.

Hodgson was a dogshit possession/defensive player with multiple developmental years impacted by a misdiagnosed back injury that ended up degenerative.

Reinhart... isn’t.

 

[Crazy Tasty]

Cody was diagnosed with malignant hyperthermia, a genetic muscle disorder after/during his final year with the Predators. It was developing over his seasons in Buffalo and could have led to his "lack of compete".

 

[sabrebuild]

Like @sabrebuild said, he said that there is a statistical comparison of Reinhart to Hodgson at a similar age.

He figured that would make fans uneasy because of how Hodgson's career unfolded.

Deserves a punch right in the pie hole

 

[joshjull]

Based on the reactions to Yerdon’s article, some of you need a break from hockey talk to recharge your perspective.

 

[OkimLom]

Based on the reactions to Yerdon’s article, some of you need a break from hockey talk to recharge your perspective.

I think who he's referring to when he talks about Sabres fans being uneasy, is interesting. Does he mean the most optimistic fans? Does he mean the ones that hated the ROR trade? Which portion of the fanbase does he mean?

Though to be honest, I think he's just using a tactic to get people to check out his new article on the website. It's all for the clicks. I doubt we will be getting anything earth-shattering.

 

[joshjull]

I think who he's referring to when he talks about Sabres fans being uneasy, is interesting. Does he mean the most optimistic fans? Does he mean the ones that hated the ROR trade? Which portion of the fanbase does he mean?

Though to be honest, I think he's just using a tactic to get people to check out his new article on the website. It's all for the clicks. I doubt we will be getting anything earth-shattering.

Having followed him for some time he was just being silly. Not everything needs to be dissected for deeper meaning.

 

[valet]

I think who he's referring to when he talks about Sabres fans being uneasy, is interesting. Does he mean the most optimistic fans? Does he mean the ones that hated the ROR trade? Which portion of the fanbase does he mean?

Though to be honest, I think he's just using a tactic to get people to check out his new article on the website. It's all for the clicks. I doubt we will be getting anything earth-shattering.

why would fans that think positively about the situation be uneasy? unease is a negative feeling. I think he's talking about the folks that castrate management/coaching for any move that gets made without really honestly considering the potentially good effects of such things.

either way, yeah, def all for the clicks. These news sources need to make money to stay in business... and when the team does poorly the best way to do that is via fearmongering and unselfaware biased analysis that plays off of people's anger rather than taking a look at the bigger picture that it takes time to build a successful team