A Shared Affliction

We are middle-aged, life-long Buffalo Sabres fans who've become convinced that a little red wagon full of properly medicated rhesus monkeys would do a better job of rationally assessing the state of our hockey club than the alleged experts in the local media. We will occasionally try to meet that standard.

There are many other blogs devoted to the Sabres and their 42 years of occasional greatness, some of them quite good. We reserve this space to direct our invective at the knee-jerk belligerence which apparently passes for editorial policy among the  hacks at the The Buffalo News (hereinafter TBN). You've been duly warned, and we understand if you choose not to join us in dwelling on rotten hash masquerading as journalism.

I'll begin, then, not with the usual verbal flatulence from the namesake of this blog, but with a bit of dross from his colleague Jerry Sullivan. In his most recent musing on the tenuous job security of Sabres GM Darcy Regier, Sullivan writes:

"Bucky Gleason was told recently that top brass are trying to convince Pegula that the media is the problem, and that certain Buffalo News writers are out to get Regier."

Putting aside the dubious assertion of "top brass" aside from Pegula and Regier themselves, the real question-begging inherent in Sullivan's claim is that Pegula, Regier or any Buffalonian in place or spirit who has made the error of opening TBN in the past 5 years would need to be convinced that such a campaign exists. Ample evidence that it does- a teaming pile of self-important bluster, baseless rumor-mongering and unremitting ignorance of either the depth of sports psychology we expect from pee wee coaches or a high school junior's grasp of the economics of the NHL- is readily accessible to anyone who has achieved a 3rd-grade reading level and cares to look.

We hope to more fully expose the underlying vanity of that enterprise in the weeks and months to come.