Buffalo Sabres - Andrew Gameface
Oct 20, 2020 18:54:33 GMT -6
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Post by Flames GM (Beamer) on Oct 20, 2020 18:54:33 GMT -6
Beamer - Today's interview is the much awaited chat with our Lord and Saviour, Andrew Gameface. Welcome....Question 1....as if I need to ask as I know your answer....how do you see your Mighty Herd, the Buffalo Sabres doing this year in SCD?
Gameface - what?!!!?!
no no no no no
I said Tuesday night!
also, I thought we weren't doing this until next week
I've got my formal blue jeans on due to work obligations!
Beamer - That's okay that I caught you with your proverbial pants down....answer when you get time. No rush at all. I'm just gonna dig into the Chinese food buffet they provide to me for these interviews...
Gameface - Ok, i've got a few minutes, so imma respond to your first question. #IndianFoodIsBetter, #MexicanFoodIsBetter
Beamer - Roger that....never said Indian or Mexican wasn't good..in fact I love those ethnic foods...Tuesday is Chinese day though...even though it's Taco Tuesday...SHM
Gameface- Balls to the Wall, You Play to win the Game, I wake up in the morning and I piss excellence, and all the other solidly put sentences announced by great men during their respective peaks. Not winning sucks. I was happy with my team’s performance last year, it came together the way I planned it to and I was legit confident that I was going to get through Boston and get the Mighty Herd versus Maligned Hurricanes playoff matchup everybody was lining up to buy tickets for. Then it all went to shit because of the damn plague and it sucked.
I can’t be mad about it and I’m happy that Buffalo was in a position where we had a very real shot at the championship, but it was every bit an absolutely disappointing finish because if you’re not celebrating the trophy at the end of the year, it wasn’t a good year and Buffalo didn’t get the trophy. I wanted Carolina in the playoffs, the world deserved to see that showdown, i feel like we were all robbed of something wonderful.
So, that’s got me staring down two different paths with my sandals in the mud.
To the right of me is the understanding that holy shit not winning sucks. I didn’t lose, but I didn’t win either and it feels the same sometimes. It sucks just as much. I don’t have the sort of personality that is conducive to accepting any outcome that isn’t the best outcome. My girl’s hips are wider than your girl’s hips. My kids will destroy your kids in any fishing derby anywhere in the world. I own more baseball cards than you do and my sports paraphernalia is on fucking point. I have a job that involves trophies and I’ve got damn trophies. I didn’t get a tie for father’s day, I got a carved out canoe shelf thing to display the trinkets I’ve earned through excellence. So, if this is how it feels to not win, then I better fucking do everything I can to win because my body clearly doesn’t react well to the not-winning nonsense of last season.
On the other side of that path though, is this entirely new and weird and bizarre path that’s paved with the reality that there’s a damn pandemic going on. It’s carved through trees I don’t recognize and can’t figure out, like those paintings that don’t look like anything but when you look at them you know they’re clever and display artistic talent, so you respect the painting, even though you can’t understand it and have no point of reference for it. A plague that I don’t understand is happening and I have to respect that, so I’m left feeling hesitant about investing too much into next season when none of us know when, or even if, the puck’s going to drop.
That’s all a very longwinded way of saying, iunno.
I’m at a crossroads and, looking at the two major trades I’ve made this offseason—Schmidt doesn’t count because that was a clear homer move that didn’t push the needle either way because I already had very good D that does all the things and i'm not even sure i consider Schmidt a starter for me— it’s clear that I haven’t really made my mind up yet.
I shipped out HockeyGaud and the Leafs new Russian winger for a VERY handsome win-now young winger who filled Cats that my team needed help filling, which would suggest that I’m ready to push for a title. Shortly afterwards though, i traded that same VERY handsome young winner for a prospect I like, indicating that I’m looking to take a season off and mull strategies to build back better.
So who knows how I'm playing this or what I'm going to do with this squadron?
Hold on though, cuz I feel like i should submit some sort of canned ‘give it 110 per cent out there’ response here: If I allow myself to accept Mighty Buffalo’s ‘success’ last season, I can find reasons for confidence this season. There’s been some turnover—Fast, Brassard and Gaudette are gone—but all the Cats are still there and I had just enough talent in Rochester to replace what was lost. Roy, Ferraro and Myers should all be starters during hockey’s next season, regardless of what year that season takes place, so that’s three guys I can rely on that I couldn’t last season and all three of them hit and block and facewash and do the things i need them to do for my Fantrax lineup to produce similar results as last season. I’m also working on a few nuanced approaches to my lineup to keep you people guessing and I'm excited to see some new strategies in action.
I just traded for the third best RW in the NHL. So i add an adendum to my first answer to proclaim that the cup is mine and Carolina doesn't have the grapes to keep up
I’m comfortable with where I and The Herd are at today. This team will make the playoffs if I do nothing. The question is whether I make the necessary big boy moves at the deadline to snag glory, or if I get too intimidated by the virus and start selling off looking towards future seasons. I don’t know the answer to that question yet, I’m just grateful to have survived this pandemic so far, and I’m grateful you have too.
Beamer - Good take.....sorry I'm a little sleepy....MSG hangover from all the Chinese food I ate...urp! The gist I get is that you're all mighty powerful team is swell oiled machine and can run itself...gotcha Question 2. Besides yours truly, whom do you love in SCD and why?
Gameface - Everybody. Everybody in this league is the type of person who wants to be in a 31 team fantasy hockey dynasty league with thorough rules and a legitimate activity demand. These are my people and this is the best, most well-run, fantasy league of any sport that I’ve ever been a part of and I’M A MAN. I’M 35! I have pm’d every owner multiple times with outrageous demands and can say unequivocally that not one of this league’s current members don’t deserve to be here.
Beamer - GAWD, you're young. You carry yourself like a man of 36 years. Impressive that you're mature beyond your many years on this earth. I know many a GM here who devilishly look forward to your verbal sparring and your gift of novel writing which boarders on reading War and Peace each day. Hope you for for a National Newspaper in your next life. Question 3. Say you are dead- what do you think your eulogy would say about you.
Gameface - 'He always got hard when it counted' 'He Wang Chunged every night' 'Saw every Nic Cage movie before he died.'
what, is this tombstone or eulogy, i assumed tombstone, but now I'm looking and you said eulogy, what's a eulogy?
It all depends on who's giving the eulogy, and who's all there. But i imagine it will be noted that I always got hard when it counted, I wang chunged every night and I saw every Nic Cage movie ever released on the planet earth and included Fast Times when describing that feat.
Beamer - You always struck me as a Nic Cage fan...not sure why. And yes, I'd be at your funeral...probably seeing if I could get your estate to pay for a few more Fantrax fees worth of seasons or tryna trade you some horrible Canucks prospect.... Question 4. When is the state of California going to physically break away from the continental USA? And when it does, what sort of country will this firmer US state be?
Gameface - Wait, is that a thing? Is California threatening to leave?! If that’s a thing they’re saying they’ll do, I imagine it will happen around the same time #WEXIT does. I feel like there’s prolly a ton of money in California, but I’m not sure how they’d make it work as their own country because in theory it would change how film permits work because filming in the U.S. would become filming in a different country. That also means actors and crews and writers and all of them would need to immediately become dual citizens and the SAG would get hit pretty hard I’d imagine. So, if it does split, I don’t think it would go very well in the beginning. I think America would be fine because movie producers and all them are never the types to actually spend a lot of money locally. They’re the folks who do all the offshore bank accounts and are perpetually vacationing abroad. So you wouldn’t lose TOO much tax dollars and you’d likely make whatever you lost back through the aforementioned permitting process. I can’t see what California would gain by the move though. I assume Tom Hanks would be acclaimed their first emperor, just because he already is the emperor there. Tourism would likely go up because of what I assume would be a very favourable exchange rate. In though, it seems like a bad idea to me. It would also DRASTICALLY affect American elections, unless Texas actually is purple now, because without California, Texas would become the only electoral college goldmine.
Beamer - I was thinking more of an earthquake and Sunny California ventures off to sea but stops short of Hawaii. IMO,California could just suck it except for Disneyland. I don't care that they're overpriced, it's a fun place. Final question....If you had the opportunity to switch to the opposite gender for just a week, would you do it? Why or why not?
Gameface - If it was an option, I would definitely decline it. It would be fun to just put a trampoline in front of a mirror and watch myself bouncing up and down for a week, but I’d legit be useless as a woman. I’m no good at any of the things women love to do, like cooking and laundry and all the other things that have to happen for houses to be clean and kids fed. I’m pretty awesome at being a dude, I’ve got a good rhythm going with my current gender so would be resistant about changing horses midstream. Plus, if I was a lady, i think it would be harder for me to seduce Tiago’s lady friend because the whole reason she’s so in love with me is my thunder thighs; if she was into lady legs, she’d just spend all her time with Tiago and I’d be sans a sidepiece.oh, also #BeamerSucks. Great questions, good interview, good luck out there.
Beamer - Thank you for the fireside chat and bringing the bottle Cognac. It went well with the Chinese food. Best of luck to the Herd but I think luck is the last thing you need.
Gameface - what?!!!?!
no no no no no
I said Tuesday night!
also, I thought we weren't doing this until next week
I've got my formal blue jeans on due to work obligations!
Beamer - That's okay that I caught you with your proverbial pants down....answer when you get time. No rush at all. I'm just gonna dig into the Chinese food buffet they provide to me for these interviews...
Gameface - Ok, i've got a few minutes, so imma respond to your first question. #IndianFoodIsBetter, #MexicanFoodIsBetter
Beamer - Roger that....never said Indian or Mexican wasn't good..in fact I love those ethnic foods...Tuesday is Chinese day though...even though it's Taco Tuesday...SHM
Gameface- Balls to the Wall, You Play to win the Game, I wake up in the morning and I piss excellence, and all the other solidly put sentences announced by great men during their respective peaks. Not winning sucks. I was happy with my team’s performance last year, it came together the way I planned it to and I was legit confident that I was going to get through Boston and get the Mighty Herd versus Maligned Hurricanes playoff matchup everybody was lining up to buy tickets for. Then it all went to shit because of the damn plague and it sucked.
I can’t be mad about it and I’m happy that Buffalo was in a position where we had a very real shot at the championship, but it was every bit an absolutely disappointing finish because if you’re not celebrating the trophy at the end of the year, it wasn’t a good year and Buffalo didn’t get the trophy. I wanted Carolina in the playoffs, the world deserved to see that showdown, i feel like we were all robbed of something wonderful.
So, that’s got me staring down two different paths with my sandals in the mud.
To the right of me is the understanding that holy shit not winning sucks. I didn’t lose, but I didn’t win either and it feels the same sometimes. It sucks just as much. I don’t have the sort of personality that is conducive to accepting any outcome that isn’t the best outcome. My girl’s hips are wider than your girl’s hips. My kids will destroy your kids in any fishing derby anywhere in the world. I own more baseball cards than you do and my sports paraphernalia is on fucking point. I have a job that involves trophies and I’ve got damn trophies. I didn’t get a tie for father’s day, I got a carved out canoe shelf thing to display the trinkets I’ve earned through excellence. So, if this is how it feels to not win, then I better fucking do everything I can to win because my body clearly doesn’t react well to the not-winning nonsense of last season.
On the other side of that path though, is this entirely new and weird and bizarre path that’s paved with the reality that there’s a damn pandemic going on. It’s carved through trees I don’t recognize and can’t figure out, like those paintings that don’t look like anything but when you look at them you know they’re clever and display artistic talent, so you respect the painting, even though you can’t understand it and have no point of reference for it. A plague that I don’t understand is happening and I have to respect that, so I’m left feeling hesitant about investing too much into next season when none of us know when, or even if, the puck’s going to drop.
That’s all a very longwinded way of saying, iunno.
I’m at a crossroads and, looking at the two major trades I’ve made this offseason—Schmidt doesn’t count because that was a clear homer move that didn’t push the needle either way because I already had very good D that does all the things and i'm not even sure i consider Schmidt a starter for me— it’s clear that I haven’t really made my mind up yet.
I shipped out HockeyGaud and the Leafs new Russian winger for a VERY handsome win-now young winger who filled Cats that my team needed help filling, which would suggest that I’m ready to push for a title. Shortly afterwards though, i traded that same VERY handsome young winner for a prospect I like, indicating that I’m looking to take a season off and mull strategies to build back better.
So who knows how I'm playing this or what I'm going to do with this squadron?
Hold on though, cuz I feel like i should submit some sort of canned ‘give it 110 per cent out there’ response here: If I allow myself to accept Mighty Buffalo’s ‘success’ last season, I can find reasons for confidence this season. There’s been some turnover—Fast, Brassard and Gaudette are gone—but all the Cats are still there and I had just enough talent in Rochester to replace what was lost. Roy, Ferraro and Myers should all be starters during hockey’s next season, regardless of what year that season takes place, so that’s three guys I can rely on that I couldn’t last season and all three of them hit and block and facewash and do the things i need them to do for my Fantrax lineup to produce similar results as last season. I’m also working on a few nuanced approaches to my lineup to keep you people guessing and I'm excited to see some new strategies in action.
I just traded for the third best RW in the NHL. So i add an adendum to my first answer to proclaim that the cup is mine and Carolina doesn't have the grapes to keep up
I’m comfortable with where I and The Herd are at today. This team will make the playoffs if I do nothing. The question is whether I make the necessary big boy moves at the deadline to snag glory, or if I get too intimidated by the virus and start selling off looking towards future seasons. I don’t know the answer to that question yet, I’m just grateful to have survived this pandemic so far, and I’m grateful you have too.
Beamer - Good take.....sorry I'm a little sleepy....MSG hangover from all the Chinese food I ate...urp! The gist I get is that you're all mighty powerful team is swell oiled machine and can run itself...gotcha Question 2. Besides yours truly, whom do you love in SCD and why?
Gameface - Everybody. Everybody in this league is the type of person who wants to be in a 31 team fantasy hockey dynasty league with thorough rules and a legitimate activity demand. These are my people and this is the best, most well-run, fantasy league of any sport that I’ve ever been a part of and I’M A MAN. I’M 35! I have pm’d every owner multiple times with outrageous demands and can say unequivocally that not one of this league’s current members don’t deserve to be here.
Beamer - GAWD, you're young. You carry yourself like a man of 36 years. Impressive that you're mature beyond your many years on this earth. I know many a GM here who devilishly look forward to your verbal sparring and your gift of novel writing which boarders on reading War and Peace each day. Hope you for for a National Newspaper in your next life. Question 3. Say you are dead- what do you think your eulogy would say about you.
Gameface - 'He always got hard when it counted' 'He Wang Chunged every night' 'Saw every Nic Cage movie before he died.'
what, is this tombstone or eulogy, i assumed tombstone, but now I'm looking and you said eulogy, what's a eulogy?
It all depends on who's giving the eulogy, and who's all there. But i imagine it will be noted that I always got hard when it counted, I wang chunged every night and I saw every Nic Cage movie ever released on the planet earth and included Fast Times when describing that feat.
Beamer - You always struck me as a Nic Cage fan...not sure why. And yes, I'd be at your funeral...probably seeing if I could get your estate to pay for a few more Fantrax fees worth of seasons or tryna trade you some horrible Canucks prospect.... Question 4. When is the state of California going to physically break away from the continental USA? And when it does, what sort of country will this firmer US state be?
Gameface - Wait, is that a thing? Is California threatening to leave?! If that’s a thing they’re saying they’ll do, I imagine it will happen around the same time #WEXIT does. I feel like there’s prolly a ton of money in California, but I’m not sure how they’d make it work as their own country because in theory it would change how film permits work because filming in the U.S. would become filming in a different country. That also means actors and crews and writers and all of them would need to immediately become dual citizens and the SAG would get hit pretty hard I’d imagine. So, if it does split, I don’t think it would go very well in the beginning. I think America would be fine because movie producers and all them are never the types to actually spend a lot of money locally. They’re the folks who do all the offshore bank accounts and are perpetually vacationing abroad. So you wouldn’t lose TOO much tax dollars and you’d likely make whatever you lost back through the aforementioned permitting process. I can’t see what California would gain by the move though. I assume Tom Hanks would be acclaimed their first emperor, just because he already is the emperor there. Tourism would likely go up because of what I assume would be a very favourable exchange rate. In though, it seems like a bad idea to me. It would also DRASTICALLY affect American elections, unless Texas actually is purple now, because without California, Texas would become the only electoral college goldmine.
Beamer - I was thinking more of an earthquake and Sunny California ventures off to sea but stops short of Hawaii. IMO,California could just suck it except for Disneyland. I don't care that they're overpriced, it's a fun place. Final question....If you had the opportunity to switch to the opposite gender for just a week, would you do it? Why or why not?
Gameface - If it was an option, I would definitely decline it. It would be fun to just put a trampoline in front of a mirror and watch myself bouncing up and down for a week, but I’d legit be useless as a woman. I’m no good at any of the things women love to do, like cooking and laundry and all the other things that have to happen for houses to be clean and kids fed. I’m pretty awesome at being a dude, I’ve got a good rhythm going with my current gender so would be resistant about changing horses midstream. Plus, if I was a lady, i think it would be harder for me to seduce Tiago’s lady friend because the whole reason she’s so in love with me is my thunder thighs; if she was into lady legs, she’d just spend all her time with Tiago and I’d be sans a sidepiece.oh, also #BeamerSucks. Great questions, good interview, good luck out there.
Beamer - Thank you for the fireside chat and bringing the bottle Cognac. It went well with the Chinese food. Best of luck to the Herd but I think luck is the last thing you need.