Mike Berman

Just happy to be here. Will do my best to help the team any way I can.

[Buffalo Sabres @BuffaloSabres]

Hey sabrehood. Sabres Admin here.

We’ve been through a lot together. But specifically, I’VE been through a lot.

Tomorrow is the last day of the regular season, so it seems like a good time to get some things off my chest.

And so, today is now dedicated to the RECEIPTS.

[Mike Berman @mberman]

@TJOshie77 Huge if true

[Mike Berman @mberman]

Watching the local coverage of the Wootton HS shooting, and you’ll never convince me that the local news networks aren’t being funded by the metal detector lobby

[Mike Berman @mberman]

I will die on the hill that Johnny Davis would have been better off being drafted by any other team besides the Wizards, whose fans were fed up with the front office and its NBA draft philosophy. He never had a chance. Truly hope he thrives wherever he goes next.

[Ben Standig @BenStandig]

Lukewarm take: Johnny Davis is the worst first-round pick in Wizards history, and I don't think it's close despite some good candidates.

[Mike Berman @mberman]

The Luka trade now eclipses the Jaguars-Browns deal in that Draft Day movie as the worst deal I’ve ever seen, fact or fiction division

[Mike Berman @mberman]

@DownGoesBrown Could also say “Man, teams are really comfortable saving money on goalies in the hopes that theirs will just take a big leap forward — surely that will work out like it’s done for the Flyers (to take one example).”

[Mike Berman @mberman]

Brb have to come up with a bunch of media beef questions for the next Athletic mailbag column …

[Josh Yohe @JoshYohe_PGH]

@Ohiopensfan @jmarshfof It's not the worst idea

[Mike Berman @mberman]

@JoshYohe_PGH @Ohiopensfan @jmarshfof Would buy!

[Mike Berman @mberman]

I think folks with a stake in the SEC don’t approve of any outcome where the SEC is on the sidelines for the title game. No group of fans is more entitled or arrogant

[Brandon Zimmerman @BZSEC]

I think Ohio State’s all-in quest for a national title ending at the hands of Michigan would have been a much more interesting outcome. Overall, CFB is just like every other sport now.

[Seth MacFarlane @SethMacFarlane]

Since this has been trending, here’s a fun fact: “It insists upon itself” was a criticism my college film history professor used to explain why he didn’t think “The Sound of Music” was a great film. First-rate teacher, but I never quite followed that one.

[Mike Berman @mberman]

Washington upset No. 1 Detroit in a domed stadium

[Eliot Crist 🏆 @EliotCrist]

I 100% agree with Kurt Warner here on weather games

[Jesse Dougherty @dougherty_jesse]

I keep thinking about this Stephen Strasburg quote from right after the Nationals clinched a spot in the World Series: “You have a great year, and you can run into a buzz saw. Maybe this year we’re the buzz saw.”

[Art Stapleton @art_stapleton]

Washington killed TikTok and the Lions on the same day.

[Drew Dickerson @Drew_Dickerson]

Good Morning. Good Afternoon and good night Detroit!!! #RaiseHail #HTTC

[Mike Berman @mberman]

I do not believe what I just saw #HTTC

[Mike Berman @mberman]

The Steeler fan mindset in a nutshell: Tomlin is trash and the Steelers should move on, but also he’d fetch at least two first-round picks in a trade

[Michael Beck @MichaelBeck56]

What really sucks is this deal could easily be the catalyst to pull the Steelers out of 9-8 purgatory

At minimum the Steelers would acquire the 10th pick this year and the Bears first next year.

[Mike Berman @mberman]

So I agree with the vote, but there’s no worse sportswriter dance than “I’m going to make my vote public, so please read but don’t criticize it because I don’t care what you think.”

[Ryan Divish @RyanDivish]

I really don’t care if you agree with me. It’s my HOF vote. I’m sure I don’t agree with how you voted on many things in your life.

[Mike Berman @mberman]

@RJSurdyk @ZachHeilprin @bykevinclark @24marinematt @Evan_Flood No Miami fan here, but you’re not seeing the landscape where the NCAA keeps losing when it takes these issues to court. Wisconsin and the Big Ten can whine, but we’ll see if they put actual resources to a legal battle they’ll likely either lose or see rendered moot by legislation

[Mike Berman @mberman]

@ImmaculateView @MattWintner When it’s a jilted Big Ten school on one side and a player wanting to go nearer to his home and sick relative (and that’ll be the spin) on the other, it doesn’t take a genius to see where sympathies are going to fall. Claw back what you can, but don’t be whiny. It’s a fine line

[Mike Berman @mberman]

@ImmaculateView @MattWintner Maybe, but this doesn’t seem like a great hill for Wisconsin to die on. There’s no way you win the PR fight, and the legal one will at best take years to go through the courts and likely be rendered moot by the time it’s decided