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Speed, your argument in defence of Miller seems to be a bit of a moving target, so let's get back to your original point that people disagree with. You think Miller will be less hostile than Ambrosie in player negotiations. The counter-point is that he won't be because his personality is one of "my way or the highway". You then shift and say if he was hard to work for, people would have quit on him. That misses the point. In CBA negotiations, the players and their association are not working for him, they are working with him at best, or negotiating against him if spun in a more negative way. You then agree that he is a hard ass and control freak, which is what people were saying in the first place, but your argument shifts from "he'd be a better commish because he is less confrontational" to "his confrontational style worked for the Bombers because they won", which is another topic altogether. So if you think that style will work, OK, but that was not your point. You just want another reason to slag on Ambrosie IMO and use Miller as a better alternative (he may be) but your reasoning that he will be more conciliatory in negotiations seems way off if you want to make that the key point of your argument that he will be better.

I needed billboards - I had no idea what was going on! 😉

I find that odd. I know someone that went for a test, because they unknowingly encountered someone who had been in an area with known cases. This person has no symptoms. I just think Pallister saying that will discourage people from acting responsibly.

This is a pretty good 1st round drafting list..

At some point the CFL and the PA must learn to work as a partnership in co operation. This adversarial relationship has been brought to a head by Covid. It was a smouldering fire that has become a full blown inferno. Season or not there has to be a lesson learned by both sides moving forward.

Can't afford billboards if you're spending money on tests, you know.

absolutely completely agree. I'd dare say it's wildly dangerous to suggest that asymptomatic people shouldn't get tested.

who gives a **** if people are freaked out? We need to identify as many cases as possible every single day. Alberta's been doing asymptomatic testing for months now. If it was financially feasible, every single person should get a COVID test every single day.....as the NHL is doing with their bubble. That protocol should be mandatory around the world. Of course, that's extremely expensive......but I'm just saying, in an ideal world.............

Oh joy... kanye with the 3rd party vote split... at the behest of trump as well as coordination and assistance... everything in my gut tells me that this is highly illegal. And throw in a dash of electoral fraud...

I do know that the creator of the Extra Point left the Bombers under Miller's tenure. I can't say for sure, but I got the impression it wasn't on the best of terms. Is that a direct result of Miller? Don't know...but the timing adds up. My cousin was the manager of the Bomber store at the stadium and he said Miller was a tough guy to work for. Didn't slag him but said he is a my way or the highway kind of guy.

Well, Jr. has been triggered on Twitter since the announcement: These next few months are going to be a ****-show.

I don't know if I'm more excited because she's a great candidate and will absolutely decimate Mike Pence in a debate, or because Maya Rudolph and Jason Sudekis together in sketches will be fantastic....

Breaking news: successful business people are sometimes (even often) "kind of dicks".

It would be nice to see single digits for the next few weeks

What ever Trump says or does.....the key is to simply do the exact opposite...

Anyone who does the math has to know that the league is not going ahead this year, and that has been the case for weeks. Let's say that the CFL magically resolved its issues today and announced tomorrow a full plan to start up, and that plan actually was set in motion tomorrow as well. Players would need to come up from the USA, so getting flights would take some time, but let's be nice and say that gets done by Friday, August 14. They all arrive in Winnipeg and are put into the mandatory 14 day quarantine, which gets us to August 28. They also need to go through multiple COVID tests during that time. As a matter of comparison, the NFL is spending $75 million on COVID testing alone as part of their new season. so let's charitably say that 1/4 of the teams means 1/4 of the cost, so $19 million for testing alone. Then assuming no foul-ups or delays because of positive tests, and physicals take place and we are into the start of training camp and two-a-days by Monday or Tuesday. So start of September. Minimum time frame for that is 2 weeks, and 2 pre-season games will be needed because with 9 teams, you can't just have one because of imbalance. So now we are likely at the start of October for the start of the season. To play a 6 game schedule will take minimum 7 weeks of actual time given the required byes, so regular season ends November 17 and Grey Cup goes December 8. So if we start tomorrow with this process, we are already into December and we are definitely NOT starting tomorrow, and we are NOT starting the moment the plan gets announced, so best case scenario I say we are talking about a Christmas Grey Cup. That is just the calendar issue. Aside from the COVID testing, there is massive hotel and meal expenditures for the league to pick up for 9 teams, and this is a league that relies more than most others on gate revenue and not just predominantly TV money like the big 4, and not matter how the plan goes ahead there will be zero fans this year based on precedent from all other sports, and I don't see that changing by December. The real question here is the dreaded one - does the CFL come back at all? One year off actually saves them more money then trying to squeeze in a COVID cost-prohibitive season, but the teams are still taking a bath. And when the Roughriders are losing money last year in a normal year, and are considered one of the strongest franchises out there financially, then it is time to consider overhauling the entire business model or scrapping the league in its current form, sorry to say.

Get back to work you lazy Manitobans! Everyone dies sometime.

also, apparently capacity is 2800/day right now. Would like to see that number closer to maxed out if possible...

Just crunching numbers: 1500 tests is about 0.1% of Manitoba's population If they were to do this for an entire year (0.1 x 365), they would have tested more than a third of the population (36.5%)

Whatever, black voters are way smarter than whatever Kanye West and Jared Kushner are cooking up.

Just as corrupt but won’t embarrass. Amazing insight.

I'm sure she's as corrupt as everyone else... but on the positive sign at least she won't embarrass her nation while doing so.

Anyone else wish Kamala and Joe could swap places?

Funny...and true. Thank god it's Kamala! I was worried Biden was going to pick someone else who would have made me absolutely still vote for him no matter what. - Stephen ColbertKamala Harris will be campaigning from inside Donald Trump’s head. No word on what social distancing is like in there. - Dan Rather

Whoever runs the Canes Twitter account is pretty darn good.

So the leafs traded their pick, number 13 overall to get out of Marleau's contract. To that I say

A small sample of Harris...

I won't **** on Miller the players , the coaches, the club is in a significantly better place then where it was before he took over. If being a **** makes the team successful on and off the team then who cares.

A good deep dive into the Burisma "scandal"

I cannot speak of the Bomber's org but I've heard complaints from his other ventures, Pinnacle, Elite, etc.

a whole lotta this. You don't have to like 'em, but they get the job done.

If you’re referring to US numbers, I have a single digit in mind...

Please provide the names of people who quit the Blue Bombers because of Miller.... Noeller? blue_gold84? BigBlue204? JCon? can you guys tell me? I mean, it's obvious I need to learn who they are.

2:47 - 4:32 Obama’s talking. This is a real leader. What a pleasure it is to listen to him talk, and actually make sense.

Stevy with a t-shirt on? It ain't right, it just ain't right.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/coronavirus-covid19-world-aug-10-1.5681643 Russia can certainly be trusted it has a viable, safe vaccine. It's never misled the world before.

TOP RATED D 3. Jamie Drysdale, 5.11" 175lbs 4. Jake Sanderson, 6.1" 186 8. Guhle, Kaiden, 6.2" 186 9. Schneider, Braden, 6.2" 202 15. Barron, Justin, 6.2" 195 FWIW the biggest dman in the draft

Good update article on the CFL status by Dave Naylor. Not looking promising for a 2020 CFL season. https://www.tsn.ca/talent/where-things-stand-with-a-2020-cfl-season-1.1507703