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U agree as well...and I actually see him more explosive in the run aspect of that role ..can we flip ration somewhere to accomodate that..or does he just sub in somehow...want Demski back...but if it comes to be way too much money to limit us elsewhere...we will survive...we did just fine last 2 yrs when he was injured if u recall..could be 200k spent elsewhere to really solidify some spots Dunbar tho if we let Bailey go would be my choice ..I see him flourishing with ZC and this locker room Big signing on Grant ..and no reason he can't get more touches in a hybrid role McRae also ran hard...took some big hits...and did just fine...expanded role...more touches...no reason he won't produce...he is an explosive runner and that was his rep in draft analysis...he's fluid and sees the field extremely well...we don't need to rely on one guy doing it all...so that's where we have a good edge in who we put on field

I've had 5 shots myself with the bivalent in early December. Plus the flu shot. I figured I'd get another one in June. Being 67 & with high BP that I keep current. I've never had Covid (touch wood).

Walters bonuses are playoff bonuses and rings.

TBurg hacking into some members accounts this afternoon......interesting.....

You're re-signing Demski. This'd be a lousy time to take a key weapon away from Collaros. KW knows this and isn't a fool. Demski's payday will be announced soon, I'm sure.

Yeah...was an epic turd by us...by far the better team...just we were in a funk that game..and that was that..I think ZC was hindered alot...cause it wasn't just an "off" look to him...he was not healthy but gutted it out

And it won't matter if his QB can't get him the ball on a consistent basis. I still can't believe we lost to these suckers. My hatred for the Argos is cruising along nicely. Argos don't make the playoffs next year. They think they're better than they are. From Champions to Chumps in a very short period of time. That's my wager.

Indunno...200k for any top flight receiver regardless of nationality in my opinion is or should be top money benchmark...over 200k is getting stupid..and restricts you at a position where if you have good scouting should be easy filled...and if he is your best highest paying guy..and gets dinged for any short periods...likely your Canadian backup is sub par There are tons of Gittens types down south for a third of that cost...likely better and would take less time to develop...paying your Canadian lineman..those big bucks...but specialty players like reciever and even RB to an extent is dumb...

I don’t think he is leaving. This is maybe his last chance for a bigger payday so he will see what he is worth then we will figure it out.

Sure hope so. Good to see you back GC champ fan *grumble, ***** and complain*

You’re right. Appeasement of Nazi Germany played a huge role but the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact was the start of the war moving to a larger scale. The geopolitical situation right now mirrors the 1930s in so many ways. It’s terrifying quite honestly.

I could see Hamilton going hard after Demski. BLM was going on about how he was our number one threat at the GC 2021 - a guy that can do everything.

That was a massive brain cramp by Buck- if that was his call. Along with the Pukop wounded duck toss.

Plan the parade!

Not sure it's a gross over pay. High? Sure. But wasn't he their leading reciever? Plus Canadian? Plus young? If he continues to improve this year and the next 2, I could see a team giving him that. So TO hedged their bet. No guarantees in the CFL, especially on big contracts. Demski at 200 is fair. Not more than that though.

Gross over pay for basically one real.good season...not great...way to mess the recovery sms up T.O

185-190k is about what Demski will get. Girlie Kittens set the market. I think its a fair price. A quality NI reciever is just as valuable as a NI lineman.

I think it’s right about where you’d expect.

I think McCrae is above average and isn't like the many small receivers we had brought in over the year (Lankford, Nelson, McKnight). Dude has a lot of speed and I'd like to see him back and I can see him replacing Demski if we lose him.

I don’t think he’s average at all. He’s def more raw than that but with much more upside. No doubt he’s a dangerous guy with the ball in his hands. As a rb I think he’s better than average. As a wr he needs to get a lot better to be really good. But as a guy who can do both he doesn’t need to be as good a wr. I’d love to see him really focus on catching punts and being our back up returner too. the mafia have shown they can really find gems at wr. Collaros has really taken advantage of a lot of great talents we’ve brought in over his time here. I don’t doubt that this year we will again see an insane battle at wr. No one is getting a spot easily. Im very pleasantly surprised grant is back and before fa. I really thought the late contract and low cost last year would’ve hurt us. Says alot about him and the team that this is where he wants to play. Love the guy, explosive and tough as hell. With the nagging injuries I’d like to see him either split returns or just return full time.

Yearly reminder that it's ok to like multiple players!

But at my age its getting hard to bend down........😉

Grant was our best player in the playoffs. Glad he's back

Brave Air force pilot George Santos hailed a hero for shooting down the Chinese spy balloon

Demski will get Gittens money otherwise he'd have signed weeks ago. He's waiting to see what the market is.

Bum. Play anywhere but here

Those guys and the top guys won’t get that money this year though. I think teams see those as the mistakes they are now. I’d actually rather over pay an ol than a wr. No other ni ol available is remotely as close to as good as desjarlais. You can have a meh wr. A meh ol can kill a line qb rb and offense. A ni starter is worth less now too with the nationalized stuff imo. I think that money is good for a ratio breaking ni who plays like an imp or brings a lot of versatility. For me demski might never have a 1k season, but he stretches and freezes the defense soo much with the run threat, is such an amazing blocker and a hard runner with the ball I have no issues with him at 180k. The defense needs to account for demski every single play. Pre snap, again post snap, and then even when he doesn’t get the ball head on a swivel cus he puts 100% into blocking for his team mates whistle to whistle. You don’t need to track gittens. You don’t game plan and practice to counter him.

People sometimes forget that Russia along with Germany started WW2 by invading and partitioning Poland. Along with this, Russia gathered all the captured Polish officers and all mayors, Polish politicians and such that could find, took all 22,000 of them to the Katyn forest and massacred them. Russia was under the command of Stalin (an ethnic Georgian) then but the massacre has never been acknowledged Russia.

Everyone was slightly off. I still think it was that Prukop pick that did them in the most. They were going for a backbreaker like the Strev-Harris pass in 19, but you gotta just keep it on the ground there. All the momentum. Brady was starting to kill it. That call was just inexplicable.

Damn true.....Zack was off his game (injury hampered).....Kicking game was not up to par.....Receivers seemed out of synch and worst of all our D let us down when it mattered...Should have ran their back-up off of the field instead of giving him time to move the ball....What a time to have one of the worst games of the year after all of our successes in 22'......Having the last field goal attempt fail was the last straw for me....shut the bloody thing off and got out the Glenfiddick....I want some serious redemption in 23' .....and you can bet our guys will be primed

Agreed. They're paying for potential, sure. You're banking on him continuing his progression. But he's locked in at a known rate and they got a budding star.

Well duhh...haha..jk...they were a bit better based on the end result...but we played baddddd

Wow. He’s a damn good young ni wr but man I wouldn’t wanna be paying him that.

Absolutely- he was "there" guy, not "their" guy.

I like McCrae but he is average and easily replaced, with any luck, by someone more talented.

I get the preparations for the loss of Demski in the hyping of McCrae...but McCrae has shown very little. He basically got the ball twice a game. Don't buy your McCrae jersey yet. He'll have to beat out guys that are far better receivers than him and we're still a Canadian tailback team. Grant is back and McCrae was a disaster on punt return last preseason so he'll have to show a lot better to be the backup there. Won't be easy for McCrae to get on the roster. Other than handing BC a touchdown. He was plus 1 TD in 2 playoff games, but yeah he scored 2.

Can't forget Faj.....becoming plan Number UNO as every hour passes in saskabush heh heh

And from what I've observed about 89% of these wealthy people say others need to pull up their bootstraps if they want to be like them. Maybe I'm being to harsh, maybe 88%.

But will the Argos also go after Larry and Moe as well after signing Kurleigh?

Yep, I have to think it pretty much ends any speculation Demski follows Harris to the Argos. Can't see them paying both guys at #1 National receiver rate.

YAY!!!!

I'm sure name recognition counts to some degree but neither was handed anything as far as I can tell regarding their respective accomplishments. I don't know Blaikie personally but have voted for him twice now based on his views, ideas, and commitment to his community. I've known Ben for nearly 15 years and he's as dedicated as he is intelligent - much like his late father. I wouldn't classify either as "nepo* babies," as both have worked diligently to get where they are in their lives. And FWIW, neither of them are kids. They're both in their late 30s. * nepotism generally carries a negative connotation

Walker looked like someone completely out of fucks to give the last couple seasons. He’d fit perfectly with Sask.

Minerals are crucial for electric cars and wind turbines. Some worry whether we have enough. Minerals are crucial for electric cars, wind turbines, and solar panels. Some worry whether the future supply can meet the rising demand. By Shannon Osaka February 2, 2023 at 6:30 a.m. EST Over 20 years ago, two geologists made a stark prediction in Scientific American: “Probably within 10 years,” they wrote, “global production of conventional oil will begin to decline.” This argument, which became known as “peak oil,” captured public attention for well over a decade, sparking worries that abundant reserves of oil would give way to scarcity, runs on gas stations and sky-high inflation. Peak oil, however, never came to pass. U.S. oil production increased far beyond the peak oil predictions, thanks to the increased use of “fracking” and other production methods. The term faded out of use, and concerns about oil shifted from a fear of running out of oil to fears of runaway global warming. 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Take cobalt, for example — a key ingredient in the lithium-ion batteries that power electric cars, smartphones and other electronics. According to the U.S. Geological Survey, there are approximately 7.6 million tons of cobalt reserves worldwide. But the total cobalt resources far exceed this number: The USGS estimates that there are 25 million tons of cobalt resources available from the earth’s surface and 120 million tons of cobalt on the sea floor. And those numbers tend to increase. Ten years ago, world cobalt reserves were estimated at 7.5 million tons and resources were only estimated to be about 15 million tons. As a commodity becomes more valuable, two things happen simultaneously: Reserves increase, as previously uneconomical resources become economical. And resources increase as well, as governments and companies put more effort into mapping and exploring minerals in the earth’s crust and on the sea floor. In 2012, the world’s lithium reserves sat at 13 million tons; now, they’re around 22 million tons. During that same period, the world’s estimated lithium resources more than doubled — from 40 to 88 million tons. Companies are already touting the discoveries of new deposits of critical minerals. A Swedish state-owned mining company last month announced a deposit of 1 million tons of rare earth metals in the Lapland province. U.S. companies have also recently claimed discoveries of new deposits in Wyoming and Montana. Recent research has also shown that the amount of minerals required for the shift to renewable energy is significant — but falls well within the amount of reserves available. A study released recently by scientists at the University of California at Irvine and MIT found that current reserves of minerals like aluminum, copper, manganese, silver and more should support building enough wind and solar power to meet climate targets. What’s more, the mining from those operations would not have an outsize impact on global warming. (One repeated critique of renewable energy is that the intensity of mining might counteract the emissions benefits of wind and solar.) According to the study, the materials required for the transition to low-carbon electricity would take up somewhere between 1 and 9 percent of the remaining carbon budget: a significant amount but one that wouldn’t undercut overall climate goals. “The emissions to produce a refined ton of steel or aluminum to meet all of this demand would not really threaten global carbon budgets,” said Seaver Wang, the co-director of climate and energy at the energy think tank the Breakthrough Institute and the lead author on the paper. (The study focused on electricity generation. The researchers did not look at the mineral requirements for transportation or electric vehicles.) The larger problem may be not whether the world as a whole has enough critical minerals — but whether they are available quickly enough and in the right places. Minerals are not distributed equally around the globe — for example, much of the cobalt mined right now is from the Democratic Republic of Congo, most of the rare earths are mined in China, and much of the lithium is mined in Australia. China also dominates the world’s processing of critical minerals: 80 percent of rare earth metals, over 60 percent of cobalt and over 50 percent of lithium are processed there. According to a recent analysis by the USGS, the United States relies on imports for almost 50 percent of the minerals it consumes. Wang said that there will probably be enough minerals — and that the environmental impacts of mining them should pale in comparison to the damages of fossil fuels. (Humanity “mines” billions of tons of fossil fuels from the ground every year; even a huge increase in mineral mining will only be millions of tons.) But much still has to be done to ensure mining is safe for ecosystems and the people that will surround them. “The bottom line is that if a lot of these commodities are really going to be as hot as people say, there ought to be enough economic benefit to ensure that more goes to the community and to the workers,” Wang said. https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2023/02/02/critical-minerals-run-out-shortage/

I can't take you serious because you thought they would be terrible. Arizona swept Toronto. "Bad teams' win against "good' teams all the time. For someone who thought they would suck, your expectations are not reality based

Conservatives kill everything they touch.

Hard to process that Ralphie’s mom from “A Christmas Story” was the same actress who was in “Slap Shot”. Died Jan. 9 but not reported until now. https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/04/entertainment/actress-melinda-dillon-obit-christmas-story-trnd/index.html