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Agudosi with a great catch deep for the td.. match up nightmare mare. Bailey catching everything in his direction. If it were my first time watching the Bombers I'd say he's their best player. Certainly is today Good connection from pigrome to agudosi . Pitch and catch. Going to be hard to imagine agudosi not seeing the field a lot if he can stay healthy. Not the best route runner but catches the ball well. And the size Gotta head off now. In a sentence, the Bombers look ****** good. Hard to single out any real poor play

Nichols showing up again with a nice tip on the ball to prevent shoen from bringing it in. Really good players make it obvious for fans like me. He's really good 79 Westfield burned his coverage on a perfectly thrown deep route.* I THINK* it was 15 josh Jones. Man was that a beautiful pass. The type of pass to make coaches notice Agudosi uses his frame to snag one in traffic. Accurate, yet fluttering pass Pigrome. RB Salima Jordan has some speed. Nice cuts and vision Pigrome under pressure and makes a bad decision to try and dump it off underneath. Wasn't picked but not a good choice. Comes back on 2nd and 10 with a deep out throw just out of reach of the receiver More to follow

Coyne has had a couple of bad drops since my first post. Too bad, can't help but be rooting for him. Seems like he's getting in his own way Feel like I'm getting repetitive but Nichols again step for step with shoen in end zone. Breaks up pass Demski burns Darby up the seam. Darby may have been in a zone. Not sure Shoen wins a battle against Nichols on an out and up to the end zone. Nichols beat badly there. Good battle between these 2 today Good catch by Coyne on a curl to redeem himself a bit. Back to back catches for him now on an out route. Make that 3 of 4 running across the middle on a bullet pass from pigrome about 10 years deep Bailey even when we'll covered does a great job competing and winng the ball. Just a ton of tenacity. I know we regard him in here in wpg but he is under rated around the league. Looks as much as a pro as anyone out there Looks like 17 and 71 jawing on 1 v 1s. O and d had to be separated. Very heated exchange

Man no thanks necessary. Litterly the best morning I've had in 6 months lol

Just random thoughts I'm having along the way, totally disorganized. Kind of like A dod odds and sods for tc.. #3 qb Tyrrell pigrome looks like a Charles Robert's at qb with a bit more height. Looks fast and has a good arm. First snap in situational play though and he dropped snap. Not sure if it's on him or the C. 71 # manasseh Bailey looks small but runs nice routes. 87 # Sean Coyne runs very convincing routes and has major hussle. Really impressed with him No Grant on the field as far as I can see 88 our boy with Rasheed Bailey is just awesome. Makes a tough catch and yells out a big " let's go!! " Agudosi must be a terrifying match up. #96 Tanner Schmekel, I know nothing about him but he looks intimidating. Lol Same with 92 Caleb Thomas. Dude is gigantic . Demski with a tough catch in traffic. Amazing to me how unthreatening he looks but is just such a gamer. #1 Nichols is just so good. No room between him and receiver. An almost int right on the side line but great coverage. Shoen with his classic corner route td. Would have never made it that far in live action though, d line was at collaros. 15 Josh Jones has all the tools to be a good cfl qb. Tall. Fast. Just looks like a qb. More to follow . Obviously I'm just a fan so you know, take it for what it is

The CFL finally has a Super Nintendo game.

Appreciate you @CodyT .. thank you for the updates!

Called it

Was that seriously the announcement bauming was speaking of? Makes me wish I stuck around practice longer to find Darrin and ask him WTF in person

If I’ve learned anything this season, it’s that our local Bombers media has no idea what makes fans happy

There was a scoring error and Winnipeg really won the 2022 Cup?

Was click bait and it's annoying.

I think it was the way Bauming worded his tweet that has some many people disappointed. This IS a good announcement from the league. Bauming made it sound like it would be more Bomber specific imo. Either way, I will also be watching

Just random thoughts I'm having along the way, totally disorganized. Kind of like A dod odds and sods for tc.. #3 qb Tyrrell pigrome looks like a Charles Robert's at qb with a bit more height. Looks fast and has a good arm. First snap in situational play though and he dropped snap. Not sure if it's on him or the C. 71 # manasseh Bailey looks small but runs nice routes. 87 # Sean Coyne runs very convincing routes and has major hussle. Really impressed with him No Grant on the field as far as I can see 88 our boy with Rasheed Bailey is just awesome. Makes a tough catch and yells out a big " let's go!! " Agudosi must be a terrifying match up. #96 Tanner Schmekel, I know nothing about him but he looks intimidating. Lol Same with 92 Caleb Thomas. Dude is gigantic . Demski with a tough catch in traffic. Amazing to me how unthreatening he looks but is just such a gamer. #1 Nichols is just so good. No room between him and receiver. An almost int right on the side line but great coverage. Shoen with his classic corner route td. Would have never made it that far in live action though, d line was at collaros. 15 Josh Jones has all the tools to be a good cfl qb. Tall. Fast. Just looks like a qb. More to follow . Obviously I'm just a fan so you know, take it for what it is

Riders are folding?

I'm sorry but if you aren't considering what might happen if interest rates rise (when you purchase a home) that's on you. Trudeau didn't force people to overextend themselves, people made that choice themselves. The party of personal accountability conveniently neglects to point that out.

Be able to watch Edmonton preseason game

Because there's nothing rational about any of it. His fervent supporters are as outrage-addicted, uninformed, depraved, and vacuous as he is. Case in point: Despite being a career politician, he seems to have no idea how anything actually functions related to the PMO. Everything "wrong" with the country is the fault of a single elected official according to him and his braindead acolytes. He presents no solutions because he has none. All he has is fabricated outrage and they gobble it up with demented glee.

Maybe they are going to find a way to stream all the preason games.

It is not hyperbole when you consider the attacks on LGBTQ people, natives, and Asians by the right wingers as well as their tacit and sometimes overt promotion of "Christian" values as well as their alleged adherence to Biblical rules. Even in Canada, the right-wingers have sought to muzzle independent media, conduct their governance in secret and even engage in election-fixing. Hatred ultimately creates violence as evinced by the increases in explicit threats and physical attacks on abortion clinics and staff, mosques and offices of progressives. This rhetoric created Donald Trump and Pierre Poilievre. The FBI in 2020 called right-wing extremism the greatest threat to America. Ignore the obvious much?

Amazing how brave she is now that she's not Trump mouthpiece. Never forget her complicity in his behaviour.

To Darrin Bauming Re: Pre-season games available online WGAF? Sincerely, Specifically Bomber Fans

I get so confused when people get their panties in a bunch because a player is confident. Why wouldn't you want a player like that? If it was Lawler, does anyone think Demski would be upset? Lol.

Wild path said " tend to read lighter fiction when I need something to calm down after a long day. Grisham, Crichton, stuff like that." I often read before I sleep to calm my mind. Lol My rule is when I start reading the same paragraph for the 3rd time, turn the light off and go to sleep. Last winter I found I was spending way to much time staring at screens so I self imposed some rules about reading instead. It was interesting to re- read The Lord of the Rings. I had read it in the 1970s then again in the late 80s or early 90s to my kids. What I really noticed this time was the difference between the movies and the books. All the characters and the story itself is so much richer in the books . Gandalf is more wizardry, the bond between Frodo and Sam is so much stronger, the elves more fantastical. It's an interesting example of how deeper and richer the written word can be. I think it is very rare that it is the other way around. Perhaps my only example would be The Commitments by Roddy Doyle. Perhaps because the movie( one of my favorites of all time ) is packed with some fantastic music. Anyway, great thread and thanks for some great reading suggestions everyone.

I just don't understand why people think a guy who's only career has been pointing out what others are doing wrong is fotnto lead anything.

I mean they've already announced we're getting the GC in 2025 so what other "big" news could there be that will excite us specifically? The return of CFL week starting in Winnipeg next off-season? I'm already expecting to be underwhelmed.

Based on their performance last year, I'd say that already happened.

Here's your place to discuss your favorite books, great books, interesting books, upcoming books and books in between. I don't consider myself well-read because I only read in bed and always fall asleep, but I have read a lot of interesting stuff in my life. This book review has piqued my interest and thought I'd share via a new thread rather than burying it in another thread. A terrifying, riveting portrait of the KKK in the 1920s Timothy Egan’s ‘A Fever in the Heartland’ recounts how one man sparked the group’s resurgence in Indiana Review by Richard Just May 18, 2023 at 9:00 a.m. EDT Why are people drawn to demagogues? Why have millions of citizens of democracies chosen, from time to time over the centuries, to pledge fealty to leaders whose actions — political and personal — are obviously repugnant? What could possibly be the appeal? These questions hover over Timothy Egan’s excellent new work of narrative nonfiction. “A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan’s Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them” is a highly readable chronicle of how the early-20th-century Klan resurrected itself following decades of dormancy; how it obtained millions of converts, not only in the South but throughout the country; and how, by the 1920s, it had infiltrated all levels of the U.S. government. But it is also a terrifying study of one particular Klan leader — a rapist and bigot who managed, in a matter of years, to acquire a vast popular following and to become the unelected boss of Indiana politics, all while formulating plans to propel himself to the White House. D.C. Stephenson, born in Texas, was a drifter with an amoral entrepreneurial streak, and he happened to find himself in Evansville, Ind., in the early ’20s, a moment when the national Ku Klux Klan was rapidly expanding and seeking inroads in Northern states. “He was a young man on the make, and a quick learner,” Egan writes. “His new life in Evansville was a dash and a dodge, just a few steps ahead of the multiple lives he’d left behind.” Stephenson was hired by a Klan recruiter, and he “presented a plan to leadership: He would conquer all of Indiana for the Ku Klux Klan, not just a bridgehead in Evansville.” He fulfilled this plan with shocking speed. The Klan’s agenda of white supremacy turned out to be all too popular among rank-and-file Hoosiers, who began joining the terrorist group en masse. Many institutions — especially Protestant churches, whose ministers the Klan bribed — were quickly co-opted. Within years, “the Klan owned the state, and Stephenson owned the Klan,” Egan writes. “Cops, judges, prosecutors, ministers, mayors, newspaper editors — they all answered to the Grand Dragon. … Most members of the incoming state legislature took orders from the hooded order, as did the majority of the congressional delegation.” And this hate-filled reign might have continued if not for the decision of Madge Oberholtzer, who was raped by Stephenson in 1925, to speak out. Her bravery set in motion a trial and conviction that ensured that Stephenson would spend decades in prison. The Klan was humiliated in the eyes of the public, and its power in Indiana began to wane. Egan is a meticulous researcher and, perhaps especially, a skilled storyteller. His reconstruction of Stephenson’s deplorable arc — his lie-fueled rise, his vile charisma, his ultimate fall — is a master class in the tools of narrative nonfiction: high stakes, ample suspense and sweeping historical phenomena made vivid through the dramatic actions of individual villains and heroes. But it was the question of “why” — why did so many people place their trust and admiration in this self-evidently horrible man and his fellow terrorists? — that I found myself returning to in the days after finishing this book. The most fundamental answer, unfortunately, is that bigotry — xenophobia, antisemitism and particularly racism — has always managed to find a receptive audience in American life. Depending on the moment and the context, that audience can be large or small, but it invariably seems to exist in some form. “A vein of hatred,” Egan writes, “was always there for the tapping.” Yet the Klan benefited from other factors as well. William Simmons, founder of the 20th-century Klan, said his group was aided by early attempts to discredit it, including congressional hearings. “It wasn’t until the newspapers began to attack the Klan that it really grew,” Simmons said. “And then Congress gave us the best advertising we ever got.” As for Stephenson, Egan notes how adeptly he manipulated the public: “He discovered that if he said something often enough, no matter how untrue, people would believe it. Small lies were for the timid.” Egan also suggests that Stephenson’s abhorrent personal behavior may have actually, for a time, reinforced his popularity. The year before he raped Oberholtzer, he was briefly detained after attempting to rape a manicurist at a hotel and severely beating a bellhop. In the wake of this episode, Egan notes, many Klan members “chose selective amnesia,” and “some were even impressed. For here was a man liberated from shame, a man who not only boasted of being able to get away with any violation of human decency for his entire life, but had just proved it for all to see.” More sensible citizens, meanwhile, may have been caught unaware. Stephenson and his allies demonstrated what demagogues throughout history have discovered: Odd-seeming movements can migrate from the fringes to the center in the blink of an eye. Egan quotes Robert Coughlan, from Kokomo, Ind., who wrote about the town’s embrace of the Klan. “It first appealed to the ignorant, the slightly unbalanced and the venal,” Coughlan explained, “but by the time the enlightened elements realized the danger it was already on top of them.” A press that inadvertently makes itself complicit in the rise of demagogues by showering them with attention; habitual liars who successfully blur the distinction between truth and fabrication through endless repetition of falsehoods; leaders admired by loyal followers in part because of their moral transgressions; a movement that begins with the unbalanced and venal before conquering the mainstream: Maybe this all sounds depressingly familiar to you in 2023. Egan mostly resists making explicit parallels to the present, but they lurk just below the surface of this well-crafted and thoughtful book — a grim, necessary reminder that the difficult-to-fathom appeal of the most unappealing extremists never really goes away. Richard Just is a former editor of The Washington Post Magazine, National Journal magazine and the New Republic. https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2023/05/18/fever-heartland-ku-klux-klan-timothy-egan-review/

One of the greats.

it was Ricky Williams that I was thinking of. I remember being at the game they played in Wpg (my first year as a STH) and sitting in our endzone seats and watching Doug Brown hit him so incredibly hard. I remember quotes from Brown before that game talking about how much he was looking forward to playing RW.... we definitely put a hurt on him. Williams had some quote, at the time, about how he'd likely be able to put up 5k yards in a season up here....

That was evident during Covid. She hid the entire time, dismantling healthcare in this province in the shadows.

From CBC News A story by Ian Froese Manitoba Premier Heather Stefanson doesn't support banning LGBTQ content from school libraries, but it doesn't mean her government will meddle in the affairs of a school board considering such a proposal. In other news HS is a person in a leadership role but is not an actual leader.

I think any discussion about books and reading is welcome here. Banning books is a ridiculous notion given how easy it is to find books online. When it comes to schools and public libraries, I do think there needs to be intelligent, thoughtful and expert guidance on what belongs and I think that for the most part it has worked out very well in Winnipeg particularly, thanks to the expert guidance. Some red-cap wearing Floridian lady should not be allowed to single-handedly have books removed from schools and libraries across the state like we're seeing. It's a complex issue similar to curriculum development that can be corrupted if the wrong people are in charge or responding to complaints. The unfortunately titled Lies My Teacher Told Me delves into the mess caused in Texas jurisdictions by ideologues afraid of history. I say "unfortunately titled", because for the most part, it's not the teachers' fault in any of his examples, but more on the curricula decision-makers. It is a fantastic read at any rate.

I like books. Books are good. I mainly read books about history or people tho. I recently finished one about Jack The Ripper. Anyways, is this the place for this? Maybe... recently schools have started to talk about banning certain books? Yes or no? I say no because history is what it is and we can't hide from it and pretend certain great authors didn't exist because maybe they weren't up to today's standard of people

Your math doesn't compute. Try any mortgage calculator and it doesn't display that. I just did one on Globe and Mail's version 2% and 4.5% all other terms the same $1270.35 and $1660.42. In 5 years the outstanding principal would be reduced and the increased rate would be put on a lower amount. Math doesn't lie, politicians do. Try it yourself and see. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/investing/personal-finance/tools/mortgage-calculator/?utm_source=paidsearch&utm_medium=GoogleAd&utm_campaign=traf_mkt&utm_id=FY2023Brand&utm_term=ROB&utm_content=Tools_Mortgage_calculator&gad=1&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI65mineCB_wIV7zjUAR2GCg3eEAAYAiAAEgL8efD_BwE

Currently on this: A talented musician but more importantly, a profoundly awesome human. Next up: Sapiens and 21 Lessons were excellent reads, so I'm looking forward to this one.

Yep, not sure why Bauming added that part in since this applies to: All CFL fans in the USA. All CFL fans in Canada who care to watch non-televised preseason games online.

But why would this make Bomber fans specifically, happy?

re post columbian history of First nations people.... this trilogy is must read. Eduardo Galeano. beautifully written, poetic, historical books which are Very emotionally disturbing. SORRY. Posted the wrong title. same author. it is https://www.amazon.com/Memory-Fire-Trilogy-Genesis-Century-ebook/dp/B00JK55998 "Weaving fact and imagery into a rich tapestry, Galeano never faltered as he fused scientific analysis of an immense vault of historical material, with the impassioned perspective of plundered peoples. Readers in all manner of great historical, economic, political, and social writing have found in Open Veins of Latin America a singularly rigorous analytical achievement which never lost vigor, an overwhelming narrative that makes history speak, unforgettably." just put hold on thomas king book, thanks.

I used to get together with a guy.... he disliked Justin Trudeau strongly. I asked him which of Trudeau's policies he disliked. silence, he couldn't name a single thing. These people are just not that bright.

I enjoyed watching Ricky get handled up here then go back down and have some very good years in the nfl, but all I remember of him was being very respectful and positive towards the cfl. Both before and after. Talking trash like that about how much production he’d put up isn’t very Ricky Williams.

Oops..meant 2020 lol

https://www.tsn.ca/canadian-football-hall-of-fame-class-of-2023-1.1932431?tsn-amp

Being underwhelmed by “big news” would be very on brand.

He set it up from the very beginning by casting doubt on who would be picked. He gets to have it both ways - he can avoid participating, while still claiming there is a big issue that is not being dealt with. I really don't see how those who will vote for him don't see through his bluster and B.S. It is like he's playing the bad guy in a low budget after school special sometimes.

That would be a low level “big announcement”.

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Great thread! My previous career was as a librarian so obviously I love to read lol. My favorite genre is crime fiction and sports biographies, but every so often read fantasy. Not that big on sci-fi. My favorite authors: James Lee Burke Ian Rankin Peter Lovesey Mike Lupica Joe Abercrombie Currently reading CJ Box and his newest novel, 'Storm Watch'. On deck if you will is 'Shoe Dog', Phil Knight's(Founder of Nike) memoir.

Hey thanks for starting this thread. I do most of my reading over the winter. Usually non-fiction but with a bit of fiction sprinkled in here and there. I've found myself diving back into a few that I already read and had buried deep in my cluttered office. A Fever in the Heartland looks interesting. Last winter I re- read The Lord of the Rings trilogy, American Fascists by Chris Hedges , Lake Agassiz by Bill Redekop and re-read The Pioneer Years by Barry Broadfoot.