Rich

We gotta be catching up after the Calgary and Edmonton games! I think the Bombers are leading the league in game busting bad calls by the refs. You guys have had some costly penalties at bad times late in the game. But don't be thinking you guys are stealing our first overall pick, we fired Taman so he couldn't trade it and have Kerry Joseph on speed dial if we need to. In fact we threw the games against you because we knew those points would be big later in the season. Even if we finish in last and SK in 2nd last, you still get the first overall pick. We spent ours in last years supplemental draft.

They should now be in for both of you.

Deleted a few posts. There really is no need to call out and try to put down other posters

If people send me their picks before a game starts I will put them in. It is setup this way because it is way too much manual work to enter the date and time for each game.

Emotion has a lot to do with our attachments to our sports teams. Can't blame a generation who doesn't have an attachment to someone they didn't see play and are only numbers in the record book.

If her story is indeed true, I'm wondering if a) Tyler Johnson had a significant other while this happened and if yes is this person aware? My point here is its amazing how many people can be potentially hurt by her sharing this story with the world. Or if you don't want to deal with the consequences of being found out that you were cheating ... don't cheat.

There will be injuries at some point this year and I am sure he will be among the first call ups. You wonder if both him and Lipon don't get a chance at some point this season. It also gives you options if Petan struggles at the NHL level and they decide he needs some time with the Moose.

9 team league, I think they needed at least one of these weeks where there are 5 games to make the schedule work. So there really isn't much of a choice. It may also have to do with Rogers Centre scheduling, so Toronto plays this Tuesday then next Monday.

That honesty would be refreshing. I think we saw that show with Tim Burke.

This paragraph implies it is tested for. I think they want to increase it from a 1/3 being tested for it to all samples collected.

So with the Jets about to open their 5th season, thought it would be fun to go back and see what our roster was to open the inaugural season. Not 100% sure on line combos but I believe the roster looked something like this: Forwards Ladd Little Wheeler Kane Scheifele Wellwood (Scheifele was on his 9 game tryout before being sent down) Burmistrov Antropov MacLean (That is Brett MacLean for those of you who don't remember him) Glass Slater Thorburn 13th Forward: Tim Stapleton (Fehr was on IR) Defense Enstrom Byfuglien Stuart Bogosian Oduya Hainsey 7th & 8th D: Randy Jones & Derek Meech Goalies Pavelec Mason

You mean a Canadian as we play 8. Kicker has nothing to do with the starting 8 (or 7). If we replace Liram with an American, then one of our existing Americans has to come off and another Canadian on for Liram.

If the horrible mismanagement and coaching of the past three regimes haven't totally turned the faithful off, I suspect that we will continue to live in hope that next year will finally be better. Everyone has a breaking point where hope isn't enough anymore. There comes a time when talk (and token firings) are nothing but cheap parlour tricks. Comes a time when you have used up all your free chances and people won't come back until you prove you are worthy. I consider myself about as hardcore as they come for a Bomber fan. Don't want to think of the money I've spent on tickets and jerseys and memorabilia over the years. I will still be in the stands next year because I bought Grey Cup tickets and committed to the season tickets for the next couple of years. But for the first time in ..... forever ... I have found myself questioning why I continue to buy season tickets. Although the last two games have been more entertaining, I'm tired of fighting traffic and paying inflated food and drink prices to watch a subpar team where I have little hope that they will win. Maybe you are right, maybe I'm the minority in that ... but the conversations I hear between people when walking out of the stadium don't give me hope that others aren't feeling the same way.

What I think is they should do what is best for the club going forward and not what is best for ticket sales. Sales will suffer regardless.

I predict that there is a huge drop in attendance next year whether OShea is fired or not. Been too many rebuilds in the last 10 years. Cleaning house won't give hope anymore No more benefit of the doubt. Have to win to get fans back at this point.

Just want to clarify what you are posting here ... are you suggesting that if we keep O'Shea we will be in danger of losing our franchise?

Not Jets news, but this is a huge suspension. Don't remember one being this long before.

Lipon has been sent to the Moose, but Maurice had this to say about him. Love these types of players when they are on your team. He will probably get a call up at some point this season. Definitely made an impression in camp.

It is a good question, and I don't really have the answer. Mark might have some more insight / opinion on this because he is more intimately involved in farming than I.

It isn't subsidized through taxes. The consumer is paying an inflated price because the supply is artificially constrained. Lets say we made it so that only 100 bottles of Cola can be sold in Canada in a given year. How much do you think the price of Cola would sky rocket? That is basically what has happened with milk (though obviously more then 100 bottles can be sold) However, tt is not just milk that is supply managed, it is cheese, eggs, and poultry as well.

how much milk do you drink? It's not even about how much dairy I consume. Its about all the money our health care system wastes treating people with lifestly diseases (type 2 diabetes) when milk is 5 bucks a litre or more, artifically above demand due to commie practices and soda is a buck a litre Not the government's job to tell people to stop drinking soda by the keg. Although in general Im in favour of "sin" taxes including on things like soda which have zero value to humans and do harm (and I say THAT as a reformed Pepsi addict who LOVES Dr Pepper). Neither Milk nor Soda is a necessity. So the price should be market driven. I know this is a slippery slope but should you care since we have public health care? And as for the supply managed comments... Fraser is right, despite your feelings on milk, I’m surprised you aren’t against supply management in Canada. In case you don’t know milk, cheese, eggs and poultry in Canada are supply managed which means the farmers who produce these things need to own a quota to produce and sell these goods. The quotas themselves can be sold and purchased between producers. This system manages the supply (goods produced) and the prices they are sold at. I worked with Ag Canada for many years in their disaster and financial assistance programs (much government funding goes into this to help our farmers along). Supply managed producers (or at least those portions of their operations) were almost always excluded from federal assistance programs because these producers are basically guaranteed to make a predetermined profit. And you as a consumer pay the higher price for that. Here is Wikipedia's commentary on the effect on consumers:

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