Rich

Twitter and the internet blowing up with reports that the Russians have enough dirt and video on Trump to blackmail him if they are so inclined.

He has been the goalie coach in Boston forever.

They let Willy go because there were other teams who were going to offer him starter money and they couldn't because Durant was their starter.

Terrorists rarely see themselves as terrorists, they see themselves as fighting for a cause they believe in. Definition of good in those cases is relative to how you were brought up and what your belief system is, and how oppressed you feel.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/wise-up-winnipeg-lawsuit-1.3926954

There are doctors out there that would argue there is no such thing as a mild concussion. You are either concussed or not.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/jim-bell-blue-bombers-siloam-mission-1.3924332

http://morningbigblue.com/community/guidelines/ Far too much of this going on in these parts by a number of posters of late. Will be a crackdown on those that break this rule.

Out of curiosity, I went through some recent Sun articles tonight (yes I started with Friesen) and couldn't find anything incrimination on Chipman's comments from the press box. Was very curious on what may have been said and printed to cause this whole stir. Headed over to HFBoards, and full credit to one of the moderators there, who dug this up from last August. (link to his post http://hfboards.hockeysfuture.com/showthread.php?t=2170351&page=2) (link to Friesen's article about when Wheeler was named captain in August http://www.winnipegsun.com/2016/08/31/jets-naming-captain-today) I don't know if this is what caused this whole ruckus, and if it is, if this really warranted the reaction it did. I suspect this would be the icing on the Friesen cake that would put them over the top. Friesen really is the reason I decided to stop reading the Sun. Decided I couldn't support them anymore because of him.

The current model goes through Hockey Canada. They probably have a bidding process on how cities approach them, but Hockey Canada decides who and when they take a bid forward. I'm guessing the reason for this is the IIHF probably only allows one bid per country.

He won't get enough games to be pensionable if he isn't playing. I believe I once read it is the team who he is playing for when he becomes pension eligible that pays for the pension. So they will cut him before he gets there. Edit: Actually, it looks like he might have vested already. You need 3 seasons to vest and he has played games in 3 different seasons.

It is the same issue we've been seeing with the Grey Cup. Event organisers have gotten greedy and prices to these things have sky-rocketed. I saw an article I think on the 2015 World Juniors (also in Montreal and Toronto) where the comment was if these prices were charged for the tournament in Europe, the arenas would be completely empty. So they reduced the prices for 2017, but obviously not for a saturated market who had the event 2 years earlier.

I don't disagree but that is not today's reality. If the fans want true objective reporting, they need to pay for it. But they don't. The clubs interest is protecting its image and brand so they aren't going to subsidize the media to criticize them. And if the media is no longer strong enough to fight back, the club will continue to "bully" them for their own self interest. That's human nature. The new reality is the majority of fans are no longer willing to pay for journalism. That weakens the voice and power of journalists. Blame the fans.

He is. He just happened to put his suite in the middle of the press box ... probably because it is a better view for him, and it allows him to sell one more box if he doesn't use up one of the "normal" ones.

I do think that Wiecek tends to take a negative vibe more than not in his reporting, but to be fair, he wasn't the one who reported whatever it was that got them banished. So all print media media got banished away to the outskirts of the press box for the actions of one of them. At least, that is the assumption Wiecek is making was the reason.

So we passed the Back To The Future year, now apparently we are into the Running Man year / future... http://theconversation.com/the-violent-post-truth-2017-predicted-in-the-running-man-were-living-in-it-70726

That area is for sure in the middle. On the other side of the logo after where it says "Home of The Winnipeg Jets" it goes on to say "Fuelled By Passion"

Man, if that is how it played out (and I do believe you), it makes Wiecek's comments about Tait in that article even worse.

I moved this post into this thread. I *think* the picture in Wiecek's article shows how the box is setup (below). That area on the right of the picture looks different then the rest of the press box. Don't know if that is Chipman's box or if that is for the play by play guys and Chipman's box is underneath. Though, if it is underneath then Chipman is really loud and all the fans in that section would hear as well.

I don't know what Chipman said, but Wiecek wrote an article on the print media getting moved away from the Chipman box, and I have a thread about it in the Bomber forum, as the original article was more about how sports are changing and classic media getting left out in the cold. Wiecek says it was a competing journalist, so I'm guessing someone from the Sun published something.

Which burner did you buy? If you are having the same problem with different software packages, I would start trouble shooting whether the burner itself has compatibility problems with the mac or if the discs you are burning to are bad. Unfortunately burning to either DVDs or Blue Rays is on the decline, I would guess there isn't a lot of current info and updates out there on this.

Interesting article from Wiecek today. http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/sports/what-do-you-call-a-press-box-without-press-409363355.html For those that can't get behind the paywall, apparently Chipman's box is within ear shot (in the middle) of the press box and he shouted something negative about the team during a game which one of the papers printed. The next game, all print-media were banished to the edges of the press box. Wiecek says Chipman feels anything overheard in the press box during the game should be off the record and their banishment is retaliation. Who goes on to give other example from the NHL to NFL where media who don't promote the teams message are being punished by those teams in various ways including having their credentials revoked. He talks about the trend of Sports teams hiring media in house to produce their own content and takes a shot at Ed Tait. He has concern that eventually media that don't tow the company line will be blacklisted from the clubs they cover. It is an interesting discussion. One of the reasons I wanted to open this website is I thought it was important to have a strong alternative to the official forum that is "controlled" by the club. Which is the very argument Wiecek makes. On the other hand, the world has changed drastically in the last 20 years. Where sports teams once NEEDED and relied on the media to reach their fans, the internet and social media has opened an avenue where they can reach their fans directly without the middle man. With the recent departure of Kirk Penton from the Sun being the latest example, the writing is on the wall that print media's death is coming faster and faster each day (can you really blame Tait for leaving?). I know I rarely read any news print anymore and when I do I find it stale (it is information I typically already know from social media) and uninspiring Curious what peoples thoughts are on this. Does Wiecek have a valid point here or is it sour grapes on him being sent to the corner? If current trends continue, and the only people reporting on sports teams news (Bombers or Jets), are team employees (official website) and official broadcast partners (conflict of interest), are we as fans going to be missing any hard hitting revelations that the current media provide or used to provide? Is this simply a reflection of the evolution of the world and the media at large? Can the average fans through social media and bloggers replace the hard questions the media were once able to ask?