Mike

Good grief. Vernon Adams, you're up.

I honestly believe they could leave Myers unprotected and Vegas would not take him. His injury questions are real.

At least we have Carmichael

Ouch.

Ripper, I like you. You come here and you take your lumps and you manage to be more than tolerable, which is waaaay more than I can say for most other Rider fans. But I've seen this story before. Lots. Letting go of Durant wasn't the mistake. Letting go of him this year was. If Jones was going to cast off Durant without a proper replacement, he should've done it right from the get go year one. This is going to be the second year wasted because of that decision. Your defense might be great. I have my doubts, but one never really knows. That being said, I've seen a lot of great Bomber defenses on 6-12 or 7-11 teams because they didn't have a QB. And you don't have a QB.

hehe I tricked you

If it makes you feel better, I like what I'm seeing from the Riders too. Things are heading in the right direction for Saskatchewan if you're a Bomber fan. .

We always seem to find a guy at a position we don't need to fill. That being said, it sounds like Carmichael is a baller. He's establishing himself as an early candidate for that Julian Posey role from last year.

Hardly got a Chance.

I can't say I'm surprised that the Smith/Waggoner money is already spent. I'm fine with that, though.

Wow BG84 jumping in with the pairings. Nice! Ray and I split a double IPA from Foley Brothers in Vermont yesterday after our hockey game ... hops do not pair with sweaty locker rooms. Least enjoyable IPA experience ever.

It's nice to have it organized, but one of our friends is actually an event planner and she did an awesome job recreating everything for us last year. Same bus/hotel/ticket arrangements, but we did it for a group of 52 people for about $230 a person. Basically made enough profit to cover the costs of the trip for the one or two people who planned it.

I don't think it operates anymore, our crew was usually making up about 70% of their attendance annually and we kind of just came to the realization that we can do it for about half the price if we plan it ourselves.

We've evolved beyond what is available at our local liquor stores and now Ray and I have bi-weekly shipments coming in from take your pick of Vancouver, Toronto, Ottawa or Vermont. What do you guys think of the Dandy in Calgary? Tried anything there yet? My friend also just brought back some unreal beers from a trip to Calgary, the NE Style IPA from Blindman and Apex Predator from Bench Creek (I think that's what it's called?) Both unreal.

let me see what I can do, we MIGHT have extras. I just sent Ray a text to check.

Doesn't do the whole forum thing anymore, but he's around. Just put his $100 on the Bombers to win the Cup this morning, actually. We're going to be in Regina for the season opener if anyone wants to drink a beer or thirty with us.

We love beer

Re: Sam Hurl I'm sure (hopeful) that the reason he is getting first team reps is because he knows the expectations of the position and can offer up an example to the young guys. Even if he can't execute, he knows the assignments. At least that's what I hope it is.

Follow through on his promises or as an alternative, allow us to follow through on them for him.

What we did was definitely a little more than that, since we created a thread on Ourbombers basically saying we were leaving and that if people wanted to follow us, this was where to find us. What I take issue with is this idea that we "poached" anyone. Maybe for the sake of clarity, it should be mentioned that Colin was almost entirely inactive as a site owner for over three years prior to us doing what we did. The staff was running Ourbombers, without the help of Colin. What we did was make the decision to a run a site we could improve, instead of running one we couldn't. Like I've said multiple times, I respect Colin for the contributions he made to the Bombers fan community. He did a lot of good things over the years and that shouldn't ever be diminished. That being said, I think painting us as "bad guys" for doing what we did shows some unfamiliarity with the situation. Should we have stuck with the guy that was promising us individually for three years that we would get the site upgrades we needed for it to be "functional"? Should we have stuck with the guy who trusted us enough to keep his site running and earning revenue but not enough to grant any of us access to any of the features that would've made our volunteer roles a lot easier? Or if some people think that's maybe a bit too selfish sounding and they wonder "how does that affect us?", should we have stuck with the guy who asked site members to donate in order to cover costs, but then turned around and offered me a monthly "salary" to turn my back on this place and come back to OB because he earned enough money off site revenue to pay me? Colin created an awesome fan community when he created Ourbombers. Whether through life getting in the way or personal choice, he let that site fall by the wayside and we made the decision we did to create something that we thought could be so much better. For someone like TBURGESS to infer that what we did was "unethical" when everything we did, we did as volunteers who earn a combined salary of $0 for the time and effort we put into this is ... at best, poorly thought out and at worst, incredibly stupid.

I'm a bit scared that Hurl is getting reps there too, but part of me is sure it's just to give the new guys an example to watch, since Hurl knows the expectations, even if he can't execute at a high level.

Every single active staff member moved from OB over here at launch. We formed the site together as a group.

Gotta be revisionist history, since Shankman wasn't a moderator at that time.

Curious to hear what you think the alternative would've been. Then again, I suppose I'm really not all that curious because as I've already said, you're just running your mouth without knowing all of the facts. There's lots more that went on than you know. So if you want to paint us in an unflattering light, go right ahead but it's not really at all accurate.

I wouldn't go after Woods. Great player, but injured far too much. Johnny Searsesque.