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Yeah, this is an excellent site with great users and on-point administration. I'm pumped for another great CFL season with you freaks.

2017-06-30 Montreal at Edmonton The Als' only hope: give ball to Tyrell Sutton on every down

cfl.yaretv.com plus a VPN that makes me look like I'm in the Netherlands. US$80 (less than one dollar a game, counting playoffs) for the whole season plus US$10/mo for the VPN. Not free, but way cheaper than cable and more reliable than a stream. Been loving it. Wrote my own little PVR program for it so I can skip the TSN commercials. Quality is decent ... 720p resolution tho it looks a little blotchy, like it's been badly upconverted at some point.

2017-06-22 Saskatchewan at Montreal Roughriders rally in the fourth; maestro, please cue the Kevin Glenn pick 2017-06-23 Calgary at Ottawa More sister kissing! Have we all relocated to Saskatchewan? 2017-06-24 Edmonton at BC Wally Buono bring a spatula, gotta scrape Jennings off the turf 2017-06-25 Hamilton at Toronto Argo time machine! 2010 S.J. Green and 2008 Ray 2017-06-29 Ottawa at Calgary It's a two score game Redblack explosion, game on! Reread the first line 2017-06-30 BC at Toronto Fourth quarter, at last there's a little excitement! No one there to see

and yeah GLOW is pretty great. Real OITNB vibe to it, with Ruth being the least compelling character. If you have any doubts about it, check out the goddamn finest credits sequence on TV:

Time to get schwifty.

Let's go boatmen!

man I'm trying to enjoy this thread in the intended spirit but my brain keeps going ROCKY BUTLER ROCKET BUTLER

Brendan LaBatte is their new red-zone quarterback?

We had all those picks and turnovers but our bend-but-don't break scheme gave up a ton of passing yards, either the worst or the second worst in the CFL last year. (in points allowed, we were middle-of-the-pack)

He is basically the mayor of Shelbyville, seen here harassing a woman with excellent royal blue hair and gold body paint.

Can you even fire a guy midseason when he's wearing four different hats in the organization? Replacing a head coach is hard enough, but simultaneously replacing a VP, a GM, a HC, and a DC ... sounds like pure org chaos. I wonder if firing a coordinator is even more damaging than firing a coach ... thinking back to the bad old Bombers of 2005 who had a promising D for a couple games until Rod Rust had to take a leave, and then they became instantly, historically bad. (weirdly, the Roughrider website doesn't list a DC, it only lists a few defensive assistants and position coaches, so maybe Jones only has three hats now?)

Yeah, Bobby G. was a great receiver ... I watched him for a year in Ottawa and he got his thousand yards even with a bunch of terrible QBs. Hard to cut him in favor of a promising sophomore.

One thing to remember about the Affordable Care Act is that it substantially expanded Medicaid (basically, federal gov't health insurance for poor folks, handicapped folks, people in nursing homes, etc.) I can't find a simple nationwide expansion number, but in Washington state, 600,000 more people were enrolled in Medicare post-expansion, and in California and NY, 6 million more people were enrolled. So you have millions of people who could almost certainly not afford private health insurance (Medicaid is means-tested) now having coverage. Medicaid isn't perfect, but it's a damn sight better than being uninsured and relying on an ER for your chemotherapy. The individual mandate part of the law -- the part that says you either have health insurance or pay a tax penalty -- is the part that everyone is attacking, the one that creates a weird and freaky partnership between the government and the insurance business. This could definitely use reform, but there are success stories. Two of my close friends rely on the Washington state insurance exchange for coverage, and they are definitely up **** creek if that market destabilizes. I want single-payer too, and I'm prepared to pay higher taxes for it .. but there is a baby in the Obamacare bathwater. Just rolling back the clock to 2009 will hurt an awful lot of people. It's really hard to make drastic and fast change in the USA. It's not like Canada, where a single small committee in the PMO can unaccountably run the country as it sees fit. The American government is set up to be slow and incremental. Look at how much trouble Republicans are having with rewriting health care in the USA .. and that's with single-party control of the House, the Senate, and the presidency. The Republicans are a largely disciplined machine and even they are breaking down on the health care question. The New Deal was probably the most radical government plan in USA history .. and it would have fallen apart had not two Supreme Court justices decided at the last minute that federal intervention in the economy was not unconstitutional. And Roosevelt had a landslide mandate as well as a friendly Congress. The system is deliberately set up to allow people to jam sticks into legislative spokes. But yeah, be thankful for Canada. I have a ton of blessings in the USA, many friends, a great wife, and a solid career in a field that capitalism finds useful, but it could be very different very quickly for me.

Sure love the SJ Green comeback, though. Dude was vintage in his first game back. Great to see. Hope he stays healthy and vacuums up a lot of those soft Ray throws.

I am not a football coach but if the DL is only rushing three against a run between the tackles, you're gonna have at least one run blocker in the second level, right? Seems like Sutton was eating them alive last week...

Yeah, I thought he was done in the CFL.

watched Calgary/Ottawa with nary a bump. this service looks solid. Just finished a python script to download VOD games so I can save them locally (mostly so I can skip commercials...the supplied player lacks a +30s button, mysteriously!) if anyone is a deep nerd and wants to see the source, lemme know.

Atomic, you just made my day, I was hunting for a youtube of that play the other day after watching the Casey Creehan video in Training Camp Memories. YOU AIN'T GONNA HURT LOBENDAHN, HE'LL BE ALRIGHT! What a great backer.

Senate Republican health care plan is out. It makes deep cuts to Medicaid. Nearly half of newborn deliveries in the USA are funded by Medicaid. What the **** does "pro-life" even mean to these people? The Congressional plan cut almost $900B in government health spending over the next decade. Strangely, it only reduced the deficit by $100B. Where is the other $800B going?

When you watch games from before the replay era, it's amazing how fast they move wihout those regular delays and appeals.

Jones detonated hard after that Demski play. Was losing his mind on the sidelines. For Mike O'Shea, that would've been an arm-around-the-shoulder teachable moment; for Jones it was just a tantrum prompt.

I only watched the fourth quarter, but Glenn looked exactly like Glenn: working that quick release, completing lots of passes, piling up some respectable yardage .. and then throwing a killer fourth-quarter pick that led to the Als' winning points. Durant looked real shaky on that throw to Sutton in the flat that forced the Als to settle for a field goal on their final drive. Gotta make that throw, man, he's made it like 100x in his CFL career.

The yaretv stream was beautiful, watched the whole fourth quarter in 720p, didn't buffer once. Pumped! I've been waiting for this service for years....thank you CFL, from this pretend Dutchman.

Wow, there's clever-smart and clever-dumb.