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Yeah. Our traffic is worst in the nation right now. We're expecting to add a Winnipeg to our population in the next couple decades and we're absolutely terrible at building infrastructure. How terrible? We're replacing a downtown viaduct with a boondoggle waterfront tunnel that was conceived by the creationist goofballs at the Discovery Institute.On top of that, our geography is awful for traffic, we're nothing but hills and lakes, so traffic is funneled onto a few choked thoroughfares. Also, we have very little mass transit. Our one downtown-airport train line covers maybe 5% of the population. When we bought our house last year, I made damn sure it was located on that train line. It's like iso said, any NHL team here would have transportation issues playing weeknight games. (sorry to rant but holy crap Seattle is bad at transportation and infrastructure.)

If the NHL wants to pony up the cool $500MM for a new arena, we can get the shovels in the ground tomorrow. It's like I said before, Seattle's not a big hockey town. There isn't a lot of pent-up pro hockey demand here, especially among the local monied and political classes who can make all this stuff happen. They want the NBA back more than anything.

No Seattle bid. Hope the Coyotes relocate here. It would be a trip if Jets 1.0 followed me to Seattle.

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If I get a spare couple hours this week I want to break down Hurl vs. Cornish. When I watched the big 3Q Cornish drive, it looked like Hurl's assignments were initially taking him away from Cornish -- he was blitzing towards the wrong side, or he was dropping back into a zone, or whatever.

Two of the Seattle groups have dropped out. The sole remaining applicant -- Ray Bartoszek -- is based in Connecticut and his suburban arena proposal hasn't even cleared environmental review yet. They're thinking they might have shovels in the ground in early 2016, but I seriously doubt that. http://www.seattletimes.com/sports/hockey/seattle-bellevue-groups-wont-apply-for-nhl-franchise-before-deadline/ Bartoszek's proposed arena is in Tukwila, a suburb about 15km south of downtown. It's already a pretty developed area and would be much more convenient for suburban fans than the basketball-first SoDo proposal. I suspect the hockey base in Seattle is more suburban than urban, so maybe this is the smartest move. He'd have to play out of the completely inadequate downtown KeyArena for a few years. That doesn't sound like a winning bid, but the NHL really wants more teams in the west, so maybe it will win out. I remember back when the league expanded to Ottawa, they overlooked a much better bid from Hamilton -- the guy who originally owned the Senators was kind of a joke.

This is basically a summary of the defence's closing arguments so yeah, it's not the full story. It's strange it doesn't quote any of the tweets from the respective sides--stories about online harassment will generally do that.

Seriously? They look like lizards in that get-up.

His briefcase is just full of shredded newspaper...

I guarantee that everyone will be able to obtain rebel flags cheaply and quickly for the forseeable future, and they will face no legal sanction for possessing them. (In the US anyway. Canada, who knows?) They're just not gonna get to buy them with free Prime shipping.

Hey, it's iso! Welcome back!

Yeah, this isn't about banning. It's about how the government represents itself to the people it governs. 1/3 of South Carolina is black. Should South Carolina fly a KKK flag on its government buildings? That's what's at stake here. Interesting CFL note: the Southsiders in Ottawa waved confederate battle flags back in the 90s (and probably before). I wonder if they still do that?

Yeah, I know lots of left wingers and no one is talking about outright banning the stars n bars ... but they are saying that the flag represents some pretty heinous **** and that a government of the people ought not to fly a flag that celebrates slavery, Jim Crow, and hostility to the civil rights movement.

Should a replay official be allowed to rule something a touchdown if they don't actually see the ball cross the line, but they guess it did? It seems weird to let the replay official guess at the real outcome of a play if it's uncertain. If replay is uncertain, I want them to just go with the call on the field and move on.

2012 too. 2-7 after the Labour Day game and then 4-5. The tiny little bump of hope we got in the fall got Tim Burke's interim status dropped.

Greg Carr was a midseason recruit. Derek Armstrong too, though he'd already had some CFL time with Saskatchewan so he probably doesn't count. There was that emergency during 2013 when we lost both our starting tackles and brought in Dan Knapp and Jarvis Jones on like three days notice. Both guys played pretty well for us their first game vs. Edmonton tho we lost in overtime -- I think that was Burke's kneeldown game and also the game that exiled Goltz to Burke's doghouse for good. Both Knapp and Jones stuck around after the emergency was over, they were with us in 2014.

Yeah, that's a great handle. The system worked like it was designed: on-field official called it in, no conclusive evidence that it didn't get in, command center upheld the decision. Maybe it was a bad call, the only way we'll know is to go back in time and point a camera right down the 1 yard line, because from the tsn handheld perspective there's no way to be sure where the ball was. And it didn't cost us the game anyway. No harm, no foul.

BC just didn't look like they were in sync as a team. Their short passing game got zero blocking help downfield. Lions were whiffing on their blocks and the receivers were getting blown up good. Lulay looked like he was getting back on his game, though. Good comeback story, hope he stays upright. It must be murderous hard for a QB to change their windup and delivery when they're in their 30s.

#plugandplay Sucks to hear about Smith though. He's the kind of dynamic player I want to see in the league.

Kevin Glenn's Roughriders are starting to look like Henry Burris' TiCats of 2012 -- sling the ball over the field, piling up yards, and be utterly unable to close out games. And it's not Glenn's fault. His coaches and his teammates are letting him down with boneheaded decisions and penalties.

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One team keeps shooting itself in the foot. The other keeps reloading the gun.

Roughriders just disintegrating. Kevin Glenn has done everything to win this game, but he's snakebit it seems.

Wally knows when to part ways with old talent. I remember everyone calling him out as a fool when he parted ways with McCallum. And Saskatchwan with the Tim Burke kneeldown!

I guess we'll see if Wally's decision to keep the big leg import was the right one...