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Faj is a Poor Man's Vaj.... I think it'll be a similar defense to keep him in check.

Not sure how well these will show up.... but my Morning Big Blue shirt, Coach Buck jersey, and socks all ready to go for today.... we have a Bombers themed basement that is primed and ready to go for today. The beer fridge is stocked with virtually all Manitoba beers that somehow made their way from MB to AB last weekend and bottles of Parkland-area home brew and some Gimli-made CR on the bar. Wife found some Old Dutch BBQ chips, in the cardboard box, just to THE Manitoba-ness of it all. Let's ******* go, fellas......... let's. *******. GOOOOOOOO!! *edit* Yeah, those photos suck.... sorry fellas. Gonna work on that...

Respect everyone , fear no one....

Well, and Suitors kid was at the time an aspiring country artist living in Nashville, so Suitor I'm sure was trying to slip him a demo of some sort....

I know that Cuthbert hated it but had no choice. I don't know who thinks it's a good idea to do those, because nobody likes it. The singer doesn't want to be there, the hosts don't want them there, the audience doesn't want anything other than the game.... It's just idiotic. They would never do that in the NFL or any other pro sports league during a championship game. So incredibly dumb.

Didn't they have the Arkells guy in the booth during that game?? Pretty sure they did.

It pissed me off when I first heard about it. BBT is a known ****** but he wants to promote the music, not the acting, and you agreed to go that route... Then you go against it. The whole thing was a train wreck. Not fun for anyone. And it's a lot of arrogance to think that manufacturing controversy is a good thing.

And yes... I have had a lot of home brew tonight watching the Jets game and then the 2019 GC....

Ahhhhh man... I feel the shame. Based on the context of the tweet, I thought they were doing a CFL vs NFL debate. And I'm gonna be honest..... Why in the **** was anyone debating Brady O vs Kevin ******* Brown??? Good gravy.

It HAS to be a conversation and not a scripted Q n A session. That's something young journalists do... They over prepare because they're terrified of the conversation. It's just a lack of confidence more than anything. As you get more experience, you gain confidence and a comfortability with open conversations. But you're exactly right... You have to be willing and able to let the conversation go where it will. That's just my take anyhow. As for MacLean, I don't know if there's ever been a better conversational interviewer in Canadian sports than him. And it comes from an insane encyclopedic knowledge of virtually everything. He's like a jeopardy contestant, that guy.

All I can say is my favourite sports writer ever is Ed Tait. In terms of on air conversation, Bob Irving and Ron McLean are my personal favourites. I always felt like Cory Woron has been criminally underrated over his career. I'm likely the only guy here that listens to Sirius XM Prime Country channel, but there is a guy on there named Mike Terry that is spectacular.

Not a clue.... I was guessing maybe an NFL guy? But I think the only NFLers I know are Mahomes, Kupp and the Kelces....

And there are so many hosts who half ass it and make the rest look bad. So you get guests who come in jaded from previous bad experiences and expecting the worst, so it's that much harder to get them to open up.

Getting good answers is on the interviewer to ask good questions. There are some guests that are new to the conversations and it can be a bit like pulling teeth, but I think the key is in your research. Learn as much as you can about your guest ahead of time, and then know the kind of things that interest them, and you lead with that. Gets them comfortable and allows them to open up a bit, then you ease your way into the stuff you want to know about. Don't just dive into the deeper stuff. Of course, this is just my thought process and it's more about longer form chats, and not necessarily for media scrums. Scrums can be tough. The other thing is, today's athletes are media trained coming out of minor sports (seemingly) which has them giving the same generic soundbites that don't really give a whole lot away... It's innocuous and meant to not say anything that will rock the boat. It is almost impossible to get Connor McDavid to say anything "real"... Just how they are now.

I don't know who Kevin Brown is, but I feel like this tweet is of interest here....

Had an NI playing as a DA all season..... Hilarious.

I only learned about that a couple years ago, but as mentioned, the TRUE NORTH thing gets done at both teams games (maybe Moose too?) as does the Glorious and BLUE thing at both teams games..... Crossover in fanbase I suppose.... They're having fun.

Just wanted to make sure my boy Booch saw this....... A quality read, I am sure

Never happened..................

That MODP was a team award given to Swaggerville by the national voters.... But I think JJ still believes that was all about him.

Ya I heard some horror stories from when Van hosted CCMAs.... From hotels to food and drink prices... It was astronomical.

This Doug Smail duster that KConn is rocking is really something....

That's 100% who he is, I believe.

Unfortunately they don't have as much value because their audience is 1/100th of Stern's. Huge respect for NPR and what they do, though.

This.