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Don't look now, but the Jays are building one of the best teams in the majors. Matt Chapman today via trade and they're working on more. Already have one of the best starting rotations in the AL, and now the infield is coming together.

I don't know what the right answer is, but I'm hoping they have the "summit" that's being talked about, with the WCF, CCA, players and broadcasters (all "stakeholders") participating. Get to the bottom of how to fix the season, from the Tour to the Provincials/Nationals.

absolutely love those unis they wore last night. Sharpest kits in the league!

that's a small part of it....they ALL have sponsorships now. Even the teams that aren't elite...the ones who curl regionally....all have sponsors to defray the costs. There are no longer expenses for these curlers, so everything they win (and then some) is all take-home.

The truth is that curling is now a professional sport. There is enough money available to them that most can make a full time job out if it. And yiu need to, in order to be good enough to make the Olympics. And making the Olympics is the ultimate goal of every athlete. And that's saying nothing about the money that comes to Oly athletes now. The Brier was the ultimate goal when money wasn't the object. Everything has changed for better or for worse

Yes we really need to talk more about Long Covid and those "years after the fact" effects. There's research coming in every day that suggests people who had covid, even with mild symptoms, see their brain shrink and possibility of early onset Alzheimer's. I can't stress enough how everyone needs to do everything they can to not get covid ever, and how we need to protect everyone as much as humanly possible.

Said it really pissed them off. Good... Quit whining and go out there and hustle. You've got the best, most understanding fan base in the league... Don't take them for granted.

Calgary DESPERATELY needs a new stadium. It's the worst in the league by a lot...

Wheeler whined about the Bronx cheer during the 1st intermission interview... Seemed incredibly spoiled.

For me, it's a VERY small ask to maintain protections (mitigation measures) to protect the most vulnerable among us who might actually die. Wearing a mask is the most innocuous, basic thing I could so to protect someone who's immunocompromised and could die, even after being vaccinated. I'm perfectly fine with any and all measures they want to implement. Vaxx passports shouldn't have been abandoned... They should have been made stricter.

I should have phrased it better...."the governments will force people to just live with it.....or die"

You're right that the cases will spike again, you're wrong that anything will be "comprimised". The governments are done shutting anything down. Numbers will go up and down and people will just live with it.

Randy Ambrosie on a bit of a tour (hopefully SF27 is in attendance..lulz) and in YYC today, there's some interesting chatter:

not sure anything. She'd said in her retirement post that she's looking forward to spending more time at the rink cheering him on. Said she might play some mixed doubles with him, but that he'd really have to convince her, as she's just not that interested in playing right now.

Mike is just kind of unbalanced. That's what I've learned. Reid is the calmer head that should be calling the game and throwing last rock, but I'm not sure Mike is capable of being in a subservient role. The sooner this team implodes, the better. It was never meant to be. Our best men's curler right now is Matt Dunstone, who is living in the BC interior now and skipping a bunch of knuckle dragging cousin fuckers from one province over. Colton Lott and Kyle Doering are really good, as well, and will be taking the leap soon, just not sure it'll be in Manitoba, unfortunately. Cathy and Ron Gauthier's son Jacques is going to be a really good one, as well. Fresh out of winning Manitoba juniors and will be a regular on tour very soon, I suspect. The issue is how many stay in MB to play full time, and how many leave to skip teams out of province. Make no mistake, Manitoba still produces the best curlers in the world as we always have.....it's just that Oly and WCT money move them elsewhere.

I completely understand what you're saying, and you're right....the RRHOF embarrassed itself years ago by inducting artists that have nothing to do with Rock and Roll. Hip Hop and Disco acts...honestly the ANTITHESIS of Rock......are in the Hall. It's a joke. So THANKFULLY Dolly has some integrity and said "Nope....I'm not Rock" and is staying out, because the Hall is too stupid to understand this themselves.

I don't know what any of that has to do with Rock....

If I may.......*ahem* "BUT WHY ISN'T KYLE WALTERS BRINGING IN RECEIVERS? JOHN HUFNAGEL IS ALWAYS BRINGING IN RECEIVERS! CALGARY IS GREAT! WE ARE NOT!!"

5'11" - 180lbs.

Jack White did some amazing work with miss Loretta....I'd let him (or how about someone like Grohl???) take a stab at a Dolly rock album. Nobody tells the queen what she can or can't do...

Country, Bluegrass, Gospel.....not at any point, anything resembling Rock. Wish more artists had that level of integrity.

He was highly recommended by Medlock, so that's gotta mean something...