Brandon

That's absolutely terrible =\ As I said in the other thread... downtown is very dangerous at night and the streets are not safe for people to walk around.

I expect more from you, come on you are making it to easy.

I didn't say that, I said Nichols has been the biggest disappointment with exception to Collaros. Nobody thought that Manziel , Jennings or Bethel-Thompson would be succeeding. Everyone had much higher expectations for Matt and Zach. Both of those guys have failed to earn their pay cheques.

Monday - Friday I'm downtown , it's absolutely dead once the workers have gone home. Knowing someone with a business downtown... they only make money at night when the MTS Center has an event or game. Otherwise it's very quiet. I'm assuming that I was being trolled and feel quite gullible for falling for it =\

Am I being trolled? I can't honestly tell?

This team turned it around once our o-line solidified. Nichols was really good the last few years... this year he's been definitely one of the worst starting qbs in the league. The only qb who has disappointed more has been Collaros and the Riders have a great w/l record despite Zach sucking it up.

It would be a prime location as that space is sitting empty and it was hard enough for the empty Target to find tenants. I don't believe at this time Bowman wants the city to get involved with one. I wouldn't mind if the city would entice someone (Canada Inns?) with some kind of tax break to build an indoor waterpark at that location. It would definitely be a sure fire hit.

The reason downtown is dead is safety issues and everything else a distant second for reasons. Come five pm it's a ghost town and nobody wants to walk any of those streets unless they have to. People are absolutely turned off from walking above ground at night because it's sketchy and not safe outside. Most people feel more safe walking the Skywalks and the underground then on the streets.

Being a negative Nancy I'm assuming that in a back to back with a fully rested Leafs team in Toronto that we are losing that game...

I guarantee and willing to bet 5 dollars if they had a vote for a city funded indoor waterpark that it would definitely vote Yes for that.

It's hard to be happy with a guy who has struggled many times this season with putting together a drive all while having great protection, great RB, and open receivers. He's definitely been better during the winning streak but it's hard to get that bad taste in the mouth when he **** the bed during the losing streak.

Chipman would easily of won, might be some issues like Sam Katz where personal interests would of conflicted with being the mayor. I'd assume Chipman would rather make boat load of money doing something else then being the mayor. Plus no matter who is the mayor they'll be in his palm as the city doesn't exactly have a long line of people wanting to invest in downtown.

I merely pointed out that calling someone a coward makes them look bad. Base off this post to me it looks like you are a child trying to yell for a parent to get a sibling in trouble. I'll end my posts about jcon as I believe you got the point (eventually).

Money is king

Almost a must win game since they have to play the Leafs the next night....

I don't think the Leafs had horse shoes, they completely outplayed us for the first 40 minutes. We did not deserve to win last night at all. Some of our stars are slumping big time... at some point they'll turn things around.

It was jcon who called Browaty a coward. Stop mixing things up. I'm merely pointing out the guy is being a sore loser because the vast majority of folks voted no. I suggested it was time to move on. People have voted, time to move on.

He would steam roll Bowman, Bowman only won last term because of the smile and Judy being a ding dong. This year he won because he ran against an unlikeable lady with some terrible ideas and a bunch of complete misfits who belong on the Howard Stern wackpack. (Dennis Diack being the exception). Bowman has very little support from the community he just seems like the safe pick both last term and this term.

If we were playing magical fantasy trades ... I'd choose Masoli, then Harris , then Nichols. The reason I would choose Masoli first is that even when the guy is running for his life he has the ability to throw a dart down field to a receiver. With our much better o-line I think he would have way more chances for running it himself and I think Thompkins and Wolitarsky both see way more balls. I'd choose Harris over Nichols mainly because he also can throw a deep pass and when he's on he's much more productive then Nichols. I'd be scared of bad Harris re-appearing but with our awesome o-line I think he cleans house. Nichols I choose last mainly because with an awesome rb and o-line he still struggles to really excel. The regression he's shown this season he has to be #3 because if the defense doesn't show up and/or Harris doesn't run wild... I don't see Nichols putting the team on his back to win. A game manager only wins if special teams and the defense show up and play big.

Calling Browaty a coward and making an emotional response is completely sour grapes. I'm trying to say jcon was being a sore loser. Maybe sour grapes was the incorrect term to use?

Completely agree, I was listening to 680 after the polls and they made a great point about how in future elections they need some kind of way to weed out the crap candidates. Having weirdos like Ackerman and Woodstock running in the election is almost a mockery of the election itself. If Jenny was more likeable (according to reddit she has a punchable face) she probably would of won. Most of the people I spoke with who were voting for Bowman were voting based on the least crappiest of a crap bunch of candidates. I had wished that Oulette-Falcon would of ran for this election because a fresh face who is genuine and with an open mind would be fantastic for our mayor.

The people have spoken , may this cornball idea rest ..... in....piece (Undertaker voice) Also JCon your comment above is major sour grapes, Browaty would steamroll Bowman if he had ran. The guy is genuine and unlike Bowman he actually gives a crap about the city instead of putting his own image first. Souuuuuuuuuuuuuuur grapes.

Considering we almost won with Ryan Dinwiddie..... I think this team is in a ok position with Nichols.

The test wouldn't be expensive, Bowman has spent millions on studies (without him wanting to publish the results because they were all pro No). Monday it took me 5 minutes to clear downtown and then yesterday 30 minutes both days with no accidents, street work or stalls... if I have to now wait 45 minutes to get home it puts a lot stress when you are a family man needing to pick up kids from day care and then going home and getting dinner ready and then taking the kids out to their activities. My free time is extremely limited and valuable and it's a real piss off waiting in traffic for absolutely no good reason when if the city was smart they could have a proper traffic flow to get people in and out in 5 minutes. You may one day understand if you ever decide to have children and a family because back in the day when it was just me I wouldn't of cared because I had all the time in the world to do whatever I needed to do. I don't think it's just me because the other people in the office with younger children are all constantly on the go trying to keep up with life.

I strongly believe that Downtown Biz and the companies involved at the intersection had a lot to do with setting up Team Open. Almost 100% positive that they were involved. 54 seconds in light traffic... no numbers or real estimates for rush hour naturally. What they should of done (if possible) was to set up the traffic lights at P & M to run at what it would be if the intersection was open for pedestrians. Take a two week sample and with that they can get real numbers on how traffic would be effected. I'm assuming that the intersection wouldn't be running the push button to activate walk sign kind of deal and that it would run on an automatic schedule. Then both sides couldn't make up numbers and with the real data they could analyze.