TrueBlue4ever

Hey, if you and your MBB Alberta crew want to sit around and circle jerk your manscaped stiffies all day, fill your boots. Just don’t post cartoons about it here. OK, Millennial? 😁

Why is it that the most ridiculous Simpsons jokes become the ones that actually come true?

The first of 3 MBB questions noted, although thankfully the “erection” reference replaced by “excitement” (on that note, way too much “hard on” meme-ing going on when discussing player signings. We’re all happy with the off-season, but there are other ways to express it than like being a bunch of 14 year olds in math class getting random woodies and announcing it to the teacher. That’s just weird). Anyway, Zach was looking forward to playing with this group but noted that you forgot to mention Agudosi, Grant, and O’Leary-Orange as well. Kenny Lawler agreed that this was going to be a “light ‘em up” year, called for Zach to throw 50 TDs. Also admitted the Elks signing last year was all about the money, but no regrets and was happy to re-set the bar for receiver salaries league-wide. Basically said no, he doesn’t budget per group, because it is unclear how the market will price itself each year. Only focussing on this year right now because they are in the Grey Cup window, so not thinking about how expensive a Schoen re-signing will be in the future. Admits in past years when the club was re-building he would take a longer term approach. Also says (when asked by DT if receiver is now the 2nd most important position in the CFL) besides the QB, the left tackle and rush ends are the key pieces since it is a throwing league and you need to protect your QB and get after the opposing QB, but acknowledges the importance of receivers and sees why prices are going up for them. Also said when making money decisions on who to re-sign or not, looks at the depth on hand that can step up and replace the more expensive existing veteran players (cited Tui and Kolankowski as examples as to why Couture was not re-signed). Says the cap was spent on keeping the core, when in other years with less depth or talent they would spend more in free agency to bring in new guys. There were other things I might have missed, skimmed through it on the CJOB audio vault.

A bit premature for the R.I.P. thread, but was unaware of his hospitalization. https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/27/entertainment/tom-sizemore-end-of-life-decision/index.html

True that.

Dubois has been playing like he’s injured for the last month and a half.

Jones made some early missteps when she could have put real pressure on Einarson. Missed a tap back for 4 which could also have been played as a take out for 3 in the 3rd end, only scored 1. Drew heavy allowing Einarson an easy draw with backing for her 1 in the 4th when a better draw might have led to a steal of up to 3. Then drew light for a steal of 2 in the 5th and Einarson never gave up control after that. The 5-ender in the 9th was really Jones going for broke to set up a steal knowing she had to gamble. Einarson just kept picking rocks out and rather than just conceding 1 or 2 Jones ignored the rocks in the house trying to generate the steal, hence the big score. The better team won yesterday, now she needs to up her game for the Worlds.

So either Einerson wins her 4th consecutive championship, tying Colleen Jones’s all-time record, or Jen Jones wins her 7th overall title, breaking Colleen Jones’s all-time record.

Done!

You don’t know? Thought you had all the inside dirt on his signing.

Pierre-Luc Dubois stats at 44 games: 20G-29A-49P and +9, on pace for 37-54-91 and +17 over a full season. Then the Jets went on a road trip to Montreal where we did a big presser about a minor hockey foundation he was funding in Quebec. Since then in 16 games (counting today’s) 4G-2A-6P and -8. Just sayin’.

You think he has better things to do with his life?

Jonathan Toews suffering from long COVID symptoms, stepping away from the team for a bit, and will not be traded by the deadline as a result. According to ESPN.

It was in the obscurity of back pages until you bumped it to the top just now. Thanks for the PTSD!!!!!!!!!

What would really make me happiest, beyond Fox News going into bankruptcy, would be a judicial order forcing them to make an on-air public retraction of their false claims from each and every host who ever peddled the lie at the main network. Murdoch, Dobbs, Hannity, Carlson, Ingraham, Pirro, every single one of them in full, forced to tell their viewers that they knowingly lied to them.

And why if he was always so determined to be nowhere but Winnipeg did it take two weeks into free agency for him to stay here? And what other offers did he turn down, and for how much? Curious to hear some numbers.

I think Leguizamo was always intended to be a temporary character arc rather than a series regular. I stopped watching regularly after they killed off the Mark Greene character. Caught the last few episodes of the final season. Stamos was the new “Clooney”, or more accurately the newest “Clooney” after Goran Visnich’s “Luka” left.

Only other decent gig he had was on “e.r.” For 3 seasons at the end of it’s run.

Not sure I totally buy Farhan’s “belief”. Bailey was expendable here once we got Lawler signed and Schoen did not get an NFL bite. Bailey committed to free agency knowing he was not a priority here, and we heard crickets for a week, which suggests that the other teams saw what Walters saw, that Bailey is a supplemental piece and not a number one receiver (and his career stats back up that assertion, IMO). I don’t buy that he left heaps of money and a higher profile role as a prime target receiver on another team to come back here as the 4th option in the progressions. My “belief” is that he did not get any great offers, and teams were not prepared to pay close to his $130,000 salary from last year for a 35-40 yards a game average third option American receiver. So he chose the best option which was to come back where he was comfortable and knew the system, and earn what he could and hope for bonus playoff cash. But a great depth signing if we got him for less than 6 figures.

I’m not suggesting he’s “starting” calibre, just wondering if he is in fact on the roster or if he is a free agent. Although, if he was auditioning to be a starter, he did mop up really well in the Grey Cup as his audition tape (dammit).

Chad Kelly?

https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/16/sport/tim-mccarver-mlb-obit-spt/index.html

I hear what you are saying about draft picks, but personally I don’t think it is a huge loss. If you are inclined to overspend and take the penalty, then you are better off paying for a known commodity in free agency rather than taking a flyer on a draft choice who may be a free agent by the time their draft potential starts to be met. At least that was the Brendan Tamen philosophy, one that I did not disagree with. Long term it is no way to build a club, sure, but in a world of one year contracts and quick re-builds, it wasn’t the worst idea, and paid off handsomely in a few cases where teams loaded up for a home Grey Cup.

The only way to counter this malignant behaviour is to beat them with their own logic. Ban books with sexuality in them so we don’t “indoctrinate” kids? OK, let’s start with the Bible, given the sexualization of Adam and Eve after the Original Sin, all of the incestuous behaviour (“go forth and multiply”), and other sexual references. Of course, Santos, as the original author of the Holy book, will exempt himself from that list. I’ll go wait in the corner for the lightning strike.

Owners in all sports prefer to keep salaries hidden, because once players hear what others make, they use it as leverage in negotiations by making comparables (especially with overpay contracts - “if Fajardo makes $500,000 then Dane Evans is worth more based on the 15-3 season in 2019”) and salaries jump across the board, with profits shrinking and dans paying the freight. The additional headache for the CFL is that since cap enforcement is so weak (the penalties for going over are not much, and for example Sask in 2013 made a $20 million profit off of their stacked team Grey Cup, and maybe paid a few hundred thousand in cap penalties) and “side deals” apparently a thing (Sask. endorsements deals with local companies were a rumoured thing), the league wouldn’t want to expose the fallacy that is the hard cap. Players should always want salaries public because it inevitably drives things upward in all cases. But the player’s union has so little power the owners call the shots, and want to keep their budgets private for tax reasons I suspect. Just my random opinion.