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If you are committed to monosyllabic vocabulary you could just go on Riderfans for awhile. That's all that is allowed on that site so you wouldn't have to worry about straying outside of your self imposed bounds. Let's test this theory (kind of like a scene from "The Thing") - hey Pepper - how do you react to this photo?

It'll be Fine.

I am tempted to refer to him as Regular Harris in all future posts.

He is a symptom, not the cause. Sanity will not return to the US because of his incarceration.

Hardrick was PFF highest rated lineman last week.

The BC Lions cancelled their Wednesday practice after offensive lineman Phil Norman incurred a medical episode. “Prior to practice, offensive lineman Phil Norman suffered a significant medical episode," the team said in a statement. "Phil is currently conscious and alert and is receiving full medical attention. The remainder of today’s activity has been cancelled.” Hope dude is ok. Sounds scary

https://www.pff.com/news/cfl-week-1-pff-team-of-the-week-player-awards the other off grades. No surprise Bryant was the second highest T. Demski Houston and collaros aren’t surprises either. Woli was a bit. Willy must’ve been close.

You really could see it this weekend...the difference with what our receivers do downfield, and even in the box blocking, compared to the other teams....a couple of the games I watched was almost embarrassing to see....so not vested into the team first thing...and yeah...I know big Stan was pretty much banged up all yr last yr, but you would have never known it other than basically not practicing at all Yeah Yosh had a big game...he was just trucking dudes all game and was right psyched and animated too...he's a beast

If O'Shea puts Jake in at DE, we'll know he's been reading MBB.

Does anyone remember the poster from nearly two decades ago who was everywhere on CFL forums. He was from Vancouver. He was severely injured in a bar fight well over a decade ago when a gay bashing patron thought he touched him & he sucker punched the guy from behind. He fell backwards & cracked his skull in the floor causing a severe brain injury. He was confined to a wheelchair from that point on & was no longer able to do anything on his own. He eventually succumbed to his injuries & the guy who hit him got jail time. My understanding was that he was a successful investment broker in Vancouver when he was injured. He loved the Lions first & the CFL second. His name was Rich & he went by that same name online. He loved his Bombay bourbon. He could be a pain in the ass at times when he was sucking back his favourite beveredge & had a bit too many but was also a nice guy when sober. I miss him. Rest In Peace, Rich. KBF, do you remember him? Sorry, not sorry.

I'm looking for Ray Finkle......And a clean pair of shorts.

Finkel and Einhorn, Einhorn and Finkel.......

It's not just Trump. It's human garbage like Gaetz, Taylor Greene, Boebert, DeSantis, and so many more. Sanity won't return to the US political landscape any time soon - regardless of what happens with the fetid orange pustule.

I would think what's worse is that Vegas won with so many Manitoban players on their roster, most of which were not highly regarded or even drafted (hello Zach Whitecloud) but yet played such important roles in winning this cup. I say "most of which" - not including Mark Stone who was amazing through the entire playoffs and I don't quite get why he wasn't the Con Smythe winner but whatever. But man talk about building a team and making it a "team", unlike what we've had to endure here in Winnipeg for the past five years where they've been anything but a team.

Now now, don’t be nasty.

Dickenson, you F****** idiot.

wish I could link to this nyt article. David Foster Wallace author. "Last year, according to analysis by Idea Smiths, existing wind and solar power reduced the state’s (Texas) wholesale energy spending by about $11 billion — almost three times the savings of the previous year. According to research by Energy Innovation, the green-energy tax credits in the Inflation Reduction Act are poised to create more than 100,000 jobs in Texas by 2030 — which would add more than $15 billion to the state economy over that time. The gains are estimated to be similar in Florida, where Energy Innovation projects more than 85,000 new jobs and $10 billion in state G.D.P. gains by 2030. But it’s not just a couple of red states: The logic of the energy transition has been transformed across the country. A decade ago, after the collapse of the Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade bill, it seemed intuitive to most Americans that without expensive political interventions and market manipulations, market forces and consumer preference would keep fossil fuels dominant in America, leaving green energy for the moralists and the saints. It was a caricature, even then, but a common one: that fossil fuels had every competitive advantage, and that green energy couldn’t thrive in the status-quo environment, requiring instead political interventions and market manipulations to clear a path toward viability. Just a couple of years ago, when the progressive Squad in Congress first began touting a Green New Deal, the talking points on the right were the same: a green energy revolution would immiserate Americans, and bringing it about would require considerable and heavy-handed distortions to the energy market. We live in a different world now, just a few years later. It is no longer clean energy that requires political interventions for survival. And increasingly it is fossil fuels flailing about for political lifelines to impede market forces. Partly because of the climate-forward interventions of the infrastructure bill and the Inflation Reduction Act, and partly because of market and cultural momentum much larger than American energy legislation, the status quo has been effectively inverted. A few months ago, after the passage of the I.R.A., I wrote that the wave of new investment could accelerate American depolarization over green energy, since so much of the money was flowing to red states and districts. The path was never going to be smooth, and there were some brief digressions in that narrative; the Texas standoff is just one of the recent bumps in the road. There’s also been the transitory Republican threat in debt-ceiling negotiations to scuttle the I.R.A. tax incentives, and scattershot fights by state legislatures and attorneys general against socially conscious investments. But in the big picture it looks like these are just bumps along the same road. The trend predates the impacts of the I.R.A. Solar power is already as much as 33 percent cheaper than gas power in the United States, according to an analysis from last year; onshore wind may be nearly 45 percent cheaper. And when American investors are drawn to opportunities, they find themselves overwhelmingly in red states like Texas. When Bloomberg analyzed green energy investment in the summer of 2022, before the passage of the bill, it found that of the 14 congressional districts with the most wind, solar and battery tech capacity, 13 were represented by Republicans and only one by a Democrat. This was, in its way, as logical as it might have seemed counterintuitive — more than two-thirds of American renewable potential today resides in mostly rural areas, which lean heavily Republican. The I.R.A. turbocharged these dynamics. A bill originally estimated at $370 billion may ultimately yield a trillion dollars or more in federal subsidies, and the result is already an unprecedented manufacturing boom — with some measures of new construction almost doubling year over year and projections suggesting the trend will only grow. Nearly a hundred new clean energy manufacturing facilities or factory expansions have been announced since the bill, marking more than $70 billion in new investment, according to Canary Media. This is the rundown offered by the former director of President Biden’s National Economic Council, Brian Deese, last month: Companies have announced at least 31 new battery manufacturing projects in the United States. That is more than in the prior four years combined. The pipeline of battery plants amounts to 1,000 gigawatt-hours per year by 2030 — 18 times the energy storage capacity in 2021, enough to support the manufacture of 10 million to 13 million electric vehicles per year. In energy production, companies have announced 96 gigawatts of new clean power over the past eight months, which is more than the total investment in clean power plants from 2017 to 2021." I read elsewhere renewable investment is now triple that of fossil.

Harris will be Fine? So, Fine will be Harris? Harris is backing up Fine, confirmed.

Trump is the embodiment of what conservatism has become. I mean it's not like he had who he was to get elected. This has been a slow steady march. Trump was just ripping the mask off.

For that matter, regular Harris isn’t a guy that scares me.

Schmitz has an appealing backstory, too: guy looking for a football home and keeping the faith after years and years. Easy guy to root for.

Our Guy @DTonOB is busy at practice today: Derek Taylor @DTonOB Early at Bombers practice no sign of DE Jackson Jeffcoat and DT Cam Lawson remains out. And the crowd noise is live! Pumping it in during practice to simulate the rowdy Riders faithful. #Bombers No Dalton Schoen for practice today. Brendan O’Leary-Orange getting some extra activity. HB Evan Holm is practicing after taking a nasty bump breaking up a pass in Friday’s game. Really impressed with what we saw live again a diverse Ticats receiver group. If you’re wondering new Bombers HB Brad Muhammed is wearing #36 and DT Miles Fox is wearing #90 UPDATE: Miles Fox appears to be an ENORMOUS human being with our view from the concourse. That’s a lot of time in the gym Adam Bighill with the diving interception…doing Bighill things. Karl Schmitz just decided to put his foot through one here at practice. Quick math says 69 yards in the air and bounced out inside the five. Athletes, man.

It's not like we're playing Rocky Butler here lol....but yes you are 100% right on.

Ed Tait @EdTaitWFC · 45s CFL has issued its Week 1 discipline report. Two notes as it relates to the @Wpg_BlueBombers : -Brandon Alexander was fined for a high hit on Ticat receiver Kiondré Smith -Ticat DT Mohammed Diallo was fined for unnecessary roughness on Geoff Gray.

based on what I saw on Sunday, nothing about the Riders (healthy Harris or no) worries me. That team had trouble putting up 17 on the LOLK's..... the Bombers team from last Friday, with a chip from watching the film of the 3rd Q bumbling, will obliterate the Riders, with or without Trevor Harris. There's every reason to believe this game will be a Molly Whopping....... if it was in Winnipeg, I'd almost guarantee a repeat of last year's Banjo Bowl.

yet he was one of the few that beat us last year. Correction, he helped Legs beat us last year.

Taylor Shire @Taylor_Shire · 30m While it hasn’t been confirmed by the team, all signs point to backup Mason Fine to get the start at QB on Friday for the #Riders against the #Bombers. #CFL https://leaderpost.com/sports/football/cfl/saskatchewan-roughriders/sports-riders-notebook-2… via @leaderpost

Derek Dennis is done. https://3downnation.com/2023/06/14/four-time-all-star-ol-derek-dennis-announces-retirement-from-cfl/

Yeah my first smart tv (Toshiba FireTV) was full of the proprietary software as well. The last couple tv's we've bought were not for our main use (bedrooms or our camper) so we went with cheaper ones off Amazon (TCL) to see how they were. Those ones had way less bloatware/advertising and were very customizable so for what we paid and what we use them for, they've been great.

Turkey is a bad actor and a non-democratic state. The only reason they're in NATO is because of their waterway and strategic location. This is about shaking down NATO countries for more money.

Laces out!

It's time for this government to go.

Every journey starts with a single, small step. It's time for the moderate right to take back their parties here and in the US.

Trump is a cancer on politics, and is the biggest black eye to conservatism in the past 100 years. I hope he rots in jail so we can get some sanity back in the US.

If there us any justice in the world Trump will go to jail. And hopefully not a white collar resort prison, but a federal pound me in the ass prison.

If they can end the season close to that healthy it’ll be a painful play offs for our competitors. Bryant reminded me of Larry Allen bolting down field to make a td saving tackle on a pick. With Dobsons improvements, Eli getting healthy, and Jackson added to the blocking scheme you have a terrifying prospect for defenders. Especially in the run game. Not to mention the WRs flying around hitting dbs and lbers. Brady is poised for a monster year.

People forgot they were dinged most of last season. Apparently the offseason was good to them cause they were ******* good in game 1. Fountain of youth indeed.

Yup....37....trucking his ass downfield on runs throwing guys 15 yrs his junior out of the way...not to mention old broken down Hardrick pancaking guys all game....He musta did that to Thurman and Bennet 3 times I noticed...and on a few other run plays was just rolling over guys....yup...they old and washed up

They will be fine with Mills and Logan. They looked questionable every other spot on O except RB. Deep and talented on the OL - they’ll be fine.

It's inevitable that there will be almost no small towns in 20 years. So many are already essentially gone and we're not going to solve that problem with 40,000 acre farms of any kind. "The actual number of farms in Manitoba continued to grow until 1941 and peaked at 58,024 when the average farm size was 291 acres. The decline in numbers has been relatively steady since 1941. In 2006, the most recent census year, there were 19,054 farms with an average size of 1,001 acres." https://www.manitobaaghalloffame.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/MAHF-History-of-Ag-in-MB.pdf "Number of Farms. The 2021 Census of Agriculture counted 14,543 farms in Manitoba, a moderate decrease of 1.7 per cent from the previous census, which reported 14,791 farms in 2016. Manitoba farm numbers rank sixth in Canada and account for 7.7 per cent of Canada’s 189,874 farms in 2021. The number of farms in Canada declined by 1.9 per cent, compared to 2016. The average farm size was 1,177 acres in 2021, 1.3 per cent smaller than the 1,192 acres in 2016. Manitoba’s total farm area was 17.1 million acres in 2021 compared to 17.6 million acres in 2016, a decrease of 2.9 per cent. The number of farm operators in Manitoba declined 3.4 per cent to 19,465 people in 2021. The ratio of farm operators to the number of farms was 1.3 for Manitoba, slightly less than the Canadian average of 1.4. In 2021, 43.2 per cent of farm operators in Manitoba worked more than 40 hours a week on average on agricultural operations, compared with 44.5 per cent in 2016. At the national level, this percentage was 36.9 per cent in 2021. More farmers worked off the farm in 2021, with 46.1 per cent of farm operators in Manitoba reporting an off-farm job, compared with 42.9 per cent in 2016. https://www.gov.mb.ca/agriculture/markets-and-statistics/ag-census/pubs/census-manitoba-profile-2021.pdf

I keep coming back to the Grey Cup. Best player in the field in the first half. Injured for the second half. Even if we protect/conserve him, is he still going to be available for us when we need him?

Spending 18% of the money allocated to address 1% of the backlog seems like both a poor use of funds and is not fiscally conservative.

Yes i know for a fact that MOS reads this message board and it has a great impact on his roster decisions....😋

That’s his new name. It’s done. Got bored on my lunch break. Here you go.

Meanwhile, good things happen when you vote for progressives. Minnesota is THE prime example (and project a $17.5 Billion surplus to boot): "Minnesota Democrats entered this year’s legislative session in a similar situation. Last fall, they won control of the state’s executive branch, House and Senate — a legislative “trifecta” — but with only a one-seat majority in the upper chamber. The results were much different: The party accomplished a generation’s worth of liberal reforms in just four months, vaulting the state to the forefront of progressive policymaking. Minnesota now offers 12 weeks of paid family and medical leave, the opportunity for any resident to buy into Medicaid, free public college tuition for low- and middle-income families, a new child tax credit for those families, free breakfast and lunch for all public school students, driver’s licenses for all residents regardless of their immigration status, and stronger protections for workers seeking to unionize. Take a deep breath — there’s more coming. Middle-class seniors will no longer have to pay state income taxes on Social Security benefits. A law immediately restoring the voting rights of felons who have completed their prison sentences expanded the franchise to 55,000 more people. Minnesotans serving life behind bars for crimes they committed as minors are now eligible for supervised release 15 years into their sentence. Suspending gun permits for people experiencing a mental health crisis got easier. Recreational marijuana is legal. A new state law protects abortion rights. A “trans refuge” law shields transgender children who travel to Minnesota for medical transitions from legal repercussions in their home states. And Minnesota has set a goal of moving to 100% carbon-free energy by 2040. The no-holds-barred progressive lawmaking spree was even enough to get a Twitter shoutout from former President Barack Obama, who called it a “reminder that elections have consequences.” Leaders of Minnesota’s Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, as the state’s Democratic Party is known, have taken to calling the flurry of legislative activity the “Minnesota Miracle 2.0.” Originally, “Minnesota Miracle” was a nickname given to reforms enacted in the early 1970s by then-Gov. Wendell “Wendy” Anderson (DFL) and liberal Republicans in the Legislature, which increased funding for public schools by raising state income taxes and reducing the education system’s reliance on regressive property taxes. (more) https://sg.news.yahoo.com/minnesota-democrats-passed-raft-progressive-120003549.html?guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAN6VJRByPPAX5jhTVjN8Mi93KRXXvD9kCbKZId_k092mxKfYjPjVYdnwWUpTXfu3EYZb8eEr8J4tE-r-EVXeo0MvHBqXgYlKI9h4xl4utLmLRiMfVAwRoyOUSMIvgRRMjGZC__3wdQGJ-v62YoxxQ-A-2j7nZ1p_ZdBtf_CSmDzO

Agreed. He sees the suggestions, pulls a George Constanza and “does the opposite”. “Putrid roster management? I’ll keep on keeping on doing it my way instead. Criticisms of that approach? I’ll point to the number of games it has cost us (zero by Speedflex’s admission) vs. the win-loss record I’ve compiled the last 6 years. Any other complaints?”

Jesus... Ok, whatvever- thanks for your political insight.