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10 minutes ago, Stickem said:
I really like this Konar kid in Edm.....Bear Woods, woulds be another candidate or J.C. Sherritt...Anyone of those guys would be a huge improvement over Hurl, who I hope is not re-signed....IF Walters opens the wallet for any of the aforementioned ..That would be a good thing
The MLB in Ottawa would be a great addition. I forget his name.
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3 hours ago, max power said:
So basically, lots of CFL players have lousy agents. Especially guys who have played one year in the CFL, making the league minimum.
Which makes sense, you get what you pay for. I don't imagine the commission on $50,000 goes a long way.
Kids, especially Canadian ones coming out of university are broke. They take whatever help they can get. Unless a Canadian player is figured to go in the top 2 or 3 rounds they won't be represented by a top agent.
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19 hours ago, Goalie said:
They cant just drop the 3rd hour.. USA wanted that 3rd hour and paid them for it. Word is Vince didn't want the 3rd hour but.. Couldn't turn down all those benjamins
I hear a new tv deal will mean just a 2 hour Raw which is a good thing.
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41 minutes ago, Bigblue204 said:
I'm honestly surprised players actually want to re-sign in TO. Regardless of the money. The way he describes their practice facilities etc sounds like complete trash. Especially when you compare that to what WPG and SSK has. Even CGY/BC/HAM. Pretty pathetic.
MLSE should change all that. The Argos practice facility burned down in a fire a few years ago when David Braley owned the team. In typical Braley spend no money & grind the team into the ground style of ownership he never replaced it.
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34 minutes ago, mbrg said:
Not even.
I mean really, 18 regular season games, 3 playoff games, 2 exhibition games. That's 69 hours of work.
Doing some quick math...he's getting paid about $7million dollars an hour! And he could easily sneak out at halftime and do a quick 15 minute shift at 7-11! Probably was!
Uh, if he makes league minimum then how can he make $7 million dollars an hour? Plus you don't factor in practice times, meetings & travelling.
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4 hours ago, tracker said:
So the Mayo is on hold?
Yeah, hold the Mayo probably permanently.
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On 1/24/2018 at 12:07 PM, Floyd said:
Konar would be a no-brainer... can't see him hitting free agency though, fingers crossed
I'd make an offer to Jeff Knox Jr - or gamble on Deron Mayo - value signings
Otherwise, I'm fine with JSK at MLB and some new blood or Wild in a pinch
For ratio - I'd target Konar, Demski, Gascon-Nadon, Menard...
The way Dickenson was describing Mayo a few weeks ago to the Calgary media I think his career is over.
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20 minutes ago, WBBFanWest said:
Lol, that news anchor, Kevin Evans tried to pull a fast one on me when he interviewed me in about 1978-79. I could remember his face but I couldn't remember his name. Thanks for posting that!
I remember that commercial. I don't recall whether I liked it or not. It was awful though but that was the whole point of it. Anyway, I know Abalon advertises on CJOB & when I heard "foundation repair" I had to post this. Small business owners do strange things especially when that small business is struggling. Even in 1985, just $50,000 in sales revenue wasn't very good as foundation repairs aren't cheap. I loved the fact the guy went to the job sites in his dress shoes & casual jacket. Think he ever got his hands dirty or gave advice to the guys doing the work? I'll bet he never had one callous on his hands. But he was a cheesy singer. Whatever works, I guess.
As far as Kevin Evans goes, I went to the 1986 Grey Cup in Vancouver. The night before we hit the bars downtown & I ran into him & Stan Kubichek. I had a couple of drinks & chatted with them both before we left & went somewhere else. Evans is like 5'4. Just a little guy. Is he even in the broadcast business anymore? I think he lives on the West Coast now. What about Stan? Anyone know?
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On 1/23/2018 at 7:23 PM, Blueandgold said:
Is this a joke or is it actually not worth a listen?
You're scaring me off!
Slow news day back in 1985.
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33 minutes ago, Rich said:
What kind of increase do you want? What kind of increase can the Toronto's and BCs of the CFL handle?
Then you need to convince the CFLPA, which is run by veteran players, to negotiate to have that cap increase applied to the minimum contract amount, which is typically for rookies. Good luck.
Six million. One hundred thousand dollar increase every year for the life of the agreement.
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Just now, Rich said:
Even if the CFL could afford a significant cap increase, look to the NHL, NBA, and NFL to see that as the cap increases in sporting leagues, a high percentage of the increases ends up going to the elite players, and the pay gap between players increases.
Once that happens there will still only be dinky little incremental increases left over for everyone else.
The salary cap is too low to begin with. So, an adjustment needs to be made. Players should be making more money. More on the low end of the scale & less for the higher end.
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With a new CBA there has to be a major revisit of the salary cap. These dinky little incrememental increases every year don't help at all when trying to re-sign players. Wilder won't get an NFL job sitting at home so I think he'll eventually play.
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1 hour ago, The Unknown Poster said:
That’s the problem. They get paid a lot of money for the third hour of raw and two hours of smack down. However there is speculation FOX is interested in wwe and it would surely mean two hours of raw.
You have the roster that competes on Raw & Smackdown. No brand extension. Then the roster not quite ready for prime time yet competing on a show like WWE All Stars or whatever that show used to be called. The ones on the bubble either drop down to NXT or the few that come up have to work hard to prove themselves. Not given prime time status like the women wrestlers have had with the NXT call ups... err... invaders.
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20 minutes ago, FrostyWinnipeg said:
"I could have walked away paralyzed or killed."
Who'd have thought sledding was risky? Who knew???
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8 hours ago, The Unknown Poster said:
There goes The Keg...
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I remember Canada's National Team. How we were supposed to host the World Hockey Championship in 1970 & then some rube from Hockey Canada in Ottawa had the great idea to pull our country out of it because we considered the Soviets professional hockey players & we couldn't send ours. The sad part is that Canada's team that year was actually very good & may have given the Soviets & Czechs a run for their money. We'll never know.
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4 minutes ago, The Unknown Poster said:
A lot of people suspected Lorca was Garth. The backstory for him as a Star fleet legend sort of romanticized him as a character.
I think it's totally possible he could be. Or his character rewritten that he is.
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30 minutes ago, FrostyWinnipeg said:
I do find it odd that Lord Garth is brought up from time to time re: Discovery. It's such a bottom of the barrel episode. Might as well reference the helmet of knowledge.
Bottom of the barrel? No, not that one. Spock's Brain (from the episode you quote) was bottom of the barrel. Not that episode.
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Bob Irving had been tweeting about it.
Will Walters go all out at MLB?
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Yeah.