Rich

Hedging only works for so long. If the dollar stays low the Jets will for sure stay on the low side of the cap.

I think you underestimate the fan base here and how starved they are for a good team. If we have a season where we are good enough to host a playoff game, the fans will come out. In fact in the early / mid 2000's playoff attendance dwindled only after multiple years with playoff games as it wasn't a novelty anymore. The opposite of what you suggest It has been long enough that it would be a novelty again. Especially the first Bomber playoff game in IGF.

What were we paying Nick Moore?

His Twitter timeline over the last little while was an interesting read. His take home from the Grey Cup cheque after taxes and conversions to US was like $2K - 3K. The playoff bonus money for players hasn't gone up in years. Also complaining about how SK can afford to pay Chris Jones close to $1M but the players make very little (and for the most part he is trying to stick up for the players make league minimum, not his $160k). Also pretty vocal about what the players gave up or didn't get during the last CBA. Now, I don't think Twitter is necessarily the best medium for how he is going about this. But he has some valid points. In what other sports league do the players make less then the coaches and GMs. The problem of course is that the CFL is not the premiere football league and the best talent will either go to the NFL or they won't. And if they don't, they don't have many other options if they want to stay in football. So there is lots of supply. This isn't true for the NFL, NHL, NBA. MLB. Those players are pretty much the top players in the world playing in the top leagues.

I know he isn't having a great season but I would consider Higgins. 2.5M this year and next. He could help our PK. Has to be better than Peluso.

Did quick search on who else might have a CFL feed. CBC does. Curiously, CFL.ca doesn't seem to have an RSS feed.

It really depends on what people want to and don't want to see in there. It basically takes an RSS feed and converts it to posts in the forum. To only get Bomber or CFL news from a news site, they would have to have a designated feed for just that sport or team (Free Press and Sun provide this which is why they were the only two added when I first set it up). In TSN's case, they currently only have 1 feed. So if I add it, all of their articles come in (which if people would want / like , I can do it). Their website does mention this: We are currently working on more RSS feeds, and will eventually have sport-by-sport RSS feeds in the future. For the metro, same thing. Their current RSS feeds are separated by: News Canada World Calgary Edmonton Halifax Ottawa Toronto Vancouver Winnipeg Sections Views Entertainment Food Health Money Drive Sports Your Home Horoscopes Features Crossword and Sudoku Answers So it would either be all Winnipeg news or all Sports news (I'm guessing the sports would be for all cities) Alternatively (and this would take a little more investigation to know for sure), I think I could get rid of the News Forum all together and collate everything into a true RSS feed similar to the Twitter feed. We'd have to figure out positionally where it would make most sense to have on the website.

Ehlers can still be sent down for a conditioning stint even though he has junior eligibility. But it would have to be a legitimate reason, not just because he isn't playing well. It would have to be because he is coming back from an injury or something along those lines. In 2008, Bogosian (in his rookie year with junior eligibility), he was sent down for conditioning after a broken leg.

I'm all good with the discussion here on this. I don't take it personally at all. I'd rather have more people chime in with their thoughts. I'm not even 100% in favour of keeping it. I just play devils advocate and ask questions from a different point of view. I still don't understand how it is wasted space, it doesn't hurt anything by being there. If you don't like it don't use it. Some people don't ever read General. Should I get rid of that too? I don't think it degrades your experience of the website by being there. And there are people who still use it And to discussion. I don't think it was ever meant to have discussion. Just a one stop place to get daily CFL news articles. I for sure use it a lot less with the FP pay wall but the Sun articles are still valid. It also lets people know what is happening in CFL news even by just article titles. I'm also hopeful at some point the FP reverses their stance on this Twitter doesn't replace it because you have to be reading the timeline at the right time before the tweet about it gets buried.

Not saying there isn't merit to shutting it down, but I am curious what you think we would be able to add there that we don't have now? It isn't like there is mutually exclusive space on the forums. If there is something useful you think we can add, we can add it regardless of whether the news feed is there or not. My basic thoughts on this are that it hurts no one to have it there. If you don't like it, don't use it. Unless it really annoys a majority of members to see the articles and not be able to read them, what does it hurt?

It does happen with the @ symbol but you should just be able to type and space away from it if you aren't selecting a member. I can't get it to happen with #

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It has happened all too often this year where the Jets control the play but don't take advantage by actually scoring. Their opponents hang around and hang around until the are able to score and take the lead.

According to Damien Cox he did. Not sure how accurate that is though. This is the first it has ever been said and Lawless has said he never heard of those rumblings.

From the Twitter feed prior to the Vikings game

I still see occasional drops of my session and have to re-login. This one is still on my watch list.

i·ro·ny a state of affairs or an event that seems deliberately contrary to what one expects and is often amusing as a result.

If you are reading this then you've made it over to the new server. It looks like everything migrated correctly and is running. Still a few tweaks and optimizations I need to make, but it shouldn't affect anything. Let me know if you see or experience any issues.

Michigan vs. Michigan State on TSN right now. Half way through the 2nd. Michigan is up 7 - 2. Kyle Connor has 2 goals so far.

www.asmallorange.com who were really good for the first while, but its been declining steadily. Been doing a lot of research since Christmas. The website was down so couldn't do much but plan on where I was going next. They were bought out by a company called EIG in 2010. ASO's CEO stayed on for a while though. Since he has left, they've been declining. Seems EIG has a reputation of buying smaller hosting companies with good reputations and stripping them down over time. They also own BlueHost, HostGator, NetFirms, and 30 - 50 other companies. http://researchasahobby.com/full-list-eig-hosting-companies-brands/ . Big player in the hosting game. They aren't real public about who they own, but from what I've seen they get a fair amount of complaints. Lookup asmallorange VPS outage december 2015 on google and you will find many complaints on the 5 day outage over Christmas. People who actually make their living over their websites or make their livelihood managing / re-selling websites for other people had a lot more to complain about then me. Even if they offered re-imbursement for the downtime, which they haven't, it wouldn't make up for lost revenue and reputation. The worst part is I prepaid for a year because it gets you 20% off the cost. Paid up till mid-May, so walking away from 4 months of paid hosting time. No choice though. Can't keep dealing with these glitches.

Arctic Ice takes a look at the Jets prospects that are currently in the NCAA. http://www.arcticicehockey.com/2016/1/8/10727542/jets-ncaa-prospect-update A couple of highlights, but I encourage you to give the whole article a read.

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