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The sheer number of posters who are willing to believe that Ricky freaking Ray, if he decides to play another season (and after an East MOP with 5000+ and 19/20 starts, there's no reason why he can't/shouldn't) won't automatically be the starter in Toronto is mind-blowing. Likewise, the number of posters who think that he'd leave Toronto because he doesn't want to share the QB position only to go be a backup in Edmonton need to have a word with themselves.

He's been a declining asset since he left whereas he ought to have been ascendant. I stand by the point: he never had the same QB friendly setup afterward and he regressed.

When Collaros looked like the next real deal, he was competing with Trevor Harris and veteran Jarious Jackson, playing behind Ricky Ray, QB coached by Jason Maas, Coordinated by Marcus Brady and Head Coached by Scott Milanovich. He left that particular QB greenhouse and promptly lost his mojo. Remind me how many excellent QBs work on the Rider's staff again?

True Story: teams have been one play away from beating Ricky Ray over 40 times as they watched his 4th quarter comebacks send them home crying. So don't feel special or anything... he does it to everybody. Don't think so. Sitting under the Trestman/Ray learning tree and starting 1-9 games that Ray is unavailable for (as is his track record since getting here in 2012) and being ready to take over from a Hall of Famer at the end of his career rather than being stuck behind Reilly with no path to being a starter is a pretty good career upgrade. And of course it should go without saying that it's way better than ending up in Sask. And of course, believing that Franklin only signs with the Argos if Ray retires presupposes that Popp made the deal with absolutely no understanding with Franklin and his agent whatsoever. Do you really think that sounds like Jim Popp's modus operandi?

Actually, I think it gets used as a carrot/stick to ensure good trade and relations with Taiwan/South China Sea nations.

https://www.change.org/p/the-walt-disney-company-have-disney-strike-star-wars-episode-viii-from-the-official-canon

What a terrible freaking movie. It's as if the directors of the last two films hated each other and set out to make stories that didn't even link to each other. I'm damn near ready to beg Lucas to come back... it's that bad. And if they in fact had an editor, he/she/they ought to be shot. It was slowwww and borrrrring. If you had never heard of Star Wars and the in-story universe meant nothing to you, you'd hate the film because nothing happens. And I won't even open the can of worms that is my biggest beef with it.

I am familiar with the issue. Two of my close friends each own/operate microbrews. One of them is currently jumping through many local legalities and repressive red-tape to get opened up (was supposed to be by New Years, but looking now like it won't be until early Spring... we hope... small-town councils, even in towns made famous in Hip songs, do lovvve red tape). Anyway, back to my point... The only way to make a go of it in the months where foot traffic is nil and car traffic is greatly reduced is to have a total stud of a sales rep get your taps into all of the establishments within a one day delivery run in each direction. And you make beer 3 days a week, deliver it 3 days a week and if you're very luck and have no fires to put out, you drink beer 1 day a week.

Drawwwerrrrrr contraaaaaaaaact...

The league just won some excellent sponsorships though.

Well... if you didn't hate us before...

Best laugh in weeks!

You can't think that Popp would've made the deal without an understanding in place?

A year of scholarship for the lad behind Ricky would seem to be in order. Recall that Ray, widely acknowledged as one of the smartest QBs we've seen, played an entire half season and sat out 3 weeks with an injury and watched our Milo/Trestman offence in 2012 before he "got it".

If so, then we've ruined it twice now. You're welcome.

my sides...

yeahhhh... you too.

Was nice meeting you there homie.

How'd that work out?

Non issue. Strictly a media thing. Reigning East MOP. 5000+ yards. Played 19/20 games. Won a Grey Cup. Has a young family and a chance to play for a coach he loves with a team he loves for half a million dollars. Do the maths. At the GC rally, the crowd kept chanting "One More Year!" at him whenever he touched the Cup. When he got to the mic, what did he say? "One more? Why not two?"

I ******* love my team. In the same hotel as them. Partied all night. Tip: never get to the buffet after the o line has been there first. The Argo Bounce. It's real. Heading home. No voice left. 8/10 hangover. Still not warmed up. Feeling fine.

2011 was Vancouver... '12 was Toronto for the 100th... you'd think I'd remember that.

True. Considering that you'd think they'd like a hall full of CFL supporters, that makes the pricing a bit odd. I was lucky that year as I didn't have to pay as a presenter.

Example: We can agree that Trestman is a pretty good coach, right? Our biggest turning point was switching Whittaker (a player Trestman loves, has a past with, and still isn't all used up) for Wilder Jr. Once that happened (and our defence got healthy), we were a different team. It took until Sept 16 for Trestman to make the switch.

Yup. It's a great event and a heckuva after party. Good memories of Vancouver in '12 when I presented the Most Outstanding Canadian trophy to Jerome Messam. Ironic that I'll be rooting against him from the nation's other capitol this weekend.