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not that we should really be concerned with anyone on the TiCats, healthy or not........but here's their report for today (apologies for the formatting): HAMILTON TIGER-CATS PRACTICE DAY Player Name Position Injury MON TUE WED THU Game Status Anthony Johnson WR Wrist DNP DNP DNP Chris Van Zeyl OL Hip Full Limited DNP Ronheen Bingham DL Hamstring Full Full Full Julian Howsare DL Achilles Limited Limited DNP Cariel Brooks DB Back DNP DNP Full Dane Evans QB Right Shoulder Full Full Full Malik Carney DL Shoulder – Limited DNP Tyler Ternowski WR Shoulder Limited Full Full Alden Darby Jr. DB Hamstring Full Full Full

Big Wreck is great...I just think they're a really poor choice to prove that bands exist outside of radio, because they were a MASSIVE radio band. Huge hits in the 90s. Thornley is genius..... (his recent solo stuff was excellent as well). "Classic Rock" (sigh...) radio is still playing a lot of their stuff up here because it's good and it's CanCon.

Big Wreck had a ton of radio play. Technically not a Canadian band...they're really an American band, but the lead singer and songwriter is Canadian which qualified them as CanCon, so they got a LOT of radio airplay because of that.

Well I mean, back then there weren't nearly as many radio stations, but YES, radio was absolutely where people heard new music 40 or 50 years ago.

PLEASE!!???

this is more than fair and accurate.... there's also a whole thing about how few record labels there are now and how much power and influence they have over pop culture. Major labels like Universal dictate so much....

Twitter all "Ooooo....ahhhhhh" about this Cornelius extension as if guaranteed contracts exist. It literally means nothing, and if someone better comes along, they'll toss Corny aside for the next thing.

More like showbiz extravaganza trying to be like royalty.... #TheRoyalsDidItFirst

So, you're not wrong...but it's a really long, convoluted answer that has to do with (shock!) money. I don't feel like typing up the thesis paper today, but it's all about advertiser dollars and making sure every song sounds exactly like every other song being played. Can't take a chance of something sounding different might have a person change the station to something else. Not worth the risk. Too much $$ at stake.

I'm pretty sure there's a gentlemen's agreement (huzzah!) among the league GMs to not do that sort of thing. Nobody wants it done to them, so they don't do it to others. I don't think we'd be the ones to open the door to that sort of thing.

I was very intentional about not saying which group I fall into

this thread has really exposed the people who don't watch football very closely, or don't understand football very well.....

Sorry can't post the image from my phone but here's the tweet...

hey now, Matt Cauz says the TiCats are winning this weekend....

officially an achilles for Taylor.....so brutal. At his age, not sure you come back from it.

Emmy's were fun last night. They needed to get rid of the DJ and the "Announcer", but for the most part if was really fun. I LOL-ed a few times.... Arnett dragging Kimmel's "passed out" body on to the stage was a pretty solid bit. Great to see Lasso continue their winning ways (a bit surprising...thought Barry was going to have a night) and a bit surprised that Saul didn't do more, but I think next year will be their big year, getting rewarded for this most recent season. I've never seen Squid Game, Hacks or White Lotus, so those wins were all lost on me. Again, for the most part, the Emmy's were fun and got things mostly right in terms of wins. Kenan is a great host.

Right in front of our seats, I saw Nick walking him off the field and you could tell how upset they both were....

I mean.......c'mon........

Back to PCs and Reformers..... let those knuckle draggers have their own cave to hide in.

Listen.... if you want to come around here once every few months and start throwing around opinions like you actually know what you're talking about, that's your business. But when people who actually know what they're talking about explain to you exactly why you're wrong, don't go crying about it. Your opinion is wrong, and you should feel bad.

the Oilers usually put some of these games on their YouTube channel. None of it will be on TSN, but there's a good chance at least some of it will be online...