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Another “final” tour. This makes the 10th rendition of “final” for them. Just wait a couple of years, they’ll be back again.

Shootout!

Free hockey!

Someone might want to cover Kopitar.

Stenlund with the shorty. Does he feel lucky? And break out the Andrea! With a laser like that, how does Stenlund only have 5 goals this year?

Nino not afraid to play a heavy game. Josh with 4 points already. Connor and Stenlund hit the twine and Andrea is on standby before the 3rd period after 2 goals in the last 3 games.

Still Chychrun.

Tait does write the standard pro-Bomber patter for the website, but still does so without the fanboy gushing. It’s par for the course for club-hired guns across sports. Plus, the club’s recent success makes it easier for him to appear even-handed in his praise. But I still like that when on CJOB he can be objective and call a spade a spade, especially on game day if the performance is lacking.

@Bubba ZanettiThanks for the personal notification, and I’m flattered by your interest in me to let me know about your present state of arousal, but I prefer women. (Not that there’s a nothing wrong with that).

Hey, if you and your MBB Alberta crew want to sit around and circle jerk your manscaped stiffies all day, fill your boots. Just don’t post cartoons about it here. OK, Millennial? 😁

Why is it that the most ridiculous Simpsons jokes become the ones that actually come true?

The first of 3 MBB questions noted, although thankfully the “erection” reference replaced by “excitement” (on that note, way too much “hard on” meme-ing going on when discussing player signings. We’re all happy with the off-season, but there are other ways to express it than like being a bunch of 14 year olds in math class getting random woodies and announcing it to the teacher. That’s just weird). Anyway, Zach was looking forward to playing with this group but noted that you forgot to mention Agudosi, Grant, and O’Leary-Orange as well. Kenny Lawler agreed that this was going to be a “light ‘em up” year, called for Zach to throw 50 TDs. Also admitted the Elks signing last year was all about the money, but no regrets and was happy to re-set the bar for receiver salaries league-wide. Basically said no, he doesn’t budget per group, because it is unclear how the market will price itself each year. Only focussing on this year right now because they are in the Grey Cup window, so not thinking about how expensive a Schoen re-signing will be in the future. Admits in past years when the club was re-building he would take a longer term approach. Also says (when asked by DT if receiver is now the 2nd most important position in the CFL) besides the QB, the left tackle and rush ends are the key pieces since it is a throwing league and you need to protect your QB and get after the opposing QB, but acknowledges the importance of receivers and sees why prices are going up for them. Also said when making money decisions on who to re-sign or not, looks at the depth on hand that can step up and replace the more expensive existing veteran players (cited Tui and Kolankowski as examples as to why Couture was not re-signed). Says the cap was spent on keeping the core, when in other years with less depth or talent they would spend more in free agency to bring in new guys. There were other things I might have missed, skimmed through it on the CJOB audio vault.

A bit premature for the R.I.P. thread, but was unaware of his hospitalization. https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/27/entertainment/tom-sizemore-end-of-life-decision/index.html

True that.

Dubois has been playing like he’s injured for the last month and a half.

Jones made some early missteps when she could have put real pressure on Einarson. Missed a tap back for 4 which could also have been played as a take out for 3 in the 3rd end, only scored 1. Drew heavy allowing Einarson an easy draw with backing for her 1 in the 4th when a better draw might have led to a steal of up to 3. Then drew light for a steal of 2 in the 5th and Einarson never gave up control after that. The 5-ender in the 9th was really Jones going for broke to set up a steal knowing she had to gamble. Einarson just kept picking rocks out and rather than just conceding 1 or 2 Jones ignored the rocks in the house trying to generate the steal, hence the big score. The better team won yesterday, now she needs to up her game for the Worlds.

So either Einerson wins her 4th consecutive championship, tying Colleen Jones’s all-time record, or Jen Jones wins her 7th overall title, breaking Colleen Jones’s all-time record.

Done!

You don’t know? Thought you had all the inside dirt on his signing.

Pierre-Luc Dubois stats at 44 games: 20G-29A-49P and +9, on pace for 37-54-91 and +17 over a full season. Then the Jets went on a road trip to Montreal where we did a big presser about a minor hockey foundation he was funding in Quebec. Since then in 16 games (counting today’s) 4G-2A-6P and -8. Just sayin’.

You think he has better things to do with his life?

Jonathan Toews suffering from long COVID symptoms, stepping away from the team for a bit, and will not be traded by the deadline as a result. According to ESPN.

It was in the obscurity of back pages until you bumped it to the top just now. Thanks for the PTSD!!!!!!!!!

What would really make me happiest, beyond Fox News going into bankruptcy, would be a judicial order forcing them to make an on-air public retraction of their false claims from each and every host who ever peddled the lie at the main network. Murdoch, Dobbs, Hannity, Carlson, Ingraham, Pirro, every single one of them in full, forced to tell their viewers that they knowingly lied to them.

And why if he was always so determined to be nowhere but Winnipeg did it take two weeks into free agency for him to stay here? And what other offers did he turn down, and for how much? Curious to hear some numbers.