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For people dumping on the CFL for not going with the local Eric LaPointe group instead of Stern and Spiegel in 2020, here’s some info from another source with impeccable credibility. Food for thought.

Interesting take. I have been wondering how much of an “unfinished business” approach the team has been taking here. But then, they were 15-3 so would you really want to tear down a team like that anyway? And in 2002 when we launched the original “unfinished business” we were probably just Stegall and Roberts injuries away from getting back to the Grey Cup. I won’t say there are no concerns here. Collaros has played his least impressive football in the playoffs the last 3 seasons, I wonder openly how much Bighill has left in the tank, and Jeffcoat is now looking like he could be an injury liability. Even Jefferson’s “game wrecking” seemed less frequent last year and Hardrick and Bryant may see Father Time and injuries catching up with them. But here’s the question: with talent that got you to a 3rd straight Grey Cup and best record in club history (albeit with some visible flaws) do you quit on that level of talent maybe a year or two early, or risk being a year too late?

Likewise, players who sign fat contracts and then underperform always agree to re-negotiate down in the same interest of fairness as they expect the teams to do after a breakout year on a value deal.

Wheeler with 40 points in 44 games now. For a guy people want to bump down to the 3rd or 4th line, he is still playing up to the value of his contract, IMO.

Jets kind of sleeping this period.

To be fair, this would be my audition tape

Colin’s “audition highlight tape” to the Bomber club:

Basically Paul Friesen’s comments in this article (link is below) that the Elks still have a two-day window to match or exceed the Bomber offer, and that Lawler was seeking $1 million over 3 years. Clearly all speculation, but acknowledges that even an agreement in principle can be overturned and is not worth anything concrete. This was just my response to JCon wishing things were kept secret. It would seem to benefit the player to make an offer public to force the hand of his existing team, like an offer sheet in the NHL. I agree that the “tampering window” is really just optics to make transparent what has been going on for a long time - the practice of teams negotiating deals on the side before they are allowed to formally speak to a player under contract by another team. I am confident Lawler is coming here, but the whole “tampering window “ does seem like a silly exercise, and all it takes is one back track of a player your team “signed in principle” and the howling will commence. https://www.thepost.on.ca/sports/football/cfl/winnipeg-bluebombers/one-step-closer-to-winnipeg-blue-bombers-kenny-lawler-posts-goodbye-message-to-edmonton/wcm/18cb4143-a961-48be-959c-2d713ed9a8f8/amp/

Then what’s the point of the whole window? If the agreement in principle is binding, then why delay? If the contract cannot be signed until the 14th, then maybe everything done on the “tampering window” is worth nothing, as you say, and players just leverage these announcements to see if they can squeeze more out of their current club one last time. Seems goofy.

But that’s really the point of it. Players get to sign in principle and drive up their asking price for their contracted team, so they totally want things made public. Kenny Lawler is trying to parlay his “in principle” contract with Winnipeg into a $333,000 counter-offer from Edmonton, according to reports I’ve read. Players who flip-flop are going to draw the ire of fans who thought a deal was done.

So @bluto will you reveal who your project is about now that we’ve thrown out some candidates?

One man’s take: If you are going by name recognition and worldwide acclaim as your definition of “greatest”, then the bear Winnie the Pooh is the strongest candidate for his global name brand. I’d say this is the 2nd greatest Winnipegger. Among humans, wrestlers Kenny Omega, Roddy Piper and Chris Jericho, singers Burton Cummings, Neil Young, and Justin Bieber (technicality since he often visited his father who lived here, was a second home to him) are the most recognizable worldwide. Arts and entertainment TV and movies Anna Paquin, David Steinberg and Monty Hall. Sports Terry Sawchuk, Jennifer Jones. CFL specifically Chris Walby edges out Andrew Harris with Cal Murphy taking the bronze. Beyond cultural impact, those whose achievements have had the “greatest” impact are Duff Roblin, who’s floodwaters diversion has saved an entire city definitely twice and likely close to a half dozen times, and saved us billions of dollars, and in science Louis Slotin (worked on the Manhattan Project and was a forefather of the Nuclear Age in designing the first cyclotron and exploring fission reactions), and Frances McGill, who pioneered Forensic medicine and developed the first ever crime lab for the RCMP.

Sept. 29

Have a hunch it will be an abbreviated tour. I’d lay odds that the number of “total number of times helmet comes off during the play” will be higher than “total games played” by season’s end.

And the Visual Effects Oscar goes to…….

Really sorry to hear of your losses. Deepest condolences. If you need anything, do not hesitate to reach out.

IMO Toy Story 4 tarnished the reputation of the series. The third instalment was a perfect way to end things. Now to go to 5 when 4 was a let down will almost certainly hurt it more rather than redeem the overall arc if movie history means anything (you can guess I have little hope for Indiana Jones 5 as well).

Curious loophole that they don’t get paid because they aren’t “writers” as everything is improv. But the show is now being sold overseas and to cable. Wonder if they could claim copyright infringement for the unauthorized usage of their “intellectual property” without fair compensation as a way around it.

Wish we had an “angry” emoji. The leaps of logic the Government will go to justify avoiding any type of gun legislation is staggering.

Anyone who only knows him from Austin Powers is missing a lot. He was a giant in the songwriting business for 3 decades. Many songs you know as someone else’s were actually written by him. Here is a good obit that breaks down just how much he added to the music industry in his time. https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/09/entertainment/burt-bacharach-death/index.html

The context of this is brilliant. Biden accused some Republicans of wanting to scrap social security and Medicare, which elicited boos and the calls of “liar” from the gallery by the GOP, notably MTG. So he says “ I’m glad to see [that’s not the case] then. I enjoy conversion (nice dig at the transgender-phobes there). So now that we all apparently agree that social security and Medicare are off the books….” And the GOP got played with a Jedi mind trick from “the senile senior President” and McCarthy was compelled to lead a standing ovation in response to Joe’s words.

Are you saying we have…….unfinished business?

With the number of satellites in the sky, computer hacking, and wiretap capability, does this balloon really pose a novel security threat?

Hard to process that Ralphie’s mom from “A Christmas Story” was the same actress who was in “Slap Shot”. Died Jan. 9 but not reported until now. https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/04/entertainment/actress-melinda-dillon-obit-christmas-story-trnd/index.html