Are the Als still at McGill

They are indeed!

is their ownership situation stable

As far as I know, but it’s not exactly my neighborhood.

what kind of weird run did they go on to make the Grey Cup at barely over .500?

When their starting QB is healthy, they’re possibly the best team in the league. For a lot of the season…he was not healthy.

All that said, there’s no doubt a degree of disappointment in the Bombers failure to make it to a hometown Grey Cup, which was undoubtedly imagined locally as a coronation for one of the greatest eras of Bomber football there’s ever been.

“Coronation” is an overstatement, but there were certainly high expectations.

TSN reported Monday that the Argos have received permission to speak to O’Shea and those conversations have begun.

Mmhmm…

The commissioner’s annual state-of-the-league address is always a barometer of sorts about where the league sits and where it is going. Johnston’s first time at the podium this week will be closely studied for clues about what may be on the way.

I look forward to The Discourse.

Strictly speaking, there’s no formal rule - you won’t find a CBS/Paramount definition of “canon” anywhere that I’m aware of.

In practice, they stick with the tv shows and films.

But they’ve also worked very hard over the last few years to keep the tie-in novels and things like that “canon-ish,” in that they flesh out backstories from the shows, and the shows mostly don’t step on their efforts.

It sounds like the podcast is getting that treatment - as far as they’re concerned, this is what happened, and they have no plans to contradict it (and, considering the nature of the story, it’s not likely to come up one way or another).

The Als do seem like they might have momentum on their side (Alexander’s injury notwithstanding). The Riders…maybe it’s wishful thinking, but it seems like they might have peaked a little early?

After an all-too brief amount of time on the Lions bandwagon, I have no choice but to throw my full support behind the Als. The Riders winning a Grey Cup in Winnipeg is not a tolerable outcome.

Not a big shock - there have been allegations surrounding the guy for years.

Luv 2 barge into threads with barely-related rants…

They’re related to the Silurians, aka homo reptilia, so I would suggest that ship sailed quite some time ago.

He’s very obviously being cheeky…

It was certainly the case when I was in school, and that was decades ago.

I think that’s pretty universal, and it’s been the case for decades.

Yeah…I mean, this run had to end sometime, but it’s tough to see things fail to come together so utterly. We’ll have to see what the future holds.

AFAIK, GM Kyle Walters’ contract is also up this year, and I have no idea whether he wants to stick around.

He’s originally from Ontario, and was with the Argos for a total of ten years as a player, and three years as the special teams coach.

Between that and the somewhat doom-and-gloom sense that we might have reached the end of an era in Winnipeg…I don’t know, I think it makes a kind of sense.

It’s the perfect crime! The feds create a problem with a solution that’s under provincial jurisdiction…

I just mentioned the O’Shea possibility in another thread, and sure enough, he’s the poster boy for this article…

Thinking a little more about the Toronto situation…Mike O’Shea is not currently under contract in Winnipeg, and is a former Argo (as both a player and a coach).

As much as he seems to like it with the Bombers, I could easily see him returning to his old team.

Eh, I don’t think them trying to make some things “geared to the middle of the country” is necessarily a sign that they’re going full MAGA - the context there is that they’re likely to pursue Tom Cruise for more projects, and…that’s the sort of stuff that Tom Cruise makes.

I don’t think the Star Trek sky is falling, at least any more or less than it was before. But then, I’m not very invested in them making feature films anyway!

Huh - was his departure from Toronto expected?

Ottawa is my Eastern team, mainly because I dig their goofy aesthetic, so I definitely welcome any moves to make them more competitive.

Honestly, I’d take this with a small grain of salt.

I don’t doubt Variety’s reporting, but this amounts to a bullet point in a larger article, and while I’m sure they’ve “moved on” from whatever they had cooking, I think it’s also possible that they could develop another project with that crew, if they have a script that they like well enough.

We’ll see what happens - it’s been years of them being unable to get a project going, and I don’t expect that to change any time soon.

I don’t think it’s that straightforward. They just gave the South Park guys half a billion dollars, and re-upped Jon Stewart for another year.

The CBS News division is a tire fire right now, but I don’t think there have been signs of creative interference in the studios.

You know, yet.