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Post by Deleted on Jul 18, 2020 0:02:11 GMT -6
likewise, man! doing fair 'round these parts here. looking forward to the day when we are back to normal. I figure somewhere around 300 or so more days to go before a return to semi-normal. probably tack on another 365 or so before things are mostly-normal. any estimates on when full on normal is to return are TBD..... in the meantime, estimates on how many rounds they get in before having to shut this farce down? I'm gonna say mid second round, so about halfway. I don’t want to get political on here. But I really feel for you fine folk over there. When leaders would rather mouth off than give direction, it’s not going to go well. Imagine FDR or The Truman or Kennedy etc during times of war or the threat of war blaming their political rivals and not uniting the front for the betterment of democracy? And I’m not just talking about the orange fella. All levels of government have seemed to fail. I’m not a big fan of Canadian politics. But we’ve seemed to put our differences aside and kick some ass here. Plus I’m positive we seen the worst of this thing last November, December and January. However, our leaders, especially Doug Ford has really put aside his agenda and let the health professionals do their thing. He really just stepped aside for the betterment of our province. And I believe he was/is a guy who likes Trump. Anyways, I’m sorry if any of that struck a nerve with anyone. I for one still see America as world leaders, but America’s leaders didn’t lead and now they’re not world leaders when the world needs them the most. I’m pulling for the American folks, I still feel you’ll pull through, cuz you always have!!! yeah don't want this to get too political but it's very sad here right now that such a bad situation can't even get people to put their differences aside and rise above it at least to get past this and move on sadly, we are very selfish here in the states and when you combine that with a combo of ignorance and arrogance it's lethal too many here don't care for science at all and have zero respect or trust in "experts" in any field really but right now that is scientists/doctors/epidemiologists we live in the information age, but thanks to the internet anyone can quickly look up anything and believe they know as much as people who dedicate their entire lives to the subject at hand... that's not limited to science or the pandemic it extends to all walks of life, sports included |
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Post by galaxytrash on Jul 18, 2020 1:11:37 GMT -6
i just googled it. i call bullshit. welcome back. : ) |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 18, 2020 1:44:04 GMT -6
i just googled it. i call bullshit. welcome back. : ) thanks man, good to see ya (well in so far as one can see another on a message board) |
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Post by galaxytrash on Jul 18, 2020 1:51:18 GMT -6
i just googled it. i call bullshit. welcome back. : ) thanks man, good to see ya (well in so far as one can see another on a message board) your name used to be in all caps. is this the less aggressive merper? : D |
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Post by hsbob on Jul 18, 2020 8:41:04 GMT -6
Headin' up to northern MN Aug 8th with eight other hopefully Covid free old guys......nobody lives forever I guess and few would want to. very nice! you gents going after the big girls or you looking to actually catch something to eat? Mostly fillin' the cooler but I always throw a few big baits around.......more for the hell of it these days. |
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Post by hsbob on Jul 18, 2020 8:51:12 GMT -6
Hey Merp Where's that 'fire everybody' thread now that we need it my man.......last place and a soft as hell team has brought me around. I hope the brighter days arrive soon @63 and best of health to you as well. Hey Bob, only took 7 years or so but glad to have you on board. Oddly enough, while I am unhappy with their current situation, I'm not as mad about it as I thought I'd be. It's the funny thing about expectations. When they were sky high and we expected them to win every night, I'd get bent out of shape and really mad/down when they didn't (especially against a rival). Now that there's no expectations and I assume they're going to lose every night I kinda just shrug it off. Of course, I'd rather it be the other way around but... If the team cleaned house and were actually rebuilding,I could live with last place but continuing on without a rebuild and WITH the guy who put us in last place is unacceptable when so many other better,cup winning GM's got the boot. I shrug off the losses myself merp but that's called apathy and if it continues much longer for me I'll lose interest. Watching the great players who brought multiple cups here and me so much joy is about all that's left now. |
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Post by hsbob on Jul 18, 2020 9:30:00 GMT -6
I don’t want to get political on here. But I really feel for you fine folk over there. When leaders would rather mouth off than give direction, it’s not going to go well. Imagine FDR or The Truman or Kennedy etc during times of war or the threat of war blaming their political rivals and not uniting the front for the betterment of democracy? And I’m not just talking about the orange fella. All levels of government have seemed to fail. I’m not a big fan of Canadian politics. But we’ve seemed to put our differences aside and kick some ass here. Plus I’m positive we seen the worst of this thing last November, December and January. However, our leaders, especially Doug Ford has really put aside his agenda and let the health professionals do their thing. He really just stepped aside for the betterment of our province. And I believe he was/is a guy who likes Trump. Anyways, I’m sorry if any of that struck a nerve with anyone. I for one still see America as world leaders, but America’s leaders didn’t lead and now they’re not world leaders when the world needs them the most. I’m pulling for the American folks, I still feel you’ll pull through, cuz you always have!!! yeah don't want this to get too political but it's very sad here right now that such a bad situation can't even get people to put their differences aside and rise above it at least to get past this and move on sadly, we are very selfish here in the states and when you combine that with a combo of ignorance and arrogance it's lethal too many here don't care for science at all and have zero respect or trust in "experts" in any field really but right now that is scientists/doctors/epidemiologists we live in the information age, but thanks to the internet anyone can quickly look up anything and believe they know as much as people who dedicate their entire lives to the subject at hand... that's not limited to science or the pandemic it extends to all walks of life, sports included Your last sentence is interesting and more indicative of the human race itself than any one country. The inter-net could have and should have been a tool for immediate information,enlightenment and transformational in good ways but in large part,it's become a den of hackers,scammers,trolls,bullies and conspiracy theorists. This is in keeping with the specie's long,violent and power hungry past. When we invented fire,we used it to burn each other to death. When we invented the wheel,we used it to build chariots and other weapons of war. The Bronze age and Iron age came about in the quest for better weapons. The Chinese originally invented gun powder for fireworks but it didn't take long to see it's true killing potential. Early mechanical breakthroughs were used in improving a firearm's action ala Mr Gatling or Mr Remmington. The industrial revolution brought us tanks and heavy artilary......how quaint and the biggest scientific breakthrough of our time was splitting the atom and the development of of the 'A' bomb so humans could be killed on a more biblical scale. Hell........even the horse was domesticated to pull a chariot of to have a mounted attack. I don't know how long the age of the human/mammal will last but when the earth finally shakes us off like a bunch of fleas on a dog,it'll be the equivalent of a blink of an eye in it's seven billion year history and rightly so. My species has done nothing but rape,pillage and plunder the most beautiful heavenly body known to man in a greedy quest for wealth and power. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 18, 2020 12:25:15 GMT -6
thanks man, good to see ya (well in so far as one can see another on a message board) your name used to be in all caps. is this the less aggressive merper? : D lol yes I have much less piss & vinegar these days |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 18, 2020 12:28:36 GMT -6
yeah don't want this to get too political but it's very sad here right now that such a bad situation can't even get people to put their differences aside and rise above it at least to get past this and move on sadly, we are very selfish here in the states and when you combine that with a combo of ignorance and arrogance it's lethal too many here don't care for science at all and have zero respect or trust in "experts" in any field really but right now that is scientists/doctors/epidemiologists we live in the information age, but thanks to the internet anyone can quickly look up anything and believe they know as much as people who dedicate their entire lives to the subject at hand... that's not limited to science or the pandemic it extends to all walks of life, sports included Your last sentence is interesting and more indicative of the human race itself than any one country. The inter-net could have and should have been a tool for immediate information,enlightenment and transformational in good ways but in large part,it's become a den of hackers,scammers,trolls,bullies and conspiracy theorists. This is in keeping with the specie's long,violent and power hungry past. When we invented fire,we used it to burn each other to death. When we invented the wheel,we used it to build chariots and other weapons of war. The Bronze age and Iron age came about in the quest for better weapons. The Chinese originally invented gun powder for fireworks but it didn't take long to see it's true killing potential. Early mechanical breakthroughs were used in improving a firearm's action ala Mr Gatling or Mr Remmington. The industrial revolution brought us tanks and heavy artilary......how quaint and the biggest scientific breakthrough of our time was splitting the atom and the development of of the 'A' bomb so humans could be killed on a more biblical scale. Hell........even the horse was domesticated to pull a chariot of to have a mounted attack. I don't know how long the age of the human/mammal will last but when the earth finally shakes us off like a bunch of fleas on a dog,it'll be the equivalent of a blink of an eye in it's seven billion year history and rightly so. My species has done nothing but rape,pillage and plunder the most beautiful heavenly body known to man in a greedy quest for wealth and power. lol good points, can't really argue with any of that and it dawned on me that last sentence when I say sports included I've been guilty of it myself on the old forums playing armchair GM I/many of us here all know the sport well but thanks to the internet we can easily look up stats/contracts/draft history/etc. which wasn't possible before the internet it allows us to believe we can be as good as a general manager (in this case Bowman) but in reality we don't have a scouting department and most of us haven't seen all the prospects in action so we're denying the "expert" views of the GM and going our own way |
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Post by Tater on Jul 18, 2020 15:30:18 GMT -6
Welcome back Merps.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 18, 2020 16:29:19 GMT -6
thanks man, appreciate it i'll try to be on my best behavior lol |
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Post by galaxytrash on Jul 18, 2020 17:11:40 GMT -6
haha.
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Post by galaxytrash on Jul 18, 2020 21:19:05 GMT -6
i really just hope that the majority of players (crow included) deemed "unfit for whatever" are just ones who may have been exposed to a positive covid case and are just being quarantined X amount of days until it's sure they're negative.
i really hate this uncertainty.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 18, 2020 21:48:14 GMT -6
^yeah it really is absurd they are doing this
4 months ago the NBA and NHL stopped on a dime when a few players on 1 team had it and now when many are either testing positive or have to isolate cause of potential exposure we're going back to sports again... and the country is in worse shape now than it was back then
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Post by vadarx on Jul 18, 2020 22:28:11 GMT -6
^yeah it really is absurd they are doing this 4 months ago the NBA and NHL stopped on a dime when a few players on 1 team had it and now when many are either testing positive or have to isolate cause of potential exposure we're going back to sports again... and the country is in worse shape now than it was back then yepppppp...... makes no sense at all, until ya think about all that money they are losing..... then it makes lots of sense. shit is ridiculous. |
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Post by Tater on Jul 18, 2020 22:45:06 GMT -6
thanks man, appreciate it i'll try to be on my best behavior lol
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Post by Deleted on Jul 19, 2020 0:21:45 GMT -6
^yeah it really is absurd they are doing this 4 months ago the NBA and NHL stopped on a dime when a few players on 1 team had it and now when many are either testing positive or have to isolate cause of potential exposure we're going back to sports again... and the country is in worse shape now than it was back then yepppppp...... makes no sense at all, until ya think about all that money they are losing..... then it makes lots of sense. shit is ridiculous. everything we are doing in this country, from sports returning to opening bars/restaurants to trying to force schools to open soon is about money... we currently value it more than life itself, seemingly failing to realize that all the money in the world doesn't matter if you aren't around to spend it |
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Post by vadarx on Jul 19, 2020 0:47:13 GMT -6
yepppppp...... makes no sense at all, until ya think about all that money they are losing..... then it makes lots of sense. shit is ridiculous. everything we are doing in this country, from sports returning to opening bars/restaurants to trying to force schools to open soon is about money... we currently value it more than life itself, seemingly failing to realize that all the money in the world doesn't matter if you aren't around to spend it agree! |
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Post by galaxytrash on Jul 19, 2020 0:51:48 GMT -6
yepppppp...... makes no sense at all, until ya think about all that money they are losing..... then it makes lots of sense. shit is ridiculous. everything we are doing in this country, from sports returning to opening bars/restaurants to trying to force schools to open soon is about money... we currently value it more than life itself, seemingly failing to realize that all the money in the world doesn't matter if you aren't around to spend it i'll get too fckn' angry if i reply so i'll just thumbs up ya' and sit on my hands. if i start i might not get stopped. hate to have to ban myself. |
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Post by vadarx on Jul 19, 2020 1:09:43 GMT -6
everything we are doing in this country, from sports returning to opening bars/restaurants to trying to force schools to open soon is about money... we currently value it more than life itself, seemingly failing to realize that all the money in the world doesn't matter if you aren't around to spend it i'll get too fckn' angry if i reply so i'll just thumbs up ya' and sit on my hands. if i start i might not get stopped. hate to have to ban myself. make me admin. I'll do it for ya. 😎 |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 19, 2020 1:17:37 GMT -6
everything we are doing in this country, from sports returning to opening bars/restaurants to trying to force schools to open soon is about money... we currently value it more than life itself, seemingly failing to realize that all the money in the world doesn't matter if you aren't around to spend it i'll get too fckn' angry if i reply so i'll just thumbs up ya' and sit on my hands. if i start i might not get stopped. hate to have to ban myself. Just out of curiosity, and you can PM me if you wish, is the anger because of a disagreement in something I said or out of agreement and an even greater rant on the topic? |
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Post by galaxytrash on Jul 19, 2020 1:32:14 GMT -6
i'll get too fckn' angry if i reply so i'll just thumbs up ya' and sit on my hands. if i start i might not get stopped. hate to have to ban myself. make me admin. I'll do it for ya. 😎 you are a true friend. |
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Post by vadarx on Jul 19, 2020 2:09:22 GMT -6
make me admin. I'll do it for ya. 😎 you are a true friend. I am here to help! |
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Post by number9 on Jul 19, 2020 13:24:10 GMT -6
What I don't get is that Toronto is one of the hub cities for the NHL and yet the Blue Jays have been refused the right to play their home games in Toronto by the Federal government of Canada.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 19, 2020 13:31:26 GMT -6
What I don't get is that Toronto is one of the hub cities for the NHL and yet the Blue Jays have been refused the right to play their home games in Toronto by the Federal government of Canada. Thought about this yesterday. Makes no sense. Granted not much does these days |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 19, 2020 15:53:48 GMT -6
What I don't get is that Toronto is one of the hub cities for the NHL and yet the Blue Jays have been refused the right to play their home games in Toronto by the Federal government of Canada. As the hub cities are both in Canada, players won't be traveling to and from the US to play, while in baseball it's not the Blue Jays they are concerned about, it's the remainder of the teams traveling to and from the US, where Coronavirus is out of control they are worried about.
It's kind of like the NBA playing in a bubble in Orlando. Nobody in or out of the area except players and essential personnel, limiting the chances of an outbreak.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 19, 2020 17:02:34 GMT -6
What I don't get is that Toronto is one of the hub cities for the NHL and yet the Blue Jays have been refused the right to play their home games in Toronto by the Federal government of Canada. As the hub cities are both in Canada, players won't be traveling to and from the US to play, while in baseball it's not the Blue Jays they are concerned about, it's the remainder of the teams traveling to and from the US, where Coronavirus is out of control they are worried about.
It's kind of like the NBA playing in a bubble in Orlando. Nobody in or out of the area except players and essential personnel, limiting the chances of an outbreak.
Yes, this is it as I have put together from various things today. Granted, it would be the Blue Jays they'd eventually become concerned about after they leave Toronto to play in US cities/parks and then return to play at home. |
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Post by number9 on Jul 20, 2020 12:02:22 GMT -6
What I don't get is that Toronto is one of the hub cities for the NHL and yet the Blue Jays have been refused the right to play their home games in Toronto by the Federal government of Canada. As the hub cities are both in Canada, players won't be traveling to and from the US to play, while in baseball it's not the Blue Jays they are concerned about, it's the remainder of the teams traveling to and from the US, where Coronavirus is out of control they are worried about.
It's kind of like the NBA playing in a bubble in Orlando. Nobody in or out of the area except players and essential personnel, limiting the chances of an outbreak.
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Post by galaxytrash on Jul 20, 2020 20:40:39 GMT -6
good news i think but you have to remember it was just a 5 day window. that's an impressive number of tests and it's good to see. long ways to go yet, though. Only two players tested positive within the window (July 13-17) after 2,618 tests were administered to more than 800 players. According to the league, both players that tested positive "have self-isolated and are following CDC and Health Canada protocols."www.nbcsports.com/chicago/blackhawks/nhl-releases-covid-19-testing-results-first-5-days-training-camp |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 20, 2020 23:38:48 GMT -6
good news i think but you have to remember it was just a 5 day window. that's an impressive number of tests and it's good to see. long ways to go yet, though. Only two players tested positive within the window (July 13-17) after 2,618 tests were administered to more than 800 players. According to the league, both players that tested positive "have self-isolated and are following CDC and Health Canada protocols."www.nbcsports.com/chicago/blackhawks/nhl-releases-covid-19-testing-results-first-5-days-training-campYes. Also good news from the NBA where ZERO tested positive out of 346 tested since July 13. It appears, and I don't want to get too optimistic here, but it appears players are taking mask-wearing very seriously. If a virus can't find a host it dies, it's as simple as that. Hoping that once all the players who had it as they got into the bubbles will recover quickly and then they all take it seriously and there winds up being very few positive cases here on out. One of our college football insiders at work said he's spoken to most major college athletic directors and they have said zero positive tests since the initial round when the student-athletes first returned to campus. On a side note, I am cautiously optimistic that maybe this thing doesn't spread quite as easily as we'd believe or you'd think when 10 or more players on one team have it they would pass it on to many of their teammates before the test returned with results. |
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