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UGGH!!!!
The game is 60 minutes not 40!!!!!
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I run 1000 and 2500 series spinning reels and 5500 or 6500 series ABU baitcasters with 15#-30# braid plus a flouro leader.
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Bigugli, your posts of food knowledge alone make me wish to head your way for supper! Im assuming you eat very well, please done tell me otherwise
Actually his favorite food is Fritos and spray cheese!!!!
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I figure it's about 500#'s lighter than my big sled.
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This has to be their worst performance so far this season.
Standing around puck watching, give aways, lack of emotion and no hitting.
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When rock star Jon Bon Jovi was made the first member of the ACC’s Wall of Fame a month ago, the city cocked its head and said, “They made who what now?”
Bon Jovi acted as if we were all old friends.
“Since 1984, Canada and especially Toronto have been there for the band and myself,” the New Jersey-based rock star said. “We have had so many memories together and look forward to many more.”
At the time, that sounded polite (and a bit weird). Now it’s starting to sound like a promise.
Bon Jovi emerged Sunday as the leading contender to buy the NFL’s Buffalo Bills.
But rich as he is, Bon Jovi’s not going to be able to do so alone. He needs friends. He suddenly has a lot of them in Canada.
All of those friends want to help Jon Bon Jovi bring the NFL to Toronto.
The Bills will not be sold until their current owner, 95-year-old Ralph Wilson, dies. The purchase price could reach as high as $1 billion (U.S.). Whoever buys the team will need to build a new NFL-specific stadium, likely doubling the sunk cost.
This is where Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment and CEO Tim Leiweke come in.
“Jon and I are very good friends,” Leiweke said Sunday. “We talk weekly about his NFL ambitions. And so we’re actively engaged, but I think it’s still a work in progress.”
What’s MLSE’s role in all this?
“We can’t own a team (per NFL rules), but we do have more expertise on how to build (stadiums) than anyone,” Leiweke said. “MLSE can play a role. We’re not the lead here. Our job is to augment whatever group may come together.”
As is his wont, especially when navigating such fraught territory, Leiweke was speaking very carefully. He must serve many masters here (and is, in a very real sense, a master himself).
But the upshot of his comments — We’re not picking sides, because we don’t have to. We’re pals with all of them.
As first reported by CBS Sports’ Jason La Canfora, Bon Jovi has created a small team designed to win him the Bills. A key member of that team is Leiweke’s daughter, Francesca. Bon Jovi was a guest at her August wedding to Maple Leaf Troy Bodie.
These are the two key points of local contact. Tim Leiweke — who’s gone through much of this process during his attempt to bring an NFL team back to L.A. when he ran AEG — plays the role of rabbi. Francesca Leiweke is the go-between for all the main players.
Rogers may still have some say in this, though they cannot be lead buyers. The NFL stipulates that a private individual must head every ownership group, holding at least a 30 per cent stake in the team.
Logically, who has that sort of ready cash in Toronto, as well as a deep history in the local sports landscape? MLSE chairman Larry Tanenbaum leaps to mind. Depending on your valuation, Tanenbaum’s 25 per cent ownership of MLSE is worth north of $500 million. Good news — Bon Jovi and Tanenbaum are old friends.
The speculation runs like this. Bon Jovi works his relationships within the NFL — among his other go-to golf buddies are Patriots owner Robert Kraft and Cowboys owner Jerry Jones — to get the inside track on the Bills. He elicits sympathy (and perhaps even a small discount) by promising to keep the team within its traditional boundary — upstate New York and southwestern Ontario.
Once Ralph Wilson dies, what other NFL owners will fear most is some rogue billionaire making an agreement with the Wilson family, then trying to leverage the value of an NFL franchise for stadium concessions in a current owner’s backyard.
While the league may badly want to expand overseas, no one wants the current balance upset in the United States. Thus, no one wants the Bills to move (far). Bon Jovi can promise that.
He’ll need help with the asking price — Tanenbaum can help with that. He’ll need help building and financing a state-of-the-art stadium — Leiweke and MLSE can help with that.
Tanenbaum, Leiweke and MLSE need someone with the red-white-and-blue bonafides to steer the team over the border — Bon Jovi can, in turn, help with that. It’s an almost perfect circle.
One obvious wrinkle — and a poignant one considering the day the story broke — is the CFL and the Argos. There’s also a plan for that: move that team to BMO Field.
“(BMO) is a city facility. If the city and/or the CFL want to have a conversation about a renovation, we’ll be there,” Leiweke said. “But the only way we’ll be a part of that conversation is if the current environment for soccer gets better. We won’t go backwards.”
Again, you have to parse the meaning, but it’s clear and getting clearer — the CFL in Toronto can live on our terms, or die on their own.
When the NFL was some distant horizon, people felt the need to put a comforting arm around the CFL’s shoulders every time the subject came up. It’s a measure of how close things suddenly are that no one cares about hurt feelings any more.
Nonetheless, this all has a familiar feel. We’ve talked about it for years. Here’s what’s changed.
Plenty of Torontonians wanted a team. A few of them had the money. None had the relationships.
That’s the difference — relationships. Making this happen is a matter of moving in the continent’s most rarefied social circle, where the top ends of American business and entertainment meet. God bless them, but the Paul Godfreys of the world don’t qualify.
In Bon Jovi and Leiweke, Toronto now has two members of that small club.
It’s far too early to say that Toronto is getting an NFL franchise, but it can now be fairly said that Toronto has the inside track on one.
And though Leiweke will never put it this bluntly, this was a large part of the reason he came in the first place.
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And here is my latest winter project.
I'm also going to be working on my cabin lot removing trees and cutting trail as well as putting my dock together.
Started on the dock part on Saturday by removing a one year old 14'X16' pressure treated deck from a house that is slated to be knocked down shortly.
Spent 5 hours dismantling and hauling it home. Will wait for late winter to assemble and haul to the site just before ice out.
Got to like free stuff (too bad the floats and hardware won't be).
When the go ahead is given to knock the house down I have access to the rear door (a new steel insulated one) and the electrical panel as well as some other goodies.
It will be nice to have a good door with no $$$ spent.
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If you can, buy from a US source, "down there" they allow up to 5watt GMRS/FRS radios, "up here" we only get the 2 watt radios. Makes a whole heapin lot of difference.
Yep, I have a pair of the Motorolla's with the high output.
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UM, yeah. I won't be buying any.
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Thats insane..His bone hasnt fused properly yet, one wrong move and he is done. I wonder why he would take such risks
DUDE!!!!
He's a freaking robot. They just replaced the broken part and he's as good as new.
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WOOHOO!!!!!
SENS LOSE!!!!!
SENS LOSE!!!!!!!
Way to go Carolina!!!!
Silly SENS, Wins are for LEAFS!!!!!!
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Can't beat splitting wood when it's -30!!
I was heating with wood the first year I was up North of 60*.
Would go out in the yard to split in track pants and tee shirt @ -35 and would not be cold plus the wood split waaaaaay easy!!!!!
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I have it's big brother the RS Venture GT.
It is heavy but runs like a dream.
Running my sled across the lake is like riding a Harley down the interstate.
Getting it stuck sucks but in the 5 years I have had mine I've only really been stuck once and a couple of minor inconveniences two other times.
I get great gas mileage and nothing out of the ordinary (read regular maintenance) has gone wrong with it in that time.
Since it's a 4 stroke (like a car or truck) you want a block heater and battery warmer if you will be running it in very cold temps as they can be a bit finicky when the temps drop to -30 and below, but if you will be mostly riding in temps -20 and warmer it's not really needed.
It's also only needed first thing in the day when the sled has been sitting overnight in the frigid temps.
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Fuse maybe?
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I was 18 months old and causing havoc in my parents home in Northern England.
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Check, Check, one, two, Check, Check!!!
Is this thing on?
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yep
buy it
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I think it is more than likely that the rainbows and specks were caught in the pine and were likely under 10" in length.
Not very likely they were steelhead.
This certainly doesn't make it right but it's not nearly as bad as it would be if they were steelhead.
I used to fish that piece of water all the time and the only time I was able to get anything of size was on opener.
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Just picked up a 1988 Ski Doo Citation to restore.
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Send it my way!!!!
We have ice now, but no snow to get there on.
Trailering sucks when you can usually just ride from your door.
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Follow the instructions @ this link.
It will get everything but will take some time.
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Yeah, I don't know why the Yanks always try to make us sound like cheese heads.
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I just hate the fact that they sat back on their lead in the 3rd.
NHL makes 12-year deal with Rogers for broadcast rights
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I now subscribe to NHL Gamecenter Live using US DNS servers so I get all games all the time!!!!!