The Official Dave Ayres CC "All Thing Leaves" thread

[Chef Boi RD]

Honestly the CFL would be better off if they expanded it and played the games in smaller stadiums of 20,000 seats or thereabouts. Stick a team in the Martimes, one in the Okanagan and another in Quebec or Ontario. Maybe one on the Island. Get up to 14 - 16 teams that’s what they should be shooting for. Go to four down, cut down the ocean sized end zone and get rid of the Canadian content. Pay the best players regardless of where they are from.

I agree, not a bad idea Barnett, keep it in the mid size smaller Canadian cities, smaller buildings and more teams. Toronto, Vancouver and Montreal wouldn’t lose any sleep if they left. And please lose the CFL rules ffs.

[Mickey107]

It was a stupid decision. But there’s no way anyone’s playing MLB games in that dump. And no sorry Mick it isn’t a hotbed for baseball here. No way this city could buy 35,000 tickets x 81. Not a chance.

Probably not but I think we'd do as good as Seattle is now, maybe a bit better.
Definitely better than Montreal. No one's going to ever build a stadium. Really no such thing as BB/ football, soccer anymore.
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/canadia ... hotos-2018

[Lancer]

I’ll take Riga over Toront-hole any day. Safer, cleaner, and friendlier. Transit system is better. Food is better and cheaper and the beer beats anything your hipster bullshit craft breweries can manage. Toronto is not even in the same league as Paris and London. Those are imperial-class capitals rich with history and culture. Toronto has a tower...

big... fucking... whoop...

Your city is a shithole that only pretends to compare to other elite cities.

Do you know how safe Toronto is? It's numbers are the best you'l find Anywhere. Much safer than Vancouver

https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/toronto-r ... -1.3635949


Only 4th safest city in the entire world. LOL

CTV Toronto is your source??? TOTALLY objective... there’s been one murder - ONE - here since I’ve been here in Riga. How many have there been in Toront-hole since the fiscal year started??? I question the rigorousness of the study. Funny thing is even with all the Russians here, their obnoxious arrogance doesn’t even come close to the loathsome ways of Torontonians. You know it’s bad when people prefer Russian imperialists to your fellow municipal citizens.

[BigTuna]

The people of Toronto have big time New York envy. They are so fixated on being given the same respect and viewed upon as such. It’s quite comical.

Do you think people in other Canadian cities have Toronto envy? They can't stop talking about us, especially Vancouver.

[Mickey107]

Do you think people in other Canadian cities have Toronto envy? They can't stop talking about us, especially Vancouver.

They don't envy toronto, they are cheering for Canada. They are not cheering for the city of toronto.

The area around toronto looks a little bit nice in the last week of september with the colorful foliage.

Other than that, ick

[Chef Boi RD]

The people of Toronto have big time New York envy. They are so fixated on being given the same respect and viewed upon as such. It’s quite comical.

Do you think people in other Canadian cities have Toronto envy? They can't stop talking about us, especially Vancouver.

Lol,uhhhh yeah/no. We are quite happy out here in the beautiful natural surroundings in the Pacific Northwest. We just marvel at your self-centered universe, same theory as “love is blind” Outside of some tall buildings there is fuck all to do there other than eat steaks and drink spirits in restaurants downtown

[Chef Boi RD]

Do you think people in other Canadian cities have Toronto envy? They can't stop talking about us, especially Vancouver.

They don't envy toronto, they are cheering for Canada. They are not cheering for the city of toronto.

The area around toronto looks a little bit nice in the last week of september with the colorful foliage.

Other than that, ick

Walking through leaves and admiring them in the fall? Shi-ite I’m moving there, sounds so much better than a city nestled between endless mountain ranges and and the endless Pacific Ocean.

[Mickey107]

Tuna's place is the wee one on the left.
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[Chef Boi RD]

What exciting things is Tuna doing this weekend in Toronto? Shopping on Younge Street? Or Yorkville?

The options of fun in Toronto is overwhelming

[Strangelove]

Marner's ask just went up to $13M.

On an 8 year contract?

Remember, he'll prolly sign a 5 year contract so Leaves can keep the AAV down (like Matthews and Nylander).

I'd say on any contract. But in Marner's case yes, 8 years. Remember, he's a hometown kid who wants to be there long term if he can.

That's not how it works these days on contracts for young stars.

If they'll sign for $10M-per on a 5 year deal, they want $11M-per on a 6 year, $12M+ on a 7 year, $13M+ on an 8 year.

Roughly speaking.

He'd probably rather play for his hometown team, but he won't take less money.

His agent has made that clear and that his camp wants to recoup for not getting max bonuses on his ELC.

Didn't I say $13M for 8 years?

HA!

Didn't notice that my random imaginary player's number ended up at $13M/8!

Question for ya Doc (if you know).....

Chara's last contract saw his cap hit drop in the last season of the contract because the Bruins took higher cap hits on him in the first years of his deal. So his actual salary became his cap in each year. Is that still possible for a team to do? Like sign a guy for 8 years and increase his AAV by $X every season?

No it's not possible anymore.

Chara got that under the old "Kovalchuk Rule", which was done away with in 2012.

[Strangelove]

Like it already happened eh Doc. Or did you mean 2024

I edited it as you were typing...

AND EDIT: It'd have to be by TDD for an 8 year, so let's just make that a 7 lol.

As long as they sign him by July 1st they can give him 8 years. His contract isn't up until June 30th of any given year so if they trade him at the draft his final year and Arizona gets a deal done before his contract expires then ya, they can give him 8 years so stick with your original opinion.....

CBA 50.8(b)(iv) on page 285

An SPC with a term of greater than seven (7) years, provided, however, that a Club may sign a Player to an SPC with a term of up to eight (8) years if that Player was on such Club's Reserve List as of and since the most recent Trade Deadline.

But hey, Matthews doesn't care, he just wants to go home!

[Strangelove]

I’ll take Riga over Toront-hole any day. Safer, cleaner, and friendlier. Transit system is better. Food is better and cheaper and the beer beats anything your hipster bullshit craft breweries can manage. Toronto is not even in the same league as Paris and London. Those are imperial-class capitals rich with history and culture. Toronto has a tower...

big... fucking... whoop...

Your city is a shithole that only pretends to compare to other elite cities.

Do you know how safe Toronto is? It's numbers are the best you'l find Anywhere. Much safer than Vancouver

https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/toronto-r ... -1.3635949


Only 4th safest city in the entire world. LOL

That article is a couple of years old.

I read recently that Toronto was the murder capital of Canada in 2018 and that trend continues...

[Chef Boi RD]

I’ll take Riga over Toront-hole any day. Safer, cleaner, and friendlier. Transit system is better. Food is better and cheaper and the beer beats anything your hipster bullshit craft breweries can manage. Toronto is not even in the same league as Paris and London. Those are imperial-class capitals rich with history and culture. Toronto has a tower...

big... fucking... whoop...

Your city is a shithole that only pretends to compare to other elite cities.

Do you know how safe Toronto is? It's numbers are the best you'l find Anywhere. Much safer than Vancouver

https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/toronto-r ... -1.3635949


Only 4th safest city in the entire world. LOL

That article is a couple of years old.

I read recently that Toronto was the murder capital of Canada in 2018 and that trend continues...

Toronto’s no. 1 activity - Shopping, is considered a dangerous activity - stray gangsta bullets and mad Islamic truck drivers mowing down people on sidewalks

[Madcombinepilot]

I didn’t give a fuck about the Grizzlies. Few people did when they were here and even fewer do now

So you;d rather not have an NBA team and have a parade. Gotcha.

I don’t like the NBA. I find basketball boring. I’d like an MLB team here but we don’t have a stadium and there’s way too many recent immigrants here that it wouldn’t get supported anyways. I’d like to see the NFL here but they aren’t coming to Canada.

I dunno Blobcat. I think it would do well, there would be an instant rivalry with the Mariners for starters. And baseball is pretty big in Japan, and as far as the Indian folks go, just tell them it's North American cricket and they'll come out 40 strong per household.

Personally it's like watching paint dry. But people would come out.

I Saw a stat somewhere. 3 hour game, 18 actual minutes of action. How people can watch that as a sport and not fall asleep is beyond me.

[Blob Mckenzie]

You think Football is 60 min of action?