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40 sats \ 0 replies \ @Jer 20 Aug \ parent \ on: My Fantasy Team is top heavy with no depth Stacker_Sports
Noted. I’m hoping to have him for the first couple of weeks and then I will try to get out from under him somehow.
I probably really screwed up on Rice because I did not know he was in trouble, but other than that, I’m not unhappy with my team so far.
An aside: if you can keep my team list handy during the pod and announce any major criminal actions I need to be made aware of it would be appreciated, haha.
Thanks for posting. We’ve thought about grabbing one for a while. I’m the end we opted for a chamber sealer as we do a tonne of sous vide as well but this is still on my radar, eventually.
If they do another one we need a Predyx market.
@StackerSports if you ever need a golf commentator on the pod with high Bitcoin signal: I’m sure Jor would oblige. 🇨🇦
You mean “Perfection Exodus”? It’s up there.
Those vignettes were gold. Do you remember the WCW ones?
I feel my trades were legit 1 for 1s that would have had a reasonable chance of being accepted regardless of which side proposed them.
"U Sports", formerly the CIAU (Go, U Sports!!), is our pathetic version of the NCAA.
As far as I know, we don’t offer real financial or scholarship incentives for student-athletes. If anything, they’re more like small honorariums than actual scholarships.
Hockey: @grayruby is right on the money here. Our young players chase opportunities in the CHL — that’s the WHL, QMJHL, and OHL — for ages 16–20.
It might not be as much of a sure thing as it once was with the growth of USA Hockey, but when I was growing up, most NHL late-round picks or undrafted older kids from the CHL could reasonably expect to keep their hockey dream alive with a big scholarship or a free ride to a very good U.S. school.
I honestly can’t think of a single player from U Sports/CIAU hockey who went on to the NHL. GPT-5 found a few — but with the exception of Joel Ward, “notable” should probably be in quotes:
Derek Ryan, Logan Thompson, and Joel Ward – recent standout examples making the jump from U Sports to the NHL. Dr. Randy Gregg – University of Alberta Golden Bears alum (and actual doctor) with a solid NHL/AHL career. Bernie Wolfe – goalie from Sir George Williams University, 119 NHL games, MVP at the university championship. Andre Hidi – University of Toronto, 7 NHL games with Washington after earning U Sports national accolades. Kent Ruhnke – University of Toronto, brief NHL and WHA career, university championship MVP.
Football: I’ve never played a down of competitive football, but I know it’s… complicated up here. High school and community teams generally play some variation of Canadian Amateur Football rules.
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Some use 3 downs.
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Quebec uses 4 downs, but still with the 1-yard line of scrimmage.
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Younger kids often use 4 downs to keep things moving.
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Community teams in Toronto and Vancouver sometimes use a hybrid of U.S. and Canadian rules.
I have no idea how it all works, but it clearly hasn’t been a great recipe for producing elite players.
We didn’t have football at my high school, but the one next door did. It was basically rugby with pads — 99% run plays and lateral passes. I don’t think I saw a single forward pass in all the time I lived there.
Though most universities have teams: we have about eight “big” football schools in Canada that use the same rules as CFL:
Laval, Western, Calgary, Saskatchewan, Ottawa, Wilfrid Laurier, Alberta, and more recently Montreal Carabins. Simon Fraser University in Vancouver did have a D2 NCAA football team but I think they recently closed the program.
Anyway, great pod this week. Long day, so you’re getting a copy-and-paste on Fountain.
Appreciate you!