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Thursday, July 23, 2009

Arland Bruce, Mark Buehrle And Other Things

The CFL is abuzz over statements new Argos coach Bart Andrus made about receiver Arland Bruce III. Bruce was told by Andrus he is staying home for tomorrow's game in Winnipeg because he has not been a good teammate and that he is not being very professional. It has started a debate as to whether or not Andrus should be airing his dirty laundry through the media or not. I don't have a problem with it.
Andrus comes from the NFL and he has seen many coaches who will not hesitate to criticize a player if he acts as stupid as what Bruce has been. Do you think Bill Parcells would keep all of this in house. NO!!!
It would seem to me as if Bruce has exhausted the three strikes rule. He has been fined four times already this season, and he has criticized Kerry Joseph. I think if Bruce were with seven other CFL teams, he wouldn't be playing either. I know Ken Miller wouldn't be putting up with his act and even though he is not around the park, I can't see Eric Tillmn tolerating his behaviour either.
Bruce will likely end up with someone, and he will likely be told to smarten his act up wherever he goes. Then again, the other teams in this league may not want this headache around and there is no way he is cracking an NFL roster. Perhaps the next time we see Mr. Bruce is in the UFL. You wouldn't want Bruce wearing green would you??? I sure wouldn't!
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The Ti-Cats are a better football team, but they have a ways to go before they can consider themselves a threat to the Alouettes. Give credit to the Tabbies as they held that Montreal offence in check, but Anthony Calvillo still threw for 400 yards in a 21-8 win. Montreal again just seems to be one step better than the rest of the league.
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I've always said the toughest thing to do in sports is throw a perfect game. Mark Buehrle of the White Sox did that Thursday. 27 men up, 27 men down. No walks, no errors, no hits, no nothing. It is incredibly tough for that happen in any level of baseball. Everything must go your way. Buehrle's perfect game was only the 18th in major league history. That should tell you something right there.
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Why must women feel the need to litter their bodies with big-time tattoos. I find that so unappealing. A little one OK. A big one or several that is there for everyone to see. No thanks!!!
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The Canadian Open began Thursday with rain throwing a monkeywrench into everything. Weyburn's Graham DeLaet didn't even get to tee off in Round 1. He will do that today. I'm interested to see how he makes out. I don't think I'm the only one.
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The Delissio pizza ad with the father telling his daughter that her date is a vampire is the best one on TV right now.
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Sergei Fedorov says a man entrusted to manage his money over the past decade has swindled him out of 43 million dollars. How do you not notice that before now???
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The Leader Post's Murray McCormick is asking readers of the L-P's Rider blog just who should carry the Grey Cup into Mosaic Stadium at halftime of Saturday's game when the 89 team will be introduced as the final act of the 20 year reunion weekend. I say the doors open up in the south end of the stadium and a big truck comes in with everyone from that team on that truck with the cup in the middle. Regardless of who brings it in, it will be a very loud and a very proud ovation from the Rider Nation as they salute guys like Jurasin, Elgaard, Suitor and Burgess one last time. I'm guessing the dinner at Queensbury Place on Thursday night was a great outing with many stories being told and many friendships being rekindled.
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The NFL draft is going to be THREE days long now with the first round on Thursday. Thumbs down to that initiative from yours truly!
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Does ESPN realize that it was them who started the Erin Andrews story. Had the suits at the network kept their yaps shut, no one may have known about the video that some creep took of her while she was naked in her hotel room. The video was apparently first put on line in February, but no one put two and two together until ESPN's brass became involved. Now the story has mushroomed out of control with the victim here being Andrews herself. Make no doubt about it, the guy who did this should be prosecuted, but there is also something here that resembles a stunt you would see in the American Pie movies. Stiffler, was it you???? The Globe actually has a great story on this debate at http://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/andrews-debate-revealing/article1229433/
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Have a good Friday!!!

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

RE: Tattoos

Was it the little one with the eyes on the shoulderblades, or the one with the left arm all inked up?

Anonymous said...

Hey Mitch, I honestly think that the league as a whole and not just the Riders are taking a stand with player being idiots. Enough is enough and they are not going to take it anymore. YOu can bet that the second Michael Vick can play football the NFL teams will come flocking. Personally I think he should be able to play but the point is the teams just want the talent no matter what happened in the past. Up here it looks like we are taking the approach that guys like Bruce are a dime a dozen now that the other leagues are folding and good players are out there. No one needs a player who only thinks about himself. I applaud Andrus, and Kelly for that fact to get rid of great players because they are a cancer within the organization.

Croney

Mike from Vita said...

The CFL could start a team with players who have an attitude problem... Printers, Bruce, Armstrong...et. al. What a team it would be if we added Terrel Owens to the list, LOL!!