Commentary: What’s The Lesson?
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A coupla three or so thoughts entering the weekend …
#1 – I was half right. It was a low-scoring affair in Montreal Thursday night – that much I predicted – but the Riders didn’t win.
3rd-string quarterback Davis Alexander led a second half comeback as the Alouettes knocked off Saskatchewan 20-16 at McGill.
The Riders have now lost two of three and, like clockwork, the naysayers have come out of the woodwork.
The wildest fact to me? The oddsmakers had Montreal favoured by 3.5-points.
They won by 4.
#2 – Well, maybe there is some sense in the world after all.
Canadian womens soccer coach Bev Priestman has been sent home from the Olympics after her staff was caught spying on opposition practices.
We haven’t heard the last of the story, and I’m guessing she’ll face further discipline from the Canadian Olympic Committee.
Even Canada’s gold medal at the 2020 Games has come into question, although I’d be shocked if they’re stripped of it.
However you never know! The I-O-C doesn’t mess around, unlike MLB who allowed the cheating Astros to keep their 2017 World Series title despite being caught for videotaping signs.
What’s the lesson in all this? (I honestly don’t know. I’m asking you.)
And #3 – Speaking of baseball, we got some figures from the Western Canadian Baseball League which may knock your socks off.
The League will surpass 300,000 fans in attendance this week, which is the fastest the league has ever done it. They’ll surpass a half million hits to their website before the season’s over, and social media impressions have tripled from last year at this time.
The way the standings look, Moose Jaw and Regina are lining up to face each other in Round 1 of the playoffs, and tonight the Millers host Swift Current in a key game in the East Division standings as the Millers look to sew up a playoff spot.
We’ll have the call at 7:05!
That’s today’s Rod Pedersen Commentary.
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What’s the lesson to be learned? The lesson is that individuals need to study and be very aware of malignant/convert narcissists and how they can flip scripts to gaslight-manipulate-guilt trip unsuspecting codependents. Prior to this Olympics – TSN would not shut up reporting how women’s soccer is not funded in the same manner the women’s team is. The reality is and not the gaslighting version is nobody watches women’s sports. Women don’t even watch it. Soccer Canada caved. Now where’s the lesson? After this Drone incident – this Bev Priestman stood there. With a straight virtue signalling face took the… Read more »
You have it out for women. Doesn’t take a genius to know that a woman hurt you sometime and now you can’t stop spouting off about how they cannot be trusted. Your constant narrative. Get a grip.
…..right now – go ask your old lady for the pass code to her phone, email, social media accounts as you want to take a looksy….my guess is she’s right beside you with that phone in hand or in the back pocket but it’s never out of reach…and she’ll turn it around on you for not being trusting….. If anything I help men. If cuckolds like you wanna think they are all little angels and juuuuuust over the moon about you (as long as you are bringing home those paydays and making half the mortgage on a house neither of… Read more »
I’m sorry but I think you are damaged goods with an axe to grind. Not rational!
What’s the lesson? If you’re being cheeky, it’s some variation of ‘don’t get caught’ or ‘if you’re not cheating, you’re not trying’. But that’s outdated thinking. With the way gambling is involved in all sports, the hammer is coming down. Too much money involved for them to risk people thinking that what they see on TV is anything but pure sport. Not for sports sake, but so that we can gamble on every little aspect of it. The betting companies (and the government, who gets their take too) will circle the wagons and protect their interests. And that’s not the… Read more »
Great news for the WCBL. However when Okotoks, Saskatoon, Sylvan Lake and Medicine Hat account for 210,000 of the 300,000. The other franchises can learn from them and see what they are doing. But it is going in the right direction and will only increase in popularity when looking at the youth baseball numbers across the prairies.
One last thing. The media has egg on their face too. With all the coverage they bring, mostly about of importance, and all the time spent hanging around the team, no one saw a drone on the sky or overhead a stray comment?
How does Rick westhead know everything I’m 24 hours? He was sitting on it, waiting for the worm to turn is my guess.