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In today’s era of pro sports, coaches and players seem religious about not wanting the highs to get too high or the lows get too low.

You should know that a sports columnist works pretty much on the opposite principle.

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There was a time when coaches were partially paid to be tub-thumpers in the grand tradition of the Edmonton Eskimos original head coach Annis Stukas, the Loquacious Lithuanian, back in 1949.

Fast forward to 2017 when a game comes along in late July that cries for a Loquacious Lithuanian.

And Wally Buono doesn’t want the highs to get too high and the lows to get too low. I mean it’s not even Labour Day.

“It’s Game No. 6. It’s not just another game and it’s not more than Game No. 6. Whether it’s Edmonton or whoever else you play, the league this year is as balanced as it has been in many, many years,” said Buono leading off the week the left coast.

That’s it?

It’s not more than game six?

So there was your correspondent at Eskimos practice Tuesday, working on another angle for today’s dispatch, when Eskimos head coach Jason Maas was wrapping up his daily media scrum. I decided to vent.