Posts by Hadyn Green
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Those really shouldn't be line graphs :-)
Yes they should. While they are discrete data points. I am attempting to show change over time. This is also why missed games are not represented by zero. (Argued this with Amy yesterday)
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Heh,
Shep. I'm such a huge Munsters fan and such a hater of the Adams Family that I didn't even get your joke, sorry.Anyhow I've posted a wee thing on the Munster game now, sorry for the delay (fucking internet outages!)
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In New Zealand it's really a formula isn't it?
Close, but I'm gonna have to mention Black Beauty and Team Kiwi Racing. :)
Well Team Kiwi Racing isn't really a national team and Black Beauty is the name of the car (like the boat Black Magic). Though that reminds me that we had Team New Zealand in the yachting.
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In New Zealand it's really a formula isn't it?
1. Choose from the following colours: black, white, silver (women only)
2. Choose from the following nouns: ferns, or something to do with your sport.
3. If stuck then choose from the following adjectives to precede the colour: all -
One of my favourite "organic" team names is Gang Green for the NY Jets (btw the Jets were given their name because it sounded futuristic...in the 60s)
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And in this area, NZ Hockey takes the cake. Black Sticks for men, and then after an expensive branding exercise (~$50k from memory) they came up with a name for the women’s team.
The Black Sticks.
I thought the women were the Black Sticks first (in the Mandy Smith era).
That does have a kind of ironic hilariousness to it, though. I mean, could there be anywhere *less* jazzy than Utah?
And it came from the complete moral opposite of Utah: New Orleans.
A lot of teams have fans vote on the name. the best example of this is the Baltimore Ravens. Baltimore is the birth place of Edgar Alan Poe (and they have three mascots named after him). It also gives them the cool nickname of the Nevermores.
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Is here where I whine about teams being named after one singular thing? The Force, the Storm, the Jazz, the Inferiority Complex... it drives me batty. Let it end.
Personally i hate the teams that move but keep their name, when they really shouldn't. (ie. LA Lakers, Utah Jazz).
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Although if you have two teams in one city it could get confusing. Hence the White Sox and the Cubs in Chicago, or the Lakers and the Clippers in LA. But if you're a one-team town, why bother?
Here's an interesting bit of trivia: American pro-football came about after baseball so (following the college tradition and because they often played at the same park) the teams often had the same name or slight variations.
Hence there were Dodgers and Yankees as football teams. The the Decatur Staleys became the Bears as a link to the Cubs. The only names that are still in both sports are the Cardinals (originally from Chicago and not named after the baseball team), and the Giants (who were). This is why you'll often hear of the New York Football Giants.
Nicknames for national sides leave me cold though. And that includes the New Zealand Men’s Rugby team; although I accept that tradition makes that one a bit different.
I like the non-official versions like Les Tricolors for the French.
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Tracey has just put up the stats.
Ta, I'm off to analyse them.
He topped that with "And the referee explains everything for all to understand - which I don't understand."
Yeah, the comedic timing of, with the little pause, made it perfect.
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With irrational hatred comes irrational glee
I think the reason people 'hate' the Pats is because they're so clinical
I think the Bostonians have a saying: "How do you like them apples?" Though to be fair I was incredibly tense through the whole thing.