Posts by Hadyn Green
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Wow, thanks for all the research Yamis. Seems my football-brain changed the results.
Baseball is an interesting one (and this covers Jake and Danielle's comments too). Even the crappiest teams (like the Pirates* and the Washington Capitals) win ~60 games. That's like the worst teams in the Air New Zealand Cup winning 4 games.
But I find baseball to be very similar to cricket (especially in the tone of the commentary).
The pierogi races are awesome. The Capitals also have a presidents race.
*awful uniforms btw
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Just saw that your Mets lost, meaning that for the second straight year they won't make the playoffs after seeming shoo-ins.
But don't feel bad - my Yankees were out of it weeks ago depite having the biggest payroll in the sport. You'd think with all of that money they'd buy some pitching help for Rivera, but alas no.
Stupid fat Brewers. Though it is hard to hate a team that has a sausage race. And you can't really begrudge the Rays can you?
If you ignore sports that get covered via excruciating puns you’d run dry pretty quickly.
touche
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Is that upset study done across a large number of top level sport around the world or just 3 different competitions?
From memory it was the top football leagues in Spain, England and Italy and all of the American professional (male) sports. So not the best study in the world.
I'd have thought that the best way of telling would be to look at the win loss records of all the sides. The bigger the spread the fewer upsets, the closer the sides the more upsets.
I think they used odds-favourites rather than just wins simply because some teams only have a small number of games in which to get an upset (say 16 for gridiron) while others have a large number (the billion games they play for baseball).
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This is why the Premiership can be so fab. Unpredictable results and crazy foreign managers. What's not to like?
Actually I remember hearing about a study done on which sport had the most "upsets" (odds favourite beaten by underdog). The winner was the Premiership, followed by American football.
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And as a local boy, you should be forced to stand on the cnr of Courtney and Tory bearing a placard that says, " Even without my recognition, they will rise from the ashes"
Hadyn reserves the right to ignore the Phoenix (and any other team) when the article on them has a headline with a terrible pun like "Phoenix Rise from the Ashes" (also included is any story on Hosea Gear that has a "changing Gear", "new Gear", "top Gear" pun).
Even one man with eighteen feeds should surely have noticed a Grand Final over in Melbourne
Hadyn reserves the right to ignore any sport that has incredibly ugly uniforms and scores in decimal points.
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Does poor weather on election day favor the National Party?
I think the myth is that it is bad for the incumbent
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It's safe; honest.
That's what she said
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A few years ago there was a big controversy with skaters playing with tinted/mirrored visors. Some goalies kicked up a fuss that they were disadvantaged because they couldn't see the players eyes, and the tinted and mirrored visors were banned.
Meanwhile the complaining goalie has a helmet painted with death or some lord of the rings or burning flames design.
American footballers need to have a signed doctor's certificate to say they need a visor (despite how cool they look).
The goalie's mask doesn't cover their eyes though.
I can't think of another sport where one player has almost no rules about their appearance, whereas all the other players do.
The only one I can think off the top of my head is that some baseball catchers have painted masks.
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ps your photo link didn't work
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That first spurs jersey was very cool, though possibly too minimalist.
My current favourite sports wear is my black NY Mets Carlos Delgado t-shirt and my Brett Favre NY Jets replica home jersey.
Like you Richard I went on holiday to the states but couldn't actually get the jersey I wanted. I felt totally ripped off.