Posts by Hadyn Green
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The stitches were far easier to look at than the wobbly scallop.
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I should apologise (slightly) for the horrible mangling of HST's book at the start. It was just the theme for the evening.
@Raymond: I'm not a fan of berry-flavoured beers. But I will try most things. Did you mean Emmersons?
@Stephen et al: the urinals are fairly sick and seemed to be aimed at the beer-swilling jagermiester-shooting munter crowd ("those urinals are fuckin hot bro!") which is pretty much out of synch with the rest of the bar. I think they would do better to remove them and fairly soon.
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Haydn (how did you avoid an 'e' in your name BTW? And it's Manawatu also, not Manuwatu. Sorry, professionally anal there)
It's Welsh, but it's spelled Hadyn :)
And I probably misspelled Manawatu because I like to say it like Vanuatu.
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While I was reading this (I forced myself to do so AND click the picture link!) my scalp began aching.
Similarly I was thinking about getting another tattoo and my current one began hurting. Stupid empathy.
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My husband, though, has an irrational dislike of the Yankees.
That's cool then, I'm a Mets and Jets fan. And no dislike of sports teams is ever irrational, there is always some kind of warped logic behind it.
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Hadyn, I think it's best if you don't come over to our house for Thanksgiving dinner. ;)
Not Yankee fans? Not baseball fans?
sigh, I'll make do with re-heated turkey roll.
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They're simply two different formats. A team can win the former even while losing the last game or two to inferior competition, and is none the lesser for it.
Exactly, it's not like the teams don't know that, should they make the play-offs, they will be eliminated if they lose. You play to win the game, as the saying goes. There should be no, well "we can afford a late-season slump and still win" attitude.
(to go off track) having watched most of the season and then the Superbowl, there was no way the Patriots were the better team in that game. the Giants dominated the whole park and had gone undefeated over the last half of the season. They also had arguably a harder season (Eagles, Cowboys and Redskins) compared with the Patriots (Jets, Bills, and Dolphins).
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And the English footballing competitions are much older than either of the American competitions.
If you'll excuse the use of wikipedia:
The Southern League, covering the southern two-thirds of England and Wales, was founded in 1894 and is one of the oldest leagues still in existence
Whereas the MLB (baseball) was founded in 1869. So 26 titles (by the Yankees) over 139 years is pretty ok with me. And even if you only look at World Series wins that started officially in 1903, 9 years after "one of the oldest leagues" in British football.
The NFL is much younger (1920). But if you consider the professional era (as I was with football and rugby), that number drops to 5 (Cowboys, Steelers and 49ers).
a daft post-season, which means that teams can utterly dominate the main league and then suffer an upset defeat to lose the trophy
Isn't that exactly how they decide the League Cup, FA Cup and UEFA Champions Cup?
Seems a little odd considering that statistically football (soccer) is apparently the sport where a "bad" team is the most likely to upset a "good" team.
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That equates to maybe $100 million in gate money (plus sponsorship), which should be enough when the cost of the stadiums is taken off to finance the game quite adequately.
I would guess that's a gross over-estimation. And even if that was the right figure, you are looking at 10-12 stadiums around the country, all of which need upkeep and employees (though they do get some volunteers). Then there are player salaries (say 10x $1.5M), coach salaries, etc etc.
Beyond that if every team received $10M each (I really do think that estimate is far too high) then they might be alright.
So perhaps the rugby authorities should just cut their coats according to the cloth and accept that they'll never be able to pay the players Beckham type money?
I think that's what we are mainly suggesting, while at the same time suggesting things they can do to increase the revenue.
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The NRL shows how good a salary cap is at levelling out the teams
The NRL rocks the party (IMHO)
re: promo/relegation
It seems the Hivemind has come to a decision that the team that wins the second division should be promoted and the team that loses the first division should be relegated. No questions asked.