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Wow, Ali Williams is really of quite average build huh?
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How about that the Highlanders have a better points differential than the Hurricanes at the moment?
Or that despite having one less win than the Brumbies, you're ahead of them? -
Jets and Lions to tie for 16-0 this year, if Jets don't pick up Vick or Garcia.
I won't be able to make it to Malthouse, but will try get to the cricket. Bit hectic tomorrow with rugby early arvo, dinner with grandparents and 21st all of which are [literally] at opposite ends of Wellington from one another.
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Hey! Oh, hold on...
Heh. 1-0.
You also totally faked stuffing up that code.
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There is nothing more nerdy in cricket than being a good orthodox spinner.
Yeah, that, plus his calculating leadership are what makes me say that.
But yeah, everyone that wears glasses is a nerd too. Especially noizy...
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you watch him bat and wonder how he can make any runs, but then you realise just so how freakishly effective his technique is because he hits it into places that are hard to protect. And he works so damn hard, too.
His innings against WI late last year encapsulated this for me. He didn't try and rush to score runs, he just hit it where it would be hardest to field.
He's always calculating - the thing I've noticed about NZ in chasing is that we always do what is needed and nothing more - only ever just above the RR, not taking chances, etc etc.
Vettori is a nerd.
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At my work there is a certain individual who I can't for the life of me understand. He lives quite an alternative lifestyle, but it seems he cannot understand anything which doesn't fit his scope - usually politics and sport. There was another one, but he has left. Here is an email conversation. You've gotta read it bottom to top. :)
From: Lewis
Sent: Wednesday, 20 August 2008 4:39 PM
Subject: RE: Scrabble is an official sport in Mali and Senegal.
Mostly right. But I mean it without those nasty Marxist connotations you've wedged in there.L
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From: Thomas
Sent: Wednesday, 20 August 2008 4:38 PM
Subject: RE: Scrabble is an official sport in Mali and Senegal.
It means that it's an essential weapon in the armory of bourgeois governments. It's important to give the proles 'something to believe in' lest they start to believe in their own power to change the course of history. I don't know if this is really the case with sport but I think that's essentially the content of what Lewis is saying.
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From: Matt
Sent: Wednesday, 20 August 2008 4:35 PM
Subject: RE: Scrabble is an official sport in Mali and Senegal.
What does that even mean?--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
From: Lewis
Sent: Wednesday, 20 August 2008 4:34 PM
Subject: RE: Scrabble is an official sport in Mali and Senegal.
Sport is ritualised proxy combat. That alone explains why it's necessary - to give people something to believe in.L
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From: Matt
Sent: Wednesday, 20 August 2008 4:27 PM
Subject: RE: Scrabble is an official sport in Mali and Senegal.
I've always thought about it in terms of the following quote. The more my younger brothers got into motocross and rugby, the more I found I agreed with it.The essence of sports is that while you're doing it, nothing else matters, but after you stop, there is a place, generally not very important, where you would put it. - Roger Bannister
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From: Thomas
Sent: Wednesday, 20 August 2008 4:17 PM
Subject: RE: Scrabble is an official sport in Mali and Senegal.
The fanaticism, I would argue, is not fostered by the athletes themselves, but rather by the media and politicians, who use sport to rouse nationalistic sentiments and to distract from pressing social issues.
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From: Matt
Sent: Wednesday, 20 August 2008 4:16 PM
Subject: RE: Scrabble is an official sport in Mali and Senegal.
Cool, that makes perfect sense. I question the degree of fanaticism, but doing something because you like it is a pretty decent way to go.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
From: Dylan
Sent: Wednesday, 20 August 2008 4:14 PM
Subject: RE: Scrabble is an official sport in Mali and Senegal.
The driving factor for most sportspeople, be they elite, amateur or social is usually the same thing. They enjoy what they do.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
From: Matt
Sent: Wednesday, 20 August 2008 4:13 PM
Subject: RE: Scrabble is an official sport in Mali and Senegal.
I... ...suppose. But that's just... ...confusing. What are people inspired to compete FOR? To beat their predecessors?It's all so lost on me.
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From: Dylan
Sent: Wednesday, 20 August 2008 4:11 PM
Subject: RE: Scrabble is an official sport in Mali and Senegal.
If you're going to say an artists legacy is in their art, or a builders in their houses, then an athletes remaining legacy would be all those they inspire to compete.
I have to deal with this day in, day out. And my opinions are definitely not regarded as well as others in my team, I'm expected to be a sexist ingrate with no knowledge of world issues, history or science. -
I want to know what that looks like as well actually.
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3010/2641895854_b1a6124abe.jpg?v=0
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Every time I read Nerd and Jock in that post I heard Judah Friedlander's portrayl of Toby Radloff from American Splendor.
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Kyle, add on an extra 0 to that figure would ya? Rumour has it $1400 is gonna be the cheapest. That's apparently gonna get ya a game between 'minnows' and another game with a big name team.