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| Name: | Rodger Donaldson |
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| Homepage URL: | http://diaspora.gen.nz/~rodgerd/ |
| Location: | Wellington, New Zealand |
| Member since: | July 23, 2003 |
| Last visit: | March 20, 2010 |
rodgerd has posted 14 links and 283 comments to SportsFilter and 0 links and 1 comment to the Locker Room.
NFL Union Screwing Players?: The folks over at ArsTechnica have focused on an interesting story: claims that the NFLPA and Players Inc. unilaterally made a decision to take $8 million dollars of the gross licensing revenue that should have been shared with retired players and reallocate it to the administration of the NFLPA and Players Inc.", while negotiating ridiculous royalities for older players.
posted by rodgerd to football at 11:04 PM on October 08 - 9 comments
Wake up, you're off!: To quote the New Zealand Herald: Ah, the irony. Welsh lock Huw Richards was having a pat-a-cake struggle with Gary Whetton during the 1987 World Cup semi in Brisbane [...] Richards was revived by the side of the pitch just so he could be shown the red card for giving Whetton a few handbags before Shelford arrived with his peacemaker.
posted by rodgerd to other at 01:55 PM on November 22 - 3 comments
Novel excuses for losing: Well, I've heard a few, but how about "Town was too boring"? That's right: after a hiding in Hamilton, the Queensland Reds have blamed the city for being so boring as to put the players into a snooze before the big game. But how boring is Hamilton, really? After all, Waikato and All Black half-back Byron Kelleher seems to keep himself amused.
posted by rodgerd to other at 04:26 PM on March 06 - 7 comments
The end of an era.: Australia's rugby leage team have not been beaten in an international series in more than twenty years; New Zealand has not prevailed over their neighbour in over fifty. That ended this past weekend with a crushing victory in the Tri-Nations final in England. Aussie players are embarrased, Kiwis delirious with joy.
posted by rodgerd to other at 06:28 PM on November 28 - 4 comments
"Hacking at my tackle": When devotion becomes insanity,
posted by rodgerd to other at 05:36 PM on November 15 - 28 comments
they should have respect for their elders.
Why? Their elders have ruined the environment, run up massive national debt for their kids, grandkids, and great-great-ad-inifinitum to pay off. Western kids face a lifetime of crippling debt in a world that will be left with mass extinctions, exhausted fisheries, over logging, to name a few problems. I'm not seeing any reason for any 5 year old to "respect their elders".
legal adults who cannot cook a meal,
Maybe you want to take off those rose tinted glasses and look at how many men "went off to college" able to cook meals and do their laundry a hundred years ago.
Did something happen to human biology in the last hundred years that renders people in that age range incapable of making wise decisions and in need of nannying until the age of 30?
Well, let's see. My grandad left school at 12 to go to work and help support his family of 13. I'm sure that kids living in the slums of Bangalore reach worldly wisdom pretty quickly today. Perhaps you'd prefer to live in those societies?
posted by rodgerd at 07:14 PM on February 02
What's that say about us?
Sometimes the best articles attract the fewest comments.
posted by rodgerd at 03:57 PM on January 28
You know, that doesn't seem like something you'd have to apologise for unless you'd put out an eye with it.
Which could be a distinct possibility.
posted by rodgerd at 03:10 AM on January 28
Automatic liftetime bans from stadiums on identification.
posted by rodgerd at 01:13 AM on January 18
I guess I am confused why the internal financial operation is such a big issue. Are they concerned that a some point the Manchester United are not going to be competitive because of the debt? Is there evidence that this debt load is preventing them doing something?
You could try, you know, reading the articles, wherein the answers are all spelled out.
posted by rodgerd at 03:51 AM on January 13
Socialism, American style: soak ordinary folks for the benefit of a cartel of plutocrats.
posted by rodgerd at 12:58 AM on December 26
If she beats you, leave.
posted by rodgerd at 03:32 PM on December 13
If you've sextupled your income, why shouldn't the staff get a bigger chunk of change?
posted by rodgerd at 02:57 AM on December 09
Well, that's fine that you need these treatments and all, but you wouldn't be the first person who can't work in a particular job (like, say, flying planes) because of medications you legitimately take.
posted by rodgerd at 12:38 PM on December 05
The comment was not about spofi, rcade. It was about our culture in general.
I must've heard mention of Chris Brown beating up then-girlfriend Rihanna a hundred times the past year.
Whereas it wouldn't be a huge stretch to suggest that Tiger's wife may have gotten away with spousal abuse.
I think she's a great role model for young women. The I-don't-care-if-you're-the-greatest-golfer-in-history-if-you-cheat-on-me-I-will-beat-the-shit-out-of-you type of role model. Girl Power!
Yeah, domestic violence is a great thing. We ought to encourage more of it.
posted by rodgerd at 07:50 PM on December 03
Yes, because cheating is competitive. That's a great lesson for the kids as they move beyond sports into real life. Anything you can get away with is OK.
This.
posted by rodgerd at 05:55 PM on December 02
Blaming someone with depression for killing themselves is like blaming someone with cancer for dying.
Attitudes like Drood are a huge part of the reason depressives kill themselves. Your hate and contempt for the mentally aren't part of the solution, moron, they're part of the problem.
posted by rodgerd at 08:18 PM on November 11
And the FIA will sue...
Yeah, I can see that will work well. Attract other teams and everything.
Good riddance to the manufacturers.
All F1 racers are manufacturers to some degree or another. I see you make an exception for Ferrari (quelle surprise!). Do you hate people using Ford engines, too?
The more interesting story is Bridgestone. After signing up as the exclusive tyre supplier, they're leaving. Who will replace them? Michelin won't as they were pissed off and felt they were being punished for the Indy debacle.
Indeed. It's quite a surprising move to me, given how hard they must have worked to get the exclusive deal.
posted by rodgerd at 04:51 PM on November 05
Perhaps the New Zealand team should apologise for interrupting the old boys' club's divine right tto dominate. Maybe if we just removed everyone except Australia, England, and perhaps India from the tournament we could get the "right" final.
posted by rodgerd at 05:56 AM on October 04
Torii Hunter: Latino Players are Black 'Imposters'
In one sense, sure. But the culture and experience of growing up as a black person in, say, the West Indies islands and in the United States is pretty radically different. There's not a lot of common culture there (which is why that KFC ad in Aussie was a non-event for West Indians, no matter how many Yanks screamed is was racist).