On 2012-08-03 03:19, stoneunhinged wrote:

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What's stupid is is your argument.

You've obviously never played any competitive sports.

I absolutely love posts like this! They are so self-negating that it surprises me people make the effort to write them.

If I had a nickel for every time someone writes, "you don't know what you're talking about" (or variations thereof), I'd buy the Magic Café from Steve Brooks and turn it into a real bar. I'd put it right next to Magic Castle and we'd compete head-to-head. But instead of suits and ties and uppity atmosphere, we'd have more of a Hooter's sort of thing going. But, you know, with vegan wings for dudes like Lobo.

Hey, it's MY dream, so don't ridicule it.

On 2012-08-03 03:37, Ray Tupper. wrote:

What a stupid idea.
You've obviously never managed a bar before.

On 2012-08-02 01:56, S2000magician wrote:

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On 2012-08-02 00:03, motown wrote:
So, it's the organizer fault that teams purposely tried to lose.

That make's no sense.

It makes more sense that sticking that apostrophe in "makes".

;)

On 2012-08-03 04:39, spatlind wrote:

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On 2012-08-02 01:56, S2000magician wrote:

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On 2012-08-02 00:03, motown wrote:
So, it's the organizer fault that teams purposely tried to lose.

That make's no sense.

It makes more sense that sticking that apostrophe in "makes".

;)

"than"

Someone's gotta watch the watchman.

On 2012-08-03 03:32, stoneunhinged wrote:
. . . get off your high horse and stop telling people they're stupid.

On 2012-08-03 10:08, stoneunhinged wrote:
Yeah, but what do you know about competitions involving horses?

Oh wait. You *do* know something about that.

On 2012-08-03 01:37, S2000magician wrote:
Are we really going to get into a discussion of which sports belong in the Olympics based solely on . . . what? . . . the number of calories burned per minute?

On 2012-08-03 11:17, TonyB2009 wrote:
And get rid of the sports that only one or two countries play to a sufficiently high level to make them competitive. For instance America has one thirteen out of sixteen titles at mens basketball and six out of eight at women's. Why keep up the charade?

On 2012-08-03 11:31, LobowolfXXX wrote:

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On 2012-08-03 11:17, TonyB2009 wrote:
And get rid of the sports that only one or two countries play to a sufficiently high level to make them competitive. For instance America has one thirteen out of sixteen titles at mens basketball and six out of eight at women's. Why keep up the charade?

For moments like the 1980 hockey final.

On 2012-08-03 01:15, LobowolfXXX wrote:

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On 2012-08-03 01:11, acesover wrote:

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On 2012-08-03 01:02, LobowolfXXX wrote:
Not much different than any NFL playoff team sitting its starters in the last week(s) of the season if it doesn't affect their playoff seed.

Big differnce. The nonstarters are playing their hearts out trying to win. They are not throwing a game. I hope you see the difference. They don't let the other team win. That is the difference.

Seriously Lobo have you ever competed in any competitive sports or games of any kind? Not a trick question. Just wondering because if you did I cannot see how you could condone this type of behavior if you have anysort of competitive blood in you. I wonder who is responsible for the decision for these players do to this. I find it hard to believe they themselves decided on this, but rather the coaches or possibly even higher up, but that is ony speculation on my part.

The players may be, but the coach is CERTAINLY not trying to win (in the NFL example). It's not a matter of condoning the behavior; it's a matter of assigning what I think is the primary blame. It's asinine, and easily avoidable, to set up a format where teams have a powerful incentive to lose on purpose. Those teams never should have been in that position in the first place. Even if everybody had played as hard as possible, the format could have easily resulted in the second-best team not medaling, and a team that lost to them getting a medal after being rewarded for their loss. The situation leading up to what happened was just totally stupid.

And yes, I have.