The BBC have a story with the headline:
Unpaid servant lived in cupboard
I'm going to go ahead and say it because I'm not sure anyone else has the stones- legally she was not unpaid. The benefit in kind of a warm place to live just happened to constitute all of her salary.
Thursday, 4 September 2008
Charles 'The Franchise' Clarke
We all know Charles Clarke is a pro'. Alas his pro-ie-ness is not what I would like to post on today. The first piece of news on the BBC 'news' website today is to do with Charles Clarke. It is entitled:
Clarke issues fresh Brown warning
Is it just me who wishes that the above sentence had a comma between 'fresh' and 'Brown'?
Clarke issues fresh Brown warning
Is it just me who wishes that the above sentence had a comma between 'fresh' and 'Brown'?
An Open Letter to Phil Clarke
Dear Mr Clarke,
I am a long-time viewer, first-time writer. I have always considered you the most eloquent and well-reasoned of all Rugby League pundits.
However, I have been compelled to write to you after watching your latest appearance on the popular Sky Sports show 'Boots 'N' All'. Last night you remarked that performance in the National Leagues has improved "10 or 20 percent".
Now, as a true League fan, I fully understand what you mean and agree with you. However, a minor acquaintance of mine, Barnardo Millionaire, is convinced that you made up that particular stat and are, in his words, "chatting shit".
So, as a highly paid and respected pundit, I am sure you are willing to send us the fruits of your research to back up your claim. In order to shut up Dr Millionaire we will need the following.
i) A definition of how the 'performance' metric is calculated.
ii) A spreadsheet/pivot table of this year's 'performance' versus last years.
iii) Perhaps a small article explaining the differences between the two.
I look forward to your response.
Yours faithfully,
Dibbles
I am a long-time viewer, first-time writer. I have always considered you the most eloquent and well-reasoned of all Rugby League pundits.
However, I have been compelled to write to you after watching your latest appearance on the popular Sky Sports show 'Boots 'N' All'. Last night you remarked that performance in the National Leagues has improved "10 or 20 percent".
Now, as a true League fan, I fully understand what you mean and agree with you. However, a minor acquaintance of mine, Barnardo Millionaire, is convinced that you made up that particular stat and are, in his words, "chatting shit".
So, as a highly paid and respected pundit, I am sure you are willing to send us the fruits of your research to back up your claim. In order to shut up Dr Millionaire we will need the following.
i) A definition of how the 'performance' metric is calculated.
ii) A spreadsheet/pivot table of this year's 'performance' versus last years.
iii) Perhaps a small article explaining the differences between the two.
I look forward to your response.
Yours faithfully,
Dibbles
Friday, 29 August 2008
More BS
So much shittiness, so little time
ESPN.com article on September in baseball.
WILL THIS METS-PHILLIES SAGA HAVE A DIFFERENT ENDING?
I don't know, probably.
Jayson Stark breaks it down for me
Here's the record of these teams in games decided after the sixth inning (meaning the score was tied after six, or the lead changed): Phillies 31-15, Mets 11-22. Nobody we've talked to thinks that stat is an aberration.
"One part of it, obviously, is the difference in bullpens," one scout said. "But the other part of it is heart. I love the Phillies' grit.
I can see how bullpens would make a difference, schedule and injuries to key players may make a bigger one. Obviously grit and heart the biggest.
ESPN.com article on September in baseball.
WILL THIS METS-PHILLIES SAGA HAVE A DIFFERENT ENDING?
I don't know, probably.
Jayson Stark breaks it down for me
Here's the record of these teams in games decided after the sixth inning (meaning the score was tied after six, or the lead changed): Phillies 31-15, Mets 11-22. Nobody we've talked to thinks that stat is an aberration.
"One part of it, obviously, is the difference in bullpens," one scout said. "But the other part of it is heart. I love the Phillies' grit.
I can see how bullpens would make a difference, schedule and injuries to key players may make a bigger one. Obviously grit and heart the biggest.
Thursday, 28 August 2008
News Corp let me down again!
I've been worrying about the distinct lack of quality of Times leaders for a while. However the second paragraph in today's piece entitled
Australia: Dingoland
is particularly special
The trouble with wilderness, as they see it, is that when you get there, there is no there there.
I stopped reading after that. It's like they just don't care anymore.
Speaking of not caring anymore, the hand of Sky Sports has touched Steve Kirby, after Patel and Bopara last year, and Napier in the first half of this year. Steve Kirby has been touted for England after two good performances on TV.
During yesterday's game Nick Knight was thrilled about him and detailed to us how Steve Kirby is a quick learner and has obviously matured, but still has a few things to learn (hot to bowl a yorker, mix up his lengths etc.)
You would be forgiven for thinking Kirby was a 21 year old firebrand. But he is 31 in a month! He has played 98 first class games! What about that makes you think he has learnt anything? Why should he play for England? What has possessed Nick Knight?
Nick Knight also masturbated over Eoin Morgan and his "array of shots" (I'm pretty sure he can only play a really shitty pre-meditated sweep and nothing else). However I will let that pass as he is at least young.
N.B. I love Steve Kirby and his awesome ball-tampering ways, this is meant as a knock to Verity more than anything else.
Australia: Dingoland
is particularly special
The trouble with wilderness, as they see it, is that when you get there, there is no there there.
I stopped reading after that. It's like they just don't care anymore.
Speaking of not caring anymore, the hand of Sky Sports has touched Steve Kirby, after Patel and Bopara last year, and Napier in the first half of this year. Steve Kirby has been touted for England after two good performances on TV.
During yesterday's game Nick Knight was thrilled about him and detailed to us how Steve Kirby is a quick learner and has obviously matured, but still has a few things to learn (hot to bowl a yorker, mix up his lengths etc.)
You would be forgiven for thinking Kirby was a 21 year old firebrand. But he is 31 in a month! He has played 98 first class games! What about that makes you think he has learnt anything? Why should he play for England? What has possessed Nick Knight?
Nick Knight also masturbated over Eoin Morgan and his "array of shots" (I'm pretty sure he can only play a really shitty pre-meditated sweep and nothing else). However I will let that pass as he is at least young.
N.B. I love Steve Kirby and his awesome ball-tampering ways, this is meant as a knock to Verity more than anything else.
Tuesday, 26 August 2008
Joy to the world...
Bopara is dropped. Hopefully that's the last we see of that talentless little piss stain.
That is all.
That is all.
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