rojo wrote:
might be wejo wrote:As usual, PR with the quality post. Why does Rojo think W/F are inferior days to Th/Sa?
Cause i have brain.
I think several of my brain cells died just reading that sentence.
rojo wrote:
might be wejo wrote:As usual, PR with the quality post. Why does Rojo think W/F are inferior days to Th/Sa?
Cause i have brain.
I think several of my brain cells died just reading that sentence.
Think Again wrote:
rojo wrote:Cause i have brain.
1) What were the big go out days in college? Thursday and Saturday.
2) What is the only day of NCAAs that you wouldn't have to miss work for - Saturday afternoon.
Yes, you have brain.
A tiny, tiny underused brain. Also, rojo, you would have to have a job to miss work for. Something that you have yet to experience.
Tell you what, rojo, when you learn how to spell as good as a four year old girl, then we'll consider giving you some gender equality.
+6
My alma mater cut out men's CC, men's indoor track, & men's outdoor track----while at the same time increasing the participants in those 3 women's sports by 50% !! Too many men football & hockey players.
Maybe they should count "dance", as a sport? Reverse Title IX is going on big-time! This is the real issue, agree with you ET!
I'm not seeing it... wrote:
Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't see how male athletes are being harmed by competing on Wed./Fri. two years in a row.
Agreed - this is mountain out of molehill stuff.
Ok, I will play along. it is a silly idea so not being a lawyer should not stop me from commenting.
I think you would need to show damages or harm.
rojo wrote:
whywhywhy wrote:You're kidding, right? This is why letsrun will never be taken as a serious place for running news or discussion
1) No I'm not kidding. I'm all for women's sports. When I got out of college, I was very proud to work in professional women's tennis. I was irate when the WNBA ended up taking out the ABL as I thought the ABL truly cared about women's basketball. The WNBA was just a bunch of rich men trying to make sure that the ABL didn't hurt them financially.
That being said, I don't like hypocrisy. If men were relegated to the inferior days every year, you can bet your last dollar we'd be hearing about it. I just want an explanation for it. Maybe there is a good reason. I hope one of our men on the ground in Eugene find out.
2) You've already lost out on the 2nd part of your statement.
"It won't be taken as a serious place for running news or discussion?" It's pretty much the only place for running news or dicussion.
Actually, you're only partially correct here rojo. You favour one-sided news/discussion about many issues, making LRC a great place to 'preach to the choir', but not so great a place if what someone wants is to see informed discussion (i.e. more than just lay opinion).
Your take on doping is probably the most glaring example of this. I have yet to see you seriously discuss the issue of doping and doping policy. Instead of policy experts and researchers, you rely on the opinions of lab scientists or those who enforce the rules (i.e. their jobs depend on payent from WADA and other anti-doping agencies).
Decent discussion occurs elsewhere.
rojo wrote:
Cause i have brain.
1) What were the big go out days in college? Thursday and Saturday.
2) What is the only day of NCAAs that you wouldn't have to miss work for - Saturday afternoon.
Here is the average MLB ticket price on those days of the week:
Wednesday - $50
Thusday - $55
Friday - $65
Saturday - $73
https://seatgeek.com/tba/sports/5-useful-charts-for-baseball-fans-mlb-ticket-prices-by-day-time/
Jesus dude, you are a poor communicator. You're just spilling facts on the page without connecting the dots to make an argument.
I think what you're trying to say (but failing) is that the men's track meet is generating less revenue on Wednesdays and Fridays than it could if the meet were held on Thursdays and Saturdays. OK, but so what? Explain how you think this has an impact on the athletes. Explain how any person anywhere is experiencing discrimination.
Almost Zorro-like...
rojo wrote:
No I'm not kidding. I'm all for women's sports.
No you're not.
MomsDemand wrote:
support with your $ and time wrote:___________________________
Give it a rest.
Hopefully there will be women in the stands supporting women's sports on Saturday. That (women supporting with their money and time women's sports) is usually very minimal. Yet women are in the audience of male sports in droves. You tell me why that is?
Give it a rest? No. Why don't you tell me to go back to the kitchen. Your male privilege is finally at an end! I hope you understand that it's finally women who will run the world and fix all the problems, violence, and racism toxic masculinity has created.
I honestly can't tell if Momsdemand is serious or a really REALLY good troll...
support with your $ and time wrote:
Believe in Hillary Clinton... as she speaks to people about income inequality while wearing a $12,000 dollar jacket, pays women on her staff less than what she pays men, takes money from MEN in countries that treat WOMEN very badly. You are delusional to think Hillary Clinton is going to make your life better because you are both women. Hillary Clinton will only make her life better and needs your vote to do it. AND I AM A DEMOCRAT! Not voting for Hillary though.
Dude or gal, I'd love to have a beer with you. I love the way your brain works. Let me know if you are ever in Baltimore. Or at the Trials, NCAAs?
-Robert
robertjohnson@letsrun.comrojo wrote:
So this morning I wake up and am putting together our NCAA schedule / results page and I realized that the men are once again competing first at NCAAs. The men compete on Wednesday and Friday and the women compete on Thursday and Saturday. Last year, the first year that the NCAA segregated the sexes, the schedule was the same.
I find this to be extremely odd. The logical thing would be to rotate it from year to year. When I was coaching collegiately, the schedules always roatate one year the women's prelims would be in the morning, the next year it would be the men.
I'd love to hear a rationale for why the NCAA isn't doing that this year as it seems like it's blatant discrimination against men.
A number of people I talked to last year felt like the NCAA put the women's competition on Thur/Saturday on purpose as its way easier to draw a crowd on a Thursday and Saturday versus and Wednesday and Friday.
Does anyone have a good explanation for it other than, "We don't want the men's attendance to outsize the women's by a large margin?"
The reason may be anything from drawing a larger crowd on Saturday or not wanting to choose a different schedule than what worked well last year.
And no- male discrimination is not occurring. It is of no disadvantage for the best men to compete on Friday, not Saturday. They get up, show up and compete on that Friday.
Also, this is after years of every single track and cross meet at the high school/club level always going girls first, then guys. This actually matters in cross country, etc. because if girls have to race earlier in the day when it is colder, then they may be at greater risk of injury. Also, if the course has snow on the ground then the girls have to make their own path, which changes the nature of the race.
The idea that males are being discriminated against in athletics couldn't be farther from the truth. There is no maternity leave for women in track, no protection that way. Generally, they are paid less. Less high quality races are available to the top women. List goes on...