{"id":985,"date":"2010-06-01T09:26:08","date_gmt":"2010-06-01T13:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sahd.lamafam.org\/?p=985"},"modified":"2010-06-01T09:32:00","modified_gmt":"2010-06-01T13:32:00","slug":"ridiculous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sahd.lamafam.org\/?p=985","title":{"rendered":"Ridiculous"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/canada\/ottawa\/story\/2010\/05\/31\/ottawa-gloucester-dragons-soccer-point.html\">This<\/a> is just stupid.  I first heard it discussed on the radio, then I went to look for something more concrete.<\/p>\n<p>While I&#8217;m sympathetic to not blowing teams out for the sake of blowing teams out; I&#8217;ll also state that, being a competitor, I&#8217;d rather get blown out by an opponent than lose by a small score while they mock me by playing half-assed. If a team doesn&#8217;t have 2nd and 3rd stringers to throw in when it becomes obvious there is a mismatch, what else can be done?<\/p>\n<p>Just for giggles, here&#8217;s some ways that rule can be gamed:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>If down by 5 goals, the losing team kicks one in on themselves, thus ensuring   victory.<\/li>\n<li>For that matter, if a coach thinks his team is over matched, just have players   score goals on their own team.  Being undefeated was never so easy.<\/li>\n<li>Once the 5 goal lead is reached, the better team scores on themselves to     maintain the margin so they can continue to score goals.<\/li>\n<li>Once the 5 goal lead is reached, stand aside and let the other team score.   Then go back on the offensive.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If the idea is to have the rule retracted, I&#8217;d say the last one has the best chance.  Any other ideas?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is just stupid. I first heard it discussed on the radio, then I went to look for something more concrete. While I&#8217;m sympathetic to not blowing teams out for the sake of blowing teams out; I&#8217;ll also state that, being a competitor, I&#8217;d rather get blown out by an opponent than lose by a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sahd.lamafam.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sahd.lamafam.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sahd.lamafam.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sahd.lamafam.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sahd.lamafam.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=985"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sahd.lamafam.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":986,"href":"https:\/\/sahd.lamafam.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985\/revisions\/986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sahd.lamafam.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sahd.lamafam.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sahd.lamafam.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}