Alright, so here's another contribution to the war effort that I declared a while ago. The Spinoff shouldn't talk about rugby or rugby players. If I'm honest, their posts on this sport sort of suck. I have a number of issues with The Spinoff in general, but I think I'm finally able to give valid reasons.
Firstly, Scotty Stevenson is a 'Senior Sports Writer' for them which is weird because I'm not sure his commentary suggests a hint of seniority in sports is justifiable. That might sound mean, but at least he has the voice for commentary, thankfully for us all. He did write this piece for The Spinoff though. I don't really know what he's talking about because it is rugby (our rugby guy is Jezza), but I would almost bet that he doesn't know either. I do somewhat find it laughable that he's talking about how Super Rugby (at least, Super Rugby Aotearoa) is killing off the scrum while simultaneously having the cover photo of the article be a picture of the Crusaders and my Hurricanes... in a scrum... He's arguing there aren't many scrums in rugby anymore as if the game has no right to change. I'll reference the game of basketball and what people call the "mid-range". This part of it is more of a hit piece on Scotty Stevenson and I'm okay with it.
Okay, so moving to my second part... Duncan Greive, the man (I'm assuming, of course) with the very serious title of Managing Editor at The Spinoff should be, if anything, questionable... He wrote this article about how he hates underwear and found socks annoying until he found a particular brand (no free advertising). I don't have an issue so much with this, but it reads like a quirky sponsored part of a YouTube video for Squarespace, where you're only using the product because they're paying you to wear it. Anyway... I didn't have a problem with that until I saw this article... It's an article about Dan Carter and, according to old mate Duncan, Dan's life in "undies" which did sort of make me wonder... Is our friend Duncan obsessed with underwear? Did he only hate his underwear because he's being jealous of Dan Carter's jocks this entire time? And, finally, why are you writing about underwear on the internet? And why a whole article on Dan Carter in underwear? Interesting from you, Duncan... Interesting.
Honestly, I've seen one good post about sports from the Spinoff and it's by Sacha Judd. She's only a Contributing Writer there. She wrote an article about the NHL bubble and how it has made her a 'superfan' which is a little questionable, but her article was solid... It was one I could almost appreciate as a sports fan. It is seemingly too good to be on the same site where writers talk about how other men also wear underwear or how the scrum is apparently a thing of the past. I don't want to take anything away from Sacha, but her fellow Spinoff people sorta stink...
The war shall go on. I will continue to fight alongside my Yammer House colleagues on the frontlines until it is over and we are either victorious or cancel culture comes to get us because we've been misinterpreted like so many others. The Spinoff... You suck.
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