This entry was posted on 3/7/2008 8:41 PM and is filed under uncategorized.
OK, yesterday I wrote about how I was impressed with a draw against Newell's Old Boys. I take that some of that back. In light of
RSLFM's latest, I am upset about the match yesterday. I am upset that Garth especially would do all he could to make it seem like RSL played NOB's first team. I know this is really a meaningless training match, but still, why not say that we played the reserves? I mean a draw with a team like Newell's Old Boys reserves is still pretty impressive. This just to me seems unethical. I am really not happy about how RSL seems to not care much for ethics.
I will just say I am deeply disappointed in the management of the team in how they are so willing to tell half-truths and untruths just to gain a temporary advantage. If this wasn't a long-term trend, I would not be that upset, but this seems to be par for the course. I am sick of being told one thing, only to find out later that really things are not going to turn out as advertised. For example, the supporter's section. RCB was told we would be in a similar section to where we are in RES last year at the end of the season; but, we now find out, we will be relegated to behind the goal. I would not have had a problem if last year they told us we would probably be behind the goal in the new stadium, but being told that
after being told something else really upsets me. It's like they don't understand that when people find out reality is different from the rhetoric that people will be upset. I just don't understand why they can't just say up front what is going to REALLY happen instead of painting a beautiful picture only to have it turn out way different.
Again, it comes to ethics. Ethics (as defined as millenia of social conditioning) are the basis of all law (not the Bible as too many people in this country claim, the Founding Fathers generally didn't consider themselves Christian, but did support the ideals of the Enlightenment, which was a review of ethics). I just don't see why it seems that RSL just can't tell things as they are. The stadium is a prime example. I have mostly refrained from talking about the stadium, but looking at the bill passed and reviewing the debate from the legislature from last year, RSL wasn't very upfront in the details. While I do support the stadium, I don't like how it came about. I also don't like how our politicians in this state do not seem to "get it" when it comes to economic development and the realities of issues like taxation; so I guess it makes sense why RSL wasn't totally up front, had they been, there would not have been a deal. I get really sick of the seemingly prevailing view in this state that tax funds can only be spent on schools and roads.
That's another thing, I really get sick of hearing the constant whine from the UEA about how bad teachers have it in Utah. First, if Utah was truly serious about funding our schools, we would have a stupidity tax (a lottery). It's niave to not look at Idaho and see how stores in Franklin and Malad, just across the border, sell more lottery tickets than any other stores in Idaho. I really don't think that Franklin with a population of 641 (in the 2000 census) has everyone in town buying that many lottery tickets. So why is Utah funding Idaho schools when people here go and buy lottery tickets in Idaho? Second, I really don't think that making $30,000 a year plus benefits (which for teachers are excellent) for what amounts to a part-time job is that unreasonable, especially given the cost of living in Utah. Why is it that there isn't a single school in the state contemplating cutting the football or basketball teams, but plenty thinking about cutting the marching band? Why are our priorities so screwed up?
Ok, not sure how my rant about RSL's lack of ethics seems to have wandered into schools, but it did and I'm too tired to change things.
Personally I'd rather have an orchestra program where the music is the message than a marching band where it's as much about silly costumes and marching formations.