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Been to Paris a handful of times, during both the Tour de France and Roland Garros. Also to Versailles, Toulouse, Marseille and Nice. The Frenchies are good peeps and better complainers than Americans. You would envy their high speed rail, Screwey. It’s a shame we don’t have it.

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Something tells me this whole thing is gonna blow up (badly) in a few years. Those in charge of the experiment will tuck away and hide and things will eventually go back more closely to the way they were. That’s my prediction. The Pac will be back!

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Everything dies, baby that’s a fact

But maybe everything that dies
Someday comes back

RIP

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Oakland NAACP sound like typical white supremacists.

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I can’t tell you why he’s already gone.

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”I think it’s high time I run for president, right after I piss my pants”

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Unless Conway Twitty had a version of this song, no reason any rational person should waste three minutes torturing their eardrums with this modern twang.

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She joins the Cranberries lead singer as another female Irish to O’dee on something.

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If you are serious about playing and improving your game, your second (and third and fourth, etc) racquet should be the same make and model as your first. The main reason to have a backup is if you break your strings, you pick up right where you left off with little adjustment. If your second racque...

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Strokes that have poor fundamentals, as both his forehand and backhand do, break down under pressure. I would be very surprised to see him ever win a major. Solid take, Bat. Unfortunately, I think you’re correct. The current batch of top 10-20 American players are more likely to be the next version...

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Softball Bat wrote: ↑Wed Jul 19, 2023 11:55 pm
Screw_Michigan wrote: ↑Wed Jul 19, 2023 9:21 pmWhat's your concerns with Tiafoe?
His stroke production is pretty awful.

A big credit to him that he can be #10 in the world with strokes like that.

I assume you are referring to his motion, particularly his loopy/wristy forehand motion?!

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What's your concerns with Tiafoe? As you know, he's from metro DC and he's real popular here. I've been playing at the club he came up at. I love Tiafoe, wish he could create his own energy like what he pulled out of the US Open crowd last year making the semis. I just don’t see him as a stone cold...

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I’m not denying his overall talent and youth, Bat. I’m just arguing he has no second or third dimension to his game, like Alcaraz does. When these ESPN guys start propping him up as Alcaraz’s rival, I roll my eyes. Guy hasn’t done squat. And thus, when he faces Djoker or Alcaraz at a grand slam, he ...

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Sinner's problem is that his game is somewhat similar to Alcaraz', but Alcaraz does everything better. Somewhat similar at best Bat. Sinner is taller than Alcaraz yet way less athletic. If he came to the net and wasn’t scared to finish points at the net like Alcaraz is so good at at, it would be a ...

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Very good call. Plus don’t forget, he’s already divorced with a kid.

Lots of distractions.

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Still waiting on that second wave of the American golden years (Chang, Courier, Agassi, and Sampras) to come sweeping through the ATP. Hopefully we see it here in the next few years. Sorry but it ain’t coming from the current stock of Tiafoe, Fritz, Paul or Opelka. Just not enough game, particularl...

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Thing I noticed about Krajicek is that his serve toss is really low. I mean as soon as he raises his arm, he's firing that bitch over. His toss was no lower than Sampras’ toss. Krajicek just had a really fast, fluid serve motion in which he hit the ball right as it reached its peak altitude with no...

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Nice to see you back here, Lefty. I think there are some of us still hungry for the BTPCFB smack of old, just not sure of the headcount. I know we lost a lot of Michigan Men during the RichRod years. They should be recruitable again now that Woodyglasses Harbaugh is at the helm, even though he’ll ne...

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Kierland wrote: ↑Wed Jul 12, 2023 12:15 am You was run.

Jeezus you’re an emotionally dependent freak. Lefty hasn’t posted here in months and the moment he does (within twenty minutes

) you’re stalking his return like a mosquito who’s been deprived to drinking its own piss.

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It helps to have a serve motion that naturally pulls you into the court (closer to the net). Make sure your ball toss is out in front of you, you want to be moving forward from the get go. From there you don’t want to still be moving forward at the very moment your opponent is hitting his return or ...

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curfew Screwey— this is completely a Euro thing. Before Roland Garros and Wimbledon had retractable roofs, play ended at dark, even if a match was in progress. Now that these tournaments have the ability to go late into the evening, they still decide when it’s your bedtime. If I had to pinpoint the...

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NYT had an interesting story about how players hate the modern grass surface at Wimbledon, which has been tweaked to play faster and more like a hard court. I dunno, I think grass is kind of silly when players are slipping and sliding and risking serious injury. Saw Alizé Cornet do the splits in he...

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To your point Screwey, given the resources professionals have, it does seem like overkill to be lugging all that extra gear around. Junior players are packing extra racquets exclusively for the string breaking occurrence (or in the event an angry tirade comes along and it’s a broken frame). Professi...

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A string can break at any point, there’s that. Many players prefer switching out racquets at certain times during a match, assuming they have different racquets strung at slightly different tensions. For instance, the weather might change and a player could be sailing a few long forehands, so they w...

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This is so stupid. Can we just send the NIL and transfer portal back in time to wash hands of this whole incident and any others like it?

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All those years of conference smack and unresolved bowl games and now we’re closer than ever to one mega conference and an expanded playoff.

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As silly as it may seem, the mere color or pattern of the racquet may be a legit reason not to play it, if it is distracting. I realized a time ago that racquets with different lighter color patterning on a side of the frame versus the other was messing with me. I’d be ok playing with an all-white r...

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Softball Bat wrote: ↑Mon Jul 03, 2023 11:46 pm *Correction*

I posted that Sampras and Ivanisevic played in the '98 Wimbledon final, but that was wrong.
They played in the '94 final.

Bat you really don’t need correcting on this topic but you were right both times.

Sampras beat Goran both in ‘94 and ‘98 Wimby finals.

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I’ve played with Head racquets most of my life (and I haven’t been playing regularly for a while). I like the controlled feel of a large grip with a thin frame, typically the Radical or Prestige models. I harp a lot about Muster in his hay day but the blue 280 model he used was my favorite racquet o...

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Pure serve and volleyers don’t exist anymore. Federer was the closest thing to it in recent memory but he was nothing near the likes of Becker, Edberg, Sampras, Krajicek, Ivanisevic, Rafter, Stich from the generation before. Like Bat said, those were guys who would s&v more often than not no mat...

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I would argue Agassi was the guy who essentially paved the way for the baseliner game at Wimbledon. In his day, the tourney was owned by the serve and volleyer. For years, Lendl would go to great lengths to prep for Wimbledon but never could win it. Agassi’s return game was on a whole other level an...

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I hear she has Borderline vaginosis.

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The great Thomas Sowell has been arguing this for 40+ years. 40+ years too late.

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Softball Bat wrote: ↑Sat Jul 01, 2023 2:19 am Pickelball's current popularity is another symptom of the dumbing down of America.

I was disappointed, but not surprised, to see Agassi, Roddick, McEnroe, and Chang play that dumb pickelball exhibition a few months ago.

Pitiful whores.

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Hello tennis freaks. I've been playing a shitload of tennis this summer and it has been great. I have also been watching a lot of classic matches online. Would you have any suggestions for ones I should watch? Great job Screwey! Keep it up man! Don’t give into the Pickleball bullshit. Pickleball is...

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Double- RIP to Mr Gordon Lightfoot, who if still alive, could have woven us a beautiful tapestry of lyrics in tribute to the wreck-of-the-titan-submersiblllllllle. Damn.

Maybe Weird Al still has some air left in the tank.

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Softball Bat wrote: ↑Wed Jun 21, 2023 4:25 pmI think I could see him doing something monumentally destructive before I could see him acknowledging his failure.

Classic symptoms of the disorder.

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“Once More….”

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While we’re talking about voting and ballots, made me think of this great old tune by Neil.

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Esteban was eaten.

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