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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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I think he’s a bit of a dickhead, as witnessed against Van de Zandschulp in the Munich final. But he’s young and fiery. And has been punking fools on the red clay this year. Would not surprise me if he made the finals at RG, though I think Zverev has the cool comeback story going. Nothing would shoc...

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Softball Bat wrote: ↑Mon Jun 05, 2023 11:02 pm
Meat Head wrote:the Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023
lol

Yeah, it is the exact opposite of what it is called.

It definitely is, at least until the Inflation Reduction Act lives up to its name.

Biden will no doubt sign the This Isn’t Bullshit, I Swear Act before he’s done clicking pens.

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(1) Alcaraz
(3) Djokovic

(6) Rune
(22) Zverev

Djoker over Zverev in the finals

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Mikey wrote: ↑Sat Jun 03, 2023 2:13 am You’d better hurry before most of the state is under water.

Your state will be underwater much sooner, just in time not to pay out the reparations.

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Jeezus Screwey, grow some balls. You’re bending down pretty far to kiss the ass of someone who was calling you a sap not too long ago.

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Kierless wrote: ↑Thu Jun 01, 2023 4:37 am I dodged a bullet there,

Easy for you, even if standing on a barstool

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I visited NYC in 2012 & rode the subways many times. Seriously? 10+ years ago you were here visiting? You really have no clue what you’re talking about. I lived here 10 years ago and the subways were in fact safe to ride. Throw in the Covid situation in 2020 and ever since, the loonies have bee...

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Hopefully this doesn’t make others hesitate to intervene when violent people threaten others. Please explain what reasonable cause Penny had to believe that this guy was violent. Please explain how Penny was justified to use a choke hold, a hold that has been banned from LE for many years. You don’...

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Softball Bat wrote: ↑Mon May 22, 2023 1:36 am 5. 88BuckeyeGrad - Only put up 4 posts, and probably doesn't really deserve this spot, but it is good to see him posting.

If he puts up a post or two in August related to a legendary pick’em contest, watch out

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Diego in Seattle wrote: ↑Sat May 20, 2023 9:35 pm
Which will be under water first?
NYC or Miami.
New York

Sin,
Billy Joel

Rack! This is by far your best post ever. Seriously.

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Rafa is the King of Clay. I know nothing of this French Open event just as there is no British Open in tennis.

But Rafa does hold the keys to Roland Garros. In all honesty, if he doesn’t play his last match there, he should hang it up now.

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This is one of the many secret strategies of the newly appointed Rat Czar, aimed to slowly drown out all those pesky rodents.

Bums, however, will continue to sink into the subway system and harass innocents.

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Preceded in death by:

Whitman, Price and Haddad.

RIP Fireball

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Biggie wrote: ↑Fri May 05, 2023 3:23 am I’ll nominate Endless Wire.

Kick ass tune. And possibly the greatest album cover.

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NYC is a giant flaming shithole. The subways have been like this since the Covid situation. I have witnessed the mentally ill assault old men and minority women numerous times in the last year. This situation is the clear exception, most of the time onlookers just sit uncomfortably waiting for the d...

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