Wow. Great post. One additional observation - he masks the intention of that serve so well. On all four of those serves in the video, Berdych has no idea where the ball is going until it’s way too late. Damn.

Anyone else jackin’ it to this, or just me?

Right, but somehow when I have conversations at the tennis courts with 18-year-old boys about their underwear I’m in the wrong? SMH.

“They certainly don’t smell like regulation underwear either sir.”

“As the most mentally grueling of all sports”
I’m gonna call bullshit on this one. I’d accept golf or baseball.

Good point. But the reporter is the one making the comparison. I think he was taken aback by the reporter’s apparent belief that Serena would fare just as well on the men’s tour. This was the day she learned that Serena wouldn’t.

I don’t think 700 is that off the mark (I follow the game pretty closely, but even then McEnroe follows it closer than most of his online critics today). I’ll concede it ‘sounds’ bad.

Look at how this question was setup:

It IS certainly uncalled for, as Trump is in no way relevant to the article. Patrick might as well have also added a few claims about how awful his ex is while he was at it.

Your gif is the last straw for me. You can keep plagarism and summing up crappy articles but showing that level of disrespect towards anyone let alone the POTUS is unacceptable in my book.

Maybe not but we could have CRUSHED Tom Sawyer.

I mean, the owners are right. It’s mostly the lawyers that handle the difficult part of negotiations, and the owners have a lot of input too. The commissioner is mostly there to build consensus and manage competing interests. Fun fact: Goodell is terrible at that.

“Well, I’m sorry if you just can’t handle a fan of sport making sure the rules are followed, good sir.”, the dickbag says, just before calling the HOA about those infernal children selling their damned lemonade down the street.

FOH with that, they were both clearly intentional.

Go fuck myself? *Jerks off to the Superbowl highlights* drew, shoulda thought that through more!

Right. And the MLS convinced our stupid owners that it was about attendance and a stadium and they bought that line hook line and sinker. Thanks for making my point for me.

The idea that high-attendance makes a lower league club attractive to MLS is a fallacy. My hometown team the Rochester Rhinos routine outdrew several MLS franchises in the late-90s, early ‘00s and we all thought MLS was the next step. we even won the US Open Cup once. Turns out the MLS was just using our franchise as…

And sometimes with one another.

It happens in a lot of families. Happened to me actually. You achieve some measure of success and the rest of your lazy, stupid, embittered family hates you for it.

Russia didn’t sway the election, no matter how much they interfered. That may have reassured dyed-in-the-wool voters, but these were two terrible candidates with firmly entrenched bases. What won it for Trump was swing voters in Rust Belt states; they voted for him because they believed — supported by no evidence…