NP, only if you can talk the owner down a couple hun. It does beat walking.

CP. I test drove a 2012 Spec V. I know it was advertised as posessing 200 HP, but my experience was that some were missing on the trip from the engine to the front wheels. I would say that 40 horses stopped at the ol’ watering hole.

It’s the NFL...they put people in a combine.

Something something True Coat.

Too contrived. It looks like something you would do to promote Resident Evil 17 (or whatever sequel we are on now), not as a fashion statement. Rust is earned, IMHO, not mimicked. If you want to do intentional rust accents on an older show car/rat rod, I’m okay with that.

Making the plastic parts look like they rusted is unforgivable.

No. Serena tried to rattle Naiomi, but even the diva-rant she threw had no effect on Naiomi’s game.

If Serena had the maturity to accept the warning for the coaching, and continue on with losing the match, people wouldn’t be wasting time trying to justify her terrible behavior. They call the first infraction a “warning” for a reason.  She was just trying to rattle the kid with her diatribe.

If I were Patrick Mouratoglou, I would be looking for another job. Serena is passing out blame to everyone but herself. Her behavior during and after the match was terrible. 

She also isn’t new to angry outbursts.

Hmm... I don’t think she initiated it for any ulterior motives. But even in real-time I felt like she saw an opportunity in the crowd reactions and was happy to gin them up in her favor and against Osaka. I’m not a mind reader, so I could be wrong. But I don’t actually give Williams any credit for asking the crowd to…

I agree with each of your points. I watched the whole match. Serena was getting her ass kicked, and trying everything she could to rattle Osaka. She couldn’t do it. Then Serena lost it. She screamed at the ump, what, three different times?

THIS. Serena has also had a history of...questionable... conduct when she’s been losing.

‘grace personified’, ‘all class’ - I can’t believe that people would interpret events that way. Serena disgraced herself with an embarrassing display of entitled petulance whilst in the process of getting a bad beating on court.

... She’s all class because her terrible behavior ruined Osaka’s first GS win, but she tried to make it somewhat better after the fact?

Can we please stop with the Serena worship? She’s a titan of tennis, a superb athlete, but she’s not without flaws, without her faults. She’s petulant, and this isn’t the first or worst instance of abusing an official in her career.

I don’t think you need to worry about that.

Osaka was so far and away better today it wasn’t even funny. Her ability to step up and hit great shots serving up 5-4, after Williams stalled for forever complaining to the referees and the crowd showed their ass, was unbelievable.

This article is terrible.

This was so hard to watch. I hope Naomi Osaka knows she would have won this match on her own if all of this shit hadn’t happened.