Current News: Djokovic playing Vienna this wk! Election '20 well underway w/ over 90 M votes cast by mail & early balloting! ;-)
Nathan Chen wins Gold over Zhou @ Skate America! ;-)
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***...I guess this is a mix of skaters I personally do not "feel" &/or feel the fans overrate to the point of annoyance (to me).
ReplyDeleteLadies:
Tonya Harding - outside of that Triple Lutz circa '94 & that 3-Axel. I mean "Wild Thing" provides the LOLs, but that's it.
Surya Bonaly - outside of '95 Worlds & '98 Olympics SP. That Four Seasons LP she did forever was snooze-worthy.
Sasha Cohen - I think skaters should skate w/ edges. She did improve by '06. I never bought her musical expression or connection w/ the music, if there was any.
Irina Slutskaya - I hold her skating to = < esteem now than I did @ the X.
Shizuka Arakawa - love her edges, but she's a true one-hit-wonder w/ only ONE program of hers that I can say I truly like - "Turandot."
Yuna Kim/Mao Asada - They come in a pair for me. I think Kim had some A-level performances, but I never really felt anything from her. Mao's simply exquisite in her gala performances nowadays, but her comp. routines were just blah to me.
Oksana Baiul - Never got her outside her Swan Lake SP.
Men:
Evgeny Plushenko - after '04.
Brian Joubert - I fell asleep during one of his Matrix LP performances from '04 much < all the other times after.
Patrick Chan pre-'15.
Yuzuru Hanyu
Adam Rippon***
...Never been big into Pairs & Dance = though I had a few faves like Anissina & Peizerat! Loved her lifts of him instead of the other way around! Most skaters have brief success; taking truly special individuals who can stay @ a high level over 3-4 yrs! Who was > prodigious than Tara L., coming out of nowhere to steal MK's OG in Nagano @ 16? I can still remember going to bed around 5 AM or so in Cal. & the radio announcing the result! I couldn't have been > thrilled aside from Kulik taking the men's event over Elvis! Stojko had the same problem as Surya, but was able to overcome it somehow by just out-jumping the other men in '97; most of the X coming up short artistically to Alexei Urmanov!
I was initially resentful of Irina taking away from Surya in Europe, but after a while she also overtook Kwan to upset her @ the GP Final & Worlds! Oksana w/o a doubt, the >est/ultimate bust as a one-hit wonder! I was a fan of Yagudin before jumping ship to Tarasova! She brought out > in him artistically, but Plushenko's jumping ability cut Yag's Am. career short pushing him to do > needed vs other skaters! To this day, Alexei Y. mhb the best of all X if not for Plushenko! It wasn't that Evgeny was a >er skater; Alexei couldn't phone it in @ the big events! He needed 2 Quads & in '01-02 he was pushed so much, the damage was perm. & he had to leave th Am. ranks! Plushenko prob. wouldn't have had all his successes if Alexei had been able to hang in there 2 > yrs! I can relate & have something to + about all the skaters mentioned, but need to go! BBL! Thx!
***Paul Wylie. Todd Eldridge. Evan Lysacek. Same guy, diff. X. - Only one is the OGM though.***
ReplyDeleteEvan had the advantage of going up vs a broken down Plushenko in his 3rd Olympics & well "past it!" Love Evgeni, but it's still hard to watch that horrible performance! He was > into an exh. > that Olympic charade! It was lackluster w/ squeaky landings! Even after all that, Evan still barely won by 1.5 pt.; < a double axil if Plushenko had decided to + it! His arrogance was a hindrance on this occasion thinking j/b he completed his quad he deserved the OG! I'm a fan, but = I couldn't excuse that performance!
***When everyone on FSU was oohing & awwing over Farris w/ his Schindler's List program, saying he was a true artist compared to a choreographed one like Brown; I was confused. I thought it was generic.***
Just watched 4 CCC from '15 & the commentators had t/b either drunk or on drugs! They fawned & elevated Farris to Curry status! "He's taking this sport by storm!" IDK WTF they were looking @! I was nauseated in so many ways! His choice of music (it's iconic) made the performance memorable & that's it! They +ed up the jumps as if he completed them; failed attempts don't count! Someone needs to tell these cretins just that! Going to '14 US Nat'ls, I liked his quad attempt! I never got the feeling Brown actually tried to make it > look as if he made a good faith attempt! Farris' landings are all dodgy & everyone needs to hold their breath until he finally comes down! His only advantage IMO is he's younger & marginally cuter! That's all I'm giving him until I see >!
***Skaters I never "got":
Yagudin, Plushenko, Yuna Kim (0 soul in her skating)
Nathan Chen (Still looking where his great artistry is...)
Patrick Chan (It never clicked...)***
Yagudin - was initially a fan until he started selfish rivalry w/ Plushenko
Plushenko - became my new fave = though I knew Yagudin the > complete skater
Yuna Kim (zero soul in her skating) - Agreed; all choreographed & soulless programs! So MK really.
Nathan Chen (where's his great artistry is?) - He's winning on his jumping alone; ala Plushenko! There's no artistry.
Patrick Chan - I've always thought of him as a bit of a wild-man skating so out of control @ X's! It's as if he thinks he can defy the laws of physics & gravity when he goes for some of that edge-work! He's shocked when he hits the ice & I'm saying to myself "he's going down & going down hard!" What an idiot! He had gifts, but m/b it was the Canadian curse or legacy that betrayed him when it really counted @ the Olympics!
***My guess is that Rep.'s main motivation for using the term is that it annoys the Left. Ignore it & it'll fade away.***
ReplyDeleteNyah! I used to think that way w/ most intel. people, but unfortunately we have a HUGE cross-section of self-motivating idiots who choose to believe something w/ no proof! All we have to do is recall Trump pushing that old BS about Obama being Kenyan, Muslim, unpatriotic, & an aff. action pres.! You're saying there aren't millions of people who still believe that shit? I'm like "done trying" to educate people who prefer to live in ignorance or have the memory capacity of a hummingbird! We're so hope<, I just gave up after '16! We're destined to go backwards since we allow dullards to run the show w/ lit'l reason > the way they frame issues to illogical extents w/ success!
***Perceived tribal advantage trumps intellectual honesty @ this pt. If nutters can annoy the other tribe, they'll do it.
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More & > top Rep. are coming out vs Trump like Fiorina! - I wouldn’t say she's a top Rep., but glad she isn’t supporting him.***
Anyone that comes out as any kind of supporter for Trump will taint themselves for all X! Any self-respecting person will turn their backs on this traitor who's working hand in hand w/ Putin & Russia! He's been their toady & you s/b embarrassed & ashamed! Lindsey Graham & Ted Cruz are scratching for relevance & if there's any justice or Karma out there, Graham & Susan Collins s/b gone in Nov.!
***Elections aren't a binary choice. There are > 2 choices.***
Delude yourself if you like! Progressives went for Nader in 2000 that begot "W!" It's a binary choice if you're looking for stable gov't! DC's been a zoo since Trump took office & it's costing us everyday; $$, lives, & worldwide respect or lack thereof!
***These idiot RINO'S are crazy; Biden can't = remember his name!***
What does that say about Trump when so many RINO's are saying the same thing? HELLO, wake up! Trump's w/o a doubt worse > Biden no matter what!
***VP Biden delivers remarks @ Nat'l press conference.***
This kind of speech c/b scathing only b/c it's all factual w/ Trump's words thrown back @ him! It's a shame that there's a need for repetitious spouting of this info, but we just don't retain it for any real length of X! Who else would still be in office suggesting to inject Lysol to clear up CV-19? Something's not just wrong w/ him, but anyone in his orbit who allows this charade of a presidency! Sucking up to Putin w/ this latest news should finish the deal, but there are still millions out there making excuses for him & the Rep. Party! IDK how we recover after so much disinfo & lack of leadership!
***She was probably just annoyed that it was uninspired & relied on basic stereotypes.***
Some of us look t/b offended by something! The prob. I see; esp. here in the States is few seemed to have a prob. w/ Trump! His breathing air is offensive to me! He can insult women, minorities, Muslim, Gold Star families, & other countries, but we're clamoring for justice today concerning sexism & racism when these are old arguments that won't be resolved in our lifeX's! People are still fighting the abortion laws & it's been legal for almost 50 yrs! I don't think people could live in any kind of mental peace w/o being able to "Kvetch" about something! It's part of the human condition! Luckily I took an anecdote ages ago & remain content = w/ the turmoil in the world! I just couldn't GAF any> if we allow things to deteriorate the way it has for the last few yrs! End RANT!
***You just provided one key to how to make a gov't benevolent. Make it realize that it is in its own best interest. They don't = have t/b inherently benevolent, just convinced that it's for their own good as well as the public @ large.***
ReplyDeleteThat's the way it's supposed to work, but for the last 2-3 decades it's turned into an "us vs them" mentality that's gotten worse as X goes on! Not to pt. fingers, but no one can deny Reps have pretty much erased the word "compromise" in their dictionaries! If the word is = implied, it appears the politician w/b "primaried" & have someone installed > intransigent b/c that's where society has gone! Trump has been utilizing these beliefs to the fullest & taken advantage of how stupid it makes us all look!
***Vote Trump out in a landslide in Nov. Let's send a strong message that the insanity has to stop.***
Unfortunately sanity in the US is fleeting! We're the def. of insane! We vote in someone who does a good job like Clinton & Obama, but allow their detractors to kvetch & make believe the country's going under! We elect morons like "W" & Trump to replace them who trash everything that was accomplished, then repeat the cycle! I'm not so sure the world's going to survive this mistake! Obama turned the economy around after being destroyed by "W," but we allowed liars to win the day, actually convincing fools we w/b >er off w/ Trump over Hillary! My hands shake @ the gross mental instability needed to perpetrate this fraud on the world's pop!
***Let's send a strong message that the insanity has to stop.***
Unfortunately the outrage only lasts so long! Even the most of heinous acts is forgotten sooner or later! I thought there m/b a "sea change" w/ Rodney King almost 30 yrs ago! We're still allowing the same act t/b perpetrated w/ expected consequences!
***We need a poll asking if voters will vote against Reps on the down ballot b/c of the president’s performance.***
IDK how people can intelligently vote against Trump for cause, but ignore the support he's getting from w/i the party to this day! Of course down-ballot candidates are going t/b hurt or not get a vote at all when past supporters stay home! That's what these people do; if they can't get their way, they pout, stamp their feet, & relentlessly lash out!
***...At the very least, I bet kids would exercise their right to vote if they studied history >.***
Unfortunately the outrage only lasts so long! Even the most heinous of acts is forgotten sooner or later! I thought there m/b a "sea change" w/ Rodney King almost 30 yrs ago! We're still allowing the same act t/b perpetrated w/ expected consequences!
***...A Congress or Senate elect can run forever, while presidents can only serve a max of 8 yrs.***
There won't be a change in our lifeX, but I suggest a longer one term presidency to elim. a lot of the BS that goes on just trying to get re-elected! I suggest 5 or 6 yrs! Of course we'd have to make a > "sane" choice after seeing how '16 turned out for us all! We're barely hanging on as a 3rd world banana republic, now banned from travel to Europe! So much for the US "being great again" for the X being!
***I get the feeling that they are only now figuring out the reality you stated. A little slow in the brain box, these new age Reps.***
Some aren't just slow, they're block-headed & still spouting Trump's original line of a hoax going on or "freedom" to go out & get sick b/c they refuse to wear a mask like their fear< leader!
***Edberg & Nadal are the only men to win 2 GS finals in Open Era where they lost 2 cons. sets in the final.***
ReplyDeleteOften it's something that c/b avoided, but it happens all too often when a player either changes a winning formula or they don't push the envelope to close out the match allowing the opp. to take undeserved sets! I've seen it w/ men & women! A player c/b up a set & a brk, then all of a sudden have a "brain fart" making their lives complicated! Edberg did this w/ Becker on grass & clay! Edberg was up comfortably by 2 sets vs Becker in the SF of the FO in '89! ESPN moved the match up after the 1st 2 sets so IDK how Becker won sets 3 & 4, Edberg closing it out in 5! It prob. took something out of him in the final vs Chang who had a long battle to upset Lendl earlier in the tourney! IIRC, it happened to Nadal @ the USO a few yrs ago dropping an early Rd. match to Fabio!
***The BBC's celebrating Andy this wk-end showing all his triumphs mainly in DC, Wimbl., & the Olympics. I can sit & enjoy watching him beat Fedovic; esp. knowing that it won't feature Rafa losing to him.***
It's been unfortunate for Murray, his family, country, & fans that he played in "The Toughest Era" of pro tennis ever! We have 3 ATG's & no matter the press & adulation, Murray will inevitably be just a footnote after all's said & done! He has great accomplishments; some > acclaimed than past greats, but Andy will get m/b one thing that can't be overlooked, he was #1 for about 5 mins! Even someone as obscure as Rios will always be on that list & in history a century down the line! Even after all Andy's done, he won't appear > accomplished > Rios since Fedalovic has taken all the oxygen out of the era!
***Score in finals vs ATGs (10+ Slam finalists):
- Laver 17-5 (77.3%)
- Sampras 17-10 (63.0%)
- Djokovic 40-25 (61.5%)*
- Becker 27-18 (60.0%)
- McEnroe 27-23 (54.0%)
- Borg 16-14 (53.3%)
- Connors 24-23 (51.1%)
- Agassi 13-13 (50.0%)
- Nadal 27-29 (48.2%)*
- Murray 14-16 (46.7%)
- Lendl 29-35 (45.3%)
- Federer 21-31 (40.4%)*
- Edberg, Wilander 15-25 (37.5%)
- Newcombe 6-10 (37.5%)
- Rosewall 8-18 (30.8%)***
Djokovic will always top these lists going back a century in the game due to how much serious comp. he had his entire career! It just won't happen again in our lifeX seeing 3 ATG's @ the same X, battling 40-60 X's! In the past top players were upset > due to surface specialists & overall talent > balanced! Fedalovic are far away the BOAT & their #'s have taken over the rec. bks; Nole > so having to overcome Fedal for well over a decade!
***Fed's score is pitiful.***
Federer got fat in those yrs after Sampras & while old man Agassi & a limited Roddick were his main rivals until Rafa & Nole showed up!
***Meanwhile Djokovic's main rivals are Gen Use<.***
You can say that if you want, but you'd be ignoring 100+ matches vs Fedal! The rec. bks are perm. listings of facts unlike opinion that's discounted over X! I was there when Sampras was given the moniker of "The GOAT" w/o = playing a FO final! That was our opinion to discount the need for that title! Now we all look like fools when Sampras' only real achievement of note will end up being YE #1, 6 yrs in a row! Fedalovic have eclipsed > all other accomplishments achieved by Pete & put them out of reach in many circumstances!
***Adding Murray actually helps Fed the > in this stat & Nadal the least.
- Federer 5-3, 62.5%
- Djokovic 11-8, 57.9%
- Nadal 1-3, 25%
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...I think we can safely say that Andy will always appear much > accomplished than Rios.***
Of course you know what I mean; in the grand scheme of #'s in comparison to Andy's contemporaries, his accomplishments were unfortunately dwarfed by Fedalovic!
***Thiem def. on Fed's level as evidenced by him not being able to beat a C-level Djokovic @ the AO.***
ReplyDeleteDjokovic just hung in there long enough for Thiem to "tucker" out from his previous matches & to think about actually winning the title! That's what Fedalovic do >er > any other great; allowing their opp. to self-destruct when needed! Nadal's the best @ it; evidenced by his streak in Paris! Nole's proved his mantle w/ not only the "also-rans," but outlasting & coming back to defeat Fedal in their primes! Fed's only near or currently @ the top due to early success w/ lit'l comp.! There are 2 players that literally own him now so it's a lit'l embarrassing to bathe in the glow of being called "The GOAT" when Nadovic kicks his ass most of the X; esp. in majors! His best chances from here on if Roger comes back is on faster surfaces w/ him attacking >! The old man just can't "hang" w/ these kids indef.; no matter how weak they are mentally! Remember some nobody outlasted Roger by the name of Millman @ the USO 2 yrs ago! WHO? Sooner or later it'll start happening > freq. & in important! I think w/o a doubt Murray's > Hewitt, but due to the era, Andy w/b inevitably a footnote while Lleyton held the #1 for well over a yr. w/ fewer titles & major final appearances! I don't = like Murray, but I c/b honest when it comes to the rec. & obvious abilities!
***We now have proof: Murry > Fed***
Murray had his chances to make a mark for himself vs Fed, but blew it except in that 1 DC match on Wimbl. grass in '12! Federer's had every chance to fulfil his resume needs, but this keeps happening! Dropping those 3 Wimbl. finals to Nole does hurt his legacy, but not enough to say Murray > Fed!
***Score in finals vs GOATs:
- Djokovic 29-17
- Nadal 25-26
- Federer 14-27
And that's pretty much the list.
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I'm happy w/ Murray not being ATG if Edberg, Connors, Agassi, McEnroe are not in the same category of Big 3 & Laver, who won almost twice the majors as them. I rate them:
GOAT Candidates:
- Fed, Rafa, Nole, Laver, Gonzales, Sampras
Upper-Tier ATGs:
- Borg, Rosewall, Lendl, Connors, McEnroe, Agassi
Lower-Tier ATGs:
- Edberg, Wilander, Becker, Newcombe
Near-ATGs:
- Murray, Courier, Kuerten, Hewitt, Ashe, Nastase, etc.
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Yeah, so Nole has the best H2H w/ GOAT candidates.
- Most wins (55), > finals won (29), 2nd > Slam matches won (17), but w/ >er distrib. > Nadal (> wins @ 3 of the 4 slams).
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Let's take everyone below 10 Slam titles out of the pic.
> wins over GOATs --> Djokr 55
> wins in finals over GOATs --> Djokr 29
> wins in big tourn. finals over GOATs --> Djokr 23
> wins @ the AO over GOATs --> Djokr 6
> wins @ WI over GOATs --> Djokr 5
> wins @ USO over GOATs --> Djokr 4
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The men's "GOAT" 30 yrs from now w/b somebody who has yet to play their 1st match. I'm sure many folks in Panetta's day -- perhaps including Panetta -- thought nobody would ever be >er > Borg, & yet...
When it comes to judging who the best among the Big 3 was 30 yrs from now, it'll purely be a matter of who won the most of what is valued > @ that X. We often make the mistake of framing history in terms of contemporary norms & practices, & it's therefore pretty likely that Roger, Novak, and Rafa w/b judged by standards that aren't esp. appropriate -- sort of like using "total slams won" to judge players like Connors or Borg who rarely played the AO.***
***What are the recs vs other ATG's when they’re 3 yrs younger? How about 5 yrs younger? How about after one has already turned 30 himself? Fed's 9-13 since turning 30 yrs of age...:
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'08-13 vs career top 10 --> 131-66 (66.5%)
'14-20 vs the same players --> 113-35 (76.4%)
- W/O Djokovic:
'08-13 --> 120-52 (69.8%)
'14-20 --> 106-23 (82.2%)
And it's not just Fed. All last 20 Slams were won by over 28 yo & all last 14 Slams were won by over 31 yo.
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Actually Djokovic has only won ONE of the last 4 US Opens.***
The USO is tough; esp. w/ the X personalities exh. over the yrs! FFS, = Borg couldn't win it & it went thru 2 surface changes during his attempts!
***Was it before 40-15?***
Nadal's made Fed his bitch from early on, but Nole has acquired some of the most outstanding of comebacks to thwart Fed in his quest to hold onto moniker, "GOAT!" Nadal saved MP's, but it was that once while Nole's really cemented his legacy w/ crippling, X comebacks that'll haunt Roger forever!
***True, but @ the end of the day, it's just a game. And when all 3 are gone, nobody'll care about them.***
I don't think any era will = this one; esp. since it's gone on for well over a decade w/ the same 3 players taking turns being @ the top! I'm still in awe of their prowess! No era has had this level of excellence, setting recs all the way, & obviously putting them out of reach of players in the future no matter how good they may inevitably be IMO!
***Maybe, m/b not. I'd say there w/b a group of players who w/b superior to the Big 3 who'll emerge someX down the line. Just like nobody ever saw Djokovic coming in '11 & racking up 16 Slams from then to now. Nobody can truly know what's coming in the future. ...There's enough X for future gens of players to contend for the Slam ct.
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The Big 3 have no reason to hate each other & they don't have t/b besties either. However, judging by Papa Djokovic's pronouncements, there's lit'l doubt that there's some resentment from the Djokovic family regarding the other 2.***
Djokovic has the same prob. as Lendl before him living in the shadow of McEnroe, Connors, & Borg! It's what has made me come around to seeing Nole as the BOAT since he's had so many adversities to deal w/! W/ Fedal, the MSM & fanbase think of them as the def. of tennis! Their "fabled rivalry" is the stuff of legend = though Nadal owns Roger lock, stock, & barrel! I was one of those earlier followers that made excuses for the in=ties in victories in favor of Rafa until Wimbl. '08! If Roger couldn't close that deal, Rafa officially became his MASTER! Roger's latest success is unfathomable, but it's still up to Rafa who wins! Nole's #1 now & has been beating them both consistently = if people want to make excuses for them! Making age & health an issue when Nadal's just a yo'er & has had so many periods of X off while nursing "so called" injuries! I say so called b/c of past efforts; killing himself to win those FO's, but systematically WD'n from HC matches & tourneys when in a hole like 2 seasons ago @ AO & USO vs Cilic & Del Po respectively! This sort of double standard BS is bound to drive the fans & family of Djokovic out of their minds!
***I guess you hadn't watched the matches prev. to Del PO to notice that Nadal was struggling w/ his knees. It didn't just appear when he lost a set in the SF.***
It's like IDGAF! Why's all this sympathy thrown Rafa's way when it's possible he's running someone around like a chicken who m/b hurt as well? No one cares so that's why I yawn when people bring up Rafa's injury issues as if he's the only one w/ aches & pains!
***Connors was World #1 using a steel frame. Ashe beat Connors 45 yrs ago; fiberglass & aluminum racquet. While > top players used tradit'l rackets, there were alt. as early as the 70s. I do believe that if the rackets & strings were < powerful, we would have > slam winners & challengers.***
ReplyDeleteThe mid 70's had a splurge of super rackets made out of other materials than wood = though WOOD still ruled until early 80's! The biggest upsets have come w/ comp. rackets like Ashe's "HEAD" back in '75, but Borg & McEnroe continued to win w/ sticks for quite a few > yrs! I played w/ a racket from VOLKL in the mid 70's, the 1st all fiberglass comp., orange neon metal face w/ cobalt blue zebra stripes! It caught your attn. & cost about $150 which was 5 X's the price of wood! It's nothing now, but you could pay rent for $150 back then & I owned 2 of them!
***...What's concerning to me as a Djokovic fan is that he's essentially tanked a full set in each of his last 2 slam finals, both of which he ended up winning. He won't continue t/b able to pull rabbits out of hats when he does this.***
...The 1st thing to go getting older was the pace on my serve! Due to not getting as many free pts as in my 20's, I had to work harder to win serve which was exacerbated by a sleep disorder! I never got enough rest & it's a wonder I never keeled over on the court due to exhaustion!
***Men's Draw for '83 RG Chps - Noah #6. Wilander #5.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_French_Open_%E2%80%93_Men%27s_Singles#Draw -***
Can't believe all 4 top seeds lost QF; = if lame US HC mainstays like McEnroe & Connors! Hard to believe they were = seeded that high!
***Pistol Pete, the grass-court GOAT I had the pleasure of watching in my lifeX. It was uncanny in Wimbl. how he'd pull out a big serve almost @ will.***
Too bad he ran into a foil of his, Richard Krajicek! No upset in '96 really since Richard overall had some wins on fast HC services over Pete! Sampras mhg on to win a streak for the ages (@ the X), but was capped @ 7 Wimbl.! My fave on grass has t/b Stefan Edberg (just damn cuter) = though Pete > solid w/ that 1st serve!
***I'll never get over Edberg’s '91 SF Loss to Michael Stich @ Wimbl. That damn score is imbedded in my brain. 6-4, 6-7, 6-7, 6-7. Stefan lost the match w/o ever having his serve broken. Stefan I think lost only 10 or 11 pts on his serve thru the 1st 2 sets. In the 3rd set TB @ 5-6 he missed a gimme volley. But I’m not bitter.***
That's one of those scoring anomalies of tennis! You can actually lose a match when winning > pts & in Stefan's case, never losing his serve! Not sure he whg on to defeat Becker in the final though! They had been swapping Wimbl. victories & were going for 4 in a row! Edberg was overall Boris' bitch = though he won 2 of the 3 Wimbl. finals they played! ...Michael had a real ax to grind w/ Becker, but he wasn't the only German who did! Finishing Becker off in '91 is something that he can never take away from him!
***Rep's motto s/b -"in deniability we trust."***
ReplyDeleteWhen are we going to start taking responsibility for the leadership voted in X & X again? They make promises they don't keep & the ones that they do are detrimental to their constituents! It's like it's hard to keep blaming idiots in office when we're the ones that put them there in the 1st place! I'm still waiting for any of them to pay for a mistake! Trump's still flying high in the party so obviously there's nothing he can do that will make them turn; = if it KILLS THEM!
***...I've never heard Rep. blame poor people for anything.***
Sure they do! It depends on the lunatic Rep. that has the nerve to actually express their ideas out loud! Some accuse poor people of being lazy, looking for handouts, & using up resources unnec.; sorta like OLD People now during the Covid-19 pandemic! One actually thought it beneficial to just let them die! This kind of stuff comes out of Rep. pols mouths all the X if you look for it or not! Listen to Tucker here; "the only institution that can save America is the Rep. party?" I think not! They m/b "the end" of it if we continue sliding down the evolutionary scale electing troglodytes like Trump to high office!
***...Btw, the Coronavirus origninated from China, not Trump so are you really that obtuse?***
Obama battled 3 pandemics w/ 2 deaths attributed to Ebola & Reps still slammed his efforts! Fk. them all! They aren't reliable critics of anything; esp. their own misdeeds perpetrated on & gaslighting of society! Reps have no credibility! They're all FOS!
***If the Reps keep the Senate, Biden wouldn't get anything done.***
Normally I'd say "good pt.," but The Dems have made a career out of allowing the minority party to run them, block > legis., & to stymie any accomp. making it a drawn out, protracted fight! Dems need to start acting > like Reps; be total a-holes & just run Congress like tyrants! That's what they've been doing w/ great success it seems to me for decades! These jerks stole a SC seat for Gawd-sakes!
***You are right. Dems are too soft & scared to offend people. -...Kind of like how Presidents from opposing parties can become good friends once they're out of office. B/c it doesn't matter how > they disagreed or = hated each other. They're the only ones who can truly understand what the other one went through.***
That'll come to an end when Trump leaves office! He's offended the past presidents so much they skip events or make sure Trump isn't coming like the President's Cup last yr! Trump still invokes Obama not being a citizen of the US if you can believe it! I'm not big enuf to ignore someone who's that much an a-hole! I've never put up w/ that shit when I was a kid, I'm certainly not going to accept it from a president & everyone concerned should feel exactly the same way! Trump depends on people being suckers & I refuse t/b on that list! I have nothing but contempt for him & his whole rotten family!
***Look how the Reps interrupt the Dems & when they talk the Dems let 'em. Smh! This is how it usually goes.***
This is why Dems have been going down in flames to idiots on " the right" for decades! We allow them a whole diatribe of lies, then spend X correcting the lies; being interrupted the entire X! It's nothing new! It's their MO & it's sad to see it work so well w/ the imbecilic populous!
***SC Rules Trump Can't Block Release of Financial Recs or book written about him by his sister.***
ReplyDeleteDisgusted it = went to the SC for a ruling! Trump never had a leg to stand on when it comes to warrants, subpoenas, & his tax recs being kept secret! He actual said out loud, "I'm the president so I can't do anything illegal!" Nixon said something like that & we know what happened to him! I'm = > disgusted w/ Thomas who's toeing the party line supporting Trump to the day he's finally removed or croaks! What a waste of a SC seat!
***Also Alito shows himself t/b a scumbag here. - - Let's make our country better together!***
That w/b a nice saying of "togetherness," but unfortunately leaders endorse & propagate division & distrust! It's only gotten worse as X goes on & it's our fault allowing it to thrive w/ few penalties to the perpetrators!
***Sara Fagen reminds me of an ostrich w/ her head in the sand. I think she's delusional.***
Both sides of the political spectrum have their share of delusional & extreme elements! It can't be helped! Unfortunately they make the most noise so they get the lion share of the coverage! Bernie or Elizabeth don't represent me! They can barely represent themselves which is why they're so obscure = after all this X w/ Nat'l media pushing their very existence!
***Where were all the deficit hawks during the 1st 2 yrs of this admin.. The GOP had both the WH & Congress.***
It's the old double standard of "it's ok if I do it, but not you!" They criticized Obama for the budget, the increase in the Nat'l Debt, playing too much golf, & legis. thru Ex. Orders! I can't wait to see the nerve of these goofballs to come out critiquing any leadership after what Trump's put this country thru w/ his irresponsible, criminal behavior, & lack of governance!
***Dems are the current problem.***
Well there are plenty of bad Dems, but most of them "were Blue Dog" Dems before they took over the Rep. party w/ the Nazis, White Supremacists, & Evangelists! What a fk'n joke! The party of Lincoln pretty much overrun, w/ their moderates run out of office over the last 2 decades! Yrs ago I wouldn't hesitate voting for a Rep. that made sense! Unfortunately all of them are gone & they've only left behind Neanderthals that allow themselves t/b led over the next political cliff! Reps are such lemmings & prove it everyday!
***Why is Geo. Conway's opinion important?***
You poor thing; just as delusional as any Trumpster I guess! Why's Conway's opinion important? That's like you hiring a PR agent to make you sound competent, but the spouse of that agent is exposing the charade to the world! IDK how the Conways can possibly coexist when working for polar opposite results! Kelly Anne has compromised what lit'l she had in the way of ethics & integrity, but I have to believe this marriage is dead! I can't believe they're going to go back to "business as usual" after all's said & done after this nightmare we're all living is over = if super religious! I'd disown my own mother if she were to say "Trump's been good for the country!" I've already told my college roommate & bff of 40+ yrs to buzz off! He wears his Trump t-shirt w/ pride! He's going t/b all alone soon!
***Trump literally thinks that every answer of his is perfect no matter how inane.***
Why should Trump believe he needs to do better if his sycophants allow him t/b lame AF? Even "W" wasn't this pathetic & I thought he was about as dumb as a bag of hair! Trump outdoes him in that respect; obviously mentally deficient, but what's Hannity's excuse pumping this guy up as being great when he's the worst? I don't need to go look it up! This guy is SCUM & every one will realize it eventually when they wake up from their stupor!
...They'll need to go into another reality so conspiratorial it can't be spoken aloud to keep from sounding insane! The thing is Trump leads the way in that diagnosis & his fans don't seem to GAF; = if it means their own lives & the welfare of their fk'n kids! Reps are truly fk'd up in the head! They're still following the lead of the "Flat Earth Society!" The leadership chosen shows something's wrong in side their "membranes!"
ReplyDelete***Hillary & Michelle make the rounds speaking to young women***
It's a damn shame it prob. won't do much good overall for the female sex! Unfortunately for them, they're stuck in a mindset of a patriarchal society & it matters lit'l to them when some want them to have =ity! I'm done after it was literally women who put Trump in office along w/ siding w/ cons. Reps who've been trying to undermine those = rights @ every turn! It may not have been a majority of women who pulled Trump's lever, but it was enough to swing it & it w/b something they'll regret for the rest of their lives! I'm so done, I just can't GAF anymore after that treacherous act perpetrated on one of their own! If I were Hillary, I'd say "these bitches don't want t/b helped so screw 'em!" That has t/b the last indignity lost by us all electing such a creature to the highest office in the land!
***That is seriously not a thought Hillary would ever dwell upon. It's esp. not something she would ever think about young women & girls who're as forward-thinking & + as the young women leading this current Girl Up Leadership Summit. In the aftermath of the '16 election, I believe Hillary thought > about the mistakes she might've made, & she went thru a huge self-reflective effort in order to grow from what happened. It was damn tough too. Read her book. She moved on & we need to follow her ex. I recently suffered the unexpected loss of a younger relative which is so heartbrk'n & I'm working thru it. Staying upbeat & + is not easy. We all have to look out for our mental health. We can't change the '16 election. We just need t/b mindful of what we can do now. We need t/b cognizant of all that has happened & that's happening in this stressful X, & do what we can.***
I feel your pain & understand where you're coming from! My prob. is I've gotten old waiting for young women to take > responsibility & to fight for their own = rights while knowing there's dissension in their ranks! The betrayal is absolutely disgusting in so many ways! Trying to undermine & close free clinics & Planned Parenthood offices alone can't be excused! When women "on the right" back the party in this instance, I'm just done w/ them! They make it out that these places are abortion factories when it's only 3% of what they do; the rest being pap smears & other cancer screenings! How do you try & make pol. hay out of that? I just can't any> & have just given up! I'm too fk'n old to fight or = care any>! I could go on, but it w/b like dwelling on the neg.! You give me some +'s over & above me breathing air today & I'll stop being a "neg. nelly!"
***Tuberville beat Sessions in the AL Senate runoff. He'll go vs Doug Jones who won spec. elect. 2 yrs ago when Sessions stepped down t/b AG!***
Hopefully this w/b the fk'n stake thru the heart of that vampire! I guess we should thank Judge Moore for embarrassing himself yet again trying to overcome his past to win a senate race out of reach! He took 7% of the vote away from the other candidates forcing a runoff! Like it's going to make a diff.! I hope Doug Jones has his resume updated & ready to go b/c this won't be pretty! This football coach hero's going to easily win in Nov.!
***I joined the Log Cabin Reps as a cons. that's for Same-sex Liberty & Civil Rights while living in Colo. I became a del. in '12 & supported Ron Paul for nom. When Mitt Romney became the nominee, I jumped ship & became a Libertarian, supporting the Civil Unions & Cannabis Legalization campaign, both of which had victories in Colo.
ReplyDeleteIn '16, the Rep. Party changed their platform into an anti Gay hate agenda attempting the reversal of SC Samesex marriage decision & the est. of Samesex rights & Liberty in gen. Why are the Log Cabins still Rep., = when the Rep. party is opposed to their agenda?
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I can't speak for the Log Cabin Reps, but as a cons. woman who has to constantly hear that Reps are "anti-woman" & "misogynistic;" that I'm "voting against my own interests" b/c they don't support the agenda the left has decided is what all women want & need. I'm going to guess that they don't consider it t/b "their agenda." Or possibly they consider other things t/b > important to them.
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You are rather poorly informed. It was the Dem base in Cal. who voted vs gay marriage. Naturally Dems being the party that supports the will of the people sued in court to overturn the vote of their own base.***
IIRC, it was > the Rep. con artists that got the Black ministers & churches to side w/ them to get that vote! Fine! Again, suckers are born everyday! Gays, Blacks, Muslims, women, & = Mexicans voted for Reps when they talk about all of us like DOGS! Gawd, you're all just beyond help! BTW, pls stop believing the lies of Obama running guns! That program was started by "W" & was stopped when Obama found out about it! I guess if lies are spewed long enough, you guys believe anything; sorta like we allowed a Kenyan to lead the country for 2 terms! IDIOTS!
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...I'll never figure out women who go along w/ cons. troglodytes that have been trying to close Planned Parenthood for decades = though their main service is women's cancer screening! A-hole cons. go on Fox News nightly lying about them being abortion factories in every location! These people disgust me now after signing their souls over to Trump in '16 while people are dropping dead in the streets! I just can't GAF any> b/c the people of this country are obviously hope<!
***This is an important issue. This is not about rights. This is about superiority. Trad'l marriage has been weakened immensely. At some pt. the term "breeders" is going to turn into a slave job. ...They'll end up blaming anyone not in their predicament. ...The blame game exists when X's go bad.***
There's the "blame game," then there's fk'n history we can look @! Bush 41 hands Clinton a mess; fact! Bill cleans it up & leaves "W" w/ a budget sur+; fact! "W" starts 2 wars, gives away that budget sur+, institutes all kinds of initiatives like "No Child Left Behind," then doesn't fund any of it causing the Nat'l Debt to inflate = faster; fact! Obama takes the mess left behind & = w/ Reps kicking & screaming, we not only bring the economy back, we got something close to Nat'l Health after 100 yrs of futility! We have the "ACA" & w/ a pandemic out there, Trump & his cronies are still trying to undermine & take it out of existence w/ no replacement! They say they want to replace it, but w/ what? I haven't seen shit! That's what Reps do, "NOTHING" & hope it all stays together; sorta like all those crumbling bridges! What a bunch of losers! We're all pathetic b/c we allow them to get away w/ it! Fine, destroy yourselves w/ whatever cons. leanings you think you need to get thru the night! Good luck w/ that!
***I think the Bush family was disappointing too. 1988 & 2000 I backed them. Clinton was not handed a mess. Clinton wasted 2 yrs w/ his wife having a say & nearly destroyed his Presidency.***
ReplyDeleteThe "Contract On America" did help Clinton since they were so radical! The accomplishments they supposedly got were > ideological > actually getting anything accomp. over that "balanced budget" amendment! We were still on our way before "W" fk'd it all up along w/ Cheney! Funny how the last 3 Rep. admin. sold us out one way or another to other countries! It's so sad "the people" can't see how treacherous these people have been; esp. Trump who's been on bended knee to Putin since day one! It's so pathetic to hear cons. say out loud, "I'd rather be 'Red' than a Dem.!" You guys have truly fallen, allowing Russians all up in this admin.; Trump receiving them in the OVAL Office! I feel so sorry for the future of this country! How do we recover from such ineptitude? Who w/b the 1st to try & "explain it all away" as if it didn't happen like the Jewish, Serbian, & Native American genocides perpetrated in the world's history! That's the cons. MO now; project, deny, & actual gaslight everyone around them to hold onto power! It's so sad it's been working so well for them!
***Libertarians feel like the Rep. Party's > likely to address their ECONOMIC concerns, given that the Dems are goose-stepping Bolshevik commie twats.***
That is such horse-shit! Even if the economy has a temp. boost due to Rep. insistence of tax cuts, their budget deficits are always >er as they talk out the other side of the faces! The economy was thriving during the high taxes of Clinton no matter what people say! At least he paid for his debts unlike Reps who love using the credit card so they can blame the next admin. when the bill comes due! IDK why we s/b upset! The fools vote for this stupid routine of giving power back & forth = when it makes no sense! Why should they have selected "W" over Gore when Clinton admin. was successful? B/c they made an issue of his character, they turn around & install an orangutan like Trump to lead them! What hasn't he done, but cons. still defend him while @ the same X condemning Clinton's past! It's so pathetic! How do you people not only look yourselves in the face, but look into the eyes of your own fk'n kids spewing this shit? I just want to see how they brk ranks next month when Trump has decreed, "schools will open on X or I'll cut their funding!" What an a-hole! I'd like to see him send Barron to some public school w/o a mask!
***Can you quote anyone on Fox News saying that every PP location's an abortion factory?***
You aren't listening; ALL OF THEM! It's a damnable lie they perpetrate on their viewers all the X! They make out lib. women are in easy chairs, on an assembly line w/ legs up in stirrups as soon as they enter the door of PPP! Hannity's the worst of them w/ his unflinching face as he spews lie after lie! I guess that's why he makes such a good advisor to Trump! They live in the same swamp!
***You can't directly quote Hannity or anyone else on Fox saying that abortions are performed @ every PP location. You're accusing them of lying, but you have just proven yourself t/b a liar.***
How truthful was Hannity when Fox News was telling their viewers that the Corona Virus was a HOAX back in Jan.? They only came around months later when it seemed they w/b sued for passing out such false claims seeing people "stricken" down out of the blue! Instead of commiserating about how unfortunate the pandemic spread, Fox spent X pointing finger @ NY's mayor & Gov., hoping everyone would forget how silly they sounded as if this would all be over by July 4th! How soon we forget, but cons. memory has always been conveniently & predictably weak!
***...Congress makes the budget, not Trump, nor Clinton nor any other president.***
ReplyDeleteI'm well aware of how gov't works! You need to tell your fearless leader who doesn't have a leg to stand on on 1/2 the shit he spews about rules, rights, & laws he possess w/ such power! He's totally FOS & hopefully it'll all come crashing down when his whole fk'n family are prosecuted & wearing orange jumpsuits!
***...In the aftermath of the '16 election, ...& Hillary went thru a huge self-reflective effort in order to grow from what happened.***
...When women "on the right" back the party in this instance, I'm just done w/ them! ...I just can't any> & have just given up!
***Sorry @Fiero425. Yes, there's a lot t/b sad & bitter about. It c/b a struggle to find a way toward + thinking. ...I can talk a good game, but the struggle is real. Your bitterness & anger about women who didn't support Hillary isn't going to help you. If you say that you've lost hope b/c of the terrible -ity of some people, then that's a self-fulfilling prophesy.
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GA dodged a bullet when they avoided taking on Stacey Abrams as their Gov.***
Yeah, GA's doing so well under the leadership of that twit, Kemp undermining mask usage! What an A-hole! Trying to kiss up to Trump @ the risk of his constituents' health is an abomination! TX, AZ, & FLA. are poorly led so we'll see how they feel when > people drop like flies in the coming wks as they ignore the seriousness of the situation trying to placate their fearless, but hypocritical leader in the OVAL Office!
***ELEANOR Clift's COMPLETELY OFF HER ROCKER! JOE BIDEN IS SO INCOMPETENT!***
And Trump's as sharp as a tack! He mumbles so much, you'd think he'd use >er adhesives to keep his denture inside his fat mouth! Anyone trying to compare intellects when it comes to Trump shows desperation! He was never a scholar & never w/b after this disastrous presidency! This fool actually ??'d Obama's IQ, asking for college transcripts (w/o offering his own of course), & calling a living person, "an affirmative action" student & president! Screw anyone that can defend those kinds of comments from someone sporting the highest position in the land!
***Shermichael is very, very bright.***
Who's this Shermichael character? OMG, what does Trump have to do for this guy to get off the bandwagon? I guess Donald will have to literally spit in his face! What an idiot! There's intelligence, then there's common sense! He's def. short on the latter when it comes to support of this racist a-hole!
***Meghan McCain really thought she got Joy today when Joy brought up "Dream Girls" & Jennifer Holiday - "Isn't it Jennifer Hudson?" ;-)***
I don't give cons. the benefit of the doubt on anything! They aren't as forgiving = w/ mistakes! To this day Reps use a talking pt. stating "Obama lied when he said you could keep your doctor under the ACA!" It wasn't a lie; > a mistake due to how much his detractors were trying to kill the law to this day! It's a wonder we have something as eff. as Obamacare, but cons. still want it repealed in the mid'l of a pandemic! I just have no words for these people!
***I would say for the most part Meg played it cool considering the crazy shit John Lewis said about her father.***
I can't fathom WTF Lewis could've said about her father! The maverick was FOS in so many ways, but I'm not sure anyone would've said that B4 or after he died but Trump! If she wants t/b offended by someone, it s/b him & anyone who supports that nutjob! Be offended by the Rep. party! They've been taken over by "Blue Dog" Dems of the past, White Nat'lists, Evangelists, the Flat Earth Society, & other psycho mental patients (which incl. self-hating women, gays, Muslims, & other minorities that are stepped on my Reps)!
***I watch > WTA > ATP & unequivocally the ATP gen. > revenue. You can go to a WTA match the day of & still get good seats. If you look @ the broadcasts of the matches often X's you’ll see lots of empty seats. Tennis is tennis, but it’s still a male dom. sport. Loyal WTA fans will ALWAYS tune in. The next gen. is def. on the rise; Kenin, Andrescu, Gauff, Osaka, Rybakina, & Sabalenka just to name a few. They certainly aren't going anywhere.***
ReplyDeleteEven w/ all the stars women have produced over the decades, men's tennis still rules! Going back to my childhood playing & watching tennis, in Europe women's tennis was barely a warm-up act for the men! The funny thing is, it was totally diff. here in Chgo; the women ruled w/ the VA. Slims tour event while the men went thru 2 incarnations that just never seemed to work out! The men never caught on playing outside on a court platform @ Soldiers' Field in the summer or in the winter, indoors on an IL. college campus!
***Men's tennis has & is at a golden point in history with 3 of the ATG's active. However, before Fedal the ATP was struggling w/ a lot of 1 slam wonders & fading stars in the early 2000's from Gaudio or Costa, etc. Meanwhile during that X the WTA was in it's popular sweet spot w/ superstars like Hingis, Serena, Venus, Sharapova as well as players like Kournikova who would always draw a crowd & audience. It comes & goes in waves & the ATP are heading towards a dire per. w/ the Big 3 aging & nobody taking the reigns. So it looks likely we'll see one slam wonders & unknowns winning slams while the WTA has already est. names like Osaka, Muguruza, Halep & Barty.
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As Pat Cash so famously said, "women's tennis is 2 sets of rubbish that's over in 1/2 an hr."***
This wasn't the worst of it! I seem to remember Richard Krajicek commenting on the women's tour! He mentioned something about "80% of the top 100 women being lazy, fat pigs!" He was chastised for it & he backed off saying, "ok 75%!" ;-) He apologized yrs later, but he was just one of many who had lit'l respect for the women's game! I recall McEnroe & Connors refused to play in the Inaugural Lipton Int'l in '85 due to the men & women getting = prize $$! The slights go on thru the ages, but it's not like I care! The women's game is inferior compared to the men & it's embarrassing when they try to compete vs one another! I've seen the mild exhs. w/ Borg d Wade & Goolagong who was allowed to hang around & steal her match from Nastase who wasn't taking it seriously! Navratilova played a very comp. match in Vegas vs Connors, but both were aging!
***Yikes, is this meant t/b a defense in favor of not paying women what they get now? ...Imagine saying that an entire group of elite athletes are fat lazy pigs. Honestly, feral.***
Hey, don't shoot the fk'n messenger! I just report the info! You do what you want w/ it! Personally I learned > by watching & playing the games of aggressive women; Navratilova, Court, Goolagong, Wade, Shriver, & Mandlikova! I just understand the disappointment when spending a fortune to watch a major ladies' final only t/b disappointed by a blowout from Graf or Navratilova in 38 min. over some poor girl!
***I just don't understand how anyone could think that's useful to this debate? I understand people debating this topic, but to devalue a human being to terms like fat, lazy pig. How fk'n disgusting. I know you didn't say it, I'm just stunned & have lost all respect I had for Krajicek. And I agree, it sucks watching a tennis match & it being a destruction whether it's Fed destroying Cilic to the pt. where Marin was in tears in the '17 Wimbl. final or if it's Kvitova thrashing Bouchard in the '14 Wimbl. final. I just think it's stupid to act like only the women have one-sided, boring matches.***
***Slam winners since '06 RG:
ReplyDelete6'1 Nadal - 18 slams
6'2 Djokovic - 17
6'1 Federer - 13
6'3 Murray - 3
6'0 Wawrinka - 3
6'6 Del Potro - 1
6'6 Cilic - 1
- Slam finalists since '06 RG:
6'1 Nadal - 26
6'1 Djokovic - 26
6'1 Federer - 24
6'3 Murray - 11
6'0 Wawrinka - 4
6'6 Cilic - 3
6'1 Thiem - 3
6'2 Roddick - 2
6'3 Soderling - 2
6'6 Del Potro - 2
6'7 Anderson - 2
6'0 Gonzalez - 1
6'2 Tsonga - 1
6'5 Berdych - 1
5'9 Ferrer - 1
5'10 Nishikori - 1
6'5 Raonic - 1
6'6 Medvedev - 1
< 6' tall players won 0 of the last 56 Slams & reached 2 of the last 112 Slam finals. - I'm sure people were saying Laver's the GOAT in '69.***
...Laver was literally owned by HOAD, but those 2 CYGS & off the Am. tour for almost 6 yrs made a diff.! ...Emerson has > titles under his name due to Rocket's absence! Fed m/b put in that class of being "The Greatest" = though he may inevitably end up behind Nadovic in the major ct. & in their H2H recs! Sampras' style is what set him apart & elevated him = w/o a FO final to his name!
***TBH, I can never stop wondering why people can't have a fave player w/o being blind to facts. ...I was as disappointed w/ the 40-15 thing last yr. as anyone. I just wish I were into Nole as a player, but I'm not.
...All I know is that 3 incredibly special players have been playing @ the same X w/ one of the greatest sports rivalries we've ever seen. I think any intelligent, unbiased person can easily make a case for any one of these them as being the best - the story isn't done - & popularity shouldn't be conflated w/ athletic dom.***
I concur!
***Fed's luck of comp. is great ex. how we can falsely raise player >ness to hts he doesn't deserve. Luckily Rafole showed up & demasked him, = @ Wimbl. Nadal's untouchable @ RG.***
It seems to happen to all greats; certain per. w/ them not having a decent rival! It's happened > often w/ the women w/ per. of one player "owning" the tour like no other! It started in the 80's w/ Navratilova dismantling the ladies tour w/ her athleticism! It was almost embarrassing watching players just trying to take games off of her; she literally toyed w/ them! Graf had some of that dom. come & go! Obviously Hingis took advantage of a weak era though I love her play, she was never a dom. force in tennis = w/ an excell. rec.! Fed scooped up a lot in the 2000's before Nadovic came along & challenged his dom.!
***Nadal's the only player who stayed w/ Fed in his prime. That’s it. Even then it was >ly on clay until '08. Novak had some nice wins, but never really consistently got under his craw B4 '10 & by that X Fed was moving "past it" & Novak was moving into his. For the rest of their careers the age diff. would always favor Novak. The real surprise isn’t Fed being exposed, but how closely he’s competed w/ the only ATGs in his career - who are both really from another gen. @ 5 & 6 yrs younger.***
The reason Roger gets > scrutiny is b/c of proclamations made about his >ness! I was one who elevated him to GOD status 10 yrs ago not realizing Nadovic would literally take over their respective rivalries! Even w/ Sampras' shortcomings, he still dom. his era like no other taking those 6 YE #1's! He had some significant comp. too! It was a true GOLDEN Age where you could literally have a dozen major chp. winners in a draw! Roger, along w/ Nadovic made SF after SF in every event played over the yrs; that's real >ness! There were only 3 other major winners during this per. & I can't see that being replicated = in a 100 yrs! It's about their combined individual wills & competitiveness w/ relative insignificant injuries for the > part; Nadal the only one that was out for significant stretches off the tour! They only dropped out of the top 10 once each IIRC during that per.!
***The AO isn't Fed's 2nd best slam. That's USO.***
ReplyDeleteI agree! Fed only got those 2 extra AO's due to Nole's absence! Roger taking all those Wimbl. & USO's does elevate him regard< of the ct. @ the end IMO!
***...And w/ the AO court speed faster those yrs ('17-18), there’s no reason Fed wouldn’t have had a strong likelihood of beating a “better“ Novak w/ the form he was in.***
Well if that was the case, Fed would have > USO's as he hasn't won one in well over 10 yrs! No one seems to bring that up! He won 5 in a roll and has been 0-12 since, making only 2 finals! That has nothing to do with age as far as I'm concerned! The tourney is just tough; hence Borg without even 1 championship being played on 3 different surfaces from '74-78!
***Actually Fed fans bring up his dismal USO results since '08 quite often. Age c/b used as an excuse in '17 when I think he would've won it had it not been for his back. But all the other yrs he either choked ('09-11), was injured ('13) or was outplayed. Legacy-wise, one of his worst losses ever was losing to Del Po, who has done nothing in slams ever since. Had Fed won 6 str. USO's, it whb massive, but he opted to choke. That wasn't the 1st or last X he did that.***
Which is why I'm pulling back on the GOAT moniker! He literally has more of those matches with MP's than any other player! That's massive!
***I feel Sharapova & Bouchard have done > for WTA sex appeal than Hingis ever did.***
Well @ least you can admit women's tennis is > fluff > anything in comparison to the men unfortunately! I've preferred the women's game way back when I was learning to play! They have to work harder to hold since they're not "serve-bots" like the men! Now they're just playing like the me, whacking the ball as hard as they can w/ abandon!
***I'm OK w/ Nadal becoming recognised as GOAT. It's the other fellow I don't want to have that honour.***
You may have no choice! Nole's in >er shape & health overall, + he's already leading in the H2H w/ clay Rafa's last refuge! If not for players to soften him up over the last 2 seasons like Medvedev, Thiem, & Zverev, he'd already be past Rafa is so many ways outside of the FO! Sorry to make you face the facts Nole's had a > balanced career & resume! Rafa has the Olympics, but Nole has 5 YEC's; Rafa w/ 2 finals to his name!
***...I know what you mean. There is something about women tennis that is actually interesting. I always liked the way Radswanka played b/c she plays like a lady, & I kind of like that aesthetic & exchanges of rallies. Good tennis isn't just about strength.***
Radwanska's prob. my last female fave! Loved how she played! I was so thrilled for her when down & out in the WTA Final sev. yrs ago! She just had one win in the RR, but somehow held on to take the whole tourn. over Kvitova! I was hoping Navratilova c/d something w/ her, but that partnership failed quite quickly! She's just not athletic enough, "pushing" the ball for the most part = though I can watch her & Hingis play chess on court all day long! I haven't enjoyed watching women's tennis since Henin was on top!
***Yes, Henin, Hingis, & Kvitová are all excellent WTA players that play the type of tennis that I enjoy watching.***
***...The Big 4 have dom. the sport since '04 in terms of ranking & tourn. victories, include. GS's, ATP Masters 1000's, as well as the ATP Finals, the ATP Tour 500 series & the OG's.
ReplyDeleteSince '11, the term "Big 4", while used prev., became popular w/ the media & in tennis literature. The B4 have been a critical part since '06, often been labelled a new "Golden Era" in tennis; term also applied to the mid-70s-80s & 20s-30s.
Fed was the 1st to come to prom. after winning Wimbl. in '03 & est. himself as the world #1 after winning the AO in '04. Nadal followed in '05 after a FO triumph includ. a win over Fed, & they occupied the top 2 places in the ATP rankings from July '05 to Aug. '09. Djokovic, from '07, then Murray, from late '08, increasingly challenged Fedal's dom. w/ seasonal consistency. In '11, Nadal declared that his & Fed's per. of joint dom. had ended, owing to the ascent of other players, notably Djokr later Murray. Djokovic has been a dom. player since the beginning of '11, gradually approaching or surpassing Fedal's career achievements. ...
They've reg. held the top 4 places in the YE rankings btw'08 &'13 & were ranked YE world top 4 cons. from '08-12, the longest span of dom. for any quartet of players in tennis history. Since '07, the YE top 3 rankings have been held by members of the Big 4. The yrs they did not ('13, '16 &'17) was mainly due to injuries to 2 of them during those seasons. They have held the top 2 spots continuously since July '05, as well as the top-ranking since Feb.'04, meaning that no player outside the Big 4 has ranked world #1 in > 16 or = #2 in 14 1/2 yrs. All 4 have reached a career-high #1; Fed has been #1 for a rec. 310 wks, Djokovic, the current #1, for 282 wks (third since the inception of the ATP Rankings in '73), Nadal for 209 wks (6th since '73), & Murray for 41 wks. Fed, Djokr & Nadal have all been YE #1 on 5 occasions, only interrupted by Murray in '16.
Amongst them, they have won 57 of the last 63 men's major singles titles, from '04 Wimbl. thru the '20 AO, w/ @ least 1 of them appearing in each major final during this per., the only exceptions being the '05 AO &'14 USO. Fed leads w/ a rec. 20 Majors followed by Nadal (19), Djokovic (17) & Murray (3). Fedalovic have completed a CGS by winning each of the 4 Majors @ least once, w/ Nadal also winning a OGM @ the '08 Summer Games for a CGGS. Murray has won neither the FO, nor AO, despite reaching the final 5 X's in Melbourne & once in Paris, but has won 2 OGM's ('12 &'16 Summer Games), becoming the 1st tennis player in history to win 2 singles GM's. In the 3 OG's btw '08 &'16, the 4 won 5 GM's (Murray & Nadal w/ 2 each, Fed w/ 1), 2 Silvers (Murray & Fed) & a Bronze (Djokovic).
Furthermore, @ ATP M-1000 tournaments, they're all in the top-10 list (since '70). Nadal leads w/ a rec. 35 titles, followed by Djokovic (34), Fed (28) & Murray (14). They've won 12 of the last 16 ATP Finals, w/ Fed winning 6 & Djokovic winning 5, & Murray 1. All 4 players have also played vital roles in leading their countries to victory in the DC. Djokovic & Federer helped Serbia ('10) & Switzerland ('14), resp., win the comp. for the 1st X, while Nadal has won 5 DC titles, & Murray helped end a drought of 79 yrs for GB in DC comp.('15).
In +tion to all of these achievements, the Big 4 hold many recs for having won individual tourn. titles the >est # of X's, including 3 of the 4 majors, the ATP Finals, 8 of the 9 ATP Masters 1000 & ATP 500 overall events. Djokovic is the only player since '90 to have won all 9 Masters 1000 events @ least once.***
Good summary!
***Stan's closer to Murray > Murray's to the Big 3. So it's Big 3 or Big 5. Since Stan can't be included w/ the Big 3, then it's not Big 5. So it's "Big 3."***
ReplyDeleteIt should def. begin & end w/ "The Big 3!" It's ridiculous to include Murray in any discussion about Goat-dom save being 1 of 3 players to actually challenge & beat members of this elite club in a handful of major SF & Finals! I've been dealing w/ #'s all of my life & there's lit'l =alence of 20, 19, & 17 to 3, 3, & 1!
***1000 level or above most dom. tourn. won by Big 3:
Nadal '10 MC 63.70% pts won
Djokovic '14 WTF 63.20
Nadal '17 RG 62.12
Nadal '18 MC 60.94
Nadal '19 Rome 60.80
Nadal '08 RG 60.72
Nadal '14 RG 60.59
Nadal '07 MC 60.54
Djokovic '15 Shanghai 60.18
Nadal '12 MC 59.31
Nadal '12 RG 59.19
Nadal '19 RG 59.12
Djokovic '18 Shanghai 58.94
Djokovic '07 Miami 58.88
Djokovic '19 AO 58.62
Nadal '09 Rome 58.53
Federer '06 Wimbl. 58.51
Djokovic '11 Miami 58.50
Djokovic '11 IW 58.38
- Clay Nadal & HC Djokovic are all over the place.
The majority (13 out of 19) were since '11.
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From the so-called weak '14-19 yrs:
Djokovic '14 WTF 63.20
Nadal '17 RG 62.12
Nadal '18 MC 60.94
Nadal '19 Rome 60.80
Nadal '14 RG 60.59
Djokovic '15 Shanghai 60.18
Nadal '19 RG 59.12
Djokovic '18 Shanghai 58.94
Djokovic '19 AO 58.62
From '03-06:
- Fed '06 Wimbl. 58.51
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2000s Slam wins:
Fed: 15
Nadal: 6
Novak: 1
2010s Slam wins:
Novak: 15
Nadal: 13
Fed: 5
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The real diff. is that Fred was playing prime stuff back then in his glorious days so it didn't matter who he beat, as proven by WB '08, AO '09 & USO '11 where it took absolute peak Djokodal to narrowly overcome a slightly (or > slightly in '11) past peak Fred. Likewise, it doesn't matter who Djokodal beat in their primes 'cause they were that good, but now they aren't - except I guess Nadal @ RG despite X declines, given his starting pt. was so high - yet keep winning on acct. of soft opp. At this pt. I rate Fedalovic all = in weak level slams, but the future looks bleak so the younger duo is free to collect.
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-22/7 = 3.143 slams per yr. either won or lost to Djokovic or Nadal in '03-09
- 19/10 = 1.9 slams per yr. either won or lost to Djokovic or Nadal in '10-19
The Big 3 are just too good (& they're not worse < yrs ago now). Novak's 33 &'s won 5 majors in his 30s, Nadal's 34 and won the same.
Any level headed tennis fan who understands tennis would pt. that there aren't many who can stop Fed from winning X slams in a yr. if Novak/Rafa aren't there. That speaks about the comp. that both Rafa & Novak are facing @ this X. Again, can't take anything away from these 2, but it isn't something that s/b used to bring Fed down.***
***...It's just 5 yrs Fed has on Nadovic. It's not like it's 10 or 12 or something.***
ReplyDelete"Tell 'em!" It's so sad to hear that BS everyX as if Fed's pushing Soc. Sec. retirement when it's really just a handful of yrs! Connors & Borg weren't given any qtr. when it came to McEnroe & Lendl when they came on the scene! I know fan is just short for "fanatic," but you'd think Federer fans would gain some wisdom & acceptance of his shortcomings; proved by 2 players who now own his ass! BTW, If Roger's the grass GOAT as some like to proclaim, he shouldn't have dropped 4 finals btw Nadovic! "Sorry guys! Those are just the cold, hard facts; no delusion, projection, or excuses!"
***Lendl was >er > some of his rivals & beat them down, except Becker, but he still = won that h2h. - - Oh yeah, they totally OWN his ass. Dude, if Fed wouldn't have choked 3 matches away where he had X MP's vs Djokovic, then Fed w/b LEADING the h2h vs him. And no, that's not some farfetched unrealistic fictional scenario that could only happen in an upside-down parallel universe. It's what would've normally happened if those matches would've played out like tennis matches usually do. Losing from 2 MP's up says < about your abilities in terms of tennis skills, but > about panicking in that specific moment & giving something away that you've practically won already.***
Woulda, coulda, shoulda! Seek help babe! That's not how real life works! There wasn't as much panic as the matches were stolen w/ steel nerves of his competitor! I know when I played, I relied on resignation of players who were down! SomeX's you need that lit'l extra help; a DF, an UFE, or very weak return! I've done them all & depend on others doing the same if not @ my best! Nole obviously wasn't @ his best @ Wimbl. in that final, but kept himself in the hunt for a 5th title that was totally unexpected by all concerned! He made Fed win the match instead of giving it to him when Roger had every chance in the book; serving X X's w/ Chp. Pt. on his racket! I give Nole > credit for winning it > Fed relinquishing the match!
***Please, do tell who Djokovic has who's 5 yrs younger.***
He has plenty; IIRC Medvedev, Thiem, Zverev, & the rest of the Next Gen. who are already challenging him! WTF are you talking about?
***Yeah, they're certainly on the level of Nadal/Djokovic. - - They've been kicking his butt too, but he's marginally staying ahead...for now.***
Yes they are; = if you don't think so by their overall rec.! Instead of giving Roger > credit for playing well & staying comp., his fans seem to dwell on his age & losses! That's too strange for words IMO! Get a grip guys! Fed's still the GOAT; for the X being anyway!
***Djokovic has clearly proven that he's a >er big match player > Fedal, b/c he has beaten them both > X's > he was beaten. That measure is > important to me.***
I lived thru the so called "Golden Age" of tennis when @ any given X @ a major, you could have a dozen GS winners in a draw! You had court specialists & upsets so the top players weren't as dom. as Fedalovic now, hence giving up many champions in the 90's! Sampras led the way w/ 6 YE #1's, followed by Agassi, Courier, Chang, Edberg, Becker, Rafter, Guga, & Lendl wrapping up his career! They just never met as many X's as Fedalovic! They dom. now so there aren't as many other real winners like on the ladies' side of things! It was the exact opp."way back when" w/ just 2 or 4 players dom. women's tennis; Navratilova w/ Evert, followed by Graf, Seles, Hingis, Henin, & The Williams! Now the ladies are all over the place w/ many stars, but no one really dom. for any length of X! Not sure we'll ever get a rivalry where players hit the court 40-50 X's again!
***So now it's not just women who're too fk'n stupid to know what they think & want w/o you to tell them, it's also black people? And then you have the nerve to say that Reps talk about people like dogs?***
ReplyDeleteSuper religious a-holes know no denomination restriction! They're all a bit pompous & it's hard to have any respect for them when their main purpose seems to be judgmental of their fellow men! I pt. out facts while moralizing common sense s/b as far as it should go w/ zealots! If some woman wants to have an abortion, it s/b her business! If you want to do drugs; again that shouldn't be anyone else's business! I used to say the same about booze hounds, but those MF'rs are dangerous! They c/b violent & cause traffic accidents a lot > often! I condemn alcoholics & smokers!
***"Shocking Fox News sexual harassment" anyX the ones being accused are Roger Ailes buddies like Hannity, Carlson there's nothing shocking. A league of their own pigs Trump, Jeffrey Epstein, Bill O'Reilly, & Co.***
These a-holes made their careers badmouthing the character & actions of Bill Clinton! I had no idea the projection was so deep! These guys should feel ridiculously embarrassed after yrs of them talking shit about other people in gen.!
***- https://news.yahoo.com/feds-detail-charges-60m-ohio-141735347.html?.tsrc=daily_mail&uh_test=2_04 -***
The typical thing is the "usual hypocrisy" w/ Reps & cons! They're always ready to pt. fingers, but w/ a cons. judiciary & FBI, it's always the shady Reps that get busted w/ voter fraud or financial improprieties!
***Yep. I miss the good old days of sound cons. leadership policing their own also. All dead & gone or primaried out of office. Sad, eh?
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Trump formally threatened to veto an annual “must-pass” military bill — including pay raises for troops — to prevent the renaming of military bases currently honoring Confederate traitors. The WH’s “Statement of Admin. Policy” on the House version of the Nat'l Defense Auth. Act claims that the provision “is part of a sustained effort to erase from the history of the Nation those who do not meet an ever-shifting standard of conduct.” Trump promises a VETO.***
Trump isn't the 1st Rep. president to pull this shit! "W" did the same thing way back when! The Defense Dept. seems to favor "the right," but get screwed when it comes to pay raises from them! What a bunch of suckers! They talk a good game, but now they're = allowing Trump to badmouth Gold Star families & McCain in particular! Reps are true gut< wonders who've been taken over by white nationalist, the religious right, & whackos from the "Flat Earth Society!"
***Trump Asked U.S. Ambassador To Seek British Open For A Trump Resort, Ex-Diplomat Says***
This is going t/b one of those rare occasions it'll be justified in investigating & prosecuting an exiting president! IDK how we can allow him to walk away after Trump's flaunted the Constitution since day one; making $$ sitting in the OVAL office, hiring his family, overruling security chks, stretching the Sec. Serv. to a brk'n pt. protecting 23 people & 3 locations of the Trumps early on! I could go on, but his crimes would take a lifeX to name! The pathological & sociopathic lying alone shg most people pause!
***...Why are we acting as if CV-19 is > lethal or infectious, when it's not as quick or deadly as these past flu epidemics?***
Someone ask "Don Jr." when's the last X the whole country was encouraged the need to do anything as serious as wear masks? I've been around since "air raid" exercises were done! We haven't been this "3rd world" since the days of gas & sugar rationing during WW II! It only took Trump one term to turn us into this!
***...It's kind of like if Trump kept bragging about having aced a test for STDs. ...you really want to brag about this? WTF?***
ReplyDeleteIt just shows his paranoia that he needs to keep going out there to say he's competent! ...Barr has a lot to answer for after all's said & done! No one's enabled him > him & McConnell!
***It's nothing t/b impressed about, but Trump can't help bragging.***
But that's Trump's schtick; "I'm the best @ everything! I'm smarter > the gen'ls & I have the best memory known to man!"
***Mary Trump prob. knows Donald's going t/b out in a few months & this is the last chance to make any $$ off the name.***
To me it's the hypocrisy of all right-wingers that kvetch about someone writing a book while the president that hired them is still in office! I'm quite sure we didn't hear any bellyaching of Defense Sec. Gates under "W" & Obama when he penned a tell-all! ...I just can't w/ "any of them!" They're all scumbags & FOS!
***Very hard for Biden to spit out a coherent sentence, = in softball, short interviews.***
That's the thing w/ Trump & anyone in his orbit! They systematically project & gaslight you when they're > guilty of the charge they're making @ any given X! I just heard Don Jr. trying to undercut Hunter Biden by saying "the guy's used his father's name all his life & he's been bought & pd. for!" Can anyone be > tone deaf > a Trump?
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... IDK how we can allow Trump to walk away after he flaunted the Constitution; making $$ sitting in the OVAL office, hiring his family, & overruling sec. chks.
***It's unethical & Trump really should've divested like all other presidents have. But tech. it seems he does not really have to. ...The president's SUPPOSED to investigate what Biden was doing in the Ukraine.***
I won't waste my X trying to reason w/ you! If you believe everything Trump has done over the yrs has just been unethical & he was perfectly w/i his rights to do so, then you're really beyond any help I can give you! You'll look like real fools trying to ?? the integrity & character of any president after Trump! Of course it won't stop you b/c "hypocrisy" is the MO of the Rep. party! Clinton did nothing right & Trump can do no wrong!
***That's silly b/c what Bush did, lying about Iraqi WMD & murdering 1/2 M innocent people, is 1/2 a million X's < anything Trump has done. ...If you were to stop being so partisan, you w/b able to find the truth.***
Prob., but we know where you find "truth; 'up your ass'," along w/ other Trump sycophants! Just keep deluding yourself! It's no sweat off my brow! I'm old & just stopped giving AF if people can allow this kind of malfeasance where people are currently DYING!
***I'm no Trump supporter, but if everything Trump does is condemned, & nothing he does is recognized as right, then things get worse instead of better under partisan extremism. Partisan extremism is worse then Trump. Wars are < Trump b/c Trump hasn't started any wars.***
Ok, you tell me what he's done right? Loading the courts w/ cons. judges is ongoing, but there's no right or wrong; just a need for competence! Unfortunately he's been found to send a few losers that = McConnell wouldn't push thru approval! Other > that, Trump's only main job has been to rollbk. anything w/ Obama's signature on it; including the ACA in the middle of this current pandemic! Tell me, what do you think he's done right? The country's been on autopilot since day 1 b/c Trump spends most of his X watching TV & Tweeting rants of fancy!
***Biden says he has "faith" in the American electorate.***
ReplyDeleteOne of the biggest prob. w/ the Dem. party is them giving too much credit to the voting populous! It's a delusional, irrational, & totally w/o merit exercise to give this populous credit for = having common sense! It's all about who's > neg.; Reps just a lot >er @ it! We haven't voted "FOR" anyone in quite a while! In my lifeX it's been > about "the horrible for Hillary that a creature like Trump could actually look >er to some of us! I have to say it again, "women have screwed themselves for decades to come by overlooking the vile character of Trump & voting against one of their own! The cons. courts that have been nurtured during this per. are going to challenge you guys @ every turn & you'll deserve it! I'm so done as a feminist! If you don't want to help yourselves, I can't GAF any cons. have become enablers. Sad.***
This was the last era of Rep. integrity IMO! House & Senate members relented to Impeachment in '74 & Nixon actually obeyed a SC ruling to turn over tapes he rec. of his personal conversations in the Oval Office! Anyone else; = Reagan's people would've burned those suckers! Trump would've continued denying they existed!
***Well, we pretty much already knew this, but the U.S. is a very challenging place to raise a family:
- https://nypost.com/2020/07/23/america-ranked-among-worst-countries-to-raise-a-family-study/?utm_source=NYPTwitter&utm_medium=SocialFlow&utm_campaign=SocialFlow&__twitter_impression=true&__twitter_impression=true&__twitter_impression=true -
We get an "F" for family. And it hasn't gotten any easier under Trump.***
Hey, we did it to ourselves here in the good ol' USA! It's not like Trump hid what a scumbag he was! That explosive video from "Access Hollywood" from 10 yrs before hearing him brag about grabbing women, kissing them, & "they love it!" You'd think it was over! It was over, but it was over for the soul of the country! We put a stake right thru the heart of everything we hold dear! Trump's undermined it all; the Justice Dept., the 1st Amendment, The FBI, & of course the Prez. office itself! Not sure history can scrub clean how disgusting he's been from day one! "Oh, he'll grow into the job!" Yeah, that happened! Instead of the economy, the only thing that's grown has been Trump's ego in getting away w/ murder, his bank acct., & his hold on the balls of the Rep. party just jingling in his pocket! He barely mentions a raging pandemic going on in his own country! How do Rep. Congressmen look into the eyes of constituents that have been betrayed in just about every way poss.? There's no wall, the economy's hanging on by a thread, unemployment's thru the roof, & Int'lly we're in disrepute! Where's there to go but up under Biden I guess?
***The problem is that 40% don't CARE what a scumbag he is. They support it/him. IDK how America's going to repair itself once he's out of office. We know 40% are scumbags & don't care and are proud of it.***
IDK why they should feel offended when called "deplorable" by Hillary? Heaven knows they prove her pt. everyday they cheer Trump on! What does he have to do, kill their children? Oh, that's happening already & it still doesn't matter that he's leading the country into a proverbial ditch!
***The US has 5% of the worlds pop. & 20% of the COVID cases. While the rest of the industrialized world has flattened the curve &'s opening up (not to Americans) the US has seen its cases skyrocket mostly due to propaganda trying to minimize the threat.***
ReplyDeleteHard to believe anyone's playing this down! Just using the moniker "pandemic" should perk up one's ears! All I know is, I'm quite sure detractors criticized Obama during his per. of dealing w/ 3 pandemics w/ a loss of 2 lives to Ebola! I'd like to go back & listen to those people & compare their reactions today when 1000's have lost their lives needlessly thru incompetent leadership! We did it to ourselves so we can't exactly pt. fingers elsewhere, but Trump sycophants will try nonetheless! Good luck w/ that!
***Liberals love China b/c they love LEADERSHIP!***
Trump was on his knees worshipping Putin & Xi Jinping, so spare me the BS about Dems! Trump has personally vouched for those 2 leaders over his own "Intel Depts." so I'm not sure how Dems are the commie lovers!
***Yeah...I see Trump kissing their butts everyday...TDS much?***
...& suk'n dick! What does he have to do for you guys to wake up? M/b kill your kids? Oh that's happening already! I wonder what the Nat'l psyche bill w/b when Trump's finally ousted? Will his fanatics trash the country = > they have already? I'm sure they'll give it their best try; scumbags! You need > of a retort than "nyah, nyah, nyah!" I know Trump-sters aren't very articulate, but you need to back up your blather w/ > emotional diatribes & insults! I have facts on my side! Trump's still trying to overcome his inferiority complex compared to Obama who has > common sense in his pinky than Trump has in his entire wrecked body! People are dying while Trump plays golf w/ Brett Favre! Nothing else needs t/b said!
***Liberals trying to trash the economy to hurt Trump in Nov. Thats all it is.***
Yeah, the Dems have stopped spending totally just to hurt the economy & upset Trump's run for a 2nd term! God help & save us from such idiots!
***Didn't you people say that Obama NEVER got bad press? Your own link proves THAT was a lie.
The job of the press is not to praise the President, but to act as part of the checks & balances as set out in the Const. It's the OBLIGATION of the press to criticize the President, & Trump has done > things that warrant criticism > any President in history. He gets the press he deserves. The per. of X you're covering includes firing James Comey, denying Russian interference, attacking the sec. agencies, esp. the FBI, the Muslim travel ban, allowing Russia a free hand in Syria, insulting & denigrating NATO leaders, then there was Charlottesville.
NATO leaders openly LAUGHED @ Trump's assertions that they owe the USA billions. It was total BS & it marked the beginning of the downfall of the American influence in the world. It also proved how spectacularly ill-informed your President really is. His lack of understanding of the role of NATO, its history, & its financial requirements.
...And the lying about everything, from the size of his inaug. crowds, to the success of his economy. Lie, after lie, after lie. More than 20,000 of them in this Presidency. The rate of the lying has increased as the Presidency has become > & > dysfunctional. Then there was Helsinki in '18. Trump's fawning obsequious degrading press conference w/ Putin. One Rep. called it the most disgraceful performance by an American President in history. Trump's the author of his own bad press. From his toxic Tweets to his worship of Putin, Ergogan, Kim & Xi.***
***What kind of idiot seeks to end Obamacare in the middle of pandemic? Trump vowed to repeal & replace Obamacare on "Day 1" & that was a lie. His vow to protect pre-existing conditions is also a lie. The health insurance plan that the Senate failed to pass had NO protections for pre-existing conditions @ all. In fact, it listed a pregnancy, child birth & rape as "pre-existing conditions" so that any woman who has ever been pregnant would have to pay >er rates for insurance for the rest of their lives!
ReplyDeletePretty much everyone over the age of 50 has @ least 1 pre-existing condition. Asthma & allergies are endemic in the nation & both are pre-existing conditions. Yeah, let's trust Trump to tell the truth on pre-existing conditions. I'm sure he would never reneg on THAT.***
I'd have > sympathy for our plight except we knowingly voted for this scumbag or stayed home! We allowed the country to fall into disrepute & worse w/ deaths topping warX & no relief in sight! Women will pay the >est price for going against one of their own! Trump's disrespect for women knows no bounds, but I see them everyday & night all over the networks singing his praises & accusing the Dems of sabotage! What a bunch of stupid broads! I've torn up my feminist card! If these bitches would do this to themselves, they really don't want t/b helped! A majority mhg for Hillary, but there was a significant chunk that now turn my stomach! I hope they live long enough to feel their mistake!
***It is a good view of what is going on, Ernie Meggisen, a Canadian, wrote the following on D.J.Trump:
...Trump’s a New Yorker. He’s crude & c/b downright rude. Some say he's a thin-skinned, arrogant, bombastic ass. No argument, = from most Reps if they're really honest. He gets his feelings hurt & he’s a hot head. He hits back; harder. And he prob. should Tweet <.
...He's a guy who DEMANDS performance. And > importantly; RESULTS! He spent his entire life in the private sector where you either produce or get your ass fired! He's a guy who asks lots of ??s. And the questions he asks aren’t cloaked in fancy “political” phrases; they are “Why the hell...?” ??s.
....He’s the guy who restricted travel from China when the Dems & liberal media were screaming “xenophobia” & “racist.” Now they’re wanting to know why he didn’t react sooner?
...Admittedly as a Canadian, this new USMCA is certainly not as beneficial as NAFTA was for both my country & Mexico. Previously our farmers had a huge monopoly over your farmers, but 'fair is fair.'
Has Trump made mistakes? Of course. You can't fault a person for being a human being. Only ONE perfect man walked this earth 2000 yrs ago, Jesus! Everyone I know has made mistakes & continues to make them, but LEARN from them. ...Trump isn’t hiding in his office; he’s out front - Briefing - ALL Americans almost everyday.
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Hurricane Hanna rages & blows down "Trump's Border WALL" btw The US & Mex.
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Trump's been rage-Tweeting nonsense all day. Over 60 Tweets & re-Tweets since this morning. Jesus. What does he do all day?***
Tweet, watch TV, perform in softball interviews, & pretty much has an "open door" policy, but few really want to talk to him!
***All of which leaves no room for spending X w/ his wife or 14 yo son.***
I'm betting she's keeping that fool away from her child! She's seen what losers Ivanka, Don Jr., & Eric have become and have shown themselves to be true "wastes of space" as acknowledged in Mary Trump's latest book!
***It's a wonder he didn't blame the Media & Dems when his wall was blown over the other day.***
ReplyDeleteThat's his juvenile attempt to deflect the fact that he's a pathological & sociopathic liar! He doesn't = care if you know he lying! He actually admitted on one of those softball interviews that he says "whatever's expedient" @ X's! At X's? Please! The man contradicts & lies to himself in the same speech; someX's the same sentence! I just feel sorry for his supporters! What could poss. be on their minds t/b so w/o awareness?
***There's no denying Covid-19 is very contagious. It spread from a Chinese lab to the entire world very quickly.***
The reason it's spreading worse here in the States is due to incompetent leadership, pretending as if the whole thing was a HOAX! Trump actually used that moniker as late as Apr. or May IIRC! He steadfastly refused to wear a mask & supposedly the one X he did, it was behind the scenes giving the excuse, "I didn't want to give satis. to the MSM!" The man is sick, but what about the people around him? This is why it's appropr. to say "Trump is killing people" = though a disease responsible! This chb avoided, but this man & his enablers thought it wise to pretend "nothing's wrong" due to this being an election yr! I won't live long enough to see & have revealed the scope of evil perpetrated on us by the Rep. party! I doubt they'll ever take responsibility & = say "my bad!"
***Take out the horrific stats from the NY-NJ-CT area & the US is avg. to below avg. in COVID stats, & w/ a >er survival rate > just about anywhere. It's Dem. controlled areas of the US & their fueled rioting that is killing Americans.
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FNC is an interesting & entertaining study in how not to conduct itself in this type of situation.***
Just proves what I've been saying about these people on FNC overall! Their mental make-up has to come into ?? the way they relentlessly pt. fingers, = if they have to make up charges, but refuse to look @ themselves! It's hard to call them a network if they allow anchors or guests to spout falsehoods, forcing others to spend X correcting them! It's just not worth it IMO & I couldn't be bothered w/ FNC for the most part! I heard Biden turned down an interview request by them from Chris Wallace of all people! It's not that the man isn't fair, you have t/b leery of the network! They're capable of anything in these desperate X's trying to prop up Trump! I'll continue to watch "Journal Editorial Report" on sat., "Mediabuzz" on Sunday, & weekly telecast of Bret Baier / Beltway Boys on "Special Report!" I only surf by periodically to see the lengths some will go to defend & keep Trump in this '20 race! I'm embarrassed for them they look so ridiculous! It sad that it'll work in some parlance deceiving the < educated & bigots out there!
***So you think that Chris Wallace is in the tank for Trump? Try doing a lit'l research on his interviews vs. any one pundit that has interviewed Biden from those liberal outlets that you always watch!***
Hey PEOPLE, you see what I mean about Trumpster numb-nuts w/ just no understanding or interpretive skills?? They see a word or phrase & just come out swinging! What an asshole! I said Wallace was "fair, but Biden needs t/b leery of the fk'n network!" WHY IS THAT SO HARD TO UNDERSTAND & take in? Well we are talking mental midgets on a cons. pol. message bd. so they're predisposed to being inflexible w/ an inability to compromise & make nice! It's all about "us vs them" w/ cons. & Reps! They don't GAF if the country goes down in flames, they're fighting for their own lame, selfish principles!
***Sen Cotton: Slavery a "Necessary Evil"...Tom came out of nowhere, saying "slavery was nec." - Since some want him to run for president in '24, I hope he gets the nom. next X around. It'll further cement the fact that Reps have a race problem & ensure that the Dems stay in power.***
ReplyDeleteReps have gotten away w/ saying & doing worse; look who's in the Oval Office! Who'd of thunk that? I'm still in shock! Right now, I still wouldn't be surprised if we reelected him! If not for the Pandemic, the election might not be up for grabs! They're the type that would rather see us crippled so they can be neg. nellies pointing fingers! They feel as if the country's been taken from them! If anyone's satisfied in being turned into a 3rd world nation in < 4 yrs, we might end up doomed w/ future leadership like Cotton who rationally tries to justify slavery!
***What was effectively slavery was a World-wide phenomenon on all continents long before 1619, or Columbus, or the Magna Carta, or the Roman Empire, or the Spartans, or.... And slavery has continued thru the 20th century & likely continues into the 21st.***
I'm sure Cotton thought he was being quite intellectual & evolved speaking so flippantly about the US's shame of slavery! I don't accept commentary like that from some a-hole Rep. unfortunately! He can KMA along w/ the rest of his redneck brethren down yonder! Pencil-neck geek! - Indentured servitude is still alive and kicking unfortunately; some > oppressive > others!
***You do realize that you're talking about southern Dems, who beginning w/ Nixon's "southern strategy" & finishing after Lyndon Johnson's Civil Rights Act of '64 & Voting Rights Act of '65 became Reps & turned the South Rep. You do realize that it was northern Dems who championed civil rights, & that Barry Goldwater, the Rep. who whb president if he had defeated Johnson in '64, voted AGAINST the Voting Rights Act.***
...I'm not seeing much about those same southern "Blue Dog" Dems that went red & took on the moniker of Rep. w/ no reservation & a lot of pride! Some = go back & forth, their character is so admirable; NOT! IIRC Arlen Spector was a Dem. when I was a kid, then bounced over to the Rep. party for a few decades before going back to the Dems when his power was diminished & on the ropes! That's why the South is so "red;" = if the candidate is scum, they vote a single block! It was almost real embarrassing for Ala. 2 yrs ago when they took on Judge Moore as their standard bearer & Senator who was found t/b a child molester from way back! He still barely lost by 1.5 pts to a Dem., Jones! That's how sick that area is & I have so lit'l respect for these people! They play the victim = though they've won plenty of Presidential landslides; actually taking 40-49 states! Why do they have such an inferiority complex that they bitch & moan so fk'n much I can't stand it?
***The now famous Hillary Clinton Paid-for Steele Dossier---the one that started the whole Russia, Russia, Russia Hysteria/Hoax/Seditious Conspiracy---well, it claimed that Trump engaged in a "well-developed conspiracy of cooperation" w/ the Kremlin against Clinton.
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Is that what the voices in your head are telling you loony toon?***
After all these yrs, they're still holding onto this BS! It's just unbelievable! We correct them X & X again about the origins of the report, but for some reason, it just doesn't sink in! They prob. just don't want to accept Trump's a disgusting POS & it's all been docum.! Quite a bit of the info has been proved & confirmed, but they continue to try & discredit it by saying Hillary bought & paid for it when it was initially ordered by a Repub. candidate! These people are so sick in the fk'n head!
***Yes, Trump ignored warnings & downplayed the severity of this crisis w/ the help of FNC. From Jan. he goes all over playing dumb, Feb. 28th in his rally he called the Coronavirus a new Dem. hoax til today July 28th running around trying to discredit Fauci. Trump stopped flights from China only to non-citizens, but around 40,000 of US citizens were allowed to return.
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I'll bet Fauci ends up on the cover of next month's Sports Illustrated after throwing out the 1st pitch.***
It'll guarantee Trump's head'll explode! He actually whined yesterday about Fauci being > popular in the polls > him in this middle of this pandemic? That isn't the worst of it; Trump supposedly was to throw out the 1st pitch @ a Yankee game! They didn't know WTF he was talking about! It was another one of Trump's delusions to make himself feel good!
***The prob. w/ The Trump Pandemic for Trump & Co is the failure of Trump's response to it.***
IIRC Obama had to deal w/ 3 pandemics; N1H1, Zica, & an Ebola outbrk! I think we lost 2 Americans to Ebola w/ the asst. of dept. he created & left for Trump! Unfortunately it was dismantled w/ the handbook thrown out! The latest pandemic made out t/b a hoax or not infectious enough to warrant concern has now claimed over 150,000 lives w/ > to come! After all this Trump's still playing games, pushing alt. remedies like Lysol flushing the system!
***Herman Cain's still in the hospital...a month later.***
It's hard having any sympathy for these a-holes when they go out & not only ruin their own health, but don't seem to GAF about others around them; esp. idiots who live in TX! ...Why are all Reps in a mind that they know > doctors? Half the X they don't believe in science; hence the moniker of "The Flat Earth Society!" A football player in TX gave this huge BBQ & nere mask was in sight! Unbelievable! Rep. Gov's will have a lot to reckon w/ their incompetent leadership following the lead of Trump!
***Trump as RACIST. Yes 100% is a racist POS. WHITE POWER, KUNG FLU, CHINA VIRUS. Incite violence vs his own people LIBERATE LIBERATE. This country's in a major crisis. Americans are sufferings from infections to deaths to job losses to financial problems to businesses closures to people can't pay rents, fams can't afford to put food on their tables. But he has the FUCKING X to play golf, tossing red hats, nonsense tweeting, pt. fingers blaming, & photo op w/ cans of beans. That's ok. A Rec. # of people will come out & vote this Nov. That I can guarantee you. Trump's a danger to American democracy & Nat'l sec. We deserve >er.
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...You said that the 2 yr. Meuller investigation went on too long, = though it produced over 100 charges & 7 guilty pleas/convictions. You’ve got a real double standard going on here. Reps are innocent after proven guilty & Dems are guilty after every investigation fails to find any evidence of crimes ever having been committed. Only Rep. voters are dumb enough to fall for this BS.
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Who pissed in Meghan's cereal this morning on "The View? LOL
Arguing w/ Whoopi over something so silly? Whoopi knows if she interviewed some guests or not. Even if she WASN'T there, Meghan could've just let it go instead of going back & forth w/ the:
Meghan: go back & watch the tape of when I interviewed them.
Whoopi: I don't need to watch the tape. I was there.
Meghan: No you weren't.
Whoopi: Yes, I was there.
Meghan: No you weren't.
Whoopi: Yes I was.
Meghan: No you weren't
Whoopi: Who the Hell do you think you're talking to lit'l girl. I am not the one & you are about to get your lit'l snowflake, hypersensitive, entitled ass cussed the pluck out on Nat'l TV. (Ok Whoopi didn't say the last part, but it whb glorious if she did)***
***So what does that demonstrate about slavery w/ Cotton's insensitive remarks?***
ReplyDeleteWe've already started rewriting history w/ a 3rd of books being printed in TX! Their content is suspect where the Founding Fathers are slowly being written out of existence! Pretty soon they'll be a distant memory where all superior human life goes back to origins centered in "The South!" Slavery's being downplayed as evidenced by Cotton who thinks he can get away w/ saying some shit like that!
***I thought TX sought to preserve the history people my age learned in schools instead of to rewrite it, Fiero. In what way has TX rewritten history?***
There has been evidence in the past where mistakes & egregious errors have been printed & taught to children w/ the help of a large regional production of books centered in TX! I have to go re-chk it, but thought it was common knowledge that w/ the help of pols catering to constituent bigotry & ignorance to get elected, if a lie is repeated enough X's it becomes fact to them! There's still a large swath of people who believe Obama's Kenyan & illegally held Prez. Off. for 2 terms! Do I really have to go further?
***...True, Obama & Hillary are > disingenuous :)***
I can't be > happy these 2 exist though! W/o them, the Dems w/b bereft of any real character! Reps & cons. love to throw around the moniker of liberal on all Dems, but it was esp. ridiculous to label the Clintons & Obama as anything but moderate! They've been the only ones to really survive a never-ending onslaught of character assass. & conspiratorial intrigue! According to Trump so many were agents of Hillary & Obama left behind which is why he gutted the State & Justice Depts after they were built up to respectability after "W!" Reps successfully stopped her from becoming president, but they had to embarrass themselves to new hts dragging out invest. after invest. on Benghazi! It worked, but @ what cost? The country's welfare hangs in the balance! Was it truly worth it?
***Well, TBH & to bring it back to "The View"... I think Dems in gen. use minorities to their gain for many reasons. Some are genuine & benefit us & some are disingenuous, but still benefit us. I think Meghan's using this as a tool much like the Dems in the context of "The View" & why & when she chooses to play the "I love minorites" card.***
Pols are pols, but Dems don't fk. over people like Reps; I'm sorry! Dems don't try to restrict voting rights, or try to elim. HC in the middle of a pandemic, or put children in dog cages! That huge lie about them being illegal was total BS as they turned themselves in! If they turned themselves in, they can't by def. be illegals! Reps are just plain scum w/ no exceptions due to their inability to ?? anything Trump has done! They can never come back from this as the man is going on TV lying about the condition of Covid-19 & the state of vaccination research! WHY would anyone but an insane person do that? It's all going to come out as people are dropping dead everyday! WTF's wrong w/ ALL of us to allow this guy to LIE like this daily about life & death issues?
***I just don't think rigidly like that, but I totally understand where you're coming from. Unfortunately the Dems aren't pure saints & the Pubs aren't pure Devils.***
True enough, but I doubt you'll come up w/ anything the Dems have done in the last decade as disgusting as the X's now w/ Trump! It was a Rep. that screamed out @ Obama @ the SOTU, "you lie!" That guy not only didn't apologize, he got kudos & made campaign funds off of it! I could go on, but won't about how shameful McConnell's actions have been as Senate Majority Leader, including stealing a SC seat!
***Obama Eulogized John Lewis today***
ReplyDeleteGoing over to FNC to see how they'd take Obama's words, they don't feel the same way! Of course it was taken > as something political & hateful! Hannity & Carlson should pay a very heavy price in the hereafter being such sleazy SOB's! They're so hard to take, but unfortunately they're only the very tip of a very disgusting pile of filth called the Rep. Party!
***Obama was a disaster. Thomas Sowell said he was one of the few people that Obama didn't disappoint.***
If Obama's a disaster, what does that make Frump? Due to his incompetence, he's turned rec. continuous growth into a rec. contraction! He's still touting employment #'s, forgetting there's been rec. unemployment going on! According to him we're on top of this pandemic & the vaccine is "right around the corner!" Who's allowing him out w/o a leash? He's sick!
***One police union of 30,000 members voted to support Trump in Fla.***
Consider who TF they are? There's nothing about FLA to hang their hat on when it comes to governess, justice, or their civilian police force! They're a joke & deserve whatever becomes of them!
***The Illiterates Among Us...are the target audience of the Dems.***
To have Trump playing golf now while a pandemic rages w/ no agreement over a continuing stimulus package, ignorance, stupidity, & incompetence knows no party it seems! We're fk'n doomed & doing it to ourselves!
*-Trump vs Obama Golf Games:
It’s been 2 yrs & 91 days that President Trump has been in office. We’ve spent these last yrs tracking his golfing habits, & comparing them to the freq. of prev. Pres. But let’s be honest, most of you only care about one thing: Does Trump play > golf > Obama did while he was President? And whose golf habits cost the U.S. tax payer >?
The answer's yes. Trump has played 2.6 X's > golf > Obama in his 1st 2 yrs & 91 days &'s cost the tax payer an est. $74 M > Obama. ...Trump has been @ the golf course 170 X's in his 1st 821 days as president. Obama was @ the course 65 X's over the same per. of X.-*
***The problem was Oboingo playing golf when the duties of his office were calling.***
Way to go! Just ignore facts? "Whistling by a graveyard" s/b the new symbol of the Rep. Party! Seek serious help babe! Obama dealt w/ 3 Pandemics; N1H1, Zika, & an Ebola infection that killed 2 people! That was it! We're around 150 K dead & counting? How do you =te the 2 performances? I feel like I'm living in the "Twilight Zone" w/ people actually believing the delusions of their incompetent leadership! You injecting your family members w/ Lysol or bleach? Ignore that @ your own peril!
***I believe no delusions about Trump's leadership...He's @ the fringes of adequacy...But I'm also not the one stupid enough to believe that he was talking about injecting fk'n Lysol into veins.***
The defense continues, selectively ignoring the 150 K deaths so far! M/b nice t/b able to roll one's eyes as a fire rages on around us, but hoping for rain to deal w/ it!
***...Golf's one of the problems. Or rather, the amt of $$ being billed to the American people by the Trump corp. for the rooms, meals, & golf cart rentals for Trump's 3 day wkends @ his East Coast Golf resorts' a problem. It's also a problem that he's spending so much X @ his resorts while the American people are dying in rec. #'s is unseemly. The nation's in the middle of pandemic, the cities are aflame, & 50 M Americans are out of work, & Trump is, in essence, saying "So what?". He promised the people that he wouldn't have X to play golf; he'd be so busy working for the American people. That was a total lie.***
***Dems do have a penchant for targeting the youth, the welfare broodmares, & others who can barely sign their own names, felons, & America-haters.***
ReplyDeleteWhile Reps go after White Nat'lists, Nazis, homophobes, cons, bigots, Evangelists, …! Do I really need to go on?
***Neg. advertising works, but sarcastic & foul-mouthed propaganda -- not so much.***
You say that, but it all works! All you have to do is go back a few yrs! Trump was elected on a lie; "Obama's not a US citizen!" To smear the Clintons, besides glomming onto Benghazi & beating that horse to death, they had to make up shit; "the Clintons are running a child pornography ring out of the basement of a pizzeria!" I could go on w/ all the conspiracy theories of the cons. movement, but hard to believe a president promotes them > anyone! ...Hard to believe that after all this X & all the suffering, there are Trump apologists & supporters that continue to carry his water! I have no words for these folks!
***Biden's a fk'n moron for announcing the only requirements for his VP were: i) are you Black & ii) do you have a vagina? How can you not want to apply for a job like that? He's clearly pandering for Black votes. That's a sign of both how great the inroads Trump has made into "automatic" minority Dem. voters & how absolutely toxic the American Taliban is to = long abused Dem. voters.***
Is it any >er when Reps pick old, white guys again & again? So what, right? - The "rightwing-nuts" are desperately trying to frame the narrative that Joe can't handle the job! WTF has Trump done in 4 yrs besides rest on Obama's achievements & work? Just sitting in a big chair watching TV & using Social Media does not a president make; not in this world anyway! Now we see why Trump went bankrupt so many X's; his own incompetence & "laying about" watching others do a rotten job! So much for the best & brightest coming to work for him! They're leaving faster than they're being hired & to this day he hasn't filled all positions! As bad as Obama was supposed t/b by Trump, I'd like to compare accomplishments after just 4 yrs!
***From April Ryan: “There’s going t/b a split-screen on 1/20/21. If Joe Biden's now going t/b the 46th president of the US, you'll have him being inaugurated & watching police & armed forces trying to pull Donald Trump out of the WH. I can't wait for that split-screen,” Ryan said.***
Frump m/b the 1st president to not attend his successor's Inauguration! You see him skipping important funerals that'll mark his ignorance & bigotry! I wouldn't doubt him embarrass himself & the country next Jan.! They might have to drag his ass out of there!
***In +tion to the public, the attendees @ the ceremony gen. include the VP, members of Congress, SC Justices, high-ranking military officers, former presidents, living Medal of Honor recs, & other dignitaries. The outgoing president customarily attends the president-elect's inaug. Only 5 have chosen not to do so. John Adams, still smarting over the outcome of the election of 1800, did not remain in Wash'ton to witness the inaug. of Thomas Jefferson, his successor. In 1829, John Quincy Adams also left town, unwilling t/b present to see Andrew Jackson's accession to the WH. In 1869, Andrew Johnson was angrily conducting a cabinet meeting = as his successor, Ulysses S. Grant, was being inaug. More recently, Woodrow Wilson did not attend Warren G. Harding's 1921 inaug., nor did Richard Nixon attend Gerald Ford's 1974 inaug. (having left D.C., prior to his resign. taking effect).
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_inauguration -***
***...Trump loves to go toe to toe w/ an op. You think he's chk'n out on the debates.***
ReplyDeleteTrump won't be able to BULLY Joe the way he did Hillary!
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Frump's the one that has press conf.'s saying this pandemic has been licked! He's just going to snap his fk'n fingers like Thanos! You been watching too many bad movies!
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I think a trained chimp could beat Trump @ this pt.! ...US citizens are dropping like flies while Trump plays golf! It w/b a historic embarrassment; state supporters as we try to correct '16! Some "riff raff" down South & out West can't be helped! Their own kids are getting sick & they're following Trump's lead of "objecting to mask wearing" as if the gov't is imposing Marshall Law on them! Idiots like that are hard to feel sorry for! IMO it s/b hard t/b that stupid, but some make it seem easy to pk. up; sorta like a Pandemic! Maybe it spread from a Trump rally!
***Clinton hands over to "Baby Bush" an economy in great condition & he runs it into the ground. Obama takes over this shit economy & lit'l by lit'l he gets us back in the running. This Trump low life rides into town & runs the economy back into the gutter w/ some Reps who think he's a great prez.***
It's a vicious comb./cycle that has repeated itself again & again w/ the idiot populous & "downing" of the economy w/ lies from Reps! To this day "W" & Frump say they "inherited a recession" or "a mess!" Their followers believe it & ignore the rising deficits & Nat'l Debt skyrocketing as they're being told "there can never be enough tax cuts!" Spending continues to rage while starting conflicts abroad & spending > of their own children's future! I gave up when Frump installed! I figure we're destined for destruction as this man undermines every institution & flaunts the laws of the Constitution he swore to uphold!
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***Bill Maher tackles obesity:
Maher pts out that it's an = bigger health issue during this covid pandemic, one which shouldn't be ignored or excused. He's truly talking about a very dangerous elephant in the room, no pun intended. - Makes no sense considering how easy it is to prevent obesity.***
Yeah, it's easy to prevent & very easy to fall off the wagon & fail! I hate giving us excuses, but we were terribly misinformed about dietary needs 30-40 yrs ago by the gov't; a table full of bread, fruits, vegetables, & proteins were essential to good health! After 60, I studied & started using intermittent fasting & found it quite simple to drop 10-20# just by skipping brkfast & not ingesting any calories for @ least 16 hrs! It may sound extreme, but in the old days it was the norm to eat early dinner & not eat anything for hrs thru sleep & missing brkfast! Those were prob. the > healthy individuals!
***...What makes you think we can't address > one disease @ a X?***
We can address obesity all we want! It isn't getting thru! You have a select few who go all out to eat right & exercise, but overall we're lazy, self-indulgent, & are all to willing to make excuses & pass the buck! When I finally decided last yr. to do something about ballooning up, it was amazing to actual see adverts thrown @ us around the clock! In one comm. brk of a program, there had t/b a dozen ads for food; buying, eating, preparing, & ordering prepared boxes! It's no wonder we're getting heavy across the country! This pandemic doesn't help w/ > people staying in & packing on the #'s!
***But the pt. is that since we don't seem to care > about the 400,000 a yr. that die from obesity, then 150,000 likely isn't a > # either. - Obesity's addressed in this country to the pt. of NY banning soda? Then there was Mischelle Obamas eat healthy program. Putting food in your mouth is a choice.***
***...It not only is a contradiction, but shows we simply don't understand statistics. A death total is not relevant. What only matters is the %. And the % of people dying from Covid-19 is tiny.***
ReplyDeleteI may j/b a lit'l tired, but I'm not getting this! You're only ??ing our un= response to 2 ailments; C-19 & Obesity? Obesity is something self-contained obviously! It isn't infectious for the most part! W/ C-19 you c/b walking along minding your own business & if some person w/ the virus coughs w/o a mask, it's a good chance it'll pass on! It's like w/ the populous wondering why we don't have a problem w/ 100's of 1000's dying from cancer & alcoholism, but only a handful die from AIDES! You have to worry about the AIDES infections > b/c it c/b spread! A cancer or a drinker is only hurting themselves w/ cigs & booze for the most part! I resent 2nd hand smoke, but don't think it'll kill me! I'd much prefer killing the inconsiderate smoker!
***No, if someone walking by coughs w/o a mask on, it's NOT @ all likely you'll get infected. In fact, research has not found a single case of anyone getting infected outside. ...The 'common cold' has about 100% probability you're going to get it this winter, but that's no big deal b/c almost no one dies. Similarly, almost no one dies from Covid-19.***
How many have to die for you & Trump to acknowledge "there's a problem?" We should all take advice from you & Dr. Trump for everything since his med. degree is so highly regarded? I wonder how many of you guys injected bleach or Lysol? If schools open under these conditions, get ready to go back into the bunker! This all chb avoided save the extraordinarily rotten leadership from "the right!" Fla, AZ, MS, & GA are going to suffer the most = though places like Cal. & NY have > cases! They aren't living in denial so that'll make a huge diff. after all's said & done!
***Trump's a bully. He verbally & psychologically abuses people. That's how insecure, damaged people get their way.***
We can pt. fingers @ the damaged person all day, everyday, but what's the excuse of the supporters? They're just as "bent" IMO! If I may go to the "Hitler card:" he didn't do shit! He gave orders that a lot of people dutifully obeyed! The same's going here & it's just as insane w/ deaths surpassing eras of war! We've lost > 911 & Iraq combined! After all that, there are people defending Trump who today said about C-19 deaths, "it is what it is!"
***So they give into Trump so he won't .... Tweet about them?***
People have given into Trump to prevent or stop him from relentlessly haranguing them about something!
***Well you just had to watch the Swan interview to see how he operates. Has he Tweeted about it?***
I try not to go looking for Trump's nonsense! I find it ridiculous how we = humor this ol' fool! He's clearly making up shit as he goes along & people barely try to ?? him about it! He does what he does & that's to bully & overtalk an interview so you only hear what he has to say! All the > reason to have doubts since anything he has to say has t/b taken w/ a dump-load of salt!
***Desperate Dems looking for some excuse to allow Biden to refuse to debate Trump.***
Since Biden's accepted those 3 lame debates, Trump & his minions think they can "shake it up" by demanding a 4th! What a bunch of A-Holes! Repuklicans & cons. are always changing the rules & moving the goal posts! They're just too despicable to = acknowledge as human beings! Got notice my mail-in ballot would arrive next month someX & have stations to drop them off if USPS not trusted w/ Trump trying to sabotage them!
***Trump & his followers are going to lie their way thru this campaign.***
ReplyDeleteTrump's playbk's to parrot a charge & throw it back @ the person; akin to "I'm rubber, you're glue, ...!" Hillary called Trump "a puppet of the Russians" & Trump came back w/ all kinds of mature conviction, "no you're the puppet!" I think Hillary's assessment has been proved!
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IDK who'd hire anyone that has worked for & gone along w/ the insanity that's been on display from this orange cretin for the past few yrs! To save their jobs they have to lie to him, us, & themselves!
***...Gov't has done lots of blatant lying & not everyone can discern the truth.***
You have no prob. w/ the lies that are still being perpetrated on the masses from Trump & the local gov'ts?
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Obama's greatest achievement besides surviving the disrespect & outright bigotry of a Rep. Congress was the ACA & the Rep. constituents are PO'd w/ their reps trying to take it away!
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrtX9Q4WinY&list=TLPQMDYwODIwMjCkptGX5FAKjg&index=4 -
***...H. Clinton didn't get on the ticket 4 yrs ago by a man choosing to put her there. The original Tweet said "a man & woman were on the ticket together."***
Not that I can care any> if women don't, but it's obvious who decided to limit the access of women to high office; "other women!" They have the voting power to turn things upside down, but a significant # are trapped in a mindset of a patriarchal society & can't see one of their own leading the way! Their own jealousies run too deep; "why her & not me?!" I'm sure there are plenty of women, m/b all in some circumstances who make sacrifices, but I'm afraid it "ain't enough" if they allowed an obnoxious, misogynist pig like Trump t/b their president! This is the man they want t/b an ex. for their kids! That said a lot to me & I hope it dawns on them how sick it is & continues t/b w/ tons of support to this day from "the right!" There are just no other words nec. that proves my point; "women hate women!" It's sad & pathetic that w/ these X's, a nice chunk of people have supported div. & conspiracy theories instead of trying to unite the country! We have people dying by the 1000's w/o a war going on & they use words like "acceptable #'s!" It was said today on FNC w/ no descension from Howard Kurtz on "Mediabuzz!" Trump sows this stuff from his podium everyday & it's sickening to me how he does it w/ impunity!
***Much of the US pop. does accept it tho. 'Acceptable' is more of an opinion. - - Tell Me, what is the acceptable level of deaths for other diseases?***
This is something that chb handled >er! In many cases C-19 c/b completed avoided w/ care! Leadership failed us causing unnec. tragedy here w/ complacency & misinfo which is still being perpetrated on us from the WH! We all know if this pandemic happened under Obama, the haranguing would never end from "the right!" Now cons. want to downplay "deaths!" I'm too disgusted for words!
***We want the % of those getting a test, testing + t/b going down, fewer people per 1000 testing +, & that isn't the case. - The wealthy elite need masses to do all the work & t/b consumers. The only prob. m/b that w/ fossil fuels running out, it c/b there are just too many of us. So they may intend to cull the herd? Not sure.***
That w/b the one of the latest theories w/ Corona Virus! It's obviously > lethal to the elderly so "thinning the herd" seems t/b the upside admitted by some Rep. hack from the South! ...They'd rather destroy the Earth's core "fracking" for oil which has proved to cause Earthquakes & contaminate water! A moratorium had t/b invoked near Colo. airports w/ cracks showing up!
***...Agree, fracking contaminates water.***
***In order to prevent deaths, then you isolate those who are vulnerable & you use masks for that. But you don't then force everyone to weakr masks btw the young & healthy who could quickly achieve herd immunity w/ lit'l or no deaths. That just prolongs the virus & ensure more deaths.***
ReplyDeleteI'm so impressed w/ this country! We just have everyday bumpkins w/ med. & science degrees like Trump when he suggested flushing the system w/ bleach or Lysol! I won't = get into the sociopathy concern when it comes to C-19! Spare us please; not to mention the stupid who believe just about anything that's told to them!
***We continually get epidemics like Spanish flu, Asian flu, Hong Kong flu, Swine flu, Avian flu, SARS, MERS, etc., but they all are wiped out by herd immunity, and none have ever significantly returned. ...Clearly Covid-19 isn't really new & we mostly already have inherent immunity to. The only possible excuse for all the panic is it's deliberate by big-pharma in order to make > profits. They already are making billions from testing & they want trillions from vaccines.
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...Your side needs to get your story str. On one hand you call Kamala Harris a far left radical & then you criticize her performance as AG of Cal. as being too strong-armed.***
It's nothing new w/ these people! They contradict themselves not just in the same speech, but w/ Trump he can swing the opp. way in the same run-on sentence! The desperation has made all Reps incoherent! The sad thing is, their supporters don't seem to notice or care! There's this hardcore support that will sacrifice their own kids to keep power in the hands of cons. = as this pandemic rages across the country! So very sad & pathetic!
***Everyone's children have already been sacrificed for gens to come as our debt now =s the size of our economy w/ no end in sight.***
I've been saying for yrs that Reps & cons. have purposefully contradicted themselves about deficits & the Nat'l Debt! IMO it started w/ Reagan & his economists' theory of cutting taxes to the bone, but @ the same X not really cut the budget! They can't keep blaming the Dems b/c there have been yrs where they "owned" it all; Presidency & Congress! It's unfortunate that the deficits & Nat'l Debt explode under this theory every X, but the country votes to do it by Reps! Clinton & Obama did great jobs w/ both, but for some strange reason, most peeps are idiots & are talked into bankrupting the country so maybe Soc. Sec., Medicare, & other safety nets w/b underfunded or eliminated eventually!
***Hillary w/b speaking on Day 4 of the Dem. Conv.***
OMG, it won't take long for those cons. pinheads to vilify the woman! The "retread" label will come out, among other things = though they throw the same yahoos out there for over 20 yrs! It's so pathetic that Trump can't let it go either; still asking for > investigations into her & Obama! What a loser IRL! Being Prez. of this fk'n mess is no real prize after Trump's held the office! Anything special about it has been "killed off" for all X prob.!
***The legality of abortion s/b determined by legis., not unelected jurists.***
Even if you guys were to convince the majority to go along w/ changing the laws to limit or outlaw abortions, it wouldn't make any sense after all this X! It w/b like saying since so many die of alcoholism & productivity is down b/c of it, "we should go back to prohibition" & beat that fk'n horse again! It's been 50 yrs; get over it!
***Big 3's most dom. matches over top 10 excl. matches vs each other-
ReplyDelete69.7% pts won Fed vs Del Po AO '09
69.2% Fed vs Murray YEC '14
68.8% Fed vs Gaudio YEC '05
68.8% Djokr vs Thiem Rome '17
68.0% Djokr vs Cilic USO '15
67.5% Djokr vs Ferrer AO '13
67.4% Nadal vs Thiem MC '18
67.1% Nadal vs Gaudio MC '05
67.1% Djokr vs Nalbandian Queen's '08
67.1% Djokr vs Nishikori AO '19
66.7% Fed vs Soderling Shanghai '10
66.7% Djokr vs Wawrinka YEC '14
66.3% Djokr vs Murray Shanghai '15
65.9% Djokr vs Berrettini YEC '19
65.9% Djokr vs Tsonga IW '13
65.9% Djokr vs Gasquet Can. '13
65.9% Nadal vs Murray RG '14
65.5% Djokr vs Berdych Beijing '14
65.2% Djokr vs Nishikori YEC '15
65.1% Djokr vs Cilic YEC '14
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Listed by yr:
'03 -
'04 -
'05 - 2
'06 - 2
'07 - 1
'08 - 1
'09 - 1
'10 - 1
'11 - 1
'12 - 1
'13 - 4
'14 - 8
'15 - 4
'16 - 1
'17 - 2
'18 - 3
'19 - 4
'03-12 --> 10 (1/yr)
'13-19 --> 26 (3.7/yr)***
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Wimbl. had it all in '01; comebacks, upsets, & of course Federer & Sampras in the 4th Rd! Pete was in the middle of a malaise which kept him win< for over 2 yrs from his victory @ Wimbl. the prev. season over Rafter & vict. over pigeon, Agassi in the final of the '02 USO!
***Slams won beating 1 of the 3 >est ranked opps:
- Djokovic 17
- Nadal 15
- Fed 10***
Well a lit'l of that can't be helped since Roger's so much older & had quite a head start on Nadovic! Unfortunately for him, 1/2 his major totals were acquired during a dead per. of transition w/ his chief rival > a pigeon by the name of A-Rod! It's factual Nole's had to deal w/ the legend & fanaticism of the mass media that believe tennis begins & ends w/ Fedal!
***...I really hope this isn't the end of the story. - ...In 6 yrs, Nadal has no wins in slams vs Djokvic, no evidence to suggest Nadal beats him as the recent narrative has shown.***
There's this double standard heaping the BS that Nole is "vulturing" this USO when > players have skipped the FO over the yrs allowing Nadal a free pass @ X's to a title! In comparison to Fedovic who've had a > balanced run on the tour & haven't depended on a single surface, Nadal will have a huge asterisk on his major ct. w/ so many FO's!
***FO & USO matches are the best to watch > classic matches.***
I wonder why? Those Aussie & Wimbl. losses m/b painful; esp. 5:53!
***You're right; they're painful loses AO & WC, but I did really enjoy '12 AO final after 1st few months of heartbrk.***
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IDK what's what these days when it comes to US tennis, but I'd say it hurt that we've gotten away from clay in the country! Our biggest clay ct. events have been plowed under thinking if we go totally HC, it'll stave off the superiority of Europe & So. Am.! The mid 70's were a bit tumultuous; Connors barely holding on for the good ol' USA by winning USO in '76 over Borg! W/O that Borg, Vilas, Nastase, & a host of other clay court specialists took over the sport; facilitated by the brilliant USTA deciding to go to Har-Tru in '75! That helped Evert, but killed the US men! We had a few competitors like the "Bagel Twins" of Solomon & Dibbs, Gerulaitis that could hold his own, & of course Connors, but there was a reason we missed having a FO winner for decades before Chang & Courier! Connors was the only one to have the ability to beat Borg; the rest Bjorn owned! Running away from clay in '78 w/ the USO move to Flushing Meadows went too far! USTA clay events went HC; = Indianapolis w/ a lone tourney down in Texas the last US red clay tourn.!
***...No wonder people have such misconceptions about Fed's comp. w/ posts like these.***
ReplyDeleteYou mean "misconceptions" in your mind which puts you in complete denial? I realize @ 1 X I fell in line w/ the masses anointing Fed the GOAT before all was said & done over 10 yrs ago! He hadn't = won a FO yet, but everyone was ready to give him a pass in that respect; same for Sampras way back when for that matter & he never = played a FO Final! We had no idea Nadovic would raise their games & + to their resumes just as fast as Roger, if not faster! Even w/ him standing in the way, both have surpassed Roger in just about every respect but the major ct! That'll inevitably fall to Nadal & possibly Nole w/i the next 2 or 3 seasons! I consider myself a historian that has been watching, playing, teaching, & blogging about tennis since the 70's w/ Borg, Connors, McEnroe, Gerulaitis, Nastase, Laver, Rosewall, Vilas, & Newcombe, w/ "also rans" of Tanner, Alexander, Gottfried, & Case OTTH! I like to think I know what I'm talking about so where am I expressing "misconceptions" as you just referenced?
***Whether he's the GOAT or not remains t/b seen. I am mostly talking about the misconceptions regarding his comp. For starters, Roddick wasn't his chief rival. That's actually false. They haven't surpassed Roger in everything. Roger still has recs that'll stand the test of X. Nadovic being significantly younger > Fed has helped a lot in getting where they are.***
I never said Roddick was the best comp., but his name comes up losing so many Wimbl. Finals to Roger allowing him to inflate his #'s; esp. in '09! There were >er players like Safin who actually beat Fed @ the ht. of his powers taking '05 AO! Overall Fed's comp. was rather weak in comparison to the previous Golden Age/Era of tennis w/ Sampras, Agassi, Courier, Chang, Lendl, Edberg, Becker, Cash, McEnroe, Wilander, Kuerten, Hewitt, Safin, & other major winners! At any given X in the 90's, you could have a dozen GS winners in a draw! That's not possible w/ the hoarding of majors by Fedalovic & isolated wins by Cilic, Murray, & Wawrinka! Also the homogenizing of the courts has helped them when court specialists always had a chance of an upset decades ago! I can go on, but I'm still trying to understand where I'm wrong?
***I could say the same thing about Novak having to play Murray in so many AO finals or old Roger in so many Wimb finals, which allowed him to inflate his #'s. Yeah, it whb >er if Safin hadn't succumbed to injuries & remained Fed's rival. I'm sure they would've delivered > outstanding matches like their '05 AO SF. But, then again, you have Wawrinka who was beating Djoker @ the ht. of his powers & didn't have to deal w/ him to win any of his 4 cons. majors. ...Fed's comp. was not worse > the comp. in the mid to late 90's & early 2000's for ex.. And it wasn't worse > what we have had since '14. I was just arguing w/ you suggesting Roddick was the best Fed's comp. If you weren't suggesting that, then it's all good.
...Not going to lie that surface homogenization has def. helped all of the Big 3; that & modern medicine. The Big 3 are extraordinary players, but I don't believe they are better > everyone who came before them. They're just playing in a friendlier era.***
You can say it, but blaming or undermining Nole for Roger not making an AO final to play him is hardly his prob.; esp. when Nole defeated him in the SF a few X's! Those AO were all tough; 1st event of the season where everyone's fresh & ready to go! It's not comparable w/ Murray & Roddick! I'm not = a fan of Murray's, but know he's a lot > accomplished dealing w/ Fedalovic!
***Novak will have 283 wks @ #1 on 8/24/20 when the ATP ranking resumes. If he stays #1, he will tie Sampras (286 wks) on 9/14, & Fed (310 wks) on 3/1/21. W/ the adj. to ATP rankings due to Covid-19 in mind, breakdown:
ReplyDelete- 1. Djokovic 10,220
- 2. Nadal 9,850
- 3. Thiem 7,045
All pts except '19 WTF are protected til the end of yr.
- ATP provisional Cal. 2020 not counting ATP 250:
- Aug 22 Cincy Djokr(360) - Nadal(0, NP) - Thiem(0)
- Aug 31 USO D(180) - N(2000) - Thiem(10)
- Sep 14 Rome D(600) - N(1000) - T(10)
- Sep 21 Hamb. D(0) - N(0) - T(90)
- Sep 27 RG D(720) - N(2000) - T(1200)
- Oct 12 St PetersB. D(0) - N(0) - T(0)
- Oct 26 Vienna D(0) - N(0) - T(500)
- Nov 2 Paris D(1000) - N(360) - T(90)
- Nov 15 WTF D(200 not prot.) - N(400 not prot.) - T(800 not prot.)
Djokovic has a max. of 6,760 pts to gain if he plays all the tier-1 events + 3 ATP 500s (drop Monty 180 pts).
Nadal has 3,310 pts to gain assuming he plays 3 ATP 500s & 1 ATP 250 (drop Barcelona 180 pts).
Thiem has 7,210 pts to gain if he plays Hamburg & St Petersburg.
- Novak's in the driver's seat. If he wins Cincy, USO, & Rome (diff. given the schedule, Hamburg, or Petersburg would do too), & 1 RR @ WTF, he'll guarantee the YE #1 & tie Sampras for the rec. @ 6.
- Winning Cincy will make him the 1st player to win EVERY big titles twice.
- Winning USO will bring him the standalone rec. for HC GS titles.
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- Djokovic vs Nadal - 29 victories to Nadal's 26 -
- https://www.atptour.com/en/players/atp-head-2-head/novak-djokovic-vs-rafael-nadal/D643/N409 -
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The pt. is, '19 AO Nadal knew how to win big & knew how to beat Djokovic in such a match since he had done it twice @ the USO. What did '06 Djokovic have? Nothing. What chances did he have in that match? 10% @ best. No, > like 5%. Yet that win is on par w/ '15 or '19? No.
...Nadal was done competing w/ Djokovic on HC by then, so him knowing how to beat Djokovic & winning based on pre '14 is totally diff. & means nothing in the context of AO '19.
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Dominant matches vs top 10s
>65% pts won vs top 10s in the last 30 yrs:
- Djokovic 14
- Federer 6
- Sampras 4
- Nadal, Youzhny 3
Djokovic had > dom. performances than Fed, Sampras, & Nadal put together. Is this the proof that he has the highest peak ever?***
***Facing Murray or Roddick would make no diff. for Fed. Roddick has actually been > of a threat @ Wimb. to him than Murray.***
ReplyDeleteRoddick had the serve to dom. a match = on this homogenized grass! That '09 final was his best chance w/ him in complete control early on; not looking as if he was going to drop serve! OTTH, he was up a set & sev. pts to take the 2nd, but butchered that high BH volley in the TB! Even Roger said, if he had lost that TB in the 2nd, the match prob. whg to Roddick! At the X it didn't bother me! I hadn't realized Roger was on the decline & winning those 2 majors in '09 was starting to become > an aberration > the norm! Soderling had elim. Rafa @ the FO so Roger had clear sailing to his lone title in Paris! Roddick made another final @ Wimbl. & no one thought he had a >er chance vs Roger this X until the match got started! Dropping that USO final to Del PO was just the beginning of what was yet to come w/ stretches of yrs waiting for Roger to + to his major ct.! He mhg older, but his comp. was tougher w/ Nadovic standing in his path @ every event!
***Looks like the USO is going to have a 'Big 1.'***
The same c/b said about all players @ a tourney or 4 over their careers! There are top heavy draws, upsets, & just plain luck allowing some titles, = majors t/b "vulture'd!" Fed had it the easiest IMO before Nadal & Nole came along w/ Djokovic having it the toughest trying to overcome the actual talent of Fedal & their legend! I'll give Nole this one major! He deserves a brk! It had to happen sooner or later w/ the aging of all of them!
***Tbh I find the worst aspect t/b the fact that the Big 3/2/1 is still an actual thing. It's not like they're playing close to their best ever tennis.***
ITA, it's sorta sad! It's like when the WTA allows Serena to come & go as she pleases, but still dominates upon her return! The men have the ability to beat any of the "Big 3," but it's obviously a mental thing since Nole's been the only real vulnerable player of the 3 succumbing to the onslaught of the NG'rs! This is unprecedented in Open tennis that 3 players pretty much "own" the tour like no others in the past! We were so starved to witness greatness & history, we anointed Sampras as the GOAT & he never even played a FO final! How X's have changed in just the last 4-6 yrs where Nole won majors in bunches & has almost overtaken Fedal! Avoiding injury, I can't see anyone stopping him from achieving that top mark along w/ the others on his resume!
***Fedal haven't stopped Djokovic @ majors since '12 & '14, respectively. A long, long X ago! When he was stopped in the last 6 yrs, it certainly wasn't by Fedal! Why shouldn't Novak play j/b Roger, who's out w/ an injury BTW, & Rafa aren't there? If Novak picks injury in NY & can't play RG, is that a reason for Rafa to skip this yr's RG?
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I've been saying all along that whenever anyone mentions Djokovic's 18 slams (if he wins the USO), they'll mention that he won w/o Nadal/Wawrinka/Fed. That's 3 USO champs missing from the draw. It will tarnish his legacy, whereas if he doesn't win the 18th slam he w/b fine.
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Such hypocrisy! When Djokovic had the elbow injury, & started losing to the likes of Chung, Querrey, & Istomin in opening Rds, did Fedal consider not playing majors? Now Fed's injured & not playing, all of sudden Djokovic should consider the same! Nadal's entitled to make his own decision, but every other player is entitled to the same right!***
There will always be a terrible "double standard" & a sense of entitlement t/b a hypocrite when it comes to Fedal! It's unfortunate, but that's where the term fan shows it's true meaning as "fanaticism" in some of us!
***These stats are enough to prove that Murray had a pretty lackluster '14-15 stretch. Most'd agree on that. When we talk about peak Murray however, I think the yrs that come to mind w/b '12-13 & '16.
ReplyDeleteDuring '12-13 he was 9-8 over the top 5 (excl. walk-over Nadal). Broken up, that's:
- 3-3 vs Fed
- 4-5 vs Djokovic
- 2-0 vs Ferrer
Oddly nothing vs Nadal 'cept a walkover.
Pretty respectable. Now how about '16:
7-4 over the top 5 (excl. a walk-over Raonic).
- 2-3 vs Djokovic
- 1-1 vs Nadal
- 2-0 vs Wawrinka
- 1-0 vs Nishikori
- 1-0 vs Raonic
Obviously, the top 5 looks a lit'l > inclusive > in '12-13, but it's still impressive nonethe<. Certainly > so > his prev. seasons.
I see all these arguments for Murray not ever doing anything to stop the top players, & while that's certainly true for '14 & '15 (& start of '16), he was actually quite good vs the top 5 in his best seasons.
- On a side note, it's odd that he only played 4 matches vs the top 5 in '13.***
What's your ?? about '13? Murray was having back issues I believe; so bad that he threw the FO into upheaval needing to move Fedal up a seed when #2 Murray WD! That caused a SF w/ Nole & Rafa instead of a final! "Thanks Andy!" Heaven knows how that match mhb diff. if in the final if Nadal a bit > weary!
***I don't care about an age diff. of 2 yrs. You & the fans seem to think there's a massive diff. though.***
You'd think it was a contest btw Connors & Agassi @ the USO in the 80's! 5 to 6 yrs's just a cop out; esp. since Fed inflating his major ct. to 20 in his later yrs w/ 3 convincing wins! It helped that Djokovic was sidelined w/ elbow issues, but Fed still had to maneuver past Nadal & the NG'rs!
***Oh, I like how you Nole fans totally dismiss this age diff., completely forgetting that Djokovic has no > players 5 & 6 yrs younger for you to claim the age diff. is insignificant :-D***
Excuse me? WTF are you talking about? They're there, & have made a mark for themselves! I guess you forgot = w/ Nole "run" in the 2nd 1/2 of '18, he dropped a final to Khachanov in Paris & the WTF Chp. Final to Zverev! I didn't scream or whine about it since I want & expect some of these players to finally brk thru & make their mark! Unfortunately only Nole's been vulnerable enough to drop a match or 3 vs those NG'rs you have so much respect for!
***6 yrs used t/b almost 1/2 a typical career not so long ago.***
But that's the thing; it's still "in the past!" Roger acquired 3 Majors in his "twilight yrs" so using any age differential is pt.< in this instance of "today's tennis!"
***The comp. level to Big 3 has been abysmal & its their rivalries btw them that's deciding who wins how many slams. Fedal made a strong comeback in '17 & w/ Novak having a bad slump helped them to sweep 6 slams before Novak returned back & won 5 of the 7 played since.
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That’s b/c Fed's much >er > avg. player. You have to compare his achievements in his “twilight yrs“ to his achievements in his peak yrs. And frankly, it’s not = close.***
The same c/b said about Fed's comp.! That's also making people re-think the GOAT moniker! Roger acquired most of his titles & recs B4 Nadovic came into their own! Opinion's running rampant in a 100 diff. directions these days w/ his 2 top rivals having a H2H edge on the old guy w/ yrs to come to + to their recs!
***I guess I was focusing > on the Fedovic rivalry itself & have never denied that Djokovic hasn't had any truly great rivals that are 5-6 yrs younger. Having said that, Djokodal are 2 of the 5 greatest male players ever & come along pretty much once in a blue moon so it seems somewhat unrealistic to me to expect their comp. t/b as tough as the comp. they themselves provided for Fed & indeed every other top player in recent yrs.***
No one seems to care Serena Wms went down vs Rogers today! She was ranked outside the top 100, but w/ this 3 set win over Wms, she's now inside that elite #!
ReplyDelete***Rogers showed calm & maturity in the TB & a well deserved win!***
This is so reminiscent of past champs like Martina Navr.! She was still winning early Rd. matches, but in the clutch, = w/ a lead, she started faltering! That loss vs softballer Halep in str. sets on grass @ Wimbl. last yr. proves Serena has t/b mentally brk'n down!
***Let's see how Serena fares in the upcoming USO. In regards to the Wimbl. loss, it was a perfect tactic match which Halep to her credit played to win. Serena to me was not as fit as she chb (carrying a bit too much wt.) last yr. & her sound footwork deserted her when she needed it >.
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...Makes Stan's major runs t/b respected >.***
Nole may have a long string of "pigeon rivals" he's won > of their matches, but Stan's 1 of those players who "always" made it tough! Each X Stan's taken out Nole @ a major, Djokovic was on a run & was due a loss, so it wasn't as devastating as it mhb if he'd been denied his last chance to win a major that season! A lot of the X Djokovic still won 2 majors & was in another final! His excellence was so expected, = his detractors tried to use it as some kind of club to beat him over the head! ...Fed going 5+ yrs w/o a major; then benefitting from a rival being injured/off tour later has t/b acknowledged in Roger's successful campaign of '17-18! The avg. member of the tennis "intelligencia" is still holding onto the myth & legend of "FEDAL" when a fallacy! Nadal's owned Fed; cementing his dom. taking away Fed's supremacy on grass in '08! I was 1 who put Sampras on a pedestal w/o a FO final & was ready to do the same for Roger until he played so many finals w/o success! The H2H can't be ignored as the history books will only show "cold hard facts" instead of our opinion of who s/b "The GOAT!"
***...Even in AO'15 Wawrinka gave a >er fight, = though he was far from his best.
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...What excuses are you going to offer why Stan, the Djokovic Giant-Killer @ RG, got stamped on by that notorious weakling Murray in the semis of '16 where he was the defending champ? ...hampered by a disintegrating hip, still managed to take Stan to 5 sets in the SF's of '17? After all, he's notorious for never putting up a fight according to you?
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How does Nadal have a 9-6 rec. in slams vs Djokovic? - No doubt the clay skew. The USO h2h's impressive though.
Distrib.:
AO: 2 matches (2-0)
RG: 7 matches (1-6)
Wim.: 3 matches (2-1)
USO: 3 matches (1-2)
Part of it is b/c Nadal is a very good player, but you have to admit that the extra RG matches (2 of which being in '06-07) skew it a bit.
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Combo of being a great big match player & > meetings @ RG > other 3 slams. Obviously if there were an = # of meetings @ each of the 4 slams, the lead wouldn't be 9 to 6. I would guess it w/b 8 to 7 either way.
The 2 are quite = across the 4 slams, each has 1 where they're >er & have won > H2H, but fans argue the peak level of their fave is >er > the other & the H2H lead is due to luck or X'ing (USO & WIM where the lead is 2 to 1 in both cases) & one where they're dom. over the the other (AO vs RG). Djokovic fans could argue w/ 3 meetings apiece @ the closer slams, then it's obvious that 7 meetings vs 2 @ the best slam for each is unfair. But Rafa fans could argue WIM & USO are a wash & it's obvious Rafa is > dom. @ RG > Novak is @ AO.***
***When the Next Gen. have held the top 4 rankings & made virtually every SF & Final 10 yrs in a row, call me.***
ReplyDeleteHey, it happens; the old guard doesn't leave the stage in a X-ly fashion & it stifles that next wave! Happens in all sports, but this is unprecedented longevity w/ Fedalovic literally owning the tour for well over a decade! That won't happen in anyway w/i my lifeX, but the games going thru a change! Like how they cut Masters' finals to BO3 from BO5, that benefitted them m/b too much! No one came close to Nole's dom. of yearly avg'ing 5 Masters' wins along w/ taking cons. YEC's that also went to BO3! What change in the game will next benefit the players of this time? They've been testing new scoring at the NG'rs YEC, but again we'd need to start talking about "asterisks" all over the place if Fedalovics' historic recs are swept away too soon!
***I don't see how BO3 in Masters finals has benefitted the Big 4 b/c they also dominate all 4 slams which are BO5.***
You're kidding right? You try playing b2b Masters' finals that may go 5 sets! The cons. wk. wins we see routinely w/ Roger, Rafa, & Nole almost never happened in past gens! It was just too draining & it made a huge diff. that all the finals went to BO3 outside of the majors! I can't believe I'm = having to explain this! Players like Nadal go into hibernation after a FO 5 set final! Giving him X to recoup has helped him own the clay Masters' tour for yrs! That never would've happened = just 10-15 yrs ago when he dropped 2 huge clay finals to Fed; losing a set @ love!
***The Big 3-/4 are just soooo accomplished & experienced that nothing (except m/b playing each other) rattles them. This is why they have been able to dom. younger gens, 1st the Lost Gen & now the Nex Gen. These youngers guys have made it a habit of rolling over or coming close. Then they get a close win, but fail to repeat the next X they face the same B4 player. The B4 simply have an iron grip psychologically on their younger rivals. They also brought their A game everyday. The Nex-Gen have failed utterly to do that. The only player who showed this kind of consistency so far has been Medvedev during the No. Amer. HC swing last yr. However, his Asian swing was disappointing and the pandemic has likely stopped his momentum. I’m hopeful that he has the hunger & work ethic to try to replicate the success he had last yr. soon.
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Djokovic is being smart. He knows that if a player like Thiem, Medvedev, or = Zverev 'zones,' then he c/b beaten. These guys are dangerous. But they've been extremely inconsistent.
- Zverev: His serving has been horrific lately. ...We've seen Zverev catch fire to beat Fed & Djoker back-to-back. This kid needs his bomb serves back. If he zones w/ a 80% 1st serve % while hitting 135-140 mph bombs like he did for the 1st part of the AO tourey this year, then he's extremely dangerous.
- Medvedev: His ball striking, particulary that FH, c/b extremely inconsistent. But I like how aggressive he c/b. I watched him fall behind Djoker last yr. in Cinci due to getting his 2nd serves slaughtered. He made a adjustment by bombing 2nd serves. He came back & won. This guy is 2-2 vs Djoker since the beginning of '19. Obviously, I'd still pick Djoker to win, but when he's on, he's dangerous.
- Thiem: He pushed Djoker to the limit in the AO final. Granted, he didn't close the deal, but he came within a set of beating Nadal & Djoker in the same tourney. That's impressive. However, his serves have gone south lately.***
Was it mentioned that if Nole completes Cinci win to tie Nadal w/ 35 Masters 1000 titles, he'll be the only player ever to take all 14 top ATP events @ least twice? He's already the rec. holder w/ 1 Cinci crown; the 2nd will elevate him for all X! Not sure anyone will come close to being that prolific & complete a player!
ReplyDelete***So damn right. He's one of a kind. Luckily B game was enough to get past RBA in 3 sets. #35 w/b awesome, but please don’t forget the counting on wks @ #1.
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...until '11, Djokovic was seen as a 1 Slam wonder.***
Has anything been proved t/b > "wrong" > that prediction? I didn't see Sampras coming, = when he upset Wilander in the 2nd Rd. of the USO in '89! The thing was Mats had gone done precipitously since acquiring the #1 ranking in '88 so I wasn't going to make "hay" of it! Even when Pete upset Lendl in '90 & squashed McEnroe to make the USO Final, I had no reason to believe Agassi wouldn't take care of this new "whipper-snapper!" Lit'l did I know how > >er Pete was & eventually be as he eviscerated Andre in about an hr. 1/2! You just never know! In the ladies' game, Martina "pork'd" out w/ her new American ways & we thought her career w/b limited! Again, she proved everyone wrong; = w/ so much going on behind the scenes; her defection & sexuality ??ed by her & others! She overcame it all, but prob. extended herself too > playing every event possible, inevitably just keeping her above water winning 18 of 32 major finals she played! Her comp. looked a lit'l weak for a while, but she ended up having to overcome a # of ATG's along the way from Evert, King, & Goolagong to Graf, Seles, & Sanchez-Vicario! The GOAT will come out of these last 3 ATG's I feel w/ Nole prob. taking the top spot after all's said & done!
***Djokovic's success in Masters throughout his career is extraordinary. Prob. won't see anybody win them all twice for a very very long X.***
I'd say never for the X being! Nadal'll own the "clay Master" moniker while the overall "Master" is still being fought btwn Nole & Roger w/ Djokovic a clear lead in the # of titles, his consistency over the yrs, & avg'n 4-5 wins a season! Who can we imagine "ever" winning 6 Masters 1000 titles & being a finalist in 2 others in a single season? He skipped Madrid that yr.! ...35th Masters win & completion of a 2nd Golden Masters after Cinci win over Raonic!
***Yeah, his 8 Masters finals & 6 wins in '15 was insane. It's going t/b a tall order for someone to match that. Just 5 players have ever beaten Djokovic in a Masters 1000 final:
- Nadal - 6
- Murray - 5
- Fed - 3
- Zverev - 1
- Khachanov - 1
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Yeah, the ”CGM's” kind of falls apart as a concept prior to '09 since tournaments changed > frequently B4 then. But since then, the calendar has essentially been static. The vast majority of Novak’s career he’s played the same 9 Masters every yr., & won them all, which no one else has done in that same span. So makes sense to tout it as a unique achievement. Just doesn’t really compare across eras very well.***
Djokovic has a Double Golden Masters' crown to sport!" Something Fedal'll never get to see or feel!
***If Djokovic wins 2 Masters 1000 next yr., it s/b MC & Cinci. He'll have won all of them 3 X's. I'm + it wasn't his last Cinci. He'll have @ least 2 or 3 > chances in the future. He's currently tied w/ Fed @ 6 IW's titles. He also needs 1 > Canada. Nadal has 5. Madrid's rec. isn't unattainable either. He has 3, Nadal has 4. He'll obviously never have the recs in MC, Rome, & Cinci, but he has the ability to have the rec. in 6 of them (alone or tied). For Miami, Shanghaï, & Bercy it's already a done deal.***
***What a shame t/b so weak that you can't stand up vs the person who is bringing down your entire party.***
ReplyDeleteTrump had totally taken over the Rep. party! It was as if they were afraid to criticize him! They stayed quiet & it brought them to power so it's hard for some to have regrets, but they will!
***...Reps understood why EO's were bad when Obama was in power. But then they forgot.***
They didn't forget shit! Reps & cons. have been hypocritical jackasses for yrs; "do as I say, not as I do" purveyors! Absol. everything that was sacrosanct one day is no bid deal the next when it suits them! They used to respect high office & always chastised Dems saying how disrespectful we c/b! Lit'l did we know a lowlife POS Rep. out of ALA. would have the gall to scream out "you lie" during a SOTU address! This MF'r not only didn't apologize to Obama, he took kudos & raised campaign funds off it! Reps have nothing on us after their acceptance of Trump which shows them t/b class<, disreputable human beings that we have to seriously worry about when in charge!
***OMG, Hillary is relating all the stuff Trump & cronies are doing to undermine the election. Slowing down the U.S. mail so a lot of elderly people aren't getting their SS checks & meds. All of the nefarious crap happening in states by Repub a'holes who support Trump. This is scary! Hillary's cautioning us about Trump likely refusing to leave quietly when hopefully he's voted out of office! - - ...That the state m/b mother, the state m/b father, & the state m/b obeyed is so socialist/communist.***
Hello, you got it! Some aren't able or are overwhelmed! It's called "exceptions to the rule" on a >er plain of existence m/b! Some > enlightened person might use the term "extenuating circumstances!" Funny how those same cons. brag about their humble beginnings; how food stamps & some kind of financial aid came in handy during trying X's! Those same humble a-holes are trying to cut or elim. the "safety net!" I have no words for people who need convincing of this! Idiotic!
***"Powell endorses Biden, says Trump's a liar & a danger to the Nation. Former military leaders kept up a barrage of criticism of President Trump on Sun. for his threat to use military force vs protesters, warning the commander-in-chief’s actions could drive a wedge btwn the U.S. military & civilians."
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...Killing a baby simply for the sake of convenience is wrong. I agree w/ what Trump said in '99. He stated that he was pro-choice, but he hated abortion.
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One does not have to like abortion to recognize that the pro-choice view is the right one. Being consistently & totally anti-choice requires being willing to do things like lie to women about the dangers of continuing a pregnancy & to not pt. out the truth to them about the comparative risks as MO. did. Only irrational people who're willing to ignore the rights of women are willing to go that far. Rational people are pro-choice.***
Thank you
***We already survived 4-yrs of Trump. I'm not sure we'd survive 4-yrs of Biden w/ the crazy Dem. policies.***
You have t/b deluding yourself to believe 4 > yrs of Trump w/b >er > a "chimp in charge!" Dems usually have to clean up Rep. messes so this w/b no diff.! "W" & Trump inherited booming economies & they fk'd it up; plain & simple! Starting wars & ignoring pandemics isn't conducive to "good X's!" Reps can't stand peace, prosperity, & people actually happy w/ their representation! Their sort have to go out there & "down" everything t/b a party of "NO!"
***1. A Biden presidency w/b a "chimp in charge." No thanks.
2. Trump did not fk. up the US economy. China did w/ C-19. Get a clue.
3. Dems can't stand peace & prosperity, Trump defeated ISIS, &'s getting us out the the ME, all the way out.***
***Rep. strategists are starting to "panic" & fear a "historic wipeout" in Nov.: Insiders fear it c/b another Dem. wave election
ReplyDeleteThe possibility of President Donald Trump losing to VP Joe Biden isn't the only thing they're worried about: they also fear that Dems will achieve a majority in the U.S. Senate & increase the majority they presently hold in the U.S. House of Repr. Some insiders fear that Nov. c/b another Dem. wave election.
"President Trump's poll #'s have never been worse, & Reps are starting to panic that he c/b headed to a historic wipeout that could drag the rest of the party down w/ him," Joseph explains. "Trump has trailed former VP Joe Biden by almost 10 pts in recent Nat'l polling. And Reps privately admit things look just as bad @ the local level."
...Joseph writes that when it comes to Senate races, "the map appears t/b expanding for Dems." And the only incumbent Dem. senator who appears t/b truly vulnerable is Sen. Doug Jones in AL; a deep red state.
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They're starting to panic a day late & a $ short. Didn't they pay attn. to the '18 results in the House? I looked @ Doug Jones polls, he's down by 3, hope he can pull it out.***
Sorry to say those 'necks would sooner have a child molester in office than a Dem.! Jones only won by a pt. & a 1/2 over Judge "hypocrite" Moore; pedo. extraordinaire! It's amazing how those people have the nerve to judge others w/ their choices of representation! Some would just assume bring back the real old geezer, ex-Sen/AG Sessions! I have no words!
***Their sense of who's morally superior tends t/b a lit'l off mainly based on the "pro-life" views of the various candidates & the 2 political parties in gen. Too many irrational "pro-life" voters, Dems are the party of people who support baby killing.
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Steve Bannon Arrested in NY on Charges of Stealing From ‘Build the Wall’ Fundraiser***
True! I got nothing for the saps who were taken in though! The MSM tells us all how shady & corrupt these people c/b, but the suckers "like" being taken advantage of so they can continue being part of a society of "grievance holders!"
***Bannon hasn't been part of the admin since '17 & w/ Trump, who cares? There was an act, The Border Wall Trust Fund. I would think we are well past what Trump can or can't do. He may have a limited vocabulary, but "can't" is not a word he learned.
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...The 13 yr. long sentence s/b sufficient to deter normal people from committing crimes. But when you have an abnormal person, then nothing works as a deterrent.***
Jailing our "mentally ill" as criminals' what causes the overcrowding; hence early release by repeat, predicate felons! This is how we have these people going in & out of prison all their lives w/ "rap" sheets as long as their arm! Pols exacerbate the prob. always encouraging incarceration for the least lit'l offense to encourage the voting populous, so it's all our faults there's a revolving door in the penal system!
***The Kenosha Shooting Suspect Was In The Front Row Of A Trump Rally In Jan. - ...He wasn't defending a business from violent intruders. He was out running around w/ that gun itching to fire it @ some people whom he considered troublemakers. None of them was apparently the troublemaker that he was.***
The real killer being that cops saw this a-hole earlier, gave him & others water who're walking around w/ these rifles, & pretty much applauded their efforts! The cops were no better allowing those kids t/b running around w/ assault rifles! Fk'n idiots ALL!
***Many of us can't fathom almost 200K dying so needlessly. that is why you are seeing cons. come out of the woodwork & on CNN/MSNBC. It's why you find Reps & some very cons. from every walk of life.***
***The Kenosha Shooting Suspect ...@ A Trump Rally In Jan. He wasn't defending a business from violent intruders. ....***
ReplyDeleteThe real killer being that cops saw this a-hole earlier, gave him & others water who were walking around w/ these illegal rifles, & pretty > applauded their efforts! The cops were no >er allowing those kids t/b running around w/ assault rifles!
***If the kid had had drugs, the police might've arrested him, but carrying a high powered rifle capable of causing massive damage to a person w/ a single shot was no big deal to them = though that was also illegal. As long as people don't = recognize that guns like that in the hands of immature & stupid people pose a bigger threat than illegal drugs, we're going to have big problems in this society.
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When it comes down to it abortion is not the top of the list in voting. Being pro-life isn't only held by Dems, although pro-choice is. "Killing babies" is extremely subjective.
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Of course it's "extremely subjective," but it's the way that many pro-lifers look @ the issue. You keep underestimating the importance of this issue in the minds of many Trump supporters. I know some of them personally. They are friends of mine. Being "pro-life" is very important to them.***
Too bad being "pro-life" doesn't make someone a >er person! Heaven knows after a kid is born, most cons turn their backs & really not GAF about kids! They still want to elim. public education! The safety net to make sure the poor & kids have minimal comforts like food & shelter is under assault as well by "the right!" And don't get me started on the "death penalty!" These same jerk-offs would pay $$ to watch a prison execution! This is why I find people like them "more bent" than any who're already under a Dr's care! The hypocrisy makes my head hurt!
***Unclear why Trump wasn’t arrested in '16.***
Initially you have to blame Obama! He refused to = have the appearance of interfering in the election so he allowed a lot of things to go on w/o holding people acct-able! As for after being elected, you need a Senate Leader that observes protocol & rules! Trump hasn't observed any of it; no matter how much & how many say "NO, you can't do that!" It was beholden on McConnell to reel in this a-hole who wanted the Inaugural procession to have missiles carted up Penns. Av. as in dictatorship! McConnell will go down in the annals of history as the most worth< Senate Majority Leader ever! He thinks j/b he stole a SC seat & rammed thru 300+ > cons. judges, it was all worth it! He's set us back 30+ yrs prob., but it's hard to care when he keeps getting re-elected no matter his malfeasance in the position! He's not incompetent so if there's any justice or Karma, McConnell will burn in HELL!
***The new ABC News/Ipsos poll is esp. harsh for Trump. ...it did poll the candidates' favorability ratings. Trump's favorable rating stood @ 32% in an Ipsos' poll last wk. Today, after the Rep. Nat'l Conv., it stands @ 31%.
Biden's favorable rating, meanwhile, was @ 45% last wk. It's now @ 46%. These movements are well w/i any margin of error, though they line-up w/ the idea that Trump didn't receive a large bump out of his convention.
Still, it's not anywhere close to where Trump needed his bounce t/b. Remember, Trump trailed by around 9 pts heading into the conventions. The lack of bounces does make sense given that fewer people watched the conventions this yr., which is esp. the case for the Rep. convention.
The bottom line is this for Trump: something major needed to change in the post-convention polling. It doesn't look like it did in the 1st Rd. of evidence. That means un< something shifts, Trump will have to do something quite unusual to earn another term in the White House.***
***Hatred is on the rise; Is GOP a hate group?***
ReplyDeleteI'm getting a lit'l tired of giving society a pass when stats like this are going up; being led by the "head hatah" himself! ...Trump's pushed everything to the limit! You have the enablers & the outright traitors in the admin. cabinet which has allowed unprecedented criminality in the Oval Office! The final nail in the coffin is an entire political party has "rolled over" & has accepted it as well!
***I think Trump can hate those who criticize him, but in gen. he seems t/b > of an opportunist > a typical rightwing hater. He does what he considers politically expedient & doing that has worked well for him so far.
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...W/ the alt. being a cabinet led by nuts like AOC & Sanders, it doesn't matter what mean things Trump says.***
...It's so ridiculous to tout AOC as being so powerful when she just got to Congress! Sanders' been there forever & he's gotten absolutely nothing done except being the cons' bogy-man! So WTF are you talking about? Typical Fox News propaganda being spread as those idiots talked their viewers into thinking C-19 was a hoax! They only backed off when it appeared they w/b sued! Go ahead & follow Trump's suggestions of injecting Lysol & laying under black light! "Thinning the herd" has been said B4 by > intelligent & ignorant people > me!
***Fox News: Trump called all Vietnam soldiers "suckers"***
Someone in the cabinet's been interviewed who left disillusioned by comments Trump made in the past! He confirmed it! Of course Trump will say "he's disgruntled!" Nyah, people are just sick of someone lying thru their teeth @ every opp.! Insulting ex-Chief Of Staff, Gen. Kelly doesn't help! He's attacked "Gold Medal" family recipients in the past &'s gotten away w/ it! Will America allow it to continue?
***Sadly they may. It could be a combination of Trump base, propaganda and cheating. All he has to do is win key swing states by small margins. Even if he loses the pop. vote by 5M, he could still win in Nov., while the Reps sit quietly & we bang our heads against the wall. I've joined the Lincoln Project Group b/c their goal's the same as mine - 'defeat Trump & elect Biden our next Potus.'
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Trump Says He Never Called McCain A ‘Loser’ - - Founder of veterans group blasts Trump over report he called dead US troops 'losers' & "suckers"
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...The cabinet officials have the absolute right & obligation to remove Trump. - The Constitution gave Mattis & Kelly the authority to remove Trump by 25th Amendment for mental defects or any incapacities in doing the job. No one in America would have opposed it after what they said to the Atlantic a few days ago.***
I just don't understand! Why do people jump hoops to prove Trump "lies like a rug?" He's made his feelings known about McCain since B4 he became president! That's what's so offensive about apologists for the man! It's not like he's hiding he's an offensive, misogynist pig, w/ no real intellect there to = pretend he knows what he's doing! Reps were sorta able to instill some kind of "presence" w/ another nitwit, "W," but anyone trying to defend Trump winds up losing all their credibility! Even the > respected of individuals have embarrassed themselves; Mattis the only one never to compromise himself besides taking the Defense Sec. job in the 1st place! If you assoc. w/ Trump, you're going t/b tainted as if shit was thrown @ you!
Mon Dieu; the insecurity & inferiority complex of some fans is truly telling! Their faves aren't = playing while Novak's working hard to win a couple tourneys & solidify his #1 ranking! Signifying against him just makes those fans look ridiculous & shows them t/b the epitome of the "fanatic!"
ReplyDelete***I don't have any problem on whether or not Rafa plays, just like I don't have a problem w/ Djokovic playing the USO to win > slam titles.***
Having anything but a very + opinion of Nadal is not acceptable! You know how it is; "do as I say, not as I do!" The hypocrisy's mind-numbing!
***Yeah, so right my friend. You already mentioned the idiot who's blabbering about bull, who didn’t = have the courage to play here. I have to admit Nadal's smart enough to know it whb a waste of X!
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Nadal has been able to beat peak Djokovic on HC & peak Fed on Grass in slam finals!
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Never has Nadal beat peak Novak; during his prime yes, but not peak. ...Novak beat prime Bull > often > other way around, on every surface, also on his best in Paris. Novak’s best slam surface is Australia, ...There's no doubt who's the >er & > complete!***
I'm sorry; it w/b like asking Trump why "he lies!" He can't understand & the Nadal-fan can't understand how poorly their sycophantic, irrational behavior is making them look!
***...Nadal has 209 wks @ #1, w/ 2 yrs longer on pro tour; & they call him GOAT.***
Do you remember that nefarious per. for the ATP when Fedal held office? Nadal tried to fenagle a system of counting pts so that it encompassed 2 seasons instead of 1! He was inevitably about to lose the #1 ranking to Nole who was undefeated in '11! My mouth went agape w/ the thought of someone w/ that > of a conflict of interest could suggest such a thing! Of course Roger as president shut it down; Nadal dropping out soon after when it appeared he was getting no satisfaction as VP!
***Is Nadal losing his pts from last yr. title @ USO?***
I think it depended on when he decided to play or not! I'm 1/2 remembering that if he chose to skip the event due to the pandemic, he won't lose them until next yr., but if he "WD" mid-event the pts would come off right away! The rankings will have a huge * on it for this season after all's said & done; = if Djokovic stays undefeated! You'd think that would settle any issues, but I have a feeling diehard fans will come up w/ alt. ways of looking @ it!
***Nadal was lucky to = be in that 5th set in the '12 AO final, & in gen. he's lucky to win a set vs Djokovic @ Wimbledon. Contrary to what idiots such as huntingyou and BwokenWoken claimed in '10, Djokovic is clearly a superior grasscourt player to Nadal.***
Djokovic is one of the unluckiest players in the history of tennis someX's! He c/b serving for a match & all of a sudden his opp. begins to "redline" shots & then stops missing = the toughest shots thrown @ them! OTTH I can recall it happening @ '11 USO, '12 AO, '14 Wimbl., & '15 USO! He c/b up 2 brks as in that '14 Wimb. final, drops TB, needing to rise from the dead to win in 5 sets! It happens a lot & it's usually not anything Nole's done; no DF's or UFE's!
***...compared to Trump, "W" appears to have been an = worse "nitwit." He got us into a major war w/ Iraq that was completely unjustified which cost both American lives & the lives of Iraqi citizens. It was a major fiasco based on nothing but BS about Iraq having weapons of mass destruction. A phony excuse that the mass media seemed to go along w/ = though it makes no sense @ all. If that excuse made sense we shg to war w/ N. Korea. "W" also nearly wrecked our economy. Trump hasn't managed to do that kind of economic damage yet. - Some actually believe that the whole world is participating in a hoax to "destroy Trump's economy?" Yep, someone here is a fool.***
ReplyDeleteI thought I was on a cons. website for a moment! I get into battles like that, getting hit w/ pejoratives since their meager intellect is so tested! When they have to talk "real complicated stuff" like disease, weather, economics, & foreign affairs, they become experts in their own minds! I can still see meteorologist Trump marking a map, re-charting the direction of a storm! This country has no hope if he fenagles another term; ostensibly w/ a crooked electoral college ct. again aided by Russia & China! Facebk's still reporting foreign entities trying to influence people & making trouble btw the races & classes! Heaven knows how this election will go w/ Trump undermining mail-in balloting & sabotaging the Postal Service!
***I think Trump has done damage as far as the economy. Cons. have paid no attn. to the debt since Obama. I hated GWB politics; hate Trumps twice as >. I hate Trumps nonrepr. & name calling. I hate his lies, I hate he has destroyed our relationship w/ allies & cozies up & lies about Putin. I hate he has no allegience to this country & only to his family & their personal fortune. He's not only a crap president, he & his cronies have gotten away w/ brking > laws > the mafia, not to mention his fat ass is doing nothing other > golfing & spending $$ on our dime.
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Well I agree it was wrong for Trump to decrease taxes while increasing military spending, thus increasing the Nat'l Debt. I get why Obama had to increase the debt to end the recession, but Trump should've tried to start some paybk. ...
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...then there's Kelly. ...It's chickenshit to say anyone who went to any war for this country is an idiot; esp. considering the age this country forces kids to go.***
As > anyone assoc. w/ Trump, Kelly's reputation's been shot to Hell; I don't care how > people think he's been redeemed by Trump's insult of his dead son! This guy thought himself able to control Trump & keep him from making a fool of himself & the country! He failed miserably as "Chief Of Staff" & only made himself look bad trying to defend the actions of Trump! I can still see him covering for the boss when his Trump insulted a Gold Medal family recipient saying "he knew what he was signing up for!" Then he denies saying it = though on speaker phone w/ a Congresswoman in the car! Kelly decides to undermine the credibility of the Congresswoman, calling her a "big bag of wind!" It's just unfathomable that a well respected service officer would allow himself t/b used like that! It only got worse after that until Kelly was fired/resigned later!
***...Oh & you don't see t-shirts saying "Trump the bitch" on them on Clinton & Obama supporters or anything like that.***
We did have an exception for "W" since his minions were so keen in stopping public dissent! "Free speech zones" come to mind? A few "'W' Sucks" t-shirts were out there early on! I didn't think it could get much worse w/ a loser like him, but the Reps found it in Trump & they s/b quite proud of themselves! It was a long X coming to find this much of a fk'n disaster!
***...What psychologically makes people susceptible to being so influenced by a Trump? To have that much blind loyalty & just suck up the lies. That includes conspiracy theories of which Trump himself espouses.***
ReplyDeleteThe words being uttered by these charlatans somehow reaches something in followers! It's sick IMO; esp. when they know the person's a lowlife POS! These same people condemn some for the slightest transgression! Trump could drain the blood out of kid & they'd cheer it on! It may not be fair, but I've pretty much disowned a best friend or 3 who "proudly voted for Trump!" We haven't spoken civilly since! They're as guilty as him of the hateful things said if they supports the man! That's telling me something diff. when they befriend foreigners when Trump's so against them! Who TF really knows w/ these people! Their lives are so full of lies, how can they tell truths anymore?
***Like you can believe anything Michael Cohen has to say in his new book.***
Why do we believe anything, anyone in Trump's orbit says? To stay in his good graces, they have to each compromise every bit of integrity they "HAD," b/c it's gone now! No one has been immune; = Gen. Mattis who was Defense Sec. jumping ship early! It wasn't enough; can't have any respect for him by = taking a job w/ that orangutan!
***...I don't really see the Trump cult of personality as being much diff. > the Obama, Sanders, or = Hillary cults of personality. It wasn't that long ago that people were literally fainting/swooning over Obama, excusing every Hillary gaffe as misogyny, idolizing Bernie Sanders as the savior of America (Bernie or bust), etc.***
Seek serious help if you believe there's any comparison to the 2 parties who're constantly @ odds & unwilling to compromise! Reps will make up shit to complain about & investigate! That's such BS about the MSM swooning, allowing Hillary & Obama to get away with murder! They had to deal w/ constant investigations by Reps! She sat for 11 hrs @ some lame Benghazi hearing so if that's being accommodated by anyone, I'd like you to say it w/ a str. face! Dems just sound like whiners b/c Reps are so fk'n shady! They're always doing something they've criticized others for in the past! It's typical "do as I say, not as I do" mentality!
***But her emails! ;)***
What about them? You're ready to turn the country upside down over emails, but ignore the illegal acts of this present admin., led by the top cop, the AG? IDK what to make of the pathetic hypocrisy of this lying SOS! It was the same thing w/ Clinton; like it was anyone's business he was boffing an intern! Was it > respectable when Rep. House members were busted diddling minor children interns? You know the old saying of "casting the 1st stone!" Reps & cons. are famous for it; then back-peddle when they're caught! W/ Trump they just say "what's the problem? So what if he didn't show enough concern about a pandemic that's actually killing people!" Now he's promoting a vaccine before the election! WTF's wrong w/ the people around him to allow this level of malfeasance!
***Trump asked if Tom Cotton would consider serving on the Supreme Court.
- https://twitter.com/SenTomCotton/status/1303784315126456321 -***
It would be quite hypocritical for McConnell to try & replace a SC Justice if one keeled over after what he did to Obama; totally stealing a seat! Of course hypocrisy isn't something that stops Reps from doing anything! They've openly discussed replacing RBG after 2 hospital stays! If Dems did that to Scalia before he croaked in '16, they'd of lost their shit!
Mon Dieu; the insecurity & inferiority complex of some fans is truly telling! Their faves aren't = playing while Novak's working hard to win a couple tourneys & solidify his #1 ranking! Signifying against him just makes those fans look ridiculous & shows them t/b the epitome of the "fanatic!"
ReplyDelete***I don't have any problem on whether or not Rafa plays, just like I don't have a problem w/ Djokovic playing the USO to win > slam titles.***
Having anything but a very + opinion of Nadal is not acceptable! You know how it is; "do as I say, not as I do!" The hypocrisy's mind-numbing!
***Yeah, so right my friend. You already mentioned the idiot who's blabbering about bull, who didn’t = have the courage to play here. I have to admit Nadal's smart enough to know it whb a waste of X!
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Never has Nadal beat peak Novak; during his prime yes, but not peak. ...Novak beat prime Bull > often > other way around, on every surface, also on his best in Paris. Novak’s best slam surface is Australia, ...There's no doubt who's the >er & > complete!***
I'm sorry; it w/b like asking Trump why "he lies!" He can't understand & the Nadal-fan can't understand how poorly their sycophantic, irrational behavior is making them look!
***...Nadal has 209 wks @ #1, w/ 2 yrs longer on pro tour; & they call him GOAT.***
Do you remember that nefarious per. for the ATP when Fedal held office? Nadal tried to fenagle a system of counting pts so that it encompassed 2 seasons instead of 1! He was inevitably about to lose the #1 ranking to Nole who was undefeated in '11! My mouth went agape w/ the thought of someone w/ that > of a conflict of interest could suggest such a thing! Of course Roger as president shut it down; Nadal dropping out soon after when it appeared he was getting no satisfaction as VP!
***Is Nadal losing his pts from last yr. title @ USO?***
I think it depended on when he decided to play or not! I'm 1/2 remembering that if he chose to skip the event due to the pandemic, he won't lose them until next yr., but if he "WD" mid-event the pts would come off right away! The rankings will have a huge * on it for this season after all's said & done; = if Djokovic stays undefeated! You'd think that would settle any issues, but I have a feeling diehard fans will come up w/ alt. ways of looking @ it!
***Nadal was lucky to = be in that 5th set in the '12 AO final, & in gen. he's lucky to win a set vs Djokovic @ Wimbledon. Contrary to what idiots such as huntingyou and BwokenWoken claimed in '10, Djokovic is clearly a superior grasscourt player to Nadal.***
Djokovic is one of the unluckiest players in the history of tennis someX's! He c/b serving for a match & all of a sudden his opp. begins to "redline" shots & then stops missing = the toughest shots thrown @ them! OTTH I can recall it happening @ '11 USO, '12 AO, '14 Wimbl., & '15 USO! He c/b up 2 brks as in that '14 Wimb. final, drops TB, needing to rise from the dead to win in 5 sets! It happens a lot & it's usually not anything Nole's done; no DF's or UFE's!
***I didn't vote for this poor excuse of a man. I knew in '12 while I was still at a nursing facility that he had planned on running for president in '16. H...As usual, he was a manipulating liar & used his $$ underhandedly.***
ReplyDeleteSurfed by Fox News & they're totally acting like Trump did nothing wrong! They're playing it as if he was just keeping the country calm while we got > info! They're listening to the same tapes we are, but are interpreting it totally differently! I thought these people had grown a backbone when their own polls showed Trump behind Biden! They're still trying to save him by any means necessary = though their "old demo" may pay w/ their lives!
***Newsmax is the same. They support Trump too. It's so ironic. Trump loves Newsmax b/c there's no "Fake News." FNC & Newsmax both reek of "Fake News."
What Trump has done is =alent to negligent homicide. ...They didn't think wearing masks was essential. They didn't think it was a matter of life & death. ...I've been lucky. But that's b/c I was already used to staying at home after nearly dying from a flesh-eating disease. I was put in an induced coma & was on a ventilator for over 2 1/2 wks.
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Two of my most active Trump supporter friends who usually post how wrong I am & telling me to find "real" sources when I post news stories or data have been silent.***
You actually continued your friendship? It's too hard! ...It told me our so called friendship was > cosmetic > anything w/ me being his lone Black friend! I have to feel used if he accepts any of Trump's precepts or lack thereof! He's being looked @ in a whole new light by all our friends who just didn't have a clue! He's been this secret Lincoln Log Cabin'rs for yrs; so to me there's tons of self-hate going on! Reps went on a Jihad vs gay marriage in '04! I know voting vs their own interest @ X's' common, but IMO that's a bridge too far when you have that much animosity towards you & you still support their ideals! That's sick in so many ways; sorta like kids electing a child molester t/b their scout leader! After all that's gone on under this admin., how does the opp. criticize w/ any true conviction? Reps will find a way; = if they have to make up shit to beat Biden over the head! I just have no love for a party that w/b so accepting of such malfeasance & malevolence! Their own lives of their kids have been put in jeopardy FFS!
***I’m kind of surprise by the doom & gloom considering how lit'l Trump won by in what c/b Dem. strongholds that are w/i reach to gain back & = > states > usual are in play for the Dems that I never thought w/b in play this soon. If we win some of those states, this is a chance to create that gen. message shift where they don’t see the Dem. Party as the evil incarnate that their previous gens see it now. It’s important to keep up the momentum & messages not just for Biden, but to get people to vote down ballot & hopefully take back the Senate & keep the House majority.***
You'd think that would happen; all kumbaya afterwards, but we all know it's going t/b war! It gets worse each election cycle where it's "us vs them!" Dems always give lip service to coming together, but it never seems to happen! It's not entirely their fault, but it weakens them to = pretend! Reps take advantage of it & abuse the Dems to no end which causes things to flip yet again! We can't have consistent leadership when we're in such op. of core ideals! There's no reason t/b so @ odds when it comes down to issues that shb settled decades ago; abortion & civil rights! It's a fk'n shame we're still battling these issues, but it shows how lit'l we've come from the 60's when someone like Trump can take us back so easily!
I'm one that never approved of tennis getting put back into the Olympics! The Games s/b for amateurs & I think it rotten that celebrated, rich athletes can interlope back into amateur sports due to the egos of countries desperately needing acknowledgement = if they have to cheat!
ReplyDelete***I actually like the way Nole won Cinci. His comebacks in last 2 matches are impressive, showing not "give up" atitude despite neck & stomach issues. This is why people call him a mental giant. When he's like this w/ eyes on the prize, it's very hard to stop him. Hopefully no injury during USO & another slam in a pocket.
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Is he really a mental giant? He wandered for 2 yrs in the wilderness. He spends a lot of X complaining about physical issues, & scheduling issues & then he's fine enough to win. Is he suffering, or playing possum? What's w/ all the complaining if he's fit enough to win? Maybe it's talent, but m/b there's a lit'l gamesmanship in there. Hmmm?
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Like many said, he's mentally The Rock. Haven't seen no similar by now. But statistic's on his side.***
Thank you! Some have tried to undermine his toughness, making stupid, snide comments, but we know it's all deflection! At least Nole showed up to play while a certain clay court specialist is nowhere to be found! The hypocrisy is mind-numbing as the guy's made a career of coming & going from the tour when he feels like it!
***Not only undermine his toughness, everything. If the result is what we see now, the arrogant “superior civilised world” should continue this. It makes him just stronger! I hope he brks every fk'n rec. to shut these a-holes up forever.
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Medvedev's going t/b limited to playing his match w/ no practice due to his limited contact w/ Paire! He's already left the event b/c of contracting C-19! I guess if Daniil continues to test neg. in a few days, he w/b allowed full privileges again! Murray down a set to Nishioka who's not exactly redlining to stay ahead! The old guy thinks he can play that same defensive game; now down 2 brks in the 2nd set! He struggling now w/ DF's, UFE's, & just not getting there when his movement's tested!
***Thiem drives me crazy w/ his court positioning. He has to change playing in "no man’s land" if he wants to win Slams.***
Medvedev's the one that drives me to distraction over court positioning! ...Tech. Daniil prob. should've won that USO match but for allowing himself t/b run to death throughout that 5 set thriller!
***Seriously? The guy who enjoyed his 1st lead in the match @ 1-0 in the 5th, some 4 hrs in? And didn't see another one after like 3-1? And yet he prob. should've won it? That's parallel universe talk.
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Thiem shd "the Nadal" & focused on dirt, but he proved often he isn’t that smart.***
There always w/b that issue of "super talented" players who overplay a situation; often "redlining" when keeping the ball in play whb > prudent! Shapo vs Fritz yesterday proves my pt.! The level or skill isn't close, but raw talent prevailed over "heart!" The opposite occurred later when Tsitsipas decided t/b a jerk & actually pumped Coric back up to win their marathon match! There's the case of "Hewitt-factor" backfiring when Stefanos has so much talent, but it goes astray @ the worst possible X's! Thiem makes his life miserable by overplaying pts & situations! The effort it takes to support that stroke production has t/b taxing! If he lasts well into his 30's, I w/b surprised un< he plays smarter & > w/i himself!
Mon Dieu; the insecurity & inferiority complex of some fans is truly telling! Their faves aren't = playing while Novak's working hard to win a couple tourneys & solidify his #1 ranking! Signifying against him just makes those fans look ridiculous & shows them t/b the epitome of the "fanatic!"
ReplyDelete***I don't have any problem on whether or not Rafa plays, just like I don't have a problem w/ Djokovic playing the USO to win > slam titles.***
Having anything but a very + opinion of Nadal is not acceptable! You know how it is; "do as I say, not as I do!" The hypocrisy's mind-numbing!
***Yeah, so right my friend. You already mentioned the idiot who's blabbering about bull, who didn’t = have the courage to play here. I have to admit Nadal's smart enough to know it whb a waste of X!
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Nadal has been able to beat peak Djokovic on HC & peak Fed on Grass in slam finals!
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Never has Nadal beat peak Novak; during his prime yes, but not peak. ...Novak beat prime Bull > often > other way around, on every surface, also on his best in Paris. Novak’s best slam surface is Australia, ...There's no doubt who's the >er & > complete!***
I'm sorry; it w/b like asking Trump why "he lies!" He can't understand & the Nadal-fan can't understand how poorly their sycophantic, irrational behavior is making them look!
***...Nadal has 209 wks @ #1, w/ 2 yrs longer on pro tour; & they call him GOAT.***
Do you remember that nefarious per. for the ATP when Fedal held office? Nadal tried to fenagle a system of counting pts so that it encompassed 2 seasons instead of 1! He was inevitably about to lose the #1 ranking to Nole who was undefeated in '11! My mouth went agape w/ the thought of someone w/ that > of a conflict of interest could suggest such a thing! Of course Roger as president shut it down; Nadal dropping out soon after when it appeared he was getting no satisfaction as VP!
***Is Nadal losing his pts from last yr. title @ USO?***
I think it depended on when he decided to play or not! I'm 1/2 remembering that if he chose to skip the event due to the pandemic, he won't lose them until next yr., but if he "WD" mid-event the pts would come off right away! The rankings will have a huge * on it for this season after all's said & done; = if Djokovic stays undefeated! You'd think that would settle any issues, but I have a feeling diehard fans will come up w/ alt. ways of looking @ it!
***Nadal was lucky to = be in that 5th set in the '12 AO final, & in gen. he's lucky to win a set vs Djokovic @ Wimbledon. Contrary to what idiots such as huntingyou and BwokenWoken claimed in '10, Djokovic is clearly a superior grasscourt player to Nadal.***
Djokovic is one of the unluckiest players in the history of tennis someX's! He c/b serving for a match & all of a sudden his opp. begins to "redline" shots & then stops missing = the toughest shots thrown @ them! OTTH I can recall it happening @ '11 USO, '12 AO, '14 Wimbl., & '15 USO! He c/b up 2 brks as in that '14 Wimb. final, drops TB, needing to rise from the dead to win in 5 sets! It happens a lot & it's usually not anything Nole's done; no DF's or UFE's!
***Djokovic DQ'd after hitting lineswoman w/ a ball. - Not sure if he's cracking under the pressure or if he's just become so into himself that it's affecting him on court.***
ReplyDeleteI say it's what's going on behind the scenes that has him stressed! He was the ATP President catching it from all sides while @ the same X having a ?? of conscience leaning towards organizing another ATP entity to deal w/ concerns of the players! Heaven knows the battles going on & the world-wide press hounding him for answers he couldn't give them in the midst of the pandemic! That's just me of course!
***M/b now people expect < from him & understand the stress he's under. Also the new players assoc. m/b cooled down a bit. Who wants to join that now? M/b having < pressure on his shoulders will do wonders for him.
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It was the politics I think & IDK why he didn't wait until after the tournament to announce it? It's too much to have to deal w/ while yo're chasing history. You are spot on on this.
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Djokovic def. Fedal in the final of their fave tournaments
Djokr d Fed in the finals of:
Wimbl. ('14,'015,'19)
Cinci ('18)
Basel ('09)
And Nadal in:
Rome ('11,'14)
M. Carlo ('13)
W/ a win @ RG he could complete the set.
Neither Fedal instead had wins in the final over Djokovic @ his best tourns: AO, Wimbl., YEC, Miami, Beijing.
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Slams won beating one of the 3 highest ranked ops:
AO: Djokovic 8 > Federer 2 > Nadal 1
RG: Nadal 10 > Djokovic 1 > Federer 0
WI: Djokovic/Federer 5 > Nadal 2
UO: Djokovic/Federer 3 > Nadal 2
Djokovic has by far the best distribution.
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Slam finals won vs players who had dropped 2 sets or < in the tournament:
DJOKOVIC 11
AO '08 Tsonga
AO '11 Murray
UO '11 Nadal
AO '12 Nadal
AO '13 Murray
WI '14 Federer
AO '15 Murray
WI '15 Federer
UO '15 Federer
UO '18 Del Potro
AO '19 Nadal
NADAL 8
RG '06 Federer
RG '07 Federer
WI '08 Federer
AO '09 Federer
RG '11 Federer
RG '13 Ferrer
RG '14 Djokovic
RG '17 Wawrinka
FEDERER 4
WI '04 Hewitt
UO '04 Roddick
WI '06 Nadal
AO '10 Murray
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Nadal comparison w/ Pete, Roger, Novak:
AO titles: Djokovic 8 > Federer 6 > Sampras 2 > Nadal 1
WI titles: Federer 8 > Sampras 7 > Djokovic 5 > Nadal 2
UO titles: Federer 5 = Sampras 5 > Nadal 4 > Djokovic 3
YEC titles: Federer 6 > Djokovic 5 = Sampras 5 > Nadal 0
#1 wks: Federer 310 > Djokovic 286 = Sampras 286 > Nadal 209
Nadal trails in everything that's not RG.***
Thx!
***Thiem wins USO over Zverev in 5 sets. As pathetic as that was, now it should loosen him up knowing that he already has a Slam in the bag. I'm only slightly concerned about the fact that he won't play any matches on clay until the FO itself. But OTOH his name alone should get him thru the 1st 3-4 Rds easily.***
After his result B4 the USO, I didn't think Thiem would get to the Qtrs! He just looked bad, weak, & hope< looking smashing rackets!
***You can't deal drugs & not become > violent due to the whole illegal environment. You end up w/ large amts of $$ you can't put in banks. You can't call the cops to protect you from a brk-in. You then are forced to entirely defend yourself & your business. Never heard of an unarmed dealer.***
ReplyDeleteOCO, you haven't seen or heard news of "grannie" supplementing her Soc. Sec. w/ light sales of 420 to the crowd w/ glaucoma?
***There are just some people who don't fit the criminal justice system & need t/b identified by medical experts & isolated. ...I hate to weaken the protections of individual rights, but there are some exceptions like this that need t/b handled diff.***
Unfortunately this country doesn't take mental disorders seriously! It costs to treat & it takes a lot of X & coop.! What we invariably do is imprison people who prob. shg to a hospital, but what can we do? We'd rather build prisons over mental facilities!
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Just watched a full ad from Biden that just excoriated Trump & put all the facts out there that can't be denied! Shocking that Fox News was desperate enough to take on the "buy!" It's just devastating showing Trump has abrogated his responsibility concerning protecting the American people in > ways > 1 w/ immunity up to this pt!
***Trump'll accuse Biden on anything to make him look bad. Problem is he has usually done it himself.***
Biden's doddering like anyone his age, but unfortunately we need a contemporary Trump can't get away w/ making up shit about! Biden's been around for 1/2 a century on the public dole, but he was never accused of being crooked, liberal, or God< the way Trump normally goes after anyone he doesn't like! He sounds = > foolish when he does go on those lame rants!
***WAPO's reporting that Bloomberg is putting $100M for Biden in Fla.***
The country's so desperate for change, but it's still a huge schlog! This race is still up for grabs which doesn't say much for us intellectually! We have 5% of the worlds pop. w/ 20% of the Covid-19 cases, closing in on 200 K deaths! It's been proved Trump played "it" down for pol. & economic reasoning which has backfired, but he still has his supporters! IDK what to say about that! What does this man have to do to for those core supporters to look @ him w/ disgust!
***Well I do think there's a good chunk of his support coming from people who delight in him sticking it to the libs. It isn't all of his support, but those folks don’t care about the lies or malfeasance as long as he makes us angry. And then there are the single issue voters who only care about.: Guns, abortion, cons. justices, low corp. taxes.....& there are Pubs that don’t like him, but fear going vs him.***
That's where the truly "sick" show themselves! They'd just assume the country "go under" than register their guns, have a balance on the courts, & have corp. pay their fair share to run & defend the country! Fearing a bully is the height of cowardice by Rep. leadership like McConnell who's allowed Trump carte blanche to get away w/ criminal acts! Not just precedent setting, but against the Const.! How Reps. recover w/b a true feat IMO!
***Michael Cohen's Daughter Reveals How She Was Sexualized by Donald Trump as a Teen***
Who's shocked? Trump did it to his own daughter; sexualized her & said out loud, "if she wasn't my daughter, I'd be dating her!" Ivanka laughs stupidly & lets it go just like Cohen & his daughter! No one remembers that mag. cover article w/ the 2 of them? You'd think she was a date sitting on Trump's lap & posing so suggestively w/ him! Cohen not knowing how to extricate himself from Trump makes no fk'n sense! "It's called quitting idiot!" He just didn't want to so I have no sympathy for him! He compromised himself allowing Trump unusual liberties w/ his teenage daughter!
***...I think it would boil down to "Bill Clinton did it, too" or something similar....Prior to C-19, I'd have argued Trump's 1st term was a qualified success. W/ C-19, it's a disaster, but many don't trust Dems to make it any better & are skeptical that they'll take advantage of a desperate country to ram through a liberal agenda that could never pass in any other X.***
ReplyDeleteYou can think anything you like about the Dems, but they get the job done somehow; & pay their BILLS! Clinton & Obama were success stories no matter how much Reps want to play it down! The deficits always shrunk & w/ Clinton, the Nat'l Debt was actually coming down! IMO people have t/b desperate not to see the overall condition of the economy; flourishing under Bill & Barack = w/ cons. kvetchin' @ every turn! Many delusional characters who believe Trump has anything to do w/ the success of an economy that had been clicking along for over 70 months is truly grasping @ straws! Inheriting a disaster was & continues t/b total BS! We're going down precipitously now due to incompetence w/ a president not asleep at the switch, but knowingly ignoring & downplaying a pandemic! Anyone giving Trump credit for anything but incompetence wouldn't be in my social circle!
***I think a sane voting public would have Trump's approval rating the lowest in history. I believe Bush 43 & Nixon ended up in the 20s @ some pt. during their presidencies, & Truman mhb in the upper 10s. Trump s/b all of them. ...I'm reading reports of QAnon spreading to Europe & morphing to fit whatever outlandish BS is there.
...Many wonder why people w/ brown skin would support a man who has said such horrendous things about Latin people generally. Well, Latinos esp. Cubans don't think of themselves necessarily as POC. ...Biden's lagging HRC among Latinos in FL (but making up for that w/ Whites, Suburbanites & Seniors, maybe AA too) which makes the race here super tight & not nec. a loss, but there's work to do.
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...This nonsense about Dems eating babies & Trump as some sort of savior that QAnon spouts——they are Trump voters as well.***
I totally gave up when cons. bandied about the conspiracy of The Clintons running a child sex ring in the basement of a pizza parlor! It was repeated sev. X's "on air" & I lost all hope for us b/c some actually believed it! It was one of many reasons I almost left the country if not for my age! Reps truly lost their collective minds in the 90's! They couldn't understand that w/ all Clinton's failings & how much they tried to sully his rep. w/ their relent< commentary, he was still > popular > them! In comparison, why would anyone follow them when their leader @ the X was that slime-ball, Newt Gingrich? He still looks like evil incarnate, so him throwing accusations around about anyone is like Trump calling someone "a big, fat liar!" The biggest problem Dems have suffered for 2 decades now is their faith in the common sense & intel. of the American people! Unfortunately Reps learned yrs ago & has taken advantage of the fact that you can't underest. the naivete & the lack of common sense of the masses! They c/b convinced to do just about anything if it's packaged correctly! We vote vs our own interest all the X & it's embarrassing how it's getting worse as X goes on; = w/ all the info out there!
Football's still "the sport" of this country & it's a yr. rd. phenomenon! In season or out, it's what real sports' enthusiast talk about! Sunday night games prob. aren't watched b/c they suck! IMO, they're comparable to a Thurs. night game where most of the eyeballs prob. are fans of the teams & are chk'n out a rivalry game! J/B it's the only game on doesn't mean it's worth watching! Heaven knows I've forgotten or skipped a game or 2 if something else >er is on TV! That early Lions game on 'Thxg'vn' is only worth watching if the Bears are playing for me! Most of the X they're playing an AFC team to get them some play! So this isn't = a conf. determining game!
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People have said Brian Urlacher was an ass while playing, but when living in Cal. in the 90's, I guess I didn't hear it! Now he's mouthed off 1 X too many, criticizing the NBA for shutting down games in the playoffs! Quoting Urlacher, "Brett Favre played the (MNF) game the day his dad died, threw 4 TDs in the 1st half, & was a legend for playing in the face of adversity,” Urlacher posted in an Instagram story. “NBA players boycott the playoffs b/c a dude reaching for a knife, wanted on a felony sexual assault warrant, was shot by police.” Everyone's distancing themselves from him, including ex-teammates that were shocked by his insensitivity!
- https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/bears/2020/08/28/chicago-bears-brian-urlacher-jacob-blake/5653929002/ -
***Why didn't the Cowboys tie it up w/ a FG on the road earlier in the 4th qtr. Terrible coaching. The Rams were putting pressure on him consistently in crunch X.***
Skip Baseless' head is going to explode talking about this on Fox Sports tmrw! I can't wait! He was also sure his man Brady would show his stuff! It just happened t/b a "pick 6!" My Bears coming back to beat the Lions completed a good afternoon! The Boys blowing another game they should've won is just so par for the course!
***Brady should've stayed in NE.***
He should've retired! There's $$ t/b made by these mercenary a-holes! Rivers in Indy? Another one that just couldn't bow out gracefully! They won't exit until embarrassed right off the field it seems! Was loving the Saints do their thing! Cam winning for NE over Miami only makes it sweeter for the new "Brady hatahs!"
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Hard to believe some NFL players & coaches hold onto jobs making $M's$ when there's so much incompetence out there! Last night we're watching Denver leading w/ Tenn. driving for a winning score! Fangio never called a "time out" along the way of a long drive by the Titans leaving 17 secs. after a score down 14-16! He mhb hoping for a playoff team like Tenn. to self-destruct & give him the game! If that's how he thinks, m/b Elway should think about a replacement! In Chgo we might have to start thinking about Nagy being a lit'l flakey in his decision making as well!
***John Elway, not impressed @ all by him as GM.***
Well Elway lucked up w/ Manning, getting 1 > SB out of the old man before he retired a few yrs ago! That's all Denver will say; John won 2 SB's on his own & brought another one to them thru trade, draft, & free agency! It's all BS, but they'll still say it!
***Federer had a truly unique run @ the USO during the Open Era.
ReplyDelete1. Fed's 5 str. titles & 6 str. finals is truly amazing.
2. Fed's 14 str. wins vs the top 10 is absol. ridiculous. Fed only lost 7 sets during that insane 14 match streak vs the top 10 while dishing out 7 baked goods(4 bread-stks & 3 bagels). This is flat-out destruction of the top 10.
3+ USO champs w/ the most wins vs top-10 players
1. Lendl 17-8
2. Sampras 16-5
2. Federer 16-6
4. Djoker 12-7
5. McEnroe 9-4
6. Nadal 7-5
6. Connors 7-8
As far as comp. goes, I think that Lendl had it toughest. He faced Connors (5 X winner) & McEnroe (4 X winner) sev. X's. He also faced Edberg (2 X winner), along w/ other winners (Agassi, Wilander, Becker).
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Fed's dom. of the USO was so great that when he was beaten it was not only a huge shock, but the trophy has since been cursed to never be won in cons. yrs by the same player. The title of "Men's US Open Singles Champion" has taken on the same meaning as the title of "Defence Against the Dark Arts Professor" @ Hogwarts.
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Nadal the weak draw vulterer @ the USO being compared to Fed who's MUCH better > him there?
Top 10 rec. @ USO:
Fed: 16-6 (72.72%). (22 top 10 players faced in 19 USO's)
Nadal: 7-5 (58.33%) (12 top 10 players faced in 15 USO's)
Top 10 faced by Fed in his 5 USO wins: 13
Top 10 faced by Nadal in his 4 USO wins: 4
Reminder: Fed has whooped Nadal 6 X's in a row on non-clay surfaces.
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Most single titles:
-1. Jimmy Connors 109
-2. Roger Federer 103
-3. Ivan Lendl 94
-4. Rafael Nadal 85
-5. Novak Djokovic 80
-6. John McEnroe 77
-7. Bjorn Borg/Pete Sampras 64
-9. Guillermo Vilas 62
10. Ilie Nastase/Andre Agassi 60
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1 Martina Navratilova 167
2 Chris Evert 157
3 Steffi Graf 107
4 Margaret Court 101
5 Serena Williams 73
6 Evonne Goolagong Cawley 68
7 Billie Jean King 67
8 Virginia Wade 55
= Lindsay Davenport 55
10 Monica Seles 53
Steffi Graf would've won many > if she didn't retire @ 30.***
I think you forget, Graf prob. would've had <er Chps. wins if not for Seles being stabbed! I'm no fan of either, but those are the facts!
***...Obviously, each player's >er on certain types of HC & all.
ReplyDelete- AO: Djokovic > Fed
- IW: Fed >= Djokovic (> finals the TB'r)
- Miami: Djokovic > Fed
- Canada: Djokovic > Fed
- Cinci: Fed > Djokovic
- USO: Fed > Djokovic
- Shanghai: Djokovic > Fed
- Madrid Indoors: Fed > Djokovic
(Shanghai & Madrid Indoors as the same tourn., 1 indoor, the other outdoor.)
- Paris: Djokovic > Fed
- WTF: Fed > Djokovic
Fed leads @ USO, WTF, & 3 Masters (nearly a tie @ 1 of them)
Djoker leads @ AO & 4 Masters
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Nole vs Fed:
Slams: 11 - 11 (5F - 3F) Ad Nole
WTF: 5 - 6 Ad Fed
Masters: 26 - 22 Ad Nole
H2H: Ad Nole 20 (+WO) - 18 Ad Nole
Outdoors: 14 - 13 Ad Nole
Indoors: 6 + WO - 5 Ad Nole
Slams:
AO: 4 - 1 Ad Nole
WTF: 3 (+WO) - 3
WTF F: 2 (+WO) - 0
-> WTF Ad Nole
Masters:
IW: 3 - 0 Ad Nole
Miami: 1 - 0 Ad Nole
Cinci: 1 - 3 Ad Fed
Shang: 0 - 2 Ad Fed
Paris: 2 - 0 Ad Nole
W%: 84,4% - 83,5% Ad Nole
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A lot of players smash rackets. Don’t see the need to clutch pearls here un< the racket shrapnel hits a linesperson.***
If racket brk'n caused true hysteria, I perpetrated a lot of distress on people going thru @ least 50 of them growing up! I had > 70, but some survived t/b gifted or saved to this day! I played around the clock & rackets aren't meant to last forever like w/ "wk-end warriors!"
***...M/b Nalbandian has the best BH when he reached it.***
Such an underachiever! Nalby's main claim to fame OTTH: reaching a Wimbl. final losing to Hewitt in '02, coming all the way back in 5 sets to defeat an injured Fed in the YEC Final of '05, & of course his notorious DQ @ Queens in '12! He was actually winning the match over Cilic, but donated chp. by way of his actions injuring a linesmen!
***I would never ct. Nadal out of the FO = though dropping QF in Rome. I'll say I was surprised he didn’t find a way to win over Schwartzman. I expected Djokovic to go out before Nadal as Djokovic’s play has been fairly uninspired this tournament.***
You say uninspired! IMO, Djokovic's efforts are nothing short of inspired w/ all that's going on around him! Are you fk'n kidding me? We need to stop just looking @ things so simplistically when smarter individuals know there's > drama surrounding him w/ being #1, resigning as President of the ATP Player's Council, & perform while forming a new player entity for men & women he's presently President of along w/ Anderson IIRC! As much as I dislike Nadal I still give him credit for having to deal w/ so > around him outside of his passion for playing the game! It's a lot easier for the "also-rans" of the game! Their lives are a lot < complicated, though the rewards aren't as plentiful monetarily!
***Nalbandian actually beat Nadal (QF), Djokovic (SF), & Fed (final) cons. in Madrid in '07. Mind you, beating Nadal indoors isn't that hard & that was one of the easiest victories of Nalbandian's career, but he still met your stated requirement of beating both Nadal & Djokovic @ the same tourn. He topped it off w/ Fed in the final.***
I was > a lit'l bored w/ the Fedal show! I paid > attn. to the WTA w/ Hingis coming & going, then Henin dom. Serena Wms for a while! Around that X, '09 Wimb. final w/ Roger & A-Rod was the only big match I recall in any detail; mainly how it was >est choke job of all X dropping 2nd set TB! ...It slowly dawned on me the era's been a bit of a fraud! Over the next 5-6 yrs, Roger only won 2 Majors; '10 AO &'12 Wimb. Then he went 5 > yrs before taking 3 while Nole on/off the tour injured! Age can't be used as a crutch since the old man has dom. Rafa in recent yrs on HC! End rant!
***ITA. Nadal absol. should’ve played both the USO & FO. I don’t buy his argument that HC's were tough on him.***
ReplyDeleteIf the ATP had forced his hand by losing those pts off his ranking, I have a feeling Rafa mhg the USO the X of day! Dropping 2000 pts @ this pt. might drop him out of the running for the YEC!
***Pretty bold of Nole repeating “I’m after Roger Fed’s recs” & now on the Eve of FO he reminds us that Nadal is vuln. by dropping QF in Rome to D. Schwartzman. He must badly want this FO title. M/b he knows from exp. & actual psyche-profiles these comments will > likely put his rivals on their back feet rather > lead to >er play from them. Not everyone's Jordan when it comes to vendettas.***
This is as close to "smack talk" as we'll ever get in tennis @ the top! "You ain't so tough or invulnerable! Even lit'l Diego took your ass out on clay!" Talk about bulletin board material! Jordan's mind would make up = worse intonations to psyche himself up! What'll Nadal do; overcompensate?
***He’s got the fix on Fed w/ his recs talk. 40-15 was so bitter, Fed’s reaction after WTF ‘19 said he’d had a bone to pick. He acted like he’d won a slam for a sec & steamed right towards Novak. Stole “YE #1” right out of his hands. But will "this smack" make Rafa >er or worse? Well he care? And was that lit'l “you have t/b in great shape for BO5” a subtle dig @ Rafa’s lack of match fitness? Look @ Novak pushing all the buttons this yr.!***
This m/b Nole's last real chance @ a FO w/ the NG'rs finally starting to exert themselves on the Big 3! It's about fk'n X, but I think Nadovic have another good yr. or 2 in them! They just can't & won't continue to "own it" like Nole's doing right now w/ "smoking mirrors" since he isn't playing that well! He has all kinds of drama going on behind the scenes w/ his new players' entity consisting of men & women who've signed on w/ him as co-President for now! That's a lot for the #1 player to have to deal w/ & perform well enough to stay @ the top!
***Fedal aren't some-one's whom you can poke. We know what Roger did @ YEC.***
I'm sure Nole's shedding no tears for that YEC match! "Thanks Roger; you took me out of #1 for the season! I still stole another Wimbl. right out of your pocket! You were spending the fame & $$ @ 40-15, serving for the title & I literally took it out of your fk'n mouth!"
***Big 3 have now a combined 99 M1000's! 1 > to reach yet another monumental milestone. How many M1000's = a Slam? I think the most logical way of looking @ it is to compile a spreadsheet of sets W/L + Top 10 ranked players beaten thru to 99 M1000's & compare that metric to see how many sets/top 10 ranked players on avg. en route/Slam win on avg. to get a value! Possibly +ing how many matches went to 3 sets vs 4/5 sets in slams also (diff. metric).
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Novak has built himself quite the legacy in Rome.
- 5 Titles
-10 Finals
-11 SF's
-14 cons. QF's
-55 match wins (8 < Nadal)
There's just something about playing in the Italian capital that seems to motivate him > all the other Masters events.
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W/ the win in Rome, Nole surpassed Fed in "Big Titles pts =alent" too.
Nole:
-Grand Slams: 17 * 2.000 = 34.000
-WTF: 5 * 1.500 = 7.500
-Masters: 36 * 1.000 = 36.000
Total: 77.500
Federer:
-GS: 20 * 2000 = 40.000
-WTF: 6 * 1.500 = 9.000
-Masters: 28 * 1.000 = 28.000
Total: 77.000
Obviously, Nole's now the all X leader.
T/b thorough, after them*:
3. Nadal - 74.500
4. Sampras - 48.500
5. Lendl - 47.500
6. McEnroe - 42.500
7. Borg - 41.000
8. Connors - 36.500
9. Agassi - 36.000
10. Becker - 31.500
11. Murray - 24.500
12. Edberg - 23.000
13. Wilander - 22.000
14. Vilas - 17.500
15. Nastase - 17.000
*I assigned 1500 for Olympics & 1000 for alt. WTF. I excluded, as always in my OE lists, players who played across the 2 eras.***
***The M-1000 events were the 1st to hop off the BO5 train, w/ the Finals, the DC, & now the Olympics following suit. Wouldn't be surprised to see > & > people calling for BO3 @ the slams as X goes on.***
ReplyDeleteIt's inevitable & the value will drop precipitously! I don't value M-1000's the way I used to b/c 'then' "they earned it!" Even Fedal had to go 5 sets to determine a win or 3! It's prob. why I don't have as much respect for Nadal pk'n up those clay Masters when they spread them out & play BO3!
***BO5 just for final w/ 400 > pts make sense in this situation. Had BO3 final since '70, you'll see players like Sampras, Borg, Becker win > titles > had they played w/ BO5. Had BO5 not scrapped, I honestly doubt that you'd see Nadal, Fed, & Djokovic win > Masters titles.
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I def. think WTF finals s/b BO5, & the accursed 5th-set TB @ Wimby & AO need to go. But M1000's? 9 BO5 finals were too physically taxing, which is why they removed them. But if every tourn. were to speed up the court surfaces, m/b they can make matches < grinding like they are now & allow for BO5 finals again.
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People here don't get how HUGE the diff. is btw playing Rafa @ a Clay Bo5 in comparison to a Clay Bo3. It has always been relativity easy to defeat him @ any Clay Bo3 tourn., you just need t/b able to catch rhythm & paint the lines for 2 hrs.
Nadal BO3 Clay Ct. Rec.: (320-38) (89.3%)
Nadal BO5 Clay Ct. Rec.: (118-2) (98.3%)
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Both being #1 or winning a slam are great achievements, but the pop. perception seems t/b that having a Slam title to your name = w/o reaching #1 carries >er prestige than reaching #1 w/o ever winning one.***
Krajicek, Gomez, & DelPo are Nat'l heroes winning just those 1 majors each; usually beating a top player! Never getting close to #1 ranking never entered their minds I'm sure! Richard just happened to have his toughest match vs Sampras in the QF instead of the final @ '96 Wimbl.! I had forgotten he was just #17 while other seeds were knocked out early! At least we were saved a possible win of a major by someone like Todd Martin! That whb like Chris Lewis taking that '83 Wimbl. over McEnroe! Even I wouldn't have wanted to see something like that! The amusement would wear off & I w/b appalled & sick; sorta like Trump being the president of the US!
***Kind of sad to see Sir Andy playing like this at the FO vs Wawrinka. What battles he once had w/ the best, look @ him now.***
I got nothing for Murray! It was a dumb way to play = when he was in shape! Now it's just a pathetic display w/ him taking a spot from a > deserving player! You're going to start seeing > & > of these match-ups as players are hanging on > ever! The latest Gen. have really made their presence known! #11 Goffin is gone in the 1st RD courtesy of Sinner! The thing is it's not that shocking to me! This is prob. going to get uglier for seeded players w/ these heavy, windy, & cold conditions! They're not accustomed to being = inconvenienced < play under these circumstances @ this X of the season!
***Nole most clutch player in tennis history by some margin!
Nole vs Fed H2H is 27 (+ WO) - 23. The > important moment or match the > advantage goes to Nole!
H2H: 27 (+ WO) - 23 (45%)
- All finals: 13 (+ WO) - 6 (30%)
GS matches: 11 – 6 (35%)
- GS F: 4 - 1 (20%)
WTF: 3 (+ WO) - 3 (43%)
- WTF F: 2 (+ WO) - 0 (0%)
All sets: 73 - 74 (50%)
-non-decisive sets: 58 - 69 (54%)
- Deciding sets: 14–5 (26%)
TB sets: 16-12 (43%)
-non-decisive TB: 12 - 12 (50%)
- Deciding TB's: 4-0 (0%)***
It's a wonder the word "clutch" is being invoked concerning Fed when the biggest ex. of chokes occurred vs Nole sev. diff. X's when the match was Roger's for the taking! Nole should have a t-shirt w/ the quote of "Serving 40-15" on his chest just for Roger to see it when he gets too puffed up on his own popularity!
***Nole has a NCYGS & Fedal don't. He'll always be in their league simply b/c of that. Sure, he may not surpass them when it's all said & done, but he'll always be right up there.***
ReplyDeleteDjokovic has acquired a ton of recs neither Roger or Rafa will ever be able to match or surpass! That was the reason people started thinking Nole was the inevitable GOAT since he was coming up so quickly on Fedal; grabbing majors in "bunches!" He seemed to leap from 8 to 15 overnight! The last 2 seasons have been a dream w/ him actually able to overcome lost X on tour w/ an elbow issue! Stealing those 2 Wimbls. & '18 USO will haunt Fedal for all X! They were all set to + to their totals from the prev. 2 seasons!
***Yeah, I'm sure Fedal have trouble sleeping b/c of that, cuz of course this is what champions do; cry in their sleep about history. That is how you become a champion.***
I'm sure they do or they wouldn't keep "hanging on" like Roger trying to hold onto relevance in his waning years! It does bother them that Djokovic owns recs they'll never see! You can delude yourself all your like, but it all matters! They speak it all the X! It's called GOALS! HELLO!
***No one is the 3rd wheel of the Fedalovic era IMO. They are all too close now.
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That's true actually, each of them have many unique achievements that other lacks. Hard to compare really. Djokovic has highest ELO & Masters's rec. & 4 in a row. He's on course to getting a rec. =ing 6 YE #1's atm. How anyone can call that a 3rd wheel is beyond me.
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The only thing fedal fans can hold on to is the slender slam lead. Novak is ahead of them in virtually every other metric. If Novak can even level them in slams he will be the best.
Djokovic has already did enough to be regarded in the tier 1 category like them. I sense a lot of panic from fedal fans. It seems to scare them at the prospect of Djokovic having most slams and being remembered as the greatest.
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Djokovic hasn’t lost a proper match this yr though. Yes, Thiem & the rest are getting >er, but Djoko's still very good.
Fed won 3 slams in his mid 30s so I can def. see Djokovic doing that too. Djoko was unlucky Wimbl. didn’t go ahead, but m/b fed w/b guttered it didn’t too. As that mhb his best chance to get 21.
However, going forward Novak w/b a big fave @ AO & Wimbl. for next 2-3 yrs @ least. This FO Novak has a >er chance > normal due to draw & conditions. At USO Novak hadn’t been as strong or been cursed w/ injury or defaults. It’s tougher for him to win that & French, but he can still sneak 1 > USO & m/b 1 > FO.
Currently Novak has dom. this shorter yr. Only losing 1 match which wasn’t a proper loss so it seems he can stay @ top for a while yet. Nadal'll always be a threat & a top fave on clay, ...likely to slow down 1st out of him & Novak overall. USO has been a good slam for Rafa, but I still think going forward Djokovic will feel like he’s got used up < mileage, < injuries, a yr. younger > Nadal to stay @ top for longer. Djoko body's in good shape & his flexibility can help him stay near top.
Djoko & Nadal are a lot younger > Fed. Rafa just needs 1 > to match him & could get it this 2 wks, but w/b his toughest. Novak, if he wins this fFO will have his pet slam next & could have 19 early next yr. & only 1 < Fed.
Nothing is certain in sport, but it seems highly unlikely Fed hangs on to his rec. if he stays on 20. The only way he can for me is if he shocks everyone & wins say 2 >. Djokovic has some achievements like the double Masters set, 36 Masters , 300+ wks @ #1, 6 YE #1's, & they're all same or > what Fed has done.***
***The FO this yr. reminds me of my HS playing tennis team days; brks of serve buffet.***
ReplyDeleteFor the most part serving was the last thing really learned in basic tennis "back in the day!" I didn't have a prob.; m/b the long arms! Most kids just didn't have the confidence in taking that full, extended wind-up to serve, preferring to "pooch tap in" to get the ball in the box! It was embarrassing to see @ X's! How'd they make a team? All our members were proficient in every stroke, but a lot of HS kids were wk-end warriors & prob. just thrown out there to field a team @ the last min.; boys & girls!
***Glad to see Thiem come thru in str. sets. Def. needs to keep these matches short given what his draw looks like.***
...Why'd these people = fly over to Paris? Now Serena's struggling vs some girl that's only won 2 matches on clay!
***Novak will bail Boris out of his bankruptcy troubles.***
Novak already tried to help; Boris just too much of an idiot to stay out of trouble! ...Divorces didn't help, but w/ all his good fortune, I have nothing for him! He frittered it all away being a "man/child!" He may not have had the best role models w/ Ion Tiriac managing him early, but he can't use him as a scapegoat after all these yrs!
***No, I don't actually. When did Djokovic surpass Federer? Which match?***
OTTH it mhb @ the "walkover" @ the YEC final Fed couldn't play due to working so hard to overcome Wawrinka! Regard<, it's been yrs! Nole has owned both for the most part & Fedal fans have to scratch to come up w/ wins for their man to overcome their dread that eventually he w/b The GOAT!
***But if Nole owns them &'s #1, why isn't he the GOAT already? If he's >er > the slam leaders, he s/b GOAT, no?***
Seek serious help babe! It's so hard having discussions w/ some of you! Are you one of those people who give Roger cover for his losses due to being 5-6 yrs older? Why should Nole have taken over all Fed's recs if he had so many > yrs to accum. them? For the love of Gawd try to @ least be consistent w/ the BS!
***So, basically you are saying all wins aren't =, but somehow all losses are =. Djokovic gets some sort of extra credit when he beats big 3 guy, but he never gets penalized when he loses versus <er guys in GS finals like Wawrinka & Murray.***
I try t/b as fair as possible! I was on the Fedal bandwagon early on! It was so boring I stopped watching men's tennis until Djokovic broke up the party! He introduced himself by defeating a rel. young & prime Fed "down under" & took a few HC victories off Nadal! By '11 it was a done deal w/ the rivalry going in one direction = w/ those isolated wins of Fedal over Nole @ the USO, FO, & YEC! It can't be ignored = if age isn't taken into consideration! I don't have a horse in this race really; BORG will always be my fave! Safin is a sentimental pick as one of the most talented players ever! As for "wins being = or not," history won't GAF; only we do now b/c we're living it! A 100 yrs down the line only the cold, hard #'s will matter! No one will bring up their age disparity, or = their diff. styles! By then, things w/b so homogenized, no one'll recognize there was a real diff. in surfaces once upon a X!
***Yeah, I get what you mean, it's very boring to me for the past yrs apart from Fed's brief resurgance in '17. I don't watch it much for yrs. I'm sick of the "Big 3." That's why I came back now due to Thiem & Zverev. Finally something new & all the talk of Thiem now being able to m/b dethrone them. I don't get how after 12 FO wins, people would want to see another? After 6-7, who cares? Yeah, nobody will care about details. Only slams w/b remembered; agreed.***
***...I think this shows a LOT of anxiety by Fedal fans. Any one single determinant like slams or YE #1 & so on c/b skewed for all sorts of reasons such as the comp., injuries, court surface, conditions, draw, etc. That is why as a scientist I cannot look @ slams only or wks @ #1 or any other single data. You have to look @ all factors. Laver's usually rated in the top 5 of all X = though he lost sev. yrs playing pro & has only 11 slams. People who only look @ slams are choosing that b/c it looks >er for their guy or they're very unsophisticated tennis analysts.
ReplyDeleteLooking @ the over all rec., I already consider Djokovic the GOAT due to slam #, winning all Master's 1000's twice, prob. owner of the total wks @ #1, > Big Titles, H2H over all the other major player, many > wins vs top 10 players, >er distrib. of wins on all surfaces, & playing in an era where he had to compete vs both Fedal.
Fed Weaknesses- Won 1st 10 slams vs a historically weak era according to ELO & other fairly obj. measurements; he's far weaker on clay > Nadal or Djokovic, a surface on which he hasn't won a significant title for almost a decade. Beautiful player, but that's for movie stars, not tennis players.
Nadal weaknesses- All his major wins are very skewed towards clay (12/19 slams & 25/35 Masters 1000's, 0 YE Chps); the 0 YE Chps' a major blot on his rec. esp. w/ Djokovic having 5 & Fed 6 Chps). He won the USO last yr. for the last X b/c the surface which was the slowest of the HC Chps' now > mod. I predict that the only court that he wins any slams from now on is in Paris; easily being the greatest clay ct. specialist of all X, the GOAT overall, no.
I don't expect to convince any diehard Fedal fans as these discussions are seldom objective. OTOH, I do expect Djokovic to pass Fed & m/b Nadal in slam #'s. And if he doesn't pass Nadal, it w/b b/c Nadal has 15 FO slams which makes his skewed % = worse. I also expect Djokovic to win 1 or > FO's giving him double of all slams & + > USO's Chps, his weakest HC slam b/c it was so slow B4 the changeover this yr.
If Novak & Nadal manage to win 5 > GS titles combined, 1 of them's guaranteed to reach 21. And why not since they had won 8 of the last 8 GS B4 Covid-19?
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The #'s say Fed's weaker on clay having won no big titles since '12 never having won @ MC or Rome. Orgs such as ELO that try to measure quality of comp. say that the period when Fed winning 1st 10 Chps was very weak, certainly > weaker > the next decade. He played one final vs a very young Nadal, otherwise vs weak comp. by OBJECTIVE MEASURES. Fed didn't have to deal w/ Djokovic or a mature Nadal until later. Nadal has 2 > yrs as pro & Fed 5 > Djokovic so the trends look bad, esp. for Fed. ...It has been 10 yrs or > since Fed won either the FO or USO & 10 yrs or > since Nadal won The AO or Wimbl., so their slam rec. isn't as strong as their advocates suggest.
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Impossible to tell who's best in this era as it is today, & I've been arguing on Djokovic's behalf since I joined this forum. He does not get enuf credit from Fedal fans, although I'm a Fed fan B4 a Djokovic fan. Diff. tourns. are given diff. wts. by diff. people. Stats are important, but it's also important to know the story of how things unfolded. I also think Djokovic SHOULD end up "GOAT," but I'm not sure whether he's there yet.***
***I wonder if Fedal fans w/b gracious or absent/resentful once Novak actually does brk. the rec. - The gracious ones w/b gracious, the toxic ones w/b toxic, & the ones who disappeared in '15 will disappear again.***
ReplyDeleteThe hatin's begun w/ the attacks of "if, when" & "where" Djokovic bks these recs! There are a set of folks that think the clock/cal. should make a diff. while others are > practical & don't bring it up b/c history doesn't GAF! Only the cold, hard #'s w/b taken in! "Few" will go deeper looking @ the ages of players @ the X of their winning, was it before or after courts homogenized, or the fk'n level of comp.! Fedal was bestowed GOAT'dom = though a fairly weak era in the early 2000's, but he still had to perform! ...Other players caught up just as they did w/ Roger! Unfortunately he won't be able to rest on his laurels for = the 8 yrs Pete held the rec. of 14 majors! Recs are made t/b broken as they say & one of these days (100+ yrs) someone will come along to brk the ones set by Fedalovic in the next 2 yrs!
***Whatever their final tally, it w/b Fed > Nadal > Dojokr for the current crop of players; that's all there is to it. Most people don't know what they've won anyway (they just know that Fed has had a much bigger impact on the sport--& well, they're right), so a few hard #'s won't change that.
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Next Gen. players have been choking NON-STOP over the last few wks in Paris, but @ least they're young & can fix it.***
We said that about the "lost gen" of Milos, Kei, & Grigor! All the talent in the world & barely a major final played; Dimitrov monikered as "Baby Fed!" That couldn't have helped w/ his styling; causing unnec. UFE @ the worst possible X's! He's correcting his serve from that silly hitch he was copying from Roger @ least! Cilic picked up a USO back in '14 w/ tons of upsets along the way of Fedalovic saving total embarrassment for that group of players!
***I don’t think I’ve ever seen a men’s tourn. where so many players get broken serving for the match.***
You expect it going up vs a top player! Fed on clay was down 5-1 in a 3rd set TB & Deliciamo Lopez whiffed on a sitter OH & preceded to allow Roger to come all the way back to win in an early RD. Hamburg (IIRC) match! Of course it can happen to anyone & has occurred w/ Fedalovic; someX's in majors! It's > noteworthy due to 24/7 brk'n news! Back in the day you had to search for tennis results; the majors giving extended highlights & scores! Now a rinky-dink event can garner news exposure thru social media & the other players!
***W/ Tsonga not playing, now Monfils, Gasquet, & Simon gone @ FO. First X since '05 none of these 4 will appear in 2nd Rd. @ RG.***
They can join the club of host nations of major events who can't buy representation @ their own chps some yrs! The US is just getting it back; esp. w/ the ladies! Barty's a top player, but still hasn't done >er > a SF this yr. "down under!"
***French Assoc. has always had a good jr. academy @ present, esp. w/ the men. There's no rising star coming thru.***
France & Spain have been spoiled for well over a dec. w/ huge teams that can go up vs the world & succeed! It had to come to an end sooner or later!
***Trump's going t/b re-elected.***
ReplyDeleteIf the country truly wants t/b lowered into a sewer, good luck w/ that kids! As a senior, I don't have to GAF any>! If you guys prefer being thought of as a 3rd world nation led by dictatorship, go ahead & take on the Fuhrer! He's already killing you with the ignorant acts handling C-19 spread! Gawd save you all! What a bunch of losers; esp. the women who really fk'd themselves for the foreseeable future by going for Trump over Hillary!
***Right-wing extremists have killed 329 victims in the last 25 yrs, while Antifa haven't killed any.***
IDK why we bother trying to pt. out the faults of Trump? They're too numerous to list! We all know he's "deplorable" & his cult followers actually embrace the moniker after Trump told them to! They like chaos as long as they're +ing to the courts hoping to one day overturn "Roe v Wade!" It's so sick, but Reps have been using that carrot to keep these retro-lemmings in line for decades now; like it's ever going to happen! Women will go "alleyway" & "backdoor" clinic before they allow a-hole cons. to force them to have a child they don't want! Reps are such fools! They're willing to trash the ideals of the country to overturn one issue! How asinine!
***I agree that Reps no longer seem to support cons. values. But Dems no longer support unions or individual rights like liberal should, or be anti-war any >. It's like both parties gave up on everything except power.***
I think it's prob. always been bad! Pols in the past just hid their disdain better! Reps yrs ago abolished the word "compromise!" You can try to blame both parties for stuff if you like, but nothing's been as criminal as Trump's admin. &and y'all just laughed it off! As a senior, I don't have to GAF; my life's settled & I'm ok! It's you young fools that'll have to overcome how every institution has been undermined & made to seem as unfair & partisan as Trump & cons. that support him!
***So much for draining the swamp and doing away w/ bureaucracy.***
Trump just replenished it! He possibly found the worst people to do each of these admin. jobs except in "some" cases! Most will undoubtedly have to return to DC to explain their malfeasance while in their select positions!
***ITA Reps no longer seem to support conservative values. But Dems no longer support unions or individual rights like liberals should, or be anti-war any >. It's like both parties gave up on everything except power.
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Of course we're still supportive of unions. Chk out Biden; his personal appearances have been geared towards unions. How long have libs wanted out of the ME, yrs? At the end of the day we're not Libertarians either. At least Obama was no LBJ.***
That's how Reps win arguments; just keep repeating a lie so often it becomes facts in their heads! These sick fks right now are invoking Hillary's name in contrast to Trump when it comes to the ?? of a smooth transition of power! They figure what she says matters as much as the sitting president who's saying "there won't be any transition!" He's hinting @ a 3rd term! This man's so messed up in the head; his supporters are the only people > out of their minds! How do these people come back from all the LIES? The "party of liars" will have a hard job trying to recover!
***Like Biden, Hillary was not a perfect candidate, but for her to lose the majority of white votes cast by both men & women to Trump says a lot about how men are favored in this society; @ least by white people.
ReplyDeleteNow we are paying the price for many of those voters who couldn't bring themselves to vote for her. The Jill Stein voters could've kept Trump out of office; shoulda cared about the SC if nothing else.
< of 2 evils? Perhaps that term's too harsh for her, but she did carry some baggage. Just not the truck load of it that Trump carried.***
Baggage held by Dems are just "imagined BS" created & heaped on by Rep. dirty tricksters! That's what they do; hit you w/ nonsensical crap & repeat it like deranged parrots! Unfortunately it's been working for them for > 30 yrs! Some of these fools who support Reps still believe Obama's Kenyan, a Muslim, & an illegal 2 term president!
***You're right about some of Trump's supporters, perhaps most of them. Some of my friends who are extremely cons. still believe a lot of that stuff about Obama.
What you need to realize is that many of the people who support Trump are "pro-life" & pro-gun & stand strongly opposed to anyone on the side that is pro-choice & in favor of gun control. Those 2 views color their judgment & make them very susceptible to believing any phony crap about pols like Obama, Hillary & Biden. Just being pro-choice elim. them as viable candidates for those folks.
If you are foolish enough to believe that someone supports "baby killing" you're > prone to believe other crap & nonsense about them. Once anyone believes something that's pure BS, it becomes > easy for them to believe other BS. They have a mind that's set up to accept it.***
Oh I'm sure you have it! Everything you said makes sense except the acceptance of inevitable evil intent! These same people who care so > for "the unborn," couldn't GAF about their fellow man living @ this X! They hear Reps obsessing on The ACA & wanting to elim. Obama's prize accomplishment, but @ the same X they have nothing to replace it; lying about "it's on paper" somewhere! How do you go all the way to the SC next month arguing about taking away Nat'l healthcare in the mid. of this pandemic? That's exactly what's happening along w/ Trump's nominee to replace RBG being in favor of getting rid of it! I've decided to wash my hands of it all! I'm just too fk'n old to care & worry about it! I've been an advocate for women & other minorities all my life, but those same people have voted vs their own interest; women truly betraying their sex by preferring this degen. liar over one of their own in Hillary! I've been disgusted ever since & won't = listen to the lame ass excuses of a patriarchal society & how women are brainwashed concerning leadership choices! They've cut their own throats w/ the cons. judges rammed thru these last 4 yrs! We'll all pay for it; some > others!
***I don't mind calling a pol. on the carpet. What I do mind is the Clinton's whacked 30 people to Hillary had sex slaves in a pizza parlor basement to Hillary, Biden, Obama, & Dems have sex slaves as kids, torture them & commit cannibalism. That's the mentally of many citizens we are dealing w/.
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There's no doubt in my mind that Trump doesn't give a rat's ass about abortion, neither was he really a birther. He isn't religious or = close. What he is, a good con man which people who can't be conned either financially, religiously, or by lies are not on his agenda.
Don't give up, Fiero, there are millions of women, women who not only recognize your support, but have undying gratitude to recognize who we are & what we contribute. It's said around 1/3 of women are abused by their partner, politics, easy to comply, isn't it?***
...been an advocate for women all my life, but they voted vs their own interest! They betrayed their sex by voting this degenerate liar over one of their own in Hillary! ...We'll all pay for it; some > others!
ReplyDelete***It was the majority of white women who didn't vote for Hillary that helped to turn the election in Trump's favor. In fact, that one group mhb responsible for him being elected. That was a very interesting phenomenon that has implications beyond the prob. of trying to get a woman elected president. ...I've heard that white women have shifted their support > towards Biden > they supported Hillary so that may make a big diff. in the next election. I still expect it t/b close. White males didn't show the same shift according to the same report. White women supporting Biden > they did Hillary's not surprising.
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No sisterhood, or @ least, lit'l sisterhood among white women is a sad fact. They should've supported Hillary by a wide margin, but as Fiero said, they voted vs their own best interests & I include those who voted for Jill Stein. They were essentially supporting Trump by doing that.
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...One thing ignored is that the vast majority of Americans agreed w/ having masks & their local & reasonable lockdown procedures. That all gets lost on social media where the loudest people fight vs it, revved up by Trump & anti-maskers & anti-shut down folks. What they wanted was temp. personal & business-related financial assistance & further stimuluses & moratoriums on evictions/foreclosures & what-not to reflect that new reality. ...Trump would receive no benefit from faking this un< it's to cause further chaos & shill hydroxychloride & pretend it "cured" him....
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CNN's reporting that the Trump campaign didn't have the decency to advise the Biden campaign that Trump tested +. They found out via news reports just like the rest of us. I'm not surprised, but it just underlines the total disregard that Trump has for everyone.***
This happened earlier this yr.; 2 Rep. repres. & a senator on committees knowingly attended hearings w/ symptoms of the CV-19! It was obscene that after it was discovered, Rep. leadership was found to have known & gave no apologies!
***CNN reports that's a total of 9 people in close proximity to Trump testing +!***
Well his mid'l name s/b "blow hard!" Anyone in the room'll prob. pk. it up! Can't believe he went on that fundraiser trip yesterday knowing he had been exposed to CV-19! Such an a-hole!
***They said on the news that if he's in the WH & quarantined, it's disruptive. There are whole sections of the WH that people can't get to. But @ Walter Read, he has his own suite w/ offices & people w/b able to visit him & staff can = stay there. So they figured it was easier to have him there & then, if he goes downhill fast, he's already there.
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Something that just occurred to me: how can they say he w/b @ the hospital for a few days when this virus' so unpredictable? Even if they're taking him out of a precaution now, they can't know.***
What else are they going to say & do? "This fk'rs in his 70's & there's a poss. he could start failing quicker > since he's such a lard ass! Just in case he vapor-locks while going on a Twitter rant when he sees his next poll #'s, we'd just assume have in a hosp. to keep him alive just for a few > wks @ least thru the election!"
***At least 6 people who were in attendance @ the Sat. Rose Garden event nominating Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Ct. have tested +: POTUS, FLOTUS, Sen. Tillis, Sen. Lee, Notre Dame president Rev. John Jenkins, & 1 members of the press corps.***
***Djokovic Elo King:
ReplyDelete-Most wins vs Elo rating > 2400
1) Djokovic 36
2) Nadal 25
3) McEnroe 19
-vs Elo rating > 2200
1) Djokovic 147
2) Federer 122
3) Nadal 109
-in Slams vs Elo rating > 2400
1) Djokovic 13
2) Nadal 11
3) Wilander 8
-in Slams vs Elo rating > 2200
1) Djokovic 42
2) Fed / Nadal 38
- Djokovic's the undisputed best @ beating top players.
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-vs Elo > 2400
1) Borg 78.95%
2) Djokovic 55.38%
3) Cash, Coric, Zverev 50.00%
-vs Elo > 2200
1) Borg 70.80%
2) Djokovic 66.52%
3) Becker 63.11%
-in Slams vs Elo > 2400
1) Becker 100.00%
2) Cash 75.00%
3) Wilander 61.54%
-in Slams vs Elo > 2200
1) Borg 72.41%
2) Laver 71.43%
3) Sampras 69.57%
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-vs Elo > 2400 (min. 10 matches)
1) Borg 78.95%
2) Djokovic 55.38%
3) Zverev 50.00%
-vs Elo > 2200 (min. 20 matches)
1) Borg 70.80%
2) Djokovic 66.52%
3) Becker 63.11%
-in Slams vs Elo > 2400 (min. 5 matches)
1) Wilander 61.54%
2) Nadal 61.11%
3) Djokovic 56.52%
-in Slams vs Elo > 2200 (min. 10 matches)
1) Borg 72.41%
2) Sampras 69.57%
3) Djokovic and Nadal 66.67%
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All criterias say Djokovic had tougher comp.; give it up.***
IDK where the debate c/b? It's been quite obvious for yrs that Djokovic had the tougher comp.; needing to overcome 2 ATG's while asserting his own ability taking over as #1 in '11! Fed tech. "vultured" a bunch of majors/titles w/ lit'l in the way of consistent comp. B4 Nadovic! There were plenty of able-bodied pros, but they were in & out of top form due to age & injury! I give all due credit to Fed & = helped spin early losses to Rafa when there was no true rivalry! It's always been a media affectatious creation calling Fedal the greatest rivalry of all X! It's not = the best of "this X," but the 'Tennis Intelligentcia' will continue to perpetrate that fraud! After all's said & done, most of the top #'s w/b under Djokovic's column & there's lit'l anyone can do about it! It took a pandemic & a DQ to = slow down his ascent!
***Djokovic has vultured extensively since '14 w/ lit'l comp. in his way. All this fairy tale of overcoming 2 ATGs' old news, buddy. '11-13 was a long X ago. His last 11 slams haven't been won vs that kind of comp.
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That is a silly argument. Federer won 3 slams after '14 & obviously Nadal's still winning them. Djokovic for whatever reason has also tended to play > "Top 10" players. ELO's imperfect & you can always cherry-pk. things that make it look off, but it's a lot > obj. > Fed, Nadal, or Djokovic fans when debating GOAT.
Ultimately, the unsophisticated will just look @ Slam wins; the > sophisticated other big titles when all top players compete, rankings, h2h, ELO, & so on. Fed fans are likely to have a tough next few yrs. b/c he likely will lose the slam rec., has already lost the big titles, &'ll soon lose the wks. @ #1. Ultimately, the GOAT debate by > people using full accomplishments will put Nadal & Djokovic 1 & 2, or 2 & 1, w/ Fed 3rd or m/b = 4th if they throw in Laver.***
***Do you think Novak has currently stronger oppo.?
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Novak came when Fedal was on top. It was as hard comp. as it could ever be. Still he prob. gonna finish w/ most wks #1 & > slams; not sure about slams actually. You cant predict anything @ this moment in '20. - But since '14-15 he has had it very easy & that's the period in which he accum. most of his achievements.
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But sure, nice of you to hide the context. He was only @ 6 slams when Fedal were the top dogs. - You are correct. His comp. is Thiem, Dimitrov, Goffin, PC Busta, Raonic, Sandgren, Delbonis, Krajinovic, Basilashvili, Travaglia, Duckworth, Federico Coria, Caruso, Denis Novak, T. Monteiro, Sonego, Djere, Mager, Zverev, Tsitsipas, Medvedev, Shapovalov, FAA. If this was the opp. of Fedal, they'd held the #1 spot till retirement age, which is currently around 67 yrs old.
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Yeah, Nole had some incredibly tough yrs in '11-13, but aside from a few noteworthy tournaments, his comp. has been on the decline since '14 & practically fell off a cliff in '16. I think I'd put their comps like this (starting from '03):
Very strong: '12
Strong: '09, '11, '08, '07, '13, '05 (...reasonable arg. for putting any of these up w/ '12)
Good: '04, '14, '15
Avg: '03
Mediocre: '06, '10, '19
Weak: '16, '17, '18, '20 (so far)
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People are way too strong in recent era. It has it's comparisons. We're not = in the weakest era ever.
- YEC seeds in '00 vs '19
1. Safin vs Djokovic
2. Guga vs Nadal
3. Sampras vs Federer
4. Norman vs Thiem
5. Kafelnikov vs Medvedev
6. Hewitt vs Tsitsipas
7. Corretja vs Zverev
8. Agassi vs Berretini
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w/ the exception of 4 & 7, all the other guys in in 00 list reached #1 in ranking w/o waiting for someone to retire.
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Djokovic's the same age now as Fed was in '14-15
-Age 30-33
Fed: 1 Big 3 slam. (1 slam total)
Nadal: 2 Big 3 slams (5 slams total)
Djokovic: 5 Big 3 slams (5 slams total)
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The good news about Thiem's loss to Diego is that he hadn't played a long match until today. The other good news is that he has 2 days of rest.***
Rafa's going to have to stay up rather late to get his match in = if it's a short affair vs Sinner! I guess this loss guarantees Djokovic the YE #1 ranking! That's #6 brk'n the tie w/ Fedal & Connors, now ties w/ Sampras?! Just 1 > rec. taken away from the "supposed" GOAT!
***The 50 Big 3 Slams by yr. & age:
ReplyDelete'05 Big 3 slams 4
Fed (age 23): 2
Nadal (age 18): 1
Djokovic (age 17): 0
'06: Big 3 slams -3
Fed (age 24): 2
Nadal (age 19): 1
Djokovic (age 18): 0
'07 Big 3 slams -4
Fed (age 25): 3
Nadal (age 20): 1
Djokovic (age 19): 0
'08 Big 3 slams -4
Fed (age 26): 1
Nadal (age 21): 2
Djokovic (age 20): 1
'09: Big 3 slams -3
Fed (age 27): 1
Nadal (age 22): 1
Djokovic (age 21): 0
'10 4 Big 3 slams -4
Fed (age 28): 1
Nadal (age 23): 3
Djokovic (age 22): 0
'11 4 Big 3 slams -4
Fed (age 29): 0
Nadal (age 24): 1
Djokovic (age 23): 3
'12: 3 Big 3 slams -3
Fed (age 30): 1
Nadal (age 25): 1
Djokovic (age 24): 1
'13: 3 Big 3 slams -3
Federer (age 31): 0
Nadal (age 26): 2
Djokovic (age 25): 0
'14 Big 3 slams -3
Fed (age 32): 0
Nadal (age 27): 1
Djokovic (age 26): 1
'15 Big 3 slams -4
Fed (age 33): 0
Nadal (age 28): 0
Djokovic (age 27): 3
'16 Big 3 slams -1
Fed (age 34): 0
Nadal (age 29): 0
Djokovic (age 28): 1
'17 Big 3 slams -2
Fed (age 35): 2
Nadal (age 30): 0
Djokovic (age 29): 0
'18 Big 3 -3
Fed (age 36): 1
Nadal (age 31): 0
Djokovic (age 30): 2
'19 Big 3 slams -4
Fed (age 37): 0
Nadal (age 32): 2
Djokovic (age 31): 2
'20 Big 3 slams -1
Fed (age 38): 0
Nadal (age 33): 0
Djokovic (age 32): 1***
***The slams s/b outdoor events played in daylight. The rot set in @ the '75 USO, all but guaranteeing Borg could never win it.***
I can still see the 1st ads for lights @ that '75 USO in Tennis Mag.! I think it was a pic of Margaret Court playing doubles w/ Virginia Wade! I wasn't horrified, b/c I loved "night tennis!" I played so > >er under those conditions; save the bugs attracted by the lights! I also figured it w/b a detriment to Borg since his game centered around his endurance & drive! Under the lights, any hot dog could literally hit him off the court; esp. after it went to the HC's of Flushing! I still hurt from watching that '76 men's final; Borg w/ pts to go up 2 sets to 1 & it just didn't happen! It was bad enough Evert nixed Evonne Goolagong the day before in the ladies' event!
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No one's pounding their chest over Clippers dropping series to Denver Nuggets when up 3-1? They literally choked away their opp. to make their 1st Conf. Final, but systematically gagged w/ double digit leads in games 5, 6, & 7! Now we're hearing from Kawhi & George a "lack of chemistry" & "not playing together long enough!" You're kidding? These idiots leave their winning teams to form an alliance to defeat the Lakers & they couldn't = "get there!" Idiots! Doc Rivers better dust off that resume!
***It was epic! That was a choke job of Norman-esque proportions.***
***GS tourns. aren't mandatory events for the ATP players. Every player was/is free to not participate in the FO & play in other tourns. instead of RG. Sev. ATP Challengers have always been held during major events.***
ReplyDeleteTennis life "goes on" while the Majors are being played! Only the top 100 or so can enter Paris along w/ WC's, Quals., & players w/ 'PR!' The Majors aren't mandatory, but you lose a lot of pts if you don't play! Even the top players can pay a price if they skip one!
***They refuse to close the roof to shelter vs the frigid cold, saying, "It's not supposed to be an indoor tournament." Well, it's not supposed t/b a winter tournament either!***
If it goes indoors, Rafa's in trouble! Closing the roof salvaged that '18 Wimbl. title for Djokovic in their SF match! He was just coming back from injury & a malaise of not knowing how to finish off a match! Nole had actually lost Queens to Cilic a few wks B4 holding a MP! I have no doubt Rafa would've pulled that match out if not for a requirement to finish it indoors b/c that was the condition when shutting it down the prev. nite!
***Nadal had many BP's in the 5th set, twice he was up 15-40 on Djokovic's serves. That he couldn't convert on any of the BP's had everything to do w/ the players & nothing w/ the roof! Djokovic's decision to keep the roof closed was just a mind game w/ Nadal!***
The same mind game Rafa plays on all of us?! He's always so concerned about a lack of prep. & this yr. actually going into Paris w/o a pre-tourney clay win! He's only won it a dozen X's mind-fk'n the tennis intelligentsia yr. in & yr. out!
***So's YE-#1 basically guaranteed for Nole @ some pt. or could Ned pull something out of his ass like his shorts?***
I think after Thiem lost it was a done deal! Ned would have to pull out all the stops in the part of the season he's traditionally done poorly! I think he's skipping Paris Masters & he'd need that & the YEC! Why would he succeed this yr. over any other where he's only gotten to 2 finals?
***If Djokovic wins the SF vs Tsitsipas & Nadal doesn't enter any tourn. in Oct., Nole's the confirmed YE #1 = if Nadal wins both Bercy & WTF.
Nadal can't enter St Petersburg (500) & the other 3 250's starting from 12th Oct. He can play Antwerp (250)/Cologne (250) starting 19th Oct. OR play Vienna(500)/Astana(250) starting 26th Oct. He has to win one of these Oct. tourns. & win Bercy+WTF, if @ all he does enter. So yeah, Novak in the final will pretty > guarantee his #6 th YE!
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Stefanos ruled Rublev in QF: 7-5, 6-2, 6-3.***
Shocking, but I guess that run of Rublev's had to come to a close! Winning that many matches takes a toll on the "also-rans" of the tour! Reminds me of Brad Gilbert in the day; got up to #4 in the World IIRC, but was inconsistent as any player! He could go into Cincy & wear out the top players, then inexplicably lose to some nobody early @ the USO! I still remember him upsetting Becker a few X's, but wouldn't follow it up w/ much except at '89 ATP Chp.! He got the > out of his ability w/ no real weapon to speak of! I think Reblev's doing the same! It remains t/b seen if he'll take that next step!
***Brad was a lot of smart smoke & mirrors. He compensated for rather pedestrian tennis skills compared to the big boys of his era. Fiero, overall I think Rublev has made some major improvements this yr. Back to Back QF's w/ a Hamburg title squeezed inbtwn. I remind myself he's still only 22. The next step I think is the genuine belief to win these "big" matches, Rublev had his chances both @ the USO early w/ Medvedev & here w/ Tsitsipas. However, he's winning > the matches he's supposed to win, which is big as you need to build that consistency.***
***I thought Djokovic never defeated Nadal in Paris.***
ReplyDeleteIt's just one of those matches tennis "intelligentsia" refuses to = acknowledge if they can help it! Rafa was in the midst of a malaise, dropping all kinds of matches to people he never would've in the past! I thought he had played one 5 set'r too many & was "done" both physically & mentally! In '15 it was all about Djokovic after his resurgence @ Wimbl. the yr. B4! Nadovic was in the mid. of another series of matches where Nole had won 7 str. matches for the 2nd X! Nadal kept it close in the 1st set of their Q-fl. match, but Nole wasn't missing @ the X! Djokovic lost final to Wawrinka in 4 unable to complete his Nole-Slam til the following season!
***Has anyone here actually besides the 70 yo grandpas who watched Laver? I haven’t.***
Well I don't have grandkids, but closing in on 70 I certainly have to + pre-Open stars Laver, Rosewall, Gonzales, Kramer, Tilden, & HOAD! I mainly + Rosewall & Hoad b/c of their success vs Laver; sorta like Fed who has 2 very comp. detractors in Nadovic!
***Novak making this match very complicated for himself. Tsitsipas was superb on BP's in whole 4th set, amazing play.***
Novak's w/o a doubt the > unlucky player! It's not like he's playing poorly; Stefanos has elevated his standard, but all those missed BP's is typical & drives me insane! The opp. just legit. pulls it out; nothing Nole did to hurt himself > of the X!
***Djokovic has now reached the final of all 4 Slams over the age of 30. He's prob. the 1st since Laver to do it, but I'd need someone really good w/ stats to confirm.
Rosewall was 34 @ the begin'n of Open Era & reached all 4 GS finals.
RG'68 (34) & '69 (35) - Wimbl.'70 (36) & '74 (40)
USO'70 (36) '74 (40) - AO'71 (37) & '72 (38)
He tech. accomplished these after Laver ('69) in '71 w/ his 1st AO Final in OE.
It's not strictly nec. cts only the Open Era, he became Pro @ 23, so he never won a Slam "after 30" before the OE.
So he's the 3rd after Laver & Rosewall. I'm pretty sure only Roger (Miss RG) & Rafa (Miss Wimbl.) featured this achievement in 3 out of 4 GS.
- If Nole wins FO'20, he's the undisputed GOAT. He'll have DCGS, NCYGS, DM, TMT, TEM, BTW, WNO, YNO, H2H. Perfect in all respects.
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I still maintain it was completely reasonable to w/o Rafa after '16. - I did too. I also maintain it was reasonable to w/o Fed after '13 & Djokovic in '18. We forget how superhuman their comebacks were, = Nadal's despite not being as dramatic or emotional as Fed & Nole's.
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You'd literally have t/b a foaming @ the mouth lunatic to believe Nadal was coming back, b/c there was lit. 0 rational reason to expect it w/ absol. no precedent in the game's history. Same w/ Djokovic 2 yrs after t/b fair.
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Novak will overtake Nadal in GOAT race if he wins RG'20:
Most wks @ #1 in history
Most yrs @ #1 in history
Most Major titles
Most M-1000's
NCYGS
2 x CGS
Win vs clay God in RG finals
>er H2H
Having 1 slam > can't cover for so > >er career portfolio, it's not = close.***
...Most will have to resign the fact that Djokovic'll end up w/ > of the top recs; owning > right now! Taking all 14 ATP major events @ least twice may never be accom. again in our lifeX! Fed's X's coming to an end & Rafa's resume too imbalanced w/ "clay success!"
***When Novak & Nadal‘s level drop, it'll happen sooner or later. Then the 2nd & 3rd line can take over & win something. So Thiem does, only due to not having to play 1 of them in F @ the USO. But They should never forget who the real masters were.***
We keep hoping, but it hasn't happened yet! A miraculous resurgence seems to occur if any of the 'Big 3' weaken; = for a few months!
KC pulls it out in OT after LAC gave a valiant effort really making the Chiefs work! The defense did everything it could to extend drives by LA & the off. line committed too many penalties as well trying to give the game away! Mahomes' lucky he's Mahomes & saved them w/ his running!
ReplyDelete***Mahomes is amazing. Arm, legs he's got it all. - That was an UGLY game. I haven't seen the Chiefs play that poorly in sev. yrs. The offensive line didn't = show up til the 4th qtr.
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Yeah. And the defense looked like they forgot about tackling drills. But they pulled it out. If they win on bad days - that'll do.***
Another amazing & routine win over another good team last night on MNF! Baltimore was helpless! They played well enough, but KC has too many weapons! They can't be stopped indef. & their defense is underrated! The Ravens did well to stay in it early w/ a missed KC x-pt. after a TD & a wayward FG after a TO! The kicker mhb reading his press clippings after those long winning FG's last wk!
***KC to play NE Mon. night instead of Sun. due to CV-19 caution.***
Dallas blew another one @ home; to Cleveland of all teams! They allowed over 300 yds. rushing & made Brian Mayfield look like Brian Kosar! That leaves Phili in front of the NFC Least @ 1-2-1! Reminds me of the late 90's when the winner of the div. could go undefeated intra-conf., but still suck!
***This season w/ no off-season & no pre-season games may see a team w/ a 9/7 or 10/6 rec. peak @ the right X. Certainly every win in the NFL is crucial since you play only 16 games & almost every win is hard earned. ...Injuries m/b the big decider this yr. btwn champs & also-rans.***
The Bears played & defeated The Bucs last night! They started w/ dismal off. play, but somehow they got their act together in the 2nd Qtr & led @ the HALF 14-13! It was a def. battle w/ trading of FG's B4 the Bears stopped Tampa Bay on their final drive w/ the old man not knowing he used 4 downs! He's a bit doddering in his old age & had to ?? the ref! Bears win 20-19!
***Nick Foles is the Rodney Dangerfield of the NFL. The guy just wins. He has a Super Bowl ring & still struggled to get a starting job in Chgo.***
I like it that Foles is wearing The Punky QB's #, Jim McMahon #9!
***McMahon was cool. I wasn't a Bears fan, but that team was unbelievable. Foles might very well have 2 > SB's left. You have a good QB in him. The refs took over.***
It was a "flag-fest" w/ TB cutting their own throats w/ penalties! The head-butt made no sense! It was his teammate that kneed him in the head, not a Bear!
***That fumble call, the non-call on the "false start" for the Bears, & the roughing the passer; the refs have accts on Draftkings.***
***I think it's plain to see that these 3 (Fedalovic) took the game to such a >er level, we need to quit worrying about the following gens.***
ReplyDelete...Fedal's perpetual "hanging on" started bothering me though; really hoping for that NG to take over & it hasn't = come close to occurring! Seemed like a good X to pack it in when he failed to win GOLD @ the '12 Olympics! He haunted the tour for over 5 yrs B4 finally winning these last 3 majors keeping him barely ahead of Nadovic! Never been a fan of Nadal's even as a kid; so many reasons he just rubbed me the wrong way! I started apprec. Djokovic in '11 when it appeared he took over the top rank! I was hoping for good, but it flipped around the 3 of them throughout the decade w/ Nole holding a mild advantage! If he had won this FO would've locked it up making him the BOAT owning all 14 major ATP titles @ least twice so far! Fedal don't = come close IMO!
***Slam winning streak or not, Nadal was a dom. champ @ the X he took him down in '11.***
Nole personally stopped Rafa from having a "Fed Streak" of holding the #1 ranking & winning > of the top tourneys over a few yrs! Nadal had owned '10 & was in final after final in '11, but stopped each X by Djokovic taking 7 str. from the Spaniard, culm. in the '12 AO marathon of 5:53!
***I hope Djokovic defends AO to get back on track, but that w/b fair given that Nadal had no pressure to defend pts @ RG while also keeping the 2k from USO despite not showing up. - Djokovic needs to manage his sched. >er. He needs to put his focus into the other 3 slams where he has the best chance. I think hopefully he'll do this once he gets the wks @ #1.***
The law of avgs told us it was Nole's X today in Paris!
***I’ll be happy if Novak wins 1 slam next yr.***
I'm not greedy! The way I see it, everything's gravy after 32! The Big 3 are still racking up recs well into their 30's so I see no reason for the run to stop next yr!
***Maybe Thiem'll take over next yr. Who knows?
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It’s not inevitable that Rafa will pass Roger, and in some ways I’d be thrilled if they both stayed on 20. Their bromance seems very real, it’s unique in sports, & they’ve both contributed immeasurably to tennis. So both of them finishing on 20 seems fairly apt. Rafa might pass him, but who knows? Next yr. might j/b that season when there’s new faces everywhere & the old faces look really old. This wouldn’t be a bad thing.***
Yep, Nadal doesn't want or need Djokovic to brk up their private lit'l party @ the top of the rankings! Make no bones about it Nole's interrupted their era of >ness in so many ways!
***Well, in some ways I think of Novak as being of a different, later gen. to Fed. Murray & Djoker are just enough yrs younger t/b included among the next legion of stars. Rafa's a diff. gen. to Fed too, but he was so precocious & alpha, he nudged aside Rogers contemporaries and inadequate rivals to become the de facto heir, aged barely 18. But Rafa straddles 2 eras: once he’d replaced roger @ the top, Novak hit his stride, so Rafa fought a battle on 2 fronts, so to speak. All this is to say that = though “his X has long gone”, Roger had remained eminent, & Rafa too, is still steadily fighting his cause. Novak as well, for the pedants, although we may look back @ the yrs '08-12 as being the peak for the Big 3.***
I'll let you get away w/ that, but hope you won't end up being one of those "hatahs" that say Nole won over "broken down old men" & "totally out of it!" Some out here actually have the nerve to use such verbiage as "vulturing" titles/majors! All I know is when I was in my 30's I remained comp. & could school the kiddies! Even though Nole's '15 had > impressive #'s, the comp. was = tougher for his '11 campaign where Roger was good enough to stop "the run" on clay in Paris in the SF of RG!
***GOP report: No wrongdoing in Biden son ties to Ukraine firm, but still 'problematic'***
ReplyDeleteThis is what Reps do; throw out accusations & then investigate w/ hearings that go nowhere! Benghazi comm. hearings went 5 yrs & Hillary sat up there for 11 hrs while they harassed her w/ BS in one of them! I'm so disgusted that it seems to work when we think it couldn't possibly! Like you said, there are willing dupes who are ready to believe anything about a person or group they don't like; = if over just one issue!
***Dems seem t/b lashing out violently. This behavior is one of losing the battle. ...***
Playing the suckers when they do win, kissing Reps' ass & trying t/b conciliatory has proved usel disgusting; all coming out of the minds of some real sickos "on the right!" To this day these animals still accuse the Clintons of running a child porno ring out of a basement of a DC pizza parlor! IDK how anyone can have respect for a group that thinks like that? We see them now courting "white Nat'l" orgs led by the head Klansman, DT! These people will do & say anything! No matter how ugly my commentary, it's nothing in comparison to what's put into practice by Rep. pols in the name of "saving the country!" It's that kind of saving that's put us in a very precarious & tenuous situation! Next month's only the beginning of the "end game" chaos! - ...Trump's been schlurping Putin for yrs! It's so sad the Rep. party don't seem to have a prob. w/ their president sk'n up to the Ruskies! WTF has happened to them?
***And elections having consequences cut both ways.***
I so hope the Dems make Reps pay for being total a-holes, allowing the country to wallow in a malaise never thought of B4 under the leadership of this nut! Everyday he does something that only helps his opp. so I say "keep on keepin' on!" Biden, Pelosi, & Schumer should abuse the rightwing-nuts the way they have the Dems relentlessly while they "packed the courts" w/ extreme, incompetent judges! The country w/b paying for McConnell's actions for decades to come!
***I don't agree the Gov't should force people to stop eating meat, but < meat is >er & healthier. It's a personal choice & should stay that way.***
The problem w/ cons. & Reps is = if it's just a "suggestion," they lose their fk'n minds & invoke "Big Brother!" It's so tiring; esp. when those animals were attacking Michelle Obama for planting of a garden on the WH grounds to encourage >er eating habits! Why can't these people relax & move on? I'm still hearing the Clinton's name being invoked! WHY? After they're dead & gone, cons. will continue to dig up their dead bodies to make a pt.! I'd rather have overprotective liberals > non-thinking cons. who've ignored the seriousness of a pandemic! End rant!
***I hear ya. It's a bit "knee jerk." But, they're merely responding to the fact that libs can't seem to distinguish btw what we "should do" & what we "s/b forced" to do. Pretty > every X they start making a fuss about something, nanny-state laws are sure to follow. Which is also "so tiring."
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...Look @ tobacco, I'd hate to go into the local supermarket & see ground beef going for $55/lb.***
It'd def. cut down on consumption! The thing is the same was said about cigarettes! Seen them as low as 10 cents/pk. & now my mom has no prob. w/ $14/pk. today! IDK any> after the election of Trump! Up is down, right is left, & everything's "fake" according to him! Fk., how do we recover from this era of insanity?
...They hark back yrs trying to deflect, project, & in gen. distract from their own malfeasance! "Playground bullies!" We're in a pandemic where people are dying everyday, but they bring up allegs. from yrs ago trying to have Trump's oppos. arrested; Who's really evil & CRAZY here?
ReplyDelete***Rigby, the '16 election boiled down to a choice btwn an apparently militant woman who likely was trying to appear > macho to appease those who would call her weak & a man who was an unknown "loose cannon" who mhb just as capable of starting wars if not > so.
How a pol stands on the "pro-life" vs pro-choice issue is extremely significant. It's people on the left someX's who seem to think that it's OK to help a person who claims t/b "pro-life" get elected rather > people on the "right" helping ones who are pro-choice. ...The left someX's fail to do that as if they don't realize just how important being pro-choice is.
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It was the majority of white women who didn't support Hillary in this country.***
There's no ?? women let Hillary down, but that's what women do! Why do women hate other women so much? They pay "dust" to someone like Hillary & spit on her accomplishments! It's the most disgusting display of jealousy outside the Real HW's franchise! Then there were the women who placated their act in '16 by voting for Jill Stein; like she would make a diff. outside of being a spoiler! All I know is women >er not ever kvetch @ me about a lack of repres. when they're the majority, but have systematically whittled down the # of women in Congress b/c old white men told them to do it! Fk'n IDIOTS!
***I'm not accusing anyone of lying to pregnant women & certainly the state of MO did not do that = though it's a pro-life state. The pt. is that if early abortion qualifies as murder it w/b morally okay for MO to have lied to pregnant women about the >er risk of continuing their pregnancies. Abortion is murder &'s not really a good idea. People should stop doing that.***
Why are we so adverse to saying someone's lying; j/b Trump's made it a spectator's sport? People who proselytize & go all out to convince people "their bent" on life proves every X they open their mouths a lie is prob. being uttered! They are liars by def. b/c they are against & want to prosecute people over a legal procedure that was adjudicated 50 yrs ago! To keep this argument going is all about politics & that's what Reps have hung their flag on starting & ending every convo about "innocent life" & the unborn! They don't GAF about those "condemned" to death for crimes or the poor souls dying under this pandemic so mismanaged by all cons?
***No one can force a woman to give birth, & certainly not all life is precious; like if it has Down's Syndrome, spinal bifida, etc. ...***
Happens all the X; esp. in the South! They're making it so difficult, many have to leave the state, but some don't have the resources to do that & they're literally "forced" to have a child! ... I'll never understand why the majority of "white women" support a pol. group that has "0 respect" for them & their rights? Trump & his minions are brutal when it comes to undermining the IQ & abilities of women who cross them & in my lifeX it appears they've gone for the Rep. presidential cand. almost every X; the lone dissent '64 & '96 for Clinton of all people! I'm now totally disgusted &'ll tell women to their faces "I'm done!" These bitches actually took Trump over Hillary!
...Elections have consequences! We keep trying to make nice w/ "monsters" on the "right!" I say, take these 3 SC seats, the Dems blew it! I say all bets s/b off! Since compromise is a dirty word to them & it's a waste of X to agree on anything, I say "it's war!" If the Dems are lucky enough to take back the Senate, they should start running it like McConnell & don't = bother consulting the other side on the > important issues of the day! Since Reps seem t/b the only ones abusing the filibuster, it s/b stricken! When Dems were in charge, those a-holes "on the right" would filibuster an adjournment for lunch! Just go look @ recs.! Reps need to pay for what they've put the country thru & what we WILL GO THRU w/ all those unqualified judges stacked up in the courts the last few yrs! White women put Trump in office & it'll cost them the > too! McConnell thought it his proudest moment telling Obama "you'll not fill this SC seat!" Sen. Burr promised to hold the seat 4 yrs thru Hillary's term if she had won!
ReplyDelete***The hatred & contempt many white women direct toward others' partly the result of living in a society that >ly favors men over women. ...This society has a long history of @ least partly blaming women for some destructive behavior that men are responsible for.
What it boils down to is that many white women have been effectively conditioned to have > respect for white men & in some cases men in gen. > they have for other women like them. Voting for Jill Stein was almost like voting for Trump. In key states Hillary lost by almost exactly the # of votes that were cast for Jill Stein.***
...Women are the majority & decide what's what in & outside of the household! So if things are truly fk'd up it's all on them IMO! They've complained in the past w/ a lack of political repres., but again they've been in the majority for decades! The # of women in true power has contracted since the days of Clinton who pushed having them in responsible positions of power like AG!
What does this man have to do? Liberals on on their shit list; big time! We're all "baby killers, hate America, are unpatriotic, & don't believe in GOD!" They hate when they're marginalized, categorized, or compartmentalized, but think nothing of lumping all Dems in one tent! They really went too far w/ the massive disrespect of Obama! He wasn't = a man to them; calling him & his family out of their names @ the highest levels on cons. shows! They showed their true COLORS & there's video to prove it! They really showed their ASS during those 8 yrs & continue to disrespect the man w/ hate! I'm just done w/ anyone w/ an "R" behind their name! That's the way they want to play it!
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***If there was = the remote possibility of a crime (Breonna Taylor), then grand juries are supposed to indict. So this GJ's guilty of some sort of illegal collaboration w/ the prosecutor & police union.***
It wasn't as much illegal as it's been exposed that the prosecutor "led them" to their decision as always! It's just not in their DNA to indict cops & 9 out of 10 X's these grand juries are led to a "not guilty" B4 the case can = make trial! Going to trial has also proved fruit<; just going thru the machinations to acquit no matter how heinous the crime! All you have to do is remember back to poor Rodney King! They had the whole incident on ama. video & it made no diff.; "totally acquitted" in Semi Valley (a cop suburb)! I knew then on it wasn't going to get >er & it hasn't! Even w/ body cameras, cops are given the benefit of the doubt = if they choke the fk'n life out of someone w/ witnesses present! It just makes no diff.; who're we kidding?
That Nadal's = in sniffing distance of #1 makes no sense, but as in '16 it may go down to the YEC depending on Vienna result!
ReplyDelete***It's ridiculous t/b giving players ranking pts for tourneys they missed.***
How are Fedal = in the top 4 after Djokovic won AO & 2 Masters 1000 events?
***They've decided "the ranking rules for best of the past 2 yrs is extended to March '21, so Djokovic will have 2000 pts from AO irrespective of what happens."
...As for Fedal not playing this yr., Roger announced early in the season that he w/b out w/ injury until after Wimbl., so he kept pts for events he couldn't = play? And Rafa chose not to enter the USO, but still kept last yrs pts?
That's nonsense. This season is a mess, they should admit that & stop tampering.***
You prob. have it! I sorta heard something about retaining the best results over 2 seasons! This reminded me of Rafa "running game" as the VP of the Player's Union trying to actually institute this very system in some fashion! Around early '11 when it appeared Djokovic would take over the #1 ranking I heard the idea was mulled over, but Fed as the President nixed it! Rafa soon after left the council when his con didn't work! I c/b exaggerating, but this is how I recall it!
***Fiero, One thing the ATP has to worry about is the legal liability if they "force" players to compete in unsafe conditions. ...The USO/Cincy bubble was a trial run for the tour, ...doing tests, making sure things are OK while eying a potential 2nd COVID wave in the fall/Winter. Hopefully the AO in Jan. in which players will have to get there early & quarantine for 2 wks.
So that means Rafa doesn't play the USO and keeps his pts. Barty retains her #1 ranking most likely for this yr. Novak'll prob. retain his #1 ranking until March. Fed'll keep his high ranking despite missing practically for a yr. It means Novak could lose the 1st Rd. of the AO & still keep his pts from '19.
...So what is your solution to a totally "fair" & =table ranking system that takes into acct. a 6 month brk in the heart of the tennis cal. AND still addresses players concerns for health/safety AND addresses potential liability risks? Tapping foot...***
You might need 2 systems: 1 for the players who compete & another for event skippers to avoid CV-19! Like I said, Nole s/b getting > credit for actually playing & winning while Fedal took X off & have had their rankings saved! That's ok, but Novak shouldn't = feel threatened to losing the top rank, but it's there, just like in '16 w/ 3 major finals (2 wins) & 4 Masters 1000 titles! That was the best #2 of all X & may never be bested!
***Well 2 won't work b/c then it's not a singles ranking system for everyone. AS to'16...:
Part of the prob. is that, yes, Novak completed his Novak-Slam by winning the AO & the FO, but the pts for the prev. yr's Wimbl. & USO were going to slide off the rankings eventually & they did as he didn't repeat in those 2 Majors.***
I know how it works, I just didn't like the result! It wasn't right! It's amazing how it's come down to the YEC as many X's as it has w/ X Slam winners in the mix! In the old days winning one would've been enough! Now owning 2 majors w/ another final is no guarantee of a YE #1 ranking!
This takes me back to '87 w/ the ladies! After winning Wimbl. & USO in '86, Navratilova was having a horrible follow-up by her standards @ the X making final after final, but losing them until she got to Wimbl.! She defended her 2 major titles & finished the season strong winning some indoor events, but she still lost the #1 ranking to Graf who took everything else including a FO over Martina!
***It's amazing the USO debacle has taught Nole's fans zilch. Why are you awarding him 311 wks @ #1 as well as another YE #1 when neither accomplishment has been achieved? The Hubris, as always is off the charts. - Seems you were right.***
ReplyDeleteAbout what? IDK how anyone else c/b considered #1? Djokovic won AO, holds onto his Wimbl. pts, & was a finalist @ FO! He also took lone 2 Masters events played so far! Who TF else should take YE #1? Djokovic's plan to play Vienna in 2 wks will settle it anyway! I can see Rafa actually trying to succeed in this part of the yr. when his rec. is as dismal as c/b w/ few appearances @ indoor Masters finals like Paris & has no YEC wins to his name! Fedovic have about a dozen btw them w/ > to come likely!
***Djokovic has a target to shoot for & will achieve it by any means nec.; = if securing YE #1 by taking WC @ Vienna. To Hell w/ honor. Fed didn't have that b/c he was the man. He'd have > wks if he had known that he needed to. No one has a crystal ball that can tell the future.***
HONOR? WTF are you talking about? That's hilarious! Fed playing those 250 & 500 events over the yrs. accum. titles & padding his #1 rank leads & you think Novak's w/o honor? I'm speech<!
***LOL! Wearing giant neck patches & 3 masks while getting elbow rubs only to make it to RG final like it never happened. LMAO. Then 2 days later take a WC for Vienna to vulture pts; all the while for months stalking Fed w/ talk of recs.
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Also @Fiero425, when Fed was winning those & padding his #1, he was also winning every major 'cept RG. Djokovic's losing is getting DQ'd & bageled by Nadal in majors.
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Djokovic is 37-2 this yr. He has won 95% of his matches. Who else do you think s/b #1? - Djokovic deserves it, but he need not be this desperate & don't know how many will care w/ the rankings race this yr.
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There shouldn’t be a YE #1 b/c there was no full season. It’s 1/2 a season w/ players skipping tourns. b/c of COVID-19, w/ most of the grass & clay seasons cancelled.***
Well then whoever takes #1 for the season w/b in the same boat I hope! Who else should take it w/ an AO win, a FO final, &'s taken the 2 lone Masters events played so far this season? Should it go to Fed who hasn't returned from the CV-19 break? Maybe Rafa who skipped the USO & only defended his FO title? Please!
***I find it odd Nole lost to Murray @ Wimbl., but beat Fed 3 X's.***
Match-ups! They're also buds! Nole's always been the most vulnerable of the "Big 3" to players outside of the group! Amazing how Djokovic has a winning rec. over Fedal, but has had trouble in major finals vs Murray & Wawrinka who almost never beat the other 2! It someX's just doesn't make any sense!
***Pete Sampras was the #1 YE ranked player 6 cons. yrs.; a rec. in the Open era.
ReplyDeletePre-Open Era, Pancho Gonzales was by some accts the #1 Pro. 8 yrs.; 7 of them cons. My fave Gonzales story how when Open tennis finally came in '68, he was 40 yo, semi-retired, not completely in shape, & in the slow red clay of RG, upset the defending champ. Roy Emerson in the QF's.***
Back then tennis was all about skill IMO! In the day, players c/b alcoholics who chain-smoked! In doubles it was = > obvious physical prowess wasn't needed to compete! There were plenty of old men w/ pot bellies winning! In singles, in the 80's you could find a few that remained in the top 40 w/o really working that hard!
***Nole's dad has been a liability since '06.***
OMG, so over-exaggerated! It's no big deal! We just expect this kind of behavior > from a parent/s who's kid's a lot younger! I give them a lot of leeway since I didn't have to train while listening to gunfire in the distance! I wasn't dodging mortar fire on my way to school or hop-scotching over landmines! Until I hear he was some spoiled, pampered, lit'l snowflake like Nadal, I'm gonna give the Djokovic family a brk! They had to work a lit'l bit harder to overcome to get where their child's #1 in the world! I'll get over the ego for now & there's my reasoning!
***This yr's rankings for #1 are pretty much a moot pt., Novak's 99% prob. of ending YE #1 for a 6th X. Odds are against Rafa entering & winning a random HC tourney, then winning both Bercy Paris & the YE ATP Chps. in London, while Novak doesn't + any > pts. Novak has already entered Vienna, no doubt to smartly insure his lead increases.
What is uncertain is the battle for YE #2-#4 ranking, which impacts seeding for next yr's 1st Major the AO. That should interest > Rafa, Fed, & NexGen fans.
Theim conceivably w/ a strong HC run could overtake Rafa for the #2 spot, esp. if Rafa does, as some suspect, shut down his season. Tsitsipas or Medvedev could potentially overtake Fed currently in the #4 spot. So should still be a very interesting fall/winter slate of events w/ seeding ramifications for next yr.
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There has been bad blood btw Team Novak & Team Roger for a long X. I think Novak saying that Nadal's his >est rival = more shade & gamesmanship. Srdjan's obsession w/ trash-talking Fed tells the real story.
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Huh? Nadal & Djokovic have played each other > X' > any men in the Open era. They're almost the same age, have played the longest & >est AO final of all X in '12, & Nadal has a dom. 10-6 H2H rec. over him in GS's. Why on Earth would him saying Nadal's his >est rival be considered shade to Fed? It's just the truth.
Fed's obviously Djokovic's 2nd >est rival, but sev. things stop it from being his >est. They have played < him & Rafa. Their primes didn't really intersect enough compared to Rafa (Roger was on decline as Novak began his peak). Novak has put most of his beatings on Roger post-Roger's prime, when he m/b lost a step. It's prob. why he dom. Roger H2H in slams. It's simply not realistic to think otherwise when Nadal's there.
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I agree, the GOAT's a 3-headed monster.***
***Surya Bonaly - "Four Seasons" (I've literally spent the last 2 days going thru every performance of this on YouTube in sequence. :p)***
ReplyDeleteSurya used "4 Seasons" for m/b 2 or 3 complete seasons & as a last min. replacement program @ the '98 Nagano OG's! It had great potential, but the "gypsy" program probably suited her > as a "signature program!" She won her 5th Euro. & a 3rd Silver World medal w/ it! IIRC, she was doing "Sampson & Delilah" that '97-98 season! It was in the ht. of the figure skating craze w/ PrimeX "evening" telecasts of the GP! I remember taping a < perfect performance of Surya's! After her Achilles tendon surgery in '96, she was never the same; completing 1 triple Lutz in a pro event 2 yrs later!
***...In total Plushenko had > perfect scores of 6.0 as Yagudin in same period. IIRC he had 75!***
I didn't say anything about perfect scores! I said I preferred the skating of Plushenko, but the true artistic & powerful skater was Yagudin = if he couldn't stay upright all the X! Tatiana brought out the best in Alexei that Mishin wasn't able to bring to the fore! As much as I like Evgeny, there are X's when his performances are pure fluff w/ the arms, posing, etc. that we all came to love in Alexei Urmanov! Elvis was the > powerful skater, but Urmanov beat him when it counted thru artistic impression or what Dick Buttons called "florid arms!"
***...Christine Brennan...said Kwan should've won both the '95 &'97 Worlds; = w/ her mistakes @'97 Worlds. Based on that info alone we can safely say she deserved @ least 7 World titles. She mentioned this specifically in her book.***
Was it the book that put Brennan "on the outs" for a while since she was so brutally honest how many skaters & coaches had become ill & died from AIDS? The exposing of sexual abuse on the tour rocked the sport as well the last 2 yrs! I bought "Inside Edge," but there's honesty, then there's HONESTY!" I seem to recall the skating community was a bit PO'd & sorta banned her from things for about a yr. back in mid 90's! Anybody?
***Terry Gannon once said Michelle was the 'Michael Jordan' of figure skating. I def. agree she didn't get the level of attn. that other sports in the US would've given her.***
You can say the level of comp. was about the same, but over the yrs Michelle coasted; esp. when her comp. was rather weak! Jordan had to continue working to stay above the fray! Even when MK fell off, the judges kept giving her the benefit of the doubt & would mark her above the performance! I can go down so many ex. of unbelievable scoring; = after going to the new system! The sport will continue being one of the shadiest due to the subjectivity being employed!
***This reminds me of Witt, circa '85-88, who had state-sponsored training for a 2nd Olympic cycle. Of course, MK was in the 1st wave of American skaters that could have a simultaneous eligible & pro career to support continued training.***
Rules were made t/b "bent out of shape" when it concerned certain skaters! Heaven knows MK & Evgeni Plushenko could walk around w/ impunity & thumb their noses @ admin. of the Figure Skating Intelligentsia! They were the stars @ the X & knew it!
***It's all a matter of respect & concern about police officers that extends beyond respect & concern for the victims in cases of police violence. AnyX you have an imbalance in your society in levels of respect & concern for peoples' safety & freedom there's going t/b injustice. We talk about = justice under the law, but we don't see it.
ReplyDeleteIt's the way our criminal justice system works. Why are some murderers paroled early or @ all while others are not? Why does a man who murdered his wife get released after only 13 yrs allegedly for good behavior while other murderers who are no worse like Jodi Arias have received life sentences w/ no parole? It's not actually about anyone's good behavior behind bars. It's about how > respect & concern this society has for the particular victim involved in each case as well as how much respect & concern it has for the murderer. When the imbalance is extremely high, some murderers don't = get convicted of murder. They're convicted of racists & women haters or those who control White women in this country > I ever thought was imaginable in this day & age.***
Amen & hallelujah to that! A certain segment of our country really showed "their asses" in the last decade, exposing there #'s are a lot > we could ever have thought poss.! The "New South" is really just the Old South w/ a paint job! Reps have fallen so far, mod. cons. are leaving in droves! They're vociferously making sure people are informed about what's what w/ Trump & pushing all to vote for Biden of all people! I didn't think it poss., but if not for Trump being such a sleaze-bag who attacks the > qualified, there wasn't > that c/b done besides going after him for being just a lit'l bit older!
***It was a bit disheartening to see the amt. of hatred & invective directed Obama's way. Some of it was done to provoke the pol. opp., but that doesn't excuse it. As for the disrespect directed vs women that crosses pol. lines, the more intense hatred & contempt for women comes "from the right." This is not a society that respects women, White, Black or any other race as much as it does men. It finds all sorts of ways of discriminating vs them, some subtle & some not so subtle, which many people don't recognize, including folks on the left.
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No judge or legal scholar should disagree w/ Roe either. It supports a basic right just as much as Brown.***
It doesn't matter that R v W's settled precedent, Reps & cons. use it as a pol. tool! As someone said the other day, "if you're willing to kill babies, you're capable of anything" I guess! That's how Dems & Libs are looked @ & it's so obscene, women went w/ Trump over Hillary, so that's how far gone these people are!
***Even if @ least some Rep. pols use the controversy merely for pol. gain, the folks who support candidates like Trump take the issue very seriously. That's why they say things like you quoted. As I've mentioned, the abortion controversy's one of the main drivers of conservatism in this country & the unshakeable support for ??able pols like Trump. Of course there wouldn't be any abortion controversy if this country had enough respect for women & their rights.
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...You're right that keeping the abortion argument going is partly about politics, but not completely. There are lots of people who really believe that the pro-choice view is immoral. Of course for those folks t/b correct, Missouri whh to have a "right to lie" in its informed consent booklet or keep important info out of it; something which it obviously did not do. Lying to women would have t/b morally OK for the "pro-life" view t/b the right one.***
***Lock Downs are foolish, can never work, never have worked. ONLY herd immunity has ever ended any entrenched epidemic.
ReplyDeleteLock downs can not, have not, or ever will end any epidemic. By stretching the X of any epidemic, locks downs always result in larger #'s of deaths.***
People in other parts of the world aren't as self-center as we are! It only takes one a-hole to defeat the purpose of shutting things down! Reminds me of a B-ball player who broke quarantine to have chicken-wings @ a strip club! He felt entitled enough to risk the entire season of all the other players! This is why I flip when I hear prehistoric thinking of Trump to go "herd immunity!" It shows so much desperation! These people can literally see a storm coming, but feel they can keep it @ bay if they concentrate or pray hard enough!
***Except that ordinary people DO have to brk quarantine for food. There's no way to survive 8 months w/o mixing.
So there is no end to it. People are constantly getting infected, so there will always be live virus on hand.
And it is ignorant to call "herd immunity", prehistoric. Herd immunity is the ONLY thing that has ever ended ANY epidemic, ever. It is the only thing that will end covid-19. By delaying herd immunity, we're just killing 30,000 a month for nothing.
“We in the World Health Organization do not advocate lockdowns as the primary means of control of this virus,” Nabarro said.
“The only time we believe a lockdown is justified is to buy you time to reorganize, regroup, rebalance your resources, protect your health workers who are exhausted, but by and large, we’d rather not do it.”
Nabarro said tight restrictions cause significant harm, particularly on the global economy.
“Lockdowns just have one consequence that you must never, ever belittle, and that is making poor people an awful lot poorer,” he said.
He added that lockdowns have severely impacted countries that rely on tourism.
“Just look at what’s happened to the tourism industry in the Caribbean, for example, or in the Pacific because people aren’t taking their holidays,” Nabarro told the outlet.
“Look what’s happened to smallholder farmers all over the world. Look what’s happening to poverty levels. It seems that we may well have a doubling of world poverty by next year. We may well have at least a doubling of child malnutrition.”
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...The min. Australia opens Int'l borders, the virus re-circulates. It's not rocket science. Hiding under the bed doesn't make it go away.***
You don't have to hide under your bed, but ignoring it isn't the answer either! The prehistoric theory of "herd Immunity" has been called "mass murder" by the experts so we need to find something to do "in the middle!" I haven't gotten sick or know anyone who has either = though Chgo's been hit rather hard! I haven't changed my lifestyle > @ all! I already washed my hands when coming back in the house & apprec. people IDK keeping their distance! Wearing the mask is a pain for the most part, but it's >er > getting sick @ my age! I have no one to take care of me if I fall ill! IDK where this is going, but for now this is the "new normal" & there's not a lot else that c/b done! Rushing a vaccine is ridiculous = though severely needed! Wishing it into existence won't make it happen!
***Coronavirus: WHO Head calls "herd immunity" approach 'immoral.'***
Another expert called it "mass murder" today feeling 3M people would die/yr. for the foreseeable future! That's the GOLD of a Trump admin! I wonder how many must die for those supporters to come around to rational thought again?
***So. Dakota supports him. Trump signs everywhere. I'm the only lib. in state.***
ReplyDeleteI feel your pain! It's unfortunate some have gone out of their way to make it > & > difficult to vote! I can imagine the other side chewing glass while Obama was leading, but that was their individual prob. w/ him! It wasn't about doing the job & it's unfort. who's in power is > important > getting the job done by them! After stealing 2 SC seats, it w/b war now! IDK how the Dems can turn the other cheek if they're fortunate enough to take the Presidency & the Senate! They need to start treating Reps the way they've been treated; getting kicked in the teeth @ every turn!
***Well, don't forget Russian votes for Trump!***
It's amazing how Reps have changed over my lifeX! From the 70's they c/b partisan in some ways, but they didn't seem to go out of their way to undermine their own country! They felt shame enough to actual help push Nixon out of office in '74! After Reagan, it got hyper-partisan w/ an 11th Commandment of "not speaking ill of another Rep." no matter what! They were actually able to save their president = though caught being a hypocrite saying 1 day "we'll never deal w/ terrorist," to then finding out he not only had dealings w/ Iranian terrorist, he sold "arms" to them & diverted the $$ to Cen. Am. for so called "freedom fighters!"
In the 90's they hit a new low w/ relent< haranguing of the Clintons; creating the FNC! It didn't matter that the economy was swimming along nicely, unempl. <, the budget had a sur+, & the Nat'l Debt was going down! It wasn't enough, Reps had to undermine the country saying how bad it is j/b of being led by Clinton! Now they have no prob. w/ a total scum-bag when they still have so much to say about how disgusting Clinton has been!
With "W" I don't really need to go into the econ. malfeasance turning a thriving economy into a "Debtor Nation!" Starting 2 wars utilizing "a lie" which hurt us int'ly! ...They = filibustered a "raising of the Debt Ceiling" threatening our credit rating almost 10 yrs ago! We had no idea we'd see worse w/ Trump!
***Fiero, pt. of the prob's the strong desire to win the pol. contest magnified by the mass media which emphasizes politics as a sort of game rather than a system where >er ideas are what matter. ...I think that contrib. to Reps hating Clinton in '92 when he beat the 1st Bush. They really expected to win that election. Of course Ross Perot kept that from happening.
...Apparently due mostly to the fact that libs are pro-choice as well in favor of gun control. Once people believe something like that they won't favor or approve of pols on that side of the pol. spectrum no matter what they accomplish while in office.
A good ex. is when Obama by employing a Navy SEAL team was able to take out Osama Bin Laden. Instead of being happy about that cons., devoted a lot of effort to downplaying it & refusing to give Obama any credit @ all for it. If a Rep. president had done the same thing it whb a very diff. story.***
Amen & hallelujah to that! The insecurity & jealousy bleeds out of them when you see Trump in anticipation of & a need to pick up a Nobel Peace prize to match Obama! It'd prob. be 1 of the actual X's Trump c/b right in him not getting credit for something, but I'm not feeling sorry for him! He's taken any credit Obama may've earned w/ our econ. recovery from "W," but Trump says he inherited a depression! This is "the depression" IMO! I'd welcome the bad ol' day of '15 & '16!
***...After the shutdown, Novak won 2 Masters & made the finals of a Major. Rafa w/ 1 tourney prep, won a Major. ...It seems both guys didn't skip a beat.
ReplyDeleteNovak's getting > yrs @ #1 w/ 6 for Open Rec. w/ Sampras, & it's only a matter of X until he gets total wks @ #1.
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TBH, that '19 Wimbl. final was the worst performance Djokovic ever gave on grass. He was basically handing it over to Fed who played > tennis for > of the match..,& yet...***
It's a defense mechanism that has never really worked! Even when Fed was younger he was having trouble w/ the other 2, Nadovic! Rafa has always had a winning edge over Roger from the beginning on all surfaces! We used to rationalize > of Rafa's wins were on clay, but that was BS! It took a while to finally take over the H2H, but the fact is = if people want to say Nole "got fat" off Roger in his twilite yrs, Fed didn't have to play! Roger was stopped from having quite a few > AO's if not for Novak taking him out of sev. SF's! If he doesn't leave the tour after the Olys. next yr. I w/b surprised!
***He w/b have t/b an emotional masochist if he were to continue playing beyond '21!
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ATP not happy w/ Sam Querrey for reportedly fleeing Russia after testing + for COVID-19***
He s/b "DONE!" If he was that concerned about being separated from his family, he shouldn't have gone to Russia in the 1st place! If he has $$ for a private jet to scurry out of the country, he had enough $$ to avoid the tourn. They have to come down hard on Sam; pretty much say "your career is over!"
***Rafa still has 2 signif. probs to being crowned the GOAT: 100+ < wks @ #1 > Roger & Novak, + no YEC. The latter's forgivable if he surpasses the other 2 in Slam ct. by @ least 2-3 & accrues another 50+ wks @ #1. But as much as Slam titles are the sexy marker of >ness, wks @ #1 aren't far behind - they measure overall dom. in a way that Slam titles don't fully acct. for. YECs matter, too, but aren't deal-brkers.
Novak's only prob. is Slam ct. Given the overall strength of his resume, esp. considering that he's a lock to surpass Roger in wks @ #1 & may end up w/ 350 or >...
Roger should never be considered lone GOAT again, un< he wins another Slam & does so in glorious fashion - say, beating 1 of the other 2 en route.
Chances are Rafa isn't going to get the nec. wks & YEC, & Novak prob. won't surpass the other 2 in Slam titles, so there w/b Fedal champs who'll use that vs him. Even if Roger somehow manages to win another 1, he'd need the other guys to stop winning.
So we could imagine a scenario where Rafa finishes w/ 22-23 Slams, ~100 titles, & < 250 wks @ #1, & no YECs. Novak finishes w/ 20-21 Slams, ~100 titles, & 350 wks. Roger finishes w/ 20 Slams, 110 titles, & 310 wks. Even factoring in H2H's, peer dom., & other factors, it isn't a clear call. Their final resumes are likely going t/b close.
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Doesn't ending YE #1 trump > wks #1 during a CY? Novak may trail Fed tech. on wks #1, but he's already passed him w/ 6 YE #1's; something only Pistol Pete managed in the Open Era.
Ditto If Rafa can snag @ least 1 > YE #1 to get to 6, in some ways that surpasses Roger's wks simply b/c he has 1 > yr. > Roger's 5.
Personally I think Rafa getting to 5 USO's is > getting the 2nd AO simply b/c he then ties the rec., along w/ Sampras, Connor, & Fed of most USO wins in the Open Era.***
***...Of course = wks @ #1 has its problems. Few folks would suggest that Roger wasn't the best player of '17 though he finished #2 due to skipping clay season, & of course Andy Murray won the '16 YE #1 largely thru an approach of quantity over quality. Rafa lost a lot of wks @ #1 due to injury--esp. in '09-10--= though he was the best player on tour during that X.
ReplyDeletePrimary: Slam titles, #1 rankings (wks/YE).
Secondary: Overall titles, YECs.
Tertiary: Slam results (other than wins), top 5/10 rankings, Masters titles, H2H's, etc.
And then there are things that don't fit into any tier, like the feat you mentioned that Roger accomp., or Novak's '15-16 stretch, or Rafa's 13+ RG titles.
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Both the AO'19 & FO'08 were much >er beatdowns IMO. Novak lost the final in 3 sets, but won a total of 77 pts. Nadal lost in 3 sets in AO'19, but only managed to win 53 pts. Fed in the FO'08 Final was kept to only 52 pts.***
I can't get enough of the '19 AO Final since both players were striking the ball as well as they possibly could! There was no doubt since from day one they made note of how well Nadal was holding serve; prob. held well over 50 str. X's, but in the final Nole would not be denied! He made it to the final relatively easily, but dropped a set to Shapo & Medvedev along the way! They had a # of great pts., but Djokovic was really "cracking the ball" & hitting quite closely to the lines! Nadal stayed in it the best he could, but it was hope< as the rec. showed; no wins since '13 USO! Rafa wasn't = taking sets in all the matches they'd played on HC! I think Nole will live w/ the knowledge Rafa had his # @ the FO, but nowhere else!
***ATG ranking just isn't an exact science. We can build arguments & create formulas, but ultimately we have to rely upon our own judgement. It may sound like a cop-out, but I think they are--and will be considered, historically speaking--co-equal GOATs, almost no matter what happens. They all reigned supreme for a X, all dom. their peers, & all have their own unique flavors of greatness. For instance, I would say that Roger stands alone in terms of peer dominance - he dominated his own generation unlike anyone else. Rafa has his clay dominance & unparalleled level in clutch situations, & Novak probably reached the highest level of all, virtually unbeatable @ his very best.
All that said, accomplishments stand on their own. Slam titles are objective - the player who finishes w/ the most (my bet being on Rafa, w/ Novak & Roger about =) gets bragging rights for the most important stat of the Open Era. Wks @ #1, YE #1s, titles, etc. They all stand on their own, & all 3 are going to end their careers w/ some truly remarkable accomplishments & the 3 > impressive resumes of the Open Era.
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Connors beat Rosewall 6-1 6-1 6-4 @ Wimbl.'74 & then a jaw-dropping 6-1 6-0 6-1 @ USO just 2 months later.***
People try to give cover to Fed for his H2H deficiency w/ Nadovic by noting there's an age discrepancy btw them! Connors' Wimbl. & USO victories over Rosewall was almost embarrassing IMO! The old man was so old he could've filed for Medicare benefits if he were American! I'd like those same people to see how silly in comparison to this result back in '74 w/ a guy twice the age of his opp.!
ReplyDelete***All this talk of GOAT debates, one thing to keep in mind that every gen./era had diff. measures of excellence & dominance.
Even up to the Borg/Connors era nobody talked about the pursuit of the most majors. if that was the case, everybody would've played all 4 Majors. The reality is other tournaments were considered far > prestigious than the AO. Borg & Connors rarely played the AO. Add that there were competing pro circuits back in the early days of Open tennis, = up to the days of Johnny Mac & Lendl, you had ITF & the WCT tours; so there wasn't one standardized tour for the top pros.
Rosewall & Laver, while admittedly older, had to skip Wimbl. & USO events due to their Pro tour commitments. Then there was '73 when > of the top players boycotted Wimbl. When I was young, the WCT YE champ title was a huge deal, eclipsing the AO IIRC. WCT title doesn't = exist any>. Add 4 or 5 yrs of WTT in the mid to late 70's which prompted many players from entering the FO.
To muddy the waters = >, Roy Emerson held the rec. w/ 12 career Majors. His were won when the Pros were barred from playing, & 10 of them were after Rod Laver, as an Am., had achieved the CYGS in '62 (defeating Emerson in 3 of those finals) turned pro. Unlike Laver who won the GS again as a pro in the OE in '69, Emo never won another after the Open era.
...It seemed in his hey day talk was still of Pancho Gonzales, Laver, Rosewall, Lew Hoad, etc. & B4 them, Bill Tilden & Don Budge. Of course we'll never know b/c the Pros were banned from playing during the Salad yrs of Emerson's Major romp. ...Now we have the Rafa, Federer, Novak era where the cumulation of Majors is the ult. barometer of tennis >ness. Fed made no bones he wanted to catch Sampras. This has been the only era that all 3 top contenders have won Majors across all 4 tourns., not to diminish it, but they've all had @ least 60 ops to do that. Compare their Major appearances to all the players that came B4 them & it's jaw dropping the diff. in Majors entered. Even Jimmy Connors who B4 them had the longest top level pro career w/ 22 yrs played a total of 57. Connors was ranked #1 for 5 str. yrs from '74-78 & yet he missed 5 FO's & 3 AO's. Can you imagine a top player today skipping 8 Majors for non injury related reasons?***
ITA! The WCT was > huge w/ a history that matches any major if you're in the know! The WCT Chp. in Dallas was HUGE, made = >er w/ a push to start what we take for granted today; "advertising the event" B4 & actually "televise" it live back in '72! It really helped that the finalists took it to the limit going 5 sets; Laver & Rosewall @ the top of the game! Tennis just wasn't that big yet; the boom occurring 2 yrs later when Evert & Connors won big in '74! Tennis exploded w/ everyone wanting to play! That fueled the economy on its own w/ tennis-wear becoming "street-wear" everyone had to buy = if they didn't play the game! Private clubs were being built, people taking lessons, rackets & balls flying out the door of stores! TV ratings so high, a few summers in the 70's all 3 networks c/b playing a tourn. @ the same X over the wkend! Back then, the B-Tour for the men who competed on clay, the GP Finals were played on Mon. nites & shown on PBS IIRC! Those were the days!
***#1: Nadal: 20 Slams + OGM + 10-6 & 10-4 in Slams vs Fedovic
#2: Federer: 20 Slams + Silver OM + 4-10 & 6-11 in Slams vs Nadovic
#3: Djokovic: 17 Slams + Bronze OM + 11-6 & 6-10 in Slams vs Fedal***
***AO won’t happen under current restrictions,’ warns Craig Tiley...They'll figure out how to do it. If not, then move the AO to IW or Miami for '21.***
ReplyDeleteOh Gawd, anywhere but FLA! I know there are tennis entities in town, but I can't see rewarding the politics of the state! It's like another world when it comes to justice & the incompetence of not believing in science causing a super-spread of the current pandemic!
***Science isn't religion -- you can't "believe" in something that isn't a hard fact, & most science, esp. as it relates to dynamic systems & their interplay, doesn't usually have hard facts or obviously correct answers.
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I just want a fair battle for the GOAT-status & it's impossible right now. Who knows what would've happened w/o Corona this yr? Nadal winning USO & surpassing Fed'rs slam ct.? Djokovic winning Wimbl. & getting closer? Djokovic surpassing Fed's wks @ #1 by '20 YE? The big winner here is clearly Federer. All his recs were meant t/b broken this yr.***
We've spoken about this B4! Pete Sampras got to rest on his laurels for a few yrs B4 Roger took over! Fed has 2 players on his ass B4 he = retires!
***Where's it written that slams MUST always take place in the same cities/countries? It makes infinitely > sense to play an extra clay or HC slam instead of canceling Wimbl. We've had surface changes ANYWAY in the past; many X's.
If the next AO gets canceled, why can't IW's replace it? Just expand the field to 128 & make it last 2 wks. How hard can that be?
...Let's not nit-pick about "tradition." This thing we call "tradition" has already been crushed w/ Wimby's cancellation. Hence moving a slam - if only temporarily - will actually help uphold tradition > crush it. Better to brk tradition by moving location (& changing surface if need be) than canceling a slam, leaving a huge gap for all eternity. - How is cancelling a major helping Fed?***
Obviously 1 < event to change the balance of power! Thiem's been the only one outside of the "Big 3" to win a major in the last 4 season! W/ Roger near retirement, he needs to slow down this onslaught to his recs. which are slowly falling by the wayside B4 he's = settled into his rocking chair!
***Silly you, Fed has been in a rocking chair since '13.***
OCO, the tour bought it, have had it all prep'd & ready! We've been ready for him to settle back into it! Roger's resisting the push like nobody's business! Why should he if the NG'rs'll rollover for him all too often? The upsets have started, but not enough to kick him out of the top 4 so far! Thiem's doing his best; Zverev's challenging, but the others still have reverence for the old guy & too willing to accommodate him by "steppin' aside!"
***IIRC as a kid, Bjorn Borg stating that he wanted to finish his career as the best who ever played the game, but to achieve that he’d have to win the CYGS. Nothing about the WTF, MS titles, wks @ #1 - none of these were ever considered indicators of GOAT potential until fans of the "Big 3" got involved in trying to rig the jury. For Pete Sampras, the idea of MS titles indicating anything other > your bank bal. or your form heading into a slam w/b ridiculous.
ReplyDeletePete chased the slam total, but I’m not sure he considered this t/b proof he was GOAT. I doubt he said that, but I c/b wrong. Like the Connors rec. for cons. YE #1, which was a proof of who was the best that season, it was a rec. that was w/i reach, but I don’t think Pete considered that proof of Goat-ness either. The wks @ #1 is like the $$ - you get that anyway if you’re @ the top.
As for the Olym., Sampras skipped it in '96, thinking it unimportant, which historically it is, in tennis terms. He won the USO that yr., which is > signif.
I don’t recall Pete being overly hung up on this GOAT talk, other people just randomly assigned it to him, but being > determined t/b the best of his X. He didn’t like the idea of having a rival of = stature hanging over him.***
All of it was media hype IMO w/ a lit'l help from the tennis intelligentsia! It was a contrivance like the "CGS" w/ Agassi! Navratilova won 6 majors in a row, but b/c 4 wasn't in the CY few people = take note of it today! Emerson was only brought up as Sampras approached his major ct. of 12! Laver was considered the GOAT = though he only had 11 majors in the Open era! Even though I was a big fan, I thought it rather suspect judgment by people since I saw how difficult a X Laver had w/ Rosewall who was older! History had also told me Lew Hoad was a big detractor; actually winning 8 str. matches over Laver @ 1 X! At the X I started watching tennis, Laver was > noted for extending Borg to 5 sets in the SF @ the WCT Chp. & "owning" Arthur Ashe! For some reason = when Ashe was winning his Wimbl. over Connors & the WCT Final over a very weary Bjorn Borg in '75, I never saw him beat old man Laver! AA was RL's pigeon; lock, stock, & barrel! Laver only needed a WCT Chp. to round out his career, but was stopped early by Rosewall, then that last X by Borg! If he had gotten by Bjorn, there whb a good chance of him beating Arthur = though older & having to work so hard to make final! Strange how there are instances of this all thru the ranks today! All the majors seem to have = value these days, but back then it was all about Wimbl. & The USO, w/ an honorable mention of the FO which was > important to Euro/So. American clay courters!
***Fiero, when Ashe FINALLY beat Laver after nearly 6 long yrs in '74, I was thrilled as I was a big Ashe fan; prob. the 1st tennis player I looked up to. He had been something like 0-15 vs Laver. For good measure Arthur beat him the next X they played too.***
That was hyperbole never seeing Ashe take a match over Laver, but I recall there weren't many! I can't remember them though; must not be important like a major! Can't remember Laver playing the YE Masters which moved around the world!
***OMG, I remember that Vilas match. While not everybody played the AO those yrs, it was still slick, fast, bumpy grass; Vilas winning 2 finals running! - Credit Fed/Big 3 for era spanning over 16 yrs when 3 players have cumul. won 57/68 Slams & spent 800+ wks @ #1.***
***Only 3 players have won > Slams off-clay > the "Clay-Courter" Nadal.
ReplyDelete1) Federer
2) Djokovic
3) Sampras
Tennis players w/ > Slams > Fedovic on-clay in Open Era history:
1) Nadal
2) Borg
3) Lendl
4) Wilander
5) Kuerten
6) Kodes
7) Vilas
8) Courier
9) Bruguera
How the Hell have people turned Nadal "off clay" resume into an advantage for Roger & Novak & a mark vs Nadal.***
It's all a matter for the history books IMO! Nothing's going t/b settled w/i the next 2 yrs! The reason Fed'll prob. remain the GOAT in > people's eyes' b/c he won a # of Wimbl. & USO's! Back in the day, most top players didn't go "down under" & many avoided the clay of Paris! It hurts Nadal that > of his majors comes @ that 1 site; sorry! It was barely above the status of the AO = when Borg played it! Novak might've suffered the same fate w/ 8 wins "down under," but he's balanced his resume out nicely w/ 5 YEC's to go along w/ those other majors @ Wimbl. & the USO totally 9! The majors outside of the FO for Nadal is only 7 w/ no YEC's! IMO he can never be the GOAT due to that imbalance! - Fed's BIG 13 (8 Wimb./5 USO) is a lot > Nadal's 6 (4 USO/2 Wimb.) w/ Nole easily beating him out in the category w/ 8 (5 Wimbl./3 USO)
***They used to play lot of indoor carpets back in the day. Does anybody use synthetic carpets any>?***
I doubt it! The sport was > transient back then & there was a need to actually travel w/ your own court; esp. on the women's tour which centered indoors during the winter here in the States!
***I used to go to the Bay area VS tourney, bounced around from the Civic Aud. in SF, Oakland Arena Coliseum , Stanford Uni., etc. & now it's played @ San Jose State. Wasn't there also one in Chgo for yrs?***
Chgo was one of the mainstays really & a centerpiece of the VS tour! I was a protégé of a tennis teacher & sport's photographer I knew back in mid 70's & he took me to see the "behind the scenes" action! I actually hit a few balls on the "practice carpet" that was upstairs @ the Chgo Amphitheatre B4 Evonne Goolagong & her new husband, Roger kicked me off! She was so beautiful & nice!
I got to see Martina a few X's w/ her winning the tourney about 12 X's! She played Margaret Court on her 1st return after childbirth in '75, but lost in the final after defeating Evert in the SF! IIRC MC was hampered by a bad ankle so she didn't sit during the changeovers! The women's tourney always did >er > the men's event which came & went a few X's!
***I so envy you! Evonne floated on the court; just an incredible mover.
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Murray has WD from the 2nd event in Cologne this coming wk. b/c 'inflammation of the left psoas muscle' ...,an issue he suffered after the USO.***
What an idiot! I just can't believe he hasn't tried to modify his game to accommodate his age & body's deterioration! Last I saw him on court, he went down to FAA trying to compete the same way he did a decade ago; just hustling & running down all that's sent his way! It made no sense as he was being pushed further & further behind the baseline as he's made to run "suicides" from side to side! I'm surprised he finished w/o his tongue dragging the court!
***I doubt he'll play Paris Masters where he'll prob. be granted a WC. I agree w/ you he'll have to modify his game or he'll have these ongoing issues.***
***It's a huge prob. that covid's not just respiratory. Many show up w/ no respiratory ailment or no fever. It's mass murder, anyX someone chooses the right thing to do is cull the crop; it's suggesting murder. Underlying health conditions, for me it is age, high B/P, which is controlled, but doesn't matter. My husband's healthy, but has bladder cancer; stage 0, life expectancy, another 20 yrs., yet on chemo, lower immune system, age. You c/b sealing our death w/ your theory & if we were face to face, 'ouch' for you.
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Trump's lack of response to the epidemic is the ONE thing he did that was correct.
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Sure it's the fault of Trump, he lied. His low unempl. # was 3.7%. Obama left him 4.7%. If he would've handled this diff., < people would've died & > people w/b back to work. All he can brag about is he banned Chinese from coming here, although 40,000 still did. I find your words, somewhat amusing other than in what has happened, a lack of response is one thing he did correct.
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GOP report: No wrongdoing in Biden son ties to Ukraine firm, but still 'problematic'***
Desperation! I'm not only embarrassed for the people perpetrating this fraud, but > upset that it works! I watch Fox News just to keep up w/ the insanity & they can rationalize anything! They're still pushing the Hunter story = though debunked by Trump's own Justice Dept.! If anything Rudy Giuliani's the one that's going t/b in serious trouble working w/ foreign agents! The funny thing is the admin. was made aware that Rudy was on their radar, but they obviously didn't care &'ll prob. throw him to the wolves! No one > deserving really since this man was a hero; a fake one, but his image was above reproach until he got in that dress yrs ago! What an idiot!
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I watch Fox News and have been terribly amused by how the talent rails vs Biden, his son Hunter, & invoke Hillary's email, & her "Steele Report!" The desperation is real as they repeat that mantra over & over, but every comm. brk has the best Biden/Harris ADs! Trump's running out of $$ & he's now working hard to hold onto his base! TX, SC, & FLA are in play while he's already down precipitously in other states he won like AZ, Wisc., Penn., & of course MI! He's doing himself no favors attacking the Gov. who just dodged a kidnapping & possible sentence of death!
***I watch & trust CNN's "Reliable Sources" > > Fox!***
Howard Kurtz used to host "RS" on CNN, then left & became a partisan hack hosting a similar show, "Media Buzz!" I'm just shocked by old, reliable anchors like Brit Hume sounding like they've been brainwashed or made to drink the Kool-Aid just to keep a paychk! Their last honest anchor was Shepherd Smith who was finally run off last yr. &'s now on CNBC!
***We have Joe Biden's own admission about illegally insisting on the firing of Shokin as a condition for US $$ & weapons. There's no legal basis for that. Removing a civil service prosecutor violates all standards of bureaucratic protocol, un< you can charge Shokin w/ a crime. He was never charged w/ a crime.***
It's called Int'l hardball! All admin. set conditions to get $$! W/ Reps it's usually on the lines of "no abortion" under any circum! Shokin was obviously corrupt & it only made sense to make it conditional of continued support that they get rid of this guy! Happens all the X!
***No, Shokin was not @ all corrupt & that has since been proven. And it's illegal to demand a civil service prosecutor be forced @ all, much < by a foreign gov't.***
...If he's not pursuing prosecutions of shady characters, he's not doing his job! By def. it's corrupt, just not illegal!
***Well Scotus just said that PA can ct. ballots received up to 3 days after the election. 4-4 split.***
ReplyDeleteI'm still wondering how Reps justify encouraging their voters/supporters, but put up every barrier possible to discourage others? I just can't believe how they've been getting away w/ this shit for yrs!
***Yet, there are people who believe SCOTUS rulings will do no harm to women's reproductive healthcare.***
Over the yrs they've systematically undermined or weakened the law believe it or not! The southern states have worked it to limit access or the operation altogether in every imaginative way; > psycho, but that's a Rep. when it concerns "R v W!" It's overturned eventually by Scotus, but it hassles women so > I won't ever understand why they support cons.? Reps & cons. are all up in their uteruses, but are supported all the X! When White women went w/ Trump over Hillary I tore up my feminist card & will tell women to their faces to "Fk.-off" when they bitch about a lack of repres.! They're the majority & can select each & every candidate, so if we have bad pols term after term, it's women who should start taking the credit/blame!
***The last X a Chief Justice was so hostile vs a president, he ran against him! Lol! It was in 1916. Roberts directly attacked Trump by name. Remember Rehnquist ever doing that to Clinton? Lol. Roberts' now 100% liberal on every issue. In terms of SC ideological transformations, he's now #1 on the list from cons. to liberal.***
It was unavoidable w/ Trump & other Reps criticizing the SC loudly & often over Roberts' inexplicable vote to save Obamacare! First McCain in Congress gave a thumbs down to repealing the ACA B4 he died, then Roberts by way of the courts reasoned a way to save the elements of the law! Reps are chewing bullets & glass that they haven't been successful in ridding themselves of the ACA! It's more than a lit'l pathetic that Reps are playing the same game they have for a century; direct oppos. of the nanny state! They hate Fed gov't programs & were able to thwart Nat'l HC for over a century! Thru some finagling & luck, we got something passed in '10; = w/ vociferous oppos. by Reps! They thought if they could elim. it w/i 10 yrs, it wouldn't become a staple that the country now depends on! It's too late & the whole country loves it! A-holes like McConnell in leadership has been panning it since day 1, but KY has thrived w/ the program calling in K-nect! So = Reps are hypocritical a-holes concerning the ACA; constantly railing vs it for pol. reasons, but have all signed up! JERKS!
***Roberts destroyed the Voting Rights Act, declaring that the country isn't racist any>. He's no liberal.***
Reps have been trying to get over the stigma they're racist a-hole down SOUTH, Roberts thought he'd give them a chance, but they prove to interfering w/ people voting all over the country! They know they'd lose every race if Dems got off their arses, so they plot to keep the rolls down! They've overplayed their hands of late & people are hand-delivering their ballots to their local Voters Comm. to make sure they get rid of these jerks! They're in trouble; = in the South!
The Dems have tried to play the game fairly! Reps have been playing dirty & that's the reason Dems have been losing so much, looking rather weak while being smacked around! If Biden wins & the Dems are lucky enough to take back the Senate, all bets s/b off!...If Reps have anything to say, I'd tell them to go "Fk. off & go look @ old video of them sitting on their hands" while Trump embarrassed this country!
***Dems need to get on w/ the business of governing & helping to lead the country forward instead if exacting revenge on Reps for their missdeeds. Let the voters, the justice system, & the press take care of the guilty. There's > enough to do w/o overplaying one's hand.***
ReplyDeleteThere's a signif. # of our populous that couldn't GAF if we remain a viable Democracy or not! This thing w/ abortion has been exacerbated so much by the Reps politically, their supporters are ready to go "serious RED!" Someone actually had a t-shirt on after Trump won in '16, "I'd rather go RED > be a Dem!" These people are serious; allowing Russians to swarm all over the Oval Office w/ nere complaint by McConnell & the rest of them "on the right!"
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The desperation's real & chronic w/ Reps.! It's pathetic to see them ready to penalize social media b/c they refuse to allow their market t/b used to pass around unfounded lies & conspiracy theories! On FBN, Lou Dobbs had a caption/banner proclaiming "text show Hunter Biden meeting 14 y.o. naked crack smoker!" They always seem to find a way to dig a lit'l deeper into the sewers of their souls!
***...Are you saying... sorta like you guys do w/ Trump?***
Poor ol' Trump! He's just gotten away w/ murder for almost 4 yrs w/ the sec. of the presidency to shield him from his criminal behavior & debt! The lawsuits w/b trailing behind him like boots on the bumper of a newly married couple! He's in serious trouble; esp. back in NY! I can't wait for the prosecutions! Then m/b we can have some satisfaction saying "lock him up" over & over again!
***Anyone ever hear about the Teapot Dome Scandal. Obama's whole team was on the take.***
If Obama's people were on the take, what does it make the foot-soldiers of Trump? Barr alone has lost all credibility while being a shill for the admin. Trump already hinting @ replacing him! Sucker!
***Trump w/b history then. It seems Biden's now subjected to impeachment if he gets elected. No way can we tolerate a mafia family in the WH.
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Dems need to get on w/ the business of governing & helping to lead the country forward. Let the voters, the justice system, & the press take care of the guilty. ...There's > enough to do w/o overplaying one's hand. Reps overplayed theirs & fingers crossed--w/ whipped cream, strawberries, & extra sugar on top--it costs them this election.
Well, the FBI & the Intel. agencies have confirmed that it's real & stated that it isn't Russian disinfo. No one's actually denying it.***
The real disinfo's coming "from the right" making out Biden pushed that Ukrainian prosecutor out of office when sev. countries were involved in it! Biden's name's just being bandied about for another conspiracy theory hatched in the empty heads of Trump sycophants embarrassing themselves to the last! It's just plain pathetic; the desperation!
***So the FBI's now looking into child pornography reportedly stored on the laptop.***
...And this has to do w/ Joe, HOW? The fk'n desperation's just over the top! So pathetic!
***These Q assholes think that all they have to do is shout "Pedophile" @ the top of their lungs...over & over again & they'll win. Someone should tell them that no one believes them, & they're contemptible for using a genuine tragedy to advance their brain-dead agenda.***
***Why all the hatred toward Hunter Biden? I don't get it.***
ReplyDeleteIt's what Reps do; desperate, hypocritical bastards! They normally say "families are off-limits!" Of course that's all Trump & his minions have been doing to the extreme in cons. media parlance! On FNC, each segment mentions these bogus charges trying to dirty up Biden thru his son Hunter! If anyone has a reason to do the reverse it's Biden looking @ the crooked Trump family! It's a shame he prob. won't go after them once they leave, but everyone knows Ivanka made personal trade deals/trademarks w/ China while working in the Oval Office! Her husband's also in serious trouble due to shady dealings w/ that building his family owns in NY! Trump's lawsuits are too #ous to ct. & he'll spend his waning yrs fending them all off! Couldn't happen to a >er dictator!
***I don’t like this going after kids whether it be Amy Coney Barrett or Hunter. Clearly there's some shady stuff, but Hunter isn’t running.***
You'd think Hunter's on the ticket; FNC & FBN going "brk'n news" concerning his emails! It's so pathetic, but they're only doing it b/c it works! These narrow-minded twits would rather keep "the dictator" who's presided over 200,000 deaths over a seasoned VP w/ a troubled son! I pray no friend of mines slips & tells me they're a Rep. b/c I'll disown the a-hole right then & there!
***Trump & the Reps raised over $1.5B in campaign contributions since '19, yet he has only $66M in the bank. GOP donors wonder where the $$ has gone.***
Trump has laundered a lot of that $$; just like those Inaugural funds that were misappropriated! I'm telling you; Trump's in serious trouble after he leaves office! He's going t/b catching it from all sides!
***If that’s what Dems want to do w/ all their new power; focus on Trump & put him in prison. There are no nonpartisan federal prosecutors! Like Biden's going to appoint all the US Attys. And of course Vance is a Dem.***
WTF happened to crime & justice? Why should we knowingly go along w/ the unethical & illegal acts of Trump's family? That's been their prob. for yrs going back to NY; criminals getting rewarded for bad behavior! NORMAL I guess! Well I want them t/b hassled w/ subpoenas & indictments after putting the Clintons thru the wringer! Fk.'em all! They deserve whatever becomes of them! I couldn't GAF about their families! These are treacherous bastards that turned this country upside down! They shouldn't be able to just walk away, write a few bks, & joke about how they fk'd over us all! That's not acceptable IMB!
***The Leslie Stahl ?? from "60 Min." did make me wonder if the FBI would charge Trump in the plot to kidnap Whitmer though! Her ?? to him was all about how he was responsible for it so if he was responsible will he be charged?
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It's not up to the Dems. The Justice Dept. & State's AG will determine if he s/b prosecuted or not.***
By the X they get around to it, he can legit. claim ignorance b/c he's defin. lost his fk'n mind! It's as if he's working vs his own best interest, sabotaging his campaign! He needs it, but @ the same X he has t/b exhausted where every move is monitored; esp. outside of the WH!
***Speaking of family, wasn’t Eric Trump just forced to give a sworn testimony @ a depo. in relation to a fraud investigation of Trump, Inc.; just a cpl. of wks ago? I know it might not be advantageous, but wouldn't it be > if Joe mentioned this & all of Ivanka’s Chinese patents if the subject of family & kids comes up?***
***...You act like herd immunity is something new. There's not a single entrenched epidemic that has ever been ended by anything but herd immunity; in any country or any Z.***
ReplyDeleteGawd, what an imbecile! He does have his supporters so he's not alone!
***So Hunter Biden was apparently sending messages in '17 (Joe wasn't = in office) on an old Blackberry connected to a Russian network. And he can't spell. Very believable. This new attempt @ "but his emails" is so bad.***
But that's how Reps roll when desperate! They have no shame = if they have to make up something to help their cause! It's so embarrassing to see these people on FNC making fools of themselves! How'll they rationalize the results if Trump does go down in flames! They've already begun blaming the lib., partisan main stream media!
***Lol. Biden group Lincoln project has a billboard about Ivanka in Times Square. Dems & Reps have been attacking all of Trump's family for yrs!
I'M ON MY LAST NERVE.
"Biden said he had made a "specific decision" to not mention President Donald Trump's children thru his campaign, despite the president's repeated criticisms of Hunter Biden's personal history & business relationships."
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Trump always acts absolutely, genuinely shocked when people present him w/ facts.***
I'm > shocked by the acceptance of his supporters really! No matter how insane he may come off, they shrug it off, deflect, or for the > part go on the attack b/c they know they have no defense! I just had no idea we had millions of these nutcases!
***The worst is when they say Trump is "just like them." Really? You're exactly like that?
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The early voting totals are starting to come back & so far it's not looking good for Trump @ all:
'Warning flare': New swing-state data shows massive Dem. early-vote lead
- https://www.politico.com/news/2020/10/23/early-voting-numbers-swing-states-431363 -
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...The Lincoln Project is pro-Biden, so I call it a Biden group. Biden has not condemned his supporters in attacking the Trump family in office or out of office.***
Attacking the Trump family? You mean pointing out their malfeasance? If any other politician was as mercenary as the Trumps, I'd hope you w/b > judgmental! They pt. fingers all the X themselves so why shouldn't they be "called out" when approp.? I esp. will have withering criticism for those cons artists when they insist on making up shit as they go along about their detractors! "THEY" have t/b liars or fabricating stories against them! Their defense is usually projection of their own criminal minds & they have no prob. deflecting w/ something totally untrue! Just by implying something scandalous justifies them repeating it over & over again like "parrots!" Most Reps have & use a single brain utilizing the same verbiage that's just about embarrassing to witness over the yrs! Hillary's description is still quite apt; 'deplorable!'
***An article about how a planned WSJ "Oct. surprise" about Hunter Biden never materialized***
...And the real killer's Reps are up in arms by Soc. Media that refuse to promote the BS! It's amazing the hypocrisy when they kvetch about how lib. the MSM is, but @ the same X bias vs "their" truth & facts! These people give me a fk'n headache!
***Trump's holding a rally today for Seniors.! Yes it's outdoors, but it's Fla., so there's already a huge prob. w/ infections. As we saw @ the WH super-spreader, being outdoors isn't going to help if you're sitting next to a super-spreader for an hr. or >. The idea of gathering 1000's or = 100's of seniors together @ this pt. is INSANE.***
***...It isn't as simple as that when it comes to Bidens' Ukrainian intrigue.***
ReplyDeleteThey're grasping @ straws, but it's not going to work this X! They have t/b so desperate trying to make Biden out t/b some evil socialist that'll sell us to the >est bidder; China or Russia! Hopefully if we're lucky enough t/b rid of these rodents, they'll go scurrying down a rathole never t/b heard from again! If they're in the news, please be in conjunction to an indictment!
***...But I also don't like the possibility of this going to 13 Justices.***
I'm not one to change the rules j/b I'm losing, but if you have one side lying & cheating all the X, all bets are off! As far as I'm concerned, Reps have stolen 2 SC seats; fine! This means war! If they have their own Mantra of "it's us vs them," it s/b reciprocated! Dems have to stop playing nice when they win! They need to start bulldozing them & let them bitch! It doesn't ever seem to matter anyway when they're given a seat @ the table & asked to contribute! Reps got 100 amends. to the ACA & those bastards never supported it in the least! In the end there was nere a Rep. vote for it = though their states have benefited the most by it! I'm done!
***I think having 13 Justices for the 13 appeal courts makes sense. Though personally I'd be okay w/ 11.***
There wouldn't be so > need for them to make some of these decisions if Congress did their jobs & actually made a serious effort to make change! They've been gut< or/& vague on both sides! W/ Reps, in their minds "doing nothing" is best! This is why we have a pandemic running amuck b/c of indecision & "hoping something away" instead of facing it head on! What's so pathetic & sad, it still isn't being taken seriously by rightwing-nuts out there! They're gambling w/ their lives & others! If we get past it, who w/b left for those phantom infra-structure projects to stimulate the economy?
***Is Putin abandoning Trump b/c he recognizes that he's outlived his usefulness or is he trying to get in front of the IC's findings on election interference & est. that Russia's not favoring Trump?***
Trump wasn't able to lift those sanctions Obama put on Russia B4 he left office! He gave away a lit'l, but Congress stepped in & stopped the rot @ the top int'ly w/ Putin! Trump truly has outlived his usefulness to Russia!
***The super cons. New Hamp. Union Leader has just endorsed Biden, marking the 1st X in a century that the Manchester daily newspaper endorsed a Dem.***
It's been happening all over the place! A med. society recently took the unprecedented step of endorsing Biden as well! Cons. agencies & pols are scurrying away from Trump & supporting Biden! Calling him a socialist, ready to sell out his country to the >est bidder is prob. the most outrageous thing Trump could've said about Biden! It's all falling on deaf ears & the social media isn't picking up any of their conspiracies "on the right!"
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...Heard something about Reps catching up in FLA & NC in early voting! They think they've cut the lead in 1/2! Someone c/b just trying to make this a "horserace," but after Trump's performances of late, he should start losing the South! We're talking about life & death now!
***FF 1/2 dec. & the 2025 season's wrapping up. Who do you think w/b the Top 5 ATP players on tour?
ReplyDeleteConsider @ the end of '25, Cilic & del Po 37, Rafa w/b 39, Novak 38, Wawrinka 40, & Roger 44. Raonic w/b 35, Dimitrov 34, & Thiem a ripening 32. NG'rs approaching 30: Kyrgios 30; Berretini, Coric, Medvedev & Khachanov 29; Rublev & Zverev 28; Tsitsipas & Ruud 27. The New Mil.: Shapovalov, de Minaur, Moutet, Kecmanovic & Fokina w/b 26; Auger-Aliassime, Korda & Wild 25, Sinner 24, Musetti 23 & Alcaraz Garcia 22. Who knows if someone else emerges.
I'd say the 4 > likely choices w/b Tsitsipas, Zverev, Auger Aliassime, & Sinner. After them, the main cand. w/b Thiem, Medvedev, Rublev, & Shapovalov. I suppose honorable mentions to Musetti & Alcaraz Garcia b/c of their age, but I'd like to see how they dev. B4 buying on them. I guess there's a chance Novak & Rafa are still around, but I don't think they'll be top 5.***
We'll see! We've been trying to kick the "Big 3" off the tour for yrs, but I have a feeling they'll still be haunting the tour 4-5 yrs from now! The > likely candidate t/b close to or in the top 5 w/b Novak! He's prob. been the > resilient top player ever w/ few brks in career! Like Fedal, age & minor aches have prod. some absences, it didn't stop them from winning majors & sustaining their >est ranks well into their 30's! It's a real shame the "Big 3" may've stifled 1 or > of these NG players' dev. just by "being there!" It's 1 thing to stay on the tour well past 30, but few have ever been as successful as Fedalovic, who're still cranking out recs every X they go onto the court!
***Nadovic's the most prolific Open Era male singles rivalry indeed. I hesitate to call it 'da greatest' w/ these limitations, due to a > # of 1-sided matches.***
The same c/b said about a lot of the Navr./Evert contests! Many were total blowouts; esp. the early matches on clay to Evert! Chris was always able to stay comp. on the other surfaces; actually defeating Martina on grass twice! It's the same w/ Nadovic; there was a learning curve! The momentum changed/moved from 1 player to another! It became > comp., then the rivalry totally changed where 1 dom.! I'm as big a fan as any of Navr'ova, but history'll still just look @ the #'s & women's tennis won't be talked about the way the men are! Even though Nole's tech. correct when it comes to his rivalry w/ Rafa, history & commentators will prob. only speak of Fedal!
***If Djokovic was disrespectful to Evert & Martina, then Evert was disrespectful towards Laver, Rosewall, Pancho, & many others. If Djokovic should've clarified that he was exclusively referring to ATP tennis, then Evert should've made the same clarification regarding the Open Era split.
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List of Open Era Slam winners & the Final they won 1st title in.
1st: Djokovic, Sampras, Edberg, Becker, Courier, Kuerten, Smith, Nastase, Kafelnikov, Hewitt, Safin, Orantes, Edmondson, Panatta, Teacher, Cash, Chang, Stich, Muster, Krajicek, Moya, Johansson, Ferrero, Roddick, del Po, Cilic.
2nd: Nadal, Agassi, McEnroe, Kodes, Murray, Wawrinka, Kriek, Rafter, Gerulaitis, Noah, Gomez, Thiem.
3rd: Federer, Lendl, Wilander, Vilas, Bruguera, Ivanisevic, Costa, Gaudio.
4th: Connors
5th: Borg, Tanner, Korda
6th: Felix Auger-Aliassime (rec.)
...Slam-< players who've won a Big Title over the last 30 yrs ('90-20):
1st: Khachanov, Sock, Berdych, Ljubicic, Davydenko, Coria, A Medvedev, Pavel, Norman, Rusedski, Rios, Enqvist, Carretero, Novacek, Sanchez, Forget, Rosset, Chesnokov.
2nd: D Medvedev, Isner, Dimitrov, Tsonga, Ferrer, Nalbandian, Robredo, Canas, Henman, Ferreira, Gomez, Aguilera.
3rd: Zverev, Fognini, Tsitsipas, Soderling, Mantilla, Portas, Corretja, Woodruff, Pernfors, Massu.
4th: Haas, Grosjean, Philippoussis***
***When we talk about Fed/Nadal/Laver being GOAT, don't talk about women. They're not comparable b/c they don't play together.***
ReplyDeleteThat didn't stop the TCC creating a Top 100 where men & women were included together! It was done a few yrs ago so Fed's the defin. #1 overall! Serena was barely in the top 10, but now I'm sure they'd elevate her to the top! Not sure Djokovic was in the top 20, but that would have to change as well! I'll always place Navr'ova over everybody w/ her "> vers." rec.! No one'll ever come close to winning 167 singles & 177 doubles titles = if #1 GOAT needs to have the > singles majors!
***I recall reading a ?? about Borg & the AO (DNP) - it was the 4th slam of the yr. He said he'd go if he had a chance to win a CYGS. In those days, just known as "THE GRAND SLAM" - the holy grail of tennis.
If one of those USO had gone his way to get to 3, Bjorn whg "down under." Interestingly, Connors said he'd have also played the AO in an effort to stop Borg doing it should the situation have ever happened.***
The AO was moved to the end of the season in an effort to coax Borg to go "down under!" He was lit. winning the FO & Wimbl. routinely back then, making finals @ the USO in '76, '78, '80, & '81! He just couldn't get over the hump to capture that elusive major = though it moved & changed surfaces twice over a per. of 4 yrs! It really seemed as if USO was headed to obscurity b/c the players actually started complaining aloud that Flushing s/b "A-Bombed!" After 10 yrs the AO moved back to it's original part of the schedule, starting out the season instead of concluding it!
***Nadal 13-5-2 (13 clay, 5 HC, 2 grass)
Djokovic 11-5-1 (11 HC, 5 grass, 1 clay)
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Djokovic has Top 5 win % on all surfaces Open Era:
1) Djokr's #1 on HC, #4 on grass, #5 on clay --> avg. pos. 3.3
2) Fed is #1 on grass, #3 on HC, #13 on clay --> avg. pos. 5.7
3) Borg's #2 on clay, #3 on grass, #14 on HC --> avg. pos. 6.3
/ Connors' #4 on HC, #7 on clay, #8 on grass --> avg. pos. 6.3
5) Laver's #2 on HC, #7 on grass, #15 on clay --> avg. pos. 8.0
6) Nadal's #1 on clay, #10 on HC, #15 on grass --> avg. pos. 8.7
7) Lendl's #3 on clay, #5 on HC, #22 on grass --> avg. pos. 10.0
8) McEnroe's #2 on grass, #6 on HC, #23 on clay --> avg. pos. 10.3
9) Rosewall's #4 on clay, #11 on grass, #20 on HC --> avg. pos. 11.7
10) Agassi's #8 on HC, #20 on clay, #28 on grass --> avg. pos. 18.7
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Novak Djokovic will not play Paris M1000, where he can't + pts to his ranking. He's playing Vienna this wk. where he can + 500 & London 1300.
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Novak needs just 2 wins in Vienna to secure #1 spot til YE no matter what Nadal is doing. Adding > wks @ #1 & 6th YE #1! Just amazing. Not comparable to wks in top 10. W/ >er results he'll nearly for sure catch Rogers insane rec. of wks @ #1 in March/April!***
It's still all up for grabs between Djokovic & Nadal! Fed can kiss most of his records good-bye; incl. those having to deal with sustained excellence! Both Djokadal have been around for over 15 yrs!