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Napoleon

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  1. Buddies from high school at the game and they sent this photo of Luka warming up to the group text.
  2. UPDATE: Cilic is: •36 years old •Currently ranked 187th •Came into the tournament with an 0-1 record at the ATP level this year. https://www.atptour.com/en/players/marin-cilic/c977/overview
  3. I stayed up late and watched Cilic overcome his weak mental game to pull out a 3 set win against Di Minaur that should have been a straight set victory. The Demon Mouse was the two-time defending champion at the 500 in Acapulco, but decided to go to the Dubai 500 instead so that he could lose on Tuesday. Nice! Cilic has an excellent inside out forehand and a 25 Cent mental game.
  4. I don’t think that you can hold his decline in production against him in Mexico. He started off strong, but then his production went downhill fast. Once I learned that his wife decided to stay in the U.S. with their newborn while he had to try to focus on playing and forget that he was missing out on all of the firsts of his first child and wank away while his betrothed sex partner was a thousand miles away must have been pretty shitty. I think that seeing how he plays in Austin’s with his baby and baby mama/wife at his home every day will give us a better idea of how he’s doing.
  5. I was monitoring the score from Strudel Cafe in Jerusalem. I was planning on flying from Copenhagen to Istanbul, but for only $40 more I couldn’t to Israel and there had just been a bombing a month before, so I thought that it would be a safe time to visit and then could bounce to Istanbul next. Well, it turned out that the day I bought my ticket there was a second bombing and then not many days late, UCLA bombed the fuck out of us as I occasionally logged on for 15 minutes to check scores, stats, & email before logging off for another 15 to 30 minutes because dial up internet was not cheap in Jerusalem Internet cafe in 1997. The bar owner went to Holland Hall in Tulsa, but don’t know where he went for college. One of his buddies who came in went UT, but didn’t know how to complete more than one more sentence after I responded that I was not in a Jewish fraternity at UT. They chatted about where they were when they heard the second bombing and going to gather kids from school as I repeated logged on to see the UCLA was igniting dynamite 🧨 in our asses with no end in sight. Had been looking forward to that game for months.
  6. This sounds counterproductive to growing the fucking sport.
  7. Half Birthday in the house!!!
  8. Ever since BJ won the Nations League handily, I kind of don’t give a shit anymore. It is funnier that México keeps failing than it is awesome that we keep winning.
  9. Ummm… …intramurals don’t usually count.
  10. I would have used the adverb (awfully), but other than that, you’re correct. Texas is not a good basketball team. Even Tre Johnson was 11 of 26 from the field including 1-8 from behind the arc last game, and he’s been praised for that shitty shooting because the rest of the team is even worse. I am looking forward to getting a new coach for next year.
  11. I just started watching (on my phone) and listening on headphones and I have to say… This color guy sounds like an absolute moron.
  12. Sounds like swallowed a jagged little pill this morning.
  13. They’ll show the men live. They show men over women about 80% of the time and Mirra is somewhat known while Tauson is barely known. Rublev could erupt at any minute and Draper is a strapping Brit. They’ll show the boys, but I would watch the girls if given th choice. When Tauson is on, her forehand is the most awesome shot out of the best shots from the 4 finalists.
  14. I didn’t know that. Our biggest wine budget friend was in charge of the fantasy football draft location that year and his birthday fell on one of the days of our 4 days/3 nights. His being a fairly successful investment banker based in Houston is a nice addition to the group of high school friends, but I guess that he covered more than just the accommodations that year (house with guest house and pool on 3 or so acres right outside of Healdsburg). I had no idea that any of the 4 group tastings we did had cost anything. I just thought that if enough of our group purchased wine at the end of our tastings that the tastings were free. Having wealthy friends has some privileges.
  15. Best Chablis style Chardonnay in Sonoma County (that I have tried) came from the husband & wife team of Ceritas wines. https://www.ceritaswines.com/ You may have to be on their email list to have access to their wine… and you may have to visit their winery to get on their list, but their various Chardonnays are fucking fantastic. Light, slight fruit, medium+ acidity, some have a slight sur lie presence on some of their wines, but never beating you over the head with new American oak (the worst characteristic a white wine could have in my opinion)… just pure quality.
  16. 👏👏 Definitely NOT “every year”. Either: Aay) 2 years after/before each Winter Olympics or Bee) the year before the Winter Olympics.
  17. Russians face off in one match and Germany’s neighbors face off in the other. Tauson has the most unfortunate jawline on the WTA.
  18. Other ladies are employing the Ostapenko method of going for it. Yesterday Yastremska did it in the first set (but lost it in a tiebreaker) and then today young Mirra busted out a can of whoopass! DOWN goes Iga… Again. 😁 75 points vs 52 points is an absolute route in tennis
  19. Three Russian-born girls in that bottom bracket. Mirra played an hour long match in the morning while Stearns played about 2 1/2 hours. Then they played each other after Iga’s 2 set match. The on-court interviewer asked Peyton about having to play again after such a grueling match and Peyton said: “I’m made for this.” No one is made for that. At least not anyone currently on your. Mirra basically had a practice session and Stearns played a full match in the sun and 51% humidity. She did well, but that outcome be Andreeva had to have been the surest bet in the entire tournament.
  20. But first… Yamstremska’s nipples are taking center court. Hitting record and going back to sleep. Windchill appears to be 3°F in my barrio of Dallas. Will sleep well.
  21. Zheng has absolutely lost the plot. She was hitting unforced errors all over the place in the 2nd set and her first serve percentage has fallen as her efficiency off of 1st serves. (She won 91% of her first serve points in the 1st set.) Stearns up a break at the start of the 3rd set, but looks a little wild on her own serve. Just saved a break point and now has an ad point to go up 2-0.
  22. I see him out Kremp walkin’ on Sundays at the park.
  23. The Tennis Podcast was talking on Sunday’s or Monday’s pod that Elena Rybakina’s former/future coach is still banned from the tour for one year. Despite Rybakina saying that she doesn’t believe that he should be suspended, after they initially parted ways, he was suspended for emotionally abusive behavior towards her. 1) He screamed that she was stupid. 2) He told her that if it weren’t for him, she’d still be in Russia picking potatoes. Also, Rybakina’s manager has been fired and this ex-coach is handling those duties. Oh, and they are also sleeping together. Which is another thing.
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