'Sleeper'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
I figured that whoever was meeting Federer on Sunday needed that rest.
Wouldna helped, I swear. It might have made the match longer, but Roger was large and in charge.
TiVo saved my tennis-watching ass. Made me paranoid, though, that someone was going to spoil me before I could run home and watch.
Still, better than missing.
How was the Venus/Lindsey match, ita? It sounded epic.
Yeah, the one or two shots that I saw -- well, clearly if it went on the way it started, Roddick could have just gone home.
But he played well? And it just wasn't enough?
(Jesse -- which GL do you get in the mornings? Kyle? John? Hal? Just curious, you know.)
I wandered off (not to wash dishes), but yup, it's King's Island. Man, it's been a long time since I've been there.
The women's final was brutal -- longest women's final both in games and time elapsed in the open era.
The score doesn't show how much Lindsay bettered Venus in the first set -- I thought it was another Williams choke, myself. But Venus summoned all she had both at the close of the first (fruitlessly) and at the close of the second -- and she didn't fall back, even though they went past where they'd have played tiebreak in other tournaments.
Really great tennis.
But he played well? And it just wasn't enough?
Oh, he was good. But Federer's ability to get the passing shot in -- you could just see Roddick's shoulders fall every time a good one slid past his reach.
which GL do you get in the mornings? Kyle? John? Hal? Just curious, you know.
Well, if she answered that personal, I think it's John. Hey, as long as it's not Guy.
it's King's Island. Man, it's been a long time since I've been there.
I found a stack of pictures of me with cartoon characters from Kings Island. I'm officially weirded out by them.
Ita -- I liked that Roddick quote from your earlier post. I think that Venus and Lindsay really do have a good rivalry, particulary when both are on their games as they were on Saturday.
King's Dominion but I think that must be somewhere in Virginia.
Yep. North of Richmond.
The commentators were talking like Lindsay was on the way out ... you get that impression, sumi?
Roddick is a doll! He has funny ads and cheerful interview soundbytes.
Hi. I just thought I'd pop in to say that I'm not dead yet. My 6 hour trip to northern MI turned into an 18 hour trip with an unscheduled overnight stay near Grand Rapids (which left me a couple hundred dollars lighter), but was otherwise uneventful. My summer promises to be very busy. All the stuff I used to do in 8 weeks now has to be accomplished in 6 weeks, and I teach an extra hour every day. I'm gonna miss the play time we used to have.