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Treat U.S. Open Fatigue with the British Open
There are two things I do not give a flying fig about, and those are tennis and people who live outside of New York who have opinions on local landmark and zoning permit issues. Man, seriously, shut up about the tennis! I know: you people like it. That's nice. That being said, if you are a New Yorker subscriber, which surely you are, then you can read about the British Open, which is much more interesting in the telling by John McPhee than the U.S. Open is through the channels of the various unintelligible Twitters of New York Times employees with extraordinarily nebulous jobs.
….tennis?
YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN.
(I mean: of the two fake sports, give me golf any day.)
At least the men of tennis tend to be fit, whereas golfers have a severe case of Middle Aged Man, especially the LPGA.
The polo shirt tells no lies and holds no secrets.
You'd think there'd be more sponsorships by mansierre makers.
@Choire: sorry, but… golf over tennis??? -John McEnroe WUTface-
Choire's an environmentalist, and those tennis courts make horrible ecosystems. What's the big deal.
Yes, this is the part I'm having trouble understanding, the golf is real but tennis not. Also, I refuse to acknowledge any opinion that says tennis sucks if a person has not seen top-tier pros playing live, because it is simply not the same as seeing it on TV. Also also, just google shirtless pictures of Rafael Nadal. Because, come on.
I mean look, yes, tennis has oddly hot guys.
But they're all so… TIGHTLY-STRUNG. Haha, a pun!
No but seriously they all seem crazy.
Whereas golfers convey that firm, adult, slightly gross hotness. To me. YOUR MILEAGE MAY VARY.
@scrolly: The L in LPGA stands for "ladies." Although they might be mannish – I don't watch golf enough (read: at all) to know.
My interest in tennis spiked with that recent three-day marathon match at the thingy in England. The American guy went to university with me; I recognized him from working at the student paper. So between crazy shit happening and former classmates, tennis's stock is way higher than golf's for me.
(Still not high enough to, y'know, watch tennis.)
I love the fake sport arguments. Choire takes the high ground for… boxing? Baseball? Swimming?
@Doctor: That was my point about the LPGA! And you aren't missing anything by not watching golf. Stick to the tennis hotties.
Baseball?
Here let me cut you.
When my uncle, who is a boxing coach, wants to describe a man whom he doesn't know well but is pretty sure he wouldn't get along with, he says: I betcha he never puts on the shorts! That's exactly my opinion of you right now, Choire.
I would Nadal play any fake sport he liked.
So you're saying I should shelve my DC-based initiative to build a doubles court at ground zero?
Am I the only one who has a ridiculously hard time logging into the NYer digital reader EVERY TIME? Is this some sneaky plot to keep print alive by making the online user experience so offensively awful?
That said, I'm not ready to rule out that I'm just an idiot.
It's not you. Is difficult.
Bobby Jones' 1-iron backhand was thing of beauty, I tells ya.
huh? I was looking at the NYT slideshow for the 500th time. What were we talking about?
Don't do it Art! That girl's got Clijsters on her ladyparts.
Also: @Art- when I finally got to see the BalkBear pic the other day I loved it! You're an artiste.
Samantha Stosur's boobs are hypnotic. Can't…stop…staring.
Grazie, Scrollita!
Golf needs more guys with weaves and meth prollums to jazz it up. I hear Andre Agassi mulling a career change.
Tiger was recruitng some women with weaves and narcotic problems to the sport.
They leave grass-killing trail on the greens.
Oh this is good, but John McPhee can make anything thrilling. He did it with lacrosse. Lacrosse!
Tennis needs more John Daly.
Nothing is worse than golf.
That being THIS WINTER IZ ALL GOAN BE ABOUT 'FENCING'
I'm surprised no one mentioned U.S. Open tennis and John McPhee in the same sentence without talking about "Levels Of The Game", his account of the first U.S. Open men's title game.