DramatistDreamer

Same.

He obviously doesn't need to do more, at the moment.

This SF doesn't seem worth my time, tbh. I tried.

ESPN gets more time to further marginalize tennis through mediocre coverage and subpar commentary. Yay?🙃 ABC hasn't been good at covering tennis since the days the Miami Open was called The Lipton. They better hope they can lure Robin Roberts, or someone who knows an iota about tennis over there.

I never watch her show but it doesn't surprise me. There's always a market for shows in poor taste.

That is who Wendy Williams has always been. I'm surprised at the number of people who express shock at seeing things like this. She has made a career exploiting people on air.

Lisa was the best at weaponzing people's names, lol. Jimbo, Johnny, 'Lucky Lucy'. I think she might have even called Susan Stewart, "Suzie". Don't know why I quoted myself there. Oops.

I saw the clip. ESPN doesn't care much about tennis anymore and that clip illustrates this. Once their contracts for Wimbledon and The US Open are up, it wouldn't surprise me if they opt not to extend coverage. I can't stand what they've done to tennis with all the stupid add-ons of their bogus ESPN+ service. I hate Tennis Channel too, which does something similar with Tennis Channel Plus. I wish there were a dedicated, comprehensive streaming service for tennis that you can subscribe to, like Netflix. And then offer subscribers the option to have commentary or no commentary, and keep a few commentators and ditch the rest--maybe hire a few broadcast sports journalists that specialize in tennis and actually studied communications and sports journalism. Tennis as a sport is going to be in trouble when these world known players all retire. The sport is barely accessible, even as a longtime fan, I feel like it's become too much effort to find regular Tour matches.

I clicked on, just in time to see Kerber play an awful tiebreak, lol. I almost felt sorry for Angie (I said almost 😂) until I remembered that, had it been Venus or Serena, Angie would've been playing 'balls to the walls', relentlessly ruthless tennis. Oh well.

I just would never conflate NYC politics with what happens in national politics, NYC is an entirely different beast and that's why so many prognosticators got the primary wrong this time around. Actually, the prognosticators seem to get NYC politics more wrong than right. Adams is not typical of his party, he is often described as an iconoclast, more singular-- pundits are unsure if anyone else could have replicated what he and his campaign did because almost no one has the type of bio that he has, certainly no one in NYC political life. Also, voters clearly favored centrists this time at the mayoral level but that hasn't been the case in races for other city-wide offices. The winners in most of those races have been progressives, a few are staunchly progressive. I would say that the progressive wing in NYC is far more active than the Trump supporters in NYC. Remember, this is NYC, not New York state.

😂 The nicknames that characters gave to other characters on this show never ceased to make me chuckle.

Or as Dr. John Dixon used to call her "Julie When-Dell!"

Honestly, I don't think so. Adams is a centrist and a former cop who was never in favor of defunding the police. He spoke out against it, which did not endear him to progressives. It was rumored that he was DeBlasio's preferred candidate, but to my knowledge, DeBlasio never openly endorsed Adams. Adams has baggage and Curtis Sliwa has massive baggage, including a history of faking rescue incidents with the Guardian Angels. Also, he just became a Republican last year, after years of systematically imploding the political party he once belonged to. I guess the fact that he called Trump a crackpot could be seen as a positive but I don't see most NYers outside of SI and certain parts of Queens being willing to trust their city to a Republican. not after four tragic years of Trump.

Welp, I was trying to put a positive spin on things but I am indifferent, tbh. I think I posted that clip of Hurkacz not being asked any questions in the press conference room some time ago. It happened before Wimbledon, at another tournament, don't remember which. You can probably find it somewhere on Twitter, if you search. I'm a believer that people and players should retire when they decide. Tennis is an individual sport, so it should be the decision if that individual. Viewers can always change the channel, spectators another match, if they'd rather not see.

There have been some amazing clips of Suzanne Douglas circulating social media all day and it's been a reminder that, what a talent she was!

It'll be funny if Hurkazc wins the men's title. Actually, it might be the best case scenario. I stopped caring about this tournament last weekend but, maybe that clip of Hurkacz being utterly ignored by the press in the press conference room has been fueling his run. His journey to the final is the least yawn inspiring run of the players left in the draw, imo.

^^ Hard not to be suspicious of this.

And apparently, the Dominican Republic, who has figured in quite a few chapters of Haiti's history of political turmoil is now airing calls for military intervention by the U.S. and the U.N. Such a terrible suggestion for so many reasons.

Likely a combination of both. He's a born and bred working class NYCer, which probably counts for a lot, in the wake of so many wealthy pseudo-NYers abandonment of NYC during the height of NYC's herculean struggle during the pandemic. People don't forget. Also, the number of people actually voting in this election seemed lower than usual, which probably means the most committed supporters were the ones who made the effort to actually cast their ballots. Many left-wing voters maybe fell away when Dianne Morales' campaign fell apart. Maya Wiley became somewhat ascendant during the latter stages of the primary, when perhaps it proved too late. Another factor is Kathryn Garcia, whose alliance with Andrew Yang did not appear to be enough to overtake Eric Adams, but clearly was enough to block Wiley's prospects. It's interesting that both Garcia and Wiley had their legal representation file papers even before the first votes were culled--which, I think had as much to do with the jostling with each other as it had to do with contesting Adams. The results are not 100% final until certification but unless there is some "eleventh hour" madness, it appears that Adams' five boroughs strategy that de-emphasized the importance of the "well-heeled" and wealthy parts of Manhattan was very effective in capturing this race. He likely saw a lot of would be Manhattanites had fled NYC and wouldn't be bothering to cast votes in an election for a city in which they no longer live. For the sake of the city that I still love in many ways, if and when Adams becomes mayor, I hope he makes good choices with who he surrounds himself with, what appointments he makes and what counsel he takes. The people of NYC, not just his supporters, will be depending on him. If he doesn't get it right, he won't get the second term that DeBlasio got to get things worse, he'll get the heave-ho if he doesn't show enough improvement in the city's prospects.

How I still know so much about NYC political machinations after all these years, despite no longer even living there.😳

You'll have to ask a Federer stan about that one. I am not one of those people. I am a dramatist. I enjoy the big messy dreamers. They are more interesting to me.

I have nothing against Barty personally but, some players, when you watch them play, it feels very much like "work", rather than play. Hard work. There's no enjoyment in it. To a certain extent, that has penetrated the Men's game, where we're often told to appreciate the 'work ethic' of certain players, while we're all supposed to forget that tennis is a game, and is supposed to be entertaining. This is why tennis as a sport is now so utterly marginalized. This is supposed to be entertaining. They're called "players" for a reason. They're not called "workers"

I tried to watch this match but found myself bored out of my friggin mind! Bye, Carole Bouchard is Queen of the terrible takes. Cannot believe there was ever a time when I used to follow her on Twitter.

The money aspect also extends to the prosecution's decision to prioritize the civil case over the criminal case. I cannot stress how critical the prosecutor's decision to make that initial "deal" to Cosby, figured in his eventual release. It is the reason why Cosby was eventually released. I don't know who gave that prosecutor permission to extend that offer to Cosby to get him deposed for the civil case, but clearly, they messed up. As I said before, hubris!