OT | 2010 US Open

MikeIsGood · Post #221 » by **MikeIsGood** » Tue Sep 14, 2010 1:19 am

drew881 wrote:
MikeIsGood wrote:So Enberg just said something strange about white men...

What did he say? I'm watching the feed with Luke Jensen as commentator.

It was something like: 'And Nole, like any...white......man...would...thought that was going to go wide.'

MikeIsGood · Post #222 » by **MikeIsGood** » Tue Sep 14, 2010 1:19 am

WEFFPIM wrote:If the match is still going on at 9:15, it moves to ESPN Classic. Guess who doesn't have ESPN Classic.

What a joke this has turned into.

Yea that sucks. Thankfully I have it, but not in HD. This situation is ridiculous though.

WEFFPIM · Post #223 » by **WEFFPIM** » Tue Sep 14, 2010 1:32 am

Djokovic is drained

MikeIsGood · Post #224 » by **MikeIsGood** » Tue Sep 14, 2010 1:34 am

Yea, Nadal has been too good on Djokovic's service games. Even when he didn't break, Nadal drained Nole of all energy he might have saved up over the rain delays in that third set. He was all over the place.

MikeIsGood · Post #225 » by **MikeIsGood** » Tue Sep 14, 2010 1:40 am

ESPN Classic is not going to be a problem.

I just hope this doesn't do too much damage to Novak mentally. I hope he's over that.

drew881 · Post #226 » by **drew881** » Tue Sep 14, 2010 1:42 am

This is over. The game plan of running Djokovic around until he drops worked pretty well.

MikeIsGood · Post #227 » by **MikeIsGood** » Tue Sep 14, 2010 1:51 am

Yea, a pretty business-as-usual game plan for playing Djokovic in the second week of a tournament IMO. It's where he has struggled. It was compounded by the match he had to play against Fed, and the opponent.

Nole really still trying to be competitive in this game. A good sign - glad he didn't just give in. Lots of big ground strokes but, alas, Nadal is Nadal, as evidenced by that last point.

REDDzone · Post #228 » by **REDDzone** » Tue Sep 14, 2010 2:03 am

vamos rafa!!!!!!!11

WEFFPIM · Post #229 » by **WEFFPIM** » Tue Sep 14, 2010 2:04 am

Congrats Rafa

MikeIsGood · Post #230 » by **MikeIsGood** » Tue Sep 14, 2010 2:04 am

RAFA!!!

Career slam

SIdenote: I'm officially a Nole fan.

REDDzone · Post #231 » by **REDDzone** » Tue Sep 14, 2010 2:05 am

Love the career slam. Nobody can ever take that away.

Extremely happy at the moment.

MikeIsGood · Post #232 » by **MikeIsGood** » Tue Sep 14, 2010 2:15 am

LOL @ Nole taking Rafa's check.

**** ESPN FOR CUTTING OUT.

WEFFPIM · Post #233 » by **WEFFPIM** » Tue Sep 14, 2010 2:19 am

MikeIsGood wrote:LOL @ Nole taking Rafa's check.

**** ESPN FOR CUTTING OUT.

ESPN is such a crock of s***. No need to cut away as quick as they did, they're still five minutes from kickoff in KC

MikeIsGood · Post #234 » by **MikeIsGood** » Tue Sep 14, 2010 2:44 am

Three straight slams in the same year, all on different court types. Love it. Never been done. Brad Gilbert believes that this is the best year anyone has ever had as a result of that.

First time since 2005 we haven't had a Nadal/Federer slam final, but it was a good season (outside of the relatively uneventful RG). A couple more tournaments left, but the slams are done. In January, Rafa will try for a "Serena Slam" to hold all four slam championships at once. Will be interesting! DelPo should be back - maybe we'll get a chance to see how he handles Rafa's new hard-court game.

Until then...

Turk Nowitzki · Post #235 » by **Turk Nowitzki** » Tue Sep 14, 2010 3:31 am

I'm going to miss you tennis season.

I know there's still the year-end Masters and whatnot but it's not the same.

MikeIsGood · Post #236 » by **MikeIsGood** » Tue Sep 14, 2010 4:31 am

Speaking of, Nadal still needs to conquer the Tour Finals

Paris and I think Shanghai are still left, too.

WEFFPIM · Post #237 » by **WEFFPIM** » Wed Sep 15, 2010 1:05 am

Nice Deadspin post about the debacle that was the finals

http://deadspin.com/5637808/tennis-has-its-heidi-moment

MikeIsGood · Post #238 » by **MikeIsGood** » Wed Sep 15, 2010 1:17 am

I just wish it didn't fall on deaf ears.

WEFFPIM · Post #239 » by **WEFFPIM** » Wed Sep 15, 2010 1:31 am

MikeIsGood wrote:I just wish it didn't fall on deaf ears.

They've already begun negotiations to renew with CBS

drew881 · Post #240 » by **drew881** » Wed Sep 15, 2010 1:35 am

CBS had a hand in postponing the final to Monday rather than seeing it rain-delayed into primetime Sunday night, and in scheduling the final for 4 p.m., despite forecasts predicting late afternoon storms, rather than starting at noon

This pisses me off. As TV stations are paying more and more for events, you would think they would be more careful in not screwing it up, but the exact opposite happens. They feel they own the event and can do whatever they want to it, which often affects the outcome of the result, or at the very least the representation of the result.

Everyone remember Dick Enberg not wanting to let Del Potro say his 2-3 words in Spanish at the end of last year's final? That wasn't Enberg being an ass, but rather someone who knew his next show came on and needed to get his program off by 7:58. It's such a joke - I want half hour post-event coverage. Don't run away. Or make me switch channels, but at least still have it. There is no excuse not to, especially when so many channels exist now. Stations are just getting lazy, and they know they can get away with it if they set the bar low - that way they can use the post-game press conference as part of sportscenter or some BS like that.