Something New

Not too many volunteers to take over the blog.  That creates a very boring blog, and reason for me to vent when I decide to drink.

Accordingly,  you now will get my limited insights via Tennis-Link and a very limited patience of perusing through what I might find of interest.   Of course, I have to have a bit of a buzz going to encourage the writing.    It was a tough, cold and wet Monday, so the local brew had my name calling on the way home.

I guess the first thing to cover is this past weekend Sectionals of Tri-Level.   Quite frankly, I will have to say what I saw was a disappointment.  First of all, I was disappointed to see that Dallas didn’t get a wild card.  Out of all the years I have played Tri-level, Dallas has always gotten a wild card and has sent the top two teams.

No shame in saying it, but I was really wanting to see Mc Hugh and Co. make a debut at Sectionals.  I watched  their match at Cities against Tony Le’s team on Saturday and was more than impressed with his 4.5s of Reiman and Hix.  Not sure which one was which, but the dude sporting the beard had game.  It was a shame he didn’t have the same line-up on Sunday against Kelly and Kiron, but even with the Sunday loss,  I truly thought he would get the wild card. 

No love affair with CC, but in all honesty, I think deep down they are a good bunch of guys.  Just misunderstood.  I actually can say I beat McHugh back in the days of 3.0 land.  Yes, McHugh was a 3.0 and I played him with an old high school buddy of mine and won.  That was back in 2006 and I believe Robert was just coming back to tennis from an injury or something.  Needless to say, he continued to get better, and I stayed average at best.  Since no one is claiming the rights to the blog,  I guess it is fair for me to throw in my 2 cents worth of accomplishments over the years. 

Anyhow, seeing Dallas have only one team, I was hoping to see them pull it off against Houston.   The 3.5s did their part.  But that was no surprise, as those two guys were the bedrock of our 3.5 40+ National team, and a tough pair to beat. 

Given all the debate over Kelly and getting him back to 4.5, I was surprised to see him not even make the trip.  ( My Bad.  I stand corrected -- He made the trip and played the first match against Austin.  I told you I was just using Tennis Link and out of the loop.  I jumped straight to the final and straight to conclusions.  -- given further credence to the following statement....)  But given Picket’s and Freeman’s relationship over the years, it doesn’t surprise  me, as Dallas has had teams that have gone the past 3 years.   I guess Freeman was in the rotation this year, and it really didn’t matter who Dallas had.  (Perhaps Joel was making a statement not playing Kelly??)

In terms of 40+, I'm still waiting for the big match ups at 4.0 with Wiley and McHugh.  At 4.5, I was shocked to see Rossouw lose to Brookhaven but appears Durten had to retire.  I didn’t realized his cohort in crime, Brandon, was on the opposing team.  That is drama in and of itself (at least on paper).  But I refrain to go there.   Sweeney and Wagner don’t go after it for another several weeks, so will refrain from making any guesses there.

I guess I should mention 3.5, but that has become pretty boring.  Bender has no challenge getting out of City and will be surprised if they are tested at Sectionals.  I'm not sure how much fulfillment there will be for some of those guys in their quest for Nationals, as several of those players have been there before at 3.0 and 3.5.  From what I hear, it is also back in Tuscon, so they miss out on the luxurious LaQuinta Resort in Palm Springs.

Then there is Mixed to cover, but I don’t want to lose my buzz………

In other news….Kelly is a 4.5 !!!!   Does anyone really f**ing

care???

I could go off on how the system is broke, but I am waiting for Pickett to take me to MiCocina for some Mamba Taxis before I tackle that one.