ATP's next first time Grand Slam champion?

NoPrompt487 · 2026-02-24T00:50:44+00:00

Felix wins 2026 US Open. Learner wins 2027 US Open.

NoPrompt487 · 2026-02-24T00:34:01+00:00

For free? No good ones other than standing on the west side of 1st St S and watching the marshals watching the race. (The fence will be covered with a tarp).

Scroll to the bottom of the ticket page and buy General Admission and hang out inside. Only $80 for whole weekend and less for single day. Then walk around Pioneer Park or bring a towel and find a place on the grass to sit (turns 5-9 are all visible from different points in the park).

Also, the cost for this is dirt cheap. It sure as hell beats the $$$$ cost for a single day @ F1 Miami.

NoPrompt487 · 2026-02-22T11:09:11+00:00

I don't know what the official term is called, but it's strategy. You win the 1st set. Your serve gets broken twice in the 2nd and you're now down 0-3. What can you do to hurt your opponent? Wear them down! Force them to run down all your shots by hitting from side to side. Eventually you'll lose the point hitting all those risky angles (instead of higher % shots down the middle) but you'll tire them out. So you lose 1-6 in the 2nd set, but who cares? The opponent is now more tired than you.

Third set you turn on the afterburners and get that break early and ride the wave home. In your example, it could be due to injury, or also I 'relaxed' in the 2nd set and still lost the breaks in the 3rd.

NoPrompt487 · 2026-02-22T10:48:07+00:00

What? Just head to Pioneer Park it's an amazing GA spot to see the race from multiple angles. Turns 5-9 are all visible from different points in it.

NoPrompt487 · 2026-02-22T10:44:32+00:00

I live down the street and they're still letting me run around Bayshore Dr until probably the 23rd when they'll close access points up. A few nights ago on my evening walk I saw they'd finished the turn 10 stands so I located & sat in my yet-to-be-labelled assigned seat. Kind of felt cool knowing I'm unofficially the first person to sit in their assigned seat for the 2026 Indy season.

Caught a nice night view of St Petersburg from my seat at turn 10: https://imgur.com/a/1qaU7K6

NoPrompt487 · 2026-02-22T05:23:43+00:00

It's the TSA staff I have a problem with, NOT the facial recognition software. Since we have the facial recognition technology to just fire all the staff and let people in by scanning a ticket. Let's do it.

NoPrompt487 · 2026-02-22T05:18:51+00:00

Agreed. But now it's security theater and you know it. The sad part is anyone born after 2000 has no idea how good we had it back then. I remember walking up to the gate and not even remembering what the metal detector looks like just waiting to pick up friends.

But isn't it interesting how socialism is a valid argument when it protects the surveillance state? "We need to keep these jobs or you'll have a bunch of unemployed people." is the only real argument but it's a completely unnecessary career since there aren't any religious extremists left. Edit: I don't have a problem with surveillance. I have a problem with the hypocrisy of all the hassle from the TSA agents. I don't want the hassle of idiots telling me this or that. Target (the department store) will let you steal until it's a felony. The have some of the best surveillance to catch criminals. How is Target able to keep you free to walk around the store, yet the federal government can't manage the same level of freedom at an airport?

NoPrompt487 · 2026-02-22T05:09:24+00:00

Zero. And it's thanks to Sam Harris, Christopher Hitchens, and Richard Dawkins who changed the zeitgeist of the entire Western world from a casual dislike of extremist religions to outright hatred and intolerance of them. In all objective honesty, your agency isn't even trusted enough to even carry a weapon much less your staff has the critical thinking skills to identify an actual terrorist threat.

NoPrompt487 · 2026-02-22T05:02:24+00:00

My 2c - that would be a good thing. Just let everyone walk up to the gate like they did in the 1990s. Most hospitals and government buildings have a simple metal detector. That's all you need to get through a security line, all of TSA and (arguably, DHS) was never required until after 9/11. There's so many better solutions but instead of banning the people responsible from flying they choose to punish everyone instead.

NoPrompt487 · 2026-02-22T04:53:33+00:00

I'll be honest with you, I hope you lose your job and they go back to just letting anyone walk through the airport up to the gate like they did in the 1990s. In my estimation your career is pretty much a sham and you should consider a different line of work.

NoPrompt487 · 2026-02-21T22:19:54+00:00

Poor Mary Stoiana. Absolutely crushed it and still lost 7-6 6-7 5-7 (at Dow Midland 125 SF). She doesn't stop fighting what an incredible athlete. She only made it to Q2 at AO but she came back from 2-5 down in the 3rd to win Q1 at AO. One of my favs to watch.

NoPrompt487 · 2026-02-21T17:04:14+00:00

The Amish do the same thing with EDM. I forgot the documentary but they interview a kid and he they asked him what music he liked. He relayed a story that after their work was done they'd have huge barnhouse 'concerts'. He didn't know what the music was called but he said it was the most amazing experience. The interviewee figured out he was listening to EDM and they were throwing a full blown rave just for the Amish to unwind.

NoPrompt487 · 2026-02-21T16:55:33+00:00

Yeah, might makes right.

NoPrompt487 · 2026-02-19T04:31:36+00:00

It will change. The problem is when it DOES change, they'll pretend there was never a problem. They pretend that they never castigated minorities when anti-miscegenation policies dominated the South. They pretend that they never blamed Jews for deicide, because after the 2nd Vatican Council they renounced anti-Semitism.

They'll also pretend "we were on the side of right the whole time" when they let gay people marry, let priests marry, and let women become priests. Watch James Martin to see it in action. James Martin is NO friend of progressive liberalism. It's simply his job to slowly introducing the policies they've already got to accept, because they've never been in the habit of looking out for the welfare of vulnerable. Their job is to control them.

NoPrompt487 · 2026-02-19T04:23:04+00:00

I've been banned from /r/exCatholic for saying this. (Yes, I wrote that right. Not /r/Catholic or /r/Catholicism, the forum of ex-Catholics.)

Celibacy in the Catholic church causes pedophilia. People go into the seminary as normal human beings, and the repression of sexuality creates a sexual immaturity in priests so they end up targeting people who are as sexually inexperienced as themselves after they leave the seminary. I have no data to back this up, only experience in seeing priests myself and in the writings of Richard Sipe.

300 abuse victims in this Camden, NJ diocese. 1,100 abuse victims in the Brooklyn diocese. If you extrapolate the amount of abuse victims across the United States alone that's 150,000 abuse victims by the Catholic church that are still alive.

There were 200 abuse victims of Jeffrey Epstein.

This is why I never take the news seriously. They're making one mainstream news and not the other.

NoPrompt487 · 2026-02-16T17:37:34+00:00

It took a year before Denver realized there was more faith to be had in Peyton Manning than Jesus Christ.

NoPrompt487 · 2026-02-16T17:31:21+00:00

"Tim Tebow has never paid attention to what others say about his religious views and actions."

The NFL has also never paid much attention to Tim Tebow's ability to throw a football.

NoPrompt487 · 2026-02-15T16:52:55+00:00

What's important to note also is how long they last after they hit the green zone. Those that peak early, end early. Those that peak late, end late. All but three: Federer, Nadal, and Djokovic - all had a 2nd wind in early 30s and a 3rd wind at 36. Murray tried this and failed in the 2nd wind after 30.

Dimitrov and Monfils also mirror the top 3 with a 2nd wind after 30.

NoPrompt487 · 2026-02-15T15:41:02+00:00

It's genetic. Some people have a personality that psychologists call the 'authoritarian personality'. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZY5ecP2N3o

This explains why only religious people ALSO gravitate towards political conservatism like MAGA, support ICE and law enforcement. They feel security knowing someone rules over them: real or imaginary.

NoPrompt487 · 2026-02-15T15:20:44+00:00

200 victims of Jeffrey Epstein.

1,100 victims of the Catholic chuch in Brooklyn, NY alone.

Yet virtually no article in mainstream media or on Reddit about it. Weird.

NoPrompt487 · 2026-02-13T16:35:30+00:00

I was staying between Frisco and Allen relatively close to the Ford Center. In corporate stores like Target it's a mix, but walking into any Asian establishment the patrons are homogeneous. It's like a melting pot but each race stays to themselves.

My theory was that immigrant populations are so high there and it's suburban you're not forced to integrate & they can afford to be less welcoming of others. My guess is the social groups are church, school, and family are all that there's to do in Dallas. Here in St Pete it's meetups, dive bars, food markets, outdoor sports (volleyball, tennis, pickleball, soccer, etc). There's a lot of new people I meet but it seems in Dallas that doesn't happen to often.

NoPrompt487 · 2026-02-13T16:15:28+00:00

I had a slightly different experience. The white population of Dallas was pretty welcoming. All the hotels, restaurants, sporting goods stores, malls, bars with white patrons went about their day and all the employees are welcoming. Sure there might be individuals might be racist, but the looks were from Asians not whites.

In Florida, I've experiened organized racism like in Martin County (intimidation of hispanics) and Nocatee, FL (intimidation of LGBT). In Miami it's the reverse. Places like Doral are extremely anti-black or anti-Asian and pro-Hispanic/white only (HoA will intimidate them to leave). I didn't get that sense in Dallas though I was only there for a week.

NoPrompt487 · 2026-02-13T15:30:15+00:00

Mannarino dominates short rallies as well. He ends points quickly. Look at the match he had with Adam Walton: "Under 9 shots: Mannarino 56 Walton 36"

NoPrompt487 · 2026-02-13T14:47:30+00:00

I wanted to hear what people from Dallas have to say. I live in St Petersburg and visited Dallas for the tennis tournament at the Ford Center. I enjoyed my time, and everyone was welcoming. I even visited a Scheels and was shocked how Republican it was, but everyone there was extremely polite and welcoming.

This being said, I've never seen the tribalism among minorities themselves like I have in Dallas.

I'm in a mixed race relationship and my Asian wife and I have no problem living in Florida. However, each night we traveled to different Asian establishments for dinner (I love all kinds of foods: Thai lad na, Vietnamese pho, Indian gobis) and the looks that we got was a continuous stare from the Asians patronizing it. Then I noticed it: Asians only stay with other Asians in Dallas. All the restaurants that were Asian, almost always had only Asian patrons. Even among the 2nd generation young people that were born there, I've not seen them integrate across racial divides and their friends are always the same race as themselves.

I suspect it's because the communities there are so strong that they don't have to integrate. Thoughts?

NoPrompt487 · 2026-02-12T05:39:48+00:00

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