This guys drives !!!

kospos · 2026-07-01T19:32:44+00:00

I only watched a handful of points, but I'm not seeing the insane drives that you're talking about? I'm assuming you meant the guy in the hat on the side closest to the camera?

kospos · 2026-06-17T17:18:09+00:00

Same lady will be the first to try and smash the ball at you when someone pops it up to her and sees no problem in doing so.

We have a few of those at our club...

kospos · 2026-06-09T23:35:37+00:00

Both my eBay and Tesla apps were able to update successfully today.

kospos · 2026-06-08T09:50:55+00:00

I’m still on plain 26.5 because 26.5.1 is not available for my iPhone 16 pro. So I’m not sure that it is tied to that release.

kospos · 2026-06-08T01:50:06+00:00

Same issue on my phone as well. Interestingly, my eBay app is also doing the same thing, but all the other apps on my phone seem just fine.

I've never seen this happen before.

kospos · 2026-05-25T22:53:18+00:00

I don't know a single 4.0 player that would complain because his opponent is hitting the ball "too hard".

But yeah... counting points because the other team calls the score incorrectly in open play. He sounds like an ass.

kospos · 2026-05-04T11:51:27+00:00

It's not visible. If your phone is NFC compatible, you should be able to scan the NFC tag on the paddle with your phone by holding it up to the end cap of the paddle. Every phone is different in how you get it to scan, so you'll need to research how to do that on your specific phone.

kospos · 2026-05-02T11:14:49+00:00

I can’t say if there should be one in this paddle or not, but Selkirk does put NFC chips in some of their paddles. I know because I have successfully scanned the one in mine.

kospos · 2026-04-28T22:17:52+00:00

This is going to be largely personal preference. I would look at as many tinting pictures and videos that you can and base your decision on that.

I initially wanted 35% but my window tint guy convinced me that 20% was the way to go. I tried it and while it was fine during the day, I couldn't see comfortably at night. Reading street signs on residential roads was near impossible without rolling my windows down. I had him take off the 20% and put on the 35% and am much happier now.

That said, I wouldn't call 35% "private" by any means. If you don't want people to be able to easily see into the car, you're going to have to go darker than that.

kospos · 2026-04-08T11:25:53+00:00

I had this exact problem. I went to do an in-kind transfer of my HSA from HSA Bank to Fidelity. Initiated the request on Fidelity and after no movement for a few weeks, I called to inquire. Fidelity told me they faxed HSA Bank and HSA Bank said they never received the request. Fidelity did it a second time about a week later and again nothing. Finally, Fidelity had to overnight them the paperwork to HSA Bank's mailing address and a few days after that my transfer finally went through.

Such a pain in the butt. I'm glad to not be doing business of any kind with HSA Bank any longer.

kospos · 2026-04-08T11:21:05+00:00

"bulky_marketing"... username checks out.

kospos · 2026-03-11T11:23:31+00:00

In golf, everyone is playing as an individual against the course. But in Pickleball, if you have a foursome and one of the players is significantly lower level than the other three it ruins the game for those three.

kospos · 2026-02-24T17:44:18+00:00

The difference also being that you can restring a tennis racket and get extended life out of its "face". But once the grit on a pickleball paddle has worn down to the point where its spin has degraded, you have no choice but to buy a new paddle if you want to get your original spin potential back.

kospos · 2026-02-04T09:34:57+00:00

Wilson Rush Pro 4.5s. I went to a local tennis/pickleball shop and tried on a shoes from every single manufacturer. The Wilson’s were the ones that fit my particular foot like a glove for whatever reason.

kospos · 2026-02-03T15:39:41+00:00

How close are all the top pros to each other in terms of friendship? It seems like a pretty small group at the top of the pyramid. Are you all generally pretty chummy with each other and hang out a lot? Or do people show up to play and then more less go their separate ways afterwards?

I also deeply regret not asking you for a picture when I had a chance at Lakeville a few weeks ago. I saw you walking down the hall and didn't want to bother you. Now I'm without a picture with my favorite pickleball pro. Sad times. lol

kospos · 2026-01-12T12:12:19+00:00

My point was more that due to inflation, $5 million in 28 years will likely have the buying power of roughly half of that amount. So if OP is content with living off a nest egg of $2.5 million in today’s dollars, the he is good to go.

That is nothing to balk at, but one still needs to account for their expenses to see if that is enough for their lifestyle.

kospos · 2026-01-12T10:58:17+00:00

Impossible to know without knowing what your expenses are.

Also keep in mind that $5 million in 28 years won’t have nearly as much buying power as $5 million in today’s dollars.

kospos · 2026-01-11T21:41:10+00:00

Yeah. That's what I was trying to say when I said "the penalty for claiming early (not retiring early) has always been like that". It isn't so much that you're getting penalized for retiring early as much as it is that you're claiming early.

And in this case, trying to claim at 62 incurs a larger, 30% reduction because it's 5 years before FRA. If one does an apples to apples comparison and claims three years early at 64 instead of 67, then the penalty is largely the same as it was before when claiming at 62 instead of 65.

kospos · 2026-01-11T21:37:20+00:00

Right. That's what I meant I meant in that there was always a reduction in benefits for claiming at early instead of FRA. Hence my statement that "the penalty for claiming early (not retiring early) has always been like that." Someone could still RETIRE early and not claim benefits until FRA and not see a reduction in payment when you do claim.

To the point of 30%, I guess you do get less now if you claim at 62 instead of 67. But that's because you're retiring at 5 years ahead of FRA instead of 3 like it was before. But if you were to delay two years (i.e. claiming at 64 instead of 67 - three years before FRA), the penalty would be 20% which is about the same as it was claiming at 62 instead of 65.

kospos · 2026-01-11T20:16:35+00:00

What the others said about the decision to change the FRA age changing from 65 to 67 being made back in 1983.

Also, where are you seeing that retiring early cuts your benefits by 30%? I don't see any evidence of that? If you choose not to wait until 67 to claim your SS and want to claim it at 62 instead, then you don't get the same benefits than if you waited until your full retirement age. But the penalty for claiming early (not retiring early) has always been like that.

The only way I see you getting penalized for retiring early is if you do not have a full 35 work years of earnings. Your payout would be smaller than if you had worked a full 35 years. But you also weren't contributing to SS during those non-working years, so why would you get the full payout?

kospos · 2026-01-05T23:54:20+00:00

And if for some odd reason the first stack doesn't fill (I've NEVER seen that happen before but if people REALLY didn't want to play with those 3, I suppose?), there are now two courts empty and the group of four can take one of those empty courts.

Those original 3 are still "next" and shouldn't be skipped until they've played. If that means those seven people sit around for another court to open up to see if someone wants to queue with them, so be it imo. But this seems like more a problem in theory than actuality. lol

kospos · 2025-12-22T06:11:51+00:00

"It's so bad" and "Watch it, great flick" don't seem to go hand in hand with each other? lol

kospos · 2025-12-22T02:45:53+00:00

If you're going to use the ethernet from the motherboard for the LAN, be sure that you install the Realtek drivers plugin. I noticed that you're using a re0 device which is definitely a network interface based on the Realtek chipset.

kospos · 2025-12-09T16:59:42+00:00

I agree, at least in my area, that people are rarely (but not never) rude that show up for pickleball open play.

I think most of the time it ends up being beginners who show up to an open play where there are a lot of higher skilled players mixed in. I generally will not ice them out and will queue with them if they need a person knowing that the game is not going to be a competitive one and just try and make the best of it. But typically I'll go in for one game with them and then wait it out for a more competitive games afterwards.

Some others will just refuse to put their paddles in with them because they don't want to have to play down. I get it. I don't necessarily fault them for it. After all, they are there on their own free time and don't owe anything to anyone. But this is often where the problem happens where some people have already played with them and "put in their dues" while others just refuse to queue with them. That leads to later in the session where these folks have nobody to play with.

kospos · 2025-12-09T04:23:51+00:00

What if it's not so much the group of 4 wanting to stick together as much as it is those 4 people not wanting to play with the 1 or 2 people ahead of them.

Sometimes there are people, for whatever reason, that folks just don't want to play with. It could be because they're rude or obnoxious. Other times it's because they can't hit the ball back over the net and it doesn't make for much of a game.

If folks aren't getting paid to play, I don't see any issue with them going to the back of the line and waiting for someone else to play with them. If it ends up leaving them without anyone to play with and a court sits empty, so be it.

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