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Djokovic is going to lose the Australian Open for missing just two shots. Such a shame.
As for New York, I don’t see how he can play. They don’t let Kyrie Irving play home games. Djokovic will be stuck in a hotel room again since he can’t even visit a restaurant here.Quote:
Originally Posted by Toadman
https://youtu.be/xMaE6toi4mk
Hoist with his own petard more times than I can count!
As long as unvaxxed NBA players can't play in MSGJoker's not welcome there. But, I'm not sure about outdoor venues. I haven't heard about unvaxxed NFL players being banned from The Meadowlands but that's in New Jersey..Quote:
Originally Posted by Toadman
Unvaxxed nba players can play in NYC, just not if they play for the home team, which doesn’t make any sense but whatever.
New Jersey is not in NYC, so I’m not sure what that has to do with anything.
Djoko on a plane to Dubai. Good riddance you antivax fucking kook. I truly hope this keeps screwing him up. All we need is another high profile hero for the unvaccinated nut jobs in the world.
In a lighter, happier vein, may the Aussie Open be full of Canadian wins and shrimps on the barbie. G'day mate.
I completely understand why a world class tennis player doesn’t want to fuck around and get shots that would at a minimum make his shoulder sore. Or worse
The only upside to him getting the vaccine would have been to appease the over abundance of dingbats who seem to have a tight grip on the microphone.
I don’t give a fuck about tennis. Have not played since high school
But now rooting for him to break the record
The guy is a millionaire right?
I havent got much sympathy for any pro atheletes who are dumb enough to jeopardize millions of $$$$$$$ in winnings and sponsor ships
he could have got the vax shot in the butt if he was worried about a sore shoulder,
oh well at least he got DQ'ed doing something he loved
You don’t seem to get it
He chose not to jeopardize millions of dollars in future earnings
He’ll keep winning all over the world
I’m betting in his country he is seen as a hero
I wonder how many people chose not to go to Australia this year?
Every other player is vaccinated.
" A mistake" to fail to comply with Serbian Rules with a positive covid test ;
" human error" to submit False statements in his visa application
( a Federal felony with a possible penalty of 12 years in prison )
Every other player is vaccinated.
please enjoy the tournament.
skiJ
MTT bringing the late incoherent rant that makes no fucking sense, arite! Gettem tiger!
97% of the ATP Top 100 got vaxxed, so maybe you can explain it to them?Quote:
Originally Posted by MTT
yeah so how much money is he losing on this tourney and if other tourneys make the vax mandatory becuz a precedent has already been set what does the cost him in millions, how about his shoe/ racket/ tennis shirt spansers ?
how about f'tba, hockey baseball players who miss games, each game is worth at least tens of thousands
and all this money comes from a money source which finite
fuckem eh
I work someimes with an eastern euro who isnt vaxed and he tells me they been conquered so many time that they are wary of everything and every bodyQuote:
Originally Posted by skiJ
buddy often repeats " the next thing the gov. will make you sew a gold star on your Arcterxy
im thinking of presenting egor with a gold star but I'm thinking that is in such seriously in bad taste that even i wouldn't do it
I've been guilty of going Godwin myself but I tend to brush off folks going there UNLESS I suspect or know they are descendants of people who really did experience that and/or were killed in the holocaust. My grandfather rolled with the 12th Mountain EDIT ARMORED Division liberating European concentration camps as WWII wound down. He never discussed it so I assume it was even worse than those horrific photos show. He took some of the photos used as evidence in the Nuremburg trials.Quote:
Originally Posted by XXX-er
So, I also get equally pissed when some privileged non Semitic white person like myself tries to suggest similar oppression against themselves.
Here I don't know what to think though. There was legit genocide in the part of the world Joker's from in the 90s. It's not about nationality or any other marginalized group protected status.. Antivax/antimask folks seem to think they should be a protected class.
So MTT is posting on a tennis thread now. Cool!!
THIS MESSAGE IS HIDDEN BECAUSE MTT IS ON YOUR IGNORE LIST.
I'd really love to get your take on this great year of tennis upcoming, however my hands are tied.
Nice to have fans
Hey. Can you help me find that post I made about Fauci I made a year ago. Something about history
I'm not sure how endorsement income factors into this situation -
Life is about making choices.
N.Djokovik may lose income for the choices he's making. That happens every day, for everyday people, too.
the only team sports athlete in north america that I am aware has lost income for not being vaccinated is Kyrie - who was going to be paid 18M whether he played or not ( half his salary ) ;
it is my understanding, all of the players who missed games were paid - including Rogers ( who was fined 14G for failing to follow protocols/Policies. on the order of magnitude of one percent of six percent )
while I am not a student of eastern European History, I certainly understand being 'wary of everything and every body. '
Still, I would not compare covid vaccination with genocide - including the Holocaust.
Tennis -
Djokovik is out of the Australian Open.
I hope you enjoy the tournament.
skiJ
Veni. Vidi. ... Abii.
I can’t stand Djok. My least favorite men’s player. Him and I will have something in common…both watching at home on tv.
Go Tsitsipas.
If a team doesnt play cuz everyone has covid or anything that happens to the team Ok I belive they will still get paid but that is different than an athelete who makes choices that means they alone don't play ?Quote:
Originally Posted by skiJ
if the country in which you live is between mother Russia and western europe you get steam rollered every time there is a big war, I think right now the ukraine is right in the path of something?
only team sport athlete I know who has lost pay due to covid is Kyrie -
others - including Rogers - got paid due to terms of Player Association contract provision .
I appreciate eastern European history -
I won't compare it or covid vaccination and genocide - including the Holocaust.
Just no.
I understand being wary...
please enjoy the tournament -
skiJ
https://www.cbc.ca/sports/tennis/djo...case-1.6317638
now the french want him to vax, this story has legs
I'm pretty sure they'll end up surrendering to Djoc and he'll be President or Prime Minister or whatever there by the end of the summer.Quote:
Originally Posted by XXX-er
I had posted up thread speculating that this might happen. Same thing will happen in the UK and USA. Djoko should just play tournaments in Eastern Euro and Russia. Maybe get a tennis league for the unvaxxed.Quote:
Originally Posted by XXX-er
He's siding with the Joker because the vaccines would have made his shoulder sore, and you need a non-sore shoulder to play tennis, apparently.Quote:
Originally Posted by garyfromterrace
What I get from this is that MTT thinks that this man has never had a sore shoulder before, and that such an event would possibly be career-ending - risky enough that it justifies not taking a globally-recognized medicine that is helping ensure the survival of humanity as a collective.
It's dumb.
Best thing the ATP could do is announce that if you want to play at Wimbledon, French Open, US Open that you need to be vaxxed. No exceptions. That way Djoko could plan ahead for either getting vaxxed or retiring.
You must comply. Or else. Is that what you’re sayin.Quote:
Originally Posted by Toadman
Did you hear the collective Fuck You. From around the world?
I think they just had a parade in his homeland
I heard the Aussies say FU.
Yes, I heard it regarding Djokovic.Quote:
Originally Posted by MTT
Honestly I can't understand why the ATP and WTA wouldn't make vaccinations a requirement.
I tend to agree, although I could live with a daily testing requirement if unvaxxed- but some people test positive well past their contagious phase, so a player would still be taking a big chance of disqualification by not being vaxxed. While there should be an exemption for those truly allergic to the vaccine (and there are some), exempting those who've had covid creates a perverse incentive to just get infected on purpose, which is not good policy.Quote:
Originally Posted by Toadman
"Ahem bartender.
I'll have what MTT is having"
You fit right in hereQuote:
Originally Posted by Marshall Tucker
This is the kinda shit an asshole says when they don’t have anything to say
I don’t even need to point it out. Everyone knows this.
His current plan seems to be to catch COVID every 6 months for the +PCR exemption and parade around at PR events unmasked while he's got it..Quote:
Originally Posted by Toadman
Back on topic, sort of... Naomi seemed really happy in the post match interview today. Kinda lame that they were asking her about her outfits though.. She was ready to answer those questions though. She had done her Nike rep homework hahahaha..
I think what everyone knows is that you are an asshole ?Quote:
Originally Posted by MTT
My dad spent the first 3 days after liberation in Buchenwald interviewing the inmates with a medical team and he told more war stories than most but could not speak of that experience either. But that was the end result of preaching demonization to the population. Kind of like today. Seems everyone is someone else's nazi these days. Right accuses left. Left accuses right.Quote:
Originally Posted by SumJongGuy
Never was one for tennis, ping pong was my racket game.
how did these three guys combine for 60 grand slams while overlapping each other’s careers? there’s really never been anything like it. you look at the list of massive tennis stars from bitd and a lot of them only won a few because the rest of the field was also good and a goran ivansevic could serve away the field on grass or someone else would just dominate on clay or something.
if anyone hasn’t been, the qualifiers to the US Open are free and so fun. Been a couple of years for me, maybe i’ll head back to queens this summer to root
for some college kid to a get a wild card spot vacated because a dumbass antivaxer thought rules didn’t apply to them.
This is complete bullshit.Quote:
Originally Posted by SumJongGuy
There has never been a 12th Mountain Division.
Maybe you meant the 12th Infantry Division ? They only existed for 2 years, 1918-1919, never fought in WWI let alone WW2, and never left Massachusetts.
No wonder the old guy never discussed liberating concentration camps.
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lol
At some point its all about the pickle ball
Correction.. 12th ARMORED division. Had skiing on the brain.. Thanks, good catch!Quote:
Originally Posted by Harry
These guys
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/conte...mored-division
https://www.unithistories.com/units_...%20Arm.Div.php
My grandfather
https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth612739/
He was the Artillery Commander.
Ya oops on the mountain lol...
Not bullshit, brain fart..
This is what is absolutely incredible; we have been truly spoiled to witness such an era of tennis. Add in what we’ve seen from the Williamses on the ladies side and it’s flat out unbelievable what we’ve seen.Quote:
Originally Posted by ml242
I’d also like to take a moment to thank Novak for somehow bringing the gong show to the TRG Tennis Thread, a thread that usually has like 5 regular contributors all year.