Re: Funny thread to look back on

On Sep 17, 9:17 am, pedrod...@xxxxxxxx wrote:
On Sep 17, 12:19 am, Dave Hazelwood <the_big_kah...@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:



On Sun, 16 Sep 2007 10:41:19 -0700, pedrod...@xxxxxxxx wrote:
On Sep 16, 1:35 pm, ca1houn <vageta95...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Sep 16, 7:06 am, Jesper Lauridsen <rorsc...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

On Sat, 15 Sep 2007 16:55:49 -0700, jason-cat...@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
By the way, I'll preface this by saying I woulda thought then that
people who thought Fed
was going to dominate to this degree were insane as well.

http://groups.google.com/group/rec.sport.tennis/browse_frm/thread/59b...

That's from August 2005, at that point anyone with any knowledge
of tennis knew that Federer was on the GOAT track.

yet only hazel stated

David Hazelwood states an awful lot. Broken clocks.

He was right in this particular prediction, in this particular thread,
but he's been wrong plenty since, and he was hardly one of the first
to recognize Federer's potential.

sour grapes from a guy who have never been right about anything and
who blows in the wind.

i take a stand and i back it. i am not so lily livered snake in the
grass as you.

Grumpy grumpy, David. I've been wrong often enough, I expect. We all
have. The posters I respect are the ones who acknowledge that and
*think* about the mistakes they've made and how they came about.
*That* is what analysis is, not the grotesque pissing contest so
popular hereabouts.

As for "snake in the grass", I think I've given you more slack over
the last few years than most. Which, funnily enough, turns out to be
one of my mistakes.

Hazelwood's main problem for me, oddly enough, isn't his rabid Fed
postings -- I dismiss them as cries from an insane fan. It's his
attacks on Nadal which grate me the wrong way.

It's easy enough to reconcile Federer being a great player and Nadal
being a worthy player -- it's not necessary to attack Federer's only
real rival to somehow boost Federer.

.

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