New blogage, word.

Today I wrote my first letter to the editor! It was in response to this weekly article about tennis. Jon Wertheim, who writes it every week, invited people to make suggestions how to fix professional tennis. Here is what I wrote:

It's a shame that most Americans don't watch professional tennis, but can you really blame them? Most people don't understand how the game is scored and no one has ever bothered to explain it before a match. Everyone understands the playoff system, but someone who doesn't watch tennis on a regular basis has no idea what a master's series is or what the difference is between it or a challenger. So how can the ATP and the WTA expect to attract new viewers?

They need to re-brand tennis as a sport everyone can watch and understand, and emphasize how fair it is compared to other sports (the ranking system, Hawk Eye vs. the BCS equation). And get some announcers that weren't former players. They make tennis seam like an elite club no one else can join.

So before changing the Davis Cup rules and adding on court coaching to fix professional tennis, the ATP and the WTA need to get people to actually care about fixing tennis in the first place.


In other news, I actually got pretty good grades this semester. I'm currently at home in McAllen, and Rocko has been acting cute as ever.

Martha and her brother are about to move to the most over rated city in the world, Austin, next month. It totally sucks losing a roomate, but I'm moving into this outrageously awesome house. 4 bedrooms, 3 and a half baths, and an 800 sq foot game room. The kitchen has an island. There's a 4 car garage. Circular front drive way. A perfect place for a basketball pole. The master bath has a heart shaped jacuzzi. It's 400 a month per person, about $30 less than what I'm paying right now. 15 minute walk from school. And the best part is, no cats. So D and M can visit now, and be quite comfortable. The game room, where we will be spending most of our time, is going to be decorated with a Mavs theme. We're getting framed action shots of the entire line up, and having a corner for the retired all stars. Joel is bring his big screen TV. Alex has this really pretty bar. We may never leave the house.

And I am outraged that Dwyane Wade is Sports Illustrated's sportsmen of the year. Even if you don't keep in mind the fact that he got more shitty calls called in his favor than any other player in the NBA and that his team is totally sucking right now (7th in the East. Keep in mind none of the teams in the East are at 500 yet) I could still think of several more deserving athletes. At the top of that list is of course Roger Federer. Even without his Grand Slam ranking points he still would have been number 1 at the end of the year. He only lost 5 of his 96 matches this year, 4 to the same person. SI is trippin.

And if you haven't already figured it out, RSS is the best thing to happen to the internet since celebrity gossip blogs. Damn that Lindsay Lohan!