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AP News Radio
King Charles III's European state visit hits French hurdle
"A state visit to France by Britain's King Charles the third has been postponed indefinitely amid widespread protests over president Emmanuel Macron's pension reforms. The move puts a damper on the new monarch's appearance on the international stage, Charles will still travel to Germany on Wednesday in what was scheduled to be the second leg of his first overseas trip since ascending the throne in September. The original 6 day visit to France and Germany, the two biggest countries in the EU was designed to highlight efforts to rebuild relations between Britain and its neighbors after 6 years of squabbling over Brexit by the prospect of Charles being confronted by protesters and piles of garbage in the streets of Paris, has forced officials in France and Germany to rethink their plans. Charles De Ledesma, London
AP News Radio
Report: 119K people hurt by riot-control weapons since 2015
"A new report finds more than 100,000 people have been injured around the world since 2015 by crowd control weapons. I'm Ben Thomas with a closer look. Police firing tear gas in Paris last week. It's demonstrators protested the French government's proposed pension reforms. Physicians for human rights and the international network of civil liberties organizations have documented that at least 119,000 people have been injured by tear gas and other chemical errors since 2015, another 2000 suffered injuries from less lethal impact projectiles, the report calls for bands of rubber bullets and a multi projectile devices in all crowd control settings and tighter restrictions on weapons that may be used indiscriminately, such as tear gas, acoustic weapons, and water cannons, which in some cases have been loaded with dyes and chemical irritants. I'm Ben Thomas.
AP News Radio
Macron's leadership at risk amid tensions over pension plan
"President Emmanuel Macron's leadership is at risk of intentions over the controversial pension plan. A parody photo shows president Emmanuel Macron, sitting on piles of garbage, is both a reference to the trash going uncollected with Paris sanitation workers on strike and to what many French people think about their leader McConnell had hoped his push to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64 would cement his legacy instead he finds his leadership contested both in parliament and on the streets of major cities the president's political opponents in the National Assembly have filed two no confidence motions. Government officials are hoping to survive a vote on them because the opposition is divided with many Republicans expected not to support it. I'm Charles De Ledesma
The Officer Tatum Show
How Did Hitler Rise to Power?
"You guys may you guys may know that in the 19th century, the German people, I mean, you're talking about arts, you're talking about science, you're talking about education, they were it. They were the bomb. There was, they were the best people that they were, as far as education, arts, talent, you name it. Automobiles, you name it. It was Germany. It was Germany. So what happens to bring about this dictator by the name of Adolf Hitler? I mean, people were going to college left and right there. People could, if you were enabled person and when I say able, you have to be smart, you have to be intelligent, but if you could prove you were intelligent, people in Germany were going to college, they went from, I believe is right prior to World War I, 73,000 people in college and leading up to World War I are immediately following a 120,000. I mean, that was the center of learning. It was the envy of the world Americans would go there to study people. Albert Einstein was, I mean, it was just an amazing place. It was an amazing place. But things started to happen. They had people that came into power that had bad policies and after World War I, they were embarrassed. They thought they were winning and their leaders were lying to them. And then their leaders come back and they find the people find out the news and they're embarrassed and they're humiliated and then president Woodrow Wilson comes out with his 14 point plan and they believe there's gonna be some negotiation between Germany and the American people, but the problem is the British and the French are allies wanted their peace of Germany's booty because they didn't like them. And they wanted Germany to pay the price.
AP News Radio
Macron shuns parliament to raise French retirement age
"France's government has invoked a special constitutional power to enact a contentious pension bill without a vote in parliament in a risky move by president Emmanuel Macron. Left wing lawmakers stand up in parliament singing the Marcellus and brandishing slogans to express their discontent and to prevent French prime minister Elizabeth born from speaking the move led to the suspension of the session for decision came just a few minutes before the vote was scheduled because the government had no guarantee the bill would command a majority in the National Assembly, France's lower house of parliament later, president Emmanuel Macron imposed the highly unpopular Bill, raising the retirement age from 62 to 64 by shunning the raucous parliament and invoking a special constitutional power.
AP News Radio
The small but mighty French bulldog is now the top purebred dog breed in America
"There's a new top dog among purebreds in America. Randy London with the American kennel club says, for the first time in three decades, the United States has a new favorite dog breed. People really love the French bulldog. Owners describe the flat faced breed as comical friendly and loving. Everybody's always going to love the lab. It is what it is. But when it comes to registrations, the frenchies really pulled ahead. French bulldogs are known to suffer breathing skin and other health problems and their popularity has made them a target for crime, such as the 2021 shooting of Lady Gaga's dog walker. London says prospective owners should explore a breeder's history and health testing. She says frenchies pack a lot into a small package. This is not a big dog, and it is an adaptable dog, and it doesn't require a lot of exercise. The nation's other most popular purebred dogs include golden retrievers, German shepherds, poodles, bulldogs, and rottweilers. I'm Jennifer King
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Jennifer King, Randy London And America discussed on AP News Radio
"There's a new top dog among purebreds in America. Randy London with the American kennel club says, for the first time in three decades, the United States has a new favorite dog breed. People really love the French bulldog. Owners describe the flat faced breed as comical friendly and loving. Everybody's always going to love the lab. It is what it is. But when it comes to registrations, the frenchies really pulled ahead. French bulldogs are known to suffer breathing skin and other health problems and their popularity has made them a target for crime, such as the 2021 shooting of Lady Gaga's dog walker. London says prospective owners should explore a breeder's history and health testing. She says frenchies pack a lot into a small package. This is not a big dog, and it is an adaptable dog, and it doesn't require a lot of exercise. The nation's other most popular purebred dogs include golden retrievers, German shepherds, poodles, bulldogs, and rottweilers. I'm Jennifer King.
AP News Radio
Garbage tarnishes Paris luster as pension strike continues
"The city of light is losing its luster as tons of garbage piles up along the streets of Paris as sanitation workers strike for a 9th day, the creeping scholar is the most visible sign of widespread anger over a bill to raise the French retirement age by two years. Tourists Nadia tour says the smell in sight definitely affected her visit for the worse. But she sees the reason behind the mess. For us for tourists and for the locals. But if it does the job, then why not? I mean, it's for the cause. Lindale from Texas doesn't think the strikes are making a difference. There's got to be a better way than to just let it pile up and stop your job. It doesn't seem to be doing any good. Strikes in France have intermittently hobbled other sectors, including transport energy and ports. But French president Emmanuel Macron remains undaunted as his government presses ahead with trying to get the unpopular pension reform bill passed in parliament. I'm Karen Chammas
AP News Radio
French protests push for withdrawal of Macron's pension plan
"Demonstrators took to the streets of Paris on Saturday to protest against French president Emmanuel Macron's plan to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64. In the new round of protests determination remains high, although crowds were smaller than in the past, police clashed with troublemakers and several cities that especially in Paris, where some intruders set fires to piles of trash along the march route prompting fire brigades to come and extinguish the flames. Public housing employee, gerardine carbonell, told the AP. 64 years for retirement for everyone is unfair. We're not all equal in as far as the jobs we're doing are concerned. 64 years whether you're a worker or an executive, it's not the same. The protest marches coincided with the Senate debate on the government's pension reform Bill where the clock was ticking to meet a vote deadline before the legislation moves to the next step in a complex process. I'm Karen Chammas
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On this week's AP Religion Roundup, Paris' iconic cathedral prepares to re-open, and ancient runes reveal the Norse god Odin's deep history.
"On this week's AP religion roundup, Paris's iconic cathedral prepares to reopen, and ancient runes revealed a Norse God Odin's deep history. French officials say the reconstruction of Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris is going fast enough to allow its reopening to visitors and faithful at the end of 2024. That's less than 6 years after a fire ravaged its roof. France's culture minister rima Abdul Malik says that they still have work to do after the visitors return. Reopening to the public in December 2024, it doesn't mean that all the renovation will be over. There will still be some renovation works going on in 2020 5, but the cathedral will be open to the public. Authorities have made the choice to rebuild the 12th century masterpiece of gothic architecture, the way it was before. That includes recreating a more recent 315 foot spire. The army general in charge of the colossal reconstruction said the iconic spire will gradually start reappearing above the monument this year. He also says that the reopening means that Notre-Dame's archbishop will restart services at the cathedral. Every day, about a thousand workers endeavored to restore everything from the stonework to the stained glass to bring back Notre-Dame. Scientists have identified the oldest known reference to the Norse God Odin on a gold disk unearthed in western Denmark in 2020, a pendant with the inscription reading he is Odin's man, was in one of the largest troves of gold treasure ever found in Denmark. It's one of the best executed runen descriptions led I have ever seen. Lisbeth Emer is a runologist with the national museum in Copenhagen. She says the runes are evidence that Odin was worshiped as early as the 5th century. At least 150 years earlier than previously thought. We have had some indications that he might have been in the conscience of people earlier, but this is the first solid evidence. Experts think the cash was buried 15th centuries ago to either hide it from enemies, or as a tribute to appease the gods. I'm Walter ratliff
AP News Radio
France on strike: Unions say 'non' to higher pension age
"France is hit by a nationwide strikes over pensions. Garbage collectors, utility workers and train drivers are among the people walking off the job across France to show their anger at a bill raising the retirement age from 62 to 64, which unions see as a broader threat to the French social model, while a 5th of flights have been canceled at Paris's Charles De Gaulle airport and about a third at Orly airport 250 protests are expected in Paris and around the country in what organizers hope is their biggest show of force yet against president Emmanuel Macron's showcase legislation. After nearly two months of demonstrations, the bill is under debate in the French Senate this week, I'm Charles De Ledesma
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France on strike: Unions say 'non' to higher pension age
"Unions are threatening to shut down France's economy in what they hope is their toughest yet to president Emmanuel Macron's plan to raise the retirement age. The first actions have involved truckers sporadically blocking major highway arteries and interchanges in go slow actions dubbed escargot operations across several French regions. Then unions plan an open ended strike on the national rail service, starting later Monday, the government's bracing for the biggest disruptions on Tuesday, when unions plan protests across multiple sectors, the retirement reform would raise the official pension age from 62 to 64 the bills under debate in parliament.
The Dan Bongino Show
Amber Athey: The Left Feels Like They Need to 'Save' Florida
"A great hit on Fox the other day I saw that you're doing a great job I got to get you on my show I don't know why we haven't done that That's totally my fault So we'll get that done too But yeah I agree with you a 100% The point I was trying to make about liberals is not leaving you alone is liberals in the United States are working to destabilize countries overseas as well as here I mean just look at Central and South America So we have this idea like there's going to be some kind of amicable parting of the ways and then the libs are going to be like oh yeah whatever Florida Texas do your thing and we'll leave you alone When they can't even leave Mexico and Venezuela alone is like freaking crazy like these people our entire reason for being of individual liberties like you leave me alone I leave you alone when we find each other's company to be mutual mutually beneficial like on the show We value add to each other's lives That's not the way liberals work You know that amber their thing is to subjugate people And the subjugation process requires subjects So they're never just going to let you go peacefully Right I can see it now Dan I can see the bill crystals of the world looking at our free Florida going You know what We need to save those people We need to go in and we need to talk about the human rights offenses that are going on there And use our military to execute a Q so that we can you know we can save all of the poor souls that are being subjugated under port a rule That's how they would view it They would not view it as a bunch of people being happy in a separate situation They would think that they need to come in and take over and rule because we would be doing something terribly wrong Yeah be led by general Charlie Sykes and a lieutenant David French David yeah you know you know the army of zeros out there Let me move on to something
The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
Finding Your Footing
"Reagan arrives in January of 81, he brings with him Michael deaver, James baker, and Ed meese to The White House, along with Fred fielding dick Hauser and a number of very experienced Washington hands. He puts it justice, William French Smith, his personal lawyer at Gibson Dunn for years. And he puts it defense cap weinberger. And it is a team in place, a member of the Trump advisers who stayed all four years. And so that limits it to a very few people, told me they had no idea how to staff the government when they came in. There you go. That's what I was starting with. And part of it is since Trump had just been a political talker. He hadn't actually been run a race or something. He didn't have an army of people who were ready to work for him. If Jeb Bush had been elected president, there was a whole army of bush fans retainers, whatever you want to call them. People who had served in the George W. Bush administration, they had been the deputy undersecretary of something and they were ready to step up and be the undersecretary of something. They knew how their portion of the U.S. government worked and they were ready for the job. The same would have been true if Hillary Clinton had been elected. But with Trump, I mean, it was extraordinary. And he did not have people who were experienced in working in the U.S. government or knew a lot about the U.S. government or even new a lot about electoral politics. I remember being at his victory event in November 2016 in Manhattan and there were so many people I didn't know. And if you cover a lot of Republican politics, you're going to run across. But he does now. In the early states and it was just extraordinary how few people who were in the Republican establishment were around. Now that's what a lot of voters wanted. If it was not the product of that. But at the same time, that person had to know how the government worked or be really, really ready to learn and Trump was not.
America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
Rocky: The Ultimate Underdog Story With Chris Kohls
"Talk about what is this movie to you because it's been described as a various things. The story of America, you just said the underdog. Some of the makers are called it a fairytale or a folk tale, what best describes rocky for you, Chris. Well, it's interesting you point out that grime and the dirtiness and the grittiness of it. Because I think that that is a product of the 70s. I think there was something in the 70s that was trendy about being ugly. It's kind of a weird thing, but I mean, it was a movie with an actor and a writer that came out just at the right moment in time. It's not a classic. I mean, let me just reiterate what you just said, whether it's the French connection or taxi driver. I mean, these filthy depictions of New York or Philly or anywhere. It was really a thing for a few years. Well, not just that not just that, but there was a kind of, I mean, the concept of like the big hair. You know, people, right? I mean, like greasy, dirty people. That was like a thing in the 70s. I don't know. There was a famous ad for Volkswagen. For the beetle, for the Volkswagen beetle. That just says ugly on it. Yeah, it just says ugly. And then you read it and it's like, our car may not be the best looking car. But it's the most reliable. So you want to buy. And there was something. And I realized when I was studying graphic design and thinking about the 70s that there was a lot about the 70s that was ugly, like you had these like mustard yellow and pea green and these colors were very popular. The money Pinto. Yeah, exactly, exactly. There was something about it. It was as if the culture said, you know what? Forget aesthetics. Forget beauty. We're going to embrace the grittiness of life, and that's truth, right? That's what they thought. And so that's depicted here in rocky. I think it just came out at the right time. And it doesn't even really look 70s that much, right? He added this sort of almost 1930s, 40s look to it. But there's two things that I think rocky is. One, it is an underdog story, of course. It's an underdog story in a million ways. But it's also a love story. And it's actually, I would say even more a love story than it is a sports underdog story. But we think of it as that sports story more because that's, you know, as guys that's what hits us hardest.
The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
US Shoots Down More Flying Objects
"You can't ask for a better Super Bowl, except for next year is when Nick Chappell rumble for 200 yards and miles Garrett will get three sacks, maybe four and a half. But this was a fantastic Super Bowl. Welcome back. You're on your way to work. You got to come down from all the guacamole and whatever beer you drank yesterday. It was a fabulous game, and I hope you enjoyed it. And the aliens let us play it. That was, you know, up and down Saturday night when object number three appeared and then disappeared over Montana, but then we shot down object number three, which I think became object number four over Lake Huron, which is the first time Lake Huron has made news since the French Indian War. But I am very glad that we got another one. I want to know what you think is going on here. One
CryptoPotato
Bitstamp Secures an Operational License in France
"11 p.m. Sunday, February 12th, 2023 bit stamp secures an operational license in France. The Luxembourg based bitstamp became the latest cryptocurrency trading venue to receive the green light from the French regulators.
America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
Biden's Alternate Reality With Robert Wilkie
"We're living in a bizarro world as if there's real life there's Putin in Ukraine. There's China with its balloons. There's 13 servicemen and women dead in Afghanistan. And then there's this alternate reality. And the ahistoricism. Yes. Of these people. First of all, it's not the largest evacuation. The largest evacuation was done from the beaches of Dunkirk. Three times as many people evacuated. On small little private boats. On little boats and destroyers. And the courage of the Royal Navy and the British merchants. So it was success so much that Churchill immediately said wars are not won by evacuations. Even though he would manage to save the British expeditionary. And two divisions of French soldiers. He didn't hide it. He didn't hide it. What Biden did was the greatest military performed the greatest military disaster. Since the surrender of the Philippines. And then even the evacuation from Vietnam. That was not a moment of pride for the United States. Even though we had stepped away from combat operations for about two years, to see the American embassy flooded with desperate people. Clinging to the skids of helicopters to get away from communists, and then to see this. Someone who has always, and I've seen him in my military life. And also in my days in the Senate, he always believes he's the smartest person in the room. Which is quite responsible. It's cloud cuckoo. I mean, given what Democrats have said about him, including Obama, Robert Gates, the fact that he's still believed it.
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"french open" Discussed on No Challenges Remaining
"Opens against Wang Chang, and then could get Hailey baptiste in the second round who we just watched play a great qualifying finish. I mean, based on what we saw, Haley Batista is going to win the tournament because we went at about, I think she was up. She was up to three two in the third. And she looks like two points when we were watching. I'm like, played spectacular tennis. I'm glad to see baptiste in the main draw just because she's a really fun player to watch. Agreed, she got a rough first round though because she plays a Helena Kalinda who's been one of the solid players of the year. Very good on clay as well from Ukraine. Kalinda and I couldn't make the quarters. Kalinda is definitely the mix here. Let's go has not been great this year. I'll have a better week this week in Strasbourg, I think. I don't know if she's still playing there if she lost there in the semis. But she was at least in the semi so I believe. She opens against Tessa Andrea fit Remo. It was a wild card here. I just like that I can say that name. So I just say it. And again, also another fun name wild card who played tennis in America, Jean Jean. Jean Jean, who played for Lynn university of college in Florida. So there's some buzz about her. Yeah, I think this is a great section. We haven't mentioned it, committed semifinals last year here. She opens against Claire Lou, who's in a final this week, mark to cost you can hear. There's some fun. This is a fun section. Take out this doesn't matter for the trophy thing, which is there's very unwitting, usually every section matters for the trophy and WTA draws. It slams. But this one, maybe not as much, but this is still a fun section. I watch a lot of these matches for sure. The next quarter of the draw is the dosa quarter in the top half. She's number three seed. But ossa is in a section. The other we'll start with her 16th of the draw. Lana Reba in the 16 to there is the high sea Madison keys is also in here and had a very sort of hot and cold year keys 22 C and Veronica is the 2019 here as someone who I feel like should be ranked higher. I feel like I could have a toast just like I always feel that way about her. But she's had some good runs. Particularly like recent this year. Yeah. Great on clay I guess this year. Worth mentioning in context of whatever. The Russians writ large, have not been good this year. Since the war started, they've all kind of underperformed, honestly, from Medvedev Rublev probably chunk of us out for the year now she's last year's finalists mention her. They're not having their best results here. Unsurprisingly. But also, yeah, this is interesting a little section for her. She's never made a chef not made a slam semi before. She was up to number two in the rankings in the Madrid, so put in the dose and you like that, right? No, come on. Initially she didn't even know you're saying those. Dose. I hear the same things folks. All right. Also in this section I want to shout out to Taylor Townsend who's in her first Grand Slam since coming back from maternity leave, looking fit and good and playing well already. And interesting first match against Caroline Garcia, that should be a pretty match in terms of just tennis aesthetics and two very elegant players to watch. That's a fun one. That would be a fun night session even or something to maybe make it good for American TV time. Honestly, I would endorse a Townsend Garcia night match. Yeah, who do you think makes it out of this sort of a, do you think badosa, who has not been great on clay? Do you think that she has the form to make it to her quarterfinal here again? Make quarter to your last year. As you said, she's struggled the last few weeks, but I could see her kind of just getting a few matches under her belt and moving through the draw. As much as up and down as you already said keys has been, I don't know, she just has a knack for slammed and she's good at this slam particularly. So this isn't good French Open results. When it's hot and it's fast, but she also has time to set up for a strokes. Oh, she's just very solid. Good at making just navigating to the second week of flour. And then we're back in a is in here and she made quarters last year here. She's a decent clay quarter. You're a good clean ball striker. There's just some great ball checkers in this section here, but we couldn't put in that category as well. This is a fun section and you've got Alexander krunic is a qualifier in here. He's just always a good value add any section. I like this section. I could honestly envision any of the four seats making it out. I can make case for all of them. I think is the best player of them. If all's going well. And she's been a good slam player to relatively into her glow up. Or at least played well here last year, let's say. So I think she's kind of do a better result, but I don't think she's doing that much wrong in a lot of the things she's just run up against inform players. Particularly how it been the second round of after being incurred for the first round. So it was a tough job there. That wasn't pretty. No, I think, yeah, but I think that was how a peaking. Honestly, I think Halep was really kind of showing off for her new coach Patrick mortality. With my read on that match. The other section of the bido quarter feature is led by arena sabalenka, who's been just rough. Up and down and made a final institute guard, but just kind of getting a lot of implosions. I think she has actually a pretty great draw, although I would enjoy seeing it inform Madison Bengal potentially and that's the perfect kind of opponent to unnerve the potentially. I would really like to watch that match. And stick around potentially after Madison opens against doctor mahila booster. Who's back in the mix? It's a lucky loser. Fourth rounder here a few years ago. Yeah. But actually, and then Danielle Collins is the number 9 student here in the other high seat in here. Who was very sharp in her win over how it really good in that whenever I watched that and be a transient, and I was just sort of blown away by her. She can absolutely make the quarter here, but I think my pick actually in here is in here, just made the semis of Rome had matched point against an started tight serving unbelievably slow serves. It was crazy. 50 mile an hour. Yeah, which normally doesn't really show up. These are some of the slowest stars I've ever seen show up on the gun. It was hitting, but I think she's really feeling well. She's actually the one Russian sort of doing well. Right now, most notably, probably. Yeah, I like what she's doing. And again, this is another really fun section. I think Georgia has not played much or well. I don't think she's really a factor here. The Putin save us mid quarter finals here a couple of times before she's in the section also I like to talk about, but I also sabalenka sorry, not well, let's have a quick get together. I can never totally count her out or Collins wouldn't shock me either. Constant quarters here before her great come on Montage of video was from the start of it after all. It was the year without spectators. And so many different kinds of come on. Yeah, yeah, it was right. Yeah. The slices, so many different types of different words for snow or whatever people say. All right, so who do you think makes out of that quarter? And Casa kina potentially could get there. I agree. I think she's playing more now. I've been performing as gradually improved over the past year, I think she's just it depends when she gets close. Will she help? Well, she's 50 miles an hour. Yeah. And those moments might come earlier than that. But yeah. And she wants some of those points too..
The Mini-Break
"french open" Discussed on The Mini-Break
"Former slam. Champion in the round of sixteen as well three-set victory in her first round match which is always a test into rebound physically into becoming off of five wins in strasbourg. Twelve match win streak folks. There's not much to say beyond that. Forty three and sixteen now in her last fifty two weeks of action. That's a seventy three percent win percentage and with her victory. She's up to a new career. High number fifteen in the rankings. You look for her now in terms of elo ratings here in twenty twenty one crunchy cova thirteen overall in elam. Now number six Seven excuse me over on clay court. Specific number three overall in twenty twenty one year low. it goes bharti sabir. Lenka crunchy cova. Fianc tack let's be honest. That's the conversation. Crunchy kovas belonged in in this twenty twenty one season. You look at what she's accomplished. I mentioned the fact. She's on twelve match win streak. She earns the title in strasbourg and her best win. At that event was another win over alexandrova and honestly in the final over curse. Stay as well but outside of that. Final in dubai loses Ruth up gets wins over soccer ostapenko. Taif men Before getting knocked out by muka russa you look for her in australia. Wins over a and onsite. Shang losses to jennifer brady and alexandrova out in abu dhabi was a loss to putin. Save a. that's a pretty damn good season. You look at her loss. Is this seat year to contact one dipa dosa which came on clay a loss to dan and buca that that's a little weird but alexandrova brady putin savea. Those are all legit losses. I mean that twenty six thousand nine record has come with a high quality victory. Look for her in terms of again this sort of player. She has played in that twenty. Six nine stretch. He's foreign three against top twenty players to winnow against top ten players. He's got a win over cannon as well this season to spit alina which she earned at this french open. She is this breaker. And it's crazy because of course she was ranked outside the top one hundred as recently as to twenty and she lost three consecutive. Itf matt are three consecutive. It events At excuse me. She lost three consecutive. Itf events in september of twenty twenty losing quarter-finals in In two of them to zara zera and collage ova and also losing to grace men round of sixteen As well with withdraw and so you know tobacco from there in september. Two roland garros champion. It's as good of stores. You're gonna find in women's tennis and of course it is worth noting. She made the round of sixteen at roland. Garros last year before getting knocked off in three sets to eventual semi-finalists. Now put rosca ska so to see her. Have success on the clay courts. It wasn't unheard of but to see her. Make a grand slam. Final and just the calmness the poor. She displayed matching match out to have that overrule occur on the match. Point against soccer. Bounceback earned the break anyways and in this match to play a dominant. I sense really did play dominant..
The Mini-Break
"french open" Discussed on The Mini-Break
"Six hundred against forty one unforced. There's is ridiculous. Sixty pounds played well enough to win this match. Through the first two sets. He took it to joe again. He was the clutch the more clutch player in that. First set breaker jovovich was wary physically in that second senate seats he posited not ter- a. Again in that fifth set cpac was managed to hold serve minus the time he he was only broken once in that set and he put pressure on the joke of return. service games Towards the back half of that sad but again you look overall in the match in terms of the rallies Length jovic manages to narrow that gap seats pass only three point edge in zero to four shot rallies and then you look for jovovich plus twenty in the five plus shot rallies the physicality of novak djokovic wore out at one out and again that is why he's in one thousand nine hundred grand slam champion. And you look for him now. And i talked about this in the deciding point so i apologize for repeating myself but nineteen and ten now in grand slam finals. Federer has to more than him at thirty one but jovic is the legit favorite in my opinion apple wimbledon and the us open and that means he's the legit favourite to capture a grant a golden slam this year and he also win his first olympic games gold medal. He does that now. You're talking about a guy who won all five in the same calendar year. I don't think that's ever been done. And you just look at his resume. He roy emerson. Rod laver only three players in men's tennis history to win each major at least twice. You look at now masters events. He's tied with an adult. But do we think as we head into the us open. Summer hardcourts western southern open or rogers cup that he's not going to snag one of those snack one of the late It ones down the asian swing as well like those are all in play. You think that record is gonna feel pretty comfortable. He's only going to extend his record as weeks at number one. And now you look at the slam count. He's at nineteen like he's got to win to. Let's be generous and say by twenty twenty three. The next gen has their act together in their winning grand slams consistently. He's got six more slams to win to take the record or six more win three if he really wants to pad the stats. Get to twenty to give himself some cushion in case adult comes roaring out at next year's french open. We can put the goat discussion to the side for a little bit. Because novak djokovic is on the path like it to lose at this point. He has put himself in a position to have every record even federal total titles. He could surpass that by the time he's done as well. I don't see him slowing down anytime soon now. I tweeted out a question to all of you on twitter. Does jovic win all four slams in twenty twenty one shoutout to all of you. Three hundred sixty four people responding thus far fifty six percent say no he will not forty four percent. Say yes. I think the. Us open is probably where he gets tripped up if anywhere but he i think he goes into the us open with three slams. I think he's winning wimbledon and the fact that that's even in play for him at age thirty four you look at the numbers. It's ridiculous novak djokovic quietly fifty and eight in his last fifty two that's another eighty six percent win percentage he just ripped off eighty five and eighty plus percent win percentages. Look for.
No Challenges Remaining
"french open" Discussed on No Challenges Remaining
"Touched on the other thing is to not come into this match looking as best during this tony. Like he's dropped already. Dropped a set to bertini. He dropped a couple of to seti before the insane turnaround in the last three sets so he wasn't looking peak novak and he certainly wasn't looking peak novak at the beginning of this match by the end he was pretty much there right like by the end of this match. She was getting really really great. So i mean i think that was the other part of the surprise of like show on adult hudson dips during this tournament ashley. Jovic had potentially bigger dips. So i think that's why it was so unexpected and that that in particular was who was really something to watch i mean it was a really amazing set of tennis came so close to being the dolls santa tennis The beginning of the tiebreaker capitule. Too little bit rusty than like fixed it pretty quickly say once that happens. I mean the dow was looking tired. Honestly it was. It's hard to believe that the dolls ever gonna leave a match at roland garros But it's some what makes sense. That jacob avenue now but yeah just like a just a huge truck an amazing at amazing jerk. Mitch like an amazing win for him and like a korea movement absolutely. Oh completely in this match. Talk about how. Good the thursday was. We'll get to more of that. Let's hear from both these dudes briefly here and there. Post-match press conferences would have been pretty fast after the match ended l. Here i from rafael dull. And then from novak djokovic sheer winner. That's not support you know. Sometimes you win. Sometimes you lose. I tried to give my best. Probably wasn't on my My best day. Even if i fight at devoted a lot of effort i mean the position on the shots have haven't been that effective tonight against the player like him. That takes the ball early so we are not able to do they him out of his positions than is very difficult and i would like these had the batons with set point. Six five seconds earth did know anything could happen in that moment. Then i miss it make a double fall and then Easy in the tiebreak. But it's through. That have been crazy. Point of there and The attic is is there to this kind of mistake on mistakes can happen but if you want to win you can't you can't You make mistakes. So that's it well then for him. I've been am. I would find out there. I i try my best. And today was definitely the best match that i was part of Ever enrolling girls for me and top three match that i ever played in my entire career considering quality of tennis playing my biggest rival on the court where he has had so much. Success has been the dominant force in the last you know fifteen plus years and the atmosphere which was completely electric for both players. A lot of support. Just amazing just. I was very happy that there was no curfew. Eleven o'clock there was a special waiver so they allowed to the crowd to stay. I mean just one of these. These nights and matches that you'll remember for so this match. Let's talk about like how excitable got about is really as part of the narrative of this match is people starting to talk about this match. Very superlatively honor. Mary carillo was saying. I was saying this might be her favorite Mission at all match ever which. I'm obviously recency. Buys is a real thing but i'm inclined to agree with i'm not. It's not my favorite rivalry honestly but this match again. Because i think i had lost patience for relatively to on the last episode pam shriver i think i use the word potentially boring. She tried to me for for having another nidal jovic match and it really wasn't boring like it was. It was better than it was. Because again i felt i felt maybe overly burned by the twenty thousand french open which was a big letdown of a match for me. What it competitive w was when i really really thought it could be could be something and it was really nothing so yeah it was. It was pretty cool. I'm pretty special and felt very tense and for both them to still be doing this at the state occur in their fifty eighth match like in just the shot making the level of variety in the place i think one of the most overrated matches of all time at is a twenty twelve australian open final between them which lasted like nearly six hours. That match was very monotonous and just a lot of really long slow baseline grinding on a hardcourt. That was like pure physical attrition and this one had a lot of actual tennis in it. I think that's when actually had a lot of a lot of really fun. Cat-and-mouse he points. There are some crazy lobs. Some crazy like netplay couple points they were just like really fun and creative and mold breaking and yeah i was. I was fully fully entertained in on board with the and again the excitement of having the stakes matter. The excitement of having djokovic pulling off a real surprise against the at this place. For an investment untouchable i think also elevates this in in the in the panther official good is better than log right Animal and like yeah. No i agree. This was this was an if not the best one of the best i. It was really really exciting to watch like yes kind of like tape it out at the end but that elaine was incredible. Some of the shots that happened at one point hit this kind of believe paying lupi smash cross coal that was just beautiful in stark contrast to novak smashes and yet made a few he laid a few smashes today he did on defeat today unlike ulcer. It was nice to kind of see him figure things out. Stop eating late bob dropshots. She was during the beginning I think it was a very small match from him as well. I really did feel like tools. The anti just totally had does all tied up in his backhand corn asked. That was really strong as well but it was a soup entertaining match. The crowd was really engaged for good reason so it was. It was one of ms once. I actually don't think it was the best match of this tournament. But i think it was one of joke which is best punches. Okay ooh okay. I'm curious what was the best match determine if this one. The best match of this tournament in my opinion happened in round three in the women's draw a dosa dosa every day. That was good. I don't know if it's better. But it was really good. And i'm sonal i i was saying amazing was and all these people. Men who clearly didn't actually watch ripping me for saying how amazing it was and it was. They were everyone who watches match agrees. It was amazing and the difference in that match was that they were both right for you to the end and i it was genuinely at the end. Like you just didn't know who was gonna win two of the end of this one. It staff is feel inevitable. But now i don't base in buckton was really good. That is not take away of course from the two like grapes of this. Who just played an incredible incredible match by the way credible match. But you're novato subotic. Goodbye your every nobody now that that feels that feels accurate. You're right the fourth set of this match. Was i think anticlimax and it all got up a break to oh in the in the fourth and then things really slip for him pretty quickly from there i mean he he he was having english is cut the tape off his ankle..
Throwing Shade
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Throwing Shade
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No Challenges Remaining
"french open" Discussed on No Challenges Remaining
"So there's gonna be a good one altoona in I dislike me. Said he's form right now. I mean check is kind of. He's getting back into it but he's still not like two thousand eighteen semifinalists check right so yeah i think he's gonna last him. News eddie was so good against fan in the first round. That was like a pretty pretty lethal. Just take him. Pretty fairly routine straights for the daddy who again is barely like. I also don't like that results. That surprising no not shocking. The scoreline there was like a breadstick or a bagel to start. That was a little much but other than that. Yeah i mean to say checking on. Yeah i can take chicken. Auto checking auto has the more slam experience. And i do think that you know this will all feel much. Newer mazzetti like especially getting into the third round may be feeling matchy. Should win on some level against checking out who hasn't been great. So i'm happy to take checking auto to get the difference here. It was also kind of interesting that mistake absolutely annihilated nishioka after losing them in convincing fashion. John's or one week earlier yeah fair. I was actually similar match. I think kind of other youngster. Who's in planned today. Carlos alvarez against john leonard struve stroup who had the big upset of the first round. I think or one of the two big upsets. I didn't see either coming really of thinking. Why is this or andrew his team. But right i mean into our team got bigger headlines because it was on shafter wasn't at least on on four hundred. I think yeah. I was way more surprised than i was way. More surprised by a regret that. So what do you got. versus caused alcatraz. Who's the sort of the new even younger than mazzetti. Pick for like who's coming up. Been doing things peons next rafa. Because he's like the first spanish guy. Getting tons of hyper gets really a while. I mean in terms of the young guys i remember. I guess like. I guess currently boost. I got a little bit of hype when he added like his challenger when streaking was coming up but nothing like next rafa levels moon. Nar kinda got a little bit of talk but nothing nothing like that. So eighty eighty s too but not along the lines of alcatraz right. Yeah you saw is doing like animal rescue. I'm sure you saw you re tweeted. Yes of course sending them for that and for the underarm serve breakpoint but at six five in the eight hundred of aquino who are talking about beat castleford today all right so you got in alker astroturf another good match. Another one i have gone. Five is a little bit under on clay. Like i think he got to the fourth round a couple of years ago the french but i on this surface i would still take alcatraz. I mean he doesn't have a ton of experience. But i think he has enough to get to the fourth round of a slam especially against another unseeded opponent. Alker hasn't bad. yeah. I think for me i think but this one really similarly how i think about check. Anonymous honestly like sort of like stop veteran. Who's like solid enough but not spectacular again. Like young guy who will be better than this person someday but are they yet is the question. And yet i'll take. I'll take just to to split us up here again. We're going to split these on court. Talents gonna win and another court. The veterans gonna win. Yeah that's basically just seeing how it falls given day there aren't let's go to one more sort of another offbeat one. This'll be on the women's side now at jimmy forty-eight For love him. Jj loves tennis loves tennis. we love him. He loves tennis onto Loves tennis on twitter prolific poster of women's tennis photos and stuff like that. How many posts will jimmy have tomorrow. That on twitter twitter tweets tweets unit of measurement. Here how many tweets. We'll jimmy have that feature photos of alina Lena lymph in. Who plays in the first match tomorrow. On saturday against barbara cova. How many tweets of lena with Face or personality on them. will jimmy. Have the at one point five. I would say jimmy has not. We looked at me as not tweeted. A photo of italy yet this tournament. Am i so. Am i freely jake. Whatever i want here. we'll talk. We we negotiate. Maybe but yeah. Let's let's let's talk through it. I mean i would go. I would go over one point five okay but you over two point five. Think okay. I can take under. What what is your. What is your under. What is your. What is your rationale for thinking. This and everyone's don't don't tell me about this. Yes don't tell you don't tell me so. First of all in the best match. Today he went crazy like he posted seven tweets about does yeah which was an excellent match though excellent match that lasted almost three hours. Yeah kind of itself for a while. Because they're not just going on. Yeah right yeah it was right before cincy posner now so i think i. I've krejci governor winning this match and three gonna be. I think it'd be a better match than mujo bus stevens and so jimmy's probably gonna me spending a lot of time there and i'm predicting it to be a good match. And as he said he hasn't posted about its. Fiddling needs to make up for it. So i think the combination of those factors will get two three three. Maybe more smart thinking thinking i anything. It's one of those also. Where if you think it's gonna be a long match that mitigates towards more photos to write more photos right. And if stevens manitoba turns out to be good then he's going to go over there and take a lot of photos later on that match to. Yeah we don't have any Today but that that should be that could be a good match is looked really good. Through two rounds. I i'm not. i'm not sold. Though she had she has but not enough to give it convinced. Me fair fair all right. Let's go someone who i think has been convincing Beyond tech who plays in the third match on shatri a has not been losing many games but she plays it tough opponent by her recollections because last time they played against an by including the twenty twenty australian open and then he was the last time they played. Sean tech has been really dominant at the french open. She hasn't lost a set in her. Last nine matches at the french open but contemplate in hasn't come close lose that many sets contemplate has been good against her. What do you make of this. We over under set relatively low for games lost by controversy. Sorry a games what. Let's games but say games one by contemplate. Raise it that way at over under six point five. I think that's about the right odds. I was looking at the aforementioned draftkings spread on that. It's something like it's nothing like nineteen total games. which is into reese. Six four six three kind of ballpark. Gosh i'm just. i'm on the tech band wedding bandwagon. Just think she's on everybody is i cannot remember the last time a non serena player with this bigger favourite to win an event in the first week right yeah should again gone backdraft and she was like minus two fifty win the tournament which is like a mass favourite like sorry plus you fifty a huge favourite compared to anyone else got yes she like. You said she's losing so few games like she had that one seven five five-set but that was that was against her. Bff so she was just doing it. She's probably giving a donation. But i think i think she can keep it six three six three or something like that. So it's at gonder. Yeah i'll take over. But not by much. I think it's going to be like three and four or maybe two to five or something. It's not going to be yalta elizabeth Concert crush somebody yesterday. Yeah she killed. Madonna vich.
Front Burner
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"I want to take you back to a moment at the us open in two thousand eighteen. The trophy was about to be presented for the women's final a twenty year old naomi. Osaka had just beaten the greatest. Of all time serena williams it was a contentious game serena even got into an argument with the umpire. Romasis said game penalty correct. Quaker and as soko is named champion. The crowd booed she cried. She tried to hide her face. It was really tough to watch because you could tell how uncomfortable she was. It was supposed to be the celebration but it's so obviously wasn't i know that everyone was chained for her. I'm sorry like this. And you could see then. Naomi osaka discomfort with being in the spotlight. It was something that was made really visible this week. When she said she wasn't going to do postgame press conferences during the french open and eventually dropped out altogether. This whole saga has raised a lot of questions about the demands on athletes and the media culture. They in happen. I'm jimmy boisseau in today. Caitland thompson from rocket magazine is here. Walk me through this controversy. Hi caitlyn thank you so much for being with me today my pleasure. Thank you for having so the only asaka is more than just a talented tennis star. She's the highest paid female athlete working today for one and before we dig into this controversy at the french open can can you remind us of of what makes her unique as an athlete. Yeah i mean. There's a couple of different things i think for for number one. She's somebody who came up largely in the states The but her parentage is her father's haitian and her mother is japanese and she chose to represent japan a place that she was born largely because they were giving her more support as a junior and she really emerged on the scene kind of fully formed as a fourteen fifteen year old hitting tennis balls faster than many many had hit a from a young person's perspective in a very long time tennis threes auto attendant flood. I'll do anything. In my power get their southeast by and also was a pretty fully formed athletes even from the early years i think she established herself fairly quickly as a real contender. And then obviously as you note in two thousand eighteen really a full year and a half. After she'd begun playing full schedule professional tournaments found herself in a final against the greatest of all time the second time they played that season. Naomi famously paged serena and beat her very soundly. A couple months before in miami hitting from another world's dragging serena williams all around the court there really was thrust onto the big stage at the. Us open a lot of people. Thought maybe this one and done but she backed it up with a win at the australian open very quickly thereafter and then last summer won the. Us open again after having won another australian open. She's see-saw common so she's already won four grand slams and i think what really makes this. An interesting moment is her. Tennis court has been impeccable and really hard to argue with. But she's also. Because i think a little bit in part of the way she means so much to so many different people she's been positioned and has stepped into the role of being really a transcendent star. You know she's somebody who's been an activist. We saw her wearing black lives matter. Protest masks at seven matches at the us open last year and really educating an entire country of japan about the struggle in the us for racial equity. The point is to make people start talking. I mean for me i. I've been inside the bubble. So i'm not really sure what's really going on on the outside world. All i can tell us what's going on on social media and for me. I feel like you know the more re tweets the guts. That's so lame but you know the more people talk about it you know. And she somebody who has noted is is incredibly sought after as an endorser because she's so authentic. She's not somebody who comes with the same kind of media polish that i think is is really emblematic of yesteryear. She's somebody very fresh and very new and very real i think. Along without realness come some vulnerability which is kind of the perfect storm for what we're kind of left to parse now after this.
The Current
"french open" Discussed on The Current
"A young woman of color mixed race and in what is still a very white sport. How does that do you think Shape in some ways how she was treated not just in this incident but over the course of her career over the course of the past couple of days. People have been sort of pulling out questions that were asked. Not only her but serena williams as well and other tennis players who are women of color and some of them. Are you know. Sort of upsetting and shocking. They've asked naomi osaka. Serena lands that just because you're black you know and she identifies as being of japanese and haitian descent It's hard to imagine that her feelings don't stem at least in part from having to move through this white world as a woman of color And the way that she is treated you know we've seen male tennis players behave absolutely abominably and Nothing really comes with. It's certainly not an international conversation like the one we're having right now And and i do think that you there is a segment of the fandom and possibly of The people in the tennis world that really do not like seeing a woman of color. Tell them no and set up boundaries. And so i think that impart is probably what she's going through. As well you mentioned serena. I wanna play you. Something that serena williams said at a press conference. This was from the us open last september sometimes harder than others. Every day. having serena on your back is a massive target for the tour for press for stress. But as billie jean king said Pressures privilege so. I wouldn't want it any other way so i just try to think about how fortunate i am to have been in this position. Honestly to be syrian and it feels weird to say that pressures privileged. What do you think that says about about what we expect. From pro athletes. We expect a lot from pro athletes. And i think that we don't necessarily acknowledge them as fully formed human beings with emotions. I like i said. I think that people feel that. You should be grateful for the position that you're in that that they wish they could do that. Therefore it should be everything to you. It should be the most important thing in your life and again that that money solves all problems which is untrue and You know i. It's just a a strange sort of way. I think that as naomi osaka has gotten as she's gotten The pressure has gotten bigger for her. Maybe than she can handle right now and i don't mean that in a in a negative win but you know she rose to start on very quickly and people talk about her early days in press conferences. In how affable she wasn't how funny she was. That was before she was the highest paid woman athlete in the world. That was before she was the number two ranked woman in the world. Who would run. Forego land grant slaps. She is twenty three years old and dealing with the mental health crisis. And that is something that a lot of people can relate to unfortunately do not relate to it as well as they should..
The Lab
"french open" Discussed on The Lab
"Is that so. Many of the players at the top of the leaderboard are mostly players that we would expect Especially when it comes to a stat like war which really tries to synthesize everything. A player does into a single number of value. But there are those outliers there are the your mean mercedes there are also the adult garcia. I mean just amazing to see The rangers that nobody was really expecting them to do anything and a team that has been no hit multiple times so far this season as we detailed to also have one of the best offensive players in baseball and the home run leader. Not sure how to square that maybe it goes to. What we're saying of a lot of guys are swinging for the fences. And if you come up short you don't get hits but yeah i like these breakout stories every year and in some ways. It's a little bit of a shame that some of these guys will cool off before the end of the season because we do have like over a hundred games left to go right whereas a season like last year this was it you you put up your dulles garcia season and you know you're immortalized forever as being tied for the home lead in a single season major league baseball but i i'm all all else being equal. I'm glad that there are one hundred. Plus more games left in the season. We don't need a repeat of two thousand twenty different reasons. I think the the idea of the The older rookies having these breakouts is really interesting. And i wonder what it means in the broader like baseball since you know there are still even though teams are focused on younger locking those young players and the development within their own systems. There are still like times. You're gonna miss something about a player. Who can still contribute. And they're still those like times that teams can find these you know. These still haven't gotten their chances yet. We see this were players. Who don't have this huge pedigree and they're not you know pay disease like can't miss prospects. Someone like trout or bryce harper. You know they come up when they're nineteen where he suzy. Someone like pete alonso who was never -sposed to be this big star prospect head to really like put his timing part of this was on mets but put his time in the minor league. Because everyone with discolored. Is this guy actually for real. Is he for real. Let's promote him again and eventually he makes the big leagues of what twenty. Four twenty twenty four. I feel safe in saying he has the most home runs by twenty four year old. Rookie run by any rookie with three kirby. He could've come up a couple of years before but he again did not had that pedigree you know he was not a first round pick or anything even close to that so i think that sort of his career was delayed. You know we always talk about nelson cruz soon. Nelson cruz didn't really. What was his first real productive year. Twenty five twenty six something like that. Yeah he wasn't a regular until he was twenty eight in two thousand nine and he made the all star team that year. Okay well. I think we can.
The Lab
"french open" Discussed on The Lab
"Who is still head is rookie status intact. He twenty four games played in his career before this year did not break the barrier that you needed to to have To not be considered a rookie anymore. So now we have two rookies this season alone who are on pace to shatter the twenty home run mark and this isn't it's not like in two thousand nineteen where they're just giving out home runs like their candy. You still got to work for them a little bit more. This season So maybe we would expect the less to see players like this. Having these seasons but to have two rookies who are twenty eight years old. Put up twenty home runs. In a season there was a great stat. David schoenfield of espn had last week. Where he said that. This is pretty much unprecedented. If you go back to the post world war two era there have been only seven rookies. Who were twenty eight or older and hit. Twenty home runs in a season. One of those was luke. Easter who was denied playing earlier because of the color barrier But the other ones are christian. Walker of the arizona diamondbacks in in two thousand nineteen He twenty nine home runs as a twenty eight year old rookie. Mike yastrzemski at twenty nineteen as well at age twenty eight. He had twenty one home runs. And then you have bobby darwin. I don't know who that is from. the from. Nineteen seventy two hundred twenty. Two home runs as a twenty nine year old rookie garrett jones in two thousand nine twenty one ryan ship in two thousand sixteen had twenty at age. Twenty eight is a rookie and arrest. Strada who i believe became a broadcaster Since then in one thousand nine hundred at eight thirty one is a rookie head. Twenty home runs. So it's really rare to see these types of performances from guys that don't have a track record from earlier in their twenties emerging as rookies to have these types of seasons. There's also only been one twenty eight year old rookie that qualified and hit three hundred in that post war era and that was joey window of the tampa bay rays in two thousand eighteen. I think it's interesting that a lot of these guys have done this in recent seasons because it does speak to maybe something of the w- the philosophy of how talent is developed in baseball. It's not just about finding prospects and bringing them along and people play you know develop as their projected but it's also about finding players that can make adjustments in midstream and maybe if they're not successful and kind of stalled out in their early twenties they make a swing change. They studied themselves using data that they can kind of collect and they figure out how to improve and all of a sudden. You're in the major leagues in having these kind of breakout seasons. So i just love looking at the early leaderboards though And and just analyzing like you never thought that these guys would have seasons on the pitching side. Kevin costner who talked about When we talked about the san francisco giants he leads the major leagues in wins above replacement. Right now a one hundred of a war ahead of max muncie of the dodgers who maybe i mean we knew. Max muncie was a great player. Sarah you've been on the maximum. She trained for a long time Thanks to your fantasy team. Maybe didn't quite expect him to be in the contention for best player in baseball So that's been interesting to to see. Have that emergence. But yeah the most of the rest of the names on the war leaderboard at least our players that you would expect or at least have been dominant jacob degrom is fourth garrett cole is fifth brandon. Woodruff is third. But you know he's been good he you know he's a. He's a name brand pitcher. At least zack wheeler so you know. The surprises are not everywhere in the leaderboards early on. And maybe it's the biggest surprise..
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"french open" Discussed on The Lab
"But you know we in the media were always kind of trying to spin out these narratives about that and yet every possible turn. It seems like that just doesn't materialize. But i'm also curious as to what it says about the like future super team concepts like our team's going to be maybe a little more hesitant to try to kind of do this get rich quick type of building scheme when they see such a big high profile example. Fail so many times. I don't know well. maybe i'm just. That's wishful thinking on my part. Because i'm sick of the super teams right but i mean if the nets it all sarah the nets are super duper team. That's different sorry. I'll also i feel like people could just put it the clippers and say yeah they're haunted that's just like oh but come on no teams i look maple leafs except leagues and the jets but besides for service. No teams really curse. I mean the mets are occurs. Look but board teams. Sure atlanta falcons. Anybody wanna take i. Yeah curse teams out there to get past. The six clearly cursed franchises that we can think of at this exact moment. Yeah maybe there i. I don't maybe they might be cursed. They seem curse. Thing is co is the most proven commodity in the like the guy. What makes this so ridiculous multi times finals. Mvp dragged the raptors shopping. You're telling me that. Him plus paul george in l. a. With all this fanfare is at risk of losing in the first round to dallas. Like about basketball to to tell you exactly what is wrong with the the alchemy of the clippers currently but it is not it. Look it look at they lose whether it's dallas whether it's the next round they lose clearly. Something's wrong i mean. They have quite leonard they should add on paper a team. That should be going to the finals or least competing to the very end for title. And just not there. So i don't know. I think it needs to be rethought. I mean we still for what it's worth. Armadale still has the clippers at nineteen percent to win the finals. That second behind the jazz now. The jazz are finally the top team after being the top team in the actual stanton's all year..
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"french open" Discussed on The Lab
"You know he always said like what am i gonna. I'm not gonna get anything. They're just listen them to ask questions. He was off to the side talking dolls. Uncle trying to get like a one on one Trying to get something exclusive but like there's no great journalism mets coming out of it so i do think it's necessary and it makes me think back to you. Know marshawn lynch at super bowl media day in marshawn lynch who was an interesting thaw player and actually one of the nfl's more interesting personalities for the whole time he was there but he hated this and kind of rightfully a super bowl media. Day is like the thing. I'm describing times thousand. It is just the dumbest most contrived or media obligation among player and he went famous late in the media. Day you know in arizona before the super bowl. The patriots answered every question. Like i'm only here so it was like good for him. Because you know that in that case that is dumb you know having having these kind of like sir gratuitous media obligations but then again this is not to say. I do think it is important. I think i do think it is part of the contract of the professional athlete to talk to the media I just. I just don't know this forum. The one she's protesting is totally necessary. Yeah i think i yeah. I think that's right. There are times when athletes need to stand in front of a group of reporters. An answer uncomfortable questions. I mean i think we do want that forum for accountability and the questions. The questions even if media you know one of the things is the media. Ask better questions leave and good questions. Athletes are always going to want to answer. Those are the things that that naomi apparently was struggling with was questions about her performance on clay and it was making her doubt her ability to compete at roland garros. But those are those are important questions to ask about how you're doing on surfaces you're struggling with and and so it's not just bad questions but i do think there are..
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"french open" Discussed on The Lab
"Also i feel like people could just put the clippers and say gather haunted. Oh but come on no teams cursed except the maple leafs except and the jets say. They're welcome to hot. Take down the shore. The hot takes of the sports world. Meet the numbers that prove them rights or tear them down. Today is june first. Twenty twenty one hope. Everyone had a great memorial day weekend. I'm serious the sports editor at five thirty eight joining me in new york. City is senior. Sportswriter neil pain. Has it going sarah. It's fine how're you know. And that laughing boys you hear is five thirty eight contributor. Jeff foster jeff. Sarah everything's fine. That's observable cow game. All right in the world is fine you guys. I can't believe i'm going to have to start off this podcast by talking about hockey. But yes oh jeff and apology. Although he's like gotten up shut door just walked out he walked out all read the microbe. Jeff you're right about the canadians beating the leafs. I was wrong and yeah. I think that this is proof that even with a three one lead and vastly superior talent. You cannot count on the maple leafs to close out a first round series much less in their stanley cup drought. Which was the last time they won. Sixty nine hundred sixty seven time. They something about that team. They just can't no matter who's in there. They just can't handle the pressure that that city is putting on them to win and they just wilt. It's just an equitable speaking of sports. In which the Highly favored team loses weirdly champions league final. This weekend. I my prediction was i mean. I was just like so dismissive of chelsea stands. It's like oh yeah man cities obviously get a gonna win. It's gonna be you know not that not even interesting and i took what you said as gospel sir. 'cause i know nothing about any of this and i was like. Oh yeah no sarasola right. It's it's just gonna be. I'm pencilling in man city. Yeah no then i then. I being the avid soccer watcher. That i am i looked at espn dot com front page. Saw that chelsea had one went. Oh that's cool and then closer page as soccer fan is quite a journey is is your into the beach toward soccer more or less than mine toward hockey..
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"french open" Discussed on The Mini-Break
"Neko the number twenty six seed seven five six four six four when harrell serves while he's going to be too and that's what he did today. A gets a three set win over snake. Oh now in terms of your matches that went the distance on through silva three-set win over canopy. We knew that one was going to be tricky but the variety of andrews for ends up out doing the pace of canopy. Also at a three-set. Win from jessica peculiar darya kena size zang with an upset. You could borderline. Say three sets over sarah serie best hormone than last year's semi a quarterfinalists. Excuse me trevisan. Three-set win over van. Vinik the other one. I throw in their shelby. Rogers had match points on. Rebecca pederson. Just unable to get over the hump. Pederson kept fighting kept clawing and you could just tell. Rogers little drained after those match points win away in the third six seven seven. Six six to win four pederson to advance on the men's side to five centers on the day both involving americans. Frances tiafoe goes up two sets to love. Jen you know. He was nursing an injury coming into this event. You could just tell physically. The longer the match went on the more. Lean towards stevie. J steve johnson. Six seven three six four six two six one win over t ofo a bunch of i think that's like the fourth consecutive year was lost a tough first round match at the french open. Meanwhile dj ten wins including qualifying at the french open. If you include qualifying at every slam. That's the most wins. He's had at any grand slam tournament. Steve johnson clay court specialists not the pivot any of us expected when he was coming out of usc. But that's a confidence boosting win for him. And then tommy paul chris. O'connell was actually quietly in exceptional match. And you know for teepee to earn a sixty six four. I two sets than o'connell came out swinging interested. Not miss a forehand. I know i tweeted this out but it honestly felt like he was swinging on the forehand side with his eyes closed. That's how excellent he was In the second two sets and paul had a bunch of new thirty dollars or a couple of break point chances it just felt like the break was coming in o'connell kept hitting his way out of it but ultimately teepee gets the break which is the more well rounded player of the to ten eight in the fifth set that was fantastic first round match. Though now in terms of your other day to results kind of blitz through everything would start. On the women's side serena williams faced. I believe four set points. No not four set points but she won the last four points of her. I said breaker against big you to advance seven. Six two wasn't her best tennis but again when she gets thrown match like this early in the tournament does not bode well for the rest of the field. He got beat her early. Because of confidence arena is attained serena and we all know that fact tek own five against her good friend kaya von still hasn't dropped a set now and what her last eight matches at roland. Garros that ball just rips through the court her movements show proficient on the service. A vons common folks..
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"french open" Discussed on The Mini-Break
"Don't give them the platform they're looking for with a reprehensible opinion. I think we can all agree again. Four naomi osaka. It's a deeply personal issue. You can completely understand this decision now again. Do we need to reimagine the way. We conduct a tennis media that relationship between journalists and players yes to re examine the role of the press conference. Evidently we absolutely do now. Am i a fan of the press conference. Absolutely because i do think that access. Is you know monumentally helpful. Not just for the journalists who are trying to write stories like myself are trying to have access trying to again expand Just the way we are able to cover. The sport provide a more personal firsthand. Account from these players provide greater detail to all the fans up. But it's just a valuable resource to holding players accountable as well now. They're clearly too many bad apples in those press rooms. That's the consensus and again. I'm sure some of you would like to call out names. I'm not going to do that. Because the journalists i've interacted with are all professionals professionals. Again courtney win. There's a clip of her talking to me. I believe it was charleston. Either twenty nine thousand nine hundred twenty twenty. You could tell naomi with struggling in that press conference but you could also tell the care. With which courtney asked those questions. She wasn't trying to pile on. She wasn't trying for click bait. She was sincerely trying to wonder what i only was going through. And how best to communicate that so that we as a tennis commu could help response in there has been so many heartfelt responses you know in particular coke off stands out in you know outside even the tennis community. Step at steph. Curry smell hill kerry champion. All these various people who have come to speak to naomi's defense and that's just so heart warming to see absolutely At the same time we absolutely again. We need to reexamine the relationship between tennis and tennis media. There's often straw man attacked by by tennis. Twitter personalities by random. Twitter's out there saying oh. I bet i could do a better. If you had access to the pressroom will. I hope you don't think that after this anymore if you do that again. I'm looking for solutions. You don't think the press conferences could good. Well what do you think is a good idea. What is the best way to provide access. I know again talking with racket magazine. They let us run. The press conference will run a tighter ship. The people who get in will be much more qualified to that. I say no. You know you're still just a third party with your own agenda the same way the the wto would have their own agenda and again. I'm using racket magazine as a straw man here. Just an example. I apologize but clearly third entity in power and control of these access. Well that doesn't work giving having players themselves. The only ones who determine who they speak to in what questions they answered. That's not gonna work as whilst we need to think beyond that. And i wish i had solutions for you listeners. Right away i don't But certainly again. It's so crushing that this now will hover over the entire french open because of course we only have four grand slams every season at the same time. It's impossible to feel anything at least if you're a if you're a credible human being if you're someone anyone who wants to be around if it's incredible feel anything impossible to anything but an empathy sympathy just again compassion for what soccer's going through so again..
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"french open" Discussed on The Mini-Break
"Osaka electing to withdraw from the twenty twenty one french open and rather than purse. Her words rather than again offer my spin immediately. I just wanna read all of you listeners. In case you aren't on tennis twitter in case you didn't have the chance to read statement announcing her decision. Here's how the statement goes. Hey everyone i. This isn't a situation. I ever imagined attended. When i posted a few days ago. I think now the best thing for the tournament the players and my wellbeing is that i withdraw so that everyone can get back to focus on the focusing on the tennis going on in pairs. I never wanted to be a distraction. And i accept that my timing was not ideal and my message could have been clearer. More importantly i would never trivialize mental health or used the term lightly. The truth is that. I've suffered long bouts of depression since the us open in two thousand eighteen. And i've had a really hard time coping with that. Anyone that knows me knows i'm introverted. And anyone that has seen me at the tournaments will notice that. I'm often wearing headphones. As that help stole my social anxiety though the tennis press has always been kind to me. And i want to apologize especially to all the cool journalists who i may have hurt only eo. Moussaka is a classy enough individual to apologize to people when she's speaking about something so personal that's me editorializing. But again you have to praise her and her class her grace. Everything about naomi osaka reflected in the statement. I am not a natural public speaker and get huge waves of anxiety. Before i speak to the world's media i get really nervous and find it stressful to always try to engage and give you the best answers i can so here in paris i was already feeling vulnerable an anxious so i thought it was better to exercise self care and skip the press conference.