Posted by Steven on 28/6/2009, 10:03 pm, in reply to "Quotes of R3 (including one from Roy)"
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MIDDLE SUNDAY QUOTES OF THE DAY OFF (or is that "off quotes of the day"?)
Team CC may be in the top three in the league and in the team KO SFs, but they're still not happy:
Big Al (CC) "I picked Davy and Ferrer, both lost as usual. Of course if Id picked Berdy, he'd have lost no doubt " That's why we call Berdbrain a muppet, Al, keep up!
WimbledonAce (AM/CC) "Well you could have done worse - I picked Mathieu to win that match " Now that's a tragedy, in the sense that, sorry WA, it's an absolutely tragic pick!
Lex (CC) "Welcome to the bungee jump of life that is known as BOTB! I sooooo deliberated over Hewitt, then decided he'd choke. And I've just dropped 30 places. Before BOTB I didn't give a ****. STEVEN!!!!!!!" You called?
dryrunguy (TA) "Radek really HAS been good to TAT. Perhaps we should give some thought to taking it easy on {the revolting, cradle-robbing worm} him?"
On BT.net, they are getting philosophical, possibly after drowning their sorrows ...
ForeverDelayed (BT) "I hadn't expected this to be a great tournament but to be down in 434th place is a bit worse than I was thinking I'd be. But like my ranked player at the start of the tournament, Nicolas Massu, I'm in it for the long haul and think that I can bring myself back from the brink to have a decent result (and just like Massu as well, I'm kind of living off one good event where I picked Nalbandian to reach the final back in Madrid 07...) At least I've got 6 players left to cheer on, but then most people will have Federer, Murray, Roddick, Djokovic and Haas, and a fair few have Hewitt, so I can't really go too far up the rankings..."
... and doing his best to console FD and to win friends in the lower reaches of the table:
wolf (BT) "Oh you haven't seen some of the dross we're down there with - they've all probably picked Oscar Hernandez to win the title." 'The Dross' eh - aren't they playing Glastonbury this year? (it does seem like some of the dross must have been high on drugs when they made their picks anyway!)
AT THE SCENE OF THE CRIMES
Pebs (MP), explaining why MP has been silent for a couple of days: "But we've been at Wimbledon - watching, in person, all our picks crash out... you should be grateful that you dont have mass murder from the Wimbledon site to report!!!!"
ASE (AM) "There are lots of positives about going to Wimbledon. One of them is not being around to watch your graceful slide down the pick'em standings. I can, however, confirm that the players are aware of pick'ems, though rather forgetful. I was fortunate enough to be on Court 1 on Friday, so saw the wonderful Haas/Cilic match. Cilic was showing decidedly muppet-like tendencies, if not choking. He cruised to 5-3 40-15 in the first set with no difficulties, and then choked big time. Ho hum."
The former world no. 1 continued: "Anyway, he managed to get to the fifth set, somehow. He broke, and then let Haas break back. Then at an appropriate time, I yelled out 'C'mon Marin, I need this for the pick'em'. He immediately responded with a break, and served for the match. Boy was I smug. So smug, I forgot to shout it out again, and Marin obviously forgot how important it was, and choked again. Sigh. Perhaps it was just as well that the match was held over to the Saturday, when I wasn't on no 1 court to see his ultimate demise. Baah, pick'ems."
Linda (AM), another former world no. 1, obviously forgot to shout out orders to players at all: "R.I.P. Mi... pick'em. I wish to complain that despite my catastrophic drop I was not mentioned in 'Dodgy Droppers'. I was at Wimbledon yesterday and sat and watched live two absolutely fantastic five-set thrillers. The only problem was that both of them went the opposite way to my pick."
They say you can't please all of the people all of the time, but it seems I can't please any of the people any of the time, because before Linda's comment above, someone else who was in the DD section (and wilL remain nameless Today) was having a mild tantrum because they were mentioned.
Oneminutetomidknight (AM) thought she should be thankful for small mercies: "Believe me, getting in 'quote of the day' is all the joy some of us are going to get in this bloomin' competition"
AllyB (AM) thought that she was protesting too much: "Call me cynical but this strikes me as a desperate attempt to get into 'quote of the day' in Monday's report." Call me cynical, but I think that's what AllyB was doing ... and I seem to have fallen for it!
Other people don't just want to be in QOTD, they want jam with it - rhubarb and ginger I assume:
tlimvvo2max (CC) "Down 88. Wish you got bonus points for making Quote of the Day..."
'fraid not, sorry! Roll on Monday ...
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