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Major League Pickleball? People are actually investing money in this?
If pickleball is the fastest growing sport in America, then let’s hope for a blight. The anti-Nick Sirianni. We need to do the opposite of watering and fertilizing because pickleball is a sport for guys named “Albert” who live in The Villages and are on their second hip replacement. It’s entry-level ping pong. Bastardized tennis. We went over all of this in my award-winning column, Opinion: You’re Too Young to be Playing Pickleball.
But let’s say, for the sake of this post, that you do like pickleball. Playing it is fine. Watching the sport as a spectator is another story entirely, because it’s boring. The points are short and the game just lacks dynamism. You serve, all four players go to the net, bang bang bang, point. Rinse and repeat. There’s no depth to the game. It’s like watching four Patrick Rafters play each other in tennis. It’s a slower version of badminton with less movement. Everything that pickleball provides can be found in the other racquet sports.
Kevin has been writing about Philadelphia sports since 2009. He spent seven years in the CBS 3 sports department and started with the Union during the team's 2010 inaugural season. He went to the academic powerhouses of Boyertown High School and West Virginia University. email - k.kinkead@sportradar.com