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To clarify, I have no doubt about you being a Fed supporter. You seem like you assume the best of people, which is commendable, but it should be painfully clear what the motivations of certain posters are (this goes for certain Fedfans too BTW), not sure how anyone reasonable could be giving credit to Lew at this stage...
Thanks. Regardless of what he is or isn’t, credit is due. If for originality.
All the times people have casually said “Federer fans are this”, or “Nadal fans are that” etc. The easy reach stereotype. Justification.
...so people can say what they want to say, under pretext of that justification, Lew just took a better approach on this one.
Like many people he said exactly what he wanted to say about a whole fan base, this is true. Unlike many people he took the extraordinary step of showing stats of what we’ve been saying.
There’s no escaping the fact that after losses we look for inventive ways of rationalizing. Lew himself greatly discounts Djokovic’s period against Fedal 2008~2011, after his first slam.
As if these losses were inevitable and obvious, and explainable: Age, prime, peak, matchup, surface blah blah blah.
But before the losses?
That’s why this one feels different. It’s not about Federer or Djokovic or GOAT or any of the usual stuff.
It’s about what people say now contrasted against what they said then. The gaping disparity, if we’re being honest, that we’ve always felt was there.
That seems relevant. In fact there’s no simple way it should not be relevant for those leveraged in these types of exchanges.
I imagine you’re going to see anything from casual sneering to outright slander as a response to this thread. It wouldn’t at all shock me if it ends up being canned.
I’m guessing a few may resort to the old playground tactic of calling him stupid or can’t be bothered. They’ll come in and especially make sure to tell you that they cannot be bothered.
Lew is what he is. He’s just often more creative than the rest of us that are no more or less biased in our views.
Yeah, I spent a year building coin with the Fedfan base just to throw it all away in one thread.
Thanks @Lew
I’m always broke because of your damn threads.
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