Recent content by theballboy

If Clijsters and Serena were absent from the 09 USO, Venus would likely have made the final. No way was Caro beating Venus in a major final.

The problem with this though: Some of the most popular American athletes of all time- all time!- were known for their staggering arrogance. Michael Jordan was by FAR the most popular American athlete for over a decade, and he made Serena look like the ******* of humility. He's mocked his...

Lmao. Henin was just as capable of littering the stat sheet as any women's player. Even during her supposed prime she hit more double faults than average, and on the biggest stages she would hit UEs like they were going out of style. Wimbledon 06 final ring a bell? AO '10 final? And Hingis...

Nowhere NEAR the same. Nadal's a HoF lock, one of the ten best to ever play.

Serena is well over 100 weeks now, and is a few weeks from surpassing Henin on the list. If you're going to parrot statistics, at least make sure they're up to date.

Serena's won the majority of the slams played in the past two years. That's a mighty long 'run', and indeed, Graf or Seles like in terms of consistency.

Using this logic, Cy Young is the best pitcher ever. Which is of course laughable. The modern game is more demanding on the human body. Just as pitchers of eras past didn't have to worry about tearing ligaments if they stayed in a game too long, previous generation of tennis players didn't have...

Amongst who?

That was a typo. I meant 30's and 40's, not 30's and 50's. The quality of basketball players increased exponentially during the 1950's. I was referring to the period when basketball players were routinely in the 5 foot 5 range. Babe Ruth was physically unfit. Not compared to modern players...

Henin's a female. Laver at 5' 6" is several standard deviations below the average male, never mind the average male tennis players.

Here's a question: Would anyone here favor basketball players of the 1930's or 1950's to best modern NBA players? Or baseball players of the 30's to best modern MLB players?

There's absolutely no evidence to suggest she'd be a capable power baseliner, any more than there is to suggest that Serena would be a master net player. Furthermore, Moody was the best player out at the maximum several million amatuer players. Serena is currently the best out of a pool of tens...

In most sports, they are. Tennis seems to have issues moving on though.

Nonsense. Numbers only tell so much in sport. LT is easily the best defensive player in NFL history, yet numbers alone don't tell the whole story. Offenses literally had to change the way they operated in order to deal with him. Or Dan Marino: He never once won a Super Bowl, yet is one of the...

Misspelling "fallible"- meta-irony?