mightyjeditribble
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Thread has become derailed by another goat debate.
There's no objective goat status really, unless someone is so far head and shoulders above the others that discussion becomes irrelevant.
That being said, slam count is the closest we will ever get to a simple objective criterion for goat-hood.
With current slam count, it's very hard to argue for Rafa as goat.
If Rafa ends up with more slams, he has a legitimate claim to goat by at least one objective criterion. I say this as a Fed fan.
If they are tied, then it gets very interesting - for me it's clearly Fed, but maybe in the future people will consider number of "big titles", which ATP is advertising, as more important, on which Nadal might catch Fed more easily?
Anyway, the whole goat thing is overblown. I'll always prefer Fed's game to Nadal's, no matter who if anyone is goat.
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There's no objective goat status really, unless someone is so far head and shoulders above the others that discussion becomes irrelevant.
That being said, slam count is the closest we will ever get to a simple objective criterion for goat-hood.
With current slam count, it's very hard to argue for Rafa as goat.
If Rafa ends up with more slams, he has a legitimate claim to goat by at least one objective criterion. I say this as a Fed fan.
If they are tied, then it gets very interesting - for me it's clearly Fed, but maybe in the future people will consider number of "big titles", which ATP is advertising, as more important, on which Nadal might catch Fed more easily?
Anyway, the whole goat thing is overblown. I'll always prefer Fed's game to Nadal's, no matter who if anyone is goat.
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