Pickle Ball

[Cow Poke]

This thing seems to be exploding in growth --- there are waiting lists to join Pickle Ball teams!

This could destroy the youth of America!!!!

Somebody has to reign this in!!!!

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[Bill the Cat]

We have a weekly pickle ball event in our HOA. I've never been though...

[Cow Poke]

We have a weekly pickle ball event in our HOA. I've never been though...

Does it seem well attended?

[Bill the Cat]

Does it seem well attended?

Yeah. Usually 3 or 4 games going on at the courts with people waiting... I've been told it's a "white burbs" thing...

[Cow Poke]

Yeah. Usually 3 or 4 games going on at the courts with people waiting... I've been told it's a "white burbs" thing...

Interesting --- people MY AGE seem to be involved.

For the sarcastically impaired the following is said in jest

It's like a CULT!!!!

[Sparko]

So it's like tennis with ping pong paddles?

[Cow Poke]

So it's like tennis with ping pong paddles?

And it seems like sometimes it's a kind of tennis ball, other times it's more like a whiffle ball. I just know that there are many tournaments around here, and you have to be on a waiting list before being accepted on a team.

[Sparko]

And it seems like sometimes it's a kind of tennis ball, other times it's more like a whiffle ball. I just know that there are many tournaments around here, and you have to be on a waiting list before being accepted on a team.

And there are no controllers or video screen? Come on, man! You are making this stuff up!

[Cow Poke]

And it seems like sometimes it's a kind of tennis ball, other times it's more like a whiffle ball. I just know that there are many tournaments around here, and you have to be on a waiting list before being accepted on a team.

I cannot personally attest that this is real at all -- I only know of it second and third hand, and I don't even have two whole hands!

[Sparko]

I cannot personally attest that this is real at all -- I only know of it second and third hand, and I don't even have two whole hands!

No pickles?

Come on, man!

[Cow Poke]

No pickles?

Come on, man!

Yeah, even the name is a mystery. I think it must be some kind of subversive government deep dark state thing.

[Sparko]

Yeah, even the name is a mystery. I think it must be some kind of subversive government deep dark state thing.

You know who else plays games with ping pong paddles? The Communist Chinese!

[Cow Poke]

You know who else plays games with ping pong paddles? The Communist Chinese!

And..... And look at how the Chinese are socially distanced!!!! They had Covid even back then!!!

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[mikewhitney]

How do the paddles connect to the video console?

I know some people that play pickle ball. I just cannot find the Playstation II module for it.

[KingsGambit]

We played pickleball at church youth camp 20 years ago. I remember it being fun even for those of us less athletic kids.