Jamaica Plain News lobs the story over the net: Three new pickleball courts are now available at English High School, possibly ending the crisis at the South Street courts, which had seen pickleballers take over space from both tennis and basketball players.
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Earthshaking news!
By Lee
Wed, 10/23/2024 - 11:39am
But I predict pickle ball will be out of fashion by next year.
Me too
By BostonDog
Wed, 10/23/2024 - 4:26pm
And I was right about the other new flash-in-the-pan sports of football and basketball. /S
I don't see pickleball as being any better or worse than any other sport and I don't see anything wrong with the city providing more courts for something that's in-demand. Of all the things Boston spends money on, this has a huge enjoyment-to-cost ratio. Few public things get so much use and enjoyment for such little money.
Well
By lbb
Thu, 10/24/2024 - 9:44am
It's certainly louder.
And most pickleball courts are created by taking over other facilities.
Portsmouth got it right
By Lanny Budd
Wed, 10/23/2024 - 12:06pm
I was just at a park in Portsmouth. They had built separate tennis and pickleball courts. No sharing, no fighting. Just the stately classy traditional pleasing smoks of fuzzy tennis balls and the annoying flash-in-the-pan trendy clacking of the plastic pickle balls.
Did you read the article?
By Kinopio
Wed, 10/23/2024 - 2:40pm
Did you read the article? Thats what this is: multiple tennis and pickleball courts by English High.
Did you read my comment?
By Lanny Budd
Wed, 10/23/2024 - 7:17pm
I never said that English got it wrong.
More pavement for the noisy sporty set. Why?
By Lee
Wed, 10/23/2024 - 3:17pm
Give us back our green space.
Play your silly games on your phone.
Some people like exercise
By anon
Wed, 10/23/2024 - 3:49pm
Make notes on your phone, not comments here. See?
Then do exercise.
By Lee
Wed, 10/23/2024 - 7:23pm
According to what science has taught us about the exercise. Cardio, do example, is walking, running, cycling etc. done for the purpose of strengthening the heart muscle.
Competitive sports are physical activity that serve a different purpose and lead to injuries. Especially when played on hard surfaces. No more exercise than housework or walking a dog or snow shoveling.
So I made another comment here. Are you going to break my knee caps now with your sports equipment?
Fitness Trends
By Don't Panic
Thu, 10/24/2024 - 2:57am
[quote]But I predict pickle ball will be out of fashion by next year.[/quote]
The Running, Walking, and Stretching course was removed from Norfolk Park (1980's fitness trend). The clay tennis court and one of the cement courts were removed from Norfolk Park (19th century to present fitness trend) there is one cement court there now. Trends come and they go. Not having had to listen to a pickleball game in progress I wish the current players well.
Anyone know why handball never really caught on in Boston; All you need is a ball and a wall?
Are you kidding?
By lbb
Thu, 10/24/2024 - 9:45am
Running is healthy and "competitive sports" lead to injuries? Like running doesn't lead to injuries?
Mmhmm. Never played tennis, I see.
I got my info in a cardio rehab program.
By Lee
Thu, 10/24/2024 - 9:57am
So not kidding. There are many ways to run safely, according to the latest science. Also what I learned from the program.
Okay Thoreau
By anon
Wed, 10/23/2024 - 3:50pm
Go back to one of your family's multiple houses. Your mom might feed you.
Lol!
By Lee
Wed, 10/23/2024 - 7:23pm
Sounds great!
Silence is the sound of Gentrification
By SwirlyGrrl
Wed, 10/23/2024 - 6:31pm
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/...
Are you as loud and loquacious…
By Lee
Wed, 10/23/2024 - 7:25pm
… in real life as you are in comment sections?
You live in a city
By SwirlyGrrl
Wed, 10/23/2024 - 8:01pm
There are a lot of other people in that city.
Some of them like pickleball and organize to play it.
Some like beer gardens and night life.
Some have dogs and lobby for dog parks.
All have as much to say about what goes on as you do - but you have this certain belief that you are somehow culturally superior and can dictate what is and isn't of value to your fellow residents. Then you greenwash it with lorax nimby flair.
I don't make a lot of noise and I don't like noise much either. I understand that noise is a feature of where I live and I'm likely to move to a less noisy place soon now that I don't need this much house and don't need or use a lot of the things that make city life convenient or to commute 5x a week. I have long understood that disliking noise is a "me" problem with urban places - I don't bitch about pickleball at the nearby park making noise or the three drummers in the neighborhood or the high school band practices when those make people I know happy.
I think you answered my question…
By Lee
Thu, 10/24/2024 - 9:59am
… about annoying people in real life too.
Lol!
Good. The farther away the
By Zhu Hengpeng
Thu, 10/24/2024 - 5:46am
Good. The farther away the better.
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