Forty Deuce

Best/Worst: What Do We Know, Really.

This week, Brodie, the man behind Mind the Racket, joins in as we continue our year-end wrap up by discussing the best and worst student/coaching relationships, our favorite tennis journalists and bloggers, and things that would or would not surprise us in 2010.  

And I force everyone to stroke my ego by discussing their favorite FD Posts.  I think you can hear my awkward squirming.  I'll post the links in the comments.

The Podcast will be off next week as we all enjoy the holidays with our families.  But we'll return with one more podcast before 2010 where, as promised in the podcast, we're going to play Marry/Boff/Kill.

Please weigh in with your own thoughts on our categories in the comments. 

FD Podcast #11: Oi to the World

"Nope. Rainbows, Puppies, and Unicorns."

On this week's podcast...well, shit got real.  We wrapped up the Davis Cup action and gave out our "awards" to the ATP.  But somewhere along the line we became obsessed with Baby E's sex life.  Well, three of us did.  Lexi, as per usual, kept it classy.

Oh, and we introduce Katie's Korner.  Aaaaaaaaand it pretty much RULEZ.

FD Podcast #10: Sex on Fire

UPDATED: In response to all your email/Facebook/Twitter messages:  Katie is Victoria's girlfriend. 

"YEAH!!!"

This week on FD Podcast we wrap up the happenings in London (my Mom won't let me call it WTF anymore), and we begin our year-end wrap up, starting with the ladies.

And Lexi clearly establishes herself as the front-runner for the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize.

FD Podcast: Everything, Everything Ends

"It Looks Like It Would Hurt."

On this week's FD Podcast, we wrap up the WTA insanity, debate whether Roger cares about the non-Slams, re-evaluate (through tears) Marat's career, and I relent and actually discuss Meth-Gate.

And Victoria and I crush some Tecate.  Yeah, that's right.  We can multitask like you wouldn't believe.

FD Podcast: It's So Hard To Say Goodbye To Yesterday

Haters Be Hatin'

After a lengthy hiatus, the FD Podcast is back with Doha, meth, Bali, Marat (duh), some Hopman talk, a geography lesson, and the bestest strawberry beer you've ever tasted.

And I read some hate mail.  From Ashley Harkleroad's BabyDaddy.

FD Podcast #7: Get Me Away From Here, I'm Dying

"Sunshine, Sugar, and Legs"

This week Brodie, the "man" behind Mind The Racket, dared to go where no "man" has gone before: The Chickfest that is FD Podcast.  Accordingly we make fun of Canada (Brodie's Canadian in case his "aboot" didn't give him away), discuss why ATP marketing might be better than WTA marketing, the WTA Bitches ruling the roost (uh, loose definition of "ruling" there), Boots calling out the WTA for shitty scheduling, and the YEC and WTF.  And speaking of WTF, what the hell is the deal with Bali?

Oh, and we all do our best JJ impressions.

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I'll put the links referenced in the podcast in the comments.

FD Podcast #6: Blame Canada

"Bitches In Tokyo"

This week, I threaten to beat up Victoria, we break down the ever complex Dinara/Zeljko situation, give props to Maria Sharapova, ignore the ATP, touch on the Olympics, and we all talk about the best and worst matches we've ever watched.

Oh, also?  Katie rules.

FD Podcast #5: Everything Is Average Nowadays 10/1/09

And if you missed it, my drunken tweeting after the jump:

"It Must Be Love"

Never has there been so much yet so little to talk about, but somehow the Forty Deuce Podcast team makes it work.  In this week's podcast we talk about the Return of Justine, limited schedules, Davis Cup, and in a totally unscripted moment, we each talk about the ridiculous things we do for the love of the game.

Which leads me to ask: What are some of your ridiculous tennis superstitions?

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I'm not entirely sure how our moms came up in the conversation.  Just further reinforcement that this shit ain't scripted.

Oh, and to answer some questions I've received via email and Twitter, no the song choices are not random.

"Dildos Are For Assholes."

Apologies for the silence on the podcast front.  We actually did an extensive one during the Toronto/Cincy tournaments but technical issues rendered it useless.  

In an attempt to make it up to all you 5 podcast fans (and really, that's including the 4 of us), I now present you a Super Sized FD podcast, which wraps up the USO and looks forward to the end of the season.  

And seriously, that's an hour and a half of pure tennis analysis.  We were totally on topic this time. 

Well, except for the whole pink taco thing.  

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But Tell Me How You Really Feel

On this week's FD Podcast: Dinara battles a Coconut, does Serena care at all about non-Slams, tips on how to get into a tournament when you don't have tickets, WTA vs. ATP marketing (and the failure of the former), and tennis journalists vs. bloggers, aka, why Pete Bodo can never be a blogger.

We had an agenda this time.  Really we did.  As you can see, it doesn't really help.

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"He's Such a Copycat."

A few of you have written inquiring as to when the next installment of the Forty Deuce podcast would be up.  Here's the deal: It is SUPER awkward to do a podcast by yourself.  And with my partner in crime (heh), Love All, off at an undisclosed location for much of this year, I've had to shelve the podcasts.  Unfortunately my dog has very little to say about tennis.

But you can't say that I don't listen so here's the next installment, wherein I've roped in Forty Deuce regulars Sodapop, Carrie, and Victoria, to talk about everything from my general apathy towards Ana's losses, illegal immigration, and Stan's second fiddle, to how badly the WTA marketing department has failed, our love for tennis umpires, and the intimate details contained in Sodapop's diary.  You'll have to excuse any technical issues.  I'm still trying to master it all.  But I'll get it all worked out and I can promise your tech savvy and topically focused p-casts in the future.

I'm warning you, it's a long one and very WTA heavy.  Perfect for sitting in traffic while you're on your way to wherever you don't want to be.

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The Thing Is, We Weren't Even Drunk!

 
Carrie was in town this weekend.  99% of it was spent drunk.  The one percent was spent doing this podcast wherein we attempt to relate the very Northern California tradition of guzzling wine and the very Forty Deuce tradition of relating totally unrelated things to tennis.  And in that vein, 700,000% of it was spent shitting the pants about Dina's impending mental breakdown.  Nothing like walking through the SF MOMA talking about how every mildly depressing piece reminds you of Dina and discussing our palpable disappointment in missing the Ecstasy On Clay exhibition. 

There were way more hilarious wine descriptions we didn't get to.  I'll put some in the comments.  In the meantime I'm going to be chewing on my pencil trying to figure out why I'd want to drink something that tastes of salty pencil shavings.

Sigh. Back To The Real World.

Our podcast on the way home from Indian Wells.

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Section 188, Row 1, Seat #8

New podcast from Indian Wells recapping the last few days.  Also, I put an old dude on blast.

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Drunken Rambling While Eating Del Taco = Win

New podcast, wherein we recap the last two days at IW and Love All gets all judgey. 

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Apparently We're BIG Fans Of The Deschanels

Installment #2 of the roadtrip series, wherein I try my best to keep us talking about tennis.  I fail miserably.

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"Reminiscing And It Feels So Good."

You asked.  We provided.  You will suffer.

Love All and I recorded some podcasts on the way down to IW.  Only 1% of this stuff is actually related to tennis.  Love All kept distracting me.  There are four total installments.

Here's the first:

Roadtrip #1 -- wherein Love All and I reminisce on last year's IW trip.