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[Nok Yong]

The best tennis player ever is arguably Martina Navratilova.

According to stats from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martina_Navratilova

[SPINOZA]

[Rteacher]

Here are the results of a "Talk Tennis Warehouse" Poll: "Who Is the Best Tennis Player Ever?"

Federer 53 43.09%
Sampras 57 46.34%
Agassi 9 7.32%
Lendl 6 4.88%
Edberg 6 4.88%
McEnroe 13 10.57%
Wilander 3 2.44%
Borg 14 11.38%
Connors 6 4.88%
(167 tennis fans voted...Of course, if Federer keeps winning at the same rate he figures to soon overtake Sampras in this type of poll...)
http://tt.tennis-warehouse.com/showthread.php?t=107450

[Merlyn]

Holy Spinoza, your true colors come out. A loser of great proportions. Don't make it like you responded to the earlier posts academically. You never even backed up your original claim when you said, ahh let's see, most greats say Sampras is the best. I've told you they don't, but you haven't even responded to it. Personal insults, which they weren't even that serious, so what if you're not that handsome, often occur when people refuse to settle points logically. Okay, let me rephrase the argument. All the greats say Federer is better than Sampras, ajstew says they are. I also say he is. You say he isn't. It is just you you tool and maybe others who haven't watched tennis since 1999. You're a real class act Spinoza. Next time, comment on something you have a remote understanding of.

[SPINOZA]

[Merlyn]

[SPINOZA]

[Merlyn]

[ajstew]

I'm sorry Spinoza.
So sorry to have called you out on a possible reason for why you always have to be right about everything. And I never said you were a hidious looking fellow. I don't know what girls think of you. I was just saying that you may have been trying to overcompensate for something else you are lacking, and I stand by it, because of your inability to see that you stand on a much weaker platform than I do in terms of tennis knowledge, and this seems to demonstrate that there may be something seriously wrong with the current state of your mind's health. At any rate, my statement had nothing to do with winning an argument about who is the best player, it just questioned the platform from which you rained down your comments from. At any rate, you showed no willingness to have an intelligent debate about the merits of each player's game, you just stated in your all-knowingness that you knew you were right. Now that is a sad basis for an argument.

Now you speak of bitterness:

"Judging by your bitter, abusive denunciations of vapid offal, I'm assuming you don't get sarcasm, so I shall, unusually, lower myself to the level of my audience."

Demonstrate something bitter I said, beyond your thinking that I said you were overcompensating for something, and you will find nothing of the sort.

And what is this?:

"Your university job is an absolute joke. It's not even a university. Are you at SNU, Korea Uni, Hongik? No, well shut up, then. None of your imput goes towards students' career prospects; rather it's all a gimmick to say that Min-Ji has played past-tense bingo with some butcherer of the English language from, like, eastern Saskatchewan, and stuff? I've met numerous uni teachers and nearly all of them have been drunks, total misfits. The fact that you've more time off to me means you've more time for drinking 2-cent booze, smoking 2 packs of cigs per day and sitting in your 5-pyeong apartment playing with yourself (on the Playstation, you understand)."

Do you read what you write? How can anyone speak like this and believe it is okay? You should be ashamed. But looking at the individual points of the paragraph, it's pretty clear you don't have a university job, or you work at a uni-hagwon, because if you had any knowledge of university jobs in Korea, you'd know that there are many better positions than the ones you mentioned above, although I'm certainly not slamming those who work at them. So no need for me to shut up... I have one of the better jobs in universities. Moving on though... I don't know where this Saskatchewan stuff is coming from? It's probably a great place to live though. And sure... I play tennis 4 times a week so that equals that I drink and smoke everyday? If I wanted to play 4 times a week, I couldn't live with that lifestyle. Use your common sense man.

And then we get this nonsense:

"Which leads me to my next extremely juvenile point, since it is you and your bum-chum Merlyn who wish to turn a debate about tennis into an exchange of personal insults......you've got a smaller 고추 than me, I can assure you."

Sure pal.

"Don't really care what some sweaty male tennis player off the internet thinks about my photos (the views of my girlfriend taking precedence there), but even if I did care, I guarantee your little white pecker is a laughing stock. I just know it. Let's flop each other on Jongno Street and see who's got the biggest nob - then, and only then, will we see who knows the most about tennis and who's the best out of Federer and Sampras, you stupid anal maggot. Let's see who's got the prettiest girlfriend. Let's see who's got the better knowledge of obscure 60s bands. Let's see who's bedded more birds. Judging by your anger at losing a tennis debate online, I'm guessing your only sexual encounter is with your right hand, assuming it hasn't got a tennis racquet in it. Let's see who's got the wealthiest mother. That'll be sure to settle this. You don't have enough merit to your miserable, scabrous little life to lick my toilet clean or eat scraps from my garbage. I'd HONESTLY save the life of a filthy piece of homeless trash on the street before the life of a uni teacher in Korea."

What the hell are you talking about? I don't think I've ever read such immature, hatred filled drivel. But I'm still trying to figure out how you see 'anger' in what I wrote. For most, it wouldn't be hard to get angry at what you write though... you know with the insults like, 'stupid anal magot' being thrown around, but this was always about tennis and where your point of view came from... nothing more. It's not a personal attack Mr. Philosopher.

And now to the crux of the whole letter:

"The point still stands....does it follow that an amateur soccer player knows more about soccer than a chap who's never played since high school yet has studied the game for years on end? Of course not. Only an absolute moron with a moronic view would argue so. Go back to your tiny little pad and eat some ramyeon, Professor."

Your point never stood because you failed to closely read what I wrote. I didn't say I only taught a university course on the history and development of the game of tennis (and do you think they'd hire people off the street to do that.. people with no knowledge of the game?) ... I didn't say I only coached.... I didn't say I only played the game very often for 16 years at a high level... I didn't say I only watched 16 years of tennis on tv and read countless interviews to improve my knowledge of the game. I said that I've done ALL of the above, which puts me in a better position to speak on the subject than a person who has only done 1 or 2 of the above. That is what you have failed to understand. So go ahead and insist that you are right, based on the 1-2 critertia listed above that you can claim as your own basis to say what you do. But it'd be absurd and illogical to do it... and that's pretty easy for anyone to see.

Oh, and lastly. Geez... you think at some point in my earlier writings that I started boasting about working at a university. I just said it was a good place for a person who loves tennis to work. And I said that in defense to your comment about why I would come to Korea to teach rather than work professionally in the tennis field... which was an obvious attempt by yourself, to undermine my knowledge of the game. But that's not important... just know, that I don't brag about being a Professor.

[Merlyn]

Served and aced again. And he missed the ball completely, that's a shame. Game, Set, Match. It is just a game, don't worry about it.

[SPINOZA]

[Merlyn]

[ajstew]

Well said Merlyn... and Spinoza be careful what you say. If you wouldn't say it to someone's face, you shouldn't say it here. You posted your pic and can't hide behind anominity.

[Merlyn]

I just would like to thank Spinoza for your pm (private message) the other day. That was a really nice gesture on your part to say that you had really over-reacted in your response to this thread and were sorry for being disrespectful. Thanks again for that one Spinny. Clearly what you had said was uncalled for and many others have agreed. Thanks to everyone else, as well, for your support. When people blast away sometimes, it shouldn't just be overlooked. I'm glad you have come to terms with that as well Spinoza. There are no hard feelings. Hope to see you on this board again. Cheers mate.