Tennis.

Tennis is odd. One thing I could never get about tennis was why for whatever reason players peak at about 22. Like in baseball, most players peak between 26-30, have their best years, then slowly fall apart. (So a good, All-Star caliber player with four good years can extend that to a good 15 year career.) Basketball is much the same, where a guy like Kobe Bryant can play at an All-Star level from the age of 18 to probably around the age of 33-36. (Be it in the NBA or the California Penal League.) Hockey is another one where you can be a productive player well into your thirties. Football sucks so I'll just skip football.

However tennis is all like "Yeah Andy Roddick this and Roddick Andy that and oooooooo that Andy Roddick is a fine mofo too bad he'll be twenty soon."

I saw Boris Becker play in a "World Team Tennis" match last summer here in Schenectady. The dude was like the best tennis player in the world about 700 years ago, and now he plays in Team Tennis matches in Schenectady. Well guess what? He was like 35 at the time. 35 ain't old. 35's actually quite young.

Pete Sampras. Pete Sampras is 33. From 1994-1998 (when he was 23-27) you couldn't touch they guy. Once he hit the old age of 29 he couldn't win a face up poker game against Ray Charles and Stevie Wonder. He's 33.

That's why I think its tough to get into tennis. It's like having to pick a new favourite bball team every 4 years.