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Pickleball wars spread to East Boston
By adamg on Thu, 06/22/2023 - 11:50am
There's some outrage in Jeffries Point this morning, where a city-owned street-hockey rink that the Bruins helped pay to resurface at Porzio Park was overlaid with markings for a new pickleball court - some residents are mad, especially since some people went to play hockey last night and were told it's now a pickleball court.
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Is Pickleball the new MAGA?
Can Michelle turn the verdant fields at the West Roxbury Educational Complex into a 24x7 city wide Pickleball emporium?
I had an incident with a Karen last summer, who literally shot a hockey puck at me because I had the audacity to use quad skates on a street hockey rink while her kids were playing.
Seriously
What is the sudden obsession with pickleball?? I had never heard of it two years ago, now it seems it's the only sport anyone plays. How did this come to be?
It's like...
Peg and Al Bundy meet Lovey and Thurston Howell for a wife swap wearing as many body braces and fragrant muscle heat rubs as possible.
it's the same people
who dress up in outfits for walking and flagrantly pump their arms with headphones on, as if anybody really cares how serious they are. As Mark Twain said of golf, a good walk ruined.
Sounds like a legitimate beef
Pickleball doesn't need boards, but hockey sure does.
It's legitimate and long. I
It's legitimate and long. I live in the neighborhood and this has been ongoing for months now. The pickleball people don't have a permit and repeatedly RUINED THE RINK by putting down TAPE. That on top of people using it as a dog park makes it gross and unsafe for people (mostly kids) to use it for its actual intended purpose.
There have already been negotiations to share the space, but once again the pickleballers think they are the most important thing around.
A friend lives near tennis courts
that sometimes host pickleball games. The noise is considerably more piercing and annoying than tennis.
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https://whdh.com/news/judge-orders-falmouth-pickleball-courts-closed-aft...
First they came for the tennis courts
And I did not speak out
because I was not a tennis player.
Then they came for the hockey rinks
And I did not speak out
because I was not a hockey player...
wait til they try interfering with Mahjong
they'll either be stabbed with chopsticks or shamed into such feelings of guilt that they can't function.
Just wait til they put a
Just wait til they put a pickleball court in a bike lane. That fight will be epic.
I often skate at the rink at
I often skate at the rink at Casey Park in Watertown and a couple of days ago I noticed that the tennis courts nearby have had pickleball lines painted on them. Pickleball seems to be the rage, but I know nothing about it except for the noise complaints. It's the new shuffleboard.