Brickbat: Poor Sports

The city council of Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, has banned pickleball at Forest Hill Park, the only public park in town with pickleball courts, making it a criminal offense punishable by a $1,000 fine to play there. The ban follows repeated noise complaints from a few nearby residents. City officials considered quieter equipment and other compromises, but ultimately rejected them, saying the park's location was incompatible with pickleball.

Comments

[Fist of Etiquette]

...making it a criminal offense punishable by a $1,000 fine to play there.

They should pour sand onto the court, a la covid.

[mad.casual]

What's the difference between pickleball players and soccer players?

Pickleball players get real injuries died *of* COVID

[Longtobefree]

Well, they ARE the experts after all - - - - - - - -

[Gasman]

The noise is a design flaw.
Any amount of ball bounce from the ground and from a racquet may be created using many materials. That pickleball has steadfastly stuck with chosen racquet and ball materials is on the sport's governing body.
The sport could be as quiet as tennis, but has chosen to be loud as hell. And that does expand the range of public nuisance.

[Sailor1989]

Its almost like the game was designed a certain way and then stayed consistent. I don't think anyone expected such a stupid sport (literally created and grown in the retirement community) would become so popular.

If the park is public and people are playing during the day then they should have the right to play.

[Incunabulum]

There is a legitimate balancing act government needs to do here between people's free use of the park and the rights of adjacent property owners.

[Roberta]

The game was developed from a preceding one popular in Brooklyn that uses a punctured tennis ball.

[Longtobefree]

Congratulations on NOT using (not so) Great Britain this time.

(although CA is also a target rich environment)

[Don't look at me! ( Is the war over yet?)]

Wait until pickleballers are replaced with a bunch of young men playing basketball late into the night.

[AT]

I'm fairly certain at this point that Pickleball is one of those games that is designed to make people feel like they're good at something "sporty" (because it requires little athleticism, is low-skill, and is low-effort) which Millennials/Zoomers then glommed onto because it's also intentionally designed to be as annoying as possible - and Millennials/Zoomers love to be as obnoxious and trendy as possible (even better if simultaneously).

Which, of course, then gives them the opportunity they really love to become outraged and indignant when people complain about them - even when the complaint is 100% valid.

It's kinda like transgenderism that way. Transgender Tennis, if you will.

The sad part is, unlike the cross-dressing pedos, with pickleball there's plenty of room for reasonable alternatives and compromises that wouldn't affect the game in any way except to make it quieter. But the trannies (tennis or otherwise) don't want that, because their whole schtick is to be in-your-face vexatious to anyone who is in any way critical of them and what they're doing even slightly. (That, and they're self-centered jerks who think the world revolves around them, and should have to adapt to what they want instead of the other way around.)

[Sailor1989]

I mean you're not totally wrong, it started in the retirement age demographic and then spread.

[AT]

Rumor has it boomers invented it for their kids who, hilariously enough, A) sucked at tennis B) weren't athletic enough for volleyball, and C) thought badminton was gay. But D) were kinda OK at ping-pong.

The boomers liked it because they wouldn't break a hip playing it, and then the mil/zoomers, as is their wont, EXTREMEinated it to the 12th degree - making it as obnoxious as possible as they did - in order to play a grandma sport while pretending like they're athletes.

NGL, I figure once this pickleball fad dies down, EXTREME SHUFFLEBOARD!!!!! will fill the vacuum.

[mad.casual]

spread

More of an ooze or glacial migration really. It's not like we're talking about the XFL replacing the NFL or pro Tennis switching over to plastic whiffle balls anytime soon.