November 2007 Blog
November 9th, 2007 04:05 pm
By Andyroddick.com Staff
Nov. 9th. 2007
Howdy Howdy….
Where to start. Good for the Boston Red Sox! They have some of the most passionate fans in the world and all of their years of loyalty are being rewarded.
I got to sit with Tom Osbourne for the Texas-Nebraska football game! This was amazing… a lot of you are aware that I am a lifelong Nebraska football fan. Coach Osbourne was an idol of mine and I was actually at the last game he coached against Tennessee ten years ago. It was very surreal sitting next to him as he was dissecting the game and giving his opinions… it was just awesome for me!!!
What is it about young people in the states who use the world “like” every 4 words? Something really needs to be done about this…haha
Happy retirement to Justin Gimelstob! One of the funniest guys you will ever meet… always entertaining and will be missed.
Really happy to be in Shanghai. its always an honor to be a part of the masters and its great being around the best for ten days
So I have a little bit of a problem that has been bothering me… interested to know other people’s thoughts…. so during my match in Lyon I was feeling the effects of a previous injury a bit and also tweaked my right ankle a bit… I pulled out of Paris knowing that I needed to get back to heal and spend the next eight days putting a bunch of work into leg fitness training in Austin to make sure i was healthy for Shanghai and Davis Cup…I felt like I was getting some of these annoying injuries because I had not had a window to really work on my fitness…. anyways, I got fined 20 grand for not going to Paris. In order to avoid the fine I would have had to stay in France for 4 or 5 days to fulfill media obligations for the tourney. To stay there for an extra 4 days when I only had a ten day window to train/recover did not seem like the right thing to do before Shanghai.. I thought it was a smarter play to be at home with my doctors and trainers preparing to make sure I
was healthy for masters which by the way is an ATP run event….. so I get fined 20 large which is a flawed system but I have gotten used to it….. fine…put it on my tab…..I read 3 days later that Nikolay Davydenko has been fined 2 grand for not trying in a match… I AM NOT here to say he did or did not try in that match…. I didn’t see it .. just heard about it… the thing that got me was the 2 grand fine…. in essence they are setting the precedent that preparing and getting healthy for their year end event is worth a 20 grand fine, but tanking (again I have no opinion on guilt or innocence here) only warrants 2 grand….taking care of injuries and health to be prepared for their event= 20 grand……….. not trying= 2 grand…anyone else see a problem with this??
anyways, onto funnier things….. check out Stephen Colbert’s book I am America and so can you! Had me laughing pretty hard.
Club Roddick members can read the full blog here, with the public version coming later this month!
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