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vandalism political smurs and verbal
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altercations are on the rise across
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America but it's not over what you think
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this is a tennis player and this is a
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pickleball player and the argument is
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not unique in fact it's been waged
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across the country in a winner take all
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war for the future of Recreational
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Sports for decades tennis courts have
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littered retirement communities and
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country clubs but the sports growth has
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been flatlined in America this is
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largely due to the insanely High barrier
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to entry it's expensive difficult to
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play and not fun when you're just
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starting but pickleball is positioning
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itself as the exact opposite cheap to
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start and easy to pick up this is
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rubbing the tens commuting the wrong way
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and they're not going down without a
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fight One Park in Santa Rosa CA saw its
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pickleball courts vandalized with six
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quarts of oil and a note threatening to
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key the car of any pickleball player
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that came back to play another group in
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New York called the rise of pickleball a
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capitalist-backed parasite on the public
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space but what's really happening is
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something much deeper for decades
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Terrace has been an into a sport that
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hasn't had to share its space or
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attention but it got stale and a new and
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more Innovative competitor came to the
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table now tennis has to level with the
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fact that it needs to adapt or die and
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regardless of what it decides to do it's
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clear it's currently backed into a
