Two follow up notes

1.) Commenting on my post about bourbon, James has compiled an excellent list of his own. You should check it out.

2.) Well well well…that Federer post sure kicked up a firestorm, didn’t it? It’s an interesting thing about the blogosphere: nuance gets you nowhere, bold predictions/statements, meanwhile, produce beaucoup traffic. And if a bold statement is couched in a nuanced post, the only part anyone pays attention to is the bold statement.

For the record: I don’t think Federer will never win another major. I think he’ll probably average a major a year for the next four or five. I think he will break Sampras’s record. I think he will go down as the greatest player of all time, certainly one of the top two or three.

All I was saying in that post is that his era of dominance is at an end. It was a good run, but it’s probably over. The other thing I was saying is that in the open era there have been three periods of such dominance: Borg’s, Sampras’s, and Federer’s. And it’s interesting that they all ended at the age of 26.