offhand observation: I prefer both playing and, if i'm gonna, watching "bad" pickel ball. once the game gets optimized it turns into lots of dinks in the kitchen until someone makes a mistake, rather than longer, more interesting shots.

pickle ball is one of the sports in the United States where chesterton's quote still applies:

> "It is a good sign in a nation when such things are done badly. It shows that all the people are doing them. And it is a bad sign in a nation when such things are done very well, for it shows that only a few experts and eccentrics are doing them, and that the nation is merely looking on. "

i hope that doesn't change.