{"id":10077,"date":"2015-07-08T15:36:01","date_gmt":"2015-07-08T15:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=10077"},"modified":"2015-07-08T15:36:01","modified_gmt":"2015-07-08T15:36:01","slug":"shrieking-at-wimbledon-of-all-places","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=10077","title":{"rendered":"Shrieking? At Wimbledon of all places?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Wimbledon is supposed to be a place of grand decorum, politeness and good manners.<\/p>\n

Now, though, we hear gripes about the grunting that goes on while the world’s greatest tennis stars are playing each other. What’s more, the fans apparently get tanked up on gin-laced drinks and have been mimicking the grunts\u00a0some of the players —\u00a0notably the women — make while they’re competing.<\/p>\n

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I’ll stipulate\u00a0that I’m not a huge fan of tennis. I like watching it some of the time. I’m not glued to my TV set when the “majors” are being played. Wimbledon is one of them. The closest my wife and have ever been to the place was on an airplane that in June 2006 was making its approach to Heathrow Airport in London; the bird flew over the stadium, and I’ll admit it was kind of cool to see it from the air.<\/p>\n

It fascinates me somewhat that an uproar would occur at this place.<\/p>\n

Why, they don’t even allow the competitors to wear anything but white on the court. Headbands? They have to be white, too.<\/p>\n

Wimbledon is as\u00a0stodgy a place as, say, Augusta National Golf Club in Georgia, which has banned CBS Sports announcer Gary McCord from taking part in the network’s\u00a0TV coverage of the Masters Tournament because, well, McCord’s smart-alecky personality rankles the stuffed shirts who run the Masters.<\/p>\n

So, if the green jacket crowd can dictate who covers their golf event in Augusta, why can’t the stuffy Brits who run Wimbledon get the athletes to stop their grunting and shrieking?<\/p>\n

What’s more, why don’t they make the stands a booze-free zone?<\/p>\n

Do I like hearing the grunting? No. It does distract me from what I’m watching. But that’s not my call.<\/p>\n

It’s just that if the tennis royalty that runs Wimbledon is going to demand certain behavior and make the athletes wear only white, then let’s go all the way.<\/p>\n

Stop the shrieks and tell the fans to behave themselves.<\/p>\n

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Wimbledon is supposed to be a place of grand decorum, politeness and good manners. Now, though, we hear gripes about the grunting that goes on while the world’s greatest tennis stars are playing each other. What’s more, the fans apparently get tanked up on gin-laced drinks and have been mimicking the grunts\u00a0some of the players … Continue reading Shrieking? At Wimbledon of all places?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[504,890,2020,2952,4267,5271],"class_list":["post-10077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports-news","tag-augusta-national","tag-cbs-tv","tag-grunts","tag-masters-tournament","tag-shrieks","tag-wimbledon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10077\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}