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The Deuce Club, 10.18

By Peter Bodo

‘Tis the season of injuries, and not just for sports stars, either.  I walloped the back of my head on my TV cart while reconnecting the cable, and have been dealing with shooting pains at unpredictable intervals for days.

More about TV later, but first, this is Tina’s faithful companion George, who looks like… maybe a poodle?  Tina says:

If George is normally half as mellow as he looks in this picture, he must be extraordinarily easy to fly with!

Insert the usual plea for pictures, news, and small moral victories.  Did you also wallop your head?  Discover a new recipe?  A secret to shoe organization?  Send them along and keep this Deuce Club going!

As promised, though, here’s Part II of tennis-on-tv ridiculousness.  For those just tuning in, I’m trying to find good TV cameos for all our beloved players.

  1. There was a vague threat last week to photoshop Federer into Ugly Betty, but I can’t really imagine him on that brightly colored telenovela that wallows in its own ridiculousness, can you?  It needs someone with a more outsize personality.  Maybe everyone’s best-loved quipper, Andy Roddick?

  2. Speaking of injuries, I did mention Grey’s Anatomy last week, but why stop there?  House, Private Practice, ER, Nip/Tuck… oh wait.  Actually, it would be hilarious to have a tennis player going for plastic surgery, maybe poke some fun at the image-conscious nature of sports these days.  You’d need someone with a large sense of humor or someone really beautiful or both to do it, though.  I bet Djokovic would do it!  (Doubt they’d want him, of course, but this is all fantasyland.)

  3. This Pushing Daisies show seems to be quite popular so far.  Seems to be begging for an Ed McGrogan-like ‘if’: If you could watch one player be killed, brought back to life with a touch, and killed again…

Or a less snarky version: If you could touch one player to bring him/her back to life and play in today’s ranks, who would it be?

  1. With the talk of gambling and fixing undiminished, I hesitate to suggest any of the six million crime shows out there.  But how about Andy Murray getting interrogated on Law and Order: Special Tennis Unit?

That’s all for today.  Send me your news!

-Heidi