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Used to absolutely hate adults dominating play areas when my kids were young.

For real. What a bunch of losers

Now it happens with people getting permits to play. Used to play soccer at Riverside Park and we’d have to find a spot to play where there wasn’t some sort of kids league or adults in intramural type sports.

“Corporal John A. Seravalli Playground in Manhattan had designated two courts solely for the tennis-lite game, but many adults were so desperate to get their pickleball fix they put up their own nets and courts on kids’ play spaces”

Gross

Yeah I remember deeply hating the Zog people.

Kids only have so many places where they can run around fairly freely and these weirdos take over.

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I played pickleball in a rec center in Queens like two years ago. It was crazy competitive. You miss a shot and have a bunch of 65 year olds screaming at you in mandarin. I was like daaaamn this isn't my game. People take it super seriously. And here I am like...y'all know this is a whiffleball right?

I pass on any game where the participants act like it's the Olympics. No thanks. I'm just trying to have some fun in life.

Lol at taking ‘pickle’ bowl that seriously

Reminds me of the PE scene in Superbad with Dave Franco. “Calm down, Greg, it’s soccer.”

> “I saw them yelling at kids when the kids’ balls would go onto their court. ‘Watch where your ball is going,’ one of the players shouted.

That, ladies and gentlemen, is the definition of a loser.

I have a friend that used to play in a finance bro squash and apparently that's just as bad. I guess when you can't lax in winter you squash and squash HARD

Kids' parents better-connected than pickleball players

“I would’ve made it into to the league if it wasn’t for my bad knee”

But NYT would be in favor of the pickleballers because so many of their staffers play it.

What kind of transplant shit is pickleball?

Fine with me.

When I babysat my toddler cousins, I would try to bring them out to the local ball field every night after work. On the vast majority of those nights, there were adult softball leagues hogging up the entire field. It was fucking ridiculous. And I say this as someone who plays in a league on occasion. Adults can pay for memberships in private spaces where they can play until their face turns blue. A group of adults should not be able to hog up public facilities 5 or 6 days a week.

I can’t take a game that uses a technique called “dink” seriously.

It’s the fastest growing sport in America right now

its the unsport - sports for people who arent atheletic.

wierdos does them a disservice.

average rich spoiled entitled manhattanite is more like it

rich people's stick ball

Let them have bowling.

And frisbee golf.

Tennis for people who don't want to run.

So imagine you’re playing tennis…

Got it? Great! That’s pickleball.

Up there with that “trampoline ball” shit I’ve been seeing in parks

LMAO this is great

Midwestern transplants even try to gentrify kids playgrounds. Wish these beardos would go back to Ohio.

NYT doesn't have a recent track record of being in favor of what their staffers want or like.

Good. They act like such dicks when kids dare to enjoy the park

The biggest rule is you can't get close to the net. But of all the times I have actually played pickleball I can't find real consistency in how that's applied. It's like traveling in basketball sometimes you can take like 3 steps and sometimes it results in like 4 people screaming at me.

I don't understand the rules!!!

At least play a fun game if you're going to be a little shit about it.

Yeah exactly it's Ike tennis for old people as far as I can tell.

LOL imagine being the faces of "invasive yuppies ruining childhoods with lame sport"

Brenda & Kevin must be having a DAY today

Wow. Like stealing candy from a baby…

Isn’t it just tennis lite?

Pickleball is for unathletic dorks

I'm down in the Rockaways where pickleball has absolutely exploded in popularity. They built an official court down by the boardwalk, but that was not sufficient for the amount of people looking to play. The pickleballers expanded into the adjacent handball courts, seemingly without any issue.

I just have a hard time imagining adults playing a tennis-adjacemt game taking over a children's space; and then being surprised when they are ousted.

But here we are. Buncha bozos.

As an aside, there have been courts at Riis for a long time, but that's so isolated that it doesn't see much use.

We desperately need more park space. I play intramural sports like softball and soccer but I also love my pick up games. Except they have become harder and harder to find as everything is a pay-to-play set up.

What’s worse are the adults who don’t even put together a league and charge $10 because they hold the permit. Like dude, the permit costs $10 total and you gave 20 guys playing. You’re not providing anything we wouldn’t have without you.

The first time I heard of it and played was at my girlfriend’s relatives in Ohio a few years ago.

No it's not. Kids these days are little shits, and they're parents don't do anything about it.

It’s not the same group of adults. It’s hundreds of different groups all vying for very limited space.

Adults have a right to public park space, too. And most of those adult leagues pay permit fees which (partially) cover maintenance.

Now, invading a children’s playground to play a sport you can play literally anywhere is stupid.

Was pickleball always a common game in nyc..? I never heard of it until recently.

Pickleball players have gotten extremely weird and territorial over it. They take over tennis courts and here kids playgrounds then get super mad when people point out that those exist for a purpose that isn’t pickleball and they need to leave. Stupid fad that needs to die out. Just play mini tennis you losers.

All kids? Really?

Also kids - literally anyone, actually - playing a ball sports are going to kick/hit balls into other areas. It’s going to happen, it’s a fact of amateur ball sports’ existence. You would need to leave play parks to avoid it, and it’s not worth getting mad over.

Children 1, overgrown (wo)man-children 0

It’s a public space, dude. Learn how to share. If you want a private space, buy one.

Exactly! The kids can let the adults play pickleball.

It is 100% worth getting mad over.

The adults could act like adults and let the kids play on the areas designated for children rather than try to steal it from them.

Since they couldn’t, and the city had to step in, they’re now banned.

The kids could act like respectable members of society and defer to their elders. Motherfuckers are already riding their scooters all over the fucking sidewalk.

I read this recently, and it really fits well here:

“Sometimes people use “respect” to mean “treating someone like a person” and sometimes they use “respect” to mean “treating someone like an authority” and sometimes people who are used to being treated like an authority say “if you won’t respect me I won’t respect you” and they mean “if you won’t treat me like an authority I won’t treat you like a person” and they think they’re being fair but they aren’t, and it’s not okay.”

The kids were acting like kids, but the “elders” to which you refer were acting like spoiled babies when they should have acted like responsible adults— and that’s why they got banned from the park.

There’s a lesson for you in this, buddy.

Grow up

No, the kids were acting like spoiled kids, and the elders were acting like adults.

NEVER!

Pickle ball is cool but it’s becoming a cult. Parks gyms has it and they get pissed if you miss a shot. I’m happy they have an activity but come on

> No it's not. Kids these days are little shits, and they're parents don't do anything about it.

Grandpa it's 6pm. Have you taken your meds?

The adult getting mad at kids playing in parks is always the less mature one

I can't tell you how many times my rugby team had to give up field space to softball players with permits. And there was hardly ever an incident even though, we smash people for fun

Turns out pickleball players were the real hooligans after all! Who knew.

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And pray he doesn't vote or teach or something...

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Explain how bullying children and forcefully taking up all of the courts in their playground - to the point where the city has to intercede - is “acting like adults”?

I'm happy I've given you someone to put down to make yourself feel better today.

The children are definitely the less mature ones.

I'm not on mediation and I'm not a grandpa.

It's adults staking their rightfully won ground. The kids can go play elsewhere.

You’re describing a schoolyard fight, in a kid’s playground, and claiming that it’s something that defines a group as “adult”.

Have you had a recent head injury?

> The kids can go play elsewhere.

According to the Parks Department, the so-called “adults” will have to go play elsewhere.

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No.

Fascinating.

Facing the consequences of your actions is not a state of victimhood.

Only people who don’t know how to play tennis run when they play tennis

The playgrounds really should be for the kids

I never understood pickleball. I’ve talked to some people about it and while I do see the appeal, it just sounds like tennis without the learning curve

WTF is pickle ball, it sounds made up. I wish I could still live through a game of handball like I played growing up but those days are long gone.

good.

Most public fields have hours reserved for private players to reserve time for leagues and specific hours for free play.

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I mean are you playing on a real court? Because there is a clear line that you can't volley if you pass it.

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Lmaooooo

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I played a bunch down south during the pandemic and was excited to start playing back in NYC

Had a good time playing in the West Village (Houston St and 6th Ave) in 2021

This year though brought out the biggest losers. Folks would set up nets early in the morning, drop their bags and refuse to let anyone play despite their whole group eating and drinking around a folding table they set up. I own my own net and offered to use mine but they wouldn't move.

My girlfriend and I even saw the parks dept and police come once given there was a permit / usage dispute between the picklers, soccer players, roller hockey players and basketball players (they taped lines on the basketball court and played there too).

Really turned me off... I still play on a few dedicated courts in Brooklyn though

Well have you ever considered them?

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People have been bitching about “kids these days” for all of recorded history.

But there are times when you can that I can't quite get a handle on. I think after the ball touches something. And you can step over the box at the corners apparently? I think?

You can enter the box just fine, you just need to let the ball bounce first if you are in the 'non volley zone'.

Kinda except you can't get close to the net except in certain circumstances that I am not really clear on. It's like if ping pong and tennis had a baby.

Found the adult pickleball bully

See "The Iraq War". Liberal rag my ass

“Y’all know this is a whiffleball right?” has got me crying. Thanks ! Hahahaha

Don't understand why people would get angry over goofy adults having some fun. I guess my opinion on things is if it ain't hurting others than have at it.

It’s lazy person tennis.

I play "lazy persons tennis" and it doesn't involve leaving the house. I play a tennis video game.

It sounds to me the upset is due losing their limited play spaces.

Ahhh though if you read the article and others complaints it does seem to be hurting people. Namely people who don’t want to play the game or lose the court that was already allocated for there game.

So in this case anger is appropriate.

I used to work at a tennis court and most of the people who played there were old as hell. I bet they’d kick these pickleball punks asses at pickleball on their home turf

Kids are more adult than adults.

You’re literally just some old angry cat man. They’re not on your yard so who cares

I don't care if they beef with adult tennis players but somebody's gotta be like a level 9 douchebag to take over a playground for this.

I'm honestly surprised parents didn't just walk in the middle of the pickleball games, while another parent took video, waiting for one of these dinguses to commit assault, and then tell them an out of court settlement of $25,000 would be acceptable. Would've been easy.

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As a recreational tennis player I get so annoyed when people use tennis courts that are quite sparse in quantity in nyc for things non tennis. Pickleball being one of them, volleyball as another and sometimes people run their dogs in courts. Wtf

You can if the ball bounces in what called The Kitchen which is near the net

Literally.

Wth is a pickle ball….actually never mind

I mean the article is literally all about how the adult pickle ballers are using up all of the children’s playground. No one condemning goofy adults

Everybody gotta be an asshole.

Lol, wtf what?

How can they take over a tennis court? It's a public space. I am just as much right to use the court as anyone else.

Oh my God they use a a paddle instead of a racket call Parks department

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Pickle ball is not a replacement for a personality nyc

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Just wait until you hear about the Prince.

Taking over playground space is a dick move, but people in this thread are acting like pickle ball players invented cancer and ran over the bodega cat. "Tennis for people who can't be bothered to run" and "Ohio transplants gentrifying the city"... like seriously wtf? I've only ever played once, but it's a fun game that's challenging and yet accessible to a wide range of people. My mom was an avid tennis player when she was younger, but after multiple knee surgeries, pickleball is an easier option that scratches the same itch. Plus it requires such a small footprint of space compared to something like a soccer field or baseball diamond.

There are assholes in every sport and every hobby.

What absolute losers. Also pickle ball is a fake sport grow up.

What out-of-Towner horseshit is pickle ball?

Wait, ya’ll have to stop making posting NYPOST articles a trend.

A pretty popular sport in the senior community when tennis is no longer an option. Apparently it got popular with the kids too!

My parents decided to move upstate when I was in high school in the early 90s and that’s when I first learned of pickle ball. I thought it was made up by the gym teacher (I was too cool to ask the gym teacher about the game and it was before one could look it up on Google). It’s a little like tennis with paddles and a whiffle ball (there are proper pickles balls and paddles now). It’s actually really fun, and was happy to see that it’s a real game that’s becoming popular because I would love to play it again, but not at the cost of being a dick to children and others in a public park.

Handball was fun too and would attempt to play if everything didn’t hurt as much as it does these days.

Yup. Try being an actual high school student on a sports team. Unless you go to an expensive private high school in the city - your practice space is non existent. And many high schools rent their gym spaces out. To whom? Yup….adult leagues. Sports in NYC are a joke.

Every park near me now, the handball courts have been turned into bloody pickleball courts...

I still keep a blue handball in my work backpack lol I agree, I miss those days in JHS/HS when that was my afternoons after school

Wasn’t that, checks notes, 20 years ago?

The midwestern transplants have long been priced out as well. That battle is over. The beardos are long gone now and have been replaced by the rich. So when you use those terms you sound like someone from outside the city.

We're talking about a playground. You know, for kids.

Ok yeh that’s dumb lmao 🤣

This is what happens when you mess with you know who.

They should have stayed on the designated courts

/uJubeltheBear blocked you limp dick

> I'm not a grandpa.

Of course you aren't, that would require fornication which you obviously have never done.

It's tennis for lazy people.

It's tennis for NARPS

I wonder who makes the equipment. Maybe this is all very successful marketing

This is why some parks are locked, LOL!

Don’t mess with Pickleballers!!!

I had a different kind of issue a few years ago. Went to play tennis with my wife in an actual tennis court, 3 courts used by people playing tennis, the last one being used by some 30-40 year old guys doing cricket batting practice. We waited for a court to free up, this dude doing his Sachin Tendulkar impressions, swinging for sixes in a fucking tennis court with people around and no nets to stop the balls. I say "oi this isn't a fucking batting cage" after one of his shitty slogs nearly hits a kid. He yells at me, I throw his ball out the courts and they went into the empty handball court instead.

It's just wiffle ball tennis. It's easy, enjoyable to play casually with friends, and doesn't require basically any skill compared to tennis. People hating on pickle ball are really just hating on the fad and terrible player base it's built up recently. The people taking it far too seriously and elbowing children and park goers out of their spaces need to get bent, as do the developers and city officials turning long-used spaces into new courts, but I would be lying if I said I didn't still enjoy playing pickle ball.

For everyone!

Pickle ball is tennis for elderly people. As well as a bunch of younger doofuses who play it like total chumps. Like, just play a real sport, not a retirement home activity.

Found the loser.

I hope I've been able to improve your day by giving you a scapegoat.

it’s a public space with a designated purpose* you don’t have the right to use the court however you please, actually.

The coke-fueked rage has to go somewhere.

Holy shit you're right. Aren't the Times writers striking today, or was that yesterday?

Foosball.

I dunno, you sound pretty racist yourself.

One of those articles where everyone comes out of it looking bad (except the kids).

Pickleball players: the city gave you two courts. Taking more than two courts when the area around you is crowded is a jerk move. If you need more space than that, consider going at a time when not so many kids are around. Should be pretty easy during the school year. Also, unless it's blatantly intentional, don't get pissed when a stray ball invades your game. That stuff happens; just return it and move on with your life.

Parents: telling your kids to run through other people's games to disrupt them is a jerk move. If you've got a problem with people using more space than they should, take it up with them yourself, don't outsource that to your kids who are just looking to have fun and not get hit by a ball or a random paddle.

The city: how about sending someone out to enforce the two courts every so often rather than just pushing the pickleball players out to other spaces where this whole thing will inevitably repeat itself? It's not like those other playgrounds are sitting empty.

The whole thing sucks, and it's the people who can actually act like adults in a civilized society who lose out.

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Pickleball is creating Karen on Karen violence all over the US and I’m here for it.

"Use nearby courts located at: West 16th Street, west of Eighth Avenue"

Nobody wants them there either. They set up in the handball courts and make it impossible for anyone to use the courts for its intended purposes.

Yup! Which is why there are barely any professional athletes from NYC. Certainly not in baseball, football, or soccer; we just don’t have the space.

You’ll get basketball pros because every school at least has a BS gym and some have nice ones.

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Well, it’s nice to know that someone like you won’t be playing.

Yeah, like you can’t go in the kitchen until the ball has bounced.

Bowling isn’t as obscure as pickle ball. They’re going to ruin the game for the normal people.

For a while, anyway.😉

You’re absolutely right. This game is a lot more fun than people will give credit for because of others who are behaving badly.

That would be a great spot for pickleball if no one is using it. I’d take the Q35 there to play.

Touché 🤭

Tennis - Running

Just make sure you bring everything you need. There is NOTHING over there. Like, for a couple miles either way.

Agreed.

There are also tons of outdoor hoops, especially outside of Manhattan

modified ping pong played on a court