![]() ![]() Section 5: OPA Board Subject: Pickleballers on Parade Msg# 1201029
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I'd like pickleball more if it wasn't for all of the competitive and interpersonal BS that often comes along with it. The gossiping and infighting sometimes reminds me of middle and high school. Plus, many players seemed to have failed kindergarten when it comes to basic things like sharing the court and playing nice. As I said though, that's a people issue, not a pickleball issue.
Most things are "people issues." I am fairly familiar with the operation at the racquet center but not so much with pickleball. Back in the 90s I was president of the Ocean Pines Tennis Club. The only substantive issue I recall back then was related to lighting the courts. Lights were eventually installed, but I don't recall players making any major public issues over it at board meetings. Based on what I have read, pickelballers nationally seem to be rather aggressive groups when it comes to trying to get what they want. One sees the word "cult" used in some articles. As an aside, one time the Board of Directors held a special board meeting in the racquet center. Dave Stevens was the board president and the subject of the meeting was a parking contract with Secrets. All discussed in complete transparency. That transparency resulted in OPA being informed that Secrets had built structures on OPA property without permission. These days little is transparent about that contract. A few years ago a board president signed a contract renewal without board approval or public discussion. Consequences? None. The board just approved the contract after the fact. |
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For reference, the above message is a reply to a message where: I'm glad you took my appropriation of the movie title in the spirit in which it was meant. The OP pickleballers do seem to be drawing attention to themselves lately, but I am not sure there are any/many truly altruistic people stepping up at board meetings to raise issues that aren't at least somewhat self-serving. Perhaps the recent pickleball issues are on the more blatantly self-serving end of the spectrum though. I get the impression that you give everyone their due, but I'm less sure that you spend as much time assailing the very notion of other group's interests like you have with pickleball. FWIW, I play pickleball on a regular basis, but only occasionally at OP. I've seen many pickleballers get way too carried away about all sorts of things, but I think that is just people being people. I suspect it just seems more common with pickleball because it results in many different people mixing together and interacting many times a week. That can be a good thing and a bad thing. I'd like pickleball more if it wasn't for all of the competitive and interpersonal BS that often comes along with it. The gossiping and infighting sometimes reminds me of middle and high school. Plus, many players seemed to have failed kindergarten when it comes to basic things like sharing the court and playing nice. As I said though, that's a people issue, not a pickleball issue. |
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