an undeniable truth reflecting on the state of our global culture today is that we humans like sports.

I'm thinking most of all that we are fans of sports now many of us self excluded are

avid and in some cases accomplished athletes in one or another of hundreds of

sports but that's still a rarefied crowd the reason we use a

phrase like weekend warrior to speak of some older person who plays tennis on the

weekends is that in doing so she is separating herself from her peers, right?

She's not just a dime a dozen kind of a person.

She plays tennis on the weekends.

Every weekend, she's a warrior

as many warriors as there are there are far more fans and perhaps like you dear

listener I too am a fan and a fan of a lot of sports and because of this undeniable truth that humans like sports

Think of the worldwide popularity of a single sport, football, the billions of fans

and dollars, the avidity and resources driving just that one sport.

Because of this undeniable truth that humans like sports,

while those who play them professionally,

the weekday warriors, if you will,

become of greater interest.

This week's show we have one of the top 1,000 or so players

in the world of the sport of tennis.

If I told you we had one of the top 1,000 or so

lawyers in the world, nothing personal lawyers,

just having fun making a point.

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