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Post by janie on Dec 28, 2012 12:56:42 GMT -5
He's been gone for so long now. Why do people keep disappearing?  |
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Post by Old Hag on Dec 28, 2012 16:31:30 GMT -5
We're all old now.  |
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Post by janie on Dec 29, 2012 8:51:47 GMT -5
I wonder if this place will be able to hang on if Brinyi is gone for good. Davis Cup, Hopman Cup, Junior Tennis aka Teen Beat, men's challengers -- these will be pretty much dead. Not to mention all the draws and entry lists he always posted for both women's and men's tennis; those posts were the glue that held the tournament discussions together. I am very sad.
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Post by lexpretend on Dec 29, 2012 9:54:19 GMT -5
Maybe it's just the off-season and holidays.
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Post by DBBN on Dec 29, 2012 20:07:32 GMT -5
Isn't Brinyi married now? Sometimes cuts have to be made. I mean there are only like 6 of us now.
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Post by janie on Dec 29, 2012 21:03:59 GMT -5
Yes, Brinyi is married now. He's been married for the past five years!
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Post by Wagasi on Dec 29, 2012 23:05:40 GMT -5
Oh man, we're getting downsized.
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Post by DBBN on Dec 30, 2012 1:00:41 GMT -5
Yes, Brinyi is married now. He's been married for the past five years! Maybe he's extra-married now. |
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Post by janie on Jan 13, 2013 15:35:23 GMT -5
I am not over this loss. |
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Post by DBBN on Jan 13, 2013 15:36:14 GMT -5
I really did think he'd come back for the Slam.
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Post by freudo on Jan 24, 2013 21:21:19 GMT -5
Me, too. I feel sad |
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Post by Traveling Man on Jan 25, 2013 2:21:58 GMT -5
I just hope he's alright and doing well.
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Post by DBBN on Feb 3, 2013 19:44:05 GMT -5
I see Janie found Brinyi alive on Twitter.
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Post by Wagasi on Feb 3, 2013 22:04:31 GMT -5
Everyone's on Twattir now. So what's he been up to?
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Post by DBBN on Feb 3, 2013 23:09:29 GMT -5
It's funny how I would consistently get chastised for using Twitter - yet I never once stopped posting here simultaneously.
Funny.
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Post by Wagasi on Feb 3, 2013 23:14:32 GMT -5
I never chastised you burls  I have a Twitter account but I'm afraid of falling down that rabbit hole and also of saying stupid things when drunk that people will remember forever. paranoid. |
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Post by DBBN on Feb 3, 2013 23:45:49 GMT -5
You can do that here too. You should!
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Post by janie on Feb 4, 2013 11:15:56 GMT -5
I see Janie found Brinyi alive on Twitter. Yes, it looks like he just recently returned there after many months away from it. Huge relief, and it gives me hope that whatever has been happening in his life that has kept him away from online tennis fandom, maybe he's now starting to inch back in. I sure hope so. I don't know what's been going on with him to keep him away, but obviously, it's something. It's clearly not just a preference for Twitter, since he's barely made a peep there, either. As for Twitter, yes I did grouse at you, Hurley, because for a while it looked like you were posting almost all of your tennis thoughts & reactions there instead of here. With Brinyi gone, to me, it looked like the board would die if you left, too, so that's why I protested. But soon I saw that you'd keep posting in both places, so the board was saved. But Junior tennis is dead, and men's challengers are dead and my heart is still broken until Brinyi comes back. |
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Post by DBBN on Feb 4, 2013 18:58:27 GMT -5
I know, I'm just sassing you!
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Post by janie on Feb 4, 2013 20:14:50 GMT -5
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Post by DBBN on Feb 4, 2013 20:33:49 GMT -5
Well I mean it has to be said that Brinyi has indeed voluntarily stopped posting here, but no one would ever dare to give him any lip for it, right? I mean I get it (I = asshole, he = sage) but lbr as the kids say.
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Post by janie on Feb 5, 2013 7:22:33 GMT -5
But you're wrong. I WOULD protest if Brinyi simply switched over from posting here to posting his tennis thoughts on Twitter. But that's not what happened; he disappeared from ALL venues for several months, and closed his email account associated with the forum so no one could contact him. That is something so different that I can't even see any correlation at all.
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Post by janie on Feb 5, 2013 8:10:48 GMT -5
Really, the long and the short of it is, we can't afford to lose anybody here. And Hurley, if you disappeared for weeks from FB, Twitter and here? Since you're right down the road from me, I wouldn't just open a Where is Hurley thread, I'd be calling 911.  |
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Post by DBBN on Feb 5, 2013 10:36:46 GMT -5
But you're wrong. I WOULD protest if Brinyi simply switched over from posting here to posting his tennis thoughts on Twitter. But that's not what happened; he disappeared from ALL venues for several months, and closed his email account associated with the forum so no one could contact him. That is something so different that I can't even see any correlation at all. You're right. His thing is actually much MORE deserving of yelling. |
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Post by janie on Feb 5, 2013 11:29:33 GMT -5
More deserving of anxious concern, I think you mean. |
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Post by janie on Feb 5, 2013 11:31:00 GMT -5
And anyway: "yelling"??  |
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Post by DBBN on Feb 5, 2013 11:31:17 GMT -5
Or that.
Well - no - now that you know he's okay, no.
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Post by Paean on Feb 5, 2013 11:38:11 GMT -5
So, he decided to cut us out?
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Post by DBBN on Feb 5, 2013 11:45:50 GMT -5
That's how it sounds but I'm sure there is more to it.
Still waiting for anyone to chastise him as other have been in the past but I doubt that's forthcoming.
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Post by janie on Feb 5, 2013 13:34:42 GMT -5
Or that. Well - no - now that you know he's okay, no. That happened just a week or so ago. So yeah, now I do know he's alive, but I still assume that something not so great is going on in his life that took him away from all social uses of the internet for months on end, something very serious such as a death or serious illness in the family. These things obviously happen a lot more frequently in the age group of Brinyi and myself, and that's exactly the sort of thing that would make me disappear without any word, so, right or wrong, that is what I've concluded about him, too. Now you know why I can't even comprehend this idea of "chastising" him that you keep mentioning. I just want to give him space and try to maintain some level of connection, taking my cues from him how much or little he wants of that. Anyway, to address the other issue that keeps popping up here: I sincerely apologize for chastising you (although to me it was more like whining than chastising ). Seriously, I'm not used to anyone paying that much attention to my grumpy comments! If I ever annoy you again, just ignore me. |
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