Opinion: You gotta pay to play

SUNNY ON THE OUTSIDE LOOKING IN

By Stacey Chadwick

I just got blown off the court.

Again.

And I’m not happy about it.

Taking every day of my four decades on this earth into consideration, (OK, four decades and some very spare change), my win-loss stats are backlit in a much more flattering hue than the numbers I’ve posted as of late.  Think megapixel versus rabbit ears.

But now, instead of living out a Technicolor tennis dream, I’m that quasi-rodent looking sheepishly over its shoulder as I limp off the screen, er, court.

For a large portion of what I consider to be a fairly short life (wishful thinking is an important component of aging gracefully), I was a good