Play-By-Play Commentary

Fight Club

Now's as good a time as any to say it: the Layer Tennis playing field accommodates two simultaneous matches just fine, but the commentator's booth was clearly built for one. It's about the size of a phone booth (and, after Joshua Allen got done with it, about as clean), and, well, let's just say that the bathing habits of the French, including its American expatriates like my esteemed colleague Mr. Baldwin, stink.

But that's my problem, not yours.

The match itself proceeds spendidly, although this volley from Inman strikes me as a bit of a punt -- not much new has been added. Again we see the interplay with the surrounding web page layout and colors, but the only conceptual addition is the word "fight".

Play by play commentary for this match is provided, as it happens, by John Gruber.

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