- Lies By The Truckload
- Santa Cruz PickleBall Club: Lie and Methods; There are Not 33 PUBLIC Tennis Courts In All of Santa Cruz County: Method Lie; Keep Lying constantly. Then hope your lies are believed.
The Santa Cruz PickleBall Club is filled with liars. As you note from the above picture from their website on 4-26-16, they state there are 33 Public Tennis Courts in Santa Cruz. There are not 33 PUBLIC Tennis Courts in ALL of Santa Cruz County as per tennis maps. This is Lie Number 1. (Euphemisms will not be used. They delete and alter the power of truth.)
The discussion presented here is not about “turf”; only one of the authors of this article plays tennis.
The issues addressed here are about integrity, honesty, community awareness and responsibility. These qualities cannot be used to describe the Santa Cruz PickleBall Club.
We have recently become aware of other articles addressing some of the concerns noted here. We will refer you to them at several points in our discussion. One of these documents addresses lies by pickleball organizations in general and, also, the Santa Cruz PickleBall Club. The article referenced here provides a in-depth analysis of the myths of health benefits presented by pickleball organizations.
The article referenced above details the dishonesty which the Santa Cruz Pickleball Club perpetrates on the community by violating due process and proper notification to county residents. One must wonder if other pickleball clubs operate in the manner of the Santa Cruz PickleBall Club. It details the lies the Santa Cruz PickleBall Club present to county supervisors, resource managers, and the community in general.
We will now continue with a euphemism free documentation.
The Santa Cruz Pickleball Club states that they want “1 pickleball court”. The Santa Cruz Pickleball Club already has over 30 courts in the County of Santa Cruz as noted on their website on 4-26-16. The Santa Cruz PickleBall club statement that they “want 1 court” is Lie number 2. They have 30 pickleball courts at this time.
The following image is of only 8 of the 30 pickleball courts in Santa Cruz County at this time.
The Santa Cruz PickleBall Club continues on with Lie Number 3 as noted in the following image.
The Santa Cruz PickleBall Club method and lie is again evidenced. Lie and keep repeating the lie and hope you are believed. They do this routinely without regard to honesty, ethics, or community investment.
Here is another location in Santa Cruz County with 6 beautiful pickleball courts.
The Santa Cruz PickleBall Club states publically that they are outgrowing facilities. As noted and documented, they have no less than 30 courts available to them. It is noted that there are about 100 players in the Santa Cruz PickleBall Club. There is no way that 100, or even 200, people have outgrown the 30 courts available to pickleball players in Santa Cruz County.
The Santa Cruz PickleBall Club state, to the public, they need permanent nets, for whatever reason. They do not present to the public and county officials that a pickleball net can be set up in TWO MINUTES. A pickleball net can be taken down in ONE MINUTE.
The Santa Cruz Pickleball Club lies by omission. When communicating that they need permanent nets, that a pickleball net can be set up in two minutes, and taken down in one minute, is extremely relevant information to county resource planners and developers.
The information regarding the set-up, and take down, of pickleball nets, is not presented to the public. It is listed nowhere on the Santa Cruz PickleBall Club websites as of 4-26-16.
Here are 2 more Santa Cruz PickleBall Club lies presented to the public by email.
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From: “M Creed” <795a1ea0ad923cb9996bdb20aafd1100@reply.craigslist.org> To: jvm8h-5535558306@comm.craigslist.org Sent: Saturday, April 16, 2016 7:55:11 AM Subject: Brommer Street
Of the “25 pickleball courts” you cite for Santa Cruz County, not one is permanent. That means there is only an overlay on the court surface and a 23-lb net must be brought to the court and set up. Additionally, of the single (1) tennis court that SCPC is asking to replace with four permanent pickleball courts, the County is ADDING a new tennis court at the Chanticleer park. There are seventy (70) public use tennis courts in Santa Cruz County; that number does not include Cabrillo or UCSC courts, or courts in clubs or HOAs. See you at the meeting… End Email.
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You will note that there are at least 30 pickle ball courts LISTED ON THE SANTA CRUZ PICKLEBALL CLUB WEBSITE not 25. An individual interested in presenting accurate numbers, as a member of the pickleball club, would state the figure honestly.
The County is NOT Adding a new tennis court at Chanticleer Park.
There ARE NOT 70 public use tennis courts in all of Santa Cruz County. This is Wildly incorrect. It is a monumental lie presented to the Community of Santa Cruz.
Even tennis maps STATE that there ARE NOT 70 public tennis courts in the county of Santa Cruz, NOT INCLUDING U.C.S.C., Cabrillo College, private clubs and HOAs.
Tennis Maps lists UCSC courts as PRIVATE. Tennis Maps lists Cabrillo College as PRIVATE.
The “Lie Count” for the Santa Cruz PickleBall Club continues.
They state that pickleball is the fastest growing sport in America. This is a lie
Wikipedia does not list pickleball as a sport. It does list the most popular sports in America. As noted, pickleball is not even included as a sport. Pickle ball is not listed in this study of the fastest growing sports in America. This breakout graph is presented here.
Pickleball was invented, in 1965.
In 2015, The USA Pickleball Association state there were 200,000, only, pickleball players in the United States. This is an estimate as the association has minimal statistics and tracking ability and do not have any way to accurately track numbers.
Justin Maloof, executive director of the United States PickleBall Association, speaks to his inability to accurately track numbers. He states verbatim: “We don’t actually have a meaningful way to track players”.
(We know this image is difficult to read. Documents and links disappear from the internet regularly. By placing it here, we insure that it cannot be lost. It is important information.)
Pickleball has added only 200,000 players from 1965 through 2015.
Another way of digesting this lie is:
PICKLEBALL HAS ONLY GROWN BY 200,000 members, wait for it, in 50 YEARS!!!!
PickleBall is ABSOLUTELY NOT the fastest growing sport in America.
The Santa Cruz PickleBall Club lies again when it says that Pickleball is the fastest growing sport among Seniors.
Golf Is the fastest growing sport among seniors. There are 26 million golfers in the United States.
Of people that play Golf, people between the ages of 50 to 70 years of age comprise 65 percent of those that play golf in the United States. People between the ages of 40 to 49 comprise 22 percent of the people that play golf in the United States.
What happens when those people turn 50? They add a huge statistical jump in the growth of golf among seniors.
Until such time as there are 26 million pickleball players in the USA, it is inconceivable, and mathematically and statistically impossible for pickleball to be the fastest growing sport in America, or for seniors.
Pickleball is ABSOLUTELY NOT the fastest growing sport among seniors.
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Lies by the truckload, or “A Blizzard of Lies”, accurately portrays the lying of The Santa Cruz PickleBall Club.
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The lies by the Santa Cruz PickleBall Club have not yet been fully explored.
The more you research the Santa Cruz PickleBall Club, the MORE LIES you find.
At no time do they present to the public that they have PERMANT PickleBall Courts at Willowbrook Park. “The Santa Cruz Pickleball Club recently completed installation of a storage box and concrete pad at Willowbrook County Park”. As of November 19, 2014, they knew they had these Permanent Facilities for at least 1.5 years.
The Santa Cruz PickleBall Club engages in unheralded manipulation of The Santa Cruz Community. We have never seen a community organization or club act with the unmitigated deception evidenced by the Santa Cruz PickleBall Club. Their actions border on criminal malfeasance and manipulation of county officials, planners and resource allocators.
It has come to our attention, and we had not considered in our discussion of The Santa Cruz PickleBall Club, that almost no people in the Santa Cruz PickleBall Club live in the Community of Live Oak in Santa Cruz County.
This came to our attention when we reviewed the article Santa Cruz PickleBall Club Chicanery: Let Live Oak Vote. We do not know how long this article will be on the internet. Many of the points in this article are similar to our article. With the exception that we had not considered that members of the pickleball club want to diminish resources in a community in which they do not live.
Live Oak in Santa Cruz County, Ca. is, in large part, a culturally diverse community that does not resonate with pickleball. The Santa Cruz PickleBall Club wants to remove facilities in this “poor” location. This smacks of elitism and a lack of community culture awareness and caring.
The article noted above indicates we are not the only group of people that find the Santa Cruz PickleBall Club to be dishonest and not community oriented.
Your Comments and thoughts are appreciated and will be graciously considered. DO LET US KNOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!
There are many euphemisms that can be used when writing an article in which dishonesty and misinformation are explored. We just used two of them, “dishonesty and misinformation”.
Euphemisms delete and alter the power of truth.
If people, or organizations, are “dishonest”, the odds are 99.999999999% that they LIE.
If people, and organizations, “misinform”, the odds are 99.9999999999% that they LIE.
Instead of using euphemisms, we have utilized the power of language as it is supposed to be used.
To present the absolute bare boned truth.
One thing that must be made crystal clear. We play pickle ball. It is the methods of the Santa Cruz PickleBall Club with which we have issues. These issues are integrity, honesty, community awareness and responsibility.
Sorry, we could not add a link in text so we listed it here. This link was included in several discussions in the comments section so we decided to post it in the body of the this article.
The gist of this link is:
In late 2016, The Santa Cruz Pickle Ball Club was granted exclusive use of Brommer Street Park.
In early 2017, only two months after being granted exclusive rights to the Brommer Street facilities, The SCPBC petitioned the City of Santa Cruz to remove Tennis Courts in Derby Park in Santa Cruz City.
As detailed in the link, do read it, the minimum lie the Santa Cruz PickleBall club stated to the City of Santa Cruz is that the PRIAVTE AND FEE CHARGING La Madrona Racket and Swim Club is a PUBLIC RESOURCE.
We hope that this piece of information provides some clarity to the discussion in the comments section.
We encourage any person in the Santa Cruz Pickle Ball Club to address the questions posed in our last comment in the comments section of this article.
We have always considered this document to be secondary in nature to other articles referencing the ethics of the Santa Cruz Pickle Ball Club. The article we provided links to provide far more detailed discussions and issues than we have provided. We saw no need to duplicate the information contained in the first link we provided over a year ago. We became aware of the second link and its report about a month ago.
We did check the links we have provided to “TheTruth”, and encouraged him/her to comment there. As of this date 3-25-17, he/she does not appear to have done so. We see that no comments of any sort have been posted to refute the information posted at either of these sites. One of these documents have been on the internet for a year. The other was posted in early 2017.
We encourage(d) “TheTruth” to go to these documents and post his/her replies. We encourage any member of the Santa Cruz PickleBall Club to go to these sites and discuss the data presented at these sites.
According to what we have been able to glean from these articles, the Santa Cruz Pickle Ball Club presented (ok! we will mitigate the truth) “false data” to the Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors in early to mid 2016 in reference to the Brommer Street Process.
And the Santa Cruz Pickle Ball Club, presented, or allowed to be presented, to the City of Santa Cruz and its Council (we will mitigate the truth again) “misleading data” in 2017 regarding the removal of tennis courts from Derby Park in the City of Santa Cruz.
We encourage dialogue in all matters.
It is difficult to envision the Santa Cruz Pickle Ball Club as community minded when they are granted exclusive rights to a facility (Brommer Street) and then, only TWO (2) months later, petition the City of Santa Cruz to remove tennis courts at Sergeant Derby Park.
The Comments Section has gotten rather deep. We did go through and evaluate links provided by “TheTruth”. As a brief synopsis of that review, we will provide a cut and paste here of our assessment of the links proided by “TheTruth”:
“Intuitively we knew this is what we would find when we evaluated links provided by “TheTruth”. “TheTruth” provides exquisite proof to what has been presented several times on the internet. The “data” behind the “exponential, monumental, geometric, J Curve EXPLOSIVE growth of PickleBall” is based on junk science and hyperbolic ESTIMATES”.
As you review the full reply to TheTruth, you will note what is, we will mitigate the truth, “misinformation” provided to us and the Community of Santa Cruz.
WE PLAYED THE SEMANTICS game in the last few paragraphs as the reader can tell.
Providing “false data”, “misleading data”, “misinformation” does sound not as bad as LYING. These acts are LYING.
If you, or us, or any person presents “false” data to a person or a governmental body, then a LIE has been perpetrated upon the recipient of that “false” data.
In this case, we are considering LIES perpetrated upon the community of Santa Cruz and TWO (2) major governmental entities in the County of Santa Cruz.
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