Swing and a miss on that one Willie, but I couldn't do any better, friend, but at least you threw out an opinion. Redpect due for that. I'm a baseball and formerly a Jai alai guy ( nearly )
a proffesionall level player way back in the 80's., When the sport was hot and Drew like 5,000 fans on a Friday/ Saturday night. It was basically the only gambling action in the state other than a dog track and lottery. It was the game and place to be back then circa ,1980.
Only someone that's like 50+ and from Florida or Connecticut could understand this.
The sport was as intense as any other with pelota ( ball) traveling at speeds upwards of 150 mph, and the very best players in the world, right there and admission was looking like $2, maybe $5 for front row seats, but you could easily infiltrate the best seating without any challenge. The environment usually heavily smoke filled was totally electric and spurred on the late game elite superstar players like Juaristi, Eburbi, Ondarres, Bolivar, Cachin,Elorza, Lasa, Joey, and so many more to reach down deep and try their hardest to win for their fans there were valid cases of cheating involing only a few , maybe 10 ? Not elite players.
At the top levels these guys had a lot of pride and integrity and respect for their sport.
Even the second tier of late game players weren't that far behind and very capable of beating the #1 guy in the world in the Americanized version of the game, which is very different than the traditional matches from the Basque regions of Spain where this beautiful sport originated.
I'm sad to see it's all but toast, but still survives in the area of Miami, specifically Dania, that's about it, for real Jai alai with an180' or so court and a granite front wall (frontis)