Fans watch pro players goof around, practice and play in massive tournaments, all through the portal of a stream on their computer.

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He is smart enough to know that people don't want to see him goof around they come to witness the refined mien, the sublime ground strokes, the buttery cross court volleys.

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And it does so in a dumbed-down Esperanto that its audience can't fail to understand -- the universal language of commercial TV sitcoms, with their constrained cultural vocabulary and their subtext of harmlessness: Don't be offended, none of this really means anything, it's just a goof about a lot of dumb stuff going down around us.

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