Publishing their first piece in April of 2021, Gritty and Slim, the anonymous authors behind No Man's Land Pickleball (NML) became the first people to put out an opinion blog dedicated entirely to pickleball. They turned heads with their raw and unfiltered opinions on the rankings of pro players, the two pickleball tours, as well as live blogging pickleball events and giving takeaways at the end of the events. People at the highest level of pro pickleball started name dropping them and speculating who they were but almost a year later, their identities still remained largely a mystery. Until now.