THE PING-PONG ROUNDTABLE
THE TABLE TENNIS crew meets on Sunday. Usually late, after the kids have gone to bed. Three Brooklynites are always down to play: Grady Southard, 42, lawyer, father of one; Paul O’Reilly, 41, photographer, father of two; and Vib Sachdev, 39, lawyer, father of two. They play almost every week, sometimes until 2:00 a.m. It’s been five years straight.
“Compulsion sounds like it has a negative connotation,” says Southard, before describing the compulsion. (They compare table tennis to a need.)
At first, it was a reason to leave
