Earl's Foul

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A video of a foul that were made by Earl on the 5..

But unlucky enough,Scott didnt see it,cause he was standing behind him...

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyoaEq2-IPQ
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The real version seems to be different from the talk. The way i see it. Earl fouls, CW says something to Scott-Scott must say " i didnt see it" and Earl says as if incredulous " You didnt see it?" and he walks away.
Sure Earl shoud have said " I fouled Scott" but he didnt say or imply- It's not a foul cause the ref didnt see it. JMHO

Edit- No i watched it again and Earl does say " he didnt see it though" before the "you didnt see it?"

Yep the talk on this seems to be pretty accurate.
 
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It was unfortunate in that inadvertently fouled. Afterwards, however, Earl said something to the effect that "if the referee didn't call it, then it's not a foul." IMO, that comment will forever taint Earl's reputation.

With the referee standing behind Earl, it's no wonder the referee didn't see the foul. (This reminds me of the way matches in professional wrestling are refereed.) Clearly, the referee should have been standing somewhere else where he had a better chance of spotting the infraction.
 
Pure T BS.

Maybe this is why I enjoy watching the women play. I bet they would have called it on them self.

Mantis....
 
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After seeing that, how can anybody not help but come to the conclusion that Earl is a cheating piece of s**t?
 
If that is the case, then other players such as Corr as cheating sh!ts as well. I have seen Karen do pretty much the same thing, except she kept her mouth shut and didn't say a word. The end result was the same. She knew she fouled, the referee was behind her, she didn't volunteer the foul. Because Earl comes right out and says the ref didn't see it rather than keep his mouth shut, he is blasted.
Kelly
 
Kelly_Guy said:
If that is the case, then other players such as Corr as cheating sh!ts as well. I have seen Karen do pretty much the same thing, except she kept her mouth shut and didn't say a word. The end result was the same. She knew she fouled, the referee was behind her, she didn't volunteer the foul. Because Earl comes right out and says the ref didn't see it rather than keep his mouth shut, he is blasted.
Kelly
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Yes, if someone does this, anybody, they are a cheating piece of s**t.
 
Earl is a great pool player. Ted Williams was a great baseball player. Ted Williams was a very poor sport. Earl is a very poor sport. Just because someone is really good at something doesn't mean they are going to be a wonderful human being. I think we should quit trying to put these kind of people on a pedestal just because they have some talent.
 
Wow

I don't even care that Charlie won, Earl should die of syphilis for even stooping that low. If I was Charlie I would have forfieted the match by smacking Earl's face off...but I'm a hot head:confused:
 
Man, when I was in the Army back in Alabama a whole lot of years ago we used to go to the local wrastlin' matches and the rotten bum of a wrastler would have aron in his hand to hit the good guy. We would tell the ref to check out his hands and the lousy ref would always be too late or miss it.

So I can really feel your pain on still talking about that old foul of Earl's.

Jake
 
Rickw said:
Earl is a great pool player. Ted Williams was a great baseball player. Ted Williams was a very poor sport. Earl is a very poor sport. Just because someone is really good at something doesn't mean they are going to be a wonderful human being. I think we should quit trying to put these kind of people on a pedestal just because they have some talent.
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I don't think anyone has ever put Earl Strickland on a pedestal.
 
Sore_Aintya said:
I don't think anyone has ever put Earl Strickland on a pedestal.
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You'd be surprised. I've been on this board a long time and we've had several discussions about Earl and many of the posters back then felt like Earl's talents should be the only thing we talk about. In other words, his talent was all that should matter.
 
Rickw said:
many of the posters back then felt like Earl's talents should be the only thing we talk about. In other words, his talent was all that should matter.
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Ideally, his talent is all that should matter. Except when he cheats, as he did in this game with Williams. Earl said that "if the referee didn't call it, then it's not a foul." Unfortunately for him, in this era of tv replays the whole world can see that it was a foul even if the referee didn't see it.

In partial fairness to Earl, the referee should have been standing somewhere else where he had a better chance of spotting the infraction. Standing behind the player as the referee did is an invitation to missing fouls such as the one that occured.
 
In sport, sometimes umpires **** up and it goes against you. Noone does anything. Sometimes they **** up and everyone complains when it goes your way. Players have to know umpires are always right even when they are wrong. It balances out in the long run but won't balance if you supercede the umpires decision or non-decision. Its not cheating. Its not being a shit. Its a game and thems the breaks. You take with the good with the bad. Why make the umpire look a shit anyway? Thats not a players job. A players plays, the umpire calls the fouls. :cool:
 
CamposCues said:
I don't even care that Charlie won, Earl should die of syphilis for even stooping that low. If I was Charlie I would have forfieted the match by smacking Earl's face off...but I'm a hot head:confused:
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I would have stuck my middle finger right in Earl's face when he comes up to shake my hand and say "F you, you peice of sh*t!!!!"

I've seen Karen foul before with Steve Tipton looking right at the shot and not call it...he should retire and quit costing people money from bad calls....
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Some of you need a dose of common sense. First of all, professional players are not supposed to call fouls on themselves if there is a ref, no matter what. Whether the ref sees it or not, it makes the ref look bad and unprofessional. Second of all, do you know how easy it would be to dump a match by calling fouls on themselves? They could let the match have high calibur play by both players. Lets say player A is going to dump the match to player B because player B is a huge betting underdog. All he's gotta do is call a foul on himself, something that the ref didn't see, and the other player gets ball in hand. Or a player could call an imaginary foul, like his nostril hair touched the cueball, etc. All of a sudden there is no need for a ref, and players can dump a match no problem.

Earl was simply going along with the rules. I am almost 100% sure that before the match started the players were instructed, "If the ref doesn't call it, there is no foul."

He can be a real asshole, but Earl is known as a SPORTSMAN, and I am sure he was obeying some type of rule by not giving Charlie ball in hand. If he was some type of cheat, he wouldn't even have acknowledged what Charlie said. Think about it.
 
In this situation it's a matter of integrity and honor...esp. a blatant foul like that....the one foul I seen Karen commit was on a jump shot...she probably had her eye on the CB instead of the ball she was jumping...Mr. Tipton should have though, it only moved 1/4"....you also can't accurately compare other sports to pool in this instance....
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CamposCues said:
I don't even care that Charlie won, Earl should die of syphilis for even stooping that low. If I was Charlie I would have forfieted the match by smacking Earl's face off...but I'm a hot head:confused:
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I saw Karen Corr do the same thing on ESPN. What should she die of? Man, some of us need to take a deep breath. IT IS A GAME!! It is not like he...oh I don't know...Flew airplanes into the WTC.
 
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