So I get to usapl league tonight and sitting there texting my apa team mates the schedule for tri cups this weekend . My co captain start texting back and forth about a couple cant make it and one is not eligible. He is all.happy when I tell him a former team mate is eligible and will be there. Then out of the blue he starts going off about he hates apa ...nothing but a money grubbing racket....no money in it.
Of course i defend it some what when he states only 2 teams qualify and no one here ever does good out there yada yada yada. I tell him we send around 9 teams total and last year a scotch doubles team from here won it and a couple of years ago one of our team mates won scotch doubles also. He then says who the hell wants to play scotch doubles. I asked if you feel that way then why did you ask me to play with you in the captain / co captain tourny in a couple of weeks ? I then said if you hate it quit. And fold him I was in the middle of a match....texting between innings.....yea I know thats bad and have never done it before.
Well I wind up losing my match and text my team mate telling him I just lost a match I should mot have due to dealing with his crap. He apologized and I told him it was not his fault but mine for not focusing on my match. Told him we can deal with this tomorrow.
So I start my. 9 ball match and taking my po'd attitude out on my opponent. I win the first 4 racks and am up 56-12. My phone goes off and I know I should not look at the text and damn....my team mate text me saying he was gonna quit since I did not want him. That he wanted to play tournaments and play leagues where he could make money. Wtf ? So there goes my focus and lose 3 in a row and I finally win the 8 th rack 14-0.
Sitting there I think wtf is all this about? It dawns on me....could it possibly be due to the fact he just joined tap also and plays on the lo's team? So I text him and said i never said I did not want him that I said if he was not happy playing on my team to quit.
I then tell him playing tap aint gonna make him money that they only pay first place and If he aint on the winning team he dont make squat.. He then tells me he did not join tap to make money but to learn from the lo and another guy on that team so he can play tournaments. When he mentions the other guys name I say oh yea he is good that I lost hill-hill to him in a tournament this past weekend . He replies ...you must have played great that he is one of the best in town . I say yes he is ..damn shame I flubbed a safe on my last ball hill -hill and he ran out.
So then later on he texts me saying he is not a quitter and wants to stay on the team that he has learned a lot by watching me ...especially my safety play.
Wth ? Gonna think on it a day or 2 but really wanting to put a boot up his azz.
Of course i defend it some what when he states only 2 teams qualify and no one here ever does good out there yada yada yada. I tell him we send around 9 teams total and last year a scotch doubles team from here won it and a couple of years ago one of our team mates won scotch doubles also. He then says who the hell wants to play scotch doubles. I asked if you feel that way then why did you ask me to play with you in the captain / co captain tourny in a couple of weeks ? I then said if you hate it quit. And fold him I was in the middle of a match....texting between innings.....yea I know thats bad and have never done it before.
Well I wind up losing my match and text my team mate telling him I just lost a match I should mot have due to dealing with his crap. He apologized and I told him it was not his fault but mine for not focusing on my match. Told him we can deal with this tomorrow.
So I start my. 9 ball match and taking my po'd attitude out on my opponent. I win the first 4 racks and am up 56-12. My phone goes off and I know I should not look at the text and damn....my team mate text me saying he was gonna quit since I did not want him. That he wanted to play tournaments and play leagues where he could make money. Wtf ? So there goes my focus and lose 3 in a row and I finally win the 8 th rack 14-0.
Sitting there I think wtf is all this about? It dawns on me....could it possibly be due to the fact he just joined tap also and plays on the lo's team? So I text him and said i never said I did not want him that I said if he was not happy playing on my team to quit.
I then tell him playing tap aint gonna make him money that they only pay first place and If he aint on the winning team he dont make squat.. He then tells me he did not join tap to make money but to learn from the lo and another guy on that team so he can play tournaments. When he mentions the other guys name I say oh yea he is good that I lost hill-hill to him in a tournament this past weekend . He replies ...you must have played great that he is one of the best in town . I say yes he is ..damn shame I flubbed a safe on my last ball hill -hill and he ran out.
So then later on he texts me saying he is not a quitter and wants to stay on the team that he has learned a lot by watching me ...especially my safety play.
Wth ? Gonna think on it a day or 2 but really wanting to put a boot up his azz.
. Well you knida hit the nail.on the head. He is a young guy....middle 20's. His girlfriend plays on the team also....when they aint split up. She has dropped off the team twice in the last 2 sessions and then I put her back on when they make up lol. Their drama has never really affected the team . We had 8 including her . She is a 1 and we have a 2 so it never replied ally affected the handicap limit.