Self confidence? Fear? Knowing? Guessing? TdF?

WildWing said:

It's my impression that tall guys use long cues because they don't have much of a natural stroke with a short cue. By contract, a short guy using a long cue doesn't make sense to me. He'd have to spread his arms out too far just to get his hands on the wrap area. Big guys use big things. Uh oh, did I say that...

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I was a golfer before I was a pool player…..use the right club for the shot….my 57 inch cue hits stronger than longer ones and I still got three inches behind my right hand.
I feel the cue should accommodate the cue ball….it’s up to me to make the adjustments.

I’d bet my last dollar Scorcese put Keith, Miz, Matthews and all the others in the film to “authenticate” it for the pool community. It sure as hell wasn’t for their acting. It was great to see Keith in the film - but let’s not pretend like Forest Whitaker wasn’t more convincing and had more screen presence than all of those guys combined.

DrCue'sProtege said:

Was that Mizerak's Senior US Open back in November of 1999? The one won by Howard Vickery?

I was in attendance a couple of those nights.

And Nick Varner lives in Owensboro but grew up in Tell City, Indiana. About 45 minutes south, down by the Ohio River.

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I didn’t know that about Nicky….I knew his father and uncle from the pool hall in Owensboro….when Nick and I met, we got along just fine because of that.

CocoboloCowboy said:

Justin Collett and TAR I believe went down in flames, he had good idea, but got little support to keep his dream alive. He gets credit for trying..

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www.theactionreport.com

My ideas are just my ideas, and opinions.

Have made many observation over the years, most of the time I was correct, or close to being correct.

AZB is nothing like it was 10, or 15 years ago, it is not as good. JMHO

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Just the fact that you express yourself much more lucidly has made AZ better.

“but the thought of them being worried about him up-staging Tom Freaking Cruise?”


Probably not, but he held his own in those scenes. If he didn’t live up to expectations, he would be on the cutting room floor. Maybe, sometimes, true grit comes through…

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1. Penalize slow play to a point where it becomes the norm in all contexts of play
2. 4" pockets - standardized measurements, uniformed across table manufacturers (4.25 or 4.5 can be training aids, or used to work through as levels)
3. All ball fouls, all the time, in every context. Penalize push shots to a point where it is the norm to call that BS in all contexts of play.
4. 5. 6. 7... 100. Slow players burnt alive as punishment for wasting my life.