jimmyco said:

What's with the afterthought 1 pocket racks? ...

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The ball "shelves" are shown 8 minutes into the video from the Expo. They certainly let you see the ball count a lot better than the old shelves which tend to hide balls.

garczar said:

The Euro MC mindset comes from the fact that in the early yrs. they were huge under-dogs. That horse has since left the barn. They have been the favorite for well over a decade. I've talked to a couple US players in the past and they said its a fun distraction from the daily pool grind but they don't lose any sleep over it. It will always be a bigger deal to UK/Euro fans than over here.

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Ryder Cup same deal. It drives me nuts when some of the current players get heat for wanting a little cash. PGA of America makes a ton and the players get little. Players got roasted for wanting anything other than bad clothes and banquets. The addition of Ballesteros and the continent changed things and the Euro focus on the Ryder Cup did help them and the European Tour. But the Ryder Cup jumped the shark a while ago.

Mind blowing!
But organizers really cheap. Only few hundred $$ prizes for event broadcast on ESPN

cueball2010 said:

People should do something like this at the pool hall. Leave a dollar on the head rail if you want an opponent.

Instead of having to walk up to everyone, we could just look around the tables.

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That used to be ring games and pill pool games. They were for the most part open games
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The challenge table was pretty common where I'm living now, even up until a few years ago. One local bar had a 6½ foot Valley that would get a line of quarters every Friday and Saturday night. That's what led me to playing APA back then. Everyone seemed to want to play by slightly different rules, and there were occasionally arguments, but they resolved quickly enough. Usually the players went over that quickly when the challenger was racking. Some refused to play "that APA slop", and since most were local and regulars, the order of who plays next usually went without much trouble too. A new owner of that place got two 7-footers, moved the pool tables to another room, and the challenge aspect just evaporated.
Contrast that to another place, a kind of a biker bar in a campground resort, always a big line of quarters, and a couple guys always cutting the line. This was a place where people often brought their own cues, and the level of play was better. They had APA and TAP there on weeknights. The bar usually had a band on weekends, and it was a great night out going there. The pool was pretty competitive until about 11:00pm, at which point it often switched to doubles, so more people could play. Lots of nights we played Scotch Doubles because it didn't give the best players as big of an edge, and nobody held the table long. That also seems to have faded off, and nobody really plays there on weekends. I don't even think they have leagues there any more either.

decent dennis said:

About the 2025 National Bubble Gum Blowing Championships being televised on ESNHD 11:00 today?

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I am, I changed my name to Bubble Gum last year

jimmyco said:

The white car video is not AI.

Vid is from a police dash cam. Happened this summer just outside Detroit.

I don't get the traffic sign being a dead givaway.
Unless you are talking about it not being mounted even on both ends with bridge. The bridge is not perpendicular to the interstate it crosses. The sign is.

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That's exactly how those old arcade racing games go down to the pass from the black car. Replace cars with cartoon hot rods. Pretty accurate setup if that's real.

pt109 said:

A long way from the Gulf.

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Very lol. But Virginia Beach is just as hood

Last 4.
Thorsten whitewashed Tyler 9-0

I would definitely be in for a T shirt!

hello said:

You know when I knew I'd never be a world champion..?When I heard Earl was practicing the break for 3 hours a day...if I did that for only 1 day, they'd take me down yellow brick road...

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For me, it was in what I believe was 1999, when Mika Immonen offered "against a world class opponent, if I miss more than two balls in a race to eleven, I expect to lose." I was both awed and impressed that the standard was so high at the top!

greyghost said:

I’ll be up there by 1pm.

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A long way from the Gulf.

garczar said:

Has ANYONE sent ANY of these 'suggestions'(more like dreams) to MR aka Emily Frazier or are they just fantasy league fodder? Unless someone that has actual decision power sees this it really is akin to farting in the wind.

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Agree. Just email her at emily.frazer@matchroom.com (according to this https://matchroompool.com/wp-content/uploads/Final-SVB-Junior-Open-Contract.pdf ).
Create a new gmail azbarmchairgangcomplainstoE@gmail.com and send.

VVP said:

So if he didn't get on last year, why would he have gotten on this year if he ended up in the same situation? You people really think all people are dummies, eh?

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Is Oscar "cleared to play" after his snafu comment when commentating for MR match few years ago ?

jay helfert said:

Europe has some new blood, two very good young players added. Meanwhile the USA looks like the same old, same old. We know how this one is going to end. High expectations going in and complete disappointment coming out. My line is USA +5.

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If 800+ is A, Europe has 5As. USA has 3 As. It's 5 of a kind vs 3 of kind or Full house at best. Last I checked 5As wins.
To win USA needs 3 things to happen
(a)Fedor and SVB pplay at their speed and are not the worst performers like last year
(b)Filler self destruct (cos of friction some folks say between him and rest of team. Even Panozzo claim friction between Filler and Moritz I think is unlikely)
(c)The 2 rookies implode. Maybe Pijus who is totally new. Moritz should be steadier got some experience at Reyes Cup.
They can make (a) happen but (b) and (c) is out of their control

It's same team 3 years in a row.
There is a word for doing same thing over and over again despite same results--->> Insanity !

garczar said:

When the smoke clears what does the MC actually do/show? To be brutally honest all it does is re-enforce just how bad we are at big table pool. Its only importance is what each viewer makes of it. Its a cash grab for MR just like the Ryder Cup is for the PGA. BTW, did anyone watch the RC this year? Its was embarrassing to watch American golf fans acts like that. Typical fkng NY'rs.

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They would destroy us at little table pool too