The 2 are apples and oranges. Regardless of the perceived difficulty of one over the other the fact remains that while you may progress at improving at pool faster than golf you still will hit a plateau that is extremely difficult to surpass. Both take years of training to play well and even more years to play at a level approaching being a competitive pro.
That’s basically the best photo I can get without distorting the photo. On my phone, I can tell it’s not a T, nor looks like the McDaniel logo. Those were definitely 2 I thought as well.
I think it is a really bad idea for the referee to start any such conversation. The player might not realize that there is any problem and now the ref jumps up and says ...
The cueball winding up on the head rail has zero to do with the rack. The cueball is 1/15th of the weight of the rack and winds up there quite frequently regardless of how the balls are racked. Being "pinned" with few options is just random chance.
I didn’t say the CB being pinned was directly caused by the bad racks. I said it was a result of what they had to DO on the break because of the racks.
With the top 6 balls frozen most pro players would break head ball square to make one or both balls behind the head ball in the side and squat the CB. Yes, the CB can get kicked back but if it doesn’t you are centre table.
With the second ball cut break collisions with the CB are always going to happen.
