SA96 said:

Look how congested the first rack is.

Capito's soft breaking has done this

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Chris said:

Twenty years ago, people argued about the merits of pre-flag vs post-flag Masters chalk. Some claimed the pre-flag stuff was better quality than the post-flag chalk.

Masters said it was the same chalk; only the label changed.

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JusticeNJ said:

I doubt it. Most young folks don't have cable. They have an app and a subscription lik eyou said. They aren't browsing TV out of boredom anymore. They know what they want to watch ahead of time, and tune in just for that event.

Like for me, I only subscribe to HBO to watch the Giro D'Italia and any other Italian one-day races or the odd stage race, then I pause the subscription. Same with Peacock for the Tour and Vuelta and whatever other ASO races are being streamed by NBC or the olympics, then subscription gets paused until I want to watch something else.

None of my friends have just basic cable anymore. My parents do, but they are boomers.

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skip100 said:

The money results tell a sad tale for the US team. Shane has 2x the closest US player but would barely qualify for the Europe squad.

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MattPoland said:

You gotta start by differentiating the people getting in on “Meritorious Service” vs getting in on the “Greatest Player” category. Then you have to remember that pool is deep in an international era these days with multiple major opens and world championships available. That’s very different than what pool looked like in the 70s, 80s and 90s. You look through different lenses for each era. Like when you look at Rodney and Kim.

But the modern lens?

Jayson has peers that have won the US Open, Intl Open, multiple world championships. It begs the question whether someone that never won a world championship in a relevant discipline makes the cut. You gotta weigh his US Open, 2x Intl Open, and Hanoi Open heavily. I think you gotta weigh his exhibition performances lighter. You can make a case he crossed the line. But amongst his peers, it’s an “eke in” not a “kick the door in” resume. But for me, I do tend to agree he crossed the threshold.

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skogstokig said:

no, but you have to have played two.. i think

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mikemosconi said:

Great exposure for this event to finally get back on ESPN. Disappointing, to say the least, that they would cut off a live event after people watched through 3 hours of commercials after every rack!

Somebody at ESPN and the pool world screwed up by thinking that you could run so many commercials between racks and do a race to 13 with top pros where it could easily go 20-25 racks all in 3 hours!

Will watch the end today on u tube- but the lack of respect for their audience and The game of Pool was clear - seriously - we don’t have enough football coming over the next 4 months??

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Rocket354 said:

FSR and Shaw are both clear HOFers. The standard is not SVB or Earl, or else there'd be no more than about five people in the HOF.

Kim Davenport
Rodney Morris
Tom Rossman

Are all in there (and I just looked at the 2011-2018 inductions). A bunch of "industry titans" are in there. If a US Open champ, a 7x Mosconi Cup champ, and the world-record holder of 832 (!!) in straight pool, plus dozens of other tournament wins, isn't a HOFer then the HOF is not doing its job of identifying and immortalizing the top players of each generation.

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iusedtoberich said:

Is the number of majors played criteria new? I don’t recall it before.

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HawaiianEye said:

Didn't 65-year-old Earl just beat a top world player a couple day's ago?

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