Jerry R said:

I thought Chris, Ben and Eric (Edit: Sorry, I forgot him) were pretty good. The rest I can do without. Mark is just annoying and the other others were often way too negative about the players.
Hard to listen to guys with a bad camera angle criticizing word champions who are at the table for their shot choices.

I wouldn't mind seeing the whole nickname thing go away completely. A few aren't bad if they are somehow related to their playing style or a play on their name, but anything that has to do with physical attributes or appearance is often cringy to begin with and won't age well as the player ages.
This goes for the men and the women. Seeing a middle aged, mostly bald man introduced as the South Dakota Kid is a bit of a stretch.

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sjm said:

Ditto. Pool nicknames are, with few exceptions, completely unnecessary, and are rarely descriptive of the player.

Yes, calling Elliot Sanderson "The Shouter" works, as he always shouts after a big win. Calling Jose Parica "the leader of the invasion" made perfect sense, as he was the first Filipino to join the American pro pool scene.

... but many nicknames are so arbitrary that you'd think they were chosen at random. For example, is Thorsten Hohmann really a hitman? At and away from the table, he is gentle, courteous and dignified. Is Duong Quoc Hoang really a Martian ---- well, no more so than David Alcaide is a matador.

We need not assign nicknames just for the hell of it.

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Pardon my English but most nicknames are gay as f'k

I agree

I believe Dufferin is Chinese. I have several Dufferins and I bought the one new. Canadian.

sjm said:

Well, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I think Emily is a very lovely lady.

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"Beerholder"

My first cue was one of those carved wood cues where the butt came apart and had a couple of washers around each joint - I think it was around $20 at Kmart, Sears, or whatever big box sports stores were around at that time. You know, the ones you see on ebay now that say "vintage" and try to sell for a crazy amount of money.
After that I moved to a big box store Dufferin - pretty sure it was just solid brown with that horrible brass joint. You know it's quality when the pin is in the shaft! At least that was the joke from all of my friends. It was a gift from my girlfriend, so I used it until we broke up.

After that break up I picked up a warped Mali from a pawn shop. Ended up playing the guy that sold it to the shop. Didn't know it was warped until he pointed it out. I think I paid $80 for it and he said he sold it for $40. Then I proceeded to lose another $40 to him!

Eventually bought a Meucci that I absolutely hated. Was pretty happy when it broke.

Had a Cuetec that I hated as well - back when wearing a glove to play pool would get you beat up.


Found several of those "vintage" cues on eBay!

If you're just sitting around waiting to play, you're doing it wrong.

You should be:
- scoring someone else's match
- discussing with your teammates how you'd play a shot (with 2-3 active tables there is *plenty* of opportunity to learn/teach, as new shots come up every 30 seconds or so)
- helping with timeouts

Being bored is a choice.

Adding a Purple BK Rush no wrap + purple airrush no wrap combo for $1900

... I added that as a reference for the value of a Carmeli