Dave38 said:

and then drill a hole thru the side wall 1/8th" dia.

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Benelli said:

This is exactly why I like playing with my custom cues at league, no one gives a shit.

I played an entire APA season and my singles and regionals qualiers with a 72 Balabushka and NO ONE ever recognized what it was or even cared...

For the last month I've been playing with a 72/73 Szamboti and twice I had people ask if it was an Adam cue. Only one person recognized it and he was a cue maker.

Come on folks break those big guns out and fucking play them, there amazing cues and were built for just this. Let them do what they were made to do.

No one around you cares two shits about our cues!

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straightline said:

@SmoothStroke

You should drop this channel in the Mosconi threads.

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jasonlaus said:

Yep, he never moved the needle for anybody. Tommy Kennedy(as nice as he is) has won a US Open, if he won a second would he be in the discussion? It's too bad people cant be put in more than once - Shane is certainly deserving of more than 1 entry, same with Earl. Is Albin in yet? If you ever slept on that guy you were in serious danger

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HawaiianEye said:

Dennis Tucker (Dennis Searing shaft with Murray Tucker butt)


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My only Sneaky (not so sneaky).

Murray Tucker (one of the first five cues he ever made).

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datnodude said:

Day 3 notes:

Fills is dominating
more tyler pain
svb won 2 lags!
svb is playing better than anyone
billy, yes billy saved fred
fred needs to get his girl back

very entertaining day

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JAM said:

Much as it pains me to admit it, I agree with Lou—for once.

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jb444 said:

I'm used to seeing USA lose but man this year was horrific on another level. What can I say that hasnt already been said 100 times?

Team Europe looked human this year...the rolls seemed equal...the bottom line is that we (USA) missed a big opportunity to cash in.

Everyone played far below their speed on USA except SVB (who overperformed-last match he checked out-fair enough) and Billy. I would consider Fedor to easily be the LVP in terms of "underperformance". I might even go so far as to say he dogged it as many times as Tyler, just not on the 9 ball.

This is a ***TEAM*** event, and the key psychological difference is that when you are out there alone you have only yourself to blame for mistakes, and also only yourself to rely on, and bring your all from there. Team USA started with, presumably, little confidence in eachother and their confidence was fractured more with each heavy blow (self-inflicted) that was dealt. It was impressive in an odd way to see them continue to fight to get up 2-0 in almost every match after so many letdowns.

So where do we go from here? Diluting the event with North America or the Americas doesnt seem to pan out, as evidenced by the Reyes Cup atmosphere. At this point it seems the team has to change, for psychological reasons. The captaincy also has to change, with bringing Johan back as the most glaring option. Skylar doesn't really have the bandwidth to be captain and play his A game and it doesn't seem any other US player qualifies for the job.

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jasonlaus said:

Im easy to find

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kling&allen said:

I always love the MC, even this year. But sports typically have rules, and one of those rules in pool until now was the ref would quiet the crowd down before a player got down on a shot. That looks to have changed this year, which maybe is good in the long run (see darts) but the change looks like it was unplanned.

MC should sell noisemakers, lights, and horns next year.

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smoochie said:

But he's right though, why do you want pool to be boring man? I remember my wife being pissed and going mad whenever I put pool on TV...pool is deadly boring for non-players and sometimes even for players.

Now don't get me wrong I am not saying go to the extreme of what MR is doing right now because thats even though is entertaining for the viewer its also brutal for the player down on the shot, i.e. when Styler was shooting the 9ball. I am not saying go to this extreme, but something in the middle would be nice, just like the few past MC where ppl are allowed to shout but then once player is down at the shot they just respect him and stop yelling....that would be a nice middle-ground.

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