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fastone371
Patrick Johnson said:
lol

You really want to admit to that?

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chgo
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If you frequent the hood as often as you claim you are likely to find yourself with bullet hole in your head sooner or later if you don't. With your wealth of experience how many shootings have been in the middle, must be more than me because I avoid bad areas when possible.

The real question here is why does this trigger you so badly??
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Yapp’s Controversial Tournament-Winning Shot in the 8-Ball World Championship … Was it a Foul?

spartan
dr_dave said:
I think a ref's knowledge of, understanding of, and experience with applying the rules is much more important than playing ability.
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True. Maybe there is high turnover cannot get folks to take on this thankless job or the ref training system not working
I mean PBS brought in so called EPBF refs in previous event but still those refs blundered big time with countless lag-gate controversies, cannot apply rules consistently. More boo boos than Lisa https://forums.azbilliards.com/threads/dumbest-tournament-rule-ever.562457/post-7765351
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Yapp’s Controversial Tournament-Winning Shot in the 8-Ball World Championship … Was it a Foul?

spartan
BasementDweller said:
I think it's just as likely that he hoped the ref would make the call, which is why he gave her time to do so. I don't have a problem with how Yapp reacted here. He should not be expected to referee the match when someone is there to do so. No other athlete, in any other refereed sport is expected to penalize themselves.
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Precisely.
Players are paid to play (play to get paid) and refs are paid to ref.:LOL:

GideonF said:
Golf and snooker both come to mind. In both sports players are expected to call rule infractions on themselves and they regularly do so on the biggest stages.

Obviously snooker is the closest analogy. In snooker the players routinely call a foul on themselves for touching an OB, feathering the CB, double hitting the CB etc. even when there is a referee standing right there watching. I’ve seen dozens of televised matches where the player calls the foul and the referee didn’t see it.

The player in those situations is an a position to know with certainty that they fouled. I’ve said earlier that this particular situation (which ball is hit first) is harder and the closest example I’ve seen was a player asking the referee go watch a replay because they thought they might have hit the wrong ball first (he had not). In that situation I don’t know what the player should do if the referee does watch the replay and thinks it’s a good hit but the player thinks it wasn’t.
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Dumb rule.
How many players would really call foul on themselves when the stakes are humungous? That's why spy agencies have a saying "Everyone Breaks". Forget the cheap words theatrics a player will say for the camera "I always call a foul on myself" or when the stakes are low.
I mean in Squid Game, during the Red Light Green Light game, those who moved when red light on but were not shot did not call foul on themselves, right? :ROFLMAO:
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