SA96 said:

Bergman is going to be a game changer.

He is a great doubles player and his cue ball control is great.

Team USA will win.

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Sorry to burst your bubble.

All this just because CJ espoused his belief in a long ago debunked theory.

Homo Sapiens from thousands of years ago were physically just like us. They had the ability to think, research and create just like us. We stand on their shoulders.

In many ways they there smarter than us, and had to be. They had no sophisticated technology to help them. They used brainpower and sheer strength to build these amazing edifices. Take away all our modern tools and what could we build today. It might take us hundreds of years to duplicate what they created using their native intelligence. So who's smarter. I'm not so sure.

20,000 years from now our generation will be considered to have been primitive. Of coure by then we will be more like machines and a little less human. Implants everywhere! Need a new organ, you buy one.

they could really do without the 10-ball intermission

bump

We want the bump

GideonF said:

Not under BCA/CSI rules. Second part in a second post.

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Cartune said:

Taping the cue ball with your cue tip is a legal stroke as far as I know

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Not under BCA/CSI rules. Second part in a second post.

easy-e said:

I really think he's the best option.

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oscar, agreed

Ask Ace. It would be great if you talk to her.


This is an experiment and I look forward to the corrections.

Taping the cue ball with your cue tip is a legal stroke as far as I know

benjaminwah said:

No mention of Oscar? His first place finish in Ultimate Pool last night was amazing, down to the last second. Tons of pressure with the short shot clock, he kept his cool. Hopefully the rape van joke, as distasteful as that was, is forgotten and isn't preventing him from getting an opportunity...

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I really think he's the best option.

Cartune said:

Why not just tap it? But good question.

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Just tap may not work, unless you mean use a legal stroke.

As explained in the applied ruling section:

“It is common for a player to want to end their inning without disturbing the lay of the
table. However, the only way to end your inning without violating Rule 1-40-b is to
attempt a legal stroke. Any other action, including refusing to shoot, is a violation of
Rule 1-40-b.”

In most cases you can get the same result by just shooting away from the balls, but I can think of instances where the CB is trapped and trying any legal stroke will open up the balls. I understand why the CSI rules call for a warning in first instance but in some cases I think the right result would be a loss of game without warning.

...data from those first detection units have been used to test one of the founding rules of Einstein’s relativity: the idea that the laws of nature look the same no matter which way you face or how fast you move.

Don't quite get it but it'll fit somewhere.