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8cree said:

Do you have any suggestions on who those younger picks would be? Which younger players have put in the time and effort and winning pedigree? I watch a lot of pool, maybe not as much as some, but I can't come up with any names that would fit the bill... can you help me out a little here?

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Well, we'll have to momentarily throw out the participation requirements that would make them eligible, but if you'll allow me that: 1) Lukas Verner, 2) Lazaro Martinez, 3) Sam Henderson, 4) Nathan Childress, 5) Eric Roberts, 6) Landon Hollingsworth and 7) Payne McBride.

JAM said:

Billy is a little more than hype man. He can play some. Better than most, IMO. What is his Fargo? Just curious.

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IMO his Fargo is irrelevant. I could be wrong, but has he ever won a significant tournament?

SA96 said:

Bergman beat Filler and Wojiech in the World Eight Ball in April.

He is capable of beating the top Europeans.

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... as are almost all the 750-799 players, but winning at the Mosconi is not about occasional brilliance, it's about sustained excellence. Finally, Bergman played nothing but eight ball for years, while the top players play it once or twice a year. Are we really to read much into those results? Let me know if they switch the Mosconi Cup to 8ball. Of course, I want Bergman on my team if that happens.

While we know how well he played nine ball ten years ago, we don't really know whether Bergman can hang with the elite at 9ball today because he never makes it far enough to draw them at WNT events. What we do know is this. WNT play is his first ever taste of major tournament play on 4" pockets and he has not looked like a very capable pocketer on the really tight equipment. FYI, the World 8ball was contested on tables a little looser than WNT specs, but even there, playing his best game, he managed just 17th place. Now, he'll face a European squad consisting entirely of guys who are used to the high pressure that comes with getting to a major semifinal or better.

Who knows? Maybe Justin will play perfect pool at the Mosconi Cup. I like him and it would make me very happy. I will cheer as hard as anyone for him. I just don't see it coming.

sjm said:

Good post. Two things that are true: a) there are things we don't yet understand (Stonehenge and the Pyramids are good examples) and b) some of what we think we know will be proven incorrect sometime in the future, much in the way that Copernicus proved in 1543 that the widely accepted geocentric model of the universe was in error and needed to be replaced by a heliocentric model.

Still, we're not debating the origin of the earth or the universe here, just the shape of the earth. We have been photographing the earth from space for over sixty years and there are so many images suggesting a basically spherical shape that it is hard to reach any other conclusion regarding its shape.

Is it possible that we're wrong and that the many such photos are a cosmic ruse that has misled us? Yes, it is, but we tend to reach our conclusions based on the evidence in front of us, so at least for now, the earth is round.

Unless it's possible that pool balls are flat, however, this thread is not pool related,

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The Flefers like to claim that those Earth photos are AI because man has never been to space. But they still cant explain the unique stars you see in each hemisphere and that they rotate in opposite directions when you look up at them which proves the obvious.