ghost ball said:

Whiskey is a solution to most problems.

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Taxi said:

First time I even knew about this stupid rule was when Karl Boyes pulled it against Shannon Daulton in the 2015 U. S. Open. It was in one of the early rounds, and Daulton was cruising with a fairly big lead when Boyes called him for putting his cue on the table at the end of a rack that Daulton had won, and stopping a ball which had come within an inch of stopping on its own, nowhere near the pocket.

It seemed like a purely nit move, but it unnerved Daulton, and Boyes came back to win the match and finish runner-up to Kevin Cheng in the whole tournament. I've always liked Boyes as a player, but this nit move dropped him in my esteem.

"Rules are rules", but sometime the rule is just an ass.

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JAM said:

One of the great pioneers in pool. Pat Fleming is one of my favorite people in our pool world.

When he was running Accu-Stats, he paid pool players royalties for their appearance on his video recordings based on sales. One time, when Keith McCready and I were attending a pool event—can't remember which one—he handed Keith a check for over $800. We received a few checks in the mail since that time too. Who does that? Pat Fleming did. That's who.

His Accu-Stats Magazines, located right here today on AzBilliards website, provided some of the best tournament pool info of their times; a pool historical record or archives, if you will. Check out the list of American pros at the U.S. Open in November 1985 compared to today's count of American pro-caliber players. In '85, there was a plethora of choices to be on the Mosconi Cup, if there was one. (First Mosconi Cup was 1994.) Today? I can count the amount of American pro-caliber players on one hand.

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