yea but there should be a live audience and they should be smoking no filter pall malls, and jayson should wear a suit and tie and drive to the venue in a chevy biscayne with whitewall tires etc
It won’t happen but here’s how you could do an ode to Mosconi and test high runs. You do a barnstorming cross country tour and you stop at the major poolrooms. The player gets 20 minutes to warm up on the equipment as he finds it. Then he plays the local hero a game to 150. If he’s on a run of more than 14 at the end, the player keeps going. When he misses he does some trick shots and/ or a clinic then moves on. Next room next table.
There’s a fine line between avoiding pure gaff tables and seeing a variety. I’ll give some examples just from what I have seen, not an exhaustive list. In Des Moines one room has a Diamond 5x10. That might be good. Other room has a Rasson WNT 4” setup IIRC. I’d say no on that one- play regular table. Salem Oregon you’ll find a host of old Brunswicks with the standard big pockets. Sure. But they have an old Brunswick OS 8 like Mosconi ran his on. Yes, use that. Most games will be on Diamonds or old Gold Crowns. Perfect. But the run would start in the context of a game, not a set up break shot. On new equipment every day like Mosconi saw.
Drive , say, 4 hours, get out of the car, warm up 20 minutes and beat the local 675-725 and see how many you can run. >500 happens how often? A run of 400 on the 8’ would be a great run and add to Mosconi’s mystique. Run 600 on a Diamond you have a run for the history books.
Won’t happen. Pass the Pall Malls.
