You may not of said that you liked him, but the last comment "funny how so many people put him down for that" clearly leans toward taking Trudeau's side.
I understand your attempt to take the other side just to create a debate, but when it comes to Kevin Trudeau, be prepared to take a lot of heat.
And your point is, did you have anything to add or did you just want to quote three things I said. Then you go on to say that "you understand I wanted to create a debate".
Wrong I was stating a fact that he put way more money into pool than anybody else. More players made more money when the IPT was around than any other time. Whether you or the people who like to pile on like him or not, has nothing really to do with what I'm saying.
When he came around anybody who wanted to could have checked him out, few if any did that. The IPT tournaments brought pool to a level that it had never seen before and has never seen since then, unfortunately. Did that last no it didn't which is also unfortunate. Was it exciting while it lasted I think so and I think many people feel that way.
Will a lot of people say what I'm saying probably not even if they agree. The reason for this is because as you stated I should be prepared to take the heat.
My question to you is should it concern me that a bunch of people who probably wouldn't stand up for something on their own even if they think they were right but are more than willing to pile on as a group and bum rush someone who does. I wonder if you think (any heat as you say) that is put on me by these people should be of any concern to me? Perhaps you think that I should just cow down and not state the truth. That's not the way I live and I hope you don't live that way either.
Yes I do think it's funny that everyone piles on to say how bad Kevin Trudeau and the IPT was for Professional Pool after the fact. If you take Kevin Trudeau and the IPT out of the history of pool the players and pool it's self wouldn't be better off they would be worse off, whether you want to admit it or not.
The self-righteous people who want to jump all over something or someone once something fails makes me want puke. Where were they saying what a bad guy or group something was before it failed?
In fact where are your self-righteous Holier than thou voices now? One of the best events at the Derby City is the Fat Boy Challenge. I love to watch this event and always buy the DVD's from Accu-Stats. I'll bet some of you who jumped on me for stating the facts about Kevin Trudeau watch the Fat Boy Challenge or buy the DVD's. I'll bet some of you go to the Derby City Classic or buy the DVD's, but why? Didn't Fat Boy make his money in a questionable way? Why would you ever participate, watch or purchase anything that he was involved in? Or is it that you're all waiting for something to go wrong or the money not to be there or something to happen so you as one (big brave) group can jump up and say how bad he was for pool, how you told us so, or some other equally as lame cr*p.
I'll stand up and say right now that I think it's great Fat boy is putting up half the added money for the event and that it is good for the players and the game. Not to mention it's a great event, and I'd like to say thank you. Perhaps we'll hear from the self-righteous if something goes wrong, but doubtful until then.
What either of these gentleman have done is nothing compared to: the government, big corporations, insurance companies, drug companies, wallstreet, ... and you get the picture, have done. So get over your self-righteous selves.
