That would be a duck bob.This is a troll.
Earl is a disgrace!
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That would be a duck bob.This is a troll.
Are you sure you "charge" people for your advice.
My Bob Dicksin condition.:rotflmao:
If flamboyant means 'LOUD', and charismatic means 'OBNOXIOUS'..Yes, Earl is definitely our man !.. It is amazing that any sane person, would want Mr. Strickland to represent pool for our country !..He has probably 'turned off' more casual viewers, than all other players combined ! (on both sides of the pond)..Yes, lets keep putting him front and center...Its really worked well so far, hasn't it ? :sorry:
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bump.........
Being married to and being a clinical psychologist are not the same... Unless you wife wants to jump on here I would just as well have you say I stayed at a Holiday Inn Express last night. Or oooh look I googled....
Chris
Chris, why would you put the gentleman down, for making such an accurate observation ? ..Be it google, wife, or hearsay...he makes more sense than ANY 'Earl-Lover' ever did ! (this includes the 2 or 3 'Pearl Dangler's', who can actually form words and thoughts, and put them in a sentence :embarrassed2
Dick
PS..I am NOT an 'Earl-Lover', but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night !
(what does that count for ?)
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I am not saying Earl is mentally ill but the notion that he can temporarilly control himself when threatened is proof that he can behave that way always is absurd. It is as absurd as if I were to look at the fact that I can hold my breath as proof that I don't have to breath.
Pathetic Shark
Banned
I will say this for Earl, he's consistent, going off like a rocket wherever he plays. 
Sadly, as his game declines he is only getting worse. Earl lives, eats and breathes pool and it must be very frustrating for him to be on the downward spiral of his career. He will still play a beautiful rack from time to time, but his game is plagued by too many missed balls, something the old Earl rarely did - MISS!
He works out like a fool, running miles every day and is in great physical condition for a 52 year old man. Too bad he can't find a workout to cure his mental instability.
Meanwhile this is post #276, testament to his relevance in the pool world. I suspect all his meltdowns will get significant air time on Fox Sports. That's the nature of television today, to show the unglamorous side of all sports. And life in general for that matter. It was heartwarming for me to see all the coverage given to Nelson Mandela for a life well lived! Sadly there isn't much good news to report in the media, mostly we see only the ugly side of Man.
Sadly, as his game declines he is only getting worse. Earl lives, eats and breathes pool and it must be very frustrating for him to be on the downward spiral of his career. He will still play a beautiful rack from time to time, but his game is plagued by too many missed balls, something the old Earl rarely did - MISS!
He works out like a fool, running miles every day and is in great physical condition for a 52 year old man. Too bad he can't find a workout to cure his mental instability.
Meanwhile this is post #276, testament to his relevance in the pool world. I suspect all his meltdowns will get significant air time on Fox Sports. That's the nature of television today, to show the unglamorous side of all sports. And life in general for that matter. It was heartwarming for me to see all the coverage given to Nelson Mandela for a life well lived! Sadly there isn't much good news to report in the media, mostly we see only the ugly side of Man.
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NO ONE WANTS TO SEE IT lol If you think people want to just watch balls go in a hole then yes ..your ignorant. They don't...your going to have to bring a different element to the show if you want people to watch it and the only way our pro players are going to make any money is if you can get it on tv and people turn it on. I love this game.. been playing it for 25 years and you are not going to get people to watch this game in large numbers if you don't add a lot of Earl strickland like players. btw how often are pool players played to win or lose? The mosconi cup is by far the exception rather then the rule. This isn't football , baseball or basketball where if you have a bad day you still get paid. In pool you have a bad day and you don't eat. As Earl said in pool your paid to perform not to just show up and play.
Tiger does act like that..he's always slamming his clubs down...cursing..having his caddy throw cameras in ponds lol His sponsors don't give a shit as long as the stuff his name on sells.
maybe idiot was a strong word... ignorant would fit for people who think this is the early 19th century where you can have guys in suits quietly playing pool and people will show up to watch. If that's what you want then you also want his game to continue to die. The fact that people think pool is some kind of noble honorable game while at the same time we celebrate the hustlers and low life gamblers of its history is a joke.
I agree..when he played a safe with ball in hand and the table open on the last day I was stunned.
Of course it's proof. There's more proof, too. Watch his eyes just as he's about to go off. There's a moment of absolute clarity there. His intent is clearly to shark his opponent. He's been doing it for decades. Another player who was a master at it was Jimmy Mataya. These guys missed their calling. They would have been great actors. Earl eventually started to believe his own line of crap. Now he's deluded.
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UnCorking
Denver Open, early eighties on Gold Crowns, during Sigels hey day. I'm watching the Pearl play Chewy Rivera, at times one of the Great players outta Denver, and two time BCA 8 Ball singles winner. He's got Earl on the ropes and Earl is seated at the head of table cue in hand. Chewy is at the foot of the table eyeing' a long shot into the upper corner pocket at the head of the table. Earl is in direct line of the shot....as Chewy gets down to pull the trigger, Earl uncorks his cue, intentionally to distract Rivera, it worked. After that it became a Rule Nationwide, it means you conceded the game.
I played him four sets, in Long Beach Cal. late 70's, races to 11 rollout 9 ball, he was passing thru Los Angeles with Monroe Brock and another. Four sets later they left Paramount Billiards on Long Beach Blvd. Adam Brostoski's pool room. Adam is the father of current and beginning owner of Golden West Pool Tables. On Earls way out the door I said to him....if you ever learn to follow your ball you'll be a great player. He never said a negative word, acted like a gentleman. Fast forward to Denver not that many years later, and the uncorking was beginning to bubble out. He never got better with time after that. I look at his mentors....As a father, that speaks loudly, and SCREAMS ever louder these days in his public eye, something even FATS is his eighties would NEVER do he tho took it home, and caused the Evelyn/Rudolph inevitable split. This now may be the fracture of he/with the public, a divorce that will decimate him, we ALL need to tell em, STOP....it may save him, his decline is before us, pretty sad. We have ALLOT of collateral damage in our sport.
Denver Open, early eighties on Gold Crowns, during Sigels hey day. I'm watching the Pearl play Chewy Rivera, at times one of the Great players outta Denver, and two time BCA 8 Ball singles winner. He's got Earl on the ropes and Earl is seated at the head of table cue in hand. Chewy is at the foot of the table eyeing' a long shot into the upper corner pocket at the head of the table. Earl is in direct line of the shot....as Chewy gets down to pull the trigger, Earl uncorks his cue, intentionally to distract Rivera, it worked. After that it became a Rule Nationwide, it means you conceded the game.
I played him four sets, in Long Beach Cal. late 70's, races to 11 rollout 9 ball, he was passing thru Los Angeles with Monroe Brock and another. Four sets later they left Paramount Billiards on Long Beach Blvd. Adam Brostoski's pool room. Adam is the father of current and beginning owner of Golden West Pool Tables. On Earls way out the door I said to him....if you ever learn to follow your ball you'll be a great player. He never said a negative word, acted like a gentleman. Fast forward to Denver not that many years later, and the uncorking was beginning to bubble out. He never got better with time after that. I look at his mentors....As a father, that speaks loudly, and SCREAMS ever louder these days in his public eye, something even FATS is his eighties would NEVER do he tho took it home, and caused the Evelyn/Rudolph inevitable split. This now may be the fracture of he/with the public, a divorce that will decimate him, we ALL need to tell em, STOP....it may save him, his decline is before us, pretty sad. We have ALLOT of collateral damage in our sport.
Ya think? Have you met him in person? He is a crazy has been. Classic example of what happens to folks why rely on this _game_ as their sole source of income. I used to hate him, but believe it or not he isn't a difficult person to get to know and like away from the table. He's a lot of fun. Too bad he has nothing outside of pool. It's a shame. I won't hold it against him, he just so desperately wants to win that it negatively effects him when he doesn't. Welcome to the game of "Professional Pool".
I wouldn't label this as reality at all. Nope.
Does Earl warrant this kind of criticism? In some respects, yes. He did have poor behavior at this year's Mosconi Cup, and he does have a track record of tableside antics, but a lot of these hate-filled words I am currently seeing on this thread read vindictiveness and jealousy to my eyes.
When "The Strickland Story" came out, there was nothing but flowers and buttleflies floating around on these forum threads, but the haters have come out and want to pummel Earl Strickland to death with words laden with vicious verbal attacks.
How far will can it go? What else can be said?