Upstate Al - Did You Catch What He Said?

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This isn't the first time I've experienced this sort of thing with him and it happened again.

He rolls into a town, this time it was Providence, RI.

He sets up his equipment and streams the New England HOF induction Ceremony on Friday evening.

Then Friday night he commentates on and streams the Earl/MD race to 21, 10b challenge.

Then he's there all day and well into the night both Saturday & Sunday, streaming and commentating for the Joss Tour 9b tourney.

And then as Joey DuPuis, the eventual tourney winner, is putting the final touches on the last rack of the forced second final set, Upstate Al says "I don't want it to end", and he wasn't kidding. :thumbup::cool::thumbup:

You have to love, appreciate, and applaud this man's enthusiasm and dedication to our sport.

I sure do!

Thanks Al! :smile:

and all the sponsors including AZB for making it happen.

best
brian kc <--- pretty sure it's much more than just the snooker's chocolate lava cake keeping Al in the game. :smile:
 
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Kickin' Chicken said:
This isn't the first time I've experienced this sort of thing with him and it happened again.

He rolls into a town, this time it was Providence, RI.

He sets up his equipment and streams the New England HOF induction Ceremony on Friday evening.

Then Friday night he commentates on and streams the Earl/MD race to 21, 10b challenge.

Then he's there all day and well into the night both Friday & Saturday, streaming and commentating for the Joss Tour 9b tourney.

And then as Joey DuPuis, the eventual tourney winner, is putting the final touches on the last rack of the forced second final set, Upstate Al says "I don't want it to end", and he wasn't kidding. :thumbup::cool::thumbup:

You have to love, appreciate, and applaud this man's enthusiasm and dedication to our sport.

I sure do!

Thanks Al! :smile:

and all the sponsors including AZB for making it happen.

best
brian kc <--- pretty sure it's much more than just the snooker's chocolate lava cake keeping Al in the game. :smile:
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I couldn't agree more. Wish his streams were HD, but other than that, I can't think of any other way to improve! Upstate Al does a great job!!!

Thanks Al!
 
You're right about that.

If the game were surrounded by 10,000 Al's, it would never be in trouble. Contagious enthusiasm. And a class act from what I have seen.
 
You Nailed It!!

Kickin' Chicken said:
This isn't the first time I've experienced this sort of thing with him and it happened again.

He rolls into a town, this time it was Providence, RI.

He sets up his equipment and streams the New England HOF induction Ceremony on Friday evening.

Then Friday night he commentates on and streams the Earl/MD race to 21, 10b challenge.

Then he's there all day and well into the night both Friday & Saturday, streaming and commentating for the Joss Tour 9b tourney.

And then as Joey DuPuis, the eventual tourney winner, is putting the final touches on the last rack of the forced second final set, Upstate Al says "I don't want it to end", and he wasn't kidding. :thumbup::cool::thumbup:

You have to love, appreciate, and applaud this man's enthusiasm and dedication to our sport.

I sure do!

Thanks Al! :smile:

and all the sponsors including AZB for making it happen.

best
brian kc <--- pretty sure it's much more than just the snooker's chocolate lava cake keeping Al in the game. :smile:
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Brian,
I'm with you all the way on this. Big thanks to Upstate Al & everyone that made all that FREE streaming happen all weekend. Nice to know I'm not the only one that appreciates his efforts and enthusiasm. He's in it because he loves the sport, pure & simple. :thumbup:
 
Kickin' Chicken said:
This isn't the first time I've experienced this sort of thing with him and it happened again.

He rolls into a town, this time it was Providence, RI.

He sets up his equipment and streams the New England HOF induction Ceremony on Friday evening.

Then Friday night he commentates on and streams the Earl/MD race to 21, 10b challenge.

Then he's there all day and well into the night both Friday & Saturday, streaming and commentating for the Joss Tour 9b tourney.

And then as Joey DuPuis, the eventual tourney winner, is putting the final touches on the last rack of the forced second final set, Upstate Al says "I don't want it to end", and he wasn't kidding. :thumbup::cool::thumbup:

You have to love, appreciate, and applaud this man's enthusiasm and dedication to our sport.

I sure do!

Thanks Al! :smile:

and all the sponsors including AZB for making it happen.

best
brian kc <--- pretty sure it's much more than just the snooker's chocolate lava cake keeping Al in the game. :smile:
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and he lives 400 miles from anywhere. The only thing he is fairly close to is Turning Stone.
 
I didn't hear what he said when he said it, but I have now and thanks for that.

I actually smiled when I read the "I don't want this to end" ditty.

Thanks for that gift

Kevin
 
bdorman said:
But how's his "LIVE, BABY, LIVE!!!!!" ?

Can he scream it at the top of his lungs?
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I find both men somewhat difficult to listen to after a short time, but I really, really appreciate what they are doing, so I thank them anyway for doing it.
 
Great Streaming

I been off work mostly while it's been cold, and I've had a chance to watch a lot of streaming last couple months. Two streamers stand out for the quality of their streams. Upstate Al is blessed with some great competition, and great equipment for the streaming he has been doing. He's great at actually commentating on the matches and the players, and seems to have relentless drive.

The other streamer doing a great job is tvMike out of Detroit. His monday night streams at the blue diamond are drawing in viewers and players alike from as far away as pennslvania for players, and afghanstin for viewers. He has great commentary about the games, and even better interaction with the chatroom viewers. He travels on a regular basis, setting up his equipment and sometimes has to use his phone for the actual internet service to stream. His HD stream is unbelievable.

Both these streamers are doing it because they love it. I know there's a view other streamers out there who for the most part are putting out a decent product (bigtruck comes to mind), but none seem to have the drive and quality that these two have.

Streaming is the next best thing to being there for pool players that can't make it everywhere. To the pay per view streamers, I'm sorry, but that isn't the future of media billiards for the masses. I understand there is expenses to cover for these events.The seeking of sponsorship needs to be addressed to cover these costs. Room Owners should pay some as well ( I have driven to rooms strictly because I saw them on stream). Not only billiard companies but others should seek to promote their products thru streamers. How else can you target a niche market like pool players for so little? For example, I don't use vapor style cigarettes, but I know that Kings of Vapor is located in Ohio and they sponsor two players in the New England area!

I think the future of streaming is going to be greatly influenced by streamers like Upstate Al, tvMike, and Bigtruck and our support of these gentleman's hard work.
 
Donny Lutz said:
There's no such animal as a "JOSH" cue.

Al does a good job, but is it asking too much to pronounce the name of one of the major cue companies correctly?
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it's very hard to tell but if you listen real close you'll pick up that Al has a faint new yawk accent. :grin-square: :wink: :D

how'd he do with kmrunout's name? :eek:

best,
brian kc
 
bdorman said:
But how's his "LIVE, BABY, LIVE!!!!!" ?

Can he scream it at the top of his lungs?
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If you were on the chat for Upstate Al's Joss Tour Stream you would have seen that the Inside
Pool Mag guy is MIA and that means the Live Baby Live Guy (Alvin ) is out of a job
They said he might try to do it on his own.
 
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Thank you Kickin' Chicken for the post :smile: and we are looking forward to doing more live streaming. Donny Lutz, ideologist, David Marcus, Nostroke, kvinbrwr, Wright Shot, thekaiserman, zeeblebrox01, Run the Century, and Josh cues i mean Joss cues thank you all :smile:


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upstateAL said:
Thank you Kickin' Chicken for the post :smile: and we are looking forward to doing more live streaming. Donny Lutz, ideologist, David Marcus, Nostroke, kvinbrwr, Wright Shot, thekaiserman, zeeblebrox01, Run the Century, and Josh cues i mean Joss cues thank you all :smile:


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Check out post 238 in the 'One pocket is so slow' thread.....:wink:
 
A fitting tribute. Al really gets it done and is a credit to the game.
 
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