I was there it was a great game it was the first time I ever took my son to the pool room you made quite the impression on him so did the 2 girls who played after the 1 pocket game it's realy nice to see some fire back in pool I even ran in to Dennis spears that night my old 1 pocket foe lol iv been playing him since I was 12 years old at west end Any way I realy enjoyed watching you play
The Ballad of John and Lou, Part Two
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lol. Not sure, maybe the guy wearing the Santa Claus hat. Thanks, Big Al.
Lou Figueroa
How did Gail like the hilarious voicemail from the "you two guys"?
I wanna hear it! I bet there was some hoopin and hollerin!
Once again, congrats on not letting your nuggets get vacuumed up into your abdomen. Mine would've likely been absorbed up into my ear canals. Not many C players have the capability to fade $10K and a 32 year long circus. :thumbup: :wink:
She loved it! If I could figure out how to do one of those sound clip thingies I'd put it up here. Thanks, KK (and Pinkie).
Lou Figueroa
lol. Exactly, except Dennis was using both hands.
Lou Figueroa
wow. Keyser Soze -- that's quite the compliment. Thanks, Masayoshi.
BTW, have you ever seen Kevin Spacey do impressions? He is unreal.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIQMptnTf0s
Lou Figueroa
Mentioning in passing that my opponent was coached is "nitty and pathetic" but him doing it in the first place is not?
The clapping had nothing to do with it. What you could't see on camera was that Dennis was sitting right next to John's chair near the left hand pocket. He didn't need to use hand signals, just whisper loudly from behind his hands, which he was using to cover his mouth.
Lou Figueroa
At the beginning of the match Ed called us both to the table to finalize the bet. John asked if he could PayPal me the $7K he owed to the pot and I went off saying something like, "You bring your money to a match like this..." until I realized he was just messing with me.
Lou Figueroa
Thanks, FR. The women were pretty impressive to watch. We hung around for a few games to try and give them something of an audience.
Lou Figueroa
So there we have it, the summation. It is easier to define who we are with the proper enemy. Exacting revenge is so much simpler than developing understanding, carrying grudges easier than forgiving.
John is not evil. He just wants to be accepted and admired - that's all. We all do. We just go about it in different ways.
As much as I wanted to dislike Lou for what he did, I just couldn't. We have so much in common.
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Unless someone was sitting right next to us they have zero clue what was being said.
I guess every one has super powers to hear any conversation from across the room?
Dennis has his own mannerisms as anyone who knows him knows. Hell I can't understand half of what he says anyway when there is nothing else going on much less me trying to battle for 10k.
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LiesomeMore saying its good vs evil as if he is on the good side is the biggest piece of nonsense ever.
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John,
Time to tell your side. I was a little involved in that dispute but it was so long ago my memories are really vague. Maybe I'll have to get the old HP out of the garage and search for the emails.
I will ask you the same thing - to make an earnest effort at being understanding. Everybody has motivations. It's difficult sometimes figuring out what went wrong.
Chris
Chris
That "dispute" was off the rails forever. There were reported phone calls, reported death threats, reported assault threats, reported alerting of state, federal, and international authorities and a few bannings. Trying to attach a right and wrong to a deal like that is missing the point.
And you are right. Once sides get drawn, we tend to see things only from our own point of view and are so busy refuting the other guy that seeing his point of view is impossible. I will say this, the further we move away from understanding each other, the less intelligent we are.
Kevin
Bad action? I put up $10,000 of my own money and paid for the stream. I would have posted $20,000 if Lou's super smart secret backer would have had the balls to cover it when I offered to post it ALL prior to the match. But no they thought they would pull a move and come over the top while I was setting up for the show. Backfired there didn't it.
Bad action is when you don't pay not when you don't bet. If I make a bet on a game that has not started then I can call that bet off anytime UNLESS the money is posted with an agreement that no one can back out. I can change my mind at any time and call off bets before the first ball is struck.
You are a sideline spectator who has had a hard on for me for years. You didn't even have the cojones to try to make a bet in the first place as far as I can remember. But maybe you did - I wouldn't know with the way the threads were constantly closed and moved around.
So Matt Spinali save your condemnation for someone who cares about what you have to say. Next time you get in the box for $10,000 of your money playing pool tell us. Oh I am sure you will tell us you bet more than that every hand playing poker but even if true which I doubt it would be, playing pool and playing poker are vastly different and it takes a hell of a lot more balls to go heads up in pool where you can't get lucky on the river and take out a better player.
My credibility with all who matter to me is fine. I don't care what a troll thinks about me because trolls don't matter one bit to my life and income. I validate trolls by responding to them and give them meaning to their life. You are only someone because you have someone like me to attack. Otherwise you're a super nobody.
Only on a forum like this can you pretend to be someone whose opinion matters. It doesn't.