It's beautiful for the APA. It's ugly for the 250,000 members lol. Since I never hear any complaints, I assume the APA members are content with their payouts.
The first rule of reasoning is that you must use logic. If APA members aren't complaining, then it obviously isn't ugly for them like you state, now is it? They obviously feel they are getting a decent value out of their money spent. Nothing ugly about that at all. And for those that do complain, if they are still putting their money into it then they obviously still feel it is a good enough value too, regardless of what they are saying. Actions speak louder than words.
However, the pro pool world is in serious need of financing.
And I need a new boat. So frickin what. If you don't get the point, the point is that it isn't even a need--it is a want, and not a very important want in the scheme of things. It isn't like pro pool plays some valuable role in the world. Yes it is a nice thing to have, and yes it brings some joy to an extremely small segment of the population, but you act like pro pool is equal to cancer research or something, like it is a real need for anybody.
I'm just bringing to light the fact that rather complaining that there is no money in pool because it's not televised, we should starting looking at the leagues that are taking it all and not investing anything back into the sport.
First, pro pool isn't a need. The money you want to steal or strong arm or pressure from other people to give to pro pool could instead be put to far better uses. Ever thought about that? No, because you don't care. You are just trying to fill YOUR own personal selfish wants, instead of looking at what the majority wants, or even better, looking at what the real NEEDS are out there as opposed to what you as a single individual selfishly wants.
But even if pro pool was a worthy need, what gives you the right to feel that you should have any say in how someone else spends their money? You said you don't believe you have that right, yet every single post on here is telling someone else what they should earning and what they should be doing with their money, and trying to organize other people to pressure them to do what YOU want them to do with THEIR money.
Well I don't like the way you spend your money either. I think you should be giving at least $10,000 a year to the American Cancer Society. It is a far better cause than pro pool, and I doubt even you will argue that. So how do you feel about me telling you what you have to do with your money, even when you agree it is a good cause? Imagine how much more you would be against it if you didn't even feel it was a good cause? Truth is, you don't care what I tell you to do with your money or how good the cause is because you don't feel I have the right to tell you what to do with YOUR money. But yet you want to be a hypocrite and feel you have the right to say what somebody else should do with theirs.
For the fiftieth time, why do you think you have the right to tell others what they should do with their money when you don't think anybody else should be telling you what to do with yours? Do you really think you are that special and that above every other person that you should have special rights that nobody else has?
As of recently, Corey Deuel has been trying to get support from the leagues and it seems that everyone is against it saying things like: "Why should a portion of my league fees go the pros? They haven't done anything for me." I don't get it. What does the APA do for you with that extra money?
As covered above, the APA provides an acceptable to good value to its members as proven by the fact that the members continue to pay for it. The APA provides for its members competition, opportunity to socialize with friends and to also meet new people, it covers table time for doing something they love, even provides for free table time to practice in many cases, and it provides the opportunity to earn mostly expense paid trips to Las Vegas and other places and it does all kinds of other things for its members too. The better question is what are the pros doing for the APA members? Zero. So why again do you think APA members shouldn't want their money going to that which actually does do many things for them but that it should instead go to something that does absolutely zero for them? Remember, the first rule of reasoning is using logic.
For some reason everyone is against the leagues sponsoring or running any sort of pro tour with the millions of dollars they are collecting from the amateurs.
It isn't so much that they are against the APA supporting pro pool, although most probably feel there are better ways that money could be spent (like giving to the American Cancer Society, or better payouts for leagues and tournaments, etc). What they are against is one person being able to tell another how they have to spend their money if that isn't the way they want to spend their money.
Let me ask you again. I'm sure you don't feel it is my place to tell you that you earn too much money for what you do, and that you should be giving $10,000 to the American Cancer Society every year. So why do you feel that you are somehow special and can tell other people how much they should earn and how they should spend their money?
