Congats To Rodney Morris in HOF

what year mosconi cup? rodney supposed to dumped.

I would like to watch the match u are referring to. Neil. What year mosconi cup is it please. Thanks.
 
Chopdoc said:
But don't all the successful commercialized sports do that?


Football, baseball, basketball, hockey, how about the explosion of the value of MMA?


Talk about glorifying sleeze balls...heck the fans do it! And the sponsors come running!

Sure, cross a certain line and you could lose sponsorship deals, but those industries are founded, built, and maintained on, for, and by sleeze balls.
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I don't see anyone glorifying sleeze balls. Guys make mistakes, and they usually pay for those mistakes in one way or another.

The difference between pool and major sports is there are ramifications for poor choices in major sports. Guys screw up in the NFL, and they can get fined, suspended, put in jail. Tom Brady is suspended 4 games without pay for allegedly deflating footballs. Which in pool, is probably the equivalent of pattern racking.

Shit, you get caught with marijuana in your system in any major sport, and that'll get you suspended. Most guys in the pool world can't play at all unless they toke up before a match.
 
Just two comments: no idea who Neil's sources are but I heard almost exactly the same thing about "the MC dump." Another fact is that there are at least a couple of other folks on this site that also know the same. Whether they choose to speak up, or are even still on this site, is unknown.

The udder thing is that the biggest hypocrites on this site tend to use blue ink.

Lou Figueroa
 
lfigueroa said:
Just two comments: no idea who Neil's sources are but I heard almost exactly the same thing about "the MC dump." Another fact is that there are at least a couple of other folks on this site that also know the same. Whether they choose to speak up, or are even still on this site, is unknown.

The udder thing is that the biggest hypocrites on this site tend to use blue ink.

Lou Figueroa
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Did you just use blue ink?
 
Here's Rodney at age 25 playing in the final match of the 1996 US Open race-to-11 against Efren:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZCxssVP-Kc

As Danny D. would likely put it, Rodney was "A straight-shootin' son-of-a-gun" in this video against a death-in-the-family-disturbed Reyes. I believe Reyes had just gotten news about the passing of a beloved relative. (Similar to Busty losing to Strickland -- some AZB-ers may remember -- in that years-ago Cardiff, Wales final after his infant daughter died. (Every player in that tourney -- including Strickland -- movingly wore a black armband in sympathy for Busty immediately after the bad news circulated.)

While vacationing once in Hawaii, I had the pleasure of playing (moderately well) in the same Texas Express 9-baller as Rodney (held at the then-newly-opened Maui Cue and conducted by Randy G.) a couple of years after Rodney's above US Open win. Rodney's effortless multi-cushion position play and silky-smooth stroking were dazzling to behold in person. Archer, Sal Butera (Lou's son), Michael Coltraine (Archer's buddy), and a ton of local A+ stars were entered -- all of them sadly, smoking like chimneys as was the common practice then.

Arnaldo
 
arnaldo said:
Here's Rodney at age 25 playing in the final match of the 1996 US Open race-to-11 against Efren:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZCxssVP-Kc

As Danny D. would likely put it, Rodney was "A straight-shootin' son-of-a-gun" in this video against a death-in-the-family-disturbed Reyes. I believe Reyes had just gotten news about the passing of a beloved relative. (Similar to Busty losing to Strickland -- some AZB-ers may remember -- in that years-ago Cardiff, Wales final after his infant daughter died. (Every player in that tourney -- including Strickland -- movingly wore a black armband in sympathy for Busty immediately after the bad news circulated.)

While vacationing once in Hawaii, I had the pleasure of playing (moderately well) in the same Texas Express 9-baller as Rodney (held at the then-newly-opened Maui Cue and conducted by Randy G.) a couple of years after Rodney's above US Open win. Rodney's effortless multi-cushion position play and silky-smooth stroking were dazzling to behold in person. Archer, Sal Butera (Lou's son), Michael Coltraine (Archer's buddy), and a ton of local A+ stars were entered -- all of them sadly, smoking like chimneys as was the common practice then.

Arnaldo
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I am big fan of watching Earl play. He may have expressed sympathy earlier in the tournament, but it was distasteful of him to jump on the table and yell after winning the tournament considering what his opponent had gone through
 
westcoast said:
I am big fan of watching Earl play. He may have expressed sympathy earlier in the tournament, but it was distasteful of him to jump on the table and yell after winning the tournament considering what his opponent had gone through
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I defy you to name two things that Earl has done, that weren't either distasteful, uncalled for, or just plain assinine?..He is a disgrace to ALL American pool players!..It is a shame, with all his skill at the game, that he is the first name the world thinks of, when they think of pool in our country! :mad:

PS..I ain't buying into his mental problems as an excuse either..Its hard to believe he doesn't actually enjoy acting like a complete a--hole! :frown:
 
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lfigueroa said:
Just two comments: no idea who Neil's sources are but I heard almost exactly the same thing about "the MC dump." Another fact is that there are at least a couple of other folks on this site that also know the same. Whether they choose to speak up, or are even still on this site, is unknown.

The udder thing is that the biggest hypocrites on this site tend to use blue ink.

Lou Figueroa
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wayne said:
Did you just use blue ink?
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Wayne,
That is just Lou Figueroa's "poorly veiled ad hominem attack" in breaking the forum's rules.

I guess the forum moderators will have to put the muzzle back on him.


JoeyA
JoeyA
 
Many of you need to check yourselves.

Lots of folks looking down their noses at one another.
 
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