Recent content by Bert van Manen

Here's a decent story about Roberto Rojas, his fans will like this. We were playing a seniors tournament in Seoul (60+ guys), and the organization offered us a tour of the Korean DMZ. Very military atmosphere, heavily armed Korean soldiers everywhere. Lots of tourists taking selfies. Our group...

Sayginer back with UMB? That's new to me. Are you certain? As far as I know, he is still under PBA contract and active individually and in their team league.

Actually, Zanetti is 63 :). But I take your point.

No problem bbb, asking questions is a good habit. Average must not be confused with higher runs. I'd be happy to make ten runs of four. :) My question was: why aren't today's grand averages higher than those of 5, 10 and 15 years ago? And, surprisingly, they're not. I've tried to explain why...

By the way, has anybody given thought to the strange fact that the averages at the top have stagnated? Yes, they have. TB had an Overall World Cup average of 1.928 as long ago as 1995. Sanchez had 2.035 in 2015. Jaspers was over 2.000 on three occasions when winning the OWC. Caudron won it with...

Tell me you're old without telling me you're old. :)

Just watched this yesterday, and was happy to see myself in the audience. Best three days in the history of 1-cushion.

Before there was a complete smoking ban, many rooms in the Netherlands had "smoking areas". I've said from day one, that a smoking area in a pool room is about as effective as a peeing area in a swimming pool.

All valid points, Bob. Also: 3-C is as far away from instant gratification as you can get. And the attention span of the younger generation appears to keep shrinking.

I had a short conversation with his mother once. She told me she had been pregnant for 22 months.

This should be the correct link. Sorry for posting the wrong one. https://vod.sooplive.co.kr/player/177130683

https://play.sooplive.co.kr/afbilliards6/288960026 And I'm not a fan of the guy, for obvious reasons. But he makes, in his inimitable time-wasting, yoga-exercizing, staring at the ceiling-way, 22 points in 4 innings and they were not easy. How he manages to hit the ball with 1 sec left on the...

I saw an announcement by Paul that he called it quits.

https://vod.sooplive.co.kr/player/175098179

Yes, I watched that one with pleasure. If Sameh is hot, he sizzles.