Recent content by middleofnowhere

I once remember seeing miz playing and he had to reach over the table. He undid his pants and tucked the whole tail of his jacket in so that he could shoot without fouling. Any balls right in front of everybody. I don't mind doing away with the formal wear as long as the players look good it...

Derby might be the one exception as to tournaments worth watching. Having said, that regardless of who wins or what happens you won't see one mention of it in any paper or public media anywhere in the country. It's an invisible sport.

Thomas Wolfe may have said that but that doesn't mean you can't try. It doesn't mean you have to accept change as inevitable and inflexible.

I tend to disagree with that statement that I highlighted. I live in a town used to have about seven pool rooms between real pool rooms and bowling alleys. They were all great with championship equipment. Today we have one bowling alley and it doesn't even have a pool room room. You read it...

I used to love to watch the play of the game. I used to often not even care who won. Strategy, cheating pockets to get amazing positions, great shot making, thin cuts, backward cuts under pressure. Risk and reward playing. Today it's headline news if a player even goes for a shot. They never...

I have a GC 2. It's a good table. Unless you can move and set it up yourself you will be in quite a bit more expense. Many of those tables spent the better part of their lives in pool rooms and can be a little beat up. The formica on the rails chipped and gauged, even chipped and cracked...

I like garage sales. I always find it sad seeing people's who have passed away having what they thought so much of just being picked over and often just thrown away. Find someone who really wants what you have and just give it to them. Of course if it is Truly a collectable of some value find...

You having said that, I have very little interest in watching today's pool. When I watch it on YouTube I find myself fast forwarding just to see who wins. The idea I would be driving hundreds of miles to watch a tournament today, not a chance.

Diliberto was doing an exhibition. And during the Q&A part a guy sets up a shot he said he saw Johnny Irish make. The shot is impossible but he swears he saw it. Danny looks at the shot for a second and says, "You know, the longer Johnny's dead the better he plays".

That is what it is 99.9%. If you very carefully examine the cue with a magnifying glass at some point you'll find it engraved into the cue actually in the wood.

Not good to make enemies. Had a good friend and someone knocked on his front door and shot him on the head. I don't like loose ends.

I think the funniest thing I saw though was I used to cover my own tables. I was in the process of covering a table and I hadn't put the rails back on yet it was just the green cloth. A group come in and got a rack of balls and went over to that table and put the balls on the table and began to...

I had a bar in my pool room and I once asked a kid for an ID. And he shows me a picture of himself. And the guy standing next to him said he asked you for an ID not your IQ. That just seems so funny at the time.

I watch this video and it made me think. Pool players are mostly individuals and not really team players. It might account for why nobody really cares anything about the Mosconi cup.

At one time the big G was found in some rooms. You could buy them out the door for around $600.00 to $800.00. Had a friend opened a place and bought 12 tables for $7000.00. over time though he swapped them out as he could afford it. Does Gandy even make tables anymore.