Recent content by middleofnowhere

Some may play because they enjoy it and are a little bit of a draw so promoters often invite them. Reality is though, there's no 50-year-old out there putting in 8 hours a day practice. That's all behind them they've been there and done that.

There is some debate about the wording of the rule. Assuming the rule is you have to call everything, where do you draw the line on what rules to ignore?

The key phrases if there is any chance of confusion. In this case there would be no chance of confusion by anyone.

Tyler should have just taken the shot. The real class would have been for Bergman to not have accepted the charity.

If you order a shaft how do you get the correct joint screw thread? The cue I may order a shaft for I got the screw from Billy Stroud. It is a radial but there are different radial screws. I think they were called uniloc radial screws If I decide to just make the shaft myself I still have the...

I'm sorry for having to use an AI reference here. Intelligence is the active, cognitive capacity to learn, understand, reason, and apply information, whereas knowledge is the passive accumulation of facts. Processing involves analyzing, synthesizing, and utilizing knowledge to solve problems...

Here is some AI bs I got off the net but who knows there could be a grain of Truth "Albert Einstein was an avid player of billiards (specifically three-cushion billiards), viewing it as a strategic "art of thinking ahead" rather than just a game. He was known to play at Bensinger's in Chicago...

My favorite cure is one that I've made and I've played with it off and on for about 35 years. I keep coming back to it. I'm just recently thinking of trying out a CF shaft out of curiosity. Can't believe I made this 35 years ago.

Not sure how much intellect may have to do with it. Some people are just talented. By the way, today is Albert Einstein's birthday but I don't know if you could make a ball.

You mentioned a number of names. You mentioned Steve Gumphry. I have been trying to remember his name for the longest time. I saw him not long before he died.

I think the only real thing that Mike would have to learn would be the safety play, kicking and the jump cue. If Mike was 25 years old again it would be no problem he would master what ever is required. Beyond that, Mike had all the tools his talent can't be denied. He would be a top player today.

This is not meant to a debate but you made the comment. What does Filler know that Sigel doesn't? Or would be unable to learn if need be.

I suspect they were using the table to their advantage. In other words cheating pockets bumping rails firing balls down the rail with tremendous speed to get position and so on is how they played the game because they knew the table permitted it and they took advantage of that. It permitted...

I think the 50 year number picked for this discussion is not far enough back for a real contrast. In the 70s it was not that much different then today. I played on fairly fast tables, balls were always clean, chalk worked fine. Mostly I used a French champion tip and my cue in the 70 was a Gina...

Lassiter. I was just watching him the other night. I saw him play a number of times in person. Like the players today he was very precision. I have no doubt if he was a young man today he could play today's players. He had a short stroke and pocketed balls with deadly accuracy. In my minds eye...