Recent content by ShootingArts

That is my picture in my avatar. I learned early to stay away from judged events of all kinds! First time I earned a checkered flag I didn't shut down for another lap. People asked why I didn't. I sat far enough back in my car that they threw the flag after I couldn't see the flagstand and I...

Great Story! I had similar happen. I was low on funds to put it mildly and bills had to be paid in about three weeks. I had perfect credit and meant to keep it that way. Packed my bags, rounded up my road partner, planned a couple week trip. Stopped at a place my partner knew was good for small...

Pick a game or sport, any of them! It is a longshot to become rich. Players in the NFL have an average two year career the last I knew with a lifetime of pain and minor injuries at best. Maybe one in a million or less that dream of playing in the NFL make it, and that might be your best chance...

I admired the folks that lived in an old wood frame house for decades. When the Tuscaloosa Trend came through they didn't build a faux antebellum home like some although they were almost across the highway from Cherie Place, a tastefully done home that just looked over a hundred years old...

I have fired an air barrel twice. Once I was broke and two days without eating. That was a carefully played game. Another time I walked into a low dive over towards White Castle. It's six in the morning, I have been out all night, so have the two guys playing a hundred a game on the challenge...

Yeah, the way I would try I think the five is probably the hardest shot on the table. Four to the five and shape on the six. I can run that table once, walk it twice, and kinda hobble around gasping for air another time. Getting old! Hu

I'll tell a story sad but true. The Tuscaloosa trend was found running through here a few years back. I had over fifteen acres. Not much but I know people that became wealthy on smaller pieces. There were nice producing wells all around my family piece of low hundreds of acres. There was oil...

Seems strange but barbox and snooker are closer to each other than barbox and nine foot table. Some of the people known as barbox specialists have tough snooker games too. I can't make up my mind about which better shows skills, tourney format or gambling. I like the variety of players in...

This runs long, might interest some dreaming of the glory days of road players. It was glory days for a few, a hard way to scratch out a living for most of us. The song fits perfectly! I went over to Jr's one day and he was pulling pieces of a side grinder out of his lunch box! Working in the...

Definitely would have me sweating buckshot. Best when playing on other people's money they know about it! A friend worked at Kaiser Aluminum. He had a dirt track late model and after admiring the new paint one year I noticed a Kaiser Aluminum Decal on his car door right over the number. "Jr...

I had a little discussion with a pro right here on AZB many years ago. I said that while a shortstop could lose, he could also beat anyone on a given night on his home turf. The pro had to admit I was right. He has never forgiven me!(grin) I really think Shortstop is more of a gambling term...

To me it's a term from the gambling world, doesn't really apply well to tournament pool. There are usually only one, maybe two, shortstops in a room. Greenway was an exception, often a handful of shortstops there. I don't remember ever calling somebody a shortstop that didn't gamble although...

Despite the saying never bank when you can cut there are times when the bank is better. In my fairly early days playing I used to battle regularlly with a stoner. He was maybe six-six, 98 pounds soaking wet, and not a nerve in his body. To this day I have never encountered someone that cut balls...

Told this story before but it is a chuckle about the phone. I rarely went over to the rich side of town, a bunch of sniveling bitches and the girls weren't much better. However I had been pounding the north side of town and I didn't feel like driving far to get to my more distant honey holes. I...

I got a lot of that money, secondhand. I never jacked the bet over five dollars. The guys trying to hustle the blue collar guys eventually got to me in my rough clothes. Didn't hurt that I often worked industrial construction or as a mechanic or body man. I looked the part, hell I was the part...