Recent content by VTEC John

During Earl's last match, he jacked up and missed, prompting one of the commentators to say something to the effect that that becomes harder as your shoulder ages. Sure enough, Earl subsequently missed two more shots from that position. I noticed that a couple of Shane's rare misses in his...

Yeah, I'm skeptical of that voiceover, too. Singapore was a British colony and Aloysius is a particularly British name, but I'll bet it's as unusual in Singapore as it is today in UK.

If that's how he says it, I stand corrected. It's a fairly common name inUK, where they say it as I described. My mistake, Mr. Yapp.

Things are getting global enough that comentators might as well be saying players' names correctly. Yeah, picky, but why not? There is no such name as "uh-LOY-asus Yapp." It's al-oh-WISH-us.

It's fine the way it is. After decades of everyone complaining about pool not going anywhere, we're riding the crest of a wave. The current formats, commentators, rule variations, etc., may not be ideal for us hard cores, but cumulatively may serve to bring new fans and players to the sport. Far...

What's interesting is that the Russian speakers in that link have so many variations. I assume that's different dialects from within a very large country, just my guess. I'm sure the one course I took would have made him FED-or, or maybe FAY-dor. Regardless, he sure strokes straight.

This is of zero significance and even less interest, unless you're sick of hearing that Matchroom Brit refer to Fedor as though his name rhymes with borscht (the food). There is a consonant in Russian that sounds exactly like our "sh" sound, but it doesn't occur in the Russian spelling of Gorst...

Elite was all I ever came up with, but the Elite logo (all caps) is quite different. Also, this has a steel 3/8 x 10 pin into wood, which struck me as a little unusual.

Anyone recognize this logo? It's a nice enough cue, but I assume it's an inexpensive whatever as it was given to me by a pool buddy who passed away. Thanks.

Looks to me like league players socializing, laughing and buying each other beers are genuinely having fun. The rest of us are continuously accepting a challenge and taking it seriously, because we experience validation when we meet it and some level of disappointment, even a kind of agony, when...

Agreed. Almost every player there was breaking at whatever speed he/she could make the one in the side.

You're right. I forgot about Amit and the other two I see so rarely. So many formidable women players.

Up until recently, I would have put Chezka, Rita Chou, Tkatch, Wei Wei and probably Jasmine ahead of her. Seoa has posted on her Instagram that she was unhappy with her mental game and was working on it. Given her win in Indonesia a week or so ago, along with her showing so far, whatever she's...

Yep. Can't get anything.

I got an apologetic email from MR this morning, just a tiny bit premature it seems. They bring up refunds but don't say how to request them. Here's an excerpt from the email: "We did identify the cause of the error and our team worked diligently to implement a fix, this resolved the issue and...