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They'll just keep band-aiding the game every time somebody breaks it yet again. It's gotta be 9 ball or nothing!

Now I'm really confused. Hitting high english on the ball itself means you have a better angle on seeing on the balls?

Maybe I'm missing something. Why would I be hitting low? I just take all the variables but one out of it. Just make speed, only running English, and the rails do all the work for you. If you have done test shots and know how the table is running, you know the adjustments that need to be made...

Yeah I was curious why people are hitting high. I went and looked at Byrne's book to see if I misremembered something, but no. He's got it pretty much just running, a touch of high, maybe? hard to tell from the little ball, for 50-->30-->20. He says, "Use running english and firm speed." On...

That's a crazy short table. I have crappy cloth and I can hit maximum right english, no high, at the diamond next to the middle pocket and make the 8. Something is making your table run extremely short.

Imagine Earl Strickland getting all teary eyed talking about how he lost his dear puppy at the age of 5 and never got over it.

What you don't want to do is drive away your existing audience, for starters. Ask Bud Light how that went. I noticed watching the American vs. British versions of the Gordon Ramsey show where he goes to try and save a failing restaurant - the British show focuses on, you know, the failing...

I don't know. If between every break and run out they cut away for five minutes to talk about the player's rough home life and how he overcame tough odds to blah blah, I think I'd shoot myself. I've seen some of those BBQ shows and the only thing more boring than the BBQ is the "story behind...

Pool is more than 9 ball. I didn't say I wanted MMA. I said if people want 'fast action' they'll go watch MMA and not pool.

Now explain the popularity of golf with this theory. I don't watch it much but I don't ever remember seeing golfers shit talking their opponents like it's the WWF. Golf is the most sedate thing there is. There's a reason the term "golf clap" exists. People at classical piano concerts applaud...

Hey, if you can get people to watch Cornhole, they'll watch anything. People throwing a bag in a hole.

Well, if it's only a few hardcore fans that are watching anyway, then we don't need to keep pushing 9-ball, right? Since it's only a small hardcore audience that can appreciate more complexity? I thought the fast exciting action of 9 ball was going to bring in the audience?

People watch snooker by the millions in the UK, and it's not fast, at all. Watching 9-ball is a snoozer for me. If people want fast action, they'll watch MMA and the hell with pool to begin with. Hell, golf gets high ratings and it's slow as molasses.

Bride tension in your arm is when you're your 'own wife' too often.

The diagrams in the book Hoppe "wrote" are not good and very misleading. Everything magically goes to the corner.

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I don't get it?

Out of curiousity, what are the red "diamonds" stuck next to the regular diamonds for?

A search didn't bring up anything. Hopefully this wasn't posted before. A movie that was long thought lost, featuring some footage of Minnesota Fats

That's a nice table. I would put that in a storage unit. The kids are going to grow up and you'll be stuck playing pool alone.