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    A few thoughts on "ahead" sets or any kind of weight giving

    Getting weight does not mean a guy is stealing at all. In years oast the guy getting the wieght lost about 84% of the time. Fiving up weight for some is jus no big deal.. If it were not for giving up weight, Keith would have rarely been in action and many others too. Keith gqave the world weight...
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    Two-Foul 9 Ball

    They re incredible shot makers. but I would guess in experienced with two shot style of play and I would just guess that CJ would be better served with some one more experienced in that sty le of play Like Buddy, or nick.God this makes me feel old!!
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    Two-Foul 9 Ball

    How about one of the old schoolers like Buddy. He explins himsellf well and I would bet it would be something he would like to be involved with. Plus he played it pretty darn well in the day? JUst a thought!
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    Two-Foul 9 Ball

    How about one of the old schoolers like Buddy. He explins himsellf well and I would bet it would be something he would like to be involved with. Plus he played it pretty darn well in the day? JUst a thought! YOU know another andin your area is Joe Salazar. I know he does not play much anymore...
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    Two-Foul 9 Ball

    I agree on the video idea ad the idea that something must change. I think XXJ ill get around to it in his own time. I wish he would return to the MC team as well,
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    Player auction question.........Opinions!!!

    Exactly and has been for 100 years.
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    Maybe Gambling Is No Good 4 Pool

    IN my town all places are bats with pool tables abd the owners do not see 6 feet past the bar.
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    Buddy Hall

    So is it safe to say nothing works for Team USA and needs a complete overhaul? Where would/should that begin? It swwma pretty obvious the present system has serious flaws?? Two shot? I agree, but they ain't going to change that.
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    SJM Mosconi Cup Trip Report

    Wehn I read what you had to say about Earl my first thought was how painful that must have been for you to write. It is by far the strongest stance i have heard you make over the years. YOU are one poster I always stop to read and have come to respect. I wish he would read it and take time to...
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    We All Lost the Cup

    YOU are dead right whether we want to agree or not. IMO, there needs to be more into the selection. First we have all heard it but, the re is no "I" in the word team and they need to hear that. If that is a form of diffidculty for some, go the hell home. Everyone misses aball, big deal who cant...
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    A different perspective on the Mosconi Cup

    Maybe each memeber should be asked,"Are you the problem or the solution"? If not ready to be the solution, get rid of him!!
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    No cut break allowed?

    I have a big appreciation for anyone who plays the complete game, Shot making, banks speed control, pattern play and even safeties, but why on earth are some so afraid of players breaking and running out. That is what I enjoy the most. The first real apackage saw was Freg Stevens years ago...
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    No cut break allowed?

    I think what he was eluding to that so many balls have to get beyond the side pocket to be a legal break. That is what prompts the cut break.
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    No cut break allowed?

    CJ told me IN Houston that it was almost requred and yhe only effective break With todays bitty batt bunt bunt style of 9 ball played today why is everyone so afraid of the break? I t seems offensive pool is just that, offensive??
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    Double Elimination is BROKEN

    I don't totally disagree with ya, but, th e past is a great predicter and re=invention of te wheel always alarms me. but that is just me. NOt saying you have a bad idea just looking from the other side.
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    Double Elimination is BROKEN

    Ok I heare qht you are sating, but how long would it take to run such an event?? P)Lus it greatly benfits the better p;layers whish is what TD's are tryng to avoid. NOthinig kills tourneys like the sme old winnere over and over again.
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    Pool in Detroit, a city on the rebuild...

    Too too bad. What a palce and what a history iy hds. Wehn I was there about 5 years ago it was on the decline butnot nearly as you describe now. YOU live there so Iave no reason to doubt what you imply., The days and stories of the Rack will iveon forever and be reminder of the good old days for...
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    Fill Rooms Back Up...Gamble

    Oh cam down you old fart!! the days are gone forever and ever. They were fun and exciing butleft round 76 or 77 no traces left. It was a different time and terminology. HE first big pool room I walked into was the old family fun Center in Denver back around 1970. Andy HUdson and Whitey Jack were...
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    "It seems like nowadays everybody's dropping like flies, all my friends"

    I lost myy two clsest freids to cancer/ The first was Al Hogue back in 1991 and then Danny Medina this past January. Neither was lung cancer but devastating/ I got up today thinking of both ad miss them terribly. Ironicly All waw abit of a health frek but abused alchohol while Danny was...
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    are you addicted too?????

    eah Sonny can get 10-8 right now!
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