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Yes, in the Main Forum. Seen me in NPR lately? You are not nearly the negative influence in the Main forum as in NPR, because topics are not so divisive. Main forum is more or less self moderating. The one place that really NEEDS strong moderation, NPR, is not getting it. The forum you are...

Please don't do that. You and I have had many, MANY conversations about this, and you know that I have zero problems with WHATEVER people want to talk about, so long as they do so in a polite manner. So don't play stupid that you don't know what my stance is on open debate. I'ma say it straight...

Hey man... I am just trying to say... The mods run the forum the way they wanna run it... And there's not a lot of thought that goes into what is "fair", and for the general good fo the forum, in my experience. To me, that comes from the site owner letting their administrators justdo whatever...

I think a new cue "can" play a lot better... Butfor the most part, a player playing with a new cue tends to be not as confident moving to the extreme edges of the cue ball, and as such, tends to play closer to center ball, which pretty much makes ANYONE play better. When the honeymoon period is...

"For the best of the forum"..... Lol.. Don't get it twisted, brah. It's not necessarily "for the best of the forum", but rather simply, "how mods wanna run things". Those are very much not the same thing. NPR is an absolute s**tshow of venomous political attacks, and mods make little effort to...

Well... The mods in NPR are so completely and utterly biased towards one side of the political spectrum, they don't even try to hide it, so... Yeah. That's AZBilliards forum for you.

And therein lays the major weakness of American pool. It is tied to gambling as a means of improvement and income, which has become completely untenable due to the egregious gulf between middle class worker pay, and cost of living. There's neither time, nor money to dedicate one's self to...

Steve Mizerak. Irving Crane. A number of others from that era. Nowadays, not too many. Cost of living was a lot less in those days, but they still DID work full time jobs. So the issue is not necessarily whether there is enough time.. It's that the American middle class has gotten poorer and...

Within current American pool culture? There's little hope. So long as good players see each other as someone who can "take something away from them", they are not gonna play each other, and will avoid tournaments with the stiffest competition. Gambling culture is exactly what is holding...

Here in Germany, the league setup is 100% on 9 footers, and they have a tiered league setup similar to soccer, where you join a "Liga" team at whatever level, and you and your teammates attempt to win the league session. If you do so, your entire team gets graduated to the next Liga level. And...

Well, for the record... Fargorate has been importing tournament results from cuescore for a specific tournament series run out of our club in Germany. I actually wrote a script that spit out German league results in a format that would ingest seamlessly into Fargorate, and it never really went...

He'strying to show you that there is no effective difference in measurement of overall pool ability on a 7 foot table, versus a 9 foot table. And for the record, Fargorate is a rating system that very much patterns itself off of something like the U.S. Chess Federation/FIDE ratings. These...

So playing the Main Event at the International Open is not necessary? Plenty of amateur events to fill a week, and get some heavy Fargorate data?

I really want to work on raising my FR back up to a level commensurate with my best game, but annoyingly, the TDs at DCC still don't report full match scores to Fargorate. I would appreciate any recommendations for a multidiscipline 9 foot event, as my wife and I are perfectly open to going...

I watched the last few games of that Skylar/Ruiz match, and I agree with everything you said. I saw that bank attempt, and I was very close to turning off the TV in disgust. I told my wife that shot basically epitomized everything about why we keep getting drilled year after year. If he could...

Well, that's the thing.. You "think' that European players are better because government funds player development. I mean.. "I guess", if you want to loosely define "government". But the truth of it is.. European leagues, look NOTHING like American leagues. In Germany, clubs field teams at...

My thoughts are that this question has been asked no less than 50 times... And always when we are getting our heads beat in. You wouldn't be asking the question if America was still dominant, as in the first days of the Mosconi Cup. That being said.. I "think" the Mosconi Cup "used" to be USA...

Sigh. Some of you people are stuck in decades-old thinking. The Mosconi Cup is one of the few financially successful televised pool-centric events in the past 20-30 years.. And people like you want to rewind the clock. Here's a clue.... That image of pool you have? Doesn't sell. You have this...

And Billy plays another poor safe, leaving natural position from the the 2 to the 3....

Okay.. so clarify that, then. What issue do you have with "how she looks"?? And which woman are you specifically referencing? I saw the redhead, and her dress pretty much goes up to her neck, and she has an interesting, B-52s type vibe. Little bit of legs showing, but nothing crazy. The other is...