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How about starting with addressing why you refused to take all this German league or tournament data that ShortBusRuss is referring to given that you take that same type of data from others under similar circumstances if ShortBusRuss' story and the contention from others is correct? Does he...

And once again (whether through poor wording or not) all your arguments seem to be centered around how Mike should be helping everybody else as if he is a charity, rather than being centered around what would be best for his business which is the perspective that we (and of course he) should be...

They use the correct color pool balls like the rest of the world so clearly they aren't the "real" Matchroom, and thankfully so. On a funny side note they have "Matchroom" in their name but they are basically using the format from Matchroom's competitor the Predator Pro Billiard Series (just...

Apparently Mike doesn't think that is best for his business at the moment for whatever the reasons, right or wrong. For all we know it could just be that he couldn't currently handle the additional administrative workload, and hiring and training additional employees isn't currently feasible...

I can't think of anybody that meets all of those descriptors, but the closest matches would seem to be Johnny Archer or Mike Sigel, especially if you are certain they were really skinny. If you could be misremembering the skinny part then it starts to sound a lot like Tony Ellin but it still...

It is only in pool that for some reason people want to believe that private businesses should instead be run as a charity for the primary benefit of the sport rather than as what they actually are which is a private business for the primary benefit of the proprietor. We see it constantly...

It's actually more complicated than that. There is an "understanding" that SVB also gets to have a very strong input on major team decisions else he takes his ball and goes home.

This situation is kind of like a tournament match where the players are arguing over whether a shot was a foul or not and there is an extremely knowledgeable member of the audience who had the perfect view of the shot, a better view than either of the players in fact, and knows with certainly...

This event is about doing your best to win--this year. We shouldn't be looking to the past at players who used to be good, or looking to the future at players who might end up being good one of these days. We need who is best suited today. I also feel it is important that they be at low risk...

At first glance I like D). The 6, 4, then the 7 where you break out the 8, and from there it depends on exactly where the 8 ended up, but probably 1, 2, 5, 8. The only real potential problems with this rack are the 8 with no easy pocket, but that can very easily be broken out from the 7 with...

It sounds to me like both of you (Patrick Johnson and ShootingArts) are essentially in agreement and saying and trying to say the same things but where you just each have very different ways of thinking about it and wording it that wouldn't have been most intuitive to the other. On a side note...

She must not be too bright, she presented me with the wrong end of the megaphone!

I have no idea what you mean by "shooting away from [the cue ball]", perhaps you can explain. If you are talking about a swoop stroke (it doesn't sound like you are otherwise you would have said so?), where the stroke path is intentionally curved in an exaggerated fashion rather that being...

The diagrams are based on the actual tip contact point rather than the center of the tip, and of course for english right at the miscue limit the contact point would be on the very inside edge of the tip. This also means that something like 90+% of the tip is past the contact point/miscue limit...

You got everything backwards. Eight ball, particularly on a bar box, is significantly more nuanced than nine ball and the knowledge and strategy is much more involved and takes significantly longer to learn and master. You are clearly one of those that is still in the "you don't know what you...

One of the best written posts in quite a while. And we hear this argument a lot, but from what I've seen the evidence doesn't really back it up as even low level pros have pretty decent quality of life unless they are incredibly irresponsible. As just a few examples what I see is that they can...

Are you really trying to claim that trying to put forth the best teams to win along with having the most appeal for spectators haven't been the two main goals all along? For the record both of those things require the level of skill to be among the highest, and women just aren't there yet based...

And I would have no problem with it if they want to have an all women's Mosconi Cup just like they have the all women's WPBA. But for the Mosconi Cup where one of the primary goals is fielding the five person team from your country/continent that gives you the best chance of winning, as this...

What a load a horse sh!t. The Mosconi Cup is first and foremost about putting forth the best talent possible to try to win, along with some additional considerations such as that they will conduct themselves in a way so as to be a decent representative for their country rather than an...

Hopefully not until they have earned it through merit by being one of five best choices. This is first and foremost supposed to be about pool ability and people shouldn't be getting handed things that others are more qualified for just because they have a vagina or a certain skin color.