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Aluminum bats fundamentally change the game of baseball, dramatically increasing offensive levels. CF vs wood shafts is merely personal preference.

The early rounds of major tournaments have always been a snoozefest of 9-1 type scores. Reducing the number of seeded slots makes watching the early matches much more viable.

I think that's accurate. "Sponsor obligation." Fedor is sponsored by the APA.

There's also freeing up the mental real estate and not worrying about your cue. I can move balls around with the cue without being dainty, worrying about it, and still checking it later. If the cue gets knocked over, no concern. And that's in addition to less general maintenance, less worrying...

Tangential question: who's the best female jumper? Savannah has to be up there. It is one of her strongest areas.

Tennis doesn't use blue colored balls. For me, both the 2 and sometimes the 10 can lose their edges a bit on the tournament blue cloth. Really, any of the darker colors can be problematic at times, especially under substandard bar lighting. Lighter cloth colors provide much better contrast...

I'll have to see it in action first to judge. I'm a big fan of the grey. Best color for contrast with all the balls.

Yeah I can see the CF butts being easier to specify various parameters across a product line, but custom designing them I'd have to imagine would be expensive. I played with a Cynergy Truewood for years. I recently switched to the Cynergy X. Hit is largely the same. Maybe the X is slightly...

Thanks. The post I quoted said "Sept 31," a date that doesn't exist, hence the question.

Not to nit pick, but would the deadline be Oct 1 or Sep 30?

Might be a fun game, but the motivating premise underlying your argument is false. A typical player can always beat a much stronger player with weight. That's why handicapped tournaments and leagues have gotten so popular. This is just another attempt at leveling the field, but without (at...

Heck, not just the ref, but the  players should know better. Particularly Oscar.

On the women's side it's ok because there are fewer break and runs and so a little more uncertainty with every shot and decision, more misses, more back-and-forth, and therefore a little more excitement. On the men's side it's still pretty boring.

If you listen after the call, Jasmin says "they just looked at it and looked at it and looked at it..." so my interpretation is they looked at that angle multiple times. So they'd have to go with the ref's initial call, and he was in the best position of anyone to make the call. Obviously refs...

Yeah, the missed open 8 earlier is looming large. The foul she just committed at 6-6 was from a lack of patience. She should have regrouped, chose another shot, and figured out a way to get on the correct side of that ball later in the rack. Kelly is in the driver's seat.

If Savannah isn't practicing enough, it's probably due to playing competitively too much. Her game has definitely improved by light years in the last couple years. She definitely has an uphill battle with Kelly and then Chezka. At best 20% for each match, so 4% to nab the title. I'm rooting...

It certainly would be a shame to lose her from the US women's ranks. Hopefully she sticks to pool to some degree.

And 87% of games ended after one inning. That is a free-throw shooting contest at this level.

I promise you, barbox 8b is not too easy for me. But I'm not too stupid to see that barbox 8b for world-class caliber players is a joke. The percentage of one-inning games will probably be over 80%, might be over 90%.

I think Bergman is clearly the better player. Barbox 8b though is a great equalizer, as the bar is low enough that run-of-the-mill strong players can still look world class. Anyone can win this match. But if they played it 100 times (so 3000+ racks) there would be clear results in the favor of JB.