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I wish I was way off.

Been doing this drill for almost 30 years now. 😁

My point exactly. And why is that? Because the USA no longer cares about pool like it used to. It's a numbers game. The US has fewer people interested in playing pool for a living than Europe, the Philippines, etc. End. Of. Story. In the first half of the 20th century, pool and billiards were...

The sad fact of the matter is that pool doesn't matter anymore in the USA. Very few care about it at all. As the saying goes, "Decline is a choice."

How about playing this a bit like straight pool? One point per ball pocketed. When the 9 is made, if the cueball ends up in the kitchen, the player who made it continues with a full rack from the cueball's ending position. If the cueball didn't make it into the kitchen, the oppenent gets ball in...

Very interesting. However, the additional obstacles will probably encourage more safeties, which is not going to get the general public to watch.

So sad. One of my all-time favorite players. May he rest in peace. I was there when he banked the 9 for the hill-hill win over Jim Rempe in the 1998 US Open and his back-to-back wins in 2008 and 2009. Great stuff! Jay Helfert and Nick Varner commentate...

At the high point, Charlie tells Eddie they're ahead by $18,000. That's $180,000 in today's money. Does anyone really think they're going to walk out of there alive with that kind of cash? Bert is part of the NYC underworld. No way are they leaving with his money. If you believe otherwise...

I agree.

Eddie tells Fats, "Even if you beat me, I'm still the best." He's right. He's the best. But who leaves with the money?

And when you really think about it, if Eddie had quit when he was way ahead by $11,400 "cash," which is more like $114,000 now, do you really think Bert would let him get away clean? He and his partner would have never walked out of Ames alive. They'd both be buried in upstate New York near...

I'm rewatching it right now after many years and I am marveling at Jackie Gleason. He looks like the ultimate predator—confident, insatiable, unrelenting. What a performance. I've always believed that Newman deserved the best actor Oscar for his performance. But now, after watching again, I...

It's certainly ambiguous. But my take has always been that Bert simply knew what would happen to Eddie when he "walked into the wrong kinda place." He'd be "eaten alive." He knew that Eddie was more interested in proving he was the best instead of going for the cash. That's the reason he sticks...

Didn't read all of the posts, so excuse me if this has already been mentioned. But that was back before low-deflection shafts. LD makes a huge difference and is probably more responsible than anything else for the need for much tighter pockets, especially at the pro level.

Didn't have to zoom in. It is as plain as day. I don't believe he felt it though. And for the ref to miss it in real time is partly understandable.

Here's my take. First off, there were way less players back then. The world was just starting to wake up to pool. The sheer number of players means a lot. That fact partially accounts for the fact that there is only one woman in the top 100 Fargo rankings—Siming Chen. In general, women are just...

Thanks very much! I encourage the naysayers to read the whole post. To entice them to do so, I respectfully submit the following TL;DR generated by AI: TL;DR: The Hidden Dance of Stroke and Aim Oliver Ruuger, a low/mid-level "pro" pool player and instructor with 3 years of full-time practice...

Listen to Mr. Jewett. The answer is, for the most part, "no."

SNL always had a lot of clunkers along with the great stuff.

Very sad news. I saw him play live at the US Open and on video more times than I can count. I'm sure he's still shooting straight with Grady and the gang.