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I love watching and listening to the old matches, but they were all over the place on the science stuff. In fairness, most of them had a working knowledge of what was going on. They must have intuitively understood the game to play it at such a high level. I think they just got their variables...

I've seen that scratch like yours in a TEAM event hill-hill! It was the sort of scratch that would be hard to accomplish just shooting the cue ball straight into the pocket.

Nothing wrong with that. I didn't comment on that post. I can be slow, especially when someone uses so many big words, but I never advocated for playing without lights. I was just commenting on the move towards brighter and brighter lighting. At some point, what is gained? Is it? Or is it...

Good for you. The boat comparison would be more apt if you were talking about your paint job, instead of having a boat or not. Playing with just blinds affects play negatively. Why does more light, if it doesn't actually affect your game positively, give you a more pleasurable experience? If I...

I've played with just a couple of shop lights above my 9 footer for years. I sort of think players are now conditioning themselves into needing better lighting than they think they do. Don't get me wrong, playing on my buddy's well lit Diamond is nice, but playing on it all the time and then...

You can actually just continue posting about it, but just keep adding that part and you'll be covered.

Guess that's a possibility. Maybe a loose black fleece sweatshirt dragging on the rails over the years??? Weird how it would get embedded in the cloth though.

I don't do any quilting on it if that's what you're getting at. I was wondering if it had something to do with glove usage. Most of the specks are dark. This little video doesn't really capture it well, but after going around the whole table I had quite the collection.

Many will never let go of Mosconi and his era, which I don't blame them for because I think I know why. Mosconi played when the game was closer to an art than a sport. Today's game is ALL sport. Mosconi played with the grace of a dancer, and the overall product was a thing of beauty. The demands...

That's the point. Both things can be true at the same time. Schmidt should be praised, if for no other reason than he is ONE OF US! The guy is chasing a dream that we have all seen glimpses of, even if only for a moment or two. I would think everyone on a pool forum would understand this, at...

Yeah. We all understand the math at this point. So what. With runs this big, I no longer care about the numbers, just the results.

That's the thing. There's a very fine line between integrity and self-righteousness. Pt109 has argued very successfully that we should all just abide by the rules, even if the rules are stupid. He convinced me to change my position years ago. The problem with pool is that we are all left in this...

I take it you don't understand arguments very well. Good day to you.

This is fair, but do you not notice who you just compared her to? In a way, you're sort of proving our point.

The female talent pool in the U.S. is ahhh, hmmm, ahhhh,....not ideal. Some of women will probably be cashing at 80 at this rate. On the men's side, I think it has always been and always will be easier for a man to travel the world in a carefree fashion while playing pool. So men in the U.S...

Sports in general is getting so crazy. I'm struggling with regret due to all the time I spent with my kids on sports. Even with the best of intentions, we've been surrounded with - mainly parents that had some far off dream of some college scholarship, that 90 percent of them don't end up...

I do think there's this weird pride thing going on with the 14.1 diehards. "Yeah I can't beat today's players at a rotation game, but 14.1 is the real game anyway." As IUTBR likes to say, it's just balls and a stick. I think these high runs have more to do with psychology than knowledge. The...

I think the problem with this rule in particular is - you don't really have obvious shots when dealing with most amateurs. So if it's a call shot game, all specialty shots should be called. The professional player IS different. Their intentions are more discernable. When amateurs and...

Cloth? I probably need to redo my table that's covered in Simonis 760, but just haven't gotten around to it. I noticed the cloth on the rails had a lot of pilling, and there was some on the bed too. For whatever reason, I never considered shaving the cloth until my daughter was using this fabric...

I don't know it. Not missing is only 1 part of this. These numbers are getting so high, that assuming someone else can do it, other than those actually in the arena running the balls, is totally pointless. These numbers are mind blowing to me. Until proven otherwise, there are only 2 guys on the...