I always enjoy league...to a point. With me, it's not the winning or losing that pleases me. It's all about how well I play (win or lose). For all the practice time I put in, I like to see some results come league night. If I shoot well and lose, then I'm happy. If I shoot bad and win, I am neutral. If I shoot bad and lose, I will probably not sleep well that night. Of course, if I shoot well and win, then all is well with my world.
I've played well most of the time over the last 2+ sessions. I have an 18-5 record over that period playing almost all SL6's and 5's (I'm a 6...8-ball). At one time last session I had the fear of actually going up to a 7, which I do not feel I am. Weird thing for me is that although some games may be 1 inning or so, I haven't had a break-and-run in those past 23 matches. So maybe the fact that most of my games go around 3-5 innings, that may be what keeps me from going up.
Mkindsv, what APA area do you play in? I'm currently in the Arlington APA but if my LO doesn't stop the practice of making SL2's out of perfectly capable men that should be 3's or 4's just so he can recruit them onto a team in need of players, I may look into a new league to play in. I'm tired of my 60-something year-old grandmothers that are 3's and 4's getting run ramshod over by SL2 men that have no business being 2's. Hell, one of them can draw a cue ball length-of-table, wanted to know on a shot if it was okay to masse' a shot, makes bank shots, figures out his own safeties, goes two and three rails for shape fairly regularly, and in one game made three consecutive length of table shots to get position on the 8-ball. Y'all tell me....what SL2 have you seen that could do these things? When my players play against them, I literally feel badly for them knowing what's about to transpire. We haven't beat either one of them yet (usually not close matches). I am thinking about putting myself up against one of them (there are two of them on the same team) next time we play them just to see what goes down.
Y'all keep pluggin' away and the best of luck to you all.
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