I mixed them up a few times while I was watching, just for a second. Stupid things lol. I don’t like them at all myself. They all seem darker and it’s just not a good contrast with the cloth, in my humble opinion.
The new Aramith tournament balls
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Was a time the quality on televised pool was genuinely poor. Updated ball sets/colors did diddly to change that. It was then just tough to tell the difference between DIFFERENT different colors.
Now everybody walks around with cameras in their cell phones that'll let you count hairs on a fly's ass.
Exactly where do we decide we need to screw around with ball colors?
Now everybody walks around with cameras in their cell phones that'll let you count hairs on a fly's ass.
Exactly where do we decide we need to screw around with ball colors?
In the last days
The five ball will become purple
And the shafts will be as black as coal
It has been written
I haven't posted in this thread for several days.
Those balls are down right ugly.
Those balls are down right ugly.
What we are witnessing is an industry in free fall, indeed, an industry which has sold its soul to Mephistopheles.
"The girls all get prettier at closing time
They all begin to look like movie stars
The girls all get prettier at closing time
When the change starts taking place
It puts a glow on every face
Of the falling angels of the back street bars."
"The girls all get prettier at closing time
They all begin to look like movie stars
The girls all get prettier at closing time
When the change starts taking place
It puts a glow on every face
Of the falling angels of the back street bars."
IMO there is an art to televising a pool match and a great production I have yet to see. With the camera technology that we have today (and for the last fifteen to twenty years) there is no reason that we can't see EVERY ball clearly. There is a rhythm to a game of pool that revolves around a player stalking the table preparing to shoot the next shot and the actual execution of the shot. There is absolutely no reason why during that first phase (typically 15-30 seconds) a good director could not have cameras zooming in on the balls, especially the ones that the player will be shooting at next or the problem balls that lay ahead. The uninformed directors tend to lean on the overhead camera, which doesn't help in differentiating the balls, when they are uncertain about what will happen next. IMO there is no real need for an overhead camera in televising pool. It does not add anything to the show and in some ways diminishes it.
I have seen this in my head while watching the matches and how easy it would be to do. Often while doing commentary, I've thought "zoom in, zoom in," but it isn't my place to speak to the director. It would take a director who is knowledgeable about pool and not just about television production. Pat Fleming and Accu-Stats come closest to achieving this in some of their shows, but more by accident than design.
I have seen this in my head while watching the matches and how easy it would be to do. Often while doing commentary, I've thought "zoom in, zoom in," but it isn't my place to speak to the director. It would take a director who is knowledgeable about pool and not just about television production. Pat Fleming and Accu-Stats come closest to achieving this in some of their shows, but more by accident than design.
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The battle for the souls of the young has been lost. No matter what color Aramith paints their balls, the heroes of tomorrow have already been enslaved by the sensual allure of video games and face book accounts. They are gone and no camera angle in the world will ever bring them back.
This is little more than a replay of Fonzie jumping the shark. How lame can they get?
As luck would have it, the worst is yet to come. In time, the Social Justice Warriors will merge with The LGBTQ Community, and even the haughty Simonis will be forced to come out with yet another color pallet, sensitive in every way to the delicate sensibilities of the "repressed." Tournament Fudge and Mosconi Posse Pink will be all the rage in certain Hollywood circles. I can see it all now, Rainbow colors for Liberation. Free at last. Ten NEW Magenta Diamond Bar Boxes for every Gay Bar, all with different, vibrant Simonis colors. Balls that glitter and glimmer and patrons frolicking in the acrid ganja haze. Action, oh, the action.
And we sit idly by. Classical tradition gone without the slightest whimper. Jesus wept.
This is little more than a replay of Fonzie jumping the shark. How lame can they get?
As luck would have it, the worst is yet to come. In time, the Social Justice Warriors will merge with The LGBTQ Community, and even the haughty Simonis will be forced to come out with yet another color pallet, sensitive in every way to the delicate sensibilities of the "repressed." Tournament Fudge and Mosconi Posse Pink will be all the rage in certain Hollywood circles. I can see it all now, Rainbow colors for Liberation. Free at last. Ten NEW Magenta Diamond Bar Boxes for every Gay Bar, all with different, vibrant Simonis colors. Balls that glitter and glimmer and patrons frolicking in the acrid ganja haze. Action, oh, the action.
And we sit idly by. Classical tradition gone without the slightest whimper. Jesus wept.
If putting rainbow color cloth on a gay bar table makes them happy, more power to them. I say...Whatever it takes to get people playing the game! Hell, they can have penis shaped pool cues if they want! Standard diameter shaft in white maple, oversize shaft in black!
Would it be better if they went back to the Tournament Green Simonis?
In the drama class in high school? Seriously, i hate the f&*king balls too but you can 86 the melodrama. Look, if we're lucky the only place we'll see these turds is in Matchroom events. I'm goin' out on a limb and will predict these don't sell all that well. There will be a flurry of sales to the "isn't change nice?" crowd but i just don't see these having a long lifespan.
If Matchroom thought these were such a good idea maybe it's time to change the colors of the snooker balls. Like to see how that would go over.
I don’t like the new balls, it makes the game harder to follow on TV.
In the same vein...I’m betting on Stevie Wonder if they turn the lights off.
Isn’t that the truth!
Well said
Thank you Jay for adding a knowledgeable voice to this topic. It would be an amazing thing to see a pool match broadcast effectively!!
Thank you Jay for adding a knowledgeable voice to this topic. It would be an amazing thing to see a pool match broadcast effectively!!