If you're implying my mind can't be changed, you're absolutely wrong.
If you're implying that I'm not wrong that the APA championships in Vegas won't be oozing with sandbaggers next year, well you already know the answer to that question, I would gather.
Can my mind be changed about what I (and many others) think the APA is doing for pool? Maybe, yeah.
I’ll take a wild guess that you’re not playing in the APA. The Las Vegas event may be
oozing with people and teams that talk about sandbaggers, sandbagging, and scamming
the system in general, but my thought is that there are actually very few APA players that
would be able to manipulate the system effectively and those that could are already rated
high enough that sandbagging wouldn’t matter and would be pointless.
Is the APA doing anything for pool? I guess it depends on your perspective. I think it does
quite a bit for the game and the American game would be far less without the benefit of
the APA, you on the other hand don’t see what I see. We have different perspectives.
I believe you think of it as a money suck, a cheap “Walmart” imitation of a classic game
played by gentlemen and kings, I see it as an avenue for me to be able to do something
I enjoy. See, I believe I have the skill to play in the BCA, or Valley, or NAPA, or any of
those other leagues, but I fall far short of the mentality that many of those players have.
Reason being is that it’s my experience that when you apply the element of money to
any game, to include pool, the asshole quotient goes up by 100 fold, I dont do well in that
situation, I’d rather just play.
On the APA’s effectiveness you and I will just have to disagree. I’ve always said the APA
ain’t for everyone, I don’t think it’s for you