danstrokes
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Well, I joined a BCA, 9 Ball league this past summer and I was accused of sand bagging 4 times.
I've come to the conclusion that when you get in the zone and lay a but whoopin' on your opponent. Most of the time they will either:
A. Take the loss like a sportsman and admit defeat or
B. Call you a sandbagger because they know they just sucked a big one while taking a but pounding and need to some how make themselves feel like less of a looser.
Three of the times when I was accused of sandbagging happened on my most memorable matches.
The first was when I played a SL5 that smoked me when I was a SL4 earlier in the season. When I heard his Captain call his name to play me I thought to myself "hell yeah, payback time" Even though I was raised to an SL5 by the second match up. I knew I was ready. Everything I practiced all came together and I ended up shutting him down and winning the match 17-3.
He took it on the chin like a true sport, but his captain lost the next match to our SL3 who caught a gear and played great. That's when he accused us of being sandbaggers and yelled "this is no different than the APA!" He made another smart remark to our SL3 that made me realize how much of a sore loser he was. He'll never be a champion with that attitude.
The 2nd and 3rd time happened at the final tourney between all of the top 9 Ball teams throughout the week. I was playing strong so my team decided to throw me up first. Our opponents tossed up their SL4 who had only lost 1 match during the regular season. I knew they thought he was going to beat me. NOPE, after two shaky games, my nerves calmed and never looked back. Smoked him.
Our very second match we put up another one of our SL3's against their SL4. Our SL3 played like a legend. He sank the 9 four times on the break but what really shook the other team was that we taught him how to jump a ball. And he jumped 3 times during the match and sank the OB on one of his attempts.
Oh man the other team threw a shit storm. One of them yelled "I cant wait to watch your A player, with the way these guys are bagging he's gonna be a f*cking pro!" They complained so much the league operator came up to our team captain and said "whats up with this guy? An SL3 who can jump balls?" Umm yeah! We want to win so we taught him how to jump the ball and if you would have seen him try to jump a ball during the regular season you would understand why were as shocked as you are at how well he jumped them today.
On our final match up one of our players got smoked and we were behind big time. They put up their SL7 and he only needed to make 24 out of his 60 balls to get enough points for the total win. Guess who was the only person left to play, yep, yours truly. I'm an SL5 and had to keep him to 24 balls and I was up for it.
He won the toss and ran the first rack. He second break was dry. I get up and run them out, shot making and playing position like a pro. After a couple key shots in the rack half of his team were looking at me like "WTF, he's not suppose to be this good"
All in all, I had 19 of the 41 balls I needed to win and he ended up reaching his 24 ball mark. I played well but not well enough.
So every time one of our player was accused of sandbagging, it happened when they were playing the best they could and got a few rolls. And it made me wonder if half of the APA sandbagging complaining I read on here was just the result of someone having a good night and the looser is just trying to make an excuse as to why they lost and they cant just face the fact that the other guy was just better that night.
So the moral of the story here is If your gonna lose, lose like a champion, don't lose like a loser! Suck it up, go back to the drawing board and show up to play next time.
I've come to the conclusion that when you get in the zone and lay a but whoopin' on your opponent. Most of the time they will either:
A. Take the loss like a sportsman and admit defeat or
B. Call you a sandbagger because they know they just sucked a big one while taking a but pounding and need to some how make themselves feel like less of a looser.
Three of the times when I was accused of sandbagging happened on my most memorable matches.
The first was when I played a SL5 that smoked me when I was a SL4 earlier in the season. When I heard his Captain call his name to play me I thought to myself "hell yeah, payback time" Even though I was raised to an SL5 by the second match up. I knew I was ready. Everything I practiced all came together and I ended up shutting him down and winning the match 17-3.
He took it on the chin like a true sport, but his captain lost the next match to our SL3 who caught a gear and played great. That's when he accused us of being sandbaggers and yelled "this is no different than the APA!" He made another smart remark to our SL3 that made me realize how much of a sore loser he was. He'll never be a champion with that attitude.
The 2nd and 3rd time happened at the final tourney between all of the top 9 Ball teams throughout the week. I was playing strong so my team decided to throw me up first. Our opponents tossed up their SL4 who had only lost 1 match during the regular season. I knew they thought he was going to beat me. NOPE, after two shaky games, my nerves calmed and never looked back. Smoked him.
Our very second match we put up another one of our SL3's against their SL4. Our SL3 played like a legend. He sank the 9 four times on the break but what really shook the other team was that we taught him how to jump a ball. And he jumped 3 times during the match and sank the OB on one of his attempts.
Oh man the other team threw a shit storm. One of them yelled "I cant wait to watch your A player, with the way these guys are bagging he's gonna be a f*cking pro!" They complained so much the league operator came up to our team captain and said "whats up with this guy? An SL3 who can jump balls?" Umm yeah! We want to win so we taught him how to jump the ball and if you would have seen him try to jump a ball during the regular season you would understand why were as shocked as you are at how well he jumped them today.
On our final match up one of our players got smoked and we were behind big time. They put up their SL7 and he only needed to make 24 out of his 60 balls to get enough points for the total win. Guess who was the only person left to play, yep, yours truly. I'm an SL5 and had to keep him to 24 balls and I was up for it.
He won the toss and ran the first rack. He second break was dry. I get up and run them out, shot making and playing position like a pro. After a couple key shots in the rack half of his team were looking at me like "WTF, he's not suppose to be this good"
All in all, I had 19 of the 41 balls I needed to win and he ended up reaching his 24 ball mark. I played well but not well enough.
So every time one of our player was accused of sandbagging, it happened when they were playing the best they could and got a few rolls. And it made me wonder if half of the APA sandbagging complaining I read on here was just the result of someone having a good night and the looser is just trying to make an excuse as to why they lost and they cant just face the fact that the other guy was just better that night.
So the moral of the story here is If your gonna lose, lose like a champion, don't lose like a loser! Suck it up, go back to the drawing board and show up to play next time.
