15 million dollar question

[sjm]

I need to know your background? Have you ever been arrested? Are you planning to take advantage of us players? How are you going to pick the 128 member? (What? I don't think that's fair...oops you haven't answered yet) Do we have to sign player contracts? (Haa you are trying to get us to sign away our rights and now I will lose all of the money I am making off my name oops I'm not making money off my name). Why aren't you working with all the other pool organizations? I can see many scheduling conflicts, have you contacted all of the other organizations to get their blessings before you give away all this money??? What is going to happen to all the other tours when you fold up?

I have a 100 other questions but let me warn you I have seen this before and you are sure to fail, I saw it with Mackey and I saw it before this, it isn't all about the money you know? Why are the entry fees so high? What gives you the right to choose which games are to be played?

LOL
Wayne

Great post, Wayne. I laughed and laughed.

 

[jjinfla]

I don't see the sense in putting money into junior or grassroots programs. You help develop juniors so when they get old enough to try to support a family they make nothing? You've pretty much got to pump the dough into the professional level as some kind of incentive for juniors to even play. A friend of mine played real good at 13 or 14 and his family (his dad owns a pool room) convinced him to stop playing. They told him to look around at all the great players and notice that they had nothing. He made a smart career choice and gave up the game. This was before the IPT. I don't think I'd do much different than KT if I had the cash.

I agree. You have to establish the pros as something to aspire to. As role models. As something the youth would want to achieve. Once that is established then the youth camps and other tours will thrive.

Kids play basketball because they want to be the next Michael Jordan. If there was no Michael Jordan would the kids still play?

And keep in mind that 15 million, while still a great deal of money, is 1,985 million shy of what KT has to play with.

Jake

 

[TheOne]

Thanks for all this money, Wayne. Sounds like I've got 5,000,000 a year to spend. Just for kicks, I'll spend it all on the all-new SJM pool tour. I'll have 128 tour members and a $500 entry fee per event. I'll add 3,948,000 to the prize fund, and my annual proudction and marketing budget is 1,052,000. My tour schedule is shown below. All who are interested in signing up, let me know.

This is fantastic!, Sir SJM, I just sent you a nicely worded application, I'm probably not the first but given you only announced this tour a few hours ago I assume my prompt well written application will score me points over other more talented players?

I LOVE THE NEW SJM TOUR!

I know we haven't had any events yet but this tour is what the pool world has been waiting for (I can feel it in my water!), I LOVE YOU KT, I want your babies, I think you should get knighted and a Nobel Peace Prize, in fact please take both my daughters as a down payment and do with them as you wish!

PS
I can't shoot for shit!

Yippeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee I'm in, I've got 13k, I'm RICH! I'm off to buy a manhattan loft and a holiday home in the maldives to celebrate and tell my boss to stick his job up his....

 

[jnav447]

Man, this thread really brought out the talent. Wayne, SJM, SixPack, The One - pretty hard to make me laugh or shake my head wondering why I didn't think of that, but you folks hit all the buttons. I'm a fan of sarcasm, irony (and all their inbred kinfolk) and there is some of the best I've seen anywhere right in this forum. I am now officially, totally, irrevokably, hopelessly and stunningly hooked on AZ-phonics (and hoping that Mike doesn't turn this into a pool-junkie paysite cuz I'm trying to quit). Thanks for the laughs and grey matter stimulation.

 

[Colin Colenso]

This is fantastic!, Sir SJM, I just sent you a nicely worded application, I'm probably not the first but given you only announced this tour a few hours ago I assume my prompt well written application will score me points over other more talented players?

I LOVE THE NEW SJM TOUR!

I know we haven't had any events yet but this tour is what the pool world has been waiting for (I can feel it in my water!), I LOVE YOU KT, I want your babies, I think you should get knighted and a Nobel Peace Prize, in fact please take both my daughters as a down payment and do with them as you wish!

PS
I can't shoot for shit!

Yippeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee I'm in, I've got 13k, I'm RICH! I'm off to buy a manhattan loft and a holiday home in the maldives to celebrate and tell my boss to stick his job up his....

Jeez Craig, money is not all there is to life

Change is scary, a disaster waiting to happen, and any monetaty gains which aren't union backed will lead to the downfall of society.

You could learn from the gospel according to Wayne - a.k.a. WhiteJill