A few things I learned on AZ

[JonnyB]

I'm Learning if you red rep a useless atack post, you will get something like this.

"Do you have a learning disability? JAM is constantly ripping people apart, that is what this is about. Enjoy the RED"

No it is about an personal attack derailing a potentially interesting thread.

Rep Schmep.

JonnyB.

 

[JimS]

I'm Learning if you red rep a useless atack post, you will get something like this.

"Do you have a learning disability? JAM is constantly ripping people apart, that is what this is about. Enjoy the RED"

No it is about an personal attack derailing a potentially interesting thread.

Rep Schmep.

JonnyB.

:groucho: :groucho: :groucho: Three Groucho's. It don't get no better.

 

[D C 6 Pocket]

You don't ever build a college before a grade school....
Mike, see ya soon...

You are absolutely right, and thats the attitude we are taking......baby steps before we start trying to run. Skyscrapers will withstand time and the elements only IF its built on a strong foundation.

DC

 

[JoeyA]

Ahh shucks, you're too kind. (and thanks BVal!)

I hope Jerry and Mike can come up with the AZ shirts and keychains. I was a bit frustrated at the difficult task in meeting fellow Azers at the US Open (I missed the DCC ) I met quite a few, but missed tons of folk I would have loved to have met. I posted some pic's and started a thread "what az'ers can u identify in this pic?" About 15 AZer's were identified in one pic, all within relative spitting distance, but whom I didn't meet. Had any had visible AZ "id", my hand would have been out. Jerry was easy to find, and pointed out a few, and networking is the only way right now.

If these shirts and keychains are available and we support this site thru purchase, and we adorn them proudly at events, it would make it soooo much easier for the community to draw tighter.

Where's it at Jerry? Please try to make it happen. Here's Jerry's recent-ish thread on the shirts "they're here, sorta":

http://forums.azbilliards.com/showthread.php?t=128472&page=2&highlight=shirts

http://marketplace.azbilliards.com/store/home.php

 

[Voodoo Daddy]

Bad news guys and gals. The pool players did have MANY opportunities over the years to get organized. And to have a pro tour! Guess what, they've ruined it for themselves each and every time. I was a witness to some huge miscalculations and some very bad decisions made by the players. Often times, it was listening to someone who was giving them very bad advice.

I do touch on these subjects, albeit briefly, in my upcoming book. I talk about Richie Florence who organized several 100K+ events in the early 1980's, and how he got shot down by a bad player decision. Who knows what he could have accomplished. I also discuss the Camel Pro Tour and the reign of Don Mackey. More lost opportunities. You may not be aware that I put on a $160,000 tournament in 1993 that most of the top players boycotted, thanks to a certain "commissioner". That was the last L.A. Open.

There were other opportunities that came there way as well, including the recent IPT. I don't know if the players could have done anything different where TruDough was involved. He answered to no one, not even his own conscience.

Dont forget Pete Margo and the PPPA...or the Jansco Brothers fiasco...<laughin>

Mackey was a thug in my eyes. Well...a wanna-be thug with the pied piper's flute. I know that a well ran tour still wont stop the cash gettin' cut up in the hotel room or the parking lot. Savers abound!!!!

 

[Rockin' Robin]

Bumpin this thread, Not because I want to see my name, Not Because of the great info, definitely Not because of the little spats that seem to break out in some threads, BUUUUUUUUT.......so I could find it. Thanks

 

[ShootingArts]

another option

Bumpin this thread, Not because I want to see my name, Not Because of the great info, definitely Not because of the little spats that seem to break out in some threads, BUUUUUUUUT.......so I could find it. Thanks

There is the option of subscribing to a thread without posting into it but I rarely remember that either!

Hu

 

[Fatboy]

We have Greg and Mark, Jay and Fatboy, Hopkin's and Grady, and untold hundreds of others, all trying to come up with a formula for success.
How can we miss ????

Dick

I'm truely honored to be on a list with such great people in pool, I'm not sure I even belong on that list. They are giants compaired to me, most certainly I'm low man on the list. I do have a good business mind which is the only reason I am mentioned here-my credentials in pool are meek compaired to the rest. I need the experience of the others combined with what I know to make something happen-I cant do it alone.


What I firmly believe is something "New" needs to happen. The money added, double elimination, pay so many spots down-format has been beat to death and works but it alone isnt going to spur a revolution in pool's resurgence. Barry made a good move this year at the US Open dropping the first place $$$ from $50K down to $40K so he could pay more to the lower finishing players to cover their costs, Mika didnt like it , but it was a very good move on Barry's part to make it more attractive to players to come and have a larger field. Making adjustments like that is just good business-but its not going to "put pool on the map" it is making it better for those already involved.


My line of thinking is: yes tweak the numbers like Barry did as they need to be done along the way, but we need something to make "Pool Cool". TV helped poker, now the boom is over and the numbers are down, poker rooms are closing here in town but the numbrs in poker compaired to pre-Moneymaker are still way up, what Chris Moneymaker did for poker is huge, everyone in poker making $$$ should jelly roll him. Pool needs a break like that-perhaps not a person, a movie would help, a new format, the recession, banning video games!!!!. Something to change what people do for entertainment-with that change comes the oppertunity for pool to grow, and if it explodes it will contract but it will be bigger than it is now.

We all here know what the non-playing people are missing. the action for some, the social gathering for others, the cue collectors, and the combination of all the above. I can get together with my friends here at my house(and we do often) play cheap and all connect on a "pool players" level that others dont understand, if they understood they would play too. thats what we need to do-educate people on how to have fun