After you win a game a pool...

Wasn't it Earl who started all this jumping on the table crap? I get the feeling that now everyone does it just to follow the herd.

OTOH it would've been kind of comical to see some of the older players like Miz or Buddy try to jump onto a table. I think Buddy had the right pose after he won the 1998 Open.

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Taxi said:
Wasn't it Earl who started all this jumping on the table crap? I get the feeling that now everyone does it just to follow the herd.

OTOH it would've been kind of comical to see some of the older players like Miz or Buddy try to jump onto a table. I think Buddy had the right pose after he won the 1998 Open.
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You may be correct but I thought it was Kim Davenport?
 
T411 said:
a lot of motivation are tricks
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Uh oh! Another flashback story: This one should remain the same in the retelling. 😉
We were playing Mixed Scotch Doubles 9 ball vs Lavern and Joe. It was a race to 4 and I had a $20 sweat bet with Joe. (They were favored to win the event. We hoped to win A match.)
We won the flip and as my wife prepared to break, I saw the deer in the headlights look. Sooooo I sidled alongside her and whispered in her ear. "Did You hear what Lavern said?" Her response was instant and terse. "What did She say?" Was met with, "Never Mind". I pivoted and returned to my seat leaving her standing and preparing to break.
if I remeber right, she snapped the nine. I broke, made a ball and she made the 1-9. She broke made a ball, I made the 1 and she fired in a combo on the 9 ball. I broke made a ball and moved the 9 ball toward the corner. She made the combo on the 9 and immediately turned toward the handshake with a look of rage. I immediately intercepted and again whispered in her ear, "Lavern didn't say anything. I made it up."
Yikes!!!! HER RAGE was now pointed at Me!
Edit: Don't mention my retelling of the story. It still piss her off. 🤷‍♂️ 😉
 
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T411 said:
A tradition? Sure… if we’re calling every copied celebration a tradition and I guess every tradition has a starting point when it was first done. It’s not something with deep roots in pool history. Feels more like “monkey see, monkey do” than genuine culture. I suspect a lot of it is promoter driven, meant to hype things up for TV and pull in casual fans who know little about the game’s heritage. When Fedor Gorst climbed on the table after winning the world championship last year, he looked reluctant, as if it wasn’t his idea. I’m not big on being told how to celebrate or even what to do especially when it’s “F”-ing silly and it’s even sillier when you are copying or being told to do it. I guess when the promoters are handing you a $250,000 check you might feel obligated. Golfers jumping in ponds or football Gatorade baths aren’t disrespectful to the very equipment the game is played on.
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The equipment is a inanimate object that cant be disrespected, we who love the game regard it as more, but its just a table. I think it seems a little rehearsed but, no harm no foul.

The sport needs juice even ifs a little silly looking, if it reminds someone whos watching of the Nascar drivers standing on top of their cars maybe they'll tell someone about and we'll gain a new fan...,
 
King T said:
How much does a table cost to relevel?? A 1200lb Daimond table is not going to be effected by a 175lb guy standing on it for one minute.
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"A 1200lb Daimond table is not going to be effected by a 175lb guy standing on it for one minute" >>> only takes a second. And if they step on a rail...The rail is bulletproof?

Let's try this... is it inappropriate? If it was yours would you enter the person dancing on the table ...America Has Talent or Dancing With The Stars?
Anyway...no chance the cloth can get damaged? None right?

My friends son had his friends over...tells me one guy got up the table and what would I do? Aside from paying for any damage he'd never be allowed back to that room.

Seriously if the owners don't mind and the crowd loves it ...WTF.

The great debate continues.........
 
King T said:
The equipment is a inanimate object that cant be disrespected, we who love the game regard it as more, but its just a table. I think it seems a little rehearsed but, no harm no foul.

The sport needs juice even ifs a little silly looking, if it reminds someone whos watching of the Nascar drivers standing on top of their cars maybe they'll tell someone about and we'll gain a new fan...,
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Of course an inanimate object like a table can’t be “disrespected.” Objects never care. But what things represent to people in this case the games history and image of the game/sport to people watching can. The line of what’s acceptable and dignified always shifts, and usually slides in the wrong direction. That’s the whole point of my comment about people looking for the clicks & likes. That’s a trait that was around long before social media but is now magnified and now normalized. It cheapens a culture’s values and rewards fake-as-fuck moments. Climbing on tables feels less like raw emotion and more like a scripted TV stunt. If cosplay is our plan to “juice” the sport, we’re in bigger trouble than I thought. I get it, I’ll never win an argument or debate against what is “normal” in a society.
 
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Of course an inanimate object like a table can’t be “disrespected.” Objects never care. But what things represent to people in this case the games history and image of the game/sport to people watching can. The line of what’s acceptable and dignified always shifts, and usually slides in the wrong direction. That’s the whole point of my comment about people looking for the clicks & likes. That’s a trait that was around long before social media but is now magnified and now normalized. It cheapens a culture’s values and rewards fake-as-fuck moments. Climbing on tables feels less like raw emotion and more like a scripted TV stunt. If cosplay is our plan to “juice” the sport, we’re in bigger trouble than I thought. I get it, I’ll never win an argument or debate on what is “normal” in a society.
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And I give you a LIKE.... Your post is well stated.
 
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