Am I the only one that does this???

[Jersey]

I wish that they would interview the pros and talk about the equipment they use. Show their cues and cases up close. Talk a little about their practice, how they prepare for a tournment etc. Maybe a show like Inside NASCAR is needed to promote the sport. Get a few pros together and talk about pool and do some interviews. This would be better that watching a ball drop into a pocket from the pocket cam.

It always seems as if the same people are in the front seats in front of the camera. I would like to see some more faces from the cheap seats. That is where the people I know would be sitting ( Those cheap Bast...).

I agree...we need more of the personal stuff...that's how Nascar has become so successful in the main stream...GO ROUSH!...as far as equiptment...Inside Pool does a feature every month called, 'What's In The Bag', and you get to see exactly that, from cues to eyedrops and chewing gum!...My favorite piece along with the Instruction stuff...

 

[Timberly]

I agree...we need more of the personal stuff...

There's A LOT of different characters in pool and it would be nice for people to enjoy the different personalities. Much like the different characters in poker. There's guys on the WPT & WSOP that you love to watch & listen to and there's guys you could do without listening to. You either lover 'em or hate 'em.... with the games and the personalities that pool has, it could be, if marketed right, just as popular as poker. As big as pool leagues are now.... more men & women than ever are into pool and if presented with the right format, pool would work on the tv screen.

Kerry, according to this thread you are "normal".

 

[PrinsNick]

There's A LOT of different characters in pool and it would be nice for people to enjoy the different personalities. Much like the different characters in poker. There's guys on the WPT & WSOP that you love to watch & listen to and there's guys you could do without listening to. You either lover 'em or hate 'em.... with the games and the personalities that pool has, it could be, if marketed right, just as popular as poker. As big as pool leagues are now.... more men & women than ever are into pool and if presented with the right format, pool would work on the tv screen.

I've been around pool for 20+ years, and when I first started watching poker on TV, I thought that the characters are much the same as in pool. You have all types, and many of them are particularly colorful. It is natural to think that because of that aspect and the gambling, etc, we can make pool as popular as poker currently is, but you must remember that the main reason poker is riding such a wave of popularity is that anybody can win a million bucks in a major poker tournament. Anybody. A 9-time world champion stands and watches helplessly as a rookie who had qualified by winning an online poker tourney bad-beats them on the river. We don't have that in pool. Despite the luck factor in 9-ball, the game still requires way too much skill to allow someone who has been playing a year or less to win a major tournament.

We need more than just promotion. We need a new game, a new format, or something else which will make a 1,000 or more people pay $10,000 to enter a tournament, which is what it costs to get into the WSOP. Just my two cents.

(BTW, I am still scouring the dark corners of my mind to try and remember what it was that you said at the Inside Pool party... it's killing me! )

 

[Timberly]

(BTW, I am still scouring the dark corners of my mind to try and remember what it was that you said at the Inside Pool party... it's killing me! )

That's probably a good thing... for me. If you do remember, it might be to my benefit if you send it in a PM

 

[PrinsNick]

That's probably a good thing... for me. If you do remember, it might be to my benefit if you send it in a PM

How much would you pay me not to make it public? I could always make something up...