Anybody Going to Cookeville?

[crawfish]

I have to say Johnny is one of the best I've ever seen. I've said this before...I've never seen him book a loser. He even talked this game into races, and spotting the nine on the spot, and alternating breaks. What detail did Pickle get in his favor? You match up with an Archer, he's going to shoot straight (and have almost everything in his favor). I would like to see Walden and Archer play on a slow cloth rag Valley, with a heavy cue ball, dead rails, 18 ahead, winner breaks. Oh yeah, make the temperature about 78 degrees in the room. Now there would be something fun to watch.

 

[5ballcharlie]

I have to say Johnny is one of the best I've ever seen. I've said this before...I've never seen him book a loser. He even talked this game into races, and spotting the nine on the spot, and alternating breaks. What detail did Pickle get in his favor? You match up with an Archer, he's going to shoot straight (and have almost everything in his favor). I would like to see Walden and Archer play on a slow cloth rag Valley, with a heavy cue ball, dead rails, 18 ahead, winner breaks. Oh yeah, make the temperature about 78 degrees in the room. Now there would be something fun to watch.

yea that would be something who do you take on that one?

 

[crawfish]

Don't take this the wrong way

yea that would be something who do you take on that one?

No doubt. Walden. When is the last time you've seen Johnny perform under those conditions? Please, everyone, don't start woofing at me to get my money up and all that s^&%. I am just stating an opinion. Even Johnny said noone has to beat James on any table. I'm saying that James has been "under the radar" longer, and has played on quite a few barboxes in weird situations. Loud, crowded, etc. "Real" bar scenario. Not a nice Diamond table with air condition and soft Jazz in the background. I'm talking about where someone might run into you or ask you to buy them a beer. I feel James could come through. Just my opinion, not an offer to set it up.

 

[Russ Chewning]

So, they played 3 sets, and Johnny won set 1 and 3. Did Pickle win set 2? And he can't have a 'complete game' if he kept losing the cue ball off the break and hooking himself, now can he? I have played Vilmont, hill-to-hill, and he won, so I know how he plays, and I have watched Baraks play when he won the Midwest 9 ball event here last June. If Pickle lost to them, he is trying to go uphill against Johnny, a steep hill.

People, sometimes, become enamored by local favorites, and think they are 'all that', but when put onto a bigger stage, most of the time, they don't fare so well.

Yeah, that's what I think the case is here too. I am sure Pickle is one hell of a player, but he is not in Archer's league. Heck, Evgeny Stalev beat Pickle straight up, and would anyone be willing to back Stalev vs Archer in a long race?

This is funny.. We hear all these stories of how true champions like Boston Shorty would be on the road tavelling around the US playing the "local champions", and getting all the action they could want, and just slaughtering those guys.

Many authors have attributed this to the lack of communication in those days, and feel that the current pool world is much more educated as to who the real champions are.

Yet, there is still a little of the "back yer local champ at all costs" type thinking going on. Even in the internet age.. Even when the real champions have hundreds of hours of video of their game for sale to anyone that cares to buy.. Amazing..


Russ

(Thinks that the local players must think that the camera removes 2 balls from champion's games.. )

 

[JG-in-KY]

Yeah, that's what I think the case is here too. I am sure Pickle is one hell of a player, but he is not in Archer's league. Heck, Evgeny Stalev beat Pickle straight up, and would anyone be willing to back Stalev vs Archer in a long race?

This is funny.. We hear all these stories of how true champions like Boston Shorty would be on the road tavelling around the US playing the "local champions", and getting all the action they could want, and just slaughtering those guys.

Many authors have attributed this to the lack of communication in those days, and feel that the current pool world is much more educated as to who the real champions are.

Yet, there is still a little of the "back yer local champ at all costs" type thinking going on. Even in the internet age.. Even when the real champions have hundreds of hours of video of their game for sale to anyone that cares to buy.. Amazing..


Russ

(Thinks that the local players must think that the camera removes 2 balls from champion's games.. )

The Stalev match was several years ago in Las Vegas. From all indications Pickle is in dead punch right now. Pickle plays in Cookeville alot, so it is like home territory. If you don't think playing in your own backyard on equipment and surroundings that you are familiar with means something - then you just don't get it. There has been many a "favorite" that has lost on the road to someone who wasn't supposed to beat them!!

 

[JMB]

Did Pickle play Jimmy Wetch 10 ball on a bar box a couple of months ago? I heard that jimmy won a couple thousand. (they played even) - I also was told jimmy beat him in a very short time. Did anyone either watch or know anything about this match?

 

[kevin s]

Did Pickle play Jimmy Wetch 10 ball on a bar box a couple of months ago? I heard that jimmy won a couple thousand. (they played even) - I also was told jimmy beat him in a very short time. Did anyone either watch or know anything about this match?

I don't believe so! The only player that I know that has beaten him in the last year ( besides Archer) is Chad Vil. from Iowa! Chris Bartrum also quit four games up in a head set with the 8. Its possible that Pickle played Wetch in Nashville at J.O.B.'s in NAshville. I haven't been there in years and he plays there some.

 

[ribdoner]

The more they play the more JA will win.

BP will win sets/races on occasion.

Doner<-----a HUGE BP fan!!