This times 1,000!!! I am no where near being a pro-player, so when I win a local BCA tourney with 32 of our top players, yes I fell like I won the US OPEN and yes I will do a Tiger fist pump and get excited. I mean I know the work I put in to get there, so I want to celebrate. Of course I am not at any point trying to demean anyone, I still shake hands.....but I get pretty stoked if I win.
At what point is a celbration of a pool win out of line in your opinion?
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This times 1,000!!! I am no where near being a pro-player, so when I win a local BCA tourney with 32 of our top players, yes I fell like I won the US OPEN and yes I will do a Tiger fist pump and get excited. I mean I know the work I put in to get there, so I want to celebrate. Of course I am not at any point trying to demean anyone, I still shake hands.....but I get pretty stoked if I win.
Lol
I guess I should be more mature, but sometimes I cant help myself.
I play in league (sometimes I think only to torture myself) and often, very often here the shooter will miss the shot terribly and by blind luck, it rolls up into a lock up safety. The team members say, "Great shot!".
I shake my head and go ahead and shoot without comment.
The other night, I played a guy that absolutely whooped me in 8 ball, and of course I played him in 9 ball. He was kinda a jerk, and I missed twice, and got one of those incredible rolls where it left him hooked unintentially but I missed the shot. I couldn't help myself and I said, "Well playing that "two way" was the right approach!" :thumbup:. I beat him pretty bad in the 9 ball set.
He was so mad, after the match, and I told him he was "A fine league player".... I am not expecting a Christmas card.
Ken
I guess I should be more mature, but sometimes I cant help myself.
I play in league (sometimes I think only to torture myself) and often, very often here the shooter will miss the shot terribly and by blind luck, it rolls up into a lock up safety. The team members say, "Great shot!".
I shake my head and go ahead and shoot without comment.
The other night, I played a guy that absolutely whooped me in 8 ball, and of course I played him in 9 ball. He was kinda a jerk, and I missed twice, and got one of those incredible rolls where it left him hooked unintentially but I missed the shot. I couldn't help myself and I said, "Well playing that "two way" was the right approach!" :thumbup:. I beat him pretty bad in the 9 ball set.
He was so mad, after the match, and I told him he was "A fine league player".... I am not expecting a Christmas card.
Ken
your kidding me right?
your comparing
a stadium packed with thousands of thousands of screaming people, a touchdown happens, a roar ensures
tons of physical back and forth on the field, blood sweat and other stuff
to a guy putting a ball in a hole, with max 500 people in attendance in a darkened hall?
I found that one pretty distasteful, myself. Francisco had lost his infant daughter just days prior. Strickland wins the world title, jumps onto the table, says "I'm the king of the world now", then jumps down and shakes Francisco's hand. I pretty much lost every shred of respect I had for Earl after I saw that.
https://youtu.be/zw5YY8pBV8Y?t=3940
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Uh, yeah. They are still people with the same emotions. That doesn't change just because there are more of them.
I think it's very subjective. If I'm the loser of the match what I expect is that my opponent
first acknowledge me, after that they can do whatever they want. It's their time, they
earned the right to do what ever they want.
If I win it's important to me that first and foremost I acknowledge my opponent and show
the respect due to an opponent, after that I'm fairly reserved and I can celebrate later
away from my opponent.
However.......
if it's been contentious and emotional and simple courtesy is not in this person's vocabulary,
then it's on. If he's been an ass throughout I'll get right down in the gutter with him and make
sure he knows that he lost and who beat him
first acknowledge me, after that they can do whatever they want. It's their time, they
earned the right to do what ever they want.
If I win it's important to me that first and foremost I acknowledge my opponent and show
the respect due to an opponent, after that I'm fairly reserved and I can celebrate later
away from my opponent.
However.......
if it's been contentious and emotional and simple courtesy is not in this person's vocabulary,
then it's on. If he's been an ass throughout I'll get right down in the gutter with him and make
sure he knows that he lost and who beat him
Darren Appleton is often over the top and had uncalled for celebrations.
Just saying.... Even the well mannered Brits can act like D-bags every once and a while.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1aCWY2wNDk
Just saying.... Even the well mannered Brits can act like D-bags every once and a while.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1aCWY2wNDk
I guess I've always taken the high road. The person who beats me gets the same handshake, and the same "good match" after the game. When my team wins or loses in playoffs, I always shake the other team's hands, and say "congratulations" or "good match". I respect myself too much to lower myself to their level if they want to be an ass. Let them celebrate. It's a reflection of their character, not mine.
I think when you beat someone that's been a jerk the compulsion to rub it in their face a little is just way too strong.
I enjoy the the match where we both played fair, it was one on one and there is a mutual respect, even if you don't really like each other.
But the guy that was dick, in my opinion deserves to get beat down and stepped on
Lots of things change when there are a lot of people with the same emotions.
How often do you see one guy riot and go jump on top of a police car, with them in it, and sit it on fire?
I'm glad you pointed Darren out. He is one of the worst.
Dunno, that was quite an impressive backflip ;-)
If someone wins an event I think they're entitled to celebrate, so long as they still shake hands.
Shocking that he was only in 8 out of these 10... What a classy gent.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teilj2GyVGE
I've seen guys throw sticks and chalk during a tournament, but the TD will never disqualify any of his buddies.
Unsportsmanlike conduct....disqualify them....out of the tournament.
Unsportsmanlike conduct....disqualify them....out of the tournament.
Wow just wow
I didn't ever see any of this on ESPN in the 90s
That's just really stupid looking, were these million dollar payouts?
Why did Darren win when he scratched on that last 9-ball? (6:10 mark of the video)
To be honest, I don't recall ever getting very excited in tournaments. Even after winning a tournament I pretty much would shake my opponents hand that would be it. The action matches were what would be fun for me. After winning a big gambling match or game I might do a fist pump with a "YEAH BABY " or something along those lines but never anything too too crazy............ except this one time!
Guess it would have been around the late 90's or so. I was around 20ish. I was playing old Eddie Bow Legs races to 7 for a $1000 in 9 ball. A little back story on 'Pl Eddie Bow Legs - he was a cantankerous old far that loved talking sheet lol. He used it as a shark move to try to get in your head and off your game. I never really let him get to me because the pool rooms I came up in there were 1001 shark moves and I had already pretty seen them all. Just as already llc example of some of the things he would say would be " kid, you suckered so bad you don't even deserve to have your own pool cue " , or maybe something like " kid, you ought to take this money your playing for and go get a hooker cause at least that way you be having a good time " lol, etc, etc.
So, back to our match - he won the first set something like 7 to 5, talking smack the whole way lol. First game of the second set he broke and was on a run. Shooting on the 8, he missed and cue ball was heading right for the corner pocket with speed - looked like a dead scratch at first. Well the cue ball hit the titty, rattled a bunch of times and came to rest right on the lip hanging half off in the pocket. No idear how it DID NOT scratch but it didnt. The 8 ball came to rest dead square in the center of the table. The 8 ball and the cue ball ended up being DEAD STRAIGHT. After looking at the shot for quite some time trying to decide what to do with it, I decided I was firing at it ( as I often do lol ) . So DEEP in the pocket I jack up my cue so I can get the needed draw on it to get shape on the 9 ball ( which BTW was located in the middle of the foot rail - which was right by the pocket I am shooting out of and the 9 ball was frozen too lol ). I stroked it may be 3 or 4 times and fire the 8 ball in dead center pocket about 100 MPH , and yup you guessed it.........draw the cue ball back dead center pocket and scratch out of the very pocket I am shooting out of ( no titties for me
, scratched like it had eyes lol!
So I am now down 0-1 this second set race to 7. Honestly, I couldn't let it go and ended up getting down 1-6. With ,your ol Bow Legs on the hill, I made an incredible out and got myself really fired up and determined ( and all the trash talking he was doing didn't hurt either. I turned to my boy and said " if I win this set I am gonna do cart wheels are around the pool hall! ". I certainly did not run a 5 pack that's for sure but rather a lot of ducking with some awesome safties, a couple unbelievable outs, a full table 9 ball bank with the cue ball frozen to the foot rail with the 9 on the head rail and before I knew it it was all ties up hill and I had all but silenced the Old Legs. I don't recall exactly what the hill-hill put was, BUT I do remember pumping in the final 9 ball with force and how good it felt!
True to my word, I did in fact do cart wheels all up and down, back and forth the length of the pool room ( which was Jack & Jills BTW for those of Yale that remember the place ). When I pumped in the final 9 ball for that set the place went wild because there was a ton of side action on our match between my crew from Glen Burnie and all the Dundalk Boyz that came over with Eddie Bow Legs ( Don't know the exact dollar amount but there were like 10 side bets so I'm sure the rail action was heavier than what I was playing for but I didn't have any of it, I was good with the G I was playing for and I had all of it. I will admit doing the cart wheels as I did was way over the top but I was just so excited that I won and it didn't really have anything to do with the $1K- it was that I finally shut the old man up lol! That was an isolated incident as most of the time it would be just the fist pump as I mentioned earlier.
Guess it would have been around the late 90's or so. I was around 20ish. I was playing old Eddie Bow Legs races to 7 for a $1000 in 9 ball. A little back story on 'Pl Eddie Bow Legs - he was a cantankerous old far that loved talking sheet lol. He used it as a shark move to try to get in your head and off your game. I never really let him get to me because the pool rooms I came up in there were 1001 shark moves and I had already pretty seen them all. Just as already llc example of some of the things he would say would be " kid, you suckered so bad you don't even deserve to have your own pool cue " , or maybe something like " kid, you ought to take this money your playing for and go get a hooker cause at least that way you be having a good time " lol, etc, etc.
So, back to our match - he won the first set something like 7 to 5, talking smack the whole way lol. First game of the second set he broke and was on a run. Shooting on the 8, he missed and cue ball was heading right for the corner pocket with speed - looked like a dead scratch at first. Well the cue ball hit the titty, rattled a bunch of times and came to rest right on the lip hanging half off in the pocket. No idear how it DID NOT scratch but it didnt. The 8 ball came to rest dead square in the center of the table. The 8 ball and the cue ball ended up being DEAD STRAIGHT. After looking at the shot for quite some time trying to decide what to do with it, I decided I was firing at it ( as I often do lol ) . So DEEP in the pocket I jack up my cue so I can get the needed draw on it to get shape on the 9 ball ( which BTW was located in the middle of the foot rail - which was right by the pocket I am shooting out of and the 9 ball was frozen too lol ). I stroked it may be 3 or 4 times and fire the 8 ball in dead center pocket about 100 MPH , and yup you guessed it.........draw the cue ball back dead center pocket and scratch out of the very pocket I am shooting out of ( no titties for me
, scratched like it had eyes lol!So I am now down 0-1 this second set race to 7. Honestly, I couldn't let it go and ended up getting down 1-6. With ,your ol Bow Legs on the hill, I made an incredible out and got myself really fired up and determined ( and all the trash talking he was doing didn't hurt either. I turned to my boy and said " if I win this set I am gonna do cart wheels are around the pool hall! ". I certainly did not run a 5 pack that's for sure but rather a lot of ducking with some awesome safties, a couple unbelievable outs, a full table 9 ball bank with the cue ball frozen to the foot rail with the 9 on the head rail and before I knew it it was all ties up hill and I had all but silenced the Old Legs. I don't recall exactly what the hill-hill put was, BUT I do remember pumping in the final 9 ball with force and how good it felt!
True to my word, I did in fact do cart wheels all up and down, back and forth the length of the pool room ( which was Jack & Jills BTW for those of Yale that remember the place ). When I pumped in the final 9 ball for that set the place went wild because there was a ton of side action on our match between my crew from Glen Burnie and all the Dundalk Boyz that came over with Eddie Bow Legs ( Don't know the exact dollar amount but there were like 10 side bets so I'm sure the rail action was heavier than what I was playing for but I didn't have any of it, I was good with the G I was playing for and I had all of it. I will admit doing the cart wheels as I did was way over the top but I was just so excited that I won and it didn't really have anything to do with the $1K- it was that I finally shut the old man up lol! That was an isolated incident as most of the time it would be just the fist pump as I mentioned earlier.
What's even sadder is that you were implying it was an American issue.