Pleased as punch
I patronized you? sorry, I didn't realize that. I am truly sorry. I didn't intend to hurt anyone's feelings, I am sorry.
Now, please.. proceed to influence all that agree with you.. I doubt that you can influence any other. Once again, Good Luck
I missed your point, and somehow I feel better for doing just that.
I love how non-players at the US OPEN make any comments at all. Tom Did you play? No, you just always seem to make comments on here and think that you are important. Are you just pleased as punch that you make comments on a forum? Wow... Ok Sally go ride your high-horse elsewhere. Your comments and your need to feel important don't mean anything to anyone on here. I have heard in real life comments about how much of a jerk you are, and how most of the time people just laugh at you, because you are such a non-asset to this game. Your continued bashing, and negative comments do nothing at all for a sport you SAY you love.
And I don't recall anyone checking Berry on his comments at the Players Meeting, Oh I know I was there and I played in the US OPEN. He said that anyone who wanted it, could leave with CASH, that he would be cashing checks, and his exact comment was "and yes the winner too" So if he was prepared to cash all the checks, where was the cash? Or am I the only person who sat through the entire players meeting and didn't run off to get free meatballs and chicken wings. Maybe next year I will video tape the Players Meeting and everything Berry says so we don't have this problem again.
BUT JB said it best; it isn't going to change, because the players don't make a stand. The players just sit back and allow their opponents to wire balls, and just sit there and take it. They take it because they don't wish to negate themselves from playing in an event where they can make some money. Because when the day is done, it is their job, how about you go argue with your boss, and with your co-workers and see how far that gets you.
This is why there needs to be a governing player body. That addresses these issues, and does something about it. Why WASTE money on paying sanction fees with the WPBA, what the hell do they do? Why aren't they standing up for the players? Why don't they make a stand?
Well problem is, most of the players aren’t educated, and they grew up gambling and in pool halls, and not in school. How many have bachelors? Masters degrees? Probably a few, not many, why? Because they were WORKING, trying to make a living because that is all they know. I have more respect for the pro-players out there who do this for a living then anyone. And anyone who knows me knows this to be true. They grind daily for pennies, while I go to work, make money, and pay my entrance fee so they can get paid. So I have a voice, I have a reason I can stand up and say anything at all. So if you don't support the players, the sport, in a positive way, I think you need to get off the forums. You aren't helping.
All that was being said here was what Berry said himself. It was just being brought up, because if we DONT make a stand and put people in check as PLAYERS then it will always continue. Yes, Geoff has made a comment that other pros WANT to make, but won't because this game is their job. Very few pros speak out against the man! Why? Why continue to say anything at all? Why keep making the sport look bad, and why make the "professional" events look like they are being ran by idiots? Why won't the pros say this? Because do they really want to get kicked out of the US OPEN and a yearly chance at $40,000.00! No way man, but we will make the stand, and make the comments that will flush out the bad and hopefully bring in the new.