BCA rule changes affect AZB member

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Thanks Captain for posting the BCA rule changes in the other thread. I did not want to hijack that thread but there is at least one rule change that affects the playing ‘style” of a member of our little community so I chose to bring it here.

Williebetmore:

Please note rule 3.3 probably was written specifically to address your unorthodox manner of holding the cue “that long skinny stick”. Apparently the embarrassing episode of fumbling with your cue in front of Efren, Jeanette, mthornto and everybody at the TV table did not go unnoticed by officials from the BCA. Please be advised that striking the cueball with “that heavy rubber bumper/tip thingie” will result in a foul.

breakup,
...(for your information, Mr. Smart Guy, I knew which end of the cue to shoot with - I just had a little trouble getting the chalk to stick on that heavy rubber bumper/tip thingie - so there)...

from this thread

http://forums.azbilliards.com/showthread.php?t=27323

 

[Williebetmore]

http://forums.azbilliards.com/showthread.php?t=27323

breakup,
Well, it is apparent that you must have seen this new rule while reading the only part of the rules that apply to your game (seen immediately above the cue tip advice) - PROPER RACKING.

I have to take exception to your description of "fumbling" with my cue. Actually, Mike and I were just giving a short lesson on grip, bridge, and stance to JL and ER. After all, they don't hang out on AZB and thus do not have the benefit of access to such a great collection of experts (excluding YOU of course). If you had been closer to the action (like the WINNERS) you would have known this. Well, better luck next year (....errr...not really....I want to win the raffle next year also).

P.S. - Have you considered dog-racing? I hear the Iditarod (or is it the "Ikilledadog"?) is starting soon, perhaps you will have more luck at a different sport (we hear you finished dead last in the Alaska 14.1 extravaganza).

 

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breakup,
Well, it is apparent that you must have seen this new rule while reading the only part of the rules that apply to your game (seen immediately above the cue tip advice) - PROPER RACKING.

Very astute observation Betmore. You can tell a lot about a man by the way he racks the balls. Yes, I was checking out the racking section. It is one of the more visible facets of my game and I want to be well versed in the rules that pertain to my specialty in the event I find myself in the spotlight
...with Efren
…with Jeanette
…on the TV table
…Blah, Blah, Blah

Remember the old line by Luther Lassiter that goes something like.

...If I see a man do nothing but rack for an hour I know I can beat him.

P.S. - Have you considered dog-racing? I hear the Iditarod (or is it the "Ikilledadog"?) is starting soon, perhaps you will have more luck at a different sport (we hear you finished dead last in the Alaska 14.1 extravaganza).

BTW you didn’t know what an all-sport I am. I was part of the Robert Sorley team from Norway in 2003 when he won the Iditarod. I was one of the highly skilled dead weight technicians (I was selected for my body type) that hold the dogs on the starting line. My biggest responsibility was not to step on the dog’s feet.

 

[Williebetmore]

...
in the event I find myself in the spotlight
...with Efren
…with Jeanette
…on the TV table

Breakup,
Well, I suppose it IS possible I've been a little harsh on you. How about this: you practice really, really, really hard all year, then at next years DCC you pay me a small (but respectable) fee, and I'll let YOU rack the balls for us at the Celebrity Scotch Double's Tournament. Seeing how badly you wanted to participate makes me (out of the goodness of my heart) want to see you somehow included - maybe you could run and get drinks for us too.

 

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It’s just a small thing, hardly worth mentioning, I’m sure it was just a typo but didn’t you mean “the winners of the raffle” rather than “us”

you practice really, really, really hard all year, then at next years DCC you pay me a small (but respectable) fee, and I'll let YOU rack the balls for us at the Celebrity Scotch Double's Tournament...

 

[Williebetmore]

It’s just a SMALL thing, hardly worth mentioning...

breakup,
I would rather not discuss certain of your bodily parts, and I'm sorry that you feel this forum is an appropriate place for making such a revealing confession.

I'm wounded that you feel the raffle may have in some very, very, teensy-weensy way have been ever so slightly unfair. I tried to rig it....errr...run it as fairly as possible (to me). I don't hear mthornto complaining.

Anyway, my strategy for next year is to once again practice up on the Q-Skills Challenge during the Drivermaker Memorial Holiday Tournament, parlay those skills into some cash at the DCC AZB Room Giveaway (we definitely need another Q-Skills Challenge mini-tournament), then blow all of the cash on raffle tickets for the Celebrity Scotch Doubles (or possibly just a nice bribe for the person selecting the tickets). This sure beats your "whining/moaning/complaining" strategy all to hell.

Heck, you probably could have won this year if you had just sold a few more of those bear pelts (or whatever else you Alaska guys sell for a living) and ponied up for some extra tickets (though of course that would have forced me to buy more too). Perhaps if you hadn't spent all that cash on the New Years party with Lars (drinking, fighting, whatever) you would have had extra for more tickets.

Of course, at least one forum member (who did not attend DCC this year), has suggested we could get some pro's next year who are "more famous." I wonder what planet he was posting from???

 

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breakup,
I would rather not discuss certain of your bodily parts, and I'm sorry that you feel this forum is an appropriate place for making such a revealing confession.

oh yeah, but I got a 700lb Harley Davidson vibrator