For those of you that think that the little bit of cheating that goes on in pool is keeping pool from getting on ESPN or from becoming "big" by turning off the sponsors, you might want to read this article about our national sport. http://sports.yahoo.com/news/ex-minor-leaguer-says-baseball-171045948--mlb.html
Cheating in sports
- Thread starter Neil
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Our national sport offered poor income early in the twentieth century and its players toiled in obscurity in the days before TV and night games. The 1919 scandal in which the World Series was dumped by theWhite Sox nearly brought the sport to extinction. Babe Ruth, the most charsmatic baseball player ever, is often credited with saving it in the late 1920's.
When a sport is still fighting for its dignity, scandals and cheating will do far more damage than once that sport is established and is mainstream in the eyes of the fans.
Pool is fighting for its dignity, and striving to become mainstream in the eyes of its fans and its players, like the baseball players of 1919, toil in obscurity and make little money. Pool doesn't need cheats and scandal any more than baseball needed the 1919 World Series dump,
This has been going on forever.
I honestly think when Boston and the Lakers was playing they always wanted the games close and to go in 6 or 7 games.
Sweeps cost money, IMO.
Pool does it all the time and nobody thinks anything about it. Seeding players is cheating in my thoughts.
I played in a tournament here in town and told them I wanted to be seeded like the women pro players ..... they through my ass out.
Ken
I honestly think when Boston and the Lakers was playing they always wanted the games close and to go in 6 or 7 games.
Sweeps cost money, IMO.
Pool does it all the time and nobody thinks anything about it. Seeding players is cheating in my thoughts.
I played in a tournament here in town and told them I wanted to be seeded like the women pro players ..... they through my ass out.
Ken
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Cheating
Many years ago, a professional gambler told me all about the why and how of referees and umpires control the outcome of games. Remember that referees work for the league, and the purpose of the league is to make money. Only a few pro sports remain relatively "clean".
This has been going on forever.
I honestly think when Boston and the Lakers was playing they always wanted the games close and to go in 6 or 7 games.
Sweeps cost money, IMO.
Pool does it all the time and nobody thinks anything about it. Seeding players is cheating in my thoughts.
I played in a tournament here in town and told them I wanted to be seeded like the women pro players ..... they through my ass out.
Ken
Many years ago, a professional gambler told me all about the why and how of referees and umpires control the outcome of games. Remember that referees work for the league, and the purpose of the league is to make money. Only a few pro sports remain relatively "clean".
Sounds like the guy writing the article could not be good without cheating, maybe he was not in the top 200 guys in the game that are good enough to pitch in the majors. Even after almost 22 years of playing in tournaments, practice, etc... I would not be able to beat an A or higher player even unless I cheated (or had a spot of some sort).
JC
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I just read Walter Langford's book Legends of Baseball about that era. The average salary then was $2500 a year which translates to just under 30k in todays dollars. Not rich like today but not all that bad for half a years work. Certainly not poverty. Especially once the depression hit.
JC
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I had an uncle that played semi-pro ball for a couple of years, who would sharpen his spikes on a bench grinder just in case he needed to take out a catcher. 