Your right but I am not going to say that I agree with Pat's decision either, I would not consider stating Pat is a member of the good ol boy committee to be slandering or trashing him on a public forum. The piggies are not Pat per say but more the way politics operate, I was not trying to trash talk Pat in any way. I learned alot from watching his product (accu stats) tapes growing up and am allways telling people about his tapes. There obviously trying to promote a certain group of players or something, I was running 200 balls + every othe week for a few months straight. You said I was taking it personally about not getting invited and I want to thank you creedo - people like u help give me incentive to play well. I think in 14.1 a players personality shows up more than in any other pocket billiard game. U probably can't fathom this maybe u can, I thrive off of being in those pressure situations.
This is something you will never probably be able to grasp and I realize personality and taking things personal are not one in the same. You don't have any chalk dust in your veins and I do, 42 balls is a nice run creedo - nothing to be ashamed of. I just call em' as I see "" which has not allways served me well in the past but what u see is what you get. I suppose you don't think I deserved to have been invited to the World 10 ball in Manilla after being the highest finishing American at the World 14.1 just months before. When I hear it's an invitational only - there is an sour sense of business as usual and popularity contest from the wordly. Aspiring players need to know this side of pool does exist and that it has nothing to do with your game. In my opinion Creedo u think out of the 9ft. box, this may be why u never made a player.
The desire to play has to be intense, not so much that the game controls you more on how a player can get the full value out of any oppurtunity to get to compete against the greatest players in the World when they feel confident in his or her game. I am very critical of my game, however I suggest you sweat the last tar match between Shmidt and I when we played 14.1. Even though I got beat in the other two games u really need to spend some time watching that tape, none of the players who got invited play 14.1 any better than I played against Schmidt. I had a skid at 130 something or I might have run away from him there, this all comes from a burning desire to play. I cannot get that intensity while just practicing so what I am saying is I WAS READY. I hope Pat does invite me on the next one and I will do my best to forgive him for being a good businessman on the first one, I would have been the last one to have been picked with the good ol boy committee but a little diversity is nice. Remember credo a little conflict of interests is one thing but the fans deserve to see the best, I secretley take pleasure in knowing that some of the fans who will not purchase the tapes of the invite party know that some the best 14.1 players were not there who were indeed very American. (Fact) Max Eberle and I are both the highest finishing (Native) Americans at the World 14.1 in the last few years but no invite for either one of us. Damn Pilgrams we did'nt know there was going to be so many of them ha ha. I just wante u to try and see it from a players perspective - someone who wakes up and pockets balls for a living OK.
Good luck with your game creedo. (I sincerely do mean that creedo)
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