*** Congratulations Team USA ***

Tennesseejoe said:
You won't like to see me at the DCC. If you throw a dart at the AMERICAN FLAG---just buy a one way ticket. Our men and women are being killed defending freedom-- and your slimey ass isn't welcome here.
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It is unfortunate for twits like you, you are the kind of goofball stereotype that people tend to use for anti-American sentiment, as if people like you are the norm in the USA. Instead just the typical rare goof that every country in the world can claim to have afew of.

I am sure the people fighting overseas are doing so to protect the rights and freedoms of the 99.3% of the Americans who are in fact cool people and not twits like you. And those soldiers are not attacking their European allies who are fighting alongside them risking their own lives and fighting for the same cause.
 
Aaaaaaah yes the crown comes back home :)

I'll admit that I was nervous playing against Europe's Dream Team, but I'll be damned if USA didn't come in ready to show us what they could do. A big congrats to Hatch for showing us all why our votes meant a lot to him.
 
Roy Steffensen said:
Hey, you don't seem to like me do you?

Remember that nice red rep you sent me during the Bar Table Championship when I joked about how nice it was that an European won an event. Something like "Get your stupid a** back to Norway". Back then JohnnyT and several others had to chime in and tell you that I was joking and that it was all good-hearted, but you're a slow-learner.

If you haven't noticed, I like to joke around about how superiour the European's have been in tournament play the last couple of years, and cheering on my friends in tournaments, but when it's going the other way around and the American's are winning I can take the jokes and punches right back, just like what happened this week during the most prestigous events of them all.

You seem to don't understand jokes and fun spirited people and are obviously only looking for trouble, so you are correct about one thing: I won't like to see you at DCC, because I have realized that life is too short to hang around with negative and aggressive people.
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Roy, I'll overlook all of your unpatriotic posts if you'll send me another $39.99 to my paypal.

Also, to TennesseeJoe, have a good time with all that red rep. If you don't like Roy as a poster then you probably have a hard time liking anyone.
 
J Soto said:
With me being a US Marine, if you ever said this in front of me, I would smack the taste out of your mouth.
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WOW!

J-O-K-E

And as a US Marine you would still face charges and likely be dishonorably discharged. Good luck getting a job after that, and with your wit and sense of humor I'm sure you will make it out alright:rolleyes: lol
 
99% of us know that your were just joking Roy, obviously Tenessee and Soto are not in the majority here.. You can hang out with those of us who are a little light hearted and can take and give a good ribbing.

Looking forward to meeting you at the DCC..
 
Get off the forums if you don't recognize incredibly obvious sarcasm. Talk about dangerously stupid.

Roy, I laughed my ass off reading the back and forth of your mosconi thread. I trust that you will have NOTHING to worry about at the DCC. If they can't find the sarcasm in that flag statement they obviously wouldn't be able to find you.
 
J Soto said:
With me being a US Marine, if you ever said this in front of me, I would smack the taste out of your mouth.
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lol, I love it how people that just joined or people that come on here once a month, just skim through threads and find a post and then spout out something stupid without even seeing what context its used in or how it's aimed 100% at being sarcastic or humorous.

Taking something like Roy's statement which 99.9% of all posters on here know is just good natured ribbing, and making it something that a few obviously uninformed and ridiculous posters on here think deserves a bad comment with name calling and threats is just stupid.

Marine or not, please look into something called reading comprehension. It works wonders.
 
If it makes anyone here feel any better, I still hate you Roy.

Thanks for the cash nit, how many fish did you have to scale to come up with it?
 
Ktown D said:
If it makes anyone here feel any better, I still hate you Roy.

Thanks for the cash nit, how many fish did you have to scale to come up with it?
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I love a good post from one nit I took cash from on the Mosconi Cup to the other nit I took cash from on the Mosconi Cup, lol. Double Sweetness!
 
corvette1340 said:
I love a good post from one nit I took cash from on the Mosconi Cup to the other nit I took cash from on the Mosconi Cup, lol. Double Sweetness!
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I actually came out ahead on that deal.:) I would have made out nicely if Johnny hadn't gotten run over by Hohmann.

BTW- I hate you too (just not as much as Roy)
 
Congrats to the US-team...looking forwards to some payback in 12m time in Europe...:)

I think the EU-team was just missing the character that would glue it all together at the right time....like Drago storming through the table in 90seconds or Chamat being the funny little garden gnome he is...
I do understand that Mika has been sick throughout the tournament, do not know about the others...but fair enough...it was a nice tournament...did not turn out the way I wanted but hey...shite happens....next time.

I believe the tournament could really benefit from some changes though...
- rack with the 9b on the spot
- breakbox
- get rid of that 3balls over the line
- winner breaks to 9 (won't happen due to television)
- get rid of the full-team game, just too destructive for any natural flow and just plain confusing...
- I like the idea where the winning team plays Asia 6m down the line and the winner of that plays again 6m later against the third team.....so keep it going every 6m....if you win all the time...you play every 6m...if you lose all the time, then you play every 12m...

Anyhoo....congrats once more to Team USA and see you in Europe next year

cheers,
Kimmo
 
Kimmo said:
I believe the tournament could really benefit from some changes though...
- rack with the 9b on the spot
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- get rid of the full-team game, just too destructive for any natural flow and just plain confusing...
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9bal on the spot: it is already the case...

Break box : Why not...

winner breaks to 9 : in a perfect world yes. As you said, with the TV broadcast it would not be possible. So in race to 6 alternate break is more appropiated.

3 balls pass the head string : sometimes frustrating but I like this rule to prevent softbreaks. Look at Hatch or Souquet breaks on the last day, there was no problem for 3 balls to cross this line. Problems come when the one is too much cutted or the break to soft... players have to break those ****** balls! That's all!

get rid of the full-team game: I find that full team match very nice to open the event even if the quality of the game is not at the top.

JMO
 
Give 9-ball the burial it needs

Kimmo said:
Congrats to the US-team...looking forwards to some payback in 12m time in Europe...:)

I think the EU-team was just missing the character that would glue it all together at the right time....like Drago storming through the table in 90seconds or Chamat being the funny little garden gnome he is...
I do understand that Mika has been sick throughout the tournament, do not know about the others...but fair enough...it was a nice tournament...did not turn out the way I wanted but hey...shite happens....next time.

I believe the tournament could really benefit from some changes though...
- rack with the 9b on the spot
- breakbox
- get rid of that 3balls over the line
- winner breaks to 9 (won't happen due to television)
- get rid of the full-team game, just too destructive for any natural flow and just plain confusing...
- I like the idea where the winning team plays Asia 6m down the line and the winner of that plays again 6m later against the third team.....so keep it going every 6m....if you win all the time...you play every 6m...if you lose all the time, then you play every 12m...

Anyhoo....congrats once more to Team USA and see you in Europe next year

cheers,
Kimmo
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Kimmo:

Kind words, and good suggestions for the format change. However, all these rules to patch the inadequacies of 9-ball (e.g. racking with 9 on the headspot, breaking from the box, "x" number of balls past the headstring, et al.) are just that -- patches and bandages. Willie Mosconi himself would be rolling in his grave if he knew a tournament named after him played exclusively 9-ball. (Of all the cue sports, Willie himself had a particular HATRED for 9-ball. Although an outright advocate for straight pool, he didn't mind One Pocket, Banks, or even 7-ball [played the correct way, with each opponent having a particular side of the table that the 7-ball needs to be pocketed in]. Willie reserved his saliva-spraying discourse for 9-ball, almost exclusively. Yet we name a 9-ball tournament after him??) But I digress...

Methinks rather than trying to put chocolate sprinkles on the patched/bandaged/duct-taped game of 9-ball (e.g. singles, doubles, Scotch doubles, entire team, et al. -- still all based on 9-ball), that we consider 10-ball, or at least include other games.

Many would argue that One Pocket at the Mosconi Cup would be a bad idea, and I can see the point in that -- for TV purposes, who wants to watch a One Pocket game where all you see for the next however-many-minutes is safeties and moving?

Personally, I think including 10-ball as the rotation game would be great, because it would ELIMINATE all these stupid patches and Band-Aids we keep applying to this old, dead game of 9-ball. The diamond-shaped rack is flawed, folks -- those wing balls are nearly wired to the corner pockets with the right range of speed of soft break, and the 1-ball goes in the side pocket a large percentage of time as well. How many diaper pins, staples, glue, and duct tape can we keep applying to 9-ball, to try and evade the learned skill of soft-breaking the diamond-shaped rack? 10-ball's triangular-shaped rack, on the other hand, virtually ELIMINATES the soft-breaking, and thus the patches/Band-Aids as well. It behooves one to break a 10-ball rack hard, to get those balls moving, to increase possibility that one will get knocked into a pocket. Corey tried for a time to soft-break a 10-ball rack (he was trying to get the second row of balls to head for the side pockets), but quickly abandoned the effort as not predictable enough, and hits 'em hard. So 10-ball has, built into it, the discouragement of soft-breaking. No "break rules" need to be implemented. The Mosconi Cup can use singles/doubles/Scotch-doubles variations of 10-ball, without rule modification (other than ignoring the WPA's sanctioned 10-ball rule of call pocket, for those "luck advocates" that still want a bit of luck in the game [e.g. slop]).

I'm wondering if some Bank Pool would add a bit of excitement to the matches? Bank Pool has "shooting at a pocket" [via a cushion, of course] built into it, so other than two-way shots, you won't see very many safeties played. And talk about excitement when you see a player catch a gear, and start raining runs of "5" or more banks in a row (depending on whether it's partial or full rack banks)? It would definitely add an exciting twist to the event, that's for sure. It would change it up, and I'm thinking it would also bring out hidden creativity in the players, rather than ho-hum "color by numbers" shoot at the lowest-numbered ball in one rotation game after another.

What think ye?
-Sean
 
Thanks for the support!

I might have to file some of my jokes as cultural collision. There are obviousle huge differences on Norway and USA, and I can guarantee you that not one person would be offended if someone made a joke about the Norwegian flag. For me, it's just a piece of cloth.

FYI, Norway ARE involved in the same wars as USA right now, with our own troops, fighting side by side with the Americans for the same cause. We don't have as many soldiers as you have, but there are Norwegian soldiers dying in the same fights too. I've even been in the military myself, and I was serving my first months together with many who chose to go to Kosovo. ETA: I'm btw STILL in the Norwegian National Guard, and when I'm travelling home after DCC (if I don't get killed) I have my yearly duty for the NNG, which is 1 week in Feb.

I've learnt a few differences of the western countries during the year, and even though I am of the opinion that anything can be joked about, I guess I'll have to be more careful if I want to live longer. :o

Btw, TennesseeJoe, I might buy a one-way ticket to America once, but not because I think you are going to kill me, but because I want to come over there and create something big for myself, living the "American dream". You know, there are still many people who love America, it's culture and people, even after George W. Bush, and I'm one of them.

So, please tell me your real name, don't hide behind your computer-id. I would like to know the name of a guy who threatens to kill me.

You know, it is nice to know who to not hire if I should succeed living my "American dream".

Or, if you prefer, we can just move on, have fun at the DCC and who knows, perhaps share some beer, stories and a friendly game of pool.

Ktown D said:
If it makes anyone here feel any better, I still hate you Roy.

Thanks for the cash nit, how many fish did you have to scale to come up with it?
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corvette1340 said:
I love a good post from one nit I took cash from on the Mosconi Cup to the other nit I took cash from on the Mosconi Cup, lol. Double Sweetness!
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I hate both of you, btw, and a couple of others. Only reason I keep responding to your posts is because I love your money.

I managed to get a couple of bets during the last 2 days, so in the end I actually ended $ 30 up on this Mosconi Cup.

I got LUCKY that so many declined to bet with me, I sent messages to almost everyone, offering all kinds of action, but people had no faith in Team USA. Good for me :D
 
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Tennesseejoe said:
You won't like to see me at the DCC. If you throw a dart at the AMERICAN FLAG---just buy a one way ticket. Our men and women are being killed defending freedom-- and your slimey ass isn't welcome here.
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TJ,
I've been super pro-military for decades. All those real warriors are my heros and I respect them beyond words.

None of us know exactly how bad or hard you've been impacted by the wars our military is fighting. You may have lost a loved one, or a very close friend(s). Maybe you yourself have been wounded. Maybe someone you love returned home wounded. Or never made it home. So I can't and won't say that you feeling as strong as your post indicated is wrong.

What I can ASSURE you is that targeting Roy is 100% WRONG. Everybody who knows him even a little knows he is a very cordial and humorous member here. I am 1,000% positive that he meant no disrespect to our nation, military or flag. It was tongue in cheek humor. I'm sure you hear people every day take the Lord God's Name in vain. Do you go off on them like you did to Roy? There's a fine line between being patriotic and being unreasonable. Your wrath should be directed towards our nations enemies. They are the ones causing our military and nation the grief, not a rabid pool fan who is very, very well liked by almost every regular member here.

I thank you for loving, respecting and appreciating our great military. Just make sure your zeal and venom is directed at the right people. The ones hurting, maiming and killing our warriors. Not a pool pundit.

J Soto, thanks for being a warrior yourself. I would say the same to you as I did to Tenn.Joe. Knowing YOU ARE a U.S. Marine elevates you to another level. And if you go around whacking people for innocent remarks, you won't have much of a career. Plus, Roy is a non-combatant! :grin:

There's lot of current and former military members here on AZB. JoeyA is a decorated former U.S. Marine. Ask him and the others if they know when someone is joiking or not.

And now back to the original thread point...Congratulations Team U.S.A.!
(And "thank you" to all our brave warriors in the U.S. Military!)
 
JoeyA said:
.............................................................................................I'm sure he doesn't mean any disrespect to the American Flag or to the U.S. men and women who have shed their blood and given their lives for our country and our freedom.

JoeyA
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There are lots of graveyards full of OUR good men and women over there who fought not only for OUR freedom, but for his too! I'm not positive, but am pretty sure that there aren't any graveyards here full of Norwegians that wanted to help us fight for our lives and freedom.

Being overly "P.C." can be a bland and generic existence.... and a lot of the 'spice' of life is gone without a little grit. Roy is definitely not lacking in grit.... and maybe sometime when he grows up, he will figure out that fun is only fun when you're the one stepping on the other guys toes, and that good natured ribbing can be a great thing, but to disrespect a nation is over the line.

I'm not preaching to you Joey, 'cuz' you are, if anything, probably one of the most diplomatic posters on here. Actually I don't want to preach to anyone, and don't know why I am here................... I guess just to maybe give another perspective.......... $.0001

td
 
toes are a little too tender for jokes right now

There are a lot of toes too tender to take a joke right now. Knowing Roy I know he meant no harm. I might be deeply offended if someone else said the same thing though.

The problem is that our flag is getting crapped on, not only abroad but right here at home. That makes people that respect it, including myself, a bit oversensitive sometimes. However we have plenty of battles to fight with our real enemies, we don't need to be finding any with our friends and allies.

Hu
 
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