CSI 8 ball - worst ref gaffe ever

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RichSchultz

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Melling kept trying to find a ref to clean the cue ball. Finally some dude wearing a headset comes over. He grabs the cue ball, without marking where it was, rubs it in his hands and just puts it back on the table in some random spot.

What the hell????
 
How was it corrected ? I would think a re-rack ?

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no....melling actually shook his head and kept playing from where the ref plunked it down, I believe. I say I believe because I was so flabbergasted, I ran to azb to post!
 
Caught it!

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RichSchultz said:
Melling kept trying to find a ref to clean the cue ball. Finally some dude wearing a headset comes over. He grabs the cue ball, without marking where it was, rubs it in his hands and just puts it back on the table in some random spot.

What the hell????
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Maybe the guy thought the game was over? AccuStats has a video where in a 14.1 match the ref grabbed the break ball. Strickland was playing vs someone else and actually adjusted the position of the cueball in his opponents favor.
 
hang-the-9 said:
Maybe the guy thought the game was over? AccuStats has a video where in a 14.1 match the ref grabbed the break ball. Strickland was playing vs someone else and actually adjusted the position of the cueball in his opponents favor.
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8 ball was still on the table...i think he just had a major brain fart.
 
Years, ok, decades, ago, I believe it was Jim Rempe that did the reverse error. They were in the finals of a big tournament, the opponent scratched. Rempe had a ton of money bet on himself. The ref picks up the cb and just places it on the table as Rempe had ball in hand.

Rempe, having a massive brain fart, shoots from where the ref put the cb. Yep,
Rempe was hooked from the next ball where the ref placed it. Rempe never took actual ball in hand on the shot.

Unfortunately, I don't remember if he made the shot or not. :o
 
No big deal but somewhat amusing. Everyone messes up in their lives at some point. Ref gets a pass in my book. Hell, it's only a game anyway.
 
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