Cuemakers, Pro Players & AZ

I don't know why a cuemaker would want to post on a pool forum. I would think they would post on a cuemaking forum.

That leaves what you refer to as "professional players".

The large percentage of "pro players" are unemployed bums who are basically parasites on society. Why would they want to post on a forum where they will, sooner or later, be told exactly that?

What are they going to contribute? Are they going to explain how to go out a restaurants bathroom window to skip out on a bill? Or maybe how to sell their cue to 5 different people and skip town with the money and the cue?

Most all of the so-called pros have done many wrong things to people around this country and they know that many of their "victims" post here and will eventually call them on their misdeeds.

Why open the can of worms if it's not needed? Not many of the pros have anything to gain by posting here so why do it? Gaining is their entire motivation in life, for most of them.

Think about if Buddy Hall was a posting member. He would have to talk about the 1991 COC tourney for 6 months straight.

Shane would be grilled on his theft of a ball from Morra at the 2012 Bankpool finals.

The top pros who've dumped and have strong reputations for being dumpers would be asked about it endlessly. They aren't going to subject themselves to that grilling when they have nothing to gain from it.

Even Shannon Daulton, who is generally regarded as a "good guy" in the pool world was knocked hours after a "welcome SD" thread was started on the 1pocket forum http://www.onepocket.org/forum/showthread.php?t=4581

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Nope. I expect that if you're going to say I've said something, to have the courtesy to quote me and show everyone where I actually said it.

Lou Figueroa

I have done so. Many times.

Makes no difference. Even if I did it again you will worm out of it and you already know that nothing will change.

So, if you think I can't then bet on it. Then I will spend the time providing the defamatory things you have said.
 
Yes, I get it now John.



If you consider others comments as being ignorant, and go into a debate as that, can you see where some of the negativity comes from.

I see lots of ignorant comments all the time on AZ. If I were to comment on every stupid thing that I read on AZ, my own comments included at times, I would be arguing with everyone, including myself in front of the bedroom mirror.

Ya gotta be able to allow others to their opinions and not take everything that you read as a personal affront to your own life.

Everyone else seems to be able to co exist just fine for the most part. But you can't.

I don't get into any or many debates on AZ. If I do, I go into it with the attitude, Change My Mind.

If someone can, I say, good point and be on my way. It doesn't bother me to have someone show me that I was wrong in any way. Its part of life John.

Sometimes yer right and sometimes yer wrong. If one can't handle it graciously, thats where the problems begin.

Ignorance is not the problem. Many people post statements that are ignorant of the actual facts. It's how they accept correction that is the problem. Mark Griffin and many others have faced personal slander and attacks when they tried to present the factual side of a story AFTER someone posted the ignorant version of it.

I am ignorant of many things, in fact of most things. But I TRY not to post ignorantly about them or simply make a clear statement that I do not KNOW the facts and I welcome correction. Most of the time I try to ascertain the facts BEFORE posting.

Would you believe I was attacked on the construction of Instroke cases? That's right, someone who never took a case apart in their life posted that Instroke cases were made in a way that they absolutely are not made and I challenged it with facts and was attacked. ATTACKED. Not nicely, not politely, but called a liar and told I didn't know what I was talking about.

That's what I am talking about. I would hope you could understand it.

Imagine we were on a motorcycle forum and I posted a bunch of ignorant statements about riding the Wall of Death. You would come in a correct me rightfully so and then I came back ridiculing you and calling you a liar, etc... and to top it off the closest I ever got to the Wall of Death was crashing my bicycle into the outside of one when I was ten years old.

Does that make sense to you?

Try to think about all this from my perspective. Let's talk aiming systems....guy comes in and offers his methods and what should be a geek discussion about how to best do the method turns into a personal attack on the guy. Do you think that this type of behavior should be acceptable?

Do you think that it should be permissible to then try and disrupt EVERY thread where the guy or others want to discuss this aiming method?

And after you correct me on the intricacies of riding the wall of death and fade my vicious slanderous comments I don't let you go. I follow you around and make snide comments in a variety of threads. Would that make you want to stick around and constantly fade it and deal with it? What if that person knew your name and your livelihood and used those details to continue the needling and slander?

I know I can give as good as I get...but consider a forum where no one GETS in the first place. Then no one gets into fights because they are simply NOT tolerated.
 
Don't make Lou angry.....you won't like him when he's angry. LoL

All I know is he used to lose his temper all the time on some TV show. :wink:

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You don't scare them. You disgust them. Some of them. Most don't know or care who you are.
 
I have done so. Many times.

Makes no difference. Even if I did it again you will worm out of it and you already know that nothing will change.

So, if you think I can't then bet on it. Then I will spend the time providing the defamatory things you have said.


John, you have frequently accused me of saying things I have not said. And I always ask you to "show me" where I've said what you allege.

You never can. Not once.

So now you need $10K to show me? And you come here and play the victim?

Lou Figueroa
 
John, you have frequently accused me of saying things I have not said. And I always ask you to "show me" where I've said what you allege.

You never can. Not once.

So now you need $10K to show me? And you come here and play the victim?

Lou Figueroa

So this is now just going to be a yes you did/no you didn't thing? I have quoted you plenty in the past. You have been quoted by others in the past.

I am not about to do it again at your command. Now if you think I can't then bet something. Put your money on it. As long as your posts are not edited with a time stamp of today or later we have action if you have the cojones to bet. Call Mike and see if he will back you. Don't be a two bit coward if you are in the right. If you are so convinced you're right put your money into play.
 
And as a correction, Royce does hang out at AZB.

He keeps his posts in the Cue Maker and Machinery Forums. Maybe he doesn't feel the need to be in the Main Forum unless its for a warranty question. No one has chased Royce away. he is very active and helpful in the forums I mentioned.

When he has time of course. He has a business to run that is undoubtedly more important than posting on a Billiard Message board.

As far as Joey's past life re his apprenticeships. What difference does that make in anyone's life. Joey has nice equipment and it is a hobby as he works full time.

If he makes 3 or 30 cues a year, who cares. The ones he does make are decent cues and play well.

Joey is also a helpful member in the 2 forums for cue makers.

Thats all I need to know about him.
 
So this is now just going to be a yes you did/no you didn't thing? I have quoted you plenty in the past. You have been quoted by others in the past.

I am not about to do it again at your command. Now if you think I can't then bet something. Put your money on it. As long as your posts are not edited with a time stamp of today or later we have action if you have the cojones to bet. Call Mike and see if he will back you. Don't be a two bit coward if you are in the right. If you are so convinced you're right put your money into play.


No, John. I am not like you.

Lou Figueroa
 
If I were like you I'd quit pool :-)

Lou Figueroa

Unlike you I can have fun in the pool room. Even if I lose 10k I still have fun. You, on the other hand, are not regarded as a pleasure to be around in the pool room.

Unlike you I don't take pleasure in trolling others.

I certainly don't get my rocks off defaming them as you have done.

And finally, if I practiced as much as you do and was still as bad as you are then I would not only quit pool I would shoot myself just because of that.
 
And as a correction, Royce does hang out at AZB.

He keeps his posts in the Cue Maker and Machinery Forums. Maybe he doesn't feel the need to be in the Main Forum unless its for a warranty question. No one has chased Royce away. he is very active and helpful in the forums I mentioned.

When he has time of course. He has a business to run that is undoubtedly more important than posting on a Billiard Message board.

As far as Joey's past life re his apprenticeships. What difference does that make in anyone's life. Joey has nice equipment and it is a hobby as he works full time.

If he makes 3 or 30 cues a year, who cares. The ones he does make are decent cues and play well.

Joey is also a helpful member in the 2 forums for cue makers.

Thats all I need to know about him.

I said Royce hangs out on AZB. And he keeps his head down.

He is the model industry rep on AZB, here for your service and not about to correct anyone's ignorance at the expense of being attacked.

Plus Royce also has a much better temperament than I do. Even if he were attacked he would probably be much more likely to deflect it. I do not hold myself blameless here and have said it a zillion times.

That still doesn't mean the situation is not as I said it is regarding the climate.

As for Joey, I don't really care if he makes 3 cues a year or not. I do care when he posts his "opinion" that is ignorant at best and malicious at worst about people I know in this business.

This guy has made it his business to step into my business over and over. I don't know him and could care less about him. But when he jumps into threads behind me to talk shit then he shouldn't be surprised when it's turned on him. Maybe he should confine himself to the cue maker threads instead of spouting crap elsewhere.

The last little tidbit was him trying to say I screw my dealers. Any of my dealers know that I bend over backwards to make them happy. I have often flat out given sales to my dealers instead of taking the full retail sale because I know that the dealer and the customer are better served when I do that. About the only thing that my dealers are unhappy about is our delivery times.

But this didn't stop Joey from trying to slander me over a road trip some 18 years ago.

What kind of person reaches back 18 years to talk about a situation he really knows nothing about to try and defame me today? Well, I can't really express what kind of person that is because if I did then I would be banned. However you can let your imagination run wild and think of all the symbols above the numbers on your keyboard and it wouldn't be enough to describe how despicable I consider Joey Bautista to be as a person.

Now, you like him and some of my friends like him. Which is why I attempted in the past to reconcile but this "person" is another of those people who seems that I will never get along with, not from my side mind you. I liked his mentors Kerry Zeiler and Edwin Reyes and wish that they were here instead of him. Then we would have some really amazing knowledge on the forum without the attitude. In my opinion of course.
 
Unlike you I can have fun in the pool room. Even if I lose 10k I still have fun. You, on the other hand, are not regarded as a pleasure to be around in the pool room.


lol. Oh yeah, you're a real peach to be around.

You make good friends everywhere you go!

Oh wait, wasn't it YOU (and not me) that almost got his teeth knocked in an hour before our match in NJ? Wasn't it YOU that has mention protecting himself with a firearm because of heated exchanges on this group? And wasn't it YOU that just got an invitation to dance, just a little further back up in this thread, lmao.

Lou Figueroa
 
John, your chronological order of flame wars only somehow make it look like you were defamed first .
I have no time to post how you started that and don't want to honor your crap by posting it here so people can read more of your crap.
I don't have the inclination to argue in thousands of words like you do even at 3-5 in the morning there .
Nobody here likes to argue in thousands and thousands of words like you do.
I'm sick of your lies and your victim card .

You just need to shut your trap now and let this die till we can meet up and settle it .
 
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lol. Oh yeah, you're a real peach to be around.

You make good friends everywhere you go!

Oh wait, wasn't it YOU (and not me) that almost got his teeth knocked in an hour before our match in NJ? Wasn't it YOU that has mention protecting himself with a firearm because of heated exchanges on this group? And wasn't it YOU that just got an invitation to dance, just a little further back up in this thread, lmao.

Lou Figueroa

I am a peach to be around. In person I am a lot of fun. Getting ready to play you for ten thousand I offered to play the guy you are talking about for $1000 to warm up. Gotta love a guy who is willing to do that. But I guess that guy wasn't in a mood to play pool and only wanted to be there to shark me.

As for Joey, he is singing a very different tune in "public". With all the "man up" talk.... guess it's easier to be puffing up when you're putting on the public face. What I said to him is the same in private and public.

John, your chronological order of flame wars only somehow make it look like you were defamed first .
I have no time to post how you started that and don't want to honor your crap by posting it here so people can read more of your crap.
I don't have the inclination to argue in thousands of words like you do even at 3-5 in the morning there .
Nobody here likes to argue in thousands and thousands of words like you do.
I'm sick of your lies and your victim card .

You just need to shut your trap now and let this die till we can meet up and settle it .

I need to shut my trap? Please try that again. The record speaks for itself. I am polite until I am attacked. And will it settle "it" if you beat me up? Will it be settled if I beat you up?

What is the "it" you think will be settled by violence?

I don't care what you are sick of. On this forum I NEVER attacked you first, you were unknown to me when you started in on me. I even asked my friend who is your friend what your problem is and asked him to intervene to make peace. But even that didn't work as you are an incredibly odious person.

If you don't want things to be here then just exercise your will and leave me alone. since I don't even know how you look I will just wait for you to sneak up on me.
 
Man up? is that your cliche' of the day.

You spend years defaming me and then are not happy that I don't want to meet you in the parking lot?

Let's just have a duel at 20 paces with guns, why be barbaric about it with pummeling?

With my aiming system you should be safe. You use the ghost bullet method so ought to be no problem for you to kill me first.
John this was funny to me. BHR better give you some room.

I do think you lean toward a hybrid narcissistic / polyspinchterideologue poster on these forums.

Hopefully your banning days are in your past, but it's good to know you have a ban backup plan in place.

I should pm Wilson for the NPR death penalty as this thread has strayed a wee bit. Yes I'm connected with the high pay grade echelon.
 
Funny, but you're the one playing the victim card. WITH LIES.
You are sick John. It's freakin early morning there and you haven't slept all night . All you want to do is argue , argue, argue , argue .
Nobody can shut you up. Not even nature.
All you want to do is drag people to your level.
 
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Funny, but you're the one playing the victim card. WITH LIES.
You are sick John. It's freakin early morning there and you haven't slept all night . All you want to do is argue , argue, argue , argue .
Nobody can shut you up. Not even nature.
All you want to do is drag people to your level.

Wow, you're slacking a little as a stalker. I moved to Oklahoma City a couple weeks ago.

It's 6pm here and I am about to go play league with my friends.

Once again Joey Bautista you say lies and I say show me. Show everyone.

And while you are at it please show us all where I attacked you first? You can't because it doesn't exist. You trolled me, you stalked me, you like to antagonize me and you LOVE to talk about me when I am not here.

That's right, no one like you or your ilk will ever shut me up. I am not like the industry people who are afraid to be here because of people like you. I am not like the pros who don't bother with AZB know-it-alls because they don't feel like being told how to play pool by people who can't even get their own nuts to line up.

I am here to say what I want when I want to say it and the only time I will shut up is when I am done not when you want me to be done. You don't want to hear me then stop knocking me. Got it? Go back and look at this thread Bautista, did I mention your name until you jumped in with your shitty comments about me? No I didn't.

So again if you don't like it stop engaging me. Or reply again with more nonsense and I will rebut it again. After league.
 
John this was funny to me. BHR better give you some room.

I do think you lean toward a hybrid narcissistic / polyspinchterideologue poster on these forums.

Hopefully your banning days are in your past, but it's good to know you have a ban backup plan in place.

I should pm Wilson for the NPR death penalty as this thread has strayed a wee bit. Yes I'm connected with the high pay grade echelon.

The thread, while it does address a very real situation on AZB should never have been allowed to flourish at all as it is really not pool related. Except for the FACT that pool people avoid AZB because of some of the peeps here.

Just got off the phone with a nice gentleman who reads azb but won't post much if at all. He is of the same opinion about the worthlessness of the professional knockers on AZB.

While you are talking to Wilson ask him to censure Bautista for the ad hominem attacks perpetrated so far. I think Joey boy needs a time out to understand what it's like when you let your frustration out and start name calling.
 
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