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Great article about Danny D in a 1977 Sports Ilustrated:

Easy Times The Hard Way. One of the best feature articles ever written about road life, by Barry McDermott.

My favorite Danny D story, told to me by the late Peter ("Little Petey") Goldsmith, who knew Danny down in Miami in the 70's:

Petey was a tough matchup but a soft spot when it came to helping out a friend, and he once lent Danny D $500 to get him out of the hole.

Only Danny D kept ducking my man whenever he tried to get his loan back. After several futile attempts to locate him, he finally caught up with Danny in a parking lot. But when Petey asked him for the 500 bucks, Danny just showed him his pocketless pants, and said "Now how do you expect me to have five hundred dollars on me, when I ain't even got no pockets in my pants?"

I'm sure that Petey eventually got paid, but he got more than $500 worth of storytelling out of that comeback line.
 
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Taxi said:
Great article about Danny D in a 1977 Sports Ilustrated:

Easy Times The Hard Way. One of the best feature articles ever written about road life, by Barry McDermott.

My favorite Danny D story, told to me by the late Peter ("Little Petey") Goldsmith, who knew Danny down in Miami in the 70's:

Petey was a tough matchup but a soft spot when it came to helping out a friend, and he once lent Danny D $500 to get him out of the hole.

Only Danny D kept ducking my man whenever he tried to get his loan back. After several futile attempts to locate him, he finally caught up with Danny in a parking lot. But when Petey asked him for the 500 bucks, Danny just showed him his pocketless pants, and said "Now how do you expect me to have five hundreds dollars on me, when I ain't even got no pockets in my pants?"

I'm sure that Petey eventually got paid, but he got more than $500 worth of storytelling out of that comeback line.
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thanks for the link
enjoyed the read
 
Taxi said:
Great article about Danny D in a 1977 Sports Ilustrated:

Easy Times The Hard Way. One of the best feature articles ever written about road life, by Barry McDermott.

My favorite Danny D story, told to me by the late Peter ("Little Petey") Goldsmith, who knew Danny down in Miami in the 70's:

Petey was a tough matchup but a soft spot when it came to helping out a friend, and he once lent Danny D $500 to get him out of the hole.

Only Danny D kept ducking my man whenever he tried to get his loan back. After several futile attempts to locate him, he finally caught up with Danny in a parking lot. But when Petey asked him for the 500 bucks, Danny just showed him his pocketless pants, and said "Now how do you expect me to have five hundred dollars on me, when I ain't even got no pockets in my pants?"

I'm sure that Petey eventually got paid, but he got more than $500 worth of storytelling out of that comeback line.
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Amazing article. In a lot of ways, not much has changed in the world of pool. Other than a few things here and there, this story could have been written yesterday.
 
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Every once in a while he actually manages to call the shot correctly as well
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I always saw Danny's strong points as commentator as being his comments regarding managing table layouts and playing percentages. To me, that always made sense coming from him, bc in his pool life, making a single shot was much less important than winning a match- he had no other source of income. Danny always looked at the end game result from the choices made on the table. In the end, the game was about who walked out with the money - as in the movie the Hustler- Bert said to Eddie- " you don't get paid for yardage".
 
mikemosconi said:
I always saw Danny's strong points as commentator as being his comments regarding managing table layouts and playing percentages. To me, that always made sense coming from him, bc in his pool life, making a single shot was much less important than winning a match- he had no other source of income. Danny always looked at the end game result from the choices made on the table. In the end, the game was about who walked out with the money - as in the movie the Hustler- Bert said to Eddie- " you don't get paid for yardage".
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Every time my cue ball is rolling towards a pocket I can hear Danny saying if your gonna hit the cue ball towards a pocket don't hit it hard enough to get there. 😡 🤣
 
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