Don Mackey Back?

[JAM]

Looks like Scott Kitto to me.

I agree. Here's a thread with a bunch of Scott Kitto photos: https://forums.azbilliards.com/threads/old-pool-players.159591/

This one really looks like him in that photo. Same hairdo.

 

[8cree]

Wonder if I can get a new shirt?

My old one is about ready to be demoted to a work shirt.

 

[alstl]

If he uses standard colored balls and no spot shot nonsense then I'll watch.

 

[garczar]

White coat is Ronnie Weismann, his eyes haven’t changed

its Scott Kitto. More pics of Scott. Its not RW. https://forums.azbilliards.com/threads/old-pool-players.159591/

 

[Fatboy]

its Scott Kitto. More pics of Scott. Its not RW. https://forums.azbilliards.com/threads/old-pool-players.159591/

It is scott. I’ve seen him at the pool room in Vegas in 92, wow could he play

 

[garczar]

It is scott. I’ve seen him at the pool room in Vegas in 92, wow could he play

He still plays good. He plays at Olathe,Ks occasionally and can still dab it.

 

[Fatboy]

He still plays good. He plays at Olathe,Ks occasionally and can still dab it.

I’ve been there! Don Coats plays there.

 

[Island Drive]

could someone help me name who is who front row left -right
?/jim rempe?/earl strickland/nick/varner/mike segal/?/?/?
peeking out fromt the middle of back row?

Scott Kitto, now lives in S. TX.

 

[garczar]

Scott Kitto, now lives in S. TX.

He got tired of those Iowa winters.

 

[Island Drive]

There’s already two elephants in the room. One is Matchroom and the other is Predator.

With there being NFTs involved, I’m guessing there were “pie in the sky” dreams as to the money that could be made from content that was just sitting there gathering dust.

With covid/pools resurgence on the home front, video and MR and Predator doing their thing, their mindset has perfect timing to ''make a buck''. Wonder if retired Fleming may have some play in this?

 

[garczar]

With covid/pools resurgence on the home front, video and MR and Predator doing their thing, their mindset has perfect timing to ''make a buck''. Wonder if retired Fleming may have some play in this?

AFAIK PF is still the head honcho of the Int'l Open. Only 'retiring' from doing Accu-Stats after the sale to AZ.

 

[Island Drive]

Retired videos zar ?

 

[sjm]

''In 2021, a group of the top players reunited with former Commissioner Don Mackey to launch a reconstituted PBT.
Mackey proposed the group begin by digitizing and remastering over 100 hours of championship matches televised in the nineties on Prime Network, Fox Sports, Fox International, Sky Sports, ESPN, and networks around the world.
The “Legends of Billiards Series” will be streamed on various web-based platforms and the Pro Billiards Tour website.''

My guess is that, in a world in which matches involving these players can be viewed for free on Youtube, the demand won't be there for these matches unless they are free.

 

[Positively Ralf]

Am I the only one who thought that was John Madden in the photo?

 

[garczar]

Retired videos zar ?

Huh??? No clue what you mean here.

 

[Mich]

I suspect the more discerning ex-PBTers in that photo are already asking who owns all those matches that are going to be digitized and how they as individuals stand to make money from them. What, if anything, did it take to get Sigel, Davenport and Pierce to associate their names with this whatever-it-is? I doubt many of the old guard have forgotten the last time Mackey was in charge of marketing them to the world. I remember the year when a lower/middle-tier player named Nikki Benisch earned more on the women's tour than Strickland did on the men's. That was a result of how Mackey handled negotiations with ESPN. Most interesting to me is how Matchroom responds. Are they suddenly facing a more uphill battle to continue monetizing this sport, or is there room for two elephants in the room?

I thought Davenport had some sort of eye injury/problem that forced him to retire from playing competitive pool?

 

[chefjeff]

I thought Davenport had some sort of eye injury/problem that forced him to retire from playing competitive pool?

Golf accident if I remember.


Jeff Livingston

 

[garczar]

Golf accident if I remember.


Jeff Livingston

Got hit in the eye with a struck golfball.

 

[garczar]

As to the thread's headline the LAST thing pool needs is this asswipe thief Mackey to be involved again in ANY capacity.

 

[arnaldo]

Got hit in the eye with a struck golfball.

More precisely, Kim's eye was irreparably injured by an unseen, grass-hidden golf ball that was so-freakishly hurled at a very high velocity by the blades of a nearby maintenance mower being operated overly-close to Kim. The airborne ball ricocheted off a metal post next to Davenport’s practice tee, and struck him directly in the eye.

Kim later said “It knocked me right to the ground -- I didn’t know what happened. I couldn’t see a thing, and I was scared to death. An ambulance came and rushed me to the hospital.”

Don't know if Kim ever legally pursued a negligence causation suit regarding the tragic incident. Many of us would have done so, and others might assert that Kim should have halted play for a few minutes till the mowing equipment was well beyond his space.

He clearly heard the equipment, and quite conceivably he and the machine's operator very reasonably foresaw no danger in the proximity. It's even possible that the operator and Kim exchanged a brief mutual glance, and Kim giving him a friendly, dismissive wave conveying: "Keep working, I'm only practicing -- the noise isn't bothering me at all."

Arnaldo ~ Also possible that the mower's sound seemed far behind Kim and he would have felt totally unthreatened by it. I really shouldn't be conjecturing like this, about who was where. We know exactly what happened and how, but little more than that.