Douchebag moves you have seen people pull at league

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Come on, vent, tell your stories. We've all seen people do unbelievable things at meaningless league matches, and these stories are always funny (infuriating) to read, so spill the beans on your worst/funniest 'douchebag league player moment'! :)

Tournament stories are fine too.





To contribute I have two:

1. The Sands Of Time team.

Years ago I was playing in a small travel-bar-box league. The first night I played I was talking with the opposing team and one of them says "Oh, you're new? Wait till you guys get to play the hourglass team!" They all laughed and refused to explain to us what this meant. Fast forward a couple weeks. We're visiting a team playing out of an actual pool hall (not just a bar) that had two little bar boxes in a sea of 9 foots. It was a Sunday night, and the place was dead. Two guys sitting having a beer, a couple guys in the very back playing snooker, and otherwise completely empty except us and the opposing team. No jukebox, no tv noise, nothing but silence. So we introduce ourselves, do the paperwork, and the first match gets started. Their guy breaks, makes a ball, runs a couple, then misses. Our guy approaches the table, grabs the chalk, and BANG there is this huge crash from next to us. So loud we all jumped, and one of our guys actually spilled his beer he was taking a sip of. So we're looking around like "Wtf is going on?!" and the team captain at the round table next to us points to the middle of his table where a little tiny wooden hourglass is sitting. Then he loudly says "Rules state you have a 1 minute shot clock starting when you approach the table, and we time every shot." We're all sitting there dumbfounded, our guy shoots, misses. Their guy approaches table, we all look over. Hourglass is not turned over. Dead quiet. He makes a shot or two, misses. Our guy approaches the table and reaches for the chalk. BANG, their team captain has upended the hourglass and slammed it hard on the table. One of us says "Why are you slamming it down so f*cking hard?" and their captain smiles and says "sorry I didn't notice...didn't sound so hard to me." We grumble, but being new, figured they couldn't be jerks the entire time so we don't throw a fit. Oh how wrong we were. The match continues with this BS the rest of the way: every time their guy shot, no hourglass, no noise, dead silence. Every time one of us go to shoot, BANG hourglass smacked on table. So match ends, we leave. Team captain calls LO to complain. LO says basically that unless the sound is coming as the player gets down to shoot there is nothing technically illegal about it.

This team was notorious for doing this, and since nothing was being done about it we found ways to torment them back after playing them a few times. Most of the time we all took turns wearing headphones and a discman while shooting, but one time a guy on our team wore tuxedo shoes, the kind that squeak really loudly on hard floors, and he would get up to walk to the bar or bathroom while their guys were shooting. Once we loaded up the jukebox with $20 (back when you got 3 plays for a dollar) and played the "happy birthday" song over and over again (had to bribe the bartender not to unplug it on that one). Another time our team captain brought a big bag of bubblelicious chewing gum and we all started blowing bubbles and chewing loudly while they were shooting. We ended up leaving that league after a couple sessions, and I heard later that the hourglass team finally got told to knock it off.


2. Joe Dirt loses count.

Was playing a guy in a league match a couple years ago. His nickname was Joe Dirt because he not only looked like Joe Dirt, he smelled, wore wife beaters, had a mullet, and even sounded like him. So anyways, Joe Dirt and I are playing 9 ball. While I am at the table, he's sitting about 5 feet away trying to impress his teammates with how badly he is going to kick my ass. I'm half deaf and don't really mind until it gets to a loud "This guy f*cking sucks, and when he misses I am going to kick the sh*t out of him". While I'm down on a shot. In mid stroke. I tell him to stfu while people are shooting and we get in an argument about it. His main defense is "I can say whatever I want when I am over sitting with my friends." So I call him a worthless tool and the match continues.

I need to win 4 games and after I have already won 2, I make a shot and get shape on the 9. As I bend over to shoot in the 9 about a foot into a pocket, he storms over and grabs the 9 and slams it in the pocket. I still need to win 1 more game but Joe Dirt says loudly "That's bullsh*t luck, I can't believe you won that match, its f-ing bs." So I say loudly "Wait, you're conceding?" and he replies "Yeah, I already yanked the 9 ball off the table." I repeat myself "You're conceding the match?" and he says "yeah, I concede the match. You're a lucky asshole". There were about 15 witnesses to this, besides our two teams. He then breaks his cue down and storms off. Well someone on his team chases him down, and he comes running back and starts racking the balls, turns to me and says "you're an asshole for not telling me you needed one more, and I'm going to make you pay for it now." I tell him he has already conceded the match twice, broken down his cue, and left the area. The match is over, and he can go f*ck himself. He flips out. I tell him if he wasn't such a lowlife piece of sh*t I would have never allowed him to forfeit, but what goes around comes around. He calls the league operator at home (!) and is talking to him on the phone for a few minutes.

Our league operator "Mr Clean" not only operated the league, he owned a pool store that sold cues and such. Well Joe Dirt had saved up his food stamps and bought a Viking cue (and got ripped off badly on the price to boot) by Mr Clean, who was his good bestest buddy. So they hand me the phone, and Mr Clean tells me I must finish the match, or he will call me for forfeiting due to "bad sportsmanship"! I tell Mr Clean that I'm holding a current nationwide league 9 ball rules handbook, which clearly states "An opponent breaking down his stick and leaving the table, or verbally stating a concession at any time means the match is over and the other player has won the match." Mr Clean replies that my opponent did not know the current score on games, and how many I needed to win. I reply (with the page number) that the rule book states it is not up to your opponent to keep score for you, each team will keep score themselves and keep their own player informed at all times. Mr Clean is adamant, finish the match or I lose.

The good part of this entire thing was that I did end up winning the match (on a really ugly called-cheese shot on the 9, hah!), the sad part was me emailing the relevant parts of the rules he ignored to the LO and him dismissing the entire thing as "well he's a nice guy, and you were being mean for trying to let him concede like that"! :lol:








So anyways, I know everyone has seen "that guy" pull some douchebag/idiotic stuff at league or tournaments, so fire away and tell us about them!
 
Not necessarily in league but on the note of bangers.. I was playing in the pool room at my school and some guy approached me ask of to play a short race to 3. Mind you that I'm easily the most serious and consistent player at my school and that is NOT bragging. So we play our set and I won 3-2. On the last 9ball I had a moderately difficult cut into the far corner pockets. I had the choice of doing a back cut or a normal cut. This joker proceeded to do the little "I'm gonna put a hex on this pocket by drawing a little x with my finger." he then purposefully stands in front of that pocket. I decided to change my decision to the other pocket and he goes and stands in front of that one as well. I then fire the 9 straight into the heart of that pocket while making eye contact with him. We continued playing afterward and the final score being 4-3. Two of his wins were slopping in the 9 and another was me leaving a 7 hanging. He went back to his friends and I heard him say, "I woulda beat him if we played a longer race." :killingme:
 
Seen more moves than I can remember playing in bar leagues. This one really stands out.

End of league playoffs in APA, we are hill-hill in matches, so the two 7's get to play for it all. I break and run the first two, then in the third game I come up dry, he tries to get out but can't get to a cluster, and misses. I shoot one of my balls at the cluster breaking it out and leaving him frozen on two of my balls. He's got no shot, no kick, nothing, and knows I'll get out to go up 3-0 after this shot. He looks right at me, in a room full of (white) people and says.. "This NXgger pool won't get you far". To say that was a douchebag thing to say is being nice. The bar/restuarant owner 86'ed him permenently. Oh, and he never shot again in that match.
 
Back in 2000 we were playing in the Vally Nationals in Vegas. We played this team from Canada. After the first round we were down 50-4. This team started to high five each other and where saying things like "this is to easy" and talking about us "how did this team make it here." They all had grins from ear to ear. Needless to say, the match didn't even make it to the 5th round because we kicked the sh*t out of them. If you could have only seen their faces after they lost. It was priceless. Then we had to fire back "see how easy it is."
 
The league I play in is a city-wide bar league. Each team is sponsored by a bar or pool room. Each team plays every other team twice in a season, once in first half, once in second half, once both "home" and "away". Last season, my team had a home match. I walk into the bar we were playing at to see a player from the other team with a sopping wet rag wiping down our home table. When confronted about why he was messing with the other teams home table, he said it was too dirty to play on. I told him we don't walk into their place and start f-ing with their table. We lost the match that night, and no one could control the cueball like we were all used to doing on that table.

Fast forward to this year, and now I'm on the same team as him and can't stand the filthy bar tables. Kind of ironic I guess. But I still don't go messing with someone elses table.
 
I was playing in a BCA league against a team of bangers. One particular banger has a habit of pushing through the ball when the cue ball is frozen or really close to his object ball. One of these situations comes up while he's playing against me so he gets down on the shot and starts aiming low on the cue ball and he quickly strokes through pushing the cue ball forward and breaking out a cluster of his balls.

I take a minute to tell him that the shot he did wasn't legal and normally would be ball in hand but i let him continue to shoot anyways and i eventually win the game. well long story short he ends up pulling the same shot a few more times throughout the night with none of us calling a ball in hand on it and instead letting him know it's an illegal shot each time. Their team starts saying they don't know what we're talking about so i offer to show them and demonstrate.

I start explaining how it shouldn't be possible for the cue ball to go flying forward that fast when he was clearly aiming at the bottom of the ball and contest that the only way it is possible is if his tip comes into contact with the ball a second time. Well apparently this got too confusing for one of the jackasses on his team as he stood up and started yelling that we were all chicken shits and playing N word pool (really? we never took a ball in hand we were only trying to teach them some of the rules). So we all start yelling at each other before things eventually calm down and we finish the match without saying another word to any of them.
 
This is not really a douche bag move or even something that I would get worked up over, but.... These two ladies on an opposing APA team would always try and talk slutty to me during my breaks during the match.
It was their attempt to get my head out of the game but only one of them looked good and was an easy 12-15 years older than me so I was not that interested. But god bless them for trying.
It was their go to move and it probably worked pretty well in their younger days.
 
Spider1 said:
(snip) Our guy approaches the table, grabs the chalk, and BANG there is this huge crash from next to us. So loud we all jumped, and one of our guys actually spilled his beer he was taking a sip of. So we're looking around like "Wtf is going on?!" and the team captain at the round table next to us points to the middle of his table where a little tiny wooden hourglass is sitting. Then he loudly says "Rules state you have a 1 minute shot clock starting when you approach the table, and we time every shot." (snip)!
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The butt of a bar cue would have ended that practice quite nicely, I think.

Oops, it slipped out of my hand. sorry

Jeff Livingston
 
I posted last June about an 'issue' I had at a league game about calling a foul on an illegal move. I posted about it here....Bill Stock even chimed in to clarify the rule and maintained it was in fact a foul. During the thread, there were numerous posts by an individual who represented themselves as someone who had been at the match and was in fact involved in the foul.

The douchebag move was when this person admitted in a local shoot and in a UStream chat that he was the one who had pretended to be the person attempting to discredit me here in that thread. He was, and still is, quite full of himself. Not only was it not the person involved, but he was not even at the match, let alone on the team (not even sure if he was even on the league)....turns out, it was her ex-husband.

Now, I refuse to play in sets against this person in local shoots because he proceeds to call fouls damn near every time I am at the table....whether one has actually occurred or not. There is not enough money in these shoots to make it worth the headache....trust me. I just want to shoot some pool and have fun....it's not about the, if you're lucky, $50-$75. I can make that in one night singing karaoke. :smile:

I was talking with another female player who has been playing forever, like myself, who said that she is thinking of quitting because she is realizing just how many a$$holes are in pool these days (and she counts the above individual in that group).....I gotta agree.

Lisa
 
chefjeff said:
The butt of a bar cue would have ended that practice quite nicely, I think.

Oops, it slipped out of my hand. sorry

Jeff Livingston
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hah, we discussed grabbing and destroying it if it was ever alone, but their team captain would put it in his pocket every time he got up from his table.

What a miserable doofus that guy was. Some people are amazing.
 
i have not seen any douchebag moves in the year and a half i have been playing in leagues.

another poster posted about someone pulling a move in a bar and i have had a few pulled on me.

here is the latest one. i am playing 8 ball for 20.00 a game. i win about 4 in a row it is this young guys turn. i get on the 8 with this guy having 4 balls left. i got 2 choices on how to make it . 1 is bank it cross side and the other is a hard cut down the rail hopefully missing 1 of his balls.

as i am standing there thinking he comes up beside me saying i got another 20.00 says you dont make this shot. i say let me think about it. i move up to the table and rest both hands on the rail leaning over looking at cutting it. he goes around the table and leans over saying i got another 20.00 you dont make it.

now he has me pissed off and i say quite loudly back the fvck up from the table. now instead of thinking about the shot i am thinking before this game is over which am i gonna wind up smacking him with, the cueball or the barstick ? i been in my share of bar fights when i was younger but i know this aint going to be a fair fight. i am 57 and this guy looked to be 28-29 and about 50 lbs heavier. so i am thinking the cue ball will even it out because i dont want to pay for a broke stick.

it just so happened that while i am thinking this an old teamate of mine come up and asked whats goin on ? i told him. well he also knew the other guy and tj asked him wtf he trying to pull ? the guy tells tj to chill that he was just trying to stay in the game and why was tj interfering when him and tj were friends ? tj tells him that i am also his friend and that his friends did not pull shit like that.

i dont know what the guy said next to tj because he kinda muttered under his breath. next thing i know tj smacked him about 10 times before the guy could move. the guy fell back against the next table and just slumped to the floor with blood running outa his nose like it was coming out of a faucet. the bouncer kicked both of them out for life. all over 20.00, glad i did not have 100.00 on the game, no telling what would have happened.
 
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The crap I've seen over the last 6 years in leagues (mostly APA) I could've written a book on. Too many to list. Too tired to type tonight.

I gotta agree with ridewiththewind though. There sure seems to be an inordinate amount of a**holes in pool today.

I am enjoying the reading though!!! Keep 'em coming!

Maniac
 
Spider1 said:
hah, we discussed grabbing and destroying it if it was ever alone, but their team captain would put it in his pocket every time he got up from his table.

What a miserable doofus that guy was. Some people are amazing.
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The rulebook way to handle it is to declare unsportsmanlike conduct. That is a game loss, if memory serves me correct.

My veteran pool team would have put up with it...once. 20+ years of putting up with crap means we do not put up with such crap anymore. We have ways to make you squawk.

Jeff Livingston
 
A few years ago in our VNEA league, my team captain was leading for MVP with one week to play. The captain of the team in second place could only catch him if he were to accomplish 3 ero's(8 ball run-out) on the last night of regular play. It turns out that the team scheduled to play the second place team actually forfeited, so the winning team only gets credit for the wins, but cannot accumulate ero points. Well, the captain of that team marked himself down for 3 ero's, and turned the sheet in. My captain got word of this about a week later, and confronted him and finally had him admit he cheated. So it all worked out in the end.

Now, fast forward to this year. With only 3 weeks left to play, I am the front runner, and the same guy is trailing me. And he needs 4 ero's to surpass me, if I were to get none from here on out. I am interested to see what is gonna happen.:thumbup:


Braden
 
This is one I will never forget. A buddy of mine always played this guy on another team in league and he almost always beat him. Well, my buddy Craig, had this girl and he was crazy in love with her. But unfortunately she was a tramp and had been cheating on him for a long time. He finds out, they break up, he is devastated.

So as luck would have it on the next league night they play each other, this jerk shows up with his now x-girlfriend. This guy is really rubbing it in Craigs face too, he's got her on his lap rubbing her all over, kissing her, making jokes under their breath the whole nine yards.

So I'm thinking that any second that I'm going to have to break up a fight but I look over at Craig and he is taking this extremely well. Almost too good in fact. I lean over and say to him "You know he's doing this just to try and get inside your head right?" He tells me not to worry about, hes got it covered.

Now I'm really worried because I know he has a gun out in his car and I'm thinking he might actually use it. I'm really sweating this one out, trying to figure out what I'm gonna do when I hear a loud cry and a "OH SH!T"!!!!!

It seams that Craig decided to give this jerks wife a call and tell her to come down to the pool hall because her husband was in trouble. She walks in and catches the tramp on her husbands lap and the poo hits the fan!

The rest of us on the team just sat there dumbfounded. We looked like this-----> :eek::eek::eek::eek:

Well, Craig was right he had it covered!!!
 
Cdryden said:
This is one I will never forget. A buddy of mine always played this guy on another team in league and he almost always beat him. Well, my buddy Craig, had this girl and he was crazy in love with her. But unfortunately she was a tramp and had been cheating on him for a long time. He finds out, they break up, he is devastated.

So as luck would have it on the next league night they play each other, this jerk shows up with his now x-girlfriend. This guy is really rubbing it in Craigs face too, he's got her on his lap rubbing her all over, kissing her, making jokes under their breath the whole nine yards.

So I'm thinking that any second that I'm going to have to break up a fight but I look over at Craig and he is taking this extremely well. Almost too good in fact. I lean over and say to him "You know he's doing this just to try and get inside your head right?" He tells me not to worry about, hes got it covered.

Now I'm really worried because I know he has a gun out in his car and I'm thinking he might actually use it. I'm really sweating this one out, trying to figure out what I'm gonna do when I hear a loud cry and a "OH SH!T"!!!!!

It seams that Craig decided to give this jerks wife a call and tell her to come down to the pool hall because her husband was in trouble. She walks in and catches the tramp on her husbands lap and the poo hits the fan!

The rest of us on the team just sat there dumbfounded. We looked like this-----> :eek::eek::eek::eek:

Well, Craig was right he had it covered!!!
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Trying to "out run the nuts" can get you into trouble. :thumbup:
 
Cdryden said:
This is one I will never forget. A buddy of mine always played this guy on another team in league and he almost always beat him. Well, my buddy Craig, had this girl and he was crazy in love with her. But unfortunately she was a tramp and had been cheating on him for a long time. He finds out, they break up, he is devastated.

So as luck would have it on the next league night they play each other, this jerk shows up with his now x-girlfriend. This guy is really rubbing it in Craigs face too, he's got her on his lap rubbing her all over, kissing her, making jokes under their breath the whole nine yards.

So I'm thinking that any second that I'm going to have to break up a fight but I look over at Craig and he is taking this extremely well. Almost too good in fact. I lean over and say to him "You know he's doing this just to try and get inside your head right?" He tells me not to worry about, hes got it covered.

Now I'm really worried because I know he has a gun out in his car and I'm thinking he might actually use it. I'm really sweating this one out, trying to figure out what I'm gonna do when I hear a loud cry and a "OH SH!T"!!!!!

It seams that Craig decided to give this jerks wife a call and tell her to come down to the pool hall because her husband was in trouble. She walks in and catches the tramp on her husbands lap and the poo hits the fan!

The rest of us on the team just sat there dumbfounded. We looked like this-----> :eek::eek::eek::eek:

Well, Craig was right he had it covered!!!
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HAHAHAHA!!!!! That is one of the best stories I have ever heard!! I am going to share that one with my teammates at league tonight. That's awesome!!:thumbup:


Braden
 
One time I was trying to get down on my shot and my opponent intentionally bumped me and said various things to try and shark me. I told him to back off and shut up but he chose not to. So I purposely got down on my shot and pulled back hard during my practice stroke stabbing him in the stomach with the butt of my cue :-) he didn't do that again.:thumbup:
 
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