The original, official record itself has an asterisk next to it having been done on an 8ft table. A time honored tradition of 14.1 high runs is endlessly questioning it.
In Willie's book, he says he did the 526 in 2 hours and 10 minutes, which is 4 balls/minute. Jayson has been playing at that pace.
You call all the viewers a "bunch of nobody's".
I'm far more genteel and diplomatic now, but 40 years back I would unhesitatingly respond to flailing indignation from malcontents dissing a freebie:
I'm calling the pockets altered, but apparently you're one of those "viewers" that believe everything you read, the pockets are "legit"
I’m assuming this is the table JS ran 626 on. The two pink lines are identical in length. Thoughts?
No, they're not. Those are number 6 pocket irons in the corner pockets. In order to open the throat of the pocket, doing so would shorten the wood at the end of the rail where it lines up with the pocket iron, leaving a step from the facings to the leather pocket liner, and the step would be noticeable. The throat of those pockets are clearly not wider than they're suppose to be.
He's apparently mellowed -- at least Jayson didn't (quite deservedly) say what he said to Earl as Earl was loudly ranting at him at that Steinway 14.1 event years back: "If I see you outside, I'll knock you out." Earl calmed down quick and shaken. The TD then stepped in.
I’m kinda surprised nobody is talking about it. Jayson was putting in his best run and missed at 407 as someone started heckling him. Bobby then talks to the camera like it never happened. What even was that?!?
Perspective distortion -- think of how a vanishing point works. Here is a better picture of one of the corner pockets on that table with less distortion but still some.
Sorry, a bit too much tech talk for me to completely understand (
) , but I think I got the gist of it. The pink lines are identical in length though. I drew the first and duplicated it. I understand there’s some slight perspective shift as the throat is closer to the camera.Also, he's given you an edited photo. The original that he posted earlier made it clear that the view of this particular pocket is distorted by the camera angle and you can see the corner pockets on the other end and they're obviously right.
Fantastic! Thank you! This is the first time I’ve seen these, and I’ve been very curious.
I didn’t edit it maliciously (with intent to deceive), just to focus on the closest pocket.
Well he shot that back cut, I was just saying more about how fast he took the shot on, didn't much take a step to the side and look at it at all, just fired it.
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