Earl as a commentator

Earl did a great job on a match between SVB & Corey. He was very complementary of both players and the shots they made. My favorite commentating of a match thus far.
 
I watched that match last night.
I highly recommend watching.
I love how the pros see the layout, pattern, shot shape and spin the same, right off the bat.
A couple of those shots I would have played differently.
That's why I'm only a bit over a 600 Fargo.

Well that and I have a wife and a job lol.
 
Commentators in Pool

I like the commentators who tell the audience, what is transpiring, how the player did what he did, not how the player is going to shoot the shot. To me, that is upstaging the player, like the commentator is a "know it all". That also leaves the commentator, with EGG on His/Her Face", when he /she miss what really happens.

I can remember when Incardona & Grady, used to try upstaging each other, with their comments on what the player's were going to do.. That was really distasteful.
 
I’d rather listen to Earl rather than the others on the Billiard Network page. His video alone has more views than almost all of the other videos combined.
 
Allen Brown said:
I’d rather listen to Earl rather than the others on the Billiard Network page. His video alone has more views than almost all of the other videos combined.
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Earl can be a youtuber. Hahahaha, add a camera pack to his weighted vest and put a go pro on his during matches.
 
justnum said:
Earl can be a youtuber. Hahahaha, add a camera pack to his weighted vest and put a go pro on his during matches.
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I’d pay good money to see a day in the life of Earl. Billiard Network is making Earl’s videos a weekly thing and putting them out on Tuesdays.
 
Love it. The view is always looking at the shooter, I wish the cameraman would show where the players are hitting the cue ball.
 
I Got Lucky said:
Love it. The view is always looking at the shooter, I wish the cameraman would show where the players are hitting the cue ball.
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Earls directions on how the cue ball should hit was very clear, unless you aren’t familiar with the aiming sections on a cue ball.
 
A couple small criticisms of Earl's commentating: 1.) He is not a very good reader. It is clear to me that he is reading the Billiard Network promo off of a card. He has long pauses between words and that's not very professional. 2.) The last rack, Shane had a tough shot on the 2 ball. Earl called every possible option including a potential safety, a spin off of the rail, and then the "knife" shot. The knife shot was called just before Shane pulled the trigger. Yes, he did call it, but took credit for the calling it. If you call every possible shot, you can't say "I told you so" afterwards. I have to hand it to Shane to make such a clutch, aggressive shot on the hill. Just Shane being Shane!
 
justnum said:
Earls directions on how the cue ball should hit was very clear, unless you aren’t familiar with the aiming sections on a cue ball.
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I prefer the visual. Once I see it I can visualize it when I need to. Thats how my brain works and how I learned most things. Telling me something doesn't work as well for me.
 
I Got Lucky said:
I prefer the visual. Once I see it I can visualize it when I need to. Thats how my brain works and how I learned most things. Telling me something doesn't work as well for me.
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for the budget those guys have, maybe you can request that in a pay version.

Adding graphics to video is time consuming. Those guys defintely have the demand for Earl, so hire a guy for post production and billiard network can roll in new videos. and take over what TAR stopped supporting, the online market for custom content

the software for video compositing is free, some of the pay stuff is easier to work with.

If I did it with the video with the match, youtube would take it down for copyright violation.

Send Appleton the request let the company know they did right, support the billiard commuinity.

on instagram Appleton is a great fisherman. he knows how to catch the big ones, like the WPS.
 
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