Earl Strickland

[Cuebuddy]

Show me someone who doesn't hate losing and I'll show you a loser.

Half the people who compete lose, they are not happy but many of them are not losers.

 

[flmusclehead]

There are those in every sport who care much more about the sport than the people playing the sport... It's a mindset that some admire and others despise... Earl wears it on his sleeve... At 63, 6 foot and 165 lbs, I know exactly what he is talking about... The older you get, the more it matters... I hope Earl shocks the world...

 

[skogstokig]

definitely looks in shape, and the first passus about the relationship to his teammates sounds promising. then again, earl off the table in a soft interview setting is a different earl than earl in competition mode. i don't think those two earls know each other, or have ever met.

 

[CanadianGuy]

60 year old beast! love it

 

[kling&allen]

It's just the opposite.

Earl wants the entire civilized world to revere him and he does everything in his power to conjure up images of Earl Strickland in his prime. He knows he can't fool or intimidate his fellow pros about the state of his game, but he also knows that he can win some of the fans over with his passionate, emotional outbursts.

I wish him well and I'll be rooting for him, but I wonder if he cares at all about how his fellow pros view him. His behavior says he doesn't care a lick.

Yes, he was one of several that played terribly in the 2013 massacre, but he lost every one of his singles matches, and that is on him alone.

It's interesting how much Earl worries about fan reaction (including in this video) and heckling. Earl endured decades of barking at noisy pool halls so he should be hardened against this sort of fan behavior. But your post explains it.

 

[garczar]

If there is no crowd-induced Earl 'volcano' i'd be really surprised. So many little things set him off anymore its sad. The latest at that 14.1 event just shows how fragile the guy can be. I hope he plays great but i'm also a realist.

 

[alstl]

We got Earl. Deal with it Europe.

 

[garczar]

We got Earl. Deal with it Europe.

I'm sure they're losin' a lot of sleep over it. Right now the Euro books have US as 11/4 dogs and the Euro's as 2/7 favorites. Who ya like?

 

[Island Drive]

Earl embarrassed himself with very forgettable play at the 2013 Mosconi Cup and has had few high finishes in tournament play since. One must wonder where the confidence is coming from. If he'd said "I ain't no joke" after the 2013 Mosconi, he'd have been mistaken.

I hope he plays well and will root hard for him, but Filler, Kaci, Ouschan, Shaw and Alcaide all finished higher than Earl at the US Open. At the International, Earl also didn't finish ahead of anyone on Team Europe. It's possible he can beat them to a pulp at the Mosconi, but the evidence sure doesn't point that way.

Stu, in the beginning rounds, I thought Earl whitewashed an opponent in the TV pit.

 

[garczar]

Stu, in the beginning rounds, I thought Earl whitewashed an opponent in the TV pit.

IIRC Earl won his first two matches pretty big. Then he beat a good Polish guy. Lost to Shaw and Grabe i think.

 

[Bob Jewett]

IIRC Earl won his first two matches pretty big. Then he beat a good Polish guy. Lost to Shaw and Grabe i think.

The results of the International Open are still available on digitalpool.com, which did the scoring for the event including the scoring screens that were over each table. Earl's record (FargoRates):

Jaydev Zaveri (602) 10-2
Bernard Walker (628) 10-2
Konrad Juszczyszyn (784) 10-9
Denis Grabe (793) 5-10

Those results look more or less in line with Earl's rating of 775.

 

[ChrisinNC]

We got Earl. Deal with it Europe.

We won’t see the real Earl unless he is experiencing adversity/on the verge of losing. It’s easy to give a rational pre MC interview, and it’s always easy to be a gracious winner, but the measure of the integrity for any of us is how we handle adversity/losses.

 

[garczar]

The results of the International Open are still available on digitalpool.com, which did the scoring for the event including the scoring screens that were over each table. Earl's record (FargoRates):

Jaydev Zaveri (602) 10-2
Bernard Walker (628) 10-2
Konrad Juszczyszyn (784) 10-9
Denis Grabe (793) 5-10

Those results look more or less in line with Earl's rating of 775.

Didn't he play Shaw then Grabe? UD: he played Shaw after Konrad. At least that's what's on the bracket.

 

[Bob Jewett]

Didn't he play Shaw then Grabe?

Not according to the on-line results. Both Earl and Shaw were 3-0 in the prelims. Then in the round of 32 (single-elimination phase) they were in the same bracket and would have played each other if they had both won. Shaw lost to Oi and Earl lost to Denis, both by 10-5 scores.

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[sjm]

Stu, in the beginning rounds, I thought Earl whitewashed an opponent in the TV pit.

You haven't made it clear whether you are referring to a) the 2013 Mosconi, in which Team USA did not win even one singles match, or b) the International.

If you refer to the Mosconi, you are mistaken. If you refer to the 2021 International, Earl came tied for 17th. Team Europe members finished as follows: Ouschan 1st, Filler tied for 9th, Shaw tied for 17th, and neither Kaci nor Alcaide participated.

At the International, I watched only one Earl match on the stream table, and Dennis Grabe beat him to a pulp in the single elimination round of 32. Perhaps he won a TV table match in stage 1 that I didn't watch. He did beat Konrad J in Stage 1 on an outer table double hill, but Konrad, based on current Fargo Rate, is only Europe's 31st best player and is hardly representative of the kind of opponents Earl will face at the Mosconi.

 

[CaleAYS]

Didn't he play Shaw then Grabe? UD: he played Shaw after Konrad. At least that's what's on the bracket.

He never played Shaw. There was a redraw at 32 players and they switched to a new bracket. He played Grabe in the first round of the single elimination Final 32 bracket and lost.

 

[garczar]

He never played Shaw. There was a redraw at 32 players and they switched to a new bracket. He played Grabe in the first round of the single elimination Final 32 bracket and lost.

Ok. Kinda weird that this shows him playing shaw: https://digitalpool.com/tournaments/2021-international-9-ball-open-stage-1/bracket

 

[alstl]

We won’t see the real Earl unless he is experiencing adversity/on the verge of losing. It’s easy to give a rational pre MC interview, and it’s always easy to be a gracious winner, but the measure of the integrity for any of us is how we handle adversity/losses.

We certainly have plenty of experience in losing in that event. Might be time for a guy who hates to lose.

 

[CaleAYS]

Ok. Kinda weird that this shows him playing shaw: https://digitalpool.com/tournaments/2021-international-9-ball-open-stage-1/bracket

Yeah that’s just where the bracket stopped when it got to the final 32 players. It switched to the final 32 Stage 2 bracket for the remaining matches.

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[garczar]

Yeah that’s just where the bracket stopped when it got to the final 32 players. It switched to the final 32 Stage 2 bracket for the remaining matches.

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Why does it show him playing Shaw then? Makes no sense. Whatever. They didn't play that's for sure.