Earl the pearl dose it again !!

I wonder who the lady had in the calcutta?

I wonder who the lady had in the calcutta? Just a thought...
 
Just a little perspective, if that happened at a golf tournament, security would come and escort you off the course. If a player ask you to stop doing something, you should show a little respect and stop it.
 
whitey2 said:
I wonder who the lady had in the calcutta? Just a thought...
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good question! I was just sitting here thinking about what other sports where the fans are so close, AND take it upon themselves to get involved......I can't think of any. Earl paid an entry fee, someone paid good money for him in the calcutta, and greasy finger potato chip lady finds it her duty to "get involved"....get a little class.

At tournaments I personally have woken up snoring rail birds sitting at my table during a match.

watched my opponent pull up and wait til 2 guys were done fighting about what odds they were giving/getting on our match.

I once stopped and asked a guy watching my match why he was rifling through my cue case?!

I also once stood for the first 6 games of a match before someone table side figured out they took all the players seats.

my point....all these touneys were free to watch, while I paid to get in and was trying to compete while all these people made it about them.....I'm all for spectators, but holy crap! take a look around....

Gerry
 
I guarantee the lady didn't have Earl's opponent in the calcutta, if that was the question. I think the guy was in the "pool" of players who wouldn't buy themselves.
 
I agree

with Richard, The Wiz, and Gerry on this one. As you know, Pool attracts people from all walks of life, and some of them have atrocious manners.
i won't stand for it in a big tournament. I realize they just want to watch the match, but they can show some manners and consider the players playing the match, and I don't care who is playing.

I also have had to exit people from the player's seat at the table of the match. I have had to have the TD shut friends of the opponents up, some of them were obviously trying to help their friend out.

Teenage and young 20's girls are the very worst, they have no Pool room manners, and think everything is always about them. Loud arguments on the cell phone, going off every 5 minutes, very distracting.

Back in the old days, if you wanted to watch a match, you were told to find a seat and shut up, and you whispered, not talked on the sidelines.
Any loud noises and several people would immediately jump on you, or get you out of the playing area.

Tournaments used to be more formal events, and you were suppose to be
respectful of the matches going on. Today, tournaments have become very informal, and along with that, some manners and protocol went out the door.

I must commend Evelyn (and Danny) Dysert though, every instance I have seen over the years, if a player was disturbed from his match by spectators for whatever reason, she warned them to be quiet, have manners, and if there was a second time, they would have to leave the area.

It is the player's arena, and they are the ones performing. And sometimes players might be more sensitive to outside distractions,and not feeling like putting up with bullshit, and they damn sure shouldn't have to.
 
easy-e said:
I was there and watched the whole Earl incident. Earl asked politely for the woman to eat her chips after his match, he even offered to buy her the biggest bag of chips in town if she would wait. The woman replied "No, shut up and shoot pool you cry baby." This isn't an exageration either. I would have been pissed too if I was Earl.....would I have walked out? No, that was disrespectful to the tournament directors and the gentleman who owned him in the auction. But that woman was a *****.
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Hearing these details, the woman was definitely in the wrong.
 
now,I wont defend earl because we all know he is NUTS, but where was the tournament director when this was going on.he should never be allowed to run a tournament again .PERIOD.
In any other sport that woman would have been LED to the door.My god people, this is why we dont get big exposure in pool.
These players show up with professionalism and to have some p.o.s. trashy woman do this .......Lets look at the professionalism of the people running these tournies.
 
After watching Earl shark Allen Hopkins several years ago by attempting to make Hopkins look like a cheat (when Hopkins was the head of the Pro tour) I concluded that Earl is an old time shark and have no respect for the man. He did throw Hopkins off his game and won the match.

Passing out free chips at his matches would be a service to the game. It is a shame the man can shoot extremely well but there is – or should be – more to the game. What comes around, goes around.

BTW - if you (the general you) think Earl is a great player, I know a lot more about you ! So I often ask at a hall what peple think about Earl. Nothing like using a man's tools against himself.
 
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Who here would have the nerve to open a bag of chips during a match.Would she have done it with Efren or Archer at the table.
 
The baitor or the baitee...

jimmy-leggs said:
now,I wont defend earl because we all know he is NUTS, but where was the tournament director when this was going on.he should never be allowed to run a tournament again .PERIOD.
In any other sport that woman would have been LED to the door.My god people, this is why we dont get big exposure in pool.
These players show up with professionalism and to have some p.o.s. trashy woman do this .......Lets look at the professionalism of the people running these tournies.
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Yeah well, in the episode where I saw Earl in action....he tried to get a spectator thrown out...when it was Earl that was baiting him.

Earl started chatting with a spectator during his match...and was talking with the guy calmly on and off during the match...Earl got a lucky roll....and Earl turned to the spectactor and said right to him...I got lucky there...and when the guy responded to confirm the lucky roll (in just a matter-of-fact way) -- Earl got all over him and tried to get him thrown out.

It didn't take a genious to see what Earl was up to...and for some on here to imply that nobody has the right to make a conclusion based on observing someone's actions...even if only once...must not be too confident in their own decision making skills. When I see something blanatly obvious with my own eyes -- just because others have watched him play in person more often or have talked with him in person, certainly isn't going to change my mind and what I saw.

I just wish that more of Earl's friends and the people he chats with would confront him with his actions and try to get the guy some help. I don't think anyone likes to hear about or see a past champion that exhibit such self-destructing behavior on such a regular basis.
 
I knew it!

I knew it, I knew it, I knew it! I was lied to all the way through school.

The world doesn't rotate around the sun. It rotates around Earl.

What a rube!

To be fair, the woman was out of line, but Earl forfeiting and walking out was totally over the top.

But, what else is new?

Stones
 
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Earl being himself

There is one phrase that has help me keep my sanity through all the idiocy I have encountered in both the personal and the business sides of my life and I would like to share it:
"If you can't get any meaning out of the madness that you find yourself surrounded by...try to consider it entertainment."
That's Earl being Earl. To what purpose..who knows? I know I don't and wouldn't even begin to venture a guess.
I am much less concerned about Earl's behavior (and the avatar's used on this forum) than I am about the current state of professional football or basketball as it relates to drugs and violence and how it reflects on those professional sports. Even I am having a tough time coming up with an "entertainment" factor there.
Bottom line: Earl's "Black eye" is Earl's and his alone. The people betting on Earl know what they are getting into on the front end. That's why they call it gambling.
For me...Go Earl! and I personally hope you find some peace someday.
 
Get_A_Grip said:
Yeah well, in the episode where I saw Earl in action....he tried to get a spectator thrown out...when it was Earl that was baiting him.

Earl started chatting with a spectator during his match...and was talking with the guy calmly on and off during the match...Earl got a lucky roll....and Earl turned to the spectactor and said right to him...I got lucky there...and when the guy responded to confirm the lucky roll (in just a matter-of-fact way) -- Earl got all over him and tried to get him thrown out.

It didn't take a genious to see what Earl was up to...and for some on here to imply that nobody has the right to make a conclusion based on observing someone's actions...even if only once...must not be too confident in their own decision making skills. When I see something blanatly obvious with my own eyes -- just because others have watched him play in person more often or have talked with him in person, certainly isn't going to change my mind and what I saw.

I just wish that more of Earl's friends and the people he chats with would confront him with his actions and try to get the guy some help. I don't think anyone likes to hear about or see a past champion that exhibit such self-destructing behavior on such a regular basis.
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oh i totally agree with you(and i am the biggest NON earl fan)but this should not EVER happen.
 
Get_A_Grip said:
Yeah well, in the episode where I saw Earl in action....he tried to get a spectator thrown out...when it was Earl that was baiting him.

Earl started chatting with a spectator during his match...and was talking with the guy calmly on and off during the match...Earl got a lucky roll....and Earl turned to the spectactor and said right to him...I got lucky there...and when the guy responded to confirm the lucky roll (in just a matter-of-fact way) -- Earl got all over him and tried to get him thrown out.

It didn't take a genious to see what Earl was up to...and for some on here to imply that nobody has the right to make a conclusion based on observing someone's actions...even if only once...must not be too confident in their own decision making skills. When I see something blanatly obvious with my own eyes -- just because others have watched him play in person more often or have talked with him in person, certainly isn't going to change my mind and what I saw.

I just wish that more of Earl's friends and the people he chats with would confront him with his actions and try to get the guy some help. I don't think anyone likes to hear about or see a past champion that exhibit such self-destructing behavior on such a regular basis.
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I am not disputing what you saw or your accounting of the events that took place. What I am saying is that it isn't a large enough sampling for you to make your conclusions. It is very possible that there was more history there to which you were not privy.

I have seen tournaments in which earl participated where a certain spectator "followed" earl to each and every match he played, each time getting farther and farther under earl's skin. Sometimes Earl can control it, sometimes he can't.

Like I said, I am not making excuses for him. But in the case we now hear, this incident SURELY would NOT had happened if the chip eating monkey had just a few manners.

rg
 
Let's look at this from Earls side. You folks know Earls present game better than I do. How much of his game has he lost? Some can handle the tapering off of ability as we age, some can't. I suspect that Earl believes that he is still capable of playing like in his prime years, doesn't in tournaments and the resulting frustration brings out the worst in him.

Doesn't excuse his behavior but makes it understandable.

We've all been in the zone at one time or another and I doubt I would have heard a passing train in that state.

Complaints about distractions are in direct proportion to the degree of concentration that we are in. JMO;)
 
Neil said:
Many have gotten down on Earl, and say that he deserves no respect for the way he acts. Ever stop to think that you are the reason he acts like that? Here's a guy that spent a lifetime to be the best ( and arguably was) and have the sport he loves be treated with respect and professionalism that it deserves. Yet, instead all he sees is you jerks, and you know who you are, going out of your way to embarrass him and the sport. With that mentality, just what do you expect him to do when people go out of their way to antagonize him? I think he took the high road by walking out. Maybe if more people tried to help him and treat him with respect for being a pro, he wouldn't 'go off' so much. Many pros get ticked at tournys, but Earl gets all the bad press. What would that do to you? If people would start treating the pros with the respect they deserve and are there to see, you wouldn't have the problems you do now.
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Earl wants respect but as JoeW pointed out, Earl has been known to shark his opponents too. It's hypocritical for Earl to complain about others sharking him when he engages in it too.
 
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The first instance of bad behavior is chance, the second instance is coincidence, and by the third occurrence we have a pattern. Earl has built his own pattern that he must live with.

In the criminal justice system it takes many instances of exceptionally good behavior to overcome a small pattern of bad behavior. That is life or at least the way we live it.
 
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