Recently in another thread, KoolKat9Lives mentioned that Earl had posted on here a few years ago. He stopped for whatever reason, without any dramatic goodbyes. It's too bad, he's pretty articulate.
I'd never thought to look up earl's posts until now. It was interesting reading. The threads he posted in reminded me of how things don't change much on AZB. You can easily see parallels between these old threads that earl posted in and some very recent ones.
· Jcin posted a thread about Frank Alvarez giving him shoddy treatment at a upa event. Way back in 05 Danny Harriman posted about how he walked out of a upa tournament and boycotted them for a while because Frank kept hounding him for a 100 dollar pro membership fee. Danny was already owed thousands of bucks by the UPA because they failed to pay him for a couple of events he'd won. He said to take the 100 out of that and they said no dice. So he walked out. SSDD.
· Earl had some interesting thoughts on pool vs golf, which has gotten 3 threads in the past week or so. Not so much about which is easier, but he made the interesting point that the golfer's events are so much more frequent that a pro can stay "in stroke" and there's a lot more consistency in the results. Maybe the golf pros are less likely to fall behind in the rankings as result of this constant high level competition they go through. Whereas even a shortstop in pool can snap off a major if he's having a good day and some of the stronger players aren't quite in gear yet. The pool majors are few and far between so maybe these guys must gamble to stay in form.
· Earl had a lot of good things to say about straight pool. He sounds like he truly loves and respects the game. But in true earl form he wanted to make a version called Earl Strickland Offensive Straight Pool. I think the general idea is that you get a free break shot, but when you miss, there's a rerack and the opponent gets to pick up the ball and set it in one of several designated breakshot areas to break and see how long he can run 'em. Sort of like competitive practice. Not too far off from the concept of 6 pocket, which is generating a lot of posts lately.
· He also favored 30 second shot clocks, I'm sure he'd approve of the "Slow players, what are you thinking?" thread.
· "What makes a pocket play tight?" asked RKC. John S. has mentioned before about how tightness of the pockets is a huge factor in high runs. Earl drives it home even better:
my high run was on just less than 5 inch pockets which is pretty big,I ran 408 balls on that table. I praticed on a 4 and 1/4 inch pocket 5 years of practicing on the same table,my high run was only 260 once.Most of the time I couldn't crack 100, usually 70 or 80 on that table.I believe with tighter pockets and high quality equipment will put a premium on running 70 or 80 or 100 balls.We have to make straight pool where its difficult to run a 100 balls like it is in English snooker.
· Earl asked "who is the greatest straight pool player alive" a little over 4 years before mr441 posted the exact same question.
Something I noticed is that a LOT of his posts are just thank-yous and kind words. None of his posts were negative.
I'd never thought to look up earl's posts until now. It was interesting reading. The threads he posted in reminded me of how things don't change much on AZB. You can easily see parallels between these old threads that earl posted in and some very recent ones.
· Jcin posted a thread about Frank Alvarez giving him shoddy treatment at a upa event. Way back in 05 Danny Harriman posted about how he walked out of a upa tournament and boycotted them for a while because Frank kept hounding him for a 100 dollar pro membership fee. Danny was already owed thousands of bucks by the UPA because they failed to pay him for a couple of events he'd won. He said to take the 100 out of that and they said no dice. So he walked out. SSDD.
· Earl had some interesting thoughts on pool vs golf, which has gotten 3 threads in the past week or so. Not so much about which is easier, but he made the interesting point that the golfer's events are so much more frequent that a pro can stay "in stroke" and there's a lot more consistency in the results. Maybe the golf pros are less likely to fall behind in the rankings as result of this constant high level competition they go through. Whereas even a shortstop in pool can snap off a major if he's having a good day and some of the stronger players aren't quite in gear yet. The pool majors are few and far between so maybe these guys must gamble to stay in form.
· Earl had a lot of good things to say about straight pool. He sounds like he truly loves and respects the game. But in true earl form he wanted to make a version called Earl Strickland Offensive Straight Pool. I think the general idea is that you get a free break shot, but when you miss, there's a rerack and the opponent gets to pick up the ball and set it in one of several designated breakshot areas to break and see how long he can run 'em. Sort of like competitive practice. Not too far off from the concept of 6 pocket, which is generating a lot of posts lately.
· He also favored 30 second shot clocks, I'm sure he'd approve of the "Slow players, what are you thinking?" thread.
· "What makes a pocket play tight?" asked RKC. John S. has mentioned before about how tightness of the pockets is a huge factor in high runs. Earl drives it home even better:
my high run was on just less than 5 inch pockets which is pretty big,I ran 408 balls on that table. I praticed on a 4 and 1/4 inch pocket 5 years of practicing on the same table,my high run was only 260 once.Most of the time I couldn't crack 100, usually 70 or 80 on that table.I believe with tighter pockets and high quality equipment will put a premium on running 70 or 80 or 100 balls.We have to make straight pool where its difficult to run a 100 balls like it is in English snooker.
· Earl asked "who is the greatest straight pool player alive" a little over 4 years before mr441 posted the exact same question.
Something I noticed is that a LOT of his posts are just thank-yous and kind words. None of his posts were negative.
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