Enough Already

I wish you would reconsider.

I have your book and a few of your videos, you have helped my game tremendously! Thank you!

I don't know why people attact pros on the internet (nothing new), but they are shooting themselves in the foot!

I am here to learn and welcome your posts as well as positive informative posts from anyone else.

I would hope that this forum, in the future, will be a place where pros will feel welcome and appreciated. They have a lot to share and we have a lot to learn.

Think about it...
 
i am a new comer as well.
i would hate to see you go.

an older gentleman at our only poolhall,a 1 pocket player,said some very good things about you the other day.

me and my 10 year old son sat a watched him and another gentleman play 1 pocket.

he told us stories of altoona when it was a boom town and the were pool halls everywhere.
he told us of a guy named jobey harrison or something like that who was a straight pool shooter from altoona. he gave mosconi a real hard time when willie was in town.

the stories were great.my 10 yr old was even enjoying it.

i'd hate to lose those stories here.

whether the wriiten word or the spoken word,just ignore them.

you have nothing to prove,atleast not to us.
 
Grady said:
I’m not going to post on AZ’s main forum anymore. It seems to me that if I go to a lot of trouble to relate billiard history and to honor past greats, that I should be able to do that criticism free. If a man like Freddie picks at me, that’s ok for two very good reasons: a. He’s earned the right and b. He’s right most of the time.
I’m no longer thick skinned enough to have people who climbed from underneath some internet rock, tell me I’m a liar or that I don’t know what I’m talking about. These posters have favorite catchphrases, too: “You know what I’m talking about.” or “You know what I mean.”, like there’s some kind of hidden agenda that only they and I know about. I even sometimes get told that I’m wrong about something when I was there and privy to everything!! I’m not supposed to even be proud of my accomplishments, hard gained as they were. What difference does it make if Efren beat me 11 times and I only won once? That’s once more than the internet cowards will ever do.
Also, I’ve discovered the hard way that if I get asked something by these people or I post something myself that they disagree with, there exists no evidence or answer that would make them believe me or understand the truth.
Mike, I have a good suggestion for your site: Why don’t you have someone like a Freddie criticize my posts and vice-versa. That way, we could be rid of the bad malcontents. I had been really enjoying talking about the past and great champions like Denny, Richie, Larry, Cole, etc. and the old time places but the idiots that hate everything and everybody have ruined that pleasure for me.
So I bid this site a reluctant goodbye.
Click to expand...


Ever since I have been going on forums of one kind or another these have always been the strangest posts. The, "You don't appreciate me and you will be sorry when I'm gone", type of post. Wouldn't it just be easier to just stop reading and posting. I enjoy the forums but if tomorrow I didn't I would just delete it off my favorites and stop reading. It is almost as if the people who make those posts can't help themselves and have to sever their ties publicly to keep them from posting. Thing is, they always come back so why the post in the first place? I suspect just attention.
 
Grady

Your posts were the ones that I always looked forward to read. I am leery about the posts from the pro. Sometimes I think they are by ghost writers just like the articles that are published by them in the billiard magazines.

There are many times I feel that I spend too much time on here and should be playing or practicing pool instead. To me it would be much better spent if on the table since most of the stuff on here is about trivial stuff that does not really play into the game. What does it mean if backhand english is better than parallel english or if one type of shaft, tip etc is better? It is what you learned and can play with.

I think that I will now take follow you and spend more time on the the table.

Thanks for all of your past posts.
 
macguy said:
Ever since I have been going on forums of one kind or another these have always been the strangest posts. The, "You don't appreciate me and you will be sorry when I'm gone", type of post. Wouldn't it just be easier to just stop reading and posting. I enjoy the forums but if tomorrow I didn't I would just delete it off my favorites and stop reading. It is almost as if the people who make those posts can't help themselves and have to sever their ties publicly to keep them from posting. Thing is, they always come back so why the post in the first place? I suspect just attention.
Click to expand...

This is exactly the reason people abandon the forum. Your post contributes nothing positive, and just attacks one of the greatest players around. I suspect you are the one looking for attention. If you don't appreciate or respect someone of Grady's stature, kindly keep your opinions to yourself. The rest of us here would feel a great loss if he stopped posting...and you would be one of those we could thank.
Steve
 
Grady, I'd like to know why, and who.

I've always stuck up for you but if you don't give me any idea what the problems are, I can't intervein.
 
I believe it is from this thread.

http://forums.azbilliards.com/showthread.php?t=31948

I think Grady has just as much knowledge as anyone on the board and would like to see him stay.

Some people take comments the wrong way. It seems Grady likes to start his fair share of controversy though by posting negative comments about others and starting threads that will surely get under people's skin.
 
In any group 5% of the people cause 95% of the aggravation.

On behalf of the 95% in this group, I invite the 5% to post elsewhere.
 
Grady..the amount of people who want you here, myself included, out weight the few who don't.........please please stay.

you were the first pro i ever played, when you came up to montana, in missoula at the U of M. you are the reason i play pool....thanks you

please recoincider
 
Grady,

I have nothing but the utmost respect for you, as a player, as a teacher, and as a man. I have learned so much from your instructional videos and I have always enjoyed your posts here, and on RSB / ASP.

It saddens me to hear that you feel the need to stop posting here, and I ask that you reconsider that course of action. As you can tell by the number of supportive messages here, there are lots of us who appreciate having you around.

Thank you for all you have done for the game and for sharing your vast knowledge with us.
 
macguy said:
Ever since I have been going on forums of one kind or another these have always been the strangest posts. The, "You don't appreciate me and you will be sorry when I'm gone", type of post. Wouldn't it just be easier to just stop reading and posting. I enjoy the forums but if tomorrow I didn't I would just delete it off my favorites and stop reading. It is almost as if the people who make those posts can't help themselves and have to sever their ties publicly to keep them from posting. Thing is, they always come back so why the post in the first place? I suspect just attention.
Click to expand...


Have you heard of a person standing on a ledge or on the railing of a very high bridge ? Many times, they do not REALLY want to jump, but instead might want to be reassured and talked out of jumping. Give Grady a break. The time may soon come when he (and other valued posters) can no longer post here and it may not be of 'their' choosing. Life has a way of making decisions for us.
Grady, continue to do the best you can with the time you have... imo
Doug
 
your call

Grady,

Your call to make but if you leave here it will leave a substantial hole behind. Most people could leave and create only the tiniest of ripples. I too hope you change your mind.

Hu
 
Smorgass Bored said:
Have you heard of a person standing on a ledge or on the railing of a very high bridge ? Many times, they do not REALLY want to jump, but instead might want to be reassured and talked out of jumping.
Click to expand...

more like pure pool ego, bemoaning the loss of respect, and the need to mark one's territory,,,which is rife in this game.
 
Please stay. This site needs people like you.
Please don't leave us alone with few jerks in here.
If all the good people leave all that will be left is the jerks.
We can't let that happen
 
bruin70 said:
more like pure pool ego, bemoaning the loss of respect, and the need to mark one's territory,,,which is rife in this game.
Click to expand...


Maybe, but I'll settle for that, if that's the price that I have to pay to hear road stories and tales from someone that has been 'in the trenches'.. imo
Doug
( YMMV )
 
pooltchr said:
This is exactly the reason people abandon the forum. Your post contributes nothing positive, and just attacks one of the greatest players around. I suspect you are the one looking for attention. If you don't appreciate or respect someone of Grady's stature, kindly keep your opinions to yourself. The rest of us here would feel a great loss if he stopped posting...and you would be one of those we could thank.
Steve
Click to expand...

I am afraid I have to start off with, Give me a break. The average poster here, whether it be about tips or the latest glue they are trying, or the, "what would you do from here" threads, contributes more then Grady ever has. He would not lower himself to actually answering a question or participating in a thread beyond his own self interests and attempts at getting attention, just check his past history. If he ever does make a post it is to insult someone or complain about something and it always pertains only to him. Now he make the standard post, "I am not appreciated" and you guys buy into it. Quit with the a$$ kissing, you get respect by giving respect and he is running in the red as far as this forum goes. IMHO
 
So it aint so Grady, your stories have aided me many times in not making the mistakes the experienced like yourself have made.:(
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top