Wow ... two great examples there. First the poor sportsmanship and then Shane's class act of not letting what should have been game awarded but wasn't get to him. Ran out the table and won the game anyway.
I did miss seeing the pocket removal. Which room was it in?... Bob Jewett knows the guy if I told him his name, but I don't think he was there. ...
Team that Usually wins Championship every year , come in 2ed , we won , and not even 1 of there team members shows up at Banquit to claim 2ed place trophy . I thought that was unsportman and poor loosers . Jim
Howdy Folks,
Let's hear some stories about bad sportsmanship.
Here's one of mine:
I was playing in a small doubles 8 Ball league. Basically, our strategy was to setup balls (and block pockets) for the first several turns. We generally ended up blocking four pockets, and then run the balls out to win the game. The match was to 7 and we won 6 of them.
On dropping the final ball, I reached out to pat an opponent on the back intending to utter some words of "You'll do better next time." You can imagine my surprise when he whips around and slugs me.
Since I was about 12 inches taller than he was, he only managed to land a solid punch on my shoulder. He was lunging at me for more when his buddy got a solid grab on him.
The funny thing - I saw him about a year later and he acted like nothing had happened and was a friendly as you please. Go figure.
I did miss seeing the pocket removal. Which room was it in?
My favorite bad sportsmanship story was when two friends of mine were playing 9-ball many years ago for some jelly on a phony table w/drop pockets. Phony in the way that if an object ball was 1-1 1/2 diamonds away from a corner pocket near the rail, and you had to hit it with speed to draw back the length of the table for example, the ball would most often rattle out.
It was a close set and one of the guys was very close to getting out when he got that phony rattled pocket thing. He ended up losing the set. He was so angry that he started ripping out the drop pockets one at a time and was successful ripping out maybe 3 of them and tossing them against the wall. He left in a huff only to return a few moments later because he forgot his cue. He packed up his cue, ripped out another pocket and left.
Bob Jewett knows the guy if I told him his name, but I don't think he was there.
I have fallen victim to these tables as well losing to someone I spot the 7-ball and never lost, but playing on that equipment I lost, and lost plenty so I understand his rage. But it doesn't make it any less funny; it was hilarious to all but the room owner and the guy who lost.
Dave
I think the guy that pissed in all 4 corner pockets on that diamond barbox after getting beat by a girl was the worst case of poor sportsmanship I ever heard of.
I'm curious what the room owner did.
You are correct, that was bad sportsmanship. It wasn't, however, a good reaction to the bad sportsmanship for him to hit you.
Unless you are good friends with someone, you don't pat them on the shoulder. Telling them that they will do better next time is a very condescending remark.
dld
This is loss of game by several rule sets. When they start that you should walk over and offer a handshake to the loser -- be sure not to actually shoot the shot.S ...
-breaking down their cue before the game is over
the worst that happened to me was last summer in the play-offs. our 3 was against their 4 and it was real close one game to win each our 3 had stopped for verification of rules then later called a time out well as soon as the time out was called the other team started arguing that what was the verification of rules was a time out and couldn't have another and as a result we lost.
This is loss of game by several rule sets. When they start that you should walk over and offer a handshake to the loser -- be sure not to actually shoot the shot.