Goose1972
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I resemble that statement!!!:angry:
Excuses for loss
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I resemble that statement!!!:angry:
Excuses is a town in Southern New Mexico, other than that if you never get to the table because your opponent Breaks, Runs, and continues to Break, Run. You have no excuse other than your own failure to win, or you like me Suck At POOL.
If my opponent breaks and runs, how does that demonstrate that I suck at pool? I didn't even shoot. 
Not an excuse but I was shooting against my league captain and I told him I was going to teach him how to shoot. He proceeded to break and run so I said, "it's hard to teach you anything if I don't get to shoot." The bar got a good laugh out of that one.
My favorite is from a guy that frequents my local hall. He fires the balls a hundred miles an hour, then blames the table roll or the cushions for the miss. I usually tell him "you know, a crappy carpenter always blames his tools" or "if you didn't hit the balls a hundred miles an hour, you might make one every now and then". That usually really gets him fired up.
Usually when I lose, it is usually due to poor play/execution on my part, or my opponent simply plays better. Not hard to figure out.
Usually when I lose, it is usually due to poor play/execution on my part, or my opponent simply plays better. Not hard to figure out.
There was a big tournament in a casino here in Wisconsin a couple years ago. In the lobby of the casino they have a waterfall. The tables were in a room about 150 yards from the waterfall and there were a few walls in the way as well as the main part of the waterfall being on the first floor and the tables being on the second floor. The guy that took 2nd in the tournament blamed the waterfall for him not winning. He said it made everything too damp.
The same guy was at my local pool hall one day and complained that the lights above the table were too high. He actually was so adamant about this that he tried to lower the lights himself. lol.
The same guy was at my local pool hall one day and complained that the lights above the table were too high. He actually was so adamant about this that he tried to lower the lights himself. lol.
Sounds like he was trying to play lights out.
One of my buddies, who is otherwise a cool guy and good shooter, really hates this one place we go to... music too loud, too expensive, etc. etc.
While playing, and losing, and generally being grumpy he said:
"The ****ing pockets, they are too big! It's distracting!"
What's funny is they ARE big. Buckets. Probably the easiest pockets in the state. You have to really butcher a shot to miss anything.
While playing, and losing, and generally being grumpy he said:
"The ****ing pockets, they are too big! It's distracting!"
What's funny is they ARE big. Buckets. Probably the easiest pockets in the state. You have to really butcher a shot to miss anything.
I played a tournament of 9b race to 6...
I was playing bad in the beginning and did something that I probably should NOT have done. I was down 5-0 when I basically gave up in my head and started playing quite fast....I play normally fairly fast, around 10 seconds per shot....but now I was just fooling around and went closer to 5 sec per shot. When I was 3-5 down I perhaps realized that I might have a chance after all and slowed a little bit down although still playing quite fast. All this while my foot was in a cast so I was hopping around the table like no tomorrow...step in the shot...2 practice swings and boom....release.
I went on to win 5-6 with my opponent making some uncharacteristic errors towards the end (he got on table in every rack so it is not that I was just running out everywhere).
At the end he told me that he should not even shake my hand because I was playing unsportsmanlike by playing so fast and this took him out of his game-plan.
I was quite baffled by this and could not really say anything to that. Since then I have started to use that moment as a "happy moment" in my game whenever I am feeling down in order to get back to the happy place play my own game again instead of my own demons inside my head.
I was playing bad in the beginning and did something that I probably should NOT have done. I was down 5-0 when I basically gave up in my head and started playing quite fast....I play normally fairly fast, around 10 seconds per shot....but now I was just fooling around and went closer to 5 sec per shot. When I was 3-5 down I perhaps realized that I might have a chance after all and slowed a little bit down although still playing quite fast. All this while my foot was in a cast so I was hopping around the table like no tomorrow...step in the shot...2 practice swings and boom....release.
I went on to win 5-6 with my opponent making some uncharacteristic errors towards the end (he got on table in every rack so it is not that I was just running out everywhere).
At the end he told me that he should not even shake my hand because I was playing unsportsmanlike by playing so fast and this took him out of his game-plan.
I was quite baffled by this and could not really say anything to that. Since then I have started to use that moment as a "happy moment" in my game whenever I am feeling down in order to get back to the happy place play my own game again instead of my own demons inside my head.
I had a guy scratch 3 rails on an 8 ball shot to lose the game. He asked me if I saw how the cue ball SPED up mid table on the way to the pocket. Not sped up after a rail due to running english. Just sped up on it's way to the scratch while rolling the last 7 feet!
In a tourney last weekend, I missed an 8 ball and the guy offered up an excuse about rushing due to the player on the next table. I said "no, I just blew it". I don't get into the habit of blaming anything but myself, even when offered an excuse.
In a tourney last weekend, I missed an 8 ball and the guy offered up an excuse about rushing due to the player on the next table. I said "no, I just blew it". I don't get into the habit of blaming anything but myself, even when offered an excuse.
One of my old sparring partners was having a not so unsual bad day at the table.... then it was like a light bulb went off in his head. "I figured out why i am missing so badly.... I am either undercutting or overcutting every shot!" Wow.... way to figure that one out genius. After I explained the only other possibility was flying them straight over the pockets onto the floor.... he had a little chuckle over it at least.
I never had the chance to meet Captain Obvious, much less play him.
a real excuse
First, I noticed that when you really want to tell people your excuse for losing, they always stare at you and change the conversation immediately.
I actually probably have one of the only real excuses usable. I was playing Danny Barouty in our 9 ball league a few years ago and I actually had a chance to win the match if I kept playing the way I was up till then. Well, I bent over the table to make the 7 ball and my hip replacement dislocated. I think Danny won that match.
First, I noticed that when you really want to tell people your excuse for losing, they always stare at you and change the conversation immediately.
I actually probably have one of the only real excuses usable. I was playing Danny Barouty in our 9 ball league a few years ago and I actually had a chance to win the match if I kept playing the way I was up till then. Well, I bent over the table to make the 7 ball and my hip replacement dislocated. I think Danny won that match.