Hey Johny, We may bump into each other sometime at the Sky Lark as I'm a regular lately at Tom's free clinics too.Johnny Colaw said:FYI - I am currently working in Denver, if anyone there wants to knock some balls around. I will be attending some free Tom Ross pool clinics soon, I hope.
corvette1340 said:lol, I love when people make statements on here and they have no idea what they are talking about. You weren't there and you didn't see Bruce with the money in hand for Grady and him say "just forget about it", like me and 20 or 30 more people were. The fact is that Grady pulled up on an agreed upon bet and after he won his strong game he decided that he had no chance at the other set of straight nine ball and wanted to quit winner. Now, if you want to come to the Atlanta area with Grady or any other stiff and see who has the most money and gamble then lets eat, otherwise good day.
I agree...uwate said:This seems to be common on AZB. Players cannot come on here without anonymous posters slamming them...
Russ Chewning said:Yeah.. It just doesn't make sense the dude was gonna give Grady the $500.00, Grady said "Keep it.", and then had someone strong arm the guy for it later.
I think MUCH more likely is that Grady wanted to get paid for the first set, the other guy said "Let's just play the second set, before we pay up.", and Grady started smelling air barrel. Grady says he's not playing the second set until he gets paid.. The other guy starts acting like Grady is backing out of the second set.. Grady decided not to push the issue, as he was on the road by himself. He knew he'd get his money "one way or the other."
It is a moot point "how many times Bruce has/has not stiffed people". Tony Ruberto had probably never stolen $10,000+ from somebody, either, but there's a first time for everything.
What it comes down to is (young gun) versus (old gun with spotless gambling reputation). In that situation, I'm gonna side with the old gun, every single stinking rotten time. Why? Because of the earned reputation.
Russ
Grady said:The reason I didn't put up is because I'm playing in a good friend of mine's place and a set for $500 has always been a very small bet for me and this kid had been robbing all the locals. I mean, I just didn't dream I might get stiffed.
Since I'm at it let me add this to the discussion. These guys keep saying there were 25 or 30 people who heard me say I'd play two sets. An absolute falsehood. What must have happened is Bruce said in front of these folks that I had comitted to two sets.
To have Southpaw suggest that I somehow cheated to get out of playing Bruce a second set is just ridiculous.
If Southpaw thinks Bruce is such a great player, he can make a stakehorse out of me. But let's make it a little more equitable. Larry Nevel or Shane Van Boeing in a neutral court. No? I didn't think so. Well, I've had enough of this. I have no more to say on this subject.
gulfportdoc said:Grady, you have a great looking blog site! I'll bookmark it, and refer to it often. You gave a nice travelogue, Randi! And Johnny, that was a real classy thing for you to do.
Art "Doc" Tripp
Terry Ardeno said:I have not been on AZB a lot this week and just saw this thread.
For anybody to come on here and publically try to besmirch a man and champion of Grady Mathew's stature is stupid. I look at this like this; when somebody comes on here and tries bashing one of these pros for something that supposedly was done some time ago, it is that posters attempt to gain some feeling of importance and significance, even if it's only in their mind and for a very short time. It makes them feel very important because they have some fleeting attention. And they fail to care that what they got in momentary attention they've lost 10 fold that amount of respect from many of their fellow posters.
I'm on Grady's side 100%. More if that were possible. BUT, even if he did pull up...SO WHAT??????? "Bruce" never had that happen before? He never had to do that himself, ever? It so distraught him that he gave up pool and is still in counseling? And yet somebody who needs to "break a scoop!!!" and put down an all time great feels compelled to keep it going even when his fellow posters think it's in poor taste and even worse judgement. What do you want? Should Grady be barred forever from pool? How about a public flogging? A jail senetnce? What would make you happy? What would make you get over it? Never mind, we don't care. Grow up.
Southpaw said:Well we didnt think posting was necessary since we were playing someone that was supposed to be reputable, boy were we wrong. And I was right there when the agreement of 2 sets was decided so thats not hear-say. And the funny thing is, yes there were 25 or 30 people there and a few have spoken up, one even PM'd me and said he saw it too but didnt want to get involved, and said they saw it happen just like i said. So why hasnt anyone that was wathcing a legend of the game and some local kid play, come on here and say they were there and thats not the way it happened???? And as for Bruce playing Larry or Shane....he doesnt even hardly play anymore, but you have the exact same game that you didnt finish with him and we will POST UP $5000 per set. But it will be very hard for you to worm your way out this time!
Southpaw
Johnny Colaw said:Gee, Lefty. You apologized for hijacking my thread but you won't shut up, will you? You have been called out to identify yourself, but still you cower in the shadows and throw your little rocks at a world champion like a back-shooting anonymous coward. Man up and say who you are, or crawl back under your rock and let this thread be about Grady's new blog. No wonder so many pros give up on posting here, with such easy cheap shots from nobodys.