Grady Mathews vs Billy Incardonna

I've always enjoyed Grady's humorous dealings with Billy and his special way with the English language. A friend and I quote Grady like his lines are from a block buster movie or something.

Anyway, here are two wthat I submit from the Sands Regency 15 (June 6, 1992)

Grady: "It's semi-orgasmic in nature for me to view these talented champions as they ply their trade at the difficult pursuit of nine ball.

Billy: "[chuckling sardonically]...that's...that's just wonderful..."

Grady: "...and as usual, if the correctness of my analysis proves too disgusting and too discouraging I'll be glad to step out for a few moments so you can get somebody in here that you can act like you really know what you're doing."

Billy: "You're one of the most beautiful persons in the world, really. If we would lose you for some unknown reason...I would really be uh...I would really be hurt deeply, you know, it would hurt me financially and it would hurt me in a lot of other ways."

There was another great exchange on another tape about Grady & Billy sitting down for a little poker. Anyone remember that one? Grady said something like...You won't play me...you'll do some asking around and find that I sat down at the table with the champions of the game and didn't get busted.
 
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Wow

i stumbled upon this EPIC thread and just want to bump it.

I'm buying accustats dvds now just cuz of the commentary haha!

What match was the first post quoting from??? When Grady called exactly what Efren is gonna do and Billy says no way?
 
mosconiac said:
I've always enjoyed Grady's humorous dealings with Billy and his special way with the English language. A friend and I quote Grady like his lines are from a block buster movie or something.

Anyway, here are two wthat I submit from the Sands Regency 15 (June 6, 1992)

Grady: "It's semi-orgasmic in nature for me to view these talented champions as they ply their trade at the difficult pursuit of nine ball.

Billy: "[chuckling sardonically]...that's...that's just wonderful..."

Grady: "...and as usual, if the correctness of my analysis proves too disgusting and too discouraging I'll be glad to step out for a few moments so you can get somebody in here that you can act like you really know what you're doing."

Billy: "You're one of the most beautiful persons in the world, really. If we would lose you for some unknown reason...I would really be uh...I would really be hurt deeply, you know, it would hurt me financially and it would hurt me in a lot of other ways."

There was another great exchange on another tape about Grady & Billy sitting down for a little poker. Anyone remember that one? Grady said something like...You won't play me...you'll do some asking around and find that I sat down at the table with the champions of the game and didn't get busted.
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this one is gold!
 
My favorite commentary I've ever heard was from Thorsten Hohmann. He was in the booth with JoeyA while Schmidt was playing Deuel (I believe...). I learned a lot watching the match, and Thorsten did a great job in the booth. He had a lot of great things to say.
 
bizboy313 said:
Jim Wych is the worst commentator ever. He makes pool sound like soccer. He has no real insight and he is CONSTANTLY wrong. Grady and Billy were great not only for their insight into the game but also the color commentary about the other aspects of pool and the pool players themselves.
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I agree 100% with this, wych makes it sound like soccer....also i dont like Danny that much, I don't know why, maybe he doesnt make the game exciting with all the "yes i know he can do this" or "i know he can't do that"


also I do agree that I love Billy & Grady to do commentary, They are the best doing it,

they teach us, and they also know how to make the game exciting for the viewer!
 
Southpaw said:
My favorite Incardona/Matthews debate came from the 1993 Sands Regency Tourney. The match was Archer vs. Strickland and they started arguing over whether or not Archer went rail-first or ball-first to spin a ball in the corner. After about 10 mins of "i'll betcha....." they finally stop. If you go back and look in slow motion, Archer does actually go rail-first with a little inside english.....Incardona called this one correctly.

Southpaw
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No sir, I have this match and saw it million of times, Billy and Pat Fleming were both wrong, and Grady was right, you really cannot hit that second rail going into the 7 by hitting rail first, it was a ball first, go and try it your self

If you hit rail first on this shot, the cueball should of come back Straight up the table probably to scratch on the other corner pocket, or hitting the end rail.

Grady was right.
 
asbani said:
No sir, I have this match and saw it million of times, Billy and Pat Fleming were both wrong, and Grady was right, you really cannot hit that second rail going into the 7 by hitting rail first, it was a ball first, go and try it your self

If you hit rail first on this shot, the cueball should of come back Straight up the table probably to scratch on the other corner pocket, or hitting the end rail.

Grady was right.
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I concur. I don't even know what shot you're talking about but if it's what I'm thinking then no, you can't go rail first then spin into the side cushion. The cue ball is going to take the tangent line off the object ball. No amount of side spin is going to change that line. You get the most action going ball first. It hits the ball, hits the rail and then spins out. If you do go rail first and then hit the side cushion then it's because the spot on the object ball you hit sends it there on the tangent line. It has absolutely nothing to do with the amount of side spin.
MULLY
and if you hit it on that spot on the ball then you'd miss anyway because it's too thin
 
glad you bumped this thread!

the match commentary is hiliarious at times.
 
catscradle said:
I always enjoyed the banter between these 2, but sometimes it distracts from the game at hand you're trying to watch. Too bad Grady is evidently on the outs with Accu-stats or Accu-stats is on the outs with him. Either way he isn't doing commentary for them anymore.
I always liked Danny Dileberto and Bill Incardona doing a match. Danny seemed to have a more tactful way of handling Bill. Didn't seem to wind up in a confrontation with him.
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Steve,

I agree. I think Bill and Danny is my favorite combo for people who do it regularly. However, I must say that at the AccuStats invitational 8 ball tourney, Tony Annigoni is a guest commentator. Billy and Tony were, imho, the very best team ever. Tony had a remarkable ability to ask questions that you knew were obvious to him, but immensely helpful for the average viewer. And of course it provdied Incardona a wonderful springboard to launch into a discourse displaying his excellent knowledge of the strategy of the game. All in all, I learned more from this team than any other. Plus, Annigoni is quite hilarious. I really like this exchange:

(paraphrased)

Annigoni: (early in the match) I'm going to go out on a limb and pick Reyes to win from here.
Incardona: Go out on a limb!?!? That's like saying I'm going to go out on a limb and pick Johnny Unitas to complete a pass!
Annigoni: I'm going to go out on a limb and pick Incardona to lose his next bout in the annoucers booth!

(they laughed about it...it was quite funny)

KMRUNOUT
 
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