How many times have you heard this?

cardiac kid said:
9,

Wish I had a dollar for every time I've heard that chant. Play pretty sporty for 73 years young. Most of the local APA players say that too much. Hear it at Super Billiards Expo every year. Even heard it at the VNEA, ACS and BCAPL events in Vegas.

I am sooooooooooooo far below even a lower ranked pro player it isn't even funny. Ron Casanzio plays out of our room. Think he is the consummate player fitting my description.

If one compares a top ranked high school football player to a top ranked college player the difference is astounding. The same thing goes for college to NFL.

I've begun to receive the "he's a pro" crap as an insult. Both to me and the real guys and gals at the top level of our game.

Lyn
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Or when old farts playing the best pool of their lives thus far say "you should have seen me 30 years ago", hoping no one who knew them back then is in ear shot.

JC
 
JC said:
Or when old farts playing the best pool of their lives thus far say "you should have seen me 30 years ago", hoping no one who knew them back then is in ear shot.

JC
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John,

For those who have known me through the years, they will agree that I play better today than at any other time in my life. The difference being solely being (relatively) calm versus off the wall nuts :eek: . Sometimes the truth hurts. Think it was John Aston who said "I used to be crazy but I'm much better now".

Lyn
 
On a different note, many years ago a guy visited Classic Billiards in Rochester. During the conversation, he mentioned his brother was the best player in the world to our counter guy. Want to have a laugh over that? Better not, I knew him slightly from years ago. Name? Steven Sigel! Want to argue that one :thumbup:.

Lyn
 
I played in a senior 9ball league in S. Florida. A new team entered the league one year...the guys said they were hustlers in the early days. Expectations were high...there were a lot of spectators the first game. Not one guy could play slightly. They quit the league after 3 games.

My mother in law's building has a 4x8. I'm hitting a few balls and a guy asks if I'd like to play..I say sure. He tells me his daughter was state champion. I ask were she learned to play...he says he taught her. I'm thinking this is going to be a nice experience playing the guy. He was pathetic.

However I met several people that played Mosconi. I tell them I played Moscowitz.
 
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A few years ago, a guy gets into a conversation at the bar of a pool hall in Toronto...
...says he used to play pretty good snooker...competed with Cliff Thorburn years ago.
...he asks “Have you heard of Cliff, he won the world championship?”
The guy says “Yeah, I know him, I’ll be sleeping with his wife tonight.”


Yeah, Cliff has that kind of humor....:grin:
 
JC said:
Or when old farts playing the best pool of their lives thus far say "you should have seen me 30 years ago", hoping no one who knew them back then is in ear shot.

JC
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Current players can always tell if some guy used to be a player when he was younger just by watching the way he moves around the table, holds his cue stick, stroke, etc. That's true for golf also.
 
JC said:
Or when old farts playing the best pool of their lives thus far say "you should have seen me 30 years ago", hoping no one who knew them back then is in ear shot.

JC
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I still play pretty good at 70 playing 1 day a week.
But I did play better 30 years ago playing every day and I'm not afraid of anybody from back then saying different.
 
I paid my way through college and I played pool!

Sometimes I skipped class to go play pool (don't tell Cornerman that).
 
Guy was added to my team about a decade ago. He told me he used to be a pro and used to "play against Mike Massey and them."

He didn't say Buddy Hall or Earl Strickland, and this guy is from the farm lands of a western Massachusetts. I figure he must have seen a trick shot exhibition by Massey.

His reason for not playin well anymore was that he had an accident and had to switch to left-handed. How unfortunate.

By the end of night one, he intimated that he never played as good as I do. I must be a hell of pro. Lookout Mike Massey.


Freddie <~~~ paid my way though college
 
I recently had a conversation with someone about this subject. They think I am a pretty good player. I informed them that I am closer to being a pro football player than I am of being a pro pool player. The gap is not even close.
 
I've only been told was good by people who don't know any better!
Mostly kids. Lol
 
Cornerman said:
Guy was added to my team about a decade ago. He told me he used to be a pro and used to "play against Mike Massey and them."

He didn't say Buddy Hall or Earl Strickland, and this guy is from the farm lands of a western Massachusetts. I figure he must have seen a trick shot exhibition by Massey.

His reason for not playin well anymore was that he had an accident and had to switch to left-handed. How unfortunate.

By the end of night one, he intimated that he never played as good as I do. I must be a hell of pro. Lookout Mike Massey.


Freddie <~~~ paid my way though college
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When I want to tell people how good I play, I tell them I used to play with Freddie. For some reason they immediately want to raise the bet....
 
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