How to fix pool!

[ctyhntr]

More sock puppets, and need more things to blame for pool.

 

[ADAM HENSON]

They keep fixing it so much, they keep it perpetually broken.

Back when I started playing, it was you, your cue and the table (no matter if you could play or what condition the equipment was in). There were pros back then who could do everything and you tried to watch them, learn something, and then hopefully be able to do it yourself.

Now if you take a new player in the pool hall they are overwhelmed with all the hype and BS.

They will tell you that you won't be able to make a ball unless you have a high-dollar custom cue with a special LD shaft. Then you need a break cue with a special high-dollar tip that only two guys in the world can replace...but rest easy...they'll give you a good price and take a year or two...or maybe never if you read some of the stories on here. However, don't worry...you can use your $600 jump cue while the tip on your break cue is being fixed. Make sure you get joint protectors too...you don't want something to damage your pin if your cue was to fall out of it's case in a plane crash or something.

Once you get that, you'll need a Magic Rack of some sort, because you know nobody can make a ball with a regular rack.

Oh, then you need lessons from some guy who never won a thing in his life, but went to ABC pool school and that will only be $400 for a couple hours and they'll teach you what a pool table looks like and where and how to stand.

After that, you'll be advised to join a league and play with other bangers for about $25 a night to hone your skills.

And after about 10 years of banging, they will move you up to an APA-3 and tell you that you are coming along fine.



OH...and don't forget to buy a tuxedo. When they start the tournament to see if you move up to a level 4 you will need to look appropriate.

Very well said!

 

[Banks]

In all seriousness, there's no fixing pool.
By that I mean there's nothing "magical" that can be done to change its course.
Yes, one can institute new games (think Bonus Ball), "innovative" playing conditions
(10-ft tables), but those are short-lived influences.

What is needed is more participation. Isn't that what makes an industry work?
Well, as I have said before, the masses are NOT interested in this game. That's
the way it goes. I love pool. I will continue to play. Although I would love for the sport
to grow, I am realistic enough to quit wasting time trying to "save" pool and concentrate
more on making what we have a better quality product.

Do the same my friends.

I've got to disagree and say that the masses do like pool. The thing is, though, Pacman was a great game when it came out. Doesn't mean it's going to be a draw now. Pinball and Buck Hunter are big now, because they're constantly being upgraded and people like to play with better things than they had before.

 

[SilverCue]

Pool is alive and well...if you mean the millions of league players.
They grow every year....in APA, they have to to stay in the APA.
Leagues bring in dollars to pool rooms.
'Pro' pool is the problem. The games have been changed and changed ( mostly for the worst).
And we have to play under thoses bad changes...what a joke.
Nothing about pool will ever appeal to the 'masses'.
Pool is for pool players....and it used to be a great game.
But 1 foul 9 ball, jumping balls ( even in 1 hole...really??), short races, have led to the decline of old school pool.
Too bad. It was a great game

Your youtube video is blocked by FOX

 

[DTL]

Perhaps a Reality Show

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[mcrisp]

Pool is not broken......we are!

 

[wwjdwithca]

They keep fixing it so much, they keep it perpetually broken.

Back when I started playing, it was you, your cue and the table (no matter if you could play or what condition the equipment was in). There were pros back then who could do everything and you tried to watch them, learn something, and then hopefully be able to do it yourself.

Now if you take a new player in the pool hall they are overwhelmed with all the hype and BS.

They will tell you that you won't be able to make a ball unless you have a high-dollar custom cue with a special LD shaft. Then you need a break cue with a special high-dollar tip that only two guys in the world can replace...but rest easy...they'll give you a good price and take a year or two...or maybe never if you read some of the stories on here. However, don't worry...you can use your $600 jump cue while the tip on your break cue is being fixed. Make sure you get joint protectors too...you don't want something to damage your pin if your cue was to fall out of it's case in a plane crash or something.

Once you get that, you'll need a Magic Rack of some sort, because you know nobody can make a ball with a regular rack.

Oh, then you need lessons from some guy who never won a thing in his life, but went to ABC pool school and that will only be $400 for a couple hours and they'll teach you what a pool table looks like and where and how to stand.

After that, you'll be advised to join a league and play with other bangers for about $25 a night to hone your skills.

And after about 10 years of banging, they will move you up to an APA-3 and tell you that you are coming along fine



OH...and don't forget to buy a tuxedo. When they start the tournament to see if you move up to a level 4 you will need to look appropriate.

If this were all true Golf would not have been so popular 10 years ago, and is still way more popular than pool. Golf clubs are way more expensive and playing is a ton more expensive.