Guy Manges
Registered
Yes and now we need to be able to see 380 at all times and a 38 handy might come in handy at all times... Guy
I don’t like it
- Thread starter Fatboy
- Start date
I like tradition. I like the old style of game, straight pool and I'm fascinated with 10 foot tables. I wish the tables were green and the balls traditional colours.Ok here it goes. I can’t keep it bottled up any longer.
Where to start? Who knows so I’ll just fire out a list in no particular order:
Purple 5 ball
Shaws record-disputes
WADA
Was this a foul? Was that a foul? Let’s watch in instant replay.
Where’s Daz, where’s Gorst? Who else is missing?
Table specs & what’s a record and what isn’t.
This is reminding me of instant replay in football and is way to technical, which is why I ignore football or any other technical nonsense milk drinker sport.
I came into pool 40 years ago because it was rough around the edges, the 5 was orange and people weren’t under the microscope. If they had habits it was on them. It was every man for himself. It wasn’t perfect, it was broken then and that was ok.
People could hustle other people, obtaining money under false pretenses was celebrated not looked down on.
You wanted to learn you had to pay your dues. Now you can buy your dues(almost).
2 records in the same run? To make everyone happy. The rule nazi’s and the rest of the pool fans? How does that even make sense?
Champions who should be in tourneys are sidelined for saying “fuk” or what ever or because they are from the wrong country.
All the PC shit is worming it’s way into pool. Had I saw this coming, I’d have passed long ago. I’d have never been part of the pool world in any shape or form.
I miss guys like UJ Puckett, Grady, Keith, Cole, Bobby Pickle, etc. Broken people with personality’s and yet they made their way in life and were fun. I’m a broken person and I can’t make a ball compared to them. Not in the same league, but I’m fun and not a milk drinker. There were lots of non-pro people in pool who were personality’s. I don’t see new ones coming in and others leaving for these PC reasons.
I’m tired of the milk drinker robots, wrong color balls and constantly arguing over the pocket size just to have a record “modified” because maybe a ball was brushed ina exhibition. Shaw was cool and said what he had to about it-he’s smart, however what he thought and said I’d bet are 2 VERY different things. Think the guys listed above would have gave that answer 30 years ago? Shaw had no choice-again he’s smart.
It’s taking the seediness, smoky back room Allure that pool had for me. WADA? Gtfo of here!!!! Go to the Olympic’s not pool!!!!
If I disappear tmr from pool this is why, not many will notice. But I refuse to succumb to the current state of affairs.
Fatboy
However, I don't like all the things you like. Sure the seediness can be appealing from a distance, but are you really going to miss con men and robbers, drug dealers and murderers? I just want to relax and push some balls around, I dont' want to be scrambling for my life because someone on the table over pulled a knife or a gun! I want to have a chat with my friends and not have some loud mouth constantly trying to challenge me into a match.
The situation with the game today is partly because a gambling game, 9 ball has been converted to a tournament game, a role it does not fit. It's an unfair, lucky and not really apt game for someone to be competing at in a sporting manner. It has it's charm, but it's a hustlers game, a carnival game, not a sport. So they have to make all sorts of provisions to make the game into something it's not in order to sell it as a quasi-sport. Tight pockets, break rules and all sorts of other modifications are results of this simple mistake.
Wadas involvement, again, is a result of pushing pool into a world in which it doesn't belong, with the milk drinkers going to bed at 8 pm and powerful athletic governing organizations. Seriously, drug testing in pool is nonsense. But some people can get powerful, paid positions by pushing this agenda, so here we are.
I completely changed my mind about the the breaking of the high run record. As I see it finally, in a clear light, it has proven very disappointing to me. It has revealed how artificial and stupid this sort of thing is. It's not even pool, it's just a sideshow piece of nonsense. I love straight pool, I love playing it and watching competitions. I even like trying to beat my own high runs. But I hate watching people set up ludicrously easy conditions, polishing the balls until they have absolutely no friction, sometimes even during the run itself, using stupid stuck-on-templates, pockets with customized drop angles , shallow shelves and other such artificial and gamebreaking "hacks". I was wrong before, because i didn't see the big picture. It's supposed to be about the skill, the creativity and mastery of the game. Part of that is having an opponent, and playing for something and knowing that if you run out of shots or miss, it has serious consequences. Now it's all about setting up conditions such that you cannot fail, not about playing the game. It's a completely sterile almost laboratory version of the game. They're not even doing this right, with the John Schmidt cheating incident.. They couldn't even cheat properly, you know the lawyer kind of way, where you're bending the rules to the absolute breaking point but staying within the framework of the rules. They had to actually sink so low as to f-ing cheat...That for me, was the straw that finally broke the camels back. They took a nice thing, Willie Mosconi putting on a show for an audience and his pool hall owning friend and they completely destroyed it. Made it into a joke, with no joy to it, shitting all over Mosconi in the process. It's like the movie industry of today taking all the old heroes and stories and turning them into trash, sucking all the soul out of them and replacing them with copies that have only a faint resemblance of what was once there.
I finallly got old and it sucks. I get it now. You kids have fun with your stupid music and lame ball colours and stay off my lawn.
Last edited:
Guy Manges
Registered
I'm in my 80s played pool most of my life and can agree with you all the way home... Guy
Guy Manges
Registered
FB I've been watching some MR, 9 b, what ever you do or what influence you have in pool world please stay after all to keep the ball colors we have had for many years the same... I thought they were only doing it because of the gray cloth, but I see all colors of cloth, blue and green, the pink ball is enough.. Someday all will be neon it will look like a bowling alley... Best of luck... Guyok
I’m clueless when it comes to grammar or spelling.
Gotta hang out in the poolrooms. That's where we keep the grit in the game.Ok here it goes. I can’t keep it bottled up any longer.
Where to start? Who knows so I’ll just fire out a list in no particular order:
Purple 5 ball
Shaws record-disputes
WADA
Was this a foul? Was that a foul? Let’s watch in instant replay.
Where’s Daz, where’s Gorst? Who else is missing?
Table specs & what’s a record and what isn’t.
This is reminding me of instant replay in football and is way to technical, which is why I ignore football or any other technical nonsense milk drinker sport.
I came into pool 40 years ago because it was rough around the edges, the 5 was orange and people weren’t under the microscope. If they had habits it was on them. It was every man for himself. It wasn’t perfect, it was broken then and that was ok.
People could hustle other people, obtaining money under false pretenses was celebrated not looked down on.
You wanted to learn you had to pay your dues. Now you can buy your dues(almost).
2 records in the same run? To make everyone happy. The rule nazi’s and the rest of the pool fans? How does that even make sense?
Champions who should be in tourneys are sidelined for saying “fuk” or what ever or because they are from the wrong country.
All the PC shit is worming it’s way into pool. Had I saw this coming, I’d have passed long ago. I’d have never been part of the pool world in any shape or form.
I miss guys like UJ Puckett, Grady, Keith, Cole, Bobby Pickle, etc. Broken people with personality’s and yet they made their way in life and were fun. I’m a broken person and I can’t make a ball compared to them. Not in the same league, but I’m fun and not a milk drinker. There were lots of non-pro people in pool who were personality’s. I don’t see new ones coming in and others leaving for these PC reasons.
I’m tired of the milk drinker robots, wrong color balls and constantly arguing over the pocket size just to have a record “modified” because maybe a ball was brushed ina exhibition. Shaw was cool and said what he had to about it-he’s smart, however what he thought and said I’d bet are 2 VERY different things. Think the guys listed above would have gave that answer 30 years ago? Shaw had no choice-again he’s smart.
It’s taking the seediness, smoky back room Allure that pool had for me. WADA? Gtfo of here!!!! Go to the Olympic’s not pool!!!!
If I disappear tmr from pool this is why, not many will notice. But I refuse to succumb to the current state of affairs.
This gets me in trouble all the time. I say bet and people get offended. I say when I was growing up saying bet was serious because it meant you were ready to put your money where your mouth is.
One of the most iconic rooms on earth!