Yeah Right, Indeed!
Efren is doing a couple of VIP farewell tour shows and a challenge match against Jeremy Sossei this week and he wasn't scheduled to be at our room yesterday but he showed up around noon.
I wanted to trap him in a carnival game that I'm pretty good at so I offered The Magician an opportunity to get a piece of The Kickin Chicken at the infamous 5 rail kick, whitey must land on a ball placed on the footspot with a penny balanced on top *without* knocking the penny off. Sounds easy, right?
It's rare in life that we can get a chance to have an edge on someone who is considered to be the best of all time and here I was with such an opportunity.
I shot first, came up maybe 3 inches short of the ball with the penny.
Efren takes his first shot at it using way too much speed and draw - why is he shooting it like that? Each rail is taking steam out of whitey and especially the last one releasing straight toward the spotted ball with barely enough speed to nestle up against it for a hit - but it did. The speed so perfect that the penny was never in danger of sliding off. WTH; Efren made my specialty shot on the first try. All the guys standing around spectating went bananas.
So, obviously this wasn't gonna work out for me. We changed over to a race to 5, 9 ball. I was fairly certain he would have a slight edge in this game. Yes, he spanked me pretty hard. He did say "you break very good", so I'll let that be my victory.
Actually, he gave me another shot at a few more 5 rail kick games afterward and I somehow managed to break even with him so that felt like a win, too.
I'm not one bit ashamed to admit that I felt like a kid on cloud 9 getting a chance to have some fun with their sports idol. :thumbup:
Efren is humble, gracious and the Greatest Of All Time. :yeah:
What a pleasure and honor it was to hit a few balls with him.
best,
brian kc
Efren is doing a couple of VIP farewell tour shows and a challenge match against Jeremy Sossei this week and he wasn't scheduled to be at our room yesterday but he showed up around noon.
I wanted to trap him in a carnival game that I'm pretty good at so I offered The Magician an opportunity to get a piece of The Kickin Chicken at the infamous 5 rail kick, whitey must land on a ball placed on the footspot with a penny balanced on top *without* knocking the penny off. Sounds easy, right?
It's rare in life that we can get a chance to have an edge on someone who is considered to be the best of all time and here I was with such an opportunity.
I shot first, came up maybe 3 inches short of the ball with the penny.
Efren takes his first shot at it using way too much speed and draw - why is he shooting it like that? Each rail is taking steam out of whitey and especially the last one releasing straight toward the spotted ball with barely enough speed to nestle up against it for a hit - but it did. The speed so perfect that the penny was never in danger of sliding off. WTH; Efren made my specialty shot on the first try. All the guys standing around spectating went bananas.
So, obviously this wasn't gonna work out for me. We changed over to a race to 5, 9 ball. I was fairly certain he would have a slight edge in this game. Yes, he spanked me pretty hard. He did say "you break very good", so I'll let that be my victory.
Actually, he gave me another shot at a few more 5 rail kick games afterward and I somehow managed to break even with him so that felt like a win, too.
I'm not one bit ashamed to admit that I felt like a kid on cloud 9 getting a chance to have some fun with their sports idol. :thumbup:
Efren is humble, gracious and the Greatest Of All Time. :yeah:
What a pleasure and honor it was to hit a few balls with him.
best,
brian kc
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