If I had 25 cents every time I heard.....

Funny blog entry Jimmy! Wish I could have been there to see it...

Don't even get me started on when someone says "I know what I want to do, I just can't do it." If you ever want to see me on stratospheric levels of tilt, have a couple guys tell me that lol.

- Steve
 
orangecrush said:
Ok so I'm waiting for some friends to let me jump in and play hotseat. And there is a guy that asked if I wanted to play some. I said sure. So we start to play and I can tell that he really isn't that good. So while we were playing he tells me the famous line. " Ya I use to play real good." And in a laughing giggle kinda, he tells me it that pool paid for his college.

Now I know looks doesn't really have anything to do with if you have been to college or not. But this guy didn't seem to bright. And really didn't look like the college type. Anyway, I just kinda laughed along and said " oh ya" like I was impressed.

Now I've been around pool long enough and have seen enough players to know this guy didn't make enough gambling in pool to pay for college. Unless he found lots of goooses, but I doubt that either.


So how many times have you heard that line or something like that from guys that you know can't even spell pool, much less play it?

Walker
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i met one guy that actually claimed that he quit playing pool because it was too easy. now he was good but he wasn't any prodigal son of pool. that was when i first started playing and i know i could beat him now. a lot of guys always seem to think or claim they used to be great at pool. what i don't get is where did all that skill go, i played a friend of mine that actually used to be good. he dogged some balls but you could tell he'd shoot the right shot when he had to and played like he was rusty not like he'd never played before like the other guys i run into that "used to be good"
 
Steve Lipsky said:
Funny blog entry Jimmy! Wish I could have been there to see it...

Don't even get me started on when someone says "I know what I want to do, I just can't do it." If you ever want to see me on stratospheric levels of tilt, have a couple guys tell me that lol.

- Steve
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I'll see if I can get a couple people to say that to you in Vegas this year if you're going to be there again. ;)
 
I quit pool completely for 25 years. Prior to quitting, I was never a top flight player, but I once ran 86 balls in straight pool, put together 3 racks of 9 ball on a 4 1/2X9, and was a decent one pocket and bank pool player. My best game was probably 8 ball on the bar box where I played well enough to win many tournaments and 1st in too many leagues to remember. I just started back after all these years and I'm really struggling. My stroke is inconsistent. My shotmaking is horrible. My speed is WAY off. Worst of all, during the long lay-off I had lasik eye surgery and it seems now like I can't see clearly when looking downtable at the object ball in the shooting position. In short, I'm having lots of problems. I am improving each day though, and I'm having fun at it.

I am enjoying myself regardless of my struggles, but of course I yearn to play like I once did, even better if possible, but I'm 55 now, not in my 20s, and I can't play 3-4 hours a day like I once could. I would NEVER say that I was once REAL good, but I say every day that I quit for 25 years (I'm going to stop that). I hope you young guys never have to work 80 hours a week to support your families in a tough economy. If you do, we'll see who whines about the level of their game then...Tom
 
StormHotRod300 said:
But it was always funny to hear some guy in his LOW 30's with a beer gut saying " oh yea in my prime I could hit the ball, and do this n that"

So I always liked to blow said wanna be's story outa the water.

And yes, I've heard it in billiards too, and when I bowled too.
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Please refrain from hitting too close to home with your posts!

:)
 
I run into the same guys (i used to be REAL good) - and I always ask them to gamble - and they always say "kid, I like you, I don't want to take your money".... !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
There was a guy in a league I used to play in, who as a 30-year-old APA 3, told me, an inexperienced APA 5 at the time, that I played so well I reminded him of how he used to play when he lived in NYC. Apparently, he used to hang with the pros up there. I tried not to laugh at him, and continued my sloppy run-out with shaky CB control, which was apparently "almost as good as the pros".

-Andrew
 
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