Wow, I wish I had watched your feed where Earl was a perfect gentleman on days 2 & 3. I got the sucky feed where Earl was an a-hole all three days.However, once he put those earmuffs on for days 2 & 3, I think there were hardly any antics.
Wow, I wish I had watched your feed where Earl was a perfect gentleman on days 2 & 3. I got the sucky feed where Earl was an a-hole all three days.However, once he put those earmuffs on for days 2 & 3, I think there were hardly any antics.
On day 1, Earl was definitely acting up and it was hard to watch. However, once he put those earmuffs on for days 2 & 3, I think there were hardly any antics. Shane didn't manage to overcome Earl's 11 game day one lead in the next 65 games over two days. I think we saw who was the better player on that equipment, on that weekend. End of story.
why do people start threads like this?? earl just handed shane his ass, and shane took it like a mad. END OF STORY!!!!:angry:
everyone wanting to see earl go off
Where can I go to take these mind reading classes?David, that is because unlike Earl, Shane has CLASS! He will not complain publicly, even though he feels totally disrespected by Earl, someone he thought was a friendly rival. Yes, Earl's behavior got to Shane. He is human after all, not a robot. All of you, ask yourself, would you play pool with someone who acted this way?
To answer your question, people start threads like this because it was intuitively obvious to the casual observer that Earl's game plan included blatant shark moves.
It cannot be argued the Earl won, and Earl shot better.
What can be argued is what was needed to beat the best American pool player. Not sure of the percentages, but here are the ingredients:
1. Gaffe Table
2. Every single f'ing rule goes your way (no jump cues, etc)
3. Act like a complete moron and shark and threaten to quit to create an atmosphere of chaos.
4. Shoot straight as hell
5. Have no conscience
Split hairs all you want. Do I really need to point out all the other BS moves that were beatdown worthy in other poolrooms ?
I'll say this, both Justin & Schmidt commented openly that Earl sharks *every* time his opponent is shooting in his direction. Schmidt said something like "if other players did to earl what he does to them, he'd decapitate them".
Split hairs? Not hardly. (as seen in my pic, I have no hairs to split)
Could you please answer my question, what would happen?
I've lived in the 221 and 222 before so I'd like to understand how it works from someone who has been around there also (ya know a different viewpoint)
Also, this is 2 pro players playing each other. Most of the people talking about violence against Earl are not near the level of Earl, but are talking about what they would do to him if he did (insert whatever you want here) to them. It's very rare to find one top caliber pool player physically fighting another pool player, its very common to find 2 hacks fighting each other, or a lesser player wanting to fight a better player.
To answer your question, people start threads like this because it was intuitively obvious to the casual observer that Earl's game plan included blatant shark moves.
It cannot be argued the Earl won, and Earl shot better.
What can be argued is what was needed to beat the best American pool player. Not sure of the percentages, but here are the ingredients:
1. Gaffe Table
2. Every single f'ing rule goes your way (no jump cues, etc)
3. Act like a complete moron and shark and threaten to quit to create an atmosphere of chaos.
4. Shoot straight as hell
5. Have no conscience
12squared - I don't believe that anyone MADE Shane sit in that bar stool... so the "classless" comment has no merit or basis. Not even sure who you are referring to... Earl?... Mike Gullyassy?... the room owner?And, that stool they made Shane sit in was a joke in my opinion, he never looked comfortable. Sheesh, they play 7-8 hours a day and make him sit in the kiddy chair - classless.
You don't know Earl's conscience, the people close to him (his real friends know what Earl has to go through with issues, but no one but Earl, and God know his conscience) do you want someone to comment on what they think your conscience is?
Gaffe table? Both players played on it for days, both players knew every in and out of the table, and more importantly, both players agreed to the specifications ahead of time as to the table.
BTW which version of gaffe are you going by?
Definition of GAFFE
1
: a social or diplomatic blunder
2
: a noticeable mistake
Every single rule goes your way? Again the rules were made upfront knowing those rules, if you choose to not try to counter offer any rules, but play then you are agreeing to those rules.
Act like a complete moron and shark and threaten to quit to create an atmosphere of chaos. BTW which version of Chaos are you saying happened?
Chaos
1. A condition or place of great disorder or confusion.
2. A disorderly mass; a jumble: The desk was a chaos of papers and unopened letters.
3. often Chaos The disordered state of unformed matter and infinite space supposed in some cosmogonic views to have existed before the ordered universe.
4. Mathematics A dynamical system that has a sensitive dependence on its initial conditions.
5. Obsolete An abyss; a chasm.
Thanks.
Wow, I wish I had watched your feed where Earl was a perfect gentleman on days 2 & 3. I got the sucky feed where Earl was an a-hole all three days.
Simple question.
No doubt Earl played good and beat Shane. The question is though....
If Earl hadn't played up the antics the way he did.... would Shane have beaten him?
Earl still had the advantage on that table... no doubt.
But without the antics could SVB have beaten Earl?
I recall hearing or seeing a post that Earl brought in his own chair for the match. Something that Shane could have done.
Overall, Earl was better prepared for the match. Not only did Earl get the 10' table that he wanted, he came prepared with his own chair and a custom extended cue. It appears that Shane lost his cue extender that might have helped him avoid using the bridge. In addition, it appears that Earl spent considerably more time practicing on the 10' foot table before the match. Shane was too overconfident about his chances against Earl and he definitely underestimated the difficulty of playing on a unfamiliar 10' table.
Interestingly, in the post-match interview Earl thought that his better physical conditioning made the difference between the two players. There might be a lot of truth to this too.