I'll Tell You What's Wrong With Grady Mathews

Banker Burt said:
It is not my intention to stir the waters, but what I have to say probably will. So be it...

It's easy to read a post and think you have a clear understanding, but to get personal with a negative response about any individual only shows your ignorance.

To all the negative responding posters, try wearing Grady's shoes. Do you think you can? If so, give him a call and ask him to send you a pair to wear for awhile.

I hope he reads this post, because if he does get a call I'll bet he will send them to you.

And when he does put 'em on right away and then with a swift kick upside your head maybe you will come to your senses.

If you continue to post foolishness about others, please repeat this headkicking drill.
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Grady said:
I sent my entry fees for three qualifiers already. I have nothing else to say on the subject.
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Grady, I for one am very suprised that you weren't invited to the World Championships. I hope you win the qualifier and then win the World's!


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DoomCue said:
Grady is looking out for Grady, plain and simple. This latest spat over the 14.1 World Championships has nothing to do with what's good for pool or fans, only what's good for Grady.

If a promoter does an invitational tournament and doesn't invite Grady, then the tournament and the promoter can go to hell. Never mind that a 14.1 World Championship of any kind hasn't been held recently and someone's starting it back up might bring straight pool back into pool's consciousness. Never mind that the WPC has always been invitational, with qualifiers for non-invited players. Never mind that Grady chooses not to play in qualifiers because he feels he's "earned the right" to be invited to any damn invitational tournament on the planet. Never mind that Open tournaments tend to be logistical nightmares for tournament directors, promoters, fans, AND players (starting at 9 am and ending at 4 am be damned). Never mind that Grady already knows all this - he just wants to be invited, dammit!

Grady's like the little kid whose brother got some candy he didn't, so he's throwing a tantrum to try to get some, too.

I find it funny, with the new attitude around AZ of censorship and "fairness" that Grady gets to run amok and attack Charlie simply because Charlie didn't invite Grady to a tournament. Here's an idea, why doesn't Grady play in a qualifier if he wants to play so bad?

-djb <-- stopped being a crybaby a long time ago
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Can't you find one thing GOOD to say about anybody? Seems your always runnin' someone in the ground, or trying your damnest anyway.

I thought this would be your day, with Earl making the Hall of Fame and all.

Doesn't seem Grady is tooo afraid to play in a qualifier? Are you going to play in one?


Rick S.
 
I wish you the best in your attempts to qualify Grady.Ignore the negetive people, as you also still have a lot of support here at AZ.

Take care, RJ
 
Doomcue why don't you try and play Grady some if you are so brave to sit there and talk shit behind your computer? I know for a fact that Doomcue can't play a lick, so why should he have any say on this subject, and any subject about pool for that matter? Doomcue= hack
 
I had the honor of meeting Grady for the first time at the Derby this year. I even had him sign my Color of Money movie poster. I have high respect for Grady as well as all of the players from the golden age of pool. I shoot a few of them in my local pool hall just to hear the stories from the "road". I also feel that if you made accommodations for all the legends of pool you might have to add an additional day or two to every tournament. Just to find out that most of them will not show. Thus costing you more money to run the tournament. That is why they have qualifiers and I was glad to see Grady has already sent his money in for the upcoming ones. Good Luck Grady.
 
Rick S. said:
Can't you find one thing GOOD to say about anybody? Seems your always runnin' someone in the ground, or trying your damnest anyway.

I thought this would be your day, with Earl making the Hall of Fame and all.

Doesn't seem Grady is tooo afraid to play in a qualifier? Are you going to play in one?


Rick S.
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I don't recall whining about not being invited. As for Earl's induction into the HoF, good for him. Based on his PLAYING, he deserves it.

I'm not a straight-pool player, so no, I won't be playing in a qualifier.

-djb
 
cuetechasaurus said:
Doomcue why don't you try and play Grady some if you are so brave to sit there and talk shit behind your computer? I know for a fact that Doomcue can't play a lick, so why should he have any say on this subject, and any subject about pool for that matter? Doomcue= hack
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Last time I checked, my real name is below my screen name. I'm not hiding anywhere. The only one taking anonymous potshots is you.

-djb
 
Grady said:
I sent my entry fees for three qualifiers already. I have nothing else to say on the subject.
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Good luck, Grady. Hopefully, your pool-playing will have plenty to say on the subject.

-djb
 
DoomCue said:
Good luck, Grady. Hopefully, your pool-playing will have plenty to say on the subject.

-djb
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Wishing Grady good luck was a nice gesture,however, how he plays has nothing to do with whether your initial post about him is justified or not.

Rather than wishing him good luck, I think an apology would have been far more appropriate.
JMO, RJ
 
recoveryjones said:
Wishing Grady good luck was a nice gesture,however, how he plays has nothing to do with whether your initial post about him is justified or not.

Rather than wishing him good luck, I think an apology would have been far more appropriate.
JMO, RJ
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Apologize for what?

-djb
 
I think Grady is a great guy! He is always nice, and he is always willing to share his experience with others with his videos and his books. But... I do have a question for you Grady...

What the hell did you mean about Drambuii and potato salad? It sounds like something that would induce vomiting -yux - but forever I have wanted to ask you that. Is it some kind of encoded pool payer talk? Did they make you say that or is it something that's "too country" for me to understand? 'Splain. :confused: :confused: :confused:
 
"The Color Of Money"

I don't drink. So I don't know what liquor that is. I just read the lines I was given.
 
Gunn_Slinger said:
Arnold Palmer, is invited to every golf tournament,in golf they show respect for the players that built the PGA. I wonder why in pool some people just shun the older players.
have a happy day
mrs.g
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I think Gunn is onto something here, as is Kevin Trudeau. Must a world champioinship be an "open" in its fullest form? (anybody could come?) Geez, that'd never end, everybody would have to qualify. So, to some extent, all world championships are going to be invitationals. The compromise then is to have qualifiers for some number of slots in the main draw...
Tennis & Golf both have this same issue, and different tournaments in those sports resolve it different ways. In golf, you get to keep tour card based on past performance, and in some tournaments (I think the Masters?) if you won it, you get to keep coming back essentially forever...
Its good practice for a couple of reasons. You get fan favorites to help with attendance / ratings, and you provide an additional motivation to the players in the tournament. The qualifiers (and satellite tours) allow up and comers to prove they belong in the main draw.
I sure don't want to put words in Grady's mouth, (I've never met him, nor conversed even in AZ threads) but it seems like his case is that he's past having to work through satellite tours or qualifiers since he's won the whole thing previously. That's not unreasonable thinking.
However, in the final analysis, it is the tournament director's responsibility to set the tournament rules. If those rules mean some get invitied and some don't, then it is a good idea if the tournament makes clear the criteria / process by which invitations are issued (again, Tennis & Golf tournaments do this... Jimmy Connors isn't going to be invited to the US Open, though he has won it in the past and was a HUGE crowd favorite; Arnold & Jack could still be invited to the Masters).
So...
Is there such a set of published criteria, or published process?

...and, in any case, you gotta admire Grady for taking the risk of going through qualifers, and I'd love to see him make it.
 
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Good luck in the qualifiers, Grady! Your standing and reputation in the pool community is beyond reproach and will remain so long after some of these custom cues so prevalent in this forum are stuck in the closet and allowed to warp from neglect.
 
Grady ....

Anyone would be irritated at spending your whole life trying to do something or build something, only to have someone dismiss it like it was nothing. You certainly deserve a lot of consideration regarding the sport and 14.1 tournaments, no matter what any 'newcomer' says. Anyone with any sense for the future would not forget the past.
 
Grady -- Good luck and keep on going. Pocket Billiards needs more like YOU and yours. From jerry bessett in minneapolis.
 
Grady,

Best of luck with the qualifiers. And don't pay any attention to this fool. That's some of what's wrong with men's pro pool (especially in the US) today and why it will in most probability never achieve the status that it could. There's virtually no respect for the icons and predescessors and most importantly it's full people of con artists and poeple that will straight out lie to your face.

This clown calling you out on this thread is the pot calling the kettle black. Men's pool is probably worse than it's ever been about people 'taking care of themselves'. As you know, you've got to fight for anything these days and take care of yourself or you just get run over. Your resume over the years speaks volumes for what you have done for the game and I for one appreciate it.

Sean
 
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