the question here is a deep and important one. is efren reyes good for pool?
the answer that i give is NO!
you see, i see it this way, there is the skill of the person and then there is the person of the person. let me go further~~
if tiger woods was white and rich and played the exact same way he plays, would golf be as huge as it is now? NO! why not? because, the public wanted to see a young black kid stick it to the rich white man! that's what made mothers and daughters and people who otherwise would have not tuned into view golf, view golf. you see, no one cared that tiger was so talented, but they cared that he was beating the white rich men, this was appealing to us little poor folk, to the common man struggling, it was refreshing to see, that a young black kid, could kick the big bad white rich men at their own game, this is the essence of why golf is so freakin huge, not talent, but the person of who and what tiger woods stands for in the world of discrimination and justice.
i raise another question, if the beatles wer'e bald fat 60 year old men without english accents, and picked their nose on television would the world have freaked out so much? NO! we would have said, hey great music, but then the world would have moved on.
BUT~~~~~~ the beatles wer'e cute, hairy,great accents,young youthful with tons of humor, making them the most sought after entertainment act in history, yes their music was genius, but we bought the entire package.
this leads me back to my original question~~~~ is efren reyes good for pool?
the answer is clearly NO!
his persoanlity does not come through,and there is nothing the general public cares about, so what if he is the greeatest pool player ever, it means nothing,there is no "appeal" to the general public. thus, no one cares. he is in deed , the greatest all around player that ever lived, and in the phillippeens, he is GOD,however, in america, he is an unknown pool player who will remain so.
pool needs a women champion, or some young perhaps handicappped kid, something that mom's and people of all walks of life can sink their teeth into, and ask, "is so and so playing in this tournament?" the general public doesn't care if efren reyes is playing in the next IPT event, however the general public does care if tiger woods is playing in the next golf tournament, ask yourself WHY? i told you my opinion why.
where does this leave us? i don't know. it would be nice to fix a tournament so austin murphy wins it ,so overnight, pool becomes something the general publics wants to view, but we just can't fix tournaments, until then austin will have to win it on his own skill,and once done, the world will tune into pool to watch "the kid" beat the grown ups, soon maybe one day we will hear this, "is austin murphy in the next tournament dad?"
the answer that i give is NO!
you see, i see it this way, there is the skill of the person and then there is the person of the person. let me go further~~
if tiger woods was white and rich and played the exact same way he plays, would golf be as huge as it is now? NO! why not? because, the public wanted to see a young black kid stick it to the rich white man! that's what made mothers and daughters and people who otherwise would have not tuned into view golf, view golf. you see, no one cared that tiger was so talented, but they cared that he was beating the white rich men, this was appealing to us little poor folk, to the common man struggling, it was refreshing to see, that a young black kid, could kick the big bad white rich men at their own game, this is the essence of why golf is so freakin huge, not talent, but the person of who and what tiger woods stands for in the world of discrimination and justice.
i raise another question, if the beatles wer'e bald fat 60 year old men without english accents, and picked their nose on television would the world have freaked out so much? NO! we would have said, hey great music, but then the world would have moved on.
BUT~~~~~~ the beatles wer'e cute, hairy,great accents,young youthful with tons of humor, making them the most sought after entertainment act in history, yes their music was genius, but we bought the entire package.
this leads me back to my original question~~~~ is efren reyes good for pool?
the answer is clearly NO!
his persoanlity does not come through,and there is nothing the general public cares about, so what if he is the greeatest pool player ever, it means nothing,there is no "appeal" to the general public. thus, no one cares. he is in deed , the greatest all around player that ever lived, and in the phillippeens, he is GOD,however, in america, he is an unknown pool player who will remain so.
pool needs a women champion, or some young perhaps handicappped kid, something that mom's and people of all walks of life can sink their teeth into, and ask, "is so and so playing in this tournament?" the general public doesn't care if efren reyes is playing in the next IPT event, however the general public does care if tiger woods is playing in the next golf tournament, ask yourself WHY? i told you my opinion why.
where does this leave us? i don't know. it would be nice to fix a tournament so austin murphy wins it ,so overnight, pool becomes something the general publics wants to view, but we just can't fix tournaments, until then austin will have to win it on his own skill,and once done, the world will tune into pool to watch "the kid" beat the grown ups, soon maybe one day we will hear this, "is austin murphy in the next tournament dad?"
