Just for US players
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I understand, i think
Written communication is tricky especially with the slow response times of the internet but I think I do understand what you are trying to say. "Champagne tastes and a beer pocketbook" is a perfect way to explain the mindset of most in the sport, players, promoters and fans. We all want pool to be huge and we don't really have the product to make it so right now.
I think the sport most comparable to pool in this country is US bowling. It is another working people's sport without the country club atmosphere attached to it. It took many years to grow into a sport that supported it's top players. The one thing that pool has going for it at this point in time is that the huge expansion in programing time on the airwaves has people scrambling to fill that airtime with programming, particularly programming that people will watch. Some of the things that make it to the airwaves are an indication of just how desparate the programmers are sometimes!
Pool has a window of opportunity here, actually the best window was a few years back and we didn't cash in on it. The window hasn't closed but it is far less open than it was. We need quality pool programs and we may have to air them on local channels to start with. We do have a Billiards Club TV based in New York I believe and unavailable to me the last time I checked.
Time for me to go to work, I'll catch up tonight,
Hu
bandido said:
Written communication is tricky especially with the slow response times of the internet but I think I do understand what you are trying to say. "Champagne tastes and a beer pocketbook" is a perfect way to explain the mindset of most in the sport, players, promoters and fans. We all want pool to be huge and we don't really have the product to make it so right now.
I think the sport most comparable to pool in this country is US bowling. It is another working people's sport without the country club atmosphere attached to it. It took many years to grow into a sport that supported it's top players. The one thing that pool has going for it at this point in time is that the huge expansion in programing time on the airwaves has people scrambling to fill that airtime with programming, particularly programming that people will watch. Some of the things that make it to the airwaves are an indication of just how desparate the programmers are sometimes!
Pool has a window of opportunity here, actually the best window was a few years back and we didn't cash in on it. The window hasn't closed but it is far less open than it was. We need quality pool programs and we may have to air them on local channels to start with. We do have a Billiards Club TV based in New York I believe and unavailable to me the last time I checked.
Time for me to go to work, I'll catch up tonight,
Hu
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i'm sorry i wasted my time in responding within this thread. I learned a valuable lesson, and i will no longer participate in threads where "shhoting artist" is involved.
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One thing that has to change
is that the average league player has to educated as to the national and international scenes of Pool and its players. We have to get them to have a true and expanded interest in Pool as a sport.
People tend to talk about and follow what they are excited about. We need more education about the sport and work in the exposure. Basically, it is the gamblers in Pool that expand their interest into the regional and national
scenes of Pool and the players.
The league players just worried about the 4 games they have to play on Thursday night aren't interested now in who the best 10 players in the world are currently and when they are playing again. We need to develop the league players from just entertainment into being fans of the sport as a whole.
AND ..... We need to tell all pool players that don't have a computer to get one, because then they can get a lot of Pool news, instruction, tips, and videos on the internet, plus great buys on Pool equipment.
is that the average league player has to educated as to the national and international scenes of Pool and its players. We have to get them to have a true and expanded interest in Pool as a sport.
People tend to talk about and follow what they are excited about. We need more education about the sport and work in the exposure. Basically, it is the gamblers in Pool that expand their interest into the regional and national
scenes of Pool and the players.
The league players just worried about the 4 games they have to play on Thursday night aren't interested now in who the best 10 players in the world are currently and when they are playing again. We need to develop the league players from just entertainment into being fans of the sport as a whole.
AND ..... We need to tell all pool players that don't have a computer to get one, because then they can get a lot of Pool news, instruction, tips, and videos on the internet, plus great buys on Pool equipment.
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Snapshot9 said:
With regards to league players who are unaware of the international pro pool scene.
I use to play in the Busch and APA League and quite familiar with it. I suggested to bar room owners, back then, to show videos of pro matches. They, the bar room owners, will be of help to the industry for purchasing tapes from Accu-stats and the regulars can find out how easy or tough the game really is at pro-speed (aside from learning new shots and how to really play the game). Their usual reply was that they're going to start losing money because the players will slow down to watch TV and discuss thus less quarters put into the box.
There you go, one of the hindrances to grassroot development there in the USA.
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There was a small 6 or 7 table room on Hillsborough Ave. in Town&Country/Tampa FL that always had tapes of matches going on 2 or three TV's. I think it was called 8-ball poolroom or something like that. Steve Cook came in a lot and John Stackhouse ran it. It was a few blocks West of the Porthole (God bless the Porthole). I always thought it was a good idea. Johnnyt