Kinda miss PocketPoint

You guys are making him a legend!!!! I can set up a PayPal fund you can all chip money into if you want your next village idiot?
 
bearsafety said:
You guys are making him a legend!!!! I can set up a PayPal fund you can all chip money into if you want your next village idiot?
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nah he's a short term asshole... Ed Wheat is a legend... a TVMike meltdown with a pocketpoint ego..it takes 2 to fill his shoes

even he knew when it was over... no WheatCues1, WheatCues2, WheatCues3... ect

I want to go back to the AZ of old where the crackpots had class
 
softshot said:
nah he's a short term asshole... Ed Wheat is a legend... a TVMike meltdown with a pocketpoint ego..it takes 2 to fill his shoes

even he knew when it was over... no WheatCues1, WheatCues2, WheatCues3... ect

I want to go back to the AZ of old where the crackpots had class
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Ahhh it must have been before my time.. I always miss all the good stuff. Also, whats to stop PocketPoint from just making another account under another name?
 
Pocketpoint5........ Really ????

Maybe some of your original threads as the original PP held some merit on some level somewhere, but with this latest incarnation, this is how you're coming across in the AZ community.......
 

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enzo said:
This is another great post, i've been seeing more and more lately. The truth is, I don't know (for a fact). I can only give you one data point, good enough for me.... yet not for you im sure. Here it is.

What you are about to read, all took place in my "area" of California. It was the early 90's, and we all thought pool was kinda so-so. We had all heard about amazing stories of keith and others playing for thousands perhaps 5 or ten years previous, yet nothing was really happening at the time. BUT, the truth is, there was a great atmosphere. It was on a smaller scale, but people came into the local rooms and practiced hard everyday and there was a lot to watch. Race to 3 for 20, 5 dollars a game one pocket-- then everybody would wait for the very good weekly tournament, and inbetween all this, we'd practice. i am personally convinced that this is how pool "rallies" in an area. That is, there are one or two good players, they gamble and play tournaments, everybody wants to be like them.... so they all work hard and try their hardest to improve. I loved.... relative to today, i absolutely loved it.

Then.... and I wont try to put a date in this.... but then.... something happened. There is not ONE sinlge player to be seen in any local hall around here hitting balls and working on their games. How can I correlate this to leagues. Like i said, truth is I can't definitively.... but I do have a brain, and I can tell you what ive seen and think. That atmosphere that I saw around here has just totally disappeard. People still like pool, so thats not the problem, but they aren't following the same behaviors as they did in the past. For me it is a problem, yet live and let live.... really, im just telling you how i feel.

And to address one other poster..... when i say leagues need to be trashed, I just mean they need to be exposed for what they really are so people can make up their own mind on how to get the "itch" that they have to play this game out of their system. Leagues seem almost automatic theses days for an up and comer.... I wish this wasn't the case, and I think if you have understood this post, you already know why. But I honestly want people to have a great time and get out there and have fun is the truth. But if your goal is to play well, i'm here to tell you to please think twice about joining a league, and the reason is that leagues are simply not the way to get better in this game. There are 3 things you need to do if you want to get better:

1) practice-- the more the better
2) good tournaments and perhaps some gambling to fill in the time between good tournaments
3) watch good players, accustats is perfect for this... pause and rewind are priceless

so i guess you could say the above 3 things would be my manifesto to wanna-be players. and if i could put a negative in my list, it would be stay away from leagues as you know.
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I'm not a real big fan of leagues but I recognize there's a market for them. I even play in one occasionally. There are many league players that just want to come out and hang out with others for a night. They don't really care to be the next Efren. They might not even know who SVB, Soquet or Pagulayan are.

I happen to be one of the few that tries to take in the full pool experience - playing in tournaments, matching up for money, going on the road, watching big action games and playing in leagues. I find the league thing to be fun, like so many others. I've made many friends and acquintances from league night. So what's the harm? That not enough people want to improve their game and the game will eventually die? That pro pool will not attract a large attendance? That 8-ball will become the national game?

If leagues aren't your cup of tea, I totally understand. But when someone comes on here and tells people that barbox 8-ball is for girls - all so he can save the beauty of our sport - I'm sure the message will not be well received. PocketPoint needed a better tact.
 
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OneIron said:
Guy started interesting threads. Isn't that the purpose of forums? :cool:
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His threads were not interesting. They were designed to stir up shit and cause problems.

He could have taken a less confrontational approach and received much better results and discussions.

My .02
 
Its an ole tune, the clan gathers and says, we want his ed on a stick, and out comes the ax man, chop and off his ed goes. Bloody well done. Then everyone is happy.

They they get bored, with nothing going one, and they miss him, and wished they had not chopped his bloody ed off. Maybe just an Ear or cut out his tongue.

Makes me wonder, if you know, what you really want?
 
poolhustler said:
His threads were not interesting. They were designed to stir up shit and cause problems.

He could have taken a less confrontational approach and received much better results and discussions.

My .02
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Maybe "interesting" was the wrong word. Should've said "entertaining". My point was that the responses to PP were sometimes laugh out loud funny. This forum has a lot of very intelligent members with a great sense of humor.
 
8ballEinstein said:
I'm not a real big fan of leagues but I recognize there's a market for them. I even play in one occasionally. There are many league players that just want to come out and hang out with others for a night. They don't really care to be the next Efren. They might not even know who SVB, Soquet or Pagulayan are.

I happen to be one of the few that tries to take in the full pool experience - playing in tournaments, matching up for money, going on the road, watching big action games and playing in leagues. I find the league thing to be fun, like so many others. I've made many friends and acquintances from league night. So what's the harm? That not enough people want to improve their game and the game will eventually die? That pro pool will not attract a large attendance? That 8-ball will become the national game?

If leagues aren't your cup of tea, I totally understand. But when someone comes on here and tells people that barbox 8-ball is for girls - all so he can save the beauty of our sport - I'm sure the message will not be well received. PocketPoint needed a better tact.
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Well, i'm not pocketpoint, as you know... and I do understand you point-- it is a good one. I would say that each person should get on with whatever they'd like to do.... yet the harm, as you ask, is that potential players (and thus potential player's communities) get automatically sucked into leagues i feel, and are under a much different environment of play. So I feel i'd like to tell people how I feel about leagues, and what I have seem them do in my community.... so that people are aware. But im a bygones be bygones guy :) cheers!
 
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