20DollarCue said:
I didn't enjoy this show overall. Even after giving it the benefit of the doubt for being the "first of its kind" or whatever, I didn't like the sound or the commentary. Most of the time the audio didn't match up. The commentary -- what to say about that -- it was painful at best to watch it, especially when they kept making numerous references to how "the professionals" played it versus "how you folks play it at home". Oh well, it was the very first episode. There seemed to be a massive amount of commercials too.
I'm going to tell a story about something I recently said in front of someone. I said" Most people who stay a full twenty in the military are mediocre, because the structure of the military breeds mediocrity." One of the people in the car is a first calss petty officer who is about to retire. He got upset and said" What you're saying I'm mediocre?"
"NO, that's not what I said. I said that the majority of the people who stay in the military are mediocre because the military is setup to breed mediocrity."
He personally inferred that I was referring to him. Why, I don't know, maybe he felt mediocre because he was only retiring as a E-6. It doesn't matter, it's the same thing that is happening here. You people are lumping yourselves into the majority of pool players and calling him a lier when that's not the case.
He says" This is the way professionals play eightball and it's different in such a such way from the way you play it at home."
What is his audience, who is he speaking to? Not you!!! you're the exception, the people who are already into pool. He's talking about the bangers who pick up a pool cue and start playing just for fun. The people playing bar rules or in their fathers basement, who only bought a pool table because he thought it would look good in their game room. Or the people who don't play pool but might have seen it played and know the bar room rules of eightball.
You're making the mistaken assumption that he's talking down to you, when he's only trying to illustrate to the laymen, the differences between what they see on tv and what they play. HIS AUDIENCE ARE NOT POOL PLAYERS, we are already there watching.
He had the little blurb on the big sports show to get the audience that doesn't normally watch pool to get interested. He picked the people he picked to play because it would get both women and men and younger people interested in watching. MAke no mistake, KT is a marketing genius and he doesn't need the pool bum community telling him how he's marketing this all wrong. The pool community has had plenty of time to try and market pool and has failed miserably. So get off your high horse and back down.
So YOU didn't like it, tuff sh$T, who cares, so long as it drew more non pool players interest, which is what it was designed to do.
