I thought it was a great Mosconi Cup even though we lost. I got to watch two days and four nights of great pool played by great players. I don't have much respect for player bashing. The pressure is incredibly high. The races are short. One lucky kick in one rack can be enough to sway a whole set. It isn't fair to say that anyone lost the Mosconi Cup for us or that any single shot did it. Going into this I thought the teams were very even and I think they still are. If we did 100 Mosconi Cups in a row it wouldn't suprise me to see the final score be close to 50-50.
I feel bad that Dennis even saw some of the venomous stuff written here. As a musician I played a couple of shows in front of a few thousand people and let me tell you, you can't stop your body from producing adrenaline when it has determined it is going to produce it. Shakes and fatigue after an adrenaline dump are things that no one is immune to. A few thousand people was bad enough, I can't imagine what it would be like knowing a few hundred thousand people were watching and that what you were doing was going to tape where it could be scrutinized forever. Blaming Dennis for missing one shot is like blaming a man for being human.
I feel bad that Dennis even saw some of the venomous stuff written here. As a musician I played a couple of shows in front of a few thousand people and let me tell you, you can't stop your body from producing adrenaline when it has determined it is going to produce it. Shakes and fatigue after an adrenaline dump are things that no one is immune to. A few thousand people was bad enough, I can't imagine what it would be like knowing a few hundred thousand people were watching and that what you were doing was going to tape where it could be scrutinized forever. Blaming Dennis for missing one shot is like blaming a man for being human.