My impression is that str8 shots is getting a lot of unfair flak from tinfoil-hat types,
guys who see Machiavellian profit-motivated chess moves in every little thing,
when really it was as simple as:
"we don't think our player should play this match because he might flip out, which makes us look bad".
TAR is happy and JCIN is the first guy to call bullshit if he sees it.
JS is presumably happy. Harriman probably isn't but I've never seen him happy.
Not too long ago, I believe a thread was deleted because of (apparently) unfair accusations
against Charlie Williams about an event he put on. And the accusations actually came from
one of the involved parties rather than people on the sidelines who don't know the facts.
If AZ is willing to nuke a thread like that, then they should be willing to nuke this thread,
where an apparently decent promoter (who has a much better rep than CW) is being
unfairly accused of shady tactics by people who aren't even involved.
Good post. I agree completely. It's unfortunate that there have been so many crooks in the pool world that everything new is suspect because people have become so jaded over the years.