Ron Swanson
Banned
We don't live in that world any more, thankfully.
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We don't live in that world any more, thankfully.
So want nothing but exhibition crap shoots to keep your attention span occupied?
Ron Swanson
Banned
Do you want pool consigned to the history books?
The world has changed. Deal with it.
So you would be okay with your precious snooker getting reduced to one frame contests?
That game is also losing viewership, and in a decade's or two time, I see prize money falling around to pro pool levels.
Only the top 20 players can make a decent living as it is. Once Ronnie retires, snooker loses 80% of its drawing power. And now that Chinese 8 ball is the "official" and fastest growing cue sport in China, I don't see them being a viable market for snooker (and American pool) as once hoped.
So yeah, let's reduce snooker tournaments to one frame contests that last less than an hour. That'll keep the kids interested!
Ron Swanson
Banned
You may research Pot Black at your leisure.
Snooker is a faster, more fluent game than pool. This is for unknown cultural reasons - it has simply become de rigueur for pool players to bore the living shit out of their opponents and audiences. This won't change until there is a single, unified organisation in charge, one that is capable to enforcing change. It is worth noting snooker has such a body, and snooker is played on one table and to one set of rules.
As ever, and in short, snooker is professional and pool is an ongoing omnishambles.
Wrong. Judd Trump, Neil Robertson, Mark Selby and others have considerable fan bases.
You can blame your mechanical Euro brethren for the current trend of pool players taking forever.
Watch any straight pool match from the 60s and you'll see how fast they make decisions and shoot.
Earl was being hyperbolic when he said Ralf Souqet killed pool, but the Kaiser did set a trend that all Euros have seemed to follow, with the exception of Mika.
Ahem......
https://www.google.ca/url?sa=t&rct=...=hF5zZMA1TKgFaSuidWt7Mw&bvm=bv.99804247,d.cWw
Psst....let me know how fast and fluent this game...
https://www.google.ca/url?sa=t&rct=...=8ap98bFSaFywO7QHSGw5xw&bvm=bv.99804247,d.eXY
Neither game is fast or slow....PLAYERS are fast or slow.
Ron Swanson
Banned
I was at the crucible that night, although watching the other game. Surreal atmosphere, without a sound coming from the other side of the dividing wall. Didn't know why until the following day.
Ron Swanson
Banned
Don't disagree. There was a push out daz was pondering in the WPM that he'd still be thinking about today if there wasn't a stop clock.
We know Ron's a hypocrite. If it's an English game, he'll make all the excuses in the world and summon up a great deal of cognitive dissonance to excuse flaws in his beloved home grown games that bother him in American games.
- Test Cricket. Tedium personified, with batters sometimes batting for hours and matches lasting 6-8 hours. Yet, he thinks this is a "game for men," and that baseball is more boring that one pocket.
- English 8 ball. A contest to see who can block each other's pocket more effectively over the 3 hours a match is played. Even Daz has said that American pool is so much better than English 8, yet Ron loves English 8.
- Soccer:
Need I say more? And then the game winds up in a tie and/or ends in a free kick after a player has faked a penalty, like this:
English "sports" :boring2:
Ron Swanson
Banned
English sports boring? Not to the civilised world, bub. Football is king, dwarfing all other sports, and cricket is comfortably second.
When you invent a sport the world thinks isn't showy and boring, let me know. Your sports are so dull you hold 'World Series' where only one nation bothers to turn up, and they're already there.
As for the rest of it; definite penalty, albeit ludicrously soft, barca have legitimate claims to being the greatest team in sporting history, several deaths on the cricket field this year alone, not to mention broken bones, cuts and bruises on a daily basis. You lot need gloves to catch a - get this - softball.
When you invent a sport the world thinks isn't showy and boring, let me know. Your sports are so dull you hold 'World Series' where only one nation bothers to turn up, and they're already there.
As for the rest of it; definite penalty, albeit ludicrously soft, barca have legitimate claims to being the greatest team in sporting history, several deaths on the cricket field this year alone, not to mention broken bones, cuts and bruises on a daily basis. You lot need gloves to catch a - get this - softball.
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Soccer reigns because of its ridiculously low learning curve and the fact you can use a goat's head as a ball. Cricket is actually a niche sport and is only "popular" because one country of 1.2 billion people are obsessed with it. Now, granted, number of people=popularity, correct? With that logic, American football is vastly, vastly more popular than rugby, with Super Bowl ratings dwarfing the Rugby World Cup final (the 2007 Rugby World Final attracted a pathetic 33 million viewers worldwide, the Super Bowl regularly draws 100 million or more).
On a per nation basis, basketball is more popular than any English sport aside from soccer.
And your lot need a boat oar to hit 80 mph "fast balls." I already gave you the history of baseball players trying cricket, and they excel at that silly game every time, while cricket players know **** all what to do when given a bat that's much smaller than your headmaster's paddle
Ron Swanson
Banned
Soccer reigns because of its ridiculously low learning curve and the fact you can use a goat's head as a ball. Cricket is actually a niche sport and is only "popular" because one country of 1.2 billion people are obsessed with it. Now, granted, number of people=popularity, correct? With that logic, American football is vastly, vastly more popular than rugby, with Super Bowl ratings dwarfing the Rugby World Cup final (the 2007 Rugby World Final attracted a pathetic 33 million viewers worldwide, the Super Bowl regularly draws 100 million or more).
On a per nation basis, basketball is more popular than any English sport aside from soccer.
And your lot need a boat oar to hit 80 mph "fast balls." I already gave you the history of baseball players trying cricket, and they excel at that silly game every time, while cricket players know **** all what to do when given a bat that's much smaller than your headmaster's paddle
Niche sport and only popular in one country? Hmmm, and i repeat, hmmm.
Anyway, here's a list for the terminally myopic. Read em and weep. Your snooze fests start at number 7.
rank Sport Estimated Fans Regional Popularity
1. Soccer / Association Football 3.5 Billion Europe, Africa, Asia, America.
2. Cricket 2.5 Billion Asia, Australia, UK.
3. Field Hockey 2 Billion Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia.
4. Tennis 1 Billion Europe, Asia, America.
5. Volleyball 900 Million Europe, Australia, Asia, America.
6. Table Tennis 850 Million Europe, Africa, Asia, America.
7. Baseball 500 Million America, Japan.
8. Golf 450 Million Europe, Asia, America, Canada.
=9 Basketball 400 Million America.
=9 American Football 400 Million Europe, Africa, Asia, America, Australia.
Per nation.
Reading comprehension is key. Table tennis and cricket are inflated by being popular in countries with billions of people. Even in England, that silly boat oar game is dying, having to compete with Columbo reruns.
And Volleyball and Field Hockey are participation sports for girls.
Baseball, meanwhile, is an 8 billion dollar industry. Didn't you say the higher the money involved, the more professional the sport is?
The highest paid cricketer in the IPL makes about 3 million per year. The highest paid baseball player makes 30 million.
Baseball: The only true professional bat and ball game on the planet.
You need to get better at debate. It's exceedingly easy to use your shit logic against you. Maybe if you'd leave the English bias at home, you'd learn to argue better.
1973 Straight Pool.