What happened?
Rodney Morris B-Side Forfeit in Pittsburgh
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My understanding is that Rodney jammed him finger playing basketball and decided not to play because of it.
Mike
Mike
1pRoscoe said:Maybe he should've played with the spongey eight/nine balls on his fingers like in the other thread??
Not a good thing to hear .I hope he'll come back from the Jam ...
He should have played anyway... He might have played "Jam Up"
Gremlin said:Hello,
Nothing like a game of basketball to kill the boredom of a tournament with no spectators. What a flop! Get well quick Rodney.
"Gremlin"
Did you go Grem? I am sure the weather had alot to do with it. Not to mention the scheduling conflict with the Turning Stone Tourney.
Gremlin said:
i have to agree here. starting a tourney on a sunday and ending it on a thursday is just plain dumb. i hope they didn't have ticket sales on their mind when they planned this.
it does seem as though all the hilton people are worried about is the players staying in the rooms. and since the rates are higher on friday and saturday, i'm guessing they didn't want the touney cutting into the amount of people coming into town on the weekend and paying almost double what the players are paying for a room during the week.
thanks
VAP
I'm delighted to get my V-chips back on the Rodney match after he had to forfeit due to his thumb injury. 
The attendance at most pro pool tournaments is very low. When I attend the U.S. Open, a major pro tournament, if Mother Nature allows, they seem to pack them in at the gate.
The MAJORITY of the pool public, though, are amateur players, league members, and social shooters, and they are working stiffs, most of them, making it just about impossible for them to attend week-long events. Therein lies a problem. It's all about cost and affordability.
When you look at the HUGE turnout at the Super Billiards Expo, it's not the pro players who draw them in. It is, again, the amateurs, league players, and social shooters that make this event a success.
The Skins Billiards Championship and Turning Stone Casino Classic IV were 2-day events occurring on the weekend with FREE admission. These are excellent pro billiards tournaments, affordable to all, players included.
I've said it before and I'll post it again. Unless you're independently wealthy or have a sponsor, for the average pro player, it is difficult to come up with 3- to $5,000 EVERY SINGLE MONTH to keep up with the tournament trail in the professional arena. THIS is what the professional governing bodies of pool need to address. The lot of professional players continues to diminish. Some pro players CANNOT attend every pro event available to them because they cannot afford it.
If a pro player experiences financial difficulties in attending these events, it goes without saying that the spectators aren't going to be able to afford going either, unless you're local to the venue site and can avoid the associated expenses.
To keep on topic of the thread, Rodney is left-handed. I wonder if it was his right thumb or left thumb! BTW, according to my calculations, Rodney is just about due to be a father this month or next!
Picture of Rodney at 2003 U.S. Open with Jarrod Clowery, practicing for the semi-finals against Jose Parica. I always like those Hawaiin shirts Rodney wears. End result, Rodney came in fourth place! He had just finished his last match at 4:30 a.m. and was due back at the conference center at noon, thanks to Hurricane Isabel!
JAM
The attendance at most pro pool tournaments is very low. When I attend the U.S. Open, a major pro tournament, if Mother Nature allows, they seem to pack them in at the gate.
The MAJORITY of the pool public, though, are amateur players, league members, and social shooters, and they are working stiffs, most of them, making it just about impossible for them to attend week-long events. Therein lies a problem. It's all about cost and affordability.
When you look at the HUGE turnout at the Super Billiards Expo, it's not the pro players who draw them in. It is, again, the amateurs, league players, and social shooters that make this event a success.
The Skins Billiards Championship and Turning Stone Casino Classic IV were 2-day events occurring on the weekend with FREE admission. These are excellent pro billiards tournaments, affordable to all, players included.
I've said it before and I'll post it again. Unless you're independently wealthy or have a sponsor, for the average pro player, it is difficult to come up with 3- to $5,000 EVERY SINGLE MONTH to keep up with the tournament trail in the professional arena. THIS is what the professional governing bodies of pool need to address. The lot of professional players continues to diminish. Some pro players CANNOT attend every pro event available to them because they cannot afford it.
If a pro player experiences financial difficulties in attending these events, it goes without saying that the spectators aren't going to be able to afford going either, unless you're local to the venue site and can avoid the associated expenses.
To keep on topic of the thread, Rodney is left-handed. I wonder if it was his right thumb or left thumb!
BTW, according to my calculations, Rodney is just about due to be a father this month or next! Picture of Rodney at 2003 U.S. Open with Jarrod Clowery, practicing for the semi-finals against Jose Parica. I always like those Hawaiin shirts Rodney wears. End result, Rodney came in fourth place! He had just finished his last match at 4:30 a.m. and was due back at the conference center at noon, thanks to Hurricane Isabel!
JAM
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JAM said:
what you have is a catch-22,,,,a cycle that doesn't appear to have an end in sight.
the answer is that there is no answer. if pool in america is to find some kind of success, there has to be a change in the public appetite for sports......and sports in the USA is football, basketball, and baseball. hockey is sinking, track and field sank long ago. the US is not a small sport country. small sports like billiards flourish elsewhere. professional pool to an american sport fanatic is like a six hour bergman movie. pool in the olympics is not the panacea most people hope for....it will still get zero coverage. voting for barretta ain't gettin' it done either. pool has overwhelmed anything jeanette lee and tom cruise has done.
bruin70 said:
Pool IS a cycle that doesn't appear to have an end in sight. It's one of the only sports that is played ALL year around everywhere you go. It's in bars, clubs, homes, and in the public. Baseball and such are seasonal in coverage. Not everyone is interested in a sport that goes all year around. Do you think you could watch one of those highly covered sports all year around? Not trying to start anything, just my point of view (sometimes it's the Devil's advocate).
sjm said:
I enjoy golf too...sometimes too much. I've logged on more hours on the golf channel, than online! The thing is that you've noticed that golf is, for the most part, limited to that channel. Occasionally, it's gonna pop up on CBS or NBC. But never pool. There's no drama in golf. There's drama in those specific sports that are ONLY seasonal. If you were to tell a "lay person"(to pool) this joke "What's the difference between a professional pool player and a large Pizza? A large pizza can feed a family of 4!" They most likely won't get it. If you were to tell ANYONE "Why did Ron Artest leave the game early? To beat the crowd!" EVERYONE would get it. There's just no drama in golf or pool....at least not that anyone cares about. Once again, you have to remember that the media plays the biggest part. They'll hype up the whole salary cap situations, but they don't care if someone's giving the 6 out and the last 2 in the local pool room. There's no way they'll do that. Still, drama feeds the media...soaps, news, and reality TV.
As usual Jam, you hit it right on the head. Matches played during the day are tough to get too for the average working guy. I get off work at 4:00pm and only live an hour from downtown Pittsburgh, yet I didn't bother going in.
My biggest beef is that there is no schedule of matches posted anywhere. I realize that they won't know the exact player matchup all the time, but a list of the rounds and when they start would be great. At least a ballpark schedule of some sort. Even if they just posted that the matches would be played from say 3:00pm to 8:00pm. I see that they update the brackets online everyday. How hard could it be to post on the brackets the approx. starting time of each round for the next day?
Maybe next time...
My biggest beef is that there is no schedule of matches posted anywhere. I realize that they won't know the exact player matchup all the time, but a list of the rounds and when they start would be great. At least a ballpark schedule of some sort. Even if they just posted that the matches would be played from say 3:00pm to 8:00pm. I see that they update the brackets online everyday. How hard could it be to post on the brackets the approx. starting time of each round for the next day?
Maybe next time...
Skess, matches today are at 2, 4 and either 6 or 7.
Mike
Mike