Murph,
What the hell are you doing up so early?
Lyn
Working man lol
Getting up at 4:30 -5:00 each morning
Shane wins Rumrunner again
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Working man lol
Getting up at 4:30 -5:00 each morning
You said what now? haha sorry, I don't normally nitpick...
But anyway, honestly it sounds like sour grapes from these complainers.
Are they claiming there were multiple dry breaks whenever shane racked?
Or they're just trying to say they "saw him doing something to the rack",
which doesn't mean shit if the opponent still makes the wing ball?
I use the magic rack constantly and it's hard to screw with the balls.
They settle in their little holes, and if you try to push them even a couple of millimeters
in any direction, they just rock back into their hole.
Sometimes when I just throw the balls up there and the first rows of balls don't
just automatically freeze, until you add the back rows of balls. Then the weight
of those balls in back will force the front rows to freeze up.
Occasionally (with old a wrinkled MBR's especially), even adding the back balls doesn't
make the balls freeze up, so you must slightly nudge them until they freeze.
That may be what those guys saw when they thought shane was messing with the rack.
There are also times where the balls sets are a little old and worn and some balls are a hair small.
Then it's tough to get them to freeze and you need extra work to make it happen,
or you may need to swap balls around and rotate them until they touch.
I agree ....loser racks is like watching a cartoon.
idiots are gonna find any possible way to downplay anything that Shane does. He would have won the Varner event had he played and he would have won the event that Skylar Woodward won as well.
He wins if it's winner breaks, he wins if it's alternate break, and he wins if it's loser breaks.
He wins if it's rack your own, he wins if it's rack your opponent, and he wins if someone else racks.
He wins on diamonds, he wins on GC's, he wins on barboxes.
He wins gambling so much that nobody will hardly step in the box, he wins challenge matches, and he wins almost every tournament he enters nowadays.
He's owned the US Open, Derby City, RumRunners, SBE, etc....for the past several years now.
He beats Americans, he pounds on Europeans, and he spanks Filipinos. If any of those so called Asian champions would venture outside of Asia or challenge him to a big money match then he'd horsef@#$ them too.
The simple fact is that Shane is THE best 9 or 10-ball player in the world right now.
He wins if it's winner breaks, he wins if it's alternate break, and he wins if it's loser breaks.
He wins if it's rack your own, he wins if it's rack your opponent, and he wins if someone else racks.
He wins on diamonds, he wins on GC's, he wins on barboxes.
He wins gambling so much that nobody will hardly step in the box, he wins challenge matches, and he wins almost every tournament he enters nowadays.
He's owned the US Open, Derby City, RumRunners, SBE, etc....for the past several years now.
He beats Americans, he pounds on Europeans, and he spanks Filipinos. If any of those so called Asian champions would venture outside of Asia or challenge him to a big money match then he'd horsef@#$ them too.
The simple fact is that Shane is THE best 9 or 10-ball player in the world right now.
We don't usually see eye to eye on various topics, but on this one, I agree with you 100 percent. :smile:
I'm not even a big Shane fan, but damn, sometime you gotta call a spade a spade. I don't like Lebron James, but he's the best basketball player on the planet.
The first time I met Shane, I put Corey in the box against him in Atlanta and I just assumed Shane was a young, cocky kid (nothing wrong with that when you are becoming the best at something) and he had been beating on everyone that week. This was around 2006. I thought he was a bit brash to play Corey in rack your own 9-ball no matter how good he was playing.
Corey won, but shortly thereafter he got pounded in that first TAR match. I bet against Shane in that one and a couple of matches thereafter until I realized he was something special. HE JUST WINS, Period. I won't bet against him now unless I'm getting crazy odds or I'm just mad at my money.
In 2003, I think it was, subject to check, Shane made his first appearance at the U.S. Open 9-Ball Championship.
Back then, there was an on-site bookie, actually a group of four, who would take bets on upcoming matches in the tournament.
They put Keith on the TV table with this unknown-to-us kid named Shane. Somebody told me that the bookmakers had Keith a two-game dog against this kid, and I was shocked, as I had never heard of him.
Shane was nervous on the TV table, may have been his first time, and Keith won, but that was then and this is now. :grin-square:
Because he knows how well he will be dining at the Rum Runner buffet.