Shark Out of Water

[Mensabum]

okay here is the scoop on edwards. he was best player around connecticut. for sure. he shot like lassiter he never missed a ball. this is before he was a complete drug addict and still a hippy kid kind of.. although he may have been back then i dont know. he would come around the pool room in bridgeport he lived about a half hour away. he was a funny decent guy. never saw him after that.
he was called waterbury not waterdog then. he got that when he left full time for the road from someone.
like many pool players they didnt really have a life and got too far into drugs or crime. anyone can quit. it is a personal choice,

Addressing those demons is easier said than done, but I agree for the most part.

 

[maha]

of course it is not easy. but the failure is worse. too many i know took the easy way out literally.

 

[Mensabum]

of course it is not easy. but the failure is worse. too many i know took the easy way out literally.

One is too many. When I had to go to my other hand to count, gave me pause. Lost some very dear friends like others have as well. What a waste.

 

[JAM]

Keith McCready and the late Michael "Geese" Gerace definitely were buddies with Waterdog. I only met him one time.

My memory of Waterdog is from when he came to my neck of the woods looking to get played in 1985. He was kind of quiet, almost shy. The thing I remember about him the most is that he was really, really looking forward to getting a stand-in part in a new movie that was being produced, which later ended up being "The Color of Money." He told us they were paying pool players $50 to be stand-ins, so that the background of the scenes looked real. He really wanted to be in that movie. How ironic it is that I ended up with Grady Seasons as my other half decades later.

I heard from others that Watredog did suffer from substance abuse, which probably ended his life prematurely. He hailed from Waterford, CT, I believe, which is how he obtained the moniker "Waterdog." He did not have a happy childhood, and so when he was a young'n, he ventured out alone on the road to greener pastures using his cue to lead the way.

There was something very sweet about Waterdog's persona when I met him the one and only time.

 

[Mensabum]

Keith McCready and the late Michael "Geese" Gerace definitely were buddies with Waterdog. I only met him one time.

My memory of Waterdog is from when he came to my neck of the woods looking to get played in 1985. He was kind of quiet, almost shy. The thing I remember about him the most is that he was really, really looking forward to getting a stand-in part in a new movie that was being produced, which later ended up being "The Color of Money." He told us they were paying pool players $50 to be stand-ins, so that the background of the scenes looked real. He really wanted to be in that movie. How ironic it is that I ended up with Grady Seasons as my other half decades later.

I heard from others that Watredog did suffer from substance abuse, which probably ended his life prematurely. He hailed from Waterford, CT, I believe, which is how he obtained the moniker "Waterdog." He did not have a happy childhood, and so when he was a young'n, he ventured out alone on the road to greener pastures using his cue to lead the way.

There was something very sweet about Waterdog's persona when I met him the one and only time.

So many of us road players started out under similar circumstances. Playing on the road was never something I saw as a career for myself, but you get stuck in things and oftentimes those 'things' carry with them other 'things' you'd rather have avoided, but many could not. I thank the Internet for forcing me to remove myself from the equation.
Never met a road dawg I didn't like.