Mr twister? What is it with you?
Are you just incapable of carrying on a discussion without throwing out schoolyard names? There’s a simple question for you.
Lou Figueroa
SJM at the 2023 Derby City Catastrophe
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Mr twister? What is it with you?
Are you just incapable of carrying on a discussion without throwing out schoolyard names? There’s a simple question for you.
Lou Figueroa
I don’t believe that’s an issue in this case since at the DCC all the tables are coming from Diamond and they have total control of the equipment — whatever they do is a deliberate decision.
Lou Figueroa
You twisted my comment intentionally to imply I didn’t care about pool. You do that kind of thing all the time — and schoolyard insults are a specialty of yours too. Don’t start that sir. Double standard on the simple question I see, but why should I be surprised lol
The point is, it all fits with the lack of concrete standards for pool. Those slight variations are commonplace.
Baseball. Every stadium has unique dimensions. A home run in one venue can be an easy out in another. It's one of the charms of the sport. (I readily admit that it's harder to find "charm" in varying pocket sizes.)
Small variations in equipment is fine imo. Can you imagine if all the specs said we had to have olhousen pockets, as an example? We’d be stuck with garbage.
Baseball changes what a home run is at every single stadium.
Don’t golf tournaments change the tee or cup location each round? (I’m only a casual golf fan I might be off).
Baseball changes what a home run is at every single stadium.
Don’t golf tournaments change the tee or cup location each round? (I’m only a casual golf fan I might be off).
Agreed. I think the bigger problem is not having a standard set of rules. I've been teaching a lot of beginners the game recently (doing my small part to grow the sport) and I get asked questions like "if you scratch on the 8, is that a loss?" "if I make a solid on the break, aren't I solids?" "do I have to call my shot in 10 ball?" and the answer to every one of these questions is "it depends." Because it depends on the league/tournament/rule set you are playing under. It confounds newbies. I give them *my* preferred rules, which are usually the same as WPA, but you can still see it doesn't sit right with most people that there isn't just a basic set of rules to use.
Baseball, for it's variety with its fields, doesn't have 4 strikes be an out at times, or only two outs to an inning, or sometimes you tag up on a flyout and other times you can just run. Let's get the rules for pool standardized first, and then we can worry about whether or not pocket size differences per tournament is really a big deal, other than for pure logistics.
You said you did not care, I didn’t need to do anything, so there was no intent.
The rest is just your usual baloney.
Lou Figueroa
In golf at least it’s the same size hole.
As to baseball, sure the stadiums are all different, but they don’t purposefully change things to make the game tougher mid series.
Lou Figueroa
Close — your usual *Lou* baloney
You are really ate up about me aren’t you, lol — if you cared a fraction as much about pool…
Lou Figueroa
I really enjoyed all aspects of the derby (first time in 20 years). I played poorly, however, every table I played on rolled nicely and was very fair. The pockets were a perfect size. SJM, sorry I missed introducing myself. I was eating the same time you were and didn't want to interrupt your meal. Enjoy your writeups. Jay
Sorry we didn't get to meet, Jay.
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Really. This is almost as silly as you saying Carl Bolm put up $10,000 so Tony Chohan and Shane Van Boening could play their next challenge match without smoke. I did get a chuckle out of the fact that you could not say you were wrong — the best you could do was say I was correct lol
Really. This is almost as silly as you saying Carl Bolm put up $10,000 so Tony Chohan and Shane Van Boening could play their next challenge match without smoke. I did get a chuckle out of the fact that you could not say you were wrong — the best you could do was say I was correct lol
I know you’re infatuated with me but I do hope you’ll be able to get over that someday.
Lou Figueroa
wow
Hey, Steve, your hard on for me is showing again and I know you’re moments away from issuing your “let’s compare/bet on SAT scores” challenge again, but instead of continuing to piss all over Stu’s thread why don’t you start a new thread in which you can go all Lou 24/7?
Lou Figueroa
Lou Figueroa
Are you trying to be the first guy to get banned from AZBilliards and OnePocket.org simultaneously?