and for the record....saying you heard someone say something is called hearsay.
funny that no one in the billiard media mentioned this in 20 years if it was such an open secret. I mean we have seen every other facet of players lives exposed and talked about but this was off limits?
Um.
Contrary to popular belief, it was talked about A LOT after the final match. It was also talked about in pool rooms everywhere. ESPECIALLY in Philadelphia, where Spanish Mike makes his home.
Why does it have to be limited to billiards media for it to be valid?
People heard about it. People knew it.
Just because Biliards Digest, or Pool and Billiards didn't do any investigative journalism, or put it in hard copy somehow, doesn't mean it wasn't talked about.
Plus, we didn't have the internet like we have today.
The availability and exchange of information was completely different back then.
Basically, if you heard, you talked about it with people you knew, and that was it.
Dead issue.
There was absolutely no reason to go around and blab about it to absolutely everyone possible, given pool's history of black eyes.
That is a much different environment then today, where people across the globe can exchange information instantly, and people actually WANT to tell everyone they possibly can.
People that know, know.
People that demand they point the finger or reveal their sources for accountability's sake, are just going to be disappointed.
It's over and done with.
People can debate the video as evidence or proof, or lack thereof, as much as they want.
Doesn't change the fact that it was a dump, always will be a dump, and nothing anyone says or does can change that.
Not even the players involved can change it.
