I'm not sure if anyone mentioned this altercation from the tournament yet...but I think it was on Wednesday, Earl was playing Gary Abood...
Very similar to the story that Breakup mentioned that he witnessed...it was Earl that started throwing out questions to viewers in the stands...
Well during this match, Earl was chatting back and forth with a spectator....nothing bad at all, they were just talking friendly about things happening in the match...then Earl makes a shot, almost scratches....and then says, "...I got lucky there....no, I really did get lucky..." Then he looks at the spectator and says to him something like, "...Well, that's the one time that I got lucky..." and the spectator responds with something like, "...That's actually the second time...and he holds up two fingers. It seemed like the guy was sincere and that he just wanted to clarify that point with Earl...
Well of course, Earl goes ballistic....and starts hollering at the guy that he has a lot of nerve to talk to him like that... Then he tells him that he can get him thrown right out of the place... Eventually, a bunch of refs come over and calm Earl down....and then the refs are stern with the spectator too and tell him not to keep talking.
In my opinion...it is Earl looking for things to blow-up about...and he is the one instigating most of it... Sure people talk during matches...and maybe that could be a legitimate thing to get mad at....but the match on Saturday between Efren and Ralph S...there were a lot of people watching the match...many people talking...they were breaking down the set of the TV match next to them...banging things, etc....and neither of them said a thing...they just stayed focused and kept playing...
Although in this match...when Efren and Ralph were on the hill...Ralph comes up dry on the break and about 4-5 Philipino guys start cheering and clapping very loud because Ralph didn't make a ball. To me, that didn't show much class or respect for Ralph... Ralph looked ticked and looked sternly over at the guys...but that was it. He didn't carry-on or make a scene...
I just think that Earl is out to instigate trouble...and as strange as it might sound, from what I saw....I think that he wants to find something to get upset about so he can go off...maybe that's the way he gets rid of his nervous energy or something... I saw a couple other things that Earl said and did while at the tournament...and they definitely don't paint a good picture of the guy...at least to me...