Tadd Stories.........

[dafatman]

Saw this myself....
1989 Greensboro Open. I went to check the tournament board for a couple of our local shortstops and their match-ups against the "big guns".
I'm standing there and this guy steps up next to me in this big afro and reads one of our guys name and says "what the hell is a David......?" I went to watch the match.
David had Tadd 4-1 going to 11 (back when you had to get to 11 to beat someone and not some lame race to 7) and Tadd looked bored to death.
David was playing his heart out, broke and came up dry. Tadd had a dead
1-9 combo, turned and looked at David and grinned, ran the rack and the final score was 11-4.
After that we were talking about Tadd and some of the locals who heard stories of his "game". One said Tadd was playing a guy one time who was taking a licking and off a bad table layout after the break, the guy tells Mark "well you won't run this rack...." and Mark banked every ball to run the rack and break the guy down.....true or not Mark?
I always heard he didn't care for the tourneys, was just there to get the big action. Always wondered why he walked away......

 

[sjm]

... going to 11 (back when you had to get to 11 to beat someone and not some lame race to 7) and Tadd looked bored to death...
the guy tells Mark "well you won't run this rack...." and Mark banked every ball to run the rack and break the guy down.....true or not Mark?

Great story! Wouldn't surprise me at all if it's true!

FYI, in first-tier men's pro events today, the races are to eleven. The only time they go to seven is in the three TV matches, at the insistence of ESPN. In a typical 64 player, double elimination event, there are 126 matches played, and 123 of them are races to eleven. In an untelevised event, however, such as the UPA World Summit of Pool in NYC in August, no races shorter than eleven are played in the entire tournament. To depict this as an era in which it takes seven games to win is inaccurate.