The Color of Money - The Last Day

bruin70 said:
so what was the deal? the commentators mentioned earl turning all the spectators against him. what did he pull that time?
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There's lots of typical Earl-audience banter throughout the match, but theres one incident that Mark Wilson calls out Earl and its right before Efren makes that red three in the side at the very beginning of part one. I don't know why I chose to leave that part out, maybe Earl has a bad enough reputation. Earl tries to shark Efren by interupting him as he's shooting the 3. Knowing the cueball will flirt with the 9, Efren sizes up the situation. Earl then goes up to Efren right before he shoots and says something like "wait, you're actually looking at the 9 in that pocket?!" and Efren gives him a wtf kind of look. Lo and behold, Efren runs into the 9 and Earl just says "good shot."
 
Sarcastro said:
There's lots of typical Earl-audience banter throughout the match, but theres one incident that Mark Wilson calls out Earl and its right before Efren makes that red three in the side at the very beginning of part one. I don't know why I chose to leave that part out, maybe Earl has a bad enough reputation. Earl tries to shark Efren by interupting him as he's shooting the 3. Knowing the cueball will flirt with the 9, Efren sizes up the situation. Earl then goes up to Efren right before he shoots and says something like "wait, you're actually looking at the 9 in that pocket?!" and Efren gives him a wtf kind of look. Lo and behold, Efren runs into the 9 and Earl just says "good shot."
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Earl stood up on that late final night too and asked Efren, " You're gonna make that ball in that pocket?"
The ref should have interfered and given Efren that rack.
Also, Earl picked one person in the audience to be the bad guy all night.
Also, on one foul the ref called Efren on ( a no-rail kick he thought) the promoter Bob Moore overruled the ref as Efren clearly hit the 5-ball going in not from behind. Earl goes nuts about it but they could have gone to the video.
Earl really lost a lot of respect in this match. Efren showed how a pro should behave and Earl did exactly the opposite.
 
Colin Colenso said:
Seems Efren went from 17 games behind to 4 ahead over about 35 frames. Or about 28 wins to 7.

Does anyone know what it was exactly?
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Efren broke and ran a large number of those racks. When I have some free time I'm gonna count how many it was.
 
When Earl gets to 116 or 117, he seemed to cheer up a bit before breaking, joking about how he really didn't want the match to be this close, etc. I think right after that is when he scratches, and he goes ballistic. In one of the final frames, he makes a great shot but the cueball goes two or three rails to scratch in the side. He slaps the cueball with his cue before it falls, and the cueball goes flying around the table. He was lucky it didn't disturb any of the balls, I think that would have been automatic loss of game and he would have went even more nuts.
 
Yeah... after a certain point the commenter(I think mark) makes a good comment that "its a sad thing when the level of play at this level is determined by attitude" or something to that effect.

Earl at that point just seems to be whacking away at the balls(which he is great at, no doubt) instead of playing top level pool game, and that scratch in the side was because of that carelessness.

I think the audience wanted to see it really close up till the end instead of Earl bashing away at the balls and thats the reason he "turned the audience against him".

Thats just my take from watching the video, I could be wrong!
 
Thanks for the video Saracastro...i watch it all...actually i already watch this one before on our local TV here in the Phils..
Earl's attitude really is the determinant of that game, he got so careless, i think he has chances...but he just make quick shots without thinking where the ball goes...whew...
Ed Pecson is by the way a local commentator here in sports, particularly in boxing and basketball....but pool is not his cup of tea...but thanks for Mark Wilson because he provide the balance...no offense meant though for Ed Pecson he's a great guy....
 
Thanks for the post. Cost me almost 3 hours this evening!

I almost expected an implosion, as it seems that some people find it part of their nature to lash out, but it really seemed that Earl lost his focus, or even desire. Really appeared to give half-hearted attempts at some safes in the last few games, and really dropped his effort almost entirely in the last game, IMHO.
 
while I don't say that Earl did the good thing by having an attitude like he had, I think we should try to understand him. They have been playing all night and they were tired...really hard to stay focused at 3am. Plus he had a 17 points advantage and he saw all that dissapear into thin air.
 
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