Lmao
you're hanging at the wrong halls.
regardless, it really doesn't matter with regard to my point that a little drunken blather will do nothing but INCREASE viewership. if his opponent didn't care then neither should anyone else. also, if beer is allowed to be swilled by the contestants during the match, then the rule makers have no leg to stand on when denouncing drunken behavior. beer is consumed to get a buzz. there's no getting around that simple statement. in fact alcohol could be considered "doping". i previously alluded to this fact. and, as i understand it, the current unwritten rules are; you can get drugged up and play a championship pool game but don't show it. if you allow getting drugged, expect drugged behavior. you guys want this to become an olympic event right? do you think that the Olympic committee would allow alcohol consumption?
if 14.1 is to be all prim and proper and sanitized with bow ties and vests, expect another 100 years of no Tee Vee coverage. if i were running the show, i'd allow sharking, loud farting, cursing, drinking, throwing chalk, bare-knuckle brawls and riding motorcycles into the pool hall. now THAT'D get a network contract....
It increased viewership, yeah, but for the wrong reasons. Looking at it through a positive lens like that would be equivalent to, ohhhh, I don’t know… maybe being proud of a daughter for being so popular, only to discover that the source of her popularity derives from her becoming a stripper. I wouldn’t be happy or proud of that, but hey, maybe some people would.
His opponent didn’t care? Of course Darren didn’t care. Why would he care?? Hell, how much easier could it get to snap off 1st place?? But is whether his opponent cared or not the only thing that mattered? Being a professional at something, anything, to me at least, means you be where you’re supposed to be when you’re supposed to be there in condition to perform and executing your performance with integrity. Anything else would be, well, simply unprofessional. Hell, you don’t even need to be a professional for those characteristics to apply – I’d say that’s a proper mindset for being a good father too. In light of the state Alex got himself into, since he couldn’t fulfill his professional obligations, the right thing, the respectable thing to have done would have been to notify Bill that he was unable to play and that he needed to forfeit his match. Wouldn’t matter why. Wouldn’t matter at all. Just simply, I apologize, but I cannot play tonight, and he could’ve gone back to the bar and had a blast. To elect to play, in that state, in front of a paying audience, was unprofessional and who knows, may be a sign of alcoholism. If not, then it was at the very least an immature thing to do.
Getting drunk is synonymous with “doping”? That’s not even a stretch – that’s absolutely ridiculous. First of all, to be on the United States Anti-Doping Agency or the World Anti-Doping Agency’s list of prohibited substances, a drug must have the ability to enhance performance. Alcohol is not on the list because it doesn’t enhance performance, it RETARDS it.
I don’t quite get why some people cast aspersions by identifying straight pool players as somehow “different”. I’d say the majority of straight players, professionals and amateurs alike, do or have played 3-ball, 7-ball, 8-ball, 9-ball, 10-ball, banks, 1-pocket and pocket pool. Well, only the male players for that last one. What led to the thought process that all straight pool players of today believe pool needs to be played the way Brunswick dictated it to be 80 years ago– in elegant chandeliered hotel ballrooms amongst tuxedoed contestants with Bach playing in the background. I don’t think any players of today view that as normal, although it does add a positive allure to the game, but it’s a concept that became standard and evolved into tradition before any of today’s players were even born. Weird.
At any rate, your posts are equally interesting and amusing. I enjoy them for what they are as probably everyone else here does. And that’s a good thing. Diversity is always a good thing.
Ron F
