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Are you so prideful that you would turn your nose up at a gracious gesture? See -- two can play that game.
I've made no moral judgements here but you're beginning to.
The ball spitting out of the pocket on a normal shot falls into a different category in my mind then a skid or a table roll off. Those latter things are expected misfortunes associated with the game. A ball coming out of the pocket on a perfectly struck ball is not. That's just how I see it. I imagine others could see it differently without risking eternal damnation.
Going back to my fantasy....it's 14-14 and Efren and I have just about concluded a perfect match. Neither of us have missed a ball and both have perfect TPA's. He's running out the final rack a out to conclude this perfect match, when a perfectly hit 8 ball spits back out of the pocket. Here, I suppose I could shout with glee, and run up to the table and shake my head about his poor luck or I could do something else.
I don't know if I call it pride....but I like to compete like a warrior....
...no quarter asked for or given.
There is no honor in winning when your opponent helped you.
I used to give a man serious weight years ago at snooker...only $10 a game.
...I always came out ahead,,,,but never any ill feelings...I quit playing for a year...
...started playing him to get back into the game....he killed me with the old spot...
...he didn't want the money, couldn't believe how bad I played...I told him...
..."Tony, if you don't take the money, I'll burn it right in front of you...you have to let me
be a man."
When I got back into stroke, I wouldn't play him any more...he took the joy out of competing.
...but I used to give him 10% of my action when he was around...he was a good guy...
...but when I play, I play hard.
incidently, if you google 'eight ball comes back out of a pocket', you'll see how Efren handles
that situation....it happened to him and his opponent two times in a row.