Washing the CB
- Thread starter lfigueroa
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Dude. You still here? Too much time on your hands, bud. tsk, tsk, lol.
Dennis, I'm not accusing anyone of cheating. What I did was a make a suggestion to assist players rack the balls more precisely. I also suggest there be guidelines in place for cleaning balls during a run. What happen during LVC's run was absurd -- it got to the point where he wasn't even looking to see if there was anything on the CB, he just wanted it cleaned every rack. In the final analysis we both care about the game.
So, Bobby and I and a few others see things in a different context than you do. You disagree, or maybe you can see some validity to what we're saying. In any case, our point of view doesn't deserve your mockery.
Lou Figueroa
Got any actual reasons?
People by the way seem to disagree:
Hohmann 151 run: 329 views
Schmidt 168 run: 471 views
Immonen 155 run: 500 views
Corteza 225 run: 2,241 views
So despite being 4 minutes longer due to ball cleaning, the video of the 225 ball run got 4 times as many views. Sounds 'good for the game' to me.
Thank you kindly.
Yup. That's going to take 3 seconds. Oh the horror.
Even more horror. In baseball, the ref has to put special mud on each and every ball that might be used in play, and change them out whenever they touch the ground. They do it because they think it makes the game better.
Thank you kindly.
Er... or maybe it was the two threads -- one here in the Main Forum and another in the 14.1 Forum -- and the surrounding controversy over CB cleaning during the run, lol.
ya think?
Lou Figueroa
Great. If you and I ever play, I'll be sure to have the CB cleaned every 14 shots. I'm sure you'll enjoy it ;-)
Lou Figueroa
What you said was "Seems some guys who can run a lot of balls tend to forget where the spot is when they have a low break ball."
Hardly seems like you're trying to be helpful. If you're going to make a statement like this, at least stick to it.
What I said is true. It can also happen when a player has a high break ball close to the rack area. Of course the Diamond rack is a tad large so maybe there's some compensating going on.
As to trying to be helpful, I was. And I hope that in the out years, an eye will be kept out for stuff like that at the 14.1 Challenge.
Lou Figueroa
It seems like you're certainly accusing someone of wrong doing. That's all.
"Wrong doing" would have to have intent, no? And I have no way of knowing a player's intent.
All I can say is that I wasn't watching for anything going on with the racking but when I saw it, more than once by the same player, I had to laugh and was like, "I can't believe he's getting away with that."
But then again, I'm a purist. So maybe racking the balls a quarter inch low is no big deal to most guys, though it's long been said it's a game of fractions of an inch, millimeters. It was just odd to me, given that the other players I watched had no problem racking appropriately.
Lou Figueroa
So you're not accusing anybody of any wrong doing, but the same guy always racked in an advantageous manner whenever he got a low break ball. Clear as mud. Who was the player? I'd like to witness this for myself.