What tears me up...

Sweet Marissa said:
Seeing bass fishing and poker on ESPN. These are not sports. Bass fishing doesn't even require skill. And poker is a bunch of cards. Put it on the game show network!

Pool takes talent and skill. It makes me sad for all the wasted talent that could have been great, even legendary, in pool and billiards, a real sport.
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Ok. For starters, there is a degree of knowledge and skill in BOTH fishing and poker (as there is with almost any activity). So don't even go there. If there's no skill involved in fishing, then why can't I catch a goddamn thing every time I hit the lake??? Because I suck at it! That's why!

And if there's no skill in poker, then how come you see the same faces making big money runs in all of the major tv tourneys all the time? Are you trying to say that they are the luckiest guys on earth? If so, I think they would have given up cards and started playing the lottery for a living a LONG time ago.
 
corvette1340 said:
I've played darts for money, pool for money, I play poker 6-8 hours a day, and I played all sports growing up as well as basketball and golf in college. While I don't think golf, pool, darts, or poker require as much physicality as basketball, football, baseball, etc.., they do require skill sets unique to each of them. I don't think poker can be considered a sport, but golf, pool, and darts require a repeatable athletic motion which makes them sports. I guess it all depends on your definition.
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I believe they are all sports to be honest, I just do not think that when the commentators say thinks about a dart player or pool player "what an incredible athelete he is" that is the right term to use. Maybe other terms could be professional, skilled individual, talented but not athelete. Am I on my own with this? Maybe this is why I get into the arguments with people on this.
 
All I want on ESPN is this

9 AM - 1 PM bear and/or wild hog hunting

1PM - 9 PM pool ( and no, trickshots and endless WPBA reruns from 93' are not allowed )

9PM - 1 AM Drops and Coin pitching for $$

1 AM - 9 AM Walker Texas Ranger
 
jhendri2 said:
I think pool should embrace the poker tournament model.

What if we had a tournament with a $10K entry fee. All the pool players received the appropriate amount of chips. Players woofed their own matches. No brackets, no scheduled play times etc. As time passed the minimum bets would increase, just to keep things moving. I think it would be alot of fun to watch.

Jim
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I think they had that not too long ago. I havn't seen it latley but they had poker pool. I think.
 
I've said this a thousand times on here.Pool will never draw a huge crowd for t.v. until 1)start showing 8 ball,as that is what 95% of the population plays.People will not watch 9 ball because HEY they don't play the f-ing game,so why would they be interested.2)don't degrade the sport by airing trick shot competitions.It cheapens the sport.You might as well have hotdog eating competitions.
As for poker,it's a very skillfull game.I entered a $10 rebuy,495 player tourny on fulltilt last night.Placed 7th,won $495.First was $3750.WOW,thats some good dough.And i'm putting that into the canadian poker tour which is here this weekend.$500 entry,300 players.
And i'm gonna win that one............IT'S ALL SKILL .LOL
Wish me luck.
 
Sweet Marissa said:
This is the south. I used to fish all the time. I live on a lake so my friends and sister fish. I'll probably be in Florida this weekend to do some deep sea fishing.

That being said, it takes no skill on my part when I bag a load of fish. If anything, it's the bait I'm using.
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You gotta lets me hold some of that bait!:D
 
bigskyjake said:
All I want on ESPN is this

9 AM - 1 PM bear and/or wild hog hunting

1PM - 9 PM pool ( and no, trickshots and endless WPBA reruns from 93' are not allowed )

9PM - 1 AM Drops and Coin pitching for $$

1 AM - 9 AM Walker Texas Ranger
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LOL followed by a good old fish fry and coon supper :)
 
Marissa, Marissa, Sweet Marissa. :eek:

I just gotta tell you you have absolutely NO idea what you are talking about when it comes to bass fishing when it's done competitively. I fished tournaments for years and years and did quite well a couple of years albeit they were smaller more local/regional type tournaments. The time/$$$/dedication it takes to be succesful in competitive bass fishing is obviously way outside of your thinking abilities. Stick to something you know something about please. :rolleyes:
 
bfdlad said:
I believe they are all sports to be honest, I just do not think that when the commentators say thinks about a dart player or pool player "what an incredible athelete he is" that is the right term to use. Maybe other terms could be professional, skilled individual, talented but not athelete. Am I on my own with this? Maybe this is why I get into the arguments with people on this.
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no, I agree that dart players, pool players, and poker players do not need to be conditioned like other athletes to compete well in their respective disciplines. A lot of people said the same thing about golfers years ago until Tiger Woods and a few others came along and started lifting weights and becoming fit athletes and winning all the time. This made others start to work out and made professional golfers , for the most part, more fit and athletic. Maybe if pool players started training regimens then they would win more often, I'm not sure, but it would make a great study.
 
Sweet Marissa said:
Speed pool looks comedic to me. I'd rather watch Corvette eat cheese snacks while taking a poop.
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Cheese snacks...really?

I refuse to ask who would be doing the pooping in this unfortunate scenario.
 
Fishing

Fishing is part luck but I've seen some of that in pool too:D

Fishing with lures takes a lot of skill. You have to cast right into structure where most people would snag and break the line. You have to make fish bite when they ain't hungry. Wanna gamble? I'll give you a two bass head start;)
 
This is the problem with pool. To the people that aren't as involved in it, it looks like a "stick and some balls"

To the people that aren't as involved in bass fishing, it looks like a "rod and some bait"

The truth couldn't be much further off. While you would have trouble explaining the complexities of high level tournament 9ball play or straight pool or something, the same people wouldn't know where to start to begin explaining that tournament bass fishing is alot more than rods and bait.

Without using online resources, could you explain what a thermocline layer is and how it influences fishing?
 
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