thebighurt said:
How is it going Jimmy? Hope everything is good.
Hey, how's it going with you? Going okay here. Yeah, you Traverse City guys were pretty tough. Well, one of you were anyway. I don't know about the others. They must play a lot of pool up there.
I guess I would have eventually started playing again, but you guys are pretty much responsible for it. I was completely done; literally hadn't hit a ball in over 3 years. I'd say it was 5 years but I did have a couple month period there where I was busy impersonating a pool player in the first couple years that I quit. It's funny but, even though I hadn't been around the pool room at all, I must have had half a dozen people call me to tell me about these "road players from Michigan" who were in town. So, naturally, I had to come out and see what all the excitement was about. Oh, and let your buddy (the other guy who played 1p) know that I was out of quarter-pitching stroke too!

Ha ha.
For the record, having lived in Michigan for 8 years I was fairly certain that you guys weren't from Traverse City, but it was a fun story so I went with it.

You guys did pretty good here. It couldn't have been more perfect, I guess, with "the billiard instructor" beating you when you first got here. There's a little more action in town now than when you guys were here, to be honest. Most of it is 1p though. I think Scott moving here inspired all the locals to become 1p players. I'd rather pull my nose hairs out one-by-one.
I hesitated to post anything in this thread after my name came up because I didn't want to break my arm patting myself on the back, but thanks to those who gave me compliments. I will say this though: The weight that Scott would have to give me playing one-pocket would be too embarrassing for me to even accept. I don't play the game and every time I think I want to start playing it, someone comes along and hijacks me. It wouldn't be so bad if it weren't for the fact that I've lost to guys that I might be able to give the 7 to playing 9-ball. Come to think of it, I did give a guy the 7/8 (call) one time and beat him like a drum. Afterward he wanted to play one-pocket so, of course, I played because I figured this guy couldn't beat me at anything on a pool table. I was ready to find a bumper-pool table if he wanted to play that! Needless to say, after beating me with a ball he beat me some more playing even. After I take a couple beatings like that I usually quit the game because I realize that I have a lot of dues left to pay in that game and I just don't enjoy playing it enough to pay those dues.