why don't YOU play in a league

Franky

Franky

woman I said NO!!!
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Where's the chalk? :confused:

Dirty balls are a bad thing.

Accidentally goosing a woman who is not your type in a crowded bar with your cue. After the goose, she won't stop following you around asking you what you do while telling you she's thirsty. While lining up an important shot, she gooses you back...with her hand. Your teammates are amused. She makes you promise to call her and buy her dinner.
 
it's just too much of a time sink for me. I like to play pool when i want to, not when i have to.

I guess if i had more free time, it wouldn't be an issue.
 
I'm only 20, plus i've heard it isn't that great. A lot of talking and you don't get to play much is what they say.
 
I prefer to take responsibilty for my wins and losses. With team play there is always someone else that gets the credit, or the blame.
 
I leave the pool hall when league starts!

No question that they make more money for the room owner than serious players but as a general rule I find league players to be rude, noisy, and obnoxious. Aside from that, the room that usually isn't foul with cigarette smoke becomes one huge ash tray with dozens of cigarettes burning while these people talk too loud and laugh their asses off at nothing at all.

I considered league to give some structure and incentive to focus on my game when I first picked up my stick after years away from the game. A hussy named Katrina interfered with that and I have always been glad that she did. No idea if the above is true for all leagues but it is what I see from my local leagues.

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Franky said:
Where's the chalk? :confused:

Dirty balls are a bad thing.

Accidentally goosing a woman who is not your type in a crowded bar with your cue. After the goose, she won't stop following you around asking you what you do while telling you she's thirsty. While lining up an important shot, she gooses you back...with her hand. Your teammates are amused. She makes you promise to call her and buy her dinner.
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I am right in with previous posters- want to play when I want to play and don't want to commit to anybody else's schedule. Also, don't want my success or failure tied to anyone else.
 
It is boring to me to play the same people in the same place every week. I much rather get into my car and go somewhere and get into action.
 
I moved to Fayetteville, NC last April to take a job and I didn't know anybody in this town. And a great thing about pool is that it is a great way to get out and meet new people. So I decided to play league for the first time and it has its good and bad things like everything.

I quit smoking Jan 06 and I hate dealing with the smoke. I hate the fact that people sandbag. I am not going to go against the game of pools and my own personal intergrity to do something so petty. I play to compete and challenge myself not to lose or run up innings so I can have a lower handicap.

And if I overhear 20 more people say "That's APA!" I am going to go jump off the nearest bridge. Which will take two more league nights for that to happen. These dingbats sound like they are making an earth moving revelation when they say it that just irritates me to no end.

Hmm... I started this comment with the intention to weigh the good and the bad of league play... Looks like I'm about to convince myself to quit! :D

There are good things though. Really.
 
People love to bash league play because they are elitist billiard snobs who feel they are way above what any league can offer.

These are probably the same people who dump on their backers (usually their relatives or friends), fire air barrels, refuse to call blatant fouls on themselves even when caught on video, use slip on tips held in place with duct tape, and play with 2 3/8" mud tavern balls while swearing by Cuetec cues.

And this is just the begining...

Ya heard it here 1st!@# :p
 
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A: League is so boring it makes me want to cry

B: I don't fill out that much paper work when I do my goddamn taxes
 
My .02

Ball bangers like Greg! :D JK
That's where the people with $3,500 cues that can't make a dam ball play and where Cuetech makes most of their money. The worst of both worlds IMHO. ;) I agree with Blackjack also. I play when I want to with who I want to.
Purdman
 
Boo league Boo!

^^ +1 for Purdman's observation, only cause I fall into that catagory. :D

Leagues advocate sloppy play. At least the BCA league that I play in. Crappy handicapping systems, and I tend to drink and socialize more than focus on my game. And its one big sausage fest. :(
 
Purdman said:
Ball bangers like Greg! :D JK
That's where the people with $3,500 cues that can't make a dam ball play and where Cuetech makes most of their money. The worst of both worlds IMHO. ;) I agree with Blackjack also. I play when I want to with who I want to.
Purdman
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That's Mr. BallBanger to your, sir!

And you got it wrong; It's where guys like me show up with a Samsara and can't run three balls consecutively get beat down by corner bar local drunk dead ender go nowheres who can barely hold their Cuetech or their liquor.

I'm awaiting your apology as you stand corrected, and incorrect on many fronts.
 
1. Sandbagging
2. I hate being tied down to anything
3. Sandbagging
4. Bordem
5. My job interfers with league
6. Sandbagging
7. I dont really enjoy playing on barboxes
8. Sandbagging
9. No it all league players drive me insane, especially those who cant make three balls in a row.
10. Did I mention sandbagging
 
Tied down!!
I have enough things that I have to do. The last thing is having to be someplace all the time when so many other things come up.
 
Why sit around in a pool hall waiting, waiting...waiting...I can sit around for hours in my own house 'til it's time to play.

I played in a league once and playing one game out of every 6 or so was incredibly boring. I also felt pressured to clap like a seal whenever my teammate won a game even though I really didn't care. No, my heart wasn't in it...

Pool is not a team sport (ok, Mosconi cup excepted). This is what attracted me to the sport in the first place!

Yes, I was the one in class who was almost always picked last in Phys. Ed. Maybe that's what got me into pool!
 
Every time one of these *****-about-leagues threads comes up, I realize a little more how lucky I was that the APA division I happened to join is so different from most. Good equipment, nice people, friendly environment, reasonable gender and age balance, not the most talented players in the world but quite a few of us are really dedicated to improving our game, VERY little sandbagging (really only one or two players in the whole division), not too crowded most of the time, free practice tables all night (on an average Thursday night, I play one hour-long match give or take, but at least 4 hours of pool total), and most people seem to be enjoying themselves.

There's still the drawback of the handicap system itself, the rules could use improving (I'd be happier with BCA 8-ball rules rather than APA), it'd be nice if the overall level of play were higher, and success is dependent on the lesser players on my team. But I wouldn't try to trade in any of those downsides by switching to a different league, because everything I ever hear about those leagues is negative! And I don't want to trade it in for action, because I don't have a lot of money to lose (with minimal exceptions the only players around here who play for money have the nuts playing me, and I don't like getting weight). I suppose I could become a tournament player, but I'd miss out on playing pool with my friends in my league.

-Andrew
 
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