Pinegar is not the answer. Super toxic, super slow, old, not good enough in MC conditions.
We obviously will stick with SVB and Skylar. For the rest of the team, we always seem to make the same mistake of picking a stagnant veteran player over an up and coming young player.
Although they aren't super old (except Earl) guys like Oscar, Corey, Earl, Pinegar, Hatch, Morris, etc are nowhere near the top of their game. They've been playing forever and occasionally have a good tournament result but their glory days are long gone. They are just hoping to go out there, play decent, have fun, and not let the team down.
However, we have a whole new fleet of young guys that are out to prove themselves. Pick one and ride it out for a few years. The first year they will probably be nervous and dog it a little but no worse than the veterans. But I promise you that experience will jumpstart their game big time over the next year. It already happened with Sky, Billy, and Styer. I remember watching Sky in his first MC and he was so nervous he couldn't make a ball. Now he's the best on our team. Billy and Styer weren't anything special when they were first added to the team and boy did they explode over the next few years.
The Mosconi experience for an up and coming youngster is invaluable and will pay off big time in the long run. Veterans on the other hand never seem to perform well. None of them have over the past 6+ years. Even SVB plays at about 75%. Although SVB's 75% is still very strong so we bring him back each year and hope that one day he will come alive.
I personally think Shane Wolford deserves it. He's been playing in all of the major events and doing pretty well but any of these youngers will do. Just get them on the team and give them a chance to step up.
