With the WPC just ended and a simply phenomenal finals with an amazing comeback and hugely emotional trophy presentation to a young phenom I feel great about being able to experiance it live but have to wonder how in gods green earth ESPN could throw away the possibility of showing the WPC live as pool should truly be shown. Never in my life have I seen pool on TV be so exciting, largely due to the fact it was happening as we watched it. I have tons of Accustats with tons of finals with tons of great pro's, they dont hold a candle to watching live pool in a major event like that. The WPC live could have been such an amazing chance to show the American general public how exciting the game can be when it is not an editted and taped monstrosity like they so often like to show. What a waste of such an amazing opportunity, and I can only imagine what was shown in its place.
Now we will get a editted chopped up version of the thing months from now that will be a small fraction of the excitement and tension and entertainment that it was live. And they will look at the numbers of people that watched the editted non-live version that is devoid of all the exitement due to their presentation of it and blame the sport and not the fact that they refused to show it as it should have been on Asian television.
The WPC is not the only event like this, the US Open is another event that could have such a phenomenal amount of excitement, the BCA and Derby City events would be a step behind but would still be worthy of being shown live. Pool shown live is hundreds of times more exciting and entertaining then taped matches from months past that are editted and chopped such that you dont even see the complete match. I blame ESPN for alot of the troubles this sport is having, and tonight is a glaring example of their keeping this sport back.
Now we will get a editted chopped up version of the thing months from now that will be a small fraction of the excitement and tension and entertainment that it was live. And they will look at the numbers of people that watched the editted non-live version that is devoid of all the exitement due to their presentation of it and blame the sport and not the fact that they refused to show it as it should have been on Asian television.
The WPC is not the only event like this, the US Open is another event that could have such a phenomenal amount of excitement, the BCA and Derby City events would be a step behind but would still be worthy of being shown live. Pool shown live is hundreds of times more exciting and entertaining then taped matches from months past that are editted and chopped such that you dont even see the complete match. I blame ESPN for alot of the troubles this sport is having, and tonight is a glaring example of their keeping this sport back.
