Right?!
Good grief.
Some statements are so stupid that they’re not even worth the small amount of time or effort it would take to refute them.
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Good grief.
Some statements are so stupid that they’re not even worth the small amount of time or effort it would take to refute them.
There was never any need to switch the colors of the balls.
It's utterly ridiculous to do that.
Just crazy.
Yes exactly.
These guys could learn a lesson from Accu-Stats.
The endless slow motions and the "red three", "green six" "brown seven" etc....so annoying.
They sure do have a lot of dead time in their broadcasts. Some of the games had commentators, others none at all. They could easily do better IMO.
So you feel game rules can be disregarded in some occasions?
So does someone else and his position is directly opposite yours on all occasions, you know?
How is this reconciled? Play the game the way it is supposed to be played.
What is the history of these people with not liking svb?
I don't recall much chatter about people being far from neutral on him and certainly nobody is Harriman to his Schmidt.
I certainly don't recall any specific posters having consistently negative things to say about svb.
It's a shame matchroom doesn't have someone edit the matches down to shots only. it would be far more digestible.
i like pool and all the air time without pool playing makes it watching the matches quite hard.
Starting at 17:40.... this says it all. If you can do anything close to what Matchroom is doing for the game of pool, have at it big boy.
Do I like the pink four and purple five? No. But if I ever play in a Matchroom event, which is probably never, the first thing I will do is go out and get a set of the TV Blacks. Matchroom is doing big things for pool.. 10 times more than anybody else has done. If I want to play in their events, then I agree to use the equipment they require. It's that simple.
I bet Joey Tate wishes he would have practiced more with the Black TV set now. But Emily set him up.
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with that long a career there's bound to be controversies and detractors. and mike d is probably his harriman, there's a story there not worth hearing
In the early days of IROC when they were using the little fruity cars Bobby Allison went out and bought a Porche to be familiar with them. Buying a set of balls doesn't seem too much to do!
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Ok, big boy, lol.
Yeah, they are above critizim right? How dare we say anything against matchroom. Just take a ball set that everyone who plays American pool knows by heart by the colors and lets just switch one ball to another. How do you think snooker fans would react if the switched out Blue for the 2 ball to purple but then also made the 1 blue now. If purple is good enough for TV then why make another ball other than the 4 purple?
Listen BIG BOY, Matchroom is doing a lot of great things for pool but this isn't one of them and they deserve to be ridiculed for this.
Yeah, they are above critizim right? How dare we say anything against matchroom. Just take a ball set that everyone who plays American pool knows by heart by the colors and lets just switch one ball to another. How do you think snooker fans would react if the switched out Blue for the 2 ball to purple but then also made the 1 blue now. If purple is good enough for TV then why make another ball other than the 4 purple?
Listen BIG BOY, Matchroom is doing a lot of great things for pool but this isn't one of them and they deserve to be ridiculed for this.
Constructive criticism is one thing.. ridiculing is another.. I said if you agree to play in their events, you agree to use the equipment specified. If you don't like it, don't let the door hit you in the ass.. big boy.
I’d say he beats at least 99.9%
My favorite are the ones that don't have any commentating and there's only one camera on the whole time.
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I just watched the interview.
I totally agree that what they have done to improve the tournament situation of professional pool is good. I agree on standardized pocket sizes. I agree the cloth color is ok. I still cannot understand why she cannot relent on the flawed decision process that resulted in a purple 4.
Ok, maybe the red 3, the pink 4, and the orange 5 were too alike. But pink was NOT a traditional color, so preserving it for a tv set and moving purple, a traditional color, was the wrong move. It would have been much less invasive to simply reinstate purple to the 4 and move the pink to the 5, IF THEY FELT THEY NEEDED A DIFFERENTIATION between red 3 and orange 5. But with good cameras, the grey cloth, and HD video, even that obviates the need to move away from the traditional colors.
I just wish that, while she can tout all the good MR has accomplished, and I applaud them for that, she would admit the mistake moving purple to a different ball.
For aramith, 123 are primary colors, 456 secondary colors. You got a purple 4, orange 5 and green 6. Then they noticed that some TV viewers get confused with 4 and 2 - so they created the TV Pro-cup set. 4 ball becomes pink and they also put more dots on the cb.
For this new set, could someone explain the color changes?
For this new set, could someone explain the color changes?
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Yep I don’t call fouls on myself either. I’ll never lie about it but your job is to pay attention Not sit on your cell phone or chat with your buddies. I‘ve missed fouls and have always blamed myself never my opponent .No, I’ve let my opponent shoot the wrong ball and gladly took the foul. Flip side is I've shot the wrong ball many times and it’s cost me $ as well. The player at the table IS responsible for his own game-not the guy in the chair-at all times. No exception
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Couple of years ago there was a “can u beat SVB in a race to 100” group, and then the other one was “SVB doesnt have a world title” group. Made very long threads.
So now that DO beat SVB in race to 120 and SVB won W9B, AZB is now one big happy family.