The Trick Shot espn show
Paula Gomolka
pool for TV. What a waste of time!!!
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> Anybody see the espn trick-shot show? I missed it.
> Who was the player?
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> Was the show 'good' ..?
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Smorgass Bored
those two missed........
NEXT,
Doug
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J Dub
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> Anybody see the espn trick-shot show? I missed it.
> Who was the player?
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> Was the show 'good' ..?
Whew.... darn exciting to see a game of HORSE played between two trick shot
champions, including them being allowed to miss once on every time. All in
all, I watched it to contribute to the ratings game, but I've had root
canals that were more fun.
As I was watching it and couldn't help but do the math - out of all of the
pool players who play the game, what percentage are serious about trick shot
competition? I'm thinking if it was 5% that would be high. And lessee, the
networks complain that pool doesn't get ratings...... SO HERE'S A FUCKING
BRILLIANT IDEA - LET'S NARROW THE SCOPE TO SOMETHING THAT ONLY 5% OF THE
POOL PLAYERS ARE REALLY INTERESTED IN. I dunno, maybe the same people that
were marketing WPBA are marketing the Trick Shot tour.
--Jim
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> Anybody see the espn trick-shot show? I missed it.
> Who was the player?
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> Was the show 'good' ..?
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Smorgass Bored
Penguin sputtered :
trickshots ! ".
(*<~ Huh? Spoken like a true penguin.........
where's my penguin gun,
Dick Moecia
have little interest. However, anything ESPN does to bring attention to our
sport, is beneficial in the long run. Remember, we're dealing with viewers who
have little knowledge of our sport. How many times did it take you to watch the
NBA Slam Dunk contest before you got bored?
Dick Moecia, fka poolcue
http://ourworld.cs.com/poolhalloffame
Jim White
2. I work in a pool room.
3. Probably most people were not watching the Networks last night because of
the Election stuff.
4. Those surfing channels with the least bit of interest in Pool probably
stopped briefly on ESPN.
5. Those who thought it was Kewl will probably come into our pool room
today.
6. I will wear out 6 fly swatters attempting to save the Simonis.
Jim
Patrick Johnson
> ... anything ESPN does to bring attention to our
> sport, is beneficial in the long run.
If you agree that popularity is beneficial. As long as my grungy pool
hall full of gambling, drug-taking, cursing, undereducated, unemployed
lowlife *players* doesn't disappear, I don't care.
> Remember, we're dealing with viewers who
> have little knowledge of our sport.
And this show will do little to change that, but it's probably much
more entertaining to a novice or non-player than watching pros shoot
"easy" shots. It bored me to tears.
Pat Johnson
Chicago
Raveloman
much
>more entertaining to a novice or non-player than watching pros shoot
>"easy" shots. It bored me to tears.
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Man you sure got that one right! I was expecting something exciting and fun. It
was about as exciting as belly button lint.
Jerry
Patrick Johnson
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> Jerry
Whose?
(Halle Berry's belly button lint excites me almost as much as my
wife's...)
Pat Johnson
Chicago
Bob Jewett
> Man you sure got that one right! I was expecting something exciting and fun. It
> was about as exciting as belly button lint.
Well, yes, but who won? Was it Mike Massey? Who else played? How did
Tom Rossman do? He has shots no one else shoots.
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Bob Jewett
Mark B. VanLiere
Even the competitors looked bored.
Mark
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"J Dub" <removeextr...@columbus.rr.com> wrote:
> networks complain that pool doesn't get ratings...... SO HERE'S A
FUCKING
> BRILLIANT IDEA -
Co-ed naked 8-ball.
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Before you buy.
Patrick Johnson
> ... who won? Was it Mike Massey? Who else played? How did
> Tom Rossman do? He has shots no one else shoots.
In typical ESPN style, this was an excerpt from a larger tournament
taken completely out of context. Only one "match" was shown, between
two players whose names I don't recall (American and European). The
format was like a game of "horse", with each player shooting a shot of
his own choosing and the other player having to duplicate it if it was
successful. Whenever one player was successful and the other player
missed the same shot, the successful shooter earned a point.
The shots in this match (I don't know about other matches or players)
were not particularly impressive, even to me. Many of them were setup
trick shots (which they called "artistic" shots), with the setup of
the balls being all-important and execution requirements minimal.
These were shots that I could make if I knew the setup, and all misses
were because of tiny mis-alignments of the balls during setup.
A typical one of these (which was actually done here!) was the old
standard "six balls at once" setup with two groups of three balls
placed in the middle of the table and the cue ball simply driven
between them. These guys sleepwalked through it and so did I.
Another one consisted of forming a "pyramid" out of three cues with
their tips touching a few feet off the table, then "shooting" the cue
ball off the top into a side pocket. My 9-year old daughter could
make the shot. The difficulty was constructing the pyramid without
dropping anything, which was considered a miss!
All in all, it only served to further my contempt for ESPN's
understanding and coverage of pool. I don't think they're doing it or
us any favors with this drivel.
Pat Johnson
Chicago