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Originally Posted by Wamy Einehouse
Big leak. Never, ever concede.
I am forever astonished by the mistakes people make on even the simplest shots.
Also, on sportsmanship principle, it's not over until it's over. You do the sport, your own person, and your opponent disservice by not finishing the match. My basketball coach in high school always taught us to fight until the very end and sometimes miracles do happen like coming back from a 20 point deficit at half time against the host school who the refs were heavily biased against us. It was also semi finals of provincial championships. (One of their guys full on football tackled my teammate 5 seconds after the whistle was blown. No foul given. Just one of the many incidences of non heterosexual reffing that game)
Anyway, reason I opened this thread. Made a very sick shot today. Playing some 8 ball against a fellow student in the student lounge. He's a very good potter but neither of us are able of running out racks (in my case, yet). I was on the 8, called bottom corner pocket, 8 ball banked off the jaws twice and stopped about 6 inches away from the pocket frozen on the rail. He has 2 balls left. Sank one, missed a difficult cut and left the cue ball almost parallel to the 8 ball on the opposite end of the table. I called near corner pocket, hit the 8 ball on the right half pretty hard, banked right into my left hand corner pocket. Excrement was comparable to currency.