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| January 29th 2007
Monday Morning, I think back. Monday night I look ahead. |
"When
you play one of us, you play all of us"... |
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first time in the history of the team name Get in the Hole.
We won the first week of the new season. Please, don’t
think-I-think this is a good start for us or I am making a passive-aggressive
statement of a gloating nature. Nor am I saying it is a bad karma
that we got four wins ether, it’s just that, this has never
happened to my team before, ever, in any of my (our) years; even
when we were named Rumble fish. Every team that I know of, who
gets a head start in the first couple of weeks of a new season,
some how or another always ends up not placing, or struggling
for third place, why? Let go my Ego? The dark side of over confidence?
Lose of team momentum? Sitting in the vanity chair in front of
the mirror to long? Who knows; that’s just my years of
experience on the NYC APA. Hm? I could be wrong; this could be
a good thing. It could be that some team some were in the world,
won, every week in their division and their player’s
handicaps never moved up or down, what a dream. I will never
ask my players to sandbag or throw matches. --- |
Though,
I think, the APA Handicap system could have an element of inadvertent
design of an unpleasant result, of course this was not done
on propose. Any team with all eight players with big hearts and
ambition for a win, all players getting along with each other,
respecting each other and its management from both captain and
co captain might be doomed simply because the one thing we are
suppose to do for the big win will cause us to fragment due to
ruling technicality; 23 points. No matter what, when everybody
on the team gets along, synergy, with that inevitable win, will
get broken up, due to the rulings. When
you play one of us, you play all of us, the APA advertises
and pushes us to develop teams this way (having a 25.000.00 dollar
incentive) but at the same time, the rules are designed to break
us apart if this actually happens; maybe, I could be wrong. But
when players handicap goes up, and I expose my line up with the
very first player I throw out into the breach cause the only
possible players that can following the first player due to the
23 point rule, tell me, am I wrong? |
Things are getting strange in the underground
 
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Douglas
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Captain Larry of Los Macho's
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"When you
play one of us, you play all of us"
Mark
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"Dont ever make someone a priority
if you are there option"
   
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Just looking back ....
not so far back though....
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Monday Morning
New season starts and I think...
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"One person does not a team make"
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| January 28th 2007
Sunday. About Saturday. |
Oops...
I leftThe battery from my camera at home |
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I am resisting the
erg of my of late winter whiskey sopping. It’s
been a few days of my useal bumbling and stumbling around
like a weekend russian cowboy and I feel good. I think it’s
almost out of my system. I mean I’ve been drunk since
last November. I am going on day four with no booze in my system.
I'll subsitute my Whiskey for Sushi for
now
If your wondering...The snooker pics
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I played some snooker last night. First, some
nine ball @ BBC, then went off to china town for some
Snooker. Second time I ever played it in my life; Snooker.
It’s a
very relaxing game. Though one who engages in the sport
must know one has no room for sloppiness in there approach
and stroke on that kind of table (Snooker table) if
they intend to win a match or even a game. Man; after
a few hours on the football-sized table, I will never
view a nine-footer pool table the same way again. After
playing Douglas a few rounds of snooker I played on
a standard size pool table with Jason, it was like
a bar table, it was so so small, and the ball are so
close together and huge and primitive. Now, Just because
the table is smaller does not mean the game is going
to be easier.  Yes
for sure, you will pocket a ball across the entire
span of nine foot table a great deal easier, smoother
and more confidently with a much higher probably of
getting it in the hole, but you still would have to
play with the same amount of respect you would apply
on Snooker table. Wow! Man! I never thought I would
look a nine foot table like a bar table; ever! Later
that night, I went to the bar and the bar table was
like a toy. With all the balls compressed together?
It’s a whole
different game to me now; I was still not missing a shot
though. But my position and shape was less to be desired,
LOL. Yet still, I found myself trying to compensate for
size and weight of the balls. Did I mention I wasn’t
missing?
How you look at any pool table
is a state of mind.
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Hi My name is William Fuentes, and
Im not an Alcoholic.. A pool aholic maybe
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| January 26th 2007
Friday. About Thursday Night. |
D'uh
Hitman |
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Sometimes you shoot not to win...But just to
shoot.
   
Execution is key…. When done right, getting
the ball in the Hole is the inevitable. The inevitable shouldn’t
be the goal. The discipline in your execution should be.
   
All that racking
   
Made me hungry
   
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Gail
Thorsten
Hohmann
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| January 25th 2007
Thursday. About Wed Night. APA, The American Pool Players Association |
Wed
APA Awards for Summer 2006 |
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"A player who has-ta-beat his own
drum about how skilled he is
most likely does not have much to beat"
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| January 24nd 2007
Wed. About Tuesday Night. APA, The American Pool Players Association |
Tuesday
APA Play off's Second round |
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Congrats
Pocket Aces, for winning week two of the January 2007 APA
season playoffs quarter finals.
Now I have to hope we dont meet each other
in the final 8 of the APA city finals 2007, being that almost
half the team (Pocket Aces) is team GET IN THE HOLE. |
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| January 22nd 2007
Monday night. APA, The American Pool Players Association |
Monday
APA Play off's. Second round |
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Team Get IN THE HOLE wins the Playoffs... |
 Get
in the hole played tonight with a thing Pete calls synergy.
We pretty much all acted as captains, all even, for the last
few weeks. All agreeing on the line-ups, the match ups and
the option we created with what and whom we had available.
And what we had available was all eight of us, a whole or
hole team, respecting, agreeing and working together and
putting our best efforts to reach the common goal for this
evening. All egos aside. I hope we can keep up the pace to
the end of the goal.
Synergy or synergism (from
the Greeksynergos,
meaning working together, circa 1660)
refers to the phenomenon in which two or more discrete influences
or agents acting together create an effect greater than that
predicted by knowing only the separate effects of the individual
agents. It is originally a scientific term. Often (but not
always, see Toxicologic synergy, below) the prediction is
the sum of the effects each is able to create independently.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synergy |
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Captain Jim Forster, a grand and noble
captain indeed. |
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| January 21st 2007 Sun. About Friday
and Saturday night |
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Double Combo Triple Carom on the
4,3,2,1,6 with a bank masse.
Eight in the corner.
Leave your money on the table.
Shoot Stick....
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I know I said I wasnt...But
I did anyway.s
And I woke up ok...But that still does
not mean its ok.
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I dont remember taking these shots |
But they are nice anyway. |
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knob creek and pizza
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This is one
big ass table. |
Get In The Hole
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Looks good... |
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| January 19th 2007 Friday. About
wed & thurs |
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| Wed: Played
a little. Ate a little… Abby
does not mind if her husband has a hooker on the side. Pool
is not really free at the E. Update; Ronnie owns the bar and
the pool table so Ronnie still owns all the team spots at the
E-bar, all of-em. Public-relation-managerial-tactics-is-a-critical-science-for-small-business-profit
and productivity. Unless you buy lots of beer. |
Thursday: Played a little, no, more to the point,
paid 8bucks to rack and watch JQ play. Then afterward, I ate
so much, no matter how many shots I did, I could not get drunk,
what a waist of money.
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Apparently lt snowed last night
Pool & corner hooked her on the last
shot
Abby is pretty Hot Mild when it comes
to relationships. Wed. |
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Someplaces just wont let go of
christmas. |
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X2 I ate...yes I did ....
Thursday 
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Not enough for me |
tapioca. |
 
 
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| January 17th Wed 2007. About
last Tuesday night. APA, The American Pool Players Association |
APA
Playoff's round one |
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| January 15th 2007
Monday. Also about Saturday and Sunday APA, The American
Pool Players Association |
APA
Playoffs Round one. |
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Captian Alison
Mcbain is the best |
    
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Yes
I know what time it is
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You people are a
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Just becuse something looks pretty
doesnt mean its going to be satisfying.
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The sushi was great
but the meal was a wee-bit skimpy for my taste.
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Early evening
sushi
 
Long practise makes for hungry bellies
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Sat Late night...
    
...fried sushi
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Rich complete's it
Pia pours it
And I drink it
George saves the day...agian
Discipline
Practice
The return of Pauline
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| January 12th Friday night 2007 |
Booze,
Birthday and Cake |
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