Tuesday, August 17, 2004
American League Championship Match
We'll begin class tonight with british pool wizard against peeps. We're just gonna have a straight game here as peeps makes a solid after jason's break, ah but that's just too much to ask we're gonna safety, then safety, safety safety safety safety oh finally after 10 minutes of safeties and bank safeties we're gonna watch british pool wizard do things britishpoolking style. We've got a 1-0 lead for poolfiction.
Game 2 it's hill and nick star. Hill it's runnableeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee .... Sorry I had to say that. We'll get a good strategical safety with a lot of available shots out there, we'll check in with trupoolers and rolls joint...all frowns as well as dp. Great strategy you're gonna see it all match. So now hill with ball in hand hmmm what to do what to do. I know, let's safety and barely move the balls around at all, make him run it. Well nicholas is gonna have a go at it. Got a legitimate chance at it....Aww nope time to break a self-safety. Nope, foul, so now run for the hill. Or...safety again, barely moving the balls he wants nick to change the table decoration up a little. Nick does just that and now hill with a solid-stripe-solid rail combo, a solid and stripe fall so he's gotta think of something else, don't think he exactly planned on the stripe going. Safety time yay and for once he actually moves a ball, amazing. A few shots, actually safeties later, we've got a glitch but it doesn't really hurt hill any, just means he definately won't be getting ball in hand, cueball jumped from behind a solid to right next to the 2 stripes. Couple shots later nick still in big trouble check out the touch on this shot, place his stripe perfectly between a couple solids but one of them is almost in the pocket so it won't be extremely effective. But what can ya do? Well hill safeties *yawn* again, and this time nick's gonna clip a solid as the cueball starts on its way to his stripe, foul, and now grant Hill has a chance to take that stripe I mentioned earlier out of the question. Does just that, doesn't choke, and Fiction up 2-0 they're on a quest never to see a game 7 despite what I say.
So game 3 jammy hure the magician (sorry jason) of poolfiction, always seeming to make things happen. But he's against cole, and you know he's gonna do anything to make sure this match goes to 2-1 and not 3-0. So let's skip ahead after a bunch of balls are cleared off the table blah blah blah jammy up against his own stripe with a relatively easy in, it's just the positioning he's concerned about. So concerned he'll get the cuestick at the 41:04 point in my tape, or somewhere around there, and we'll hear some crickets, a couple pins dropping, and now at around 4-5 minutes later it's shot time. Cubby's suggestion: Backspin, full, a little tap to the right side and around high orange power to end with the cueball in perfect position to finish the run. Jammy's shot: Full followthrough with low yellow power. Still has a shot but it's a long bomb, no line from the object ball. And now let's build the drama guys will he make it and finish and put PFN on the hill?!?!?!? Nope. He wishes, he misses, cole finishes, pf winns...es? a game and now it's 2-1, pf finally on the board in game 3.
Next up mark, avenged, against danny, madcab. And we're really gonna piss off some 8ballpoolgods trupoolers rolls jointers and dp1974s. Safety, after safety, after safety, after safety, after safety, after safety, get the point? mark actually gets ball in hand on a scratch and STILL safeties so let's do it some more Oh but finally after about 18 minutes no joke we're saved by mark who almost hits the 8 in as well. But now we finally have...1 ball in. By the way cole not impressed with the long safety festival either he leaves and they start making balls, go figure. Everything on the left side of the table too, yeah, and the rack starts on the right side, figure that one out. This is on camtasia by the way for mark and I believe danny as well. So now mark, after spoiling a run forced to safety and gets safetied back by danny. Safety time once again right? Ha, hell with safeties they're for pussies let's make this utterly superb bank off the top rail to the bottom middle and we'll get back to that pocket in a moment. Final solid also goes. 8ball time and it's game 4, not 3-0 but 2-1, to make it 3-1, got a shot at one of the bottom corners but the bottom middle is the preferred pocket and so much easier..._STEVEN ANYONE?????? YES! For some odd reason mark "doesn't want to scratch" or something like that and goes cross-table to the bottom right, Carney missed it wide right, mark missed it wide right rail. tanja over the course of the match "some people can bank and shoot but cant do english" take it how ya want, i'm just throwing it out there. Danny runs, and runs, and runs, and now we're get down to 2 balls and an english error here and we need the perfect touch safety danny we know you can do it. Bela says YOU CAN DO IT! And he does. But mark gets a hit on the 8 and makes it near impossible to safety again, danny tries and doesn't and unlike _Steven, mark escapes with the game 4 stupid mistake win, but does that mean pfn will still win it all? Could there be a curse for those who make that mistake? By the way _Steven did show up during that game after that shot. Scary ain't it?
Down 1-3 we all saw it coming so am_so_crap_at_this will take on Luis. Crap moves the cue back just a little and breaks head-on full power and topspin. Luis has a shot, if he makes 1 he'll sink em all. Boom, boom, cueball against his own stripe needs to somehow combo this to that bottom middle, "oh no luis mesed up his run we're doomed...doomed i tell you" ah shut the hell up it's Luis, he makes the shot look easy, Luis you had no right to run this, but am_so_crap_at_this is now known as im_so_watching_this, Luis wins in typical Luis fashion, running with the bulls. "thats hows its done pf" yes luis good line, can tanja keep it going?
game 6 is Mattylda and Tanja. And matty, you're so ending this match with that simple run. Wait where's your english man? Screws up the run, now after some debating we're gonna do this social room 1100 style, full top full power pray to cubby, he scratches long long story short. And tanja's just gonna go whee whee whee and run all the way to the 8 and it'll hit the edge of that corner pocket a few timesssssssssss...........yeah it goes what are yall worried about it's a 3-3 match now and here it is, game siete (I got it this time Hill I checked bastard lmao)
And we've got the usual 7-spot guy revenge of mr against...Dogz89. What an epic. PFN starting about pf players getting their lg stats back and pfn's zame not being allowed his mlp stats back blah blah blah eventually they shut up and it's time to play ball. Thing about mick he always plays the safety to get the run, very strategical approach doesn't wanna get caught with 1 ball against 7 and no shot. And I kid you not this game lasted literally, over an hour. That's how huge it was. Safety battles up the wazoo, bank safeties, bank escapes, legal intentional potting of opponent's balls, Dogz with barely enough room to make a shot and start a rally, can he run this and bring Poolfighters back from 1-3 for the 2nd time in 2 seasons for this league? there's the cubby jinx. You're welcome mick and pfn. 3 solids left, makes the 3rd to last one, and he's got the 8 between the cue and his ball, no shot on the other, except a 1 or 2-rail bank, he'll try 1 rail comes decently close but got the hit, no ball in hand, but mickey mouse you gotta run this man. First shot, goes, hardly any kind of leave but he has one, so he's ok, barely. 2nd shot, add to the stress it goes but he hit it way too soft, now he can make the green straight in if he wants to take the chance, or he can combo 2 stripes, or...safety. take your time man, he does just that. Decides to safety, and in return dogz will take his time, and get a decent hit. Now, mark's bank was purely awesome, but he frigged up major, we need a highlight-worthy shot, something high pressure, gutsy, ballsy, mick's not your everyday risk-taker but he can't safety this, no way, or it's match. So here we go, everything on the line right here, spotlight on you, he shoots, HE SCORES GIVE THE MAN SOME LOVE! Now, 2 stripes left, 2 stripes to the world series, all ya really need to do is use a tiny bit of backspin and a little to the side you're ok, he makes the shot with full sidespin and now yikes, a makeable but otherwise very difficult cut shot. Gotta worry about the cue going here, just control it, make it, and you're fine. Here we go one more time he shoots and that ball is in.....the....pock.......arghhhhhhh there's heartbreaker #1, poolfiction is about to go down in game 7 as the final stripe hangs in the pocket. Dogz, with a bit of a cut of his own, makes it, beautiful positioning. So here it is now full right-hand english, hard part: Getting in position for the 8. And....yes he made it! poolfighters an 8ball away from the world seri......heart-crusher #2 in this one, the cueball, going up, up, and away into the top middle pocket, and I don't know how many lives poolfiction has left but I swear they've used up at least 15 of em. Mick wins it, Poolfiction in a 3 hour-plus match advances to the world series for the 2nd straight season by beating poolfighters, perhaps one of the best-played matches you will ever, ever see as long as you watch MLP matches. They will await the winner of pool outlaws and smoking cues tomorrow night, in rebel's loft. Once again your final result: Poolfiction steals one back in 7