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Posted on 04/18/2010 at 3:54:03 PM
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Is it me or are people taking this writing people up too far. Its like some people act like kids telling the teacher on a classmate. Some things should be written up for example a person shooting as a too low or high skill level and a few others but my problem is people who use it as a power to try and get someone in trouble. One week we played against a new team that had some people new to the division and some just new. To start out we flipped and they won he says he will put up first. Ok then after i fill out the numbers of what team is whatever line he comes back and says he changed his mind he wants me to put up first but me being a good sportsman said thats fine and scribbled my paper work up fixing who goes first,second ect. We play the first match and then i walk over and say im putting my 2 up and she gives me this funny look but dont say anything so we looking at the paper and its them who was supposed to put up because he changed it remember but the scribbled paper confused me so she says she had said she was playing a 4 but i didnt hear her so I was like ok im playing my 4 and she was like ok and wrote it down and all was fine. Another team mate heard we was changing our player and went off saying no they cant do that. You say something you cant go back and change it. She kept complaining but by this time the two 4's was flipping for the break. Everyone else on her team was ok with because for one we was supposed to put up last anyway it wasnt like we was supposed to put up first and two they just told us they would put up first then came back and changed it after we had it on paper already which she didnt know because her big mouth was talking so my female playing only said to her its over now why you still talking about it they already shooting youll could have said no and we would made our 2 play your 4 and that was it. Then a few seconds later she like I'm writting her up. Now I don't know what she told the APA but they sent my team mate a letter about the incident. The APA should not allow just anyone to just have a issue with someone and they accept what anyone is saying without speaking to the other person involved plus what was the reason for her to write my player up. My team has goodsportsmanship and we know most of the players in our area. The APA should tell these people if its not about pool dont come telling the APA about every little problem you have at pool especially if your the one causing the trouble. Some people just don't know how to act and I make sure people like that don't join my team. And one more thing don't write someone up because you lost. Sometimes people have a good game or you had a bad game know the person before you think they aint what they should be.
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Driscoll427
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 Posted 04/26/2010 : 1:59:34 PM
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| Amen brother, I was in a similiar situation before where the other team was completely being a-holes and we said one thing to them and they got all pissed off. I ended up writing a letter about their one player and his horrible demeanor on the table. (This guy was such an a-hole, he was stomping his stick, sharking my player, even threatened to get his gun from his truck and shoot my player (total bluff), pretty much everything he could do to be disruptive and this was in the green room. He was so bad that even the team next to us told us they would back us up if anyone asked because this guy was acting so poorly and we did not even know that team)I don't know what happened to them because I never saw that team again but the next week that we had regular play we got a letter from the APA warning US about our sportsmanship and the way we acted. I was like ARE YOU KIDDING ME? Even funnier than that was the fact that they named 2 people off of my team that were claimed to have been acting especially bad, who weren't even there. They couldn't make it due to a family thing going on that week. So when it comes to people writing up and getting written up the APA is clueless. To me the only thing I will do is defend my players rank if they are unjustly moved up, because I have only written up two people ever, one mentioned above, and one other person and it did absolutely nothing. It was pointless and it seems as though the APA usually targets the wrong team. I think they should have better guidelines on how to handle, like contacting both teams and getting both sides of the story before sending out one of those stupid letters. Anyway keep being a good team and it will pay off. You can kill them with kindness and then mop their ass up on the table. |
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Fultimebum
Moderator & Stupid 6
I'm not allowed to run the train
The whistle I can't blow
I'm not the one who designates
How far the train will go
I'm not allowed to blow the steam
Or even ring the bell
But let the damn thing jump the track
And see who catches hell.
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Posted 04/26/2010 : 7:10:16 PM
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A simple phone call to the office will straighten out the Sportsmanship Letters.
If you receive one and have proof (The team at the Other Table)that it wasn't your team the office will tell you to disregard the letter if they find the writeup to be wrongful.
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jimmy.s.42707
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Posted 06/19/2010 : 3:54:02 PM
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| I've gotten a few of those letter's.I admit that I get mad with myself when I make easy mistakes.But my frustration has nothing to do with the other player.I had teams sharking me during my match.They were going way to far.I asked them about it.The next thing I know one of the team member's from the opposing team,who wasn't even involved,jump up and approach me telling me he was going to kick my butt(not that kindly).I say something back to him and he sits down.I finished the match,which I lost.Shook my opponent's hand and congratulated him and walked away.I have a very hard break when I'm breaking.Sometimes the ball goes off the table.Everyone has done it.I got wrote up for hitting my balls too hard.And accusing the other team of sharking.How can you get wrote up because you are a hard shooter.And for being sharked?The APA should definately relook the reason's for a write up. |
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forman_jay
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Posted 07/05/2010 : 5:01:14 PM
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I think 99% of writing in is childish. Two of the divisions I play in are small and everyone knows everyone. Most of them have known each other all their lives. Still there are the few who can't accept their weakness and so they try to get back at people who beat them or their team mates by writing them up. If pool became so important to me that I felt I had to stab someone in the back I would quit.
I do not like the fact that these babies can do this and the APA takes action by changing a skill level without even telling the person that they have been "reported".
I feel if my skill level is wrong then the APA is not doing their job.
The APA preaches sportsmanship right ? Is it sportsmanship to sneak behind someone's back. The APA should not contribute to this poor sportsmanship by handleing it the way they do. |
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el santo
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Posted 07/07/2010 : 1:59:07 PM
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I've written a couple of people up in the past. Not to stab them in the back, but more so there's a record of what happened during the match in case it happens again. The two times I wrote someone up was mainly due to an attitude issue. The first incident almost resulted in a fist fight. Now these players were known in our division for having a short fuse and they have lost control before. So when i write someone up, i do it more to maintain a record of the incident.
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kimamorgan
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Posted 07/13/2010 : 9:33:37 PM
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Was the mouthy girl the team captain? In Kent County we don't threaten to write people up. Instead we all joke we're gonna drop a dime to Baltimore. Firstly, as far as I'm concerned it's a joke. Mark your defensive shots properly and the powers that be will adjust skill levels. And you are right it's alot like high school. Some people just never grow up. Have a good time and you're ahead of the game. Mouthy people that ruin peoples' fun shouldn't be asked back on the team. That's the team captain's job.
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Thaugh
Website SL 2
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Posted 07/20/2010 : 12:35:33 PM
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| Talking about senseless and time wasteing my wife who had just suffered a mini stroke 3 days prior to our league night had come in to cheer our team on. She had brought in the lap top so that her and our daughter could play some games and keep busy {as our home location does not mind our daughter being there} The visiting team wrote my wife up for having her lap top there and for being on it. She did not even play that night. And for being on her cell phone talking to our teenage daughter who called . Now that is taking this a little to far I would say. |
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Fishnfool
Website SL 2
One bright day in the middle of the night, two dead boys got up to fight, back to back they faced each other, drew their swords and shot each other, a deaf policeman heard the noise and ran to save the two dead boys, a man with no arms carried them away, a man with no legs dug their grave, and if you don't believe this story is true, Ask the blind man, He saw it too. |
Posted 07/20/2010 : 3:25:18 PM
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Sounds like that person should receive a (There's your sign) Award 
Fred Crislip Sr. |
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WAdkins
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Posted 07/21/2010 : 12:00:50 AM
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| quite honestly some of the people that work in the apa should go to the matches and actually watch and really see who is doing what during league play because the team i shoot with we have had to do the same thing in writing them up in which we didnt want to do that but it just got to the point where their sportsmanship really went out the backdoor and they really didnt care what was said my team tries to get along with everybody that we shoot and just have a good time because thats all that we are their to do is have fun and have a really good time with friends that we shoot against and shoot with every week |
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