[POOL] Last night's matches

[Ti Leggett]

First off. Roger, Awesome! I bet Bobby had nothing to say after you  
beat him and he talked so much trash.

Second, the way I understood our agreement was that we'd have one  
make up and two forfeits. The one make up was for Ron since we had  
actually seen him that night and knew he was coming back. Since Ron  
showed up before we had left, there went their make up match. I think  
we're entitled to two forfeited matches since we did scramble people  
to have our 5 players. Unless there's some defined cut-off for when  
make-up matches aren't allowed this is going to be a quagmire. I know  
we've had 2 or sometimes 3 matches forfeited because we didn't have  
the players and we never made a stink about it. I know we've had  
Bobby's team force forfeit on us when we didn't have enough players.

Third, we need to figure out what we're going to do in the coming  
weeks. I won't be able to make it Nov. 8-22 because I'll be on  
travel. I know Craig can't make the Nov 15th either since he'll be on  
travel. I'm not sure of Brian. So we need to get people committed  
those days to show up when I know we'll be short.

I don't like the idea of being jerks about this but many of our last  
place seasons weren't all due to losses but because of forfeits, and  
no one gave pity on us then. Everyone's hurting from lack of players,  
us included.

On Oct 19, 2005, at 10:12 AM, Strons, Philip S. wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> First of all, I want to congratulate Roger on his win against Ron  
> Shepherd.  This wasn't a scratch on the eight by Ron.  Roger  
> genuinely beat him in the fourth game.
>
> There was a bit of a problem last night.  We had a full team of  
> five players, but our opponents had only three players.  Also,  
> Roger had to wait for Ron for like an hour because Ron had to go  
> home to get his cue stick.  While we were all wondering what  
> happened to Ron, we negotiated an agreement that their team would  
> take one forfeit, and we would make up the other match.  After  
> Roger beat Ron though, Bobby Crews said he wanted two make ups.  I  
> talked to Kevin about all this before, during, and after the whole  
> mess, and he said that he hasn't been enforcing the forfeit rules  
> yet this session because of the player shortage.  But, he also said  
> we had the right to ask for forfeits.  I don't want to be a jerk  
> about this, but we scrambled to get five players together to avoid  
> a forfeit.  And, I don't like the idea of having to be there  
> forever next week to play a total of seven matches.
>
> Anyway, Kevin suggested a possible vote by the team captains on  
> this issue.  I think we should decide as a team as to what we  
> want.  I'd like one forfeit and one make up.
>
> One other point I found interesting.  Bobby said that they had  
> other players coming later, but after Roger and Ron's match, they  
> all went home.  No one else showed up.
>
> Phil
>