G-Love 12
Phillies Pheasants 3
We had a commanding 12-3 win tonight. Honestly, we could have stolen another game or two but we struggled through a game here and there. Check out the standings to see where we are, again near the top of the heap.
Greg continued to play really well tonight, starting another season undefeated after a few weeks. Let's not jinx him (he sucks). He is ranked 12th right now. It won't be long before he's in the top 10 where he belongs.
Micky had a nice ending to the night. She played totally dominating in her last two games. Jeremy and Enda both played well. Jeremy took an 8-ball run and made a long, tedious game in his first but still won all his games. Enda and his new eyes played very well, but goddamn, man, clean your cue sometimes! I continued to miss easy shots but played defense enough to win all three. I love the dirt. Johnny had a bit of a rough night, falling into a poison shot on the 8 and scratching on it.
The Pheasants are a cool team. I enjoyed watching Mike play pool and thought they were a really cool group of guys. Another reminder of what is very good about the IPL.
Technical Bullshit
Here's an instructional clip by Mika Immonen that explains the basics of stun, draw, and follow--all you really need to run-out a table. Even if you have all three shots at your disposal it's a pretty cool clip just to see how much action he gets. If you feel like you don't have three very good shots, work on it. Personally, I'm still working on my draw. I'm much better at using follow to get around the table. Also, when I first learned to play, Dan and Greg taught me how to stun the ball. I used to play pretty good games, running 4 or 5 balls at a time with only center ball over and over again. I think we sometimes get too cute with draw and other bullshit--I know I do. I usually miss shots when I try to force the cue ball to do something it doesn't really want to do.
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