Scott Van Dyke
12-03-2003, 04:01 PM
I know similar threads are in the archives, but I always enjoy reading them. Here's another:
About three years or so ago, four co-workers and I went to Romines' High Pockets to start the night out playing pool. We order some drinks, pizza, and are playing some innocent 8-ball. Me, I'm looking at the other tables, sizing up the competition around me.
Right next to us is an older gentleman (dare I mention that he is of African-American decent /ccboard/images/graemlins/crazy.gif) moving some balls around by himself. He's got a dressed up stick, and nobody is paying him much attention.
I announce to my friends that I'll challenge him to a game. I'm sure he's good, and I'm always looking for someone better than I am to challenge.
After a minute of coaxing, he begins to rack up nine. I plead for the remaining six balls, and he obliges(sp?). We agree to $2, and he tells me to break. Cool. Advantage: Scott.
Wrong.
I run out two or three balls, and miss. He proceeds to use follow on every shot, leave himself in the center of the table, and not miss. All while not even concentrating.
Long story short:
I talked him into beating me three games. I got to shoot twice in three games. My buddies watched and just laughed. I gave him the six bucks, thanked him for his time, and ate some pizza as I fended off all the riducule. The [censored] cocktail waitress even thought I was getting hustled.
I walked up to the manager, and asked who I just played. He taold me it was Willie Munson. And that "He's rated the number-one colored player in the nation."
First time I had ever heard the name.
My take? My uncle says I was lucky to have only played him for $2 a rack.
I can honestly say that Willie was one of the nicest people I've ever met. I think he even missed on purpose once during the second game to see how I'd play. I failed to even show up.
Just a truely awesome time that I'll never forget. Perhaps I'll get to thank him sometime. He lives in Milwaukee from what I understand, and that's where I'm from.
I also heard (and I don't know if it's true) that Forest Whitiker's(sp?) character in The Color of Money was based on Willie Munson. Any truth to that?
About three years or so ago, four co-workers and I went to Romines' High Pockets to start the night out playing pool. We order some drinks, pizza, and are playing some innocent 8-ball. Me, I'm looking at the other tables, sizing up the competition around me.
Right next to us is an older gentleman (dare I mention that he is of African-American decent /ccboard/images/graemlins/crazy.gif) moving some balls around by himself. He's got a dressed up stick, and nobody is paying him much attention.
I announce to my friends that I'll challenge him to a game. I'm sure he's good, and I'm always looking for someone better than I am to challenge.
After a minute of coaxing, he begins to rack up nine. I plead for the remaining six balls, and he obliges(sp?). We agree to $2, and he tells me to break. Cool. Advantage: Scott.
Wrong.
I run out two or three balls, and miss. He proceeds to use follow on every shot, leave himself in the center of the table, and not miss. All while not even concentrating.
Long story short:
I talked him into beating me three games. I got to shoot twice in three games. My buddies watched and just laughed. I gave him the six bucks, thanked him for his time, and ate some pizza as I fended off all the riducule. The [censored] cocktail waitress even thought I was getting hustled.
I walked up to the manager, and asked who I just played. He taold me it was Willie Munson. And that "He's rated the number-one colored player in the nation."
First time I had ever heard the name.
My take? My uncle says I was lucky to have only played him for $2 a rack.
I can honestly say that Willie was one of the nicest people I've ever met. I think he even missed on purpose once during the second game to see how I'd play. I failed to even show up.
Just a truely awesome time that I'll never forget. Perhaps I'll get to thank him sometime. He lives in Milwaukee from what I understand, and that's where I'm from.
I also heard (and I don't know if it's true) that Forest Whitiker's(sp?) character in The Color of Money was based on Willie Munson. Any truth to that?