{"id":5998,"date":"2022-08-24T10:06:25","date_gmt":"2022-08-24T10:06:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dartoidsworld.net\/2022\/08\/column-hr-366-golden-age-darters-reunion-a-go\/"},"modified":"2024-02-14T22:18:13","modified_gmt":"2024-02-14T22:18:13","slug":"column-hr-366-golden-age-darters-reunion-a-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dartoidsworld.net\/2022\/08\/column-hr-366-golden-age-darters-reunion-a-go\/","title":{"rendered":"Column #HR 366  GOLDEN AGE DARTERS’ REUNION\u2026 A GO!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Wednesday, August 24, 2022<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>Column HR366<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>GOLDEN AGE DARTERS’ REUNION… A GO!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>What started as dinner conversation among four old geezers then affirmed by two fair darting damsels, Lisa Farrell and Connie Sroka, has become a reality.\u00a0 On January 20-21, 2023,\u00a0in Las Vegas, Nevada, at the Tuscany Hotel\/Casino, the First Annual \u201cDarters of the Golden Age (1975-2000) Reunion” will hold forth. \u00a0Same-same as the Las Vegas Open.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Committee\u201d (Lisa Farrell, Connie Sroka, Jerry Feather, Russ \u201cThe Legend\u201d Lopez, Ron Deane, David Miller and Wayne Roewer) would like to thank ADO VP Matt Stoner for his helping hand.\u00a0 Jen Mounts of A-Z Darts pitched in as well as A-Z owner John Baxter, a player in the Golden Age of Darts.<\/p>\n<p>Preliminary plans call for a Friday evening adjustment hour (or hours) with golden\u00a0elixir\u00a0and aiming fluid available.\u00a0 Saturday evening may feature a fun dart event run by Jerry\u00a0Feather\u00a0which\u00a0may be a chance for revenge on the stars of the Golden Age that had us signing cards and chalking.<\/p>\n<p>Contact Dartoid\u2019s World or message the Old Dart Coach with your name and email address if you are likely to attend.<\/p>\n<p>Every human person, except van Gough, is familiar with the saying,\u00a0\u201crevenge is a dish best served cold” (from the 1843 novel \u201cMemoirs of Matilda”).\u00a0 The author, Eug\u00e8ne Sue, obliviously never played sport.<\/p>\n<p>In sport \u201crevenge is a dish served hot with as many people in attendance as possible.\u201d\u00a0 In cricket (like baseball, but different) when a bowler unleashes a googly that leaves the batsman flummoxed as the wicket falls the bowler may be stone-faced.\u00a0 Inside he\u2019s doing the\u00a0\u201cMacarena\u201d with the same enthusiasm as The Old Dart Coach does \u201cYMCA\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>If anyone thinks that Michael van Gerwen isn\u2019t enjoy 2022 by \u201csticking\u201d it to other players, then he or she is sadly mistaken.<\/p>\n<p>The winner of 84 professional and 3 World Championship titles had been written off by many players and dart “experts”.\u00a0 He got his first 2022 \u201cin your face\u201d win when he took down Joe Cullen 11-10 for the Premier League title.\u00a0 In the Matchplay he came from behind to lay a hiding on Gerwyn Price 18-14 after trailing most of the way.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, van Gerwen annexed the Queensland Darts Masters taking out Gerwyn Price who, true to form, blamed the crowd – as he blew a 4-1 lead, losing 8-5.\u00a0 That 4-1 lead came by way of 18, 18, 24 and 17 darts.<\/p>\n<p>But, alas, it wasn\u2019t the crowd but Mr. van Gerwyn who – with three legs of 14, a 12-darter and two 11s – was responsible for Price’s defeat.<\/p>\n<p>Price is the current \u201cWelsh Whine\u201d and should replace Gary Anderson\u2019s “Scotch Whine\u201d should Anderson hang ’em up.<\/p>\n<p>Aussie Simon Whitlock is on somewhat of a \u201cRevenge Tour\u201d himself. \u00a0The former “Lord of the T70 Check” has presumably resided the past few\u00a0years in the Witness Protection Program.\u00a0 When he emerged, he got beat like \u201cGramma did the carpets after the relatives left.\u201d\u00a0 Then, World Cup 2022 came to the rescue.<\/p>\n<p>Whitlock went 4-0 in the knockout rounds\u00a0(taking out Kim Huybrechts (4-3) averaging 101.79 and James Wade (4-0) shooting 103.66 on the way to the World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Whitlock got his comeuppance at the first event Down Under losing to Gerwyn Price 6-5.\u00a0 Last week, in Wollongong, Whitlock got the \u201cW\u201d over Michael van Gerwen 6-5 after MvG missed a dart from T20 for the win.\u00a0 Whitlock would lose the next round to Joe Cullen 6-2.\u00a0 Regardless, he\u2019s back.<\/p>\n<p>If anyone deserves a “Revenge Tour” it\u2019s Fallon Sherrock. \u00a0The fair lass has been battered from \u201cpillar to post\u201d in the \u201cunsocial\u201d media – especially by one disgusting individual who equates filthy nicknames and gutter language with intelligence or knowledge.<\/p>\n<p>He uses such language to disguise the fact that he doesn\u2019t know \u201cSweet Fanny Adams\u201d about darts.\u00a0 With (dis)respect to Ms. Sherrock he states, “I don\u2019t blame her for taking the invites, but she doesn\u2019t belong – taking the place of a tour player.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Including Fallon Sherrock in PDC events is a marketing decision. \u00a0The PDC giveth and the PDC taketh.<\/p>\n<p>His theory (\u201cpeople are tired of seeing her play\u201d) has no basis of fact.\u00a0 Sherrock notched a win in the New South Wales Dart Masters.\u00a0 She showed skill and nerves when she took down local Mal Cuming 6-5.\u00a0 Sherrock trailed 1-3, then took the decider with T24, T, T25 to leave 36 after trailing 140 to 261 in the leg.<\/p>\n<p>Women\u2019s darts are different from the men.\u00a0 Yes, there is a difference.\u00a0 To judge a women\u2019s game against the males is moronic.<\/p>\n<p>The Kiwi Nation may be trying for revenge by having a verbal go at Jai Monaghan (aka Victoria Monaghan)…<\/p>\n<p>Monaghan, born in England, moved to Kiwi Land with a partner.\u00a0 Jai competed on the New Zealand Tour and was a nationally-ranked player before giving up the sport in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Monaghan then showed up to play as a women in the New Zealand Open only to be told \u201cthanks but no thanks.\u201d\u00a0 Pressure was applied as New Zealand Darts folded like a sofa bed.\u00a0 Magically, Monaghan was included in the New Zealand Open Women\u2019s draw.\u00a0 During the playing of the Open, which Monaghan won, some in the crowd jeered and heckled.<\/p>\n<p>Monaghan said, “Being who I am, it made it a little bit more difficult, because there were a few voiced opinions there not believing that I should be there.\u00a0 It\u2019s a little tarnished with a few of the comments that were made, but it’s still sinking in.\u00a0 I don’t think I’ve quite realized how big and significant this is.”<\/p>\n<p>Always the martyred Saint.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike Joan of Arc, Monaghan isn\u2019t defending a nation – only trying to force her views on others.<\/p>\n<p>At the Australia Open it was overheard, “Monaghan was standing in a women\u2019s loo cubicle doing the business and saying ‘I still enjoy having sex with a woman.'”\u00a0 Doubles a chance for an encounter.<\/p>\n<p>This experience in literary greatness started by quoting the author (full name:\u00a0Marie Joseph\u00a0Eug\u00e8ne Sue)\u00a0of\u00a0\u201cMemoirs of Matilda\u201d- who may have something in common with Monaghan.<\/p>\n<p>Bug on the wall during the assigning ritual after birth: “Girl, boy, boy, girl.\u201d\u00a0 Call it a draw.<\/p>\n<p>And finally, Russ \u201cThe Legend\u201d Lopez has been known on occasion (any!) to bet on horse races.\u00a0 Last week, at Saratoga Race Course a horse named \u201cLegends Can\u2019t Die\u201d was running with odds of 9-1…<\/p>\n<p>The Dart Legend bet a five spot on the nose of the horse “Legends”.\u00a0 A telephone call to the ODC provided a play-by-play of the race which included the Dart Legend saying \u201che\u2019s going, going… to get beat!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It was revenge against horse racing – as “Legends Can’t Die” won by a whisker paying $21.20.<\/p>\n<p>Stay thirsty my 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