What's important talent and skill or looks!

[Sarah Ellerby]

All great feedback, thanks everyone. Now, what do you think to the short races to 7 in the TV stages of the event? What do you all want to see:

1. Longer races but with less features on the players, stats, etc
2. Same race to 7, with less games cut
3. Race to 7 with games cut but highlights of key shots that won that game, so more of the match

Sarah

Originally Posted by Cornerman

I think that marketability plays very big role if the sport in question is going to expand their fan/viewer base. And with women sports, people smarter in marketing than we'll ever be embrace this idea. Women's golf is the most obvious analogy. They have full-time teams on the WPGA to address clothing that the players must wear.

Fred

[The Woim]

This is a good question. What's more important, playing skills or looks? For ESPN's purposes, only playing ability will get some new female cueist into the TV rounds Karen Corr or Allison Fisher.

First off, let me say that Sarah Ellerby is an exceedingly attractive woman. A beauty, even before she lost all that weight and became a hard body. Sarah's a real plus to the WPBA! My heart does melt...

Another statement I want to discuss and try to set straight is the misleading statement of "Sex Sells". No, I think that's an entirely inaccurate and false reductionist comment. I say reductionist because we're not just sexual beings, it's actually a pretty small portion of our lives. The statement "sex sells" is false because sex doesn't sell.

Whoa, what did The Woim just say?

It's beauty that sells, boys and girls. People pay to see beauty. If sex sells, then bulletin boards wouldn't bother paying premium dollar for beautiful models, they would save all that money and hire your frumpy neighborhood girl and just have her pose in a riske manner. They don't, because that doesn't sell.

It's beauty that sells, boys and girls. Pardon me for a few minutes while I expand on this correction. With porn, if just sex sells than ugly, nasty looking and foul women would be stars of porn where it's, once again, the really pretty women who are successful in porn. Sure, there are websites dedicated to "fat women" and "one legged women" but those women are attractive to the men who pay subscription to those sites. The saying is that beauty is in the eye of the beholder and that's what is in play with men going to oddity porn websites.

We pay premium dollar for beauty. A good looking car, a nice pool cue, a big and pretty house!

So, I just wanted to correct the "sex sells" nonsense. It's beauty that sells.

For a definition of beauty, see Sarah Ellerby's photo!

Yours Truly,
The Woim

[Sarah Ellerby]

Originally Posted by The Woim

This is a good question. What's more important, playing skills or looks? For ESPN's purposes, only playing ability will get some new female cueist into the TV rounds Karen Corr or Allison Fisher.

First off, let me say that Sarah Ellerby is an exceedingly attractive woman. A beauty, even before she lost all that weight and became a hard body. Sarah's a real plus to the WPBA! My heart does melt...

Another statement I want to discuss and try to set straight is the misleading statement of "Sex Sells". No, I think that's an entirely inaccurate and false reductionist comment. I say reductionist because we're not just sexual beings, it's actually a pretty small portion of our lives. The statement "sex sells" is false because sex doesn't sell.

Whoa, what did The Woim just say?

It's beauty that sells, boys and girls. People pay to see beauty. If sex sells, then bulletin boards wouldn't bother paying premium dollar for beautiful models, they would save all that money and hire your frumpy neighborhood girl and just have her pose in a riske manner. They don't, because that doesn't sell.

It's beauty that sells, boys and girls. Pardon me for a few minutes while I expand on this correction. With porn, if just sex sells than ugly, nasty looking and foul women would be stars of porn where it's, once again, the really pretty women who are successful in porn. Sure, there are websites dedicated to "fat women" and "one legged women" but those women are attractive to the men who pay subscription to those sites. The saying is that beauty is in the eye of the beholder and that's what is in play with men going to oddity porn websites.

We pay premium dollar for beauty. A good looking car, a nice pool cue, a big and pretty house!

So, I just wanted to correct the "sex sells" nonsense. It's beauty that sells.

For a definition of beauty, see Sarah Ellerby's photo!

Yours Truly,
The Woim

All great comments. I dislike the term "sex sells." I think it's tacky, I agree with beauty and attractive but talented, I think if you have these components you can be very successful in the sports world.

Thank you for your kind comments

Sarah