I'll tell you what, I fuckin love Dennis Hatch.......His energy is what is needed throughout the US team......First started watching pool properly about 6 years ago because of the Mosconi Cup......The Ryder Cup in golf is something I will take holidays off work to watch from the first minute to the last with the beers flowing. Even though I am not a big golf fan and do not play the sport. It is just an amazing tournament with passion you will not see anywhere in the world.......Anyway, that's the reason I started watching the Mosconi Cup. I do play pool but 8 ball pool on UK tables, but this is something special........ All I've seen is European wins in both the Mosconi Cup and the Ryder Cup (albeit been watching the Ryder Cup for decades and seen a good few US wins) mainly, but the reason Europe take so many titles is the team ethic and passion.......The likes of Jayson Shaw and Joshua Filler give it all the passion they have. The American team just does not have that. If all the US players showed the same hunger and passion that Dennis Hatch does, the results would be much closer than it is right now, of European dominance.......Examples in the Ryder Cup are all too similar...... Congrats to team USA last year, but even though the tournament is in America this year, the Europeans must be firm favourites again..... On another note, Earl Strickland is a fool! An absolute dinosaur/arrogant bad loser......Rodney Morris (a great player), looks embarrassed at Strickland's misplaced arrogance........Strickland is regarded as one of the best ever players in US history........He couldn't lace Shane van Boening's boots!!!!!!!! Now THAT'S a player!!!!!!