So what's the deal with someone asking about equipment being checked? Who requested? Who's equipment? Was a problem found? At one of the regional finals for the PBA Championship this weekend?
No-one has a problem with asking about if equipment can be checked. In fact, that is well within his right to do so, and I don't think anyone has any argument there.
The problem is how he handled the situation, doing it on air, doubling down on it, and showing a complete lack of integrity and class for who and what he is in the sport. The way he handled it and himself called both himself and the sport into disrepute, and that is what everyone is upset at.
If he had a problem, he should have exercised his right to ask for more testing than just the one broken durometer, handled it behind the scenes, and been a hell of a lot more classy than he was. But he didn't, and made himself a fool on national TV and got dinged for it.
Again, his request to solve a potential problem was valid, but he chose the wrong time and place to air out his dirty laundry for that argument.
BL.