Thanks for directing your comments towards me 07, and thanks for clarifying that they were, or I might have missed it.
Look if you are happy being on the LF staff then great, more power to you. If it makes you feel better signing everything Lord Field amateur staff, then I say great knock yourself out. Once again however, it's not a "true" staff position. You can say it is until you are blue in the face, is still does not make it so. My only point was, and apparently you missed it, was I wish it was called something else because in my opinion it is a bit disrespectful to the true amateur staffers out there. Call it "equipment analysis" or "product specialist" or any other name that doesn't already have an implied meaning in the bowling industry. Do you think LF is using the amateur staffer title by accident? There is a reason they chose to call you "staff members". And like I said in my original post it is brilliant marketing. Absolutely brilliant. It doesn't cost them anything, it automatically sells product to you, and now it gets you on here defending a company you pay money too, while they don't have to do anything.
And just for the record, I am not an amateur staffer for any company. I am not good enough or have not done enough in the bowling industry. I did buy a couple of balls one time on sale from bowlingball.com, so using your logic I would be an amateur staff member from the right?
Finally as for keeping the negative comments to myself, that's the beauty of a bowling forum. It's to discuss, not always to agree with, bowling topics. And once again if you reread my original post I didn't attack anyone personally I just disagreed with a subject and stated so. Apparently in your world that is uncalled for. Which does make me a bit concerned though, if you get so worked up on a bowling forum, how do you handle any negative comments about "your companies" products during leagues? Hopefully there is no behavior clause in that LF contract.