On Further,
If Fish wasn't banned from the Bowl.com forums, he should have been, especially after the anti-Semetic post he made. I am sure the only reason he wasn't was because the USBC didn't want to deal with the stink he would have raised even if he was legitimately banned. Fish even fought for the inclusion of posters who could go through a single post without violating the TOS of those forums, and he continually posted how they were "silenced" because they disagreed with the USBC. He is a one note song who bravely posts things about the "horrors of the USBC" but refuses to answer questions posed directly to him, as he has done in this very thread.
Are you the same way? Will you answer questions? If you agree with Mr. Gutske, and the dead Fish, have you gone to your local convention center board and pushed them to make a proposal to host the USBC Open tournament? If not, why not? And if you refuse to do it, why should you or anyone else who refused to do it be upset that the tournament is in Reno so much? Or in the "West" so much? If you won't get off your collective butts to do anything, then it's no wonder the tournament is held where it costs the USBC the least, at the NBS in Reno. How much would you and dead Fish complain if they held it places where it wasn't bid on but cost more??? Or if they raised the National dues for the first time in 6 years because of it?? You guys would go ballistic. So you can't have it both ways. I will await your answers, as well as those of the dead Fish, but I doubt they will be forthcoming from him.