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SrKegler

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Bowling Blues
« on: November 06, 2004, 02:38:32 AM »
I want to state up front that I’m not in the same league as The Hose or Imabagger.  With that being said, a group of us got together yesterday for a little pot bowling.  House was running a special for $.50 a game, good cheap practice. THS

6 guys, everyone’s average around 210-220 range, 4 righties, 2 of the darkside.  Pots were $5 a game with the winner paying the lineage.

We bowled 5 games and then took a break for snacks and drinks.  Just for S&G’s, I got a print out of the games and we started talking about the games we had bowled.  After looking a the sheet, we decided the scores weren’t really indicative of the best bowler each game.  I know one game I carried a shot by tripping the 4 forward, one of the lefties left a smash 9.

Going thru each game we found anyone could have won any of the games.  Kind of took the fun out of winning when the carry instead of the execution determined the winner.

Everyone threw $2.50 in the kitty for lineage and called it a day.  Sorry day when pot bowling isn’t any fun.  Guess that’s why its hard to get them going anymore.  Anything can happen in a one game match.  Just depends on whose the luckiest.

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Re: Bowling Blues
« Reply #1 on: November 06, 2004, 12:18:27 PM »
I got the bowling blues too!

Not because your exact house has a cheaper
special than ours(aka its a $1.00 a game special).

I cant even afford that,I pay for my league fees and
that's it.I MISS bowling and its starting to affect
my league play.My highest game is only a 22something!!!!

I know one thing for it's LACK OF PRACTICE,also my
regular everyday life stresses are HIGHER than usual
because of LACK OF BOWLING period.

Yep,these are the bowling blues!!!!!!!!!!
I've been TRADING for bowling balls in my area,because
of my bills I have ta pay first.That........

.....is another Bowling Blues tooo,the LACK OF TESTING
and GIVING away balls!!!

If I dont get this NEW problem fixed,i will be
the "End of me" blues.

next!
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cool huh?

Psycho.B.T
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pin-chaser

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Re: Bowling Blues
« Reply #2 on: November 06, 2004, 12:45:41 PM »
Im with you SrKegler. Todays scoring has less todo with who bowls the best. If bowling can find away to solve this issue bowling might have a change of regaining its hayday. As it is now, you throw your money in... and the luckiest one that game wins.

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SrKegler

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Re: Bowling Blues
« Reply #3 on: November 06, 2004, 01:21:25 PM »
I guess that's why brackets and the eliminator tournaments are the only things really going on.

Used to be you could watch someone's delivery and know their pincount as soon as the ball left their hands.  Now who knows.  Used to be who made the fewest mistakes.  Now its who gets the most action.

I've got a buddy who cashes regularly in the regionals.  Still has never shot an honor score.  According to quibica his ball speed doesn't vary by more than 1/4 MPH, great breakpoint control.  Perfect shots, leaves solid 8s, stone 7, etc.

Me, I can spray the lane and just watch them fall.

Just isn't fair.

Leaves a lot to be desired.  I sure was a lot happier bowling when some sembelance of consistency was necessary.
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Re: Bowling Blues
« Reply #4 on: November 06, 2004, 02:05:16 PM »
it's the balls, it's the balls, it's the balls...

A long, long time ago, in a bowling universe far, far away, form was a good indication of scoring potential, because without some semblance of it, you couldn't apply the necessary roll to the ball to prevent it from deflecting too much when it hit the head pin.

In the bowling universe that we now inhabit, I watch guys who are so fat, they're basically heaving the ball around their waists, and dumping it onto the lane.  No form, no leverage, no nothing.  But as long as they dump it in the right spot... strike.  Truly amazing...
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Re: Bowling Blues
« Reply #5 on: November 08, 2004, 06:24:13 AM »
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After looking a the sheet, we decided the scores weren’t really indicative of the best bowler each game.  I know one game I carried a shot by tripping the 4 forward, one of the lefties left a smash 9.

Going thru each game we found anyone could have won any of the games.  Kind of took the fun out of winning when the carry instead of the execution determined the winner.


Sheesh.....guess it WOULD be easier to just pay the guy who throws the 'prettiest' and just skip the bowling all together. Sounds like you need to change your perspective of FUN! LOL! j/k
I think what you described is the essence of pot bowling. Six guys who all average pretty close to each other, each with an equal chance of winning. So it may come down to carry. So what. Thats just part of the game. Besides, lack of carry is usually due to bowler error. Maybe we(meaning no one in particular) dont always execute as well as we think we do.
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Re: Bowling Blues
« Reply #6 on: November 08, 2004, 07:11:02 AM »
This is the problem when you give everyone the pocket and it becomes a carry contest. Virtually none of the top bowlers I know want a pure carry contest, they want good shots rewarded with strikes and easy spares and bad shots punished with splits and hard spare.

The sad truth is on the easy conditions the better bowler is often penalized for being able to repeat shots. It is generally the small mistakes that get punished by a flat ten, a shaker seven, or a stone 9. At the same time their opponent may miss their target by 3 boards either direction and get a blower on the wide shot or a screamer high jam on the pulled shot.  

Over the long haul the better bowler wins out but in a pot game situation you can take a better bowler (220+) against several lower average bowlers (low 200’s) and they will have trouble winning games as at least one of the lower average bowlers will catch fire in a bottle for a game. In today’s game the better bowler might win 30% of the time but 25 years ago the better bowler would have won 80% of the games.


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