Jim Dressel just announced a WOW -
WIBC just issued some contingency legislation - if the single membership organization doesn't pass.
This issue is:
drumroll please....

THE WIBC WANTS TO VOTE TO ALLOW MEN TO JOIN!!!

I NEVER thought I'd hear this...

For clarification, please check out the phantom radio show...
http://66.70.217.221/phantom/radio/phantomradio.htm

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More:

http://www.bowl.com/bowl/wibc/common/news/record.html?record=7674

I know. Incredible - sign of desperation, I guess...
Does this mean you all get to wear skirts to bowl???

Hey - I know - the guys will be able to bowl the Queens tourney, too!!!
Cool.

I must be missing something .. why would men join the WIBC? From a LEAGUE point of view .. there aren't that many LEAGUES .. from a COST perspective I THINK the WIBC is more EXPENSIVE .. perhaps on a PROFESSIONAL level there might be some PLUS that I don't see .. why would this be beneficial? .. SAWBONES says that this makes it clear that the WIBC is desperate .. HOW? I wonder what the justification for this move is?
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What the WIBC and ABC need to realize is that along with the dwindling numbers in membership is the fact that the somewhat archeic boards that exist at the local levels think they are driving the bus when it comes to league play in their community.  The SMO is an attempt by the proprietors to take an active stance in what is happening with bowling in its communities.

YABA jumped on the bandwagon as fast as they did for one simple reason:  YABA supports the future of the sport.  It is the governing organization for the youth in bowling.  It agreed to the SMO originally created and proposed because it has the backing of proprietors across the country.

Contrary to popular belief (and I wish I could remember who said this)  "Proprietors are no longer interested in sitting in the back of the bus...We own the bus"

The SMO will allow centers to have more say, which, if you come from a community like mine, is desperately lacking.

Jennifer Brockette
(Tracy's Wife)
Assistant Manager Brunswick Varsity Bowl
Denton  Texas

It will stop the griping by men who resent that women have been allowed to sanction ABC for years and they are not allowed to sanction WIBC.  The men, if this goes through, can pay $31/year to dual sanction.
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I have no life, therefore I bowl or I bowl, therefore I have no life? Okay here is the truth I bowl, therefore there is life

If the women delegates vote to accept men (which I seriously doubt will happen), do you think they will allow the male members to bowl in the WIBC tournament?  Queens, Senior Queens, local championships, etc?  This too, I seriously doubt will happen.  So where do they think the men members will compete?  Seems to me this is just another ridiculous scheme from Greendale?  I wonder when the men and women sanctioned bowlers are going to grow tired of this baloney and throw out the entire current leadership of both ABC and WIBC?