I have 2 jobs, work 6 days a week, bowl 2 leagues, one of which is an hour and a half round trip drive, I'm on our city board, have a senior in high school and an 11 year old stepson. You tell me where the time and money is at for all that and I'll sign up. Why is it always extremes? I don't have the opportunity to bowl on tough stuff to prepare in the first place. You can't build anything by starting with the 4th or 5th floor, you start at the bottom and build it up. Plus I'm trying to get something going in my area, not run off and join the tour. Wanting a challenge and trying to make a living doing something that very few actually make a living are two incredibly different things. Just trying to pick a fight for no reason.
Just for example's sake, Adam Barta has a full time job, two kids (teenagers I believe?), does a ton of community/charity/staff work with Hammer to give back to the sport and still makes the rounds as a weekend warrior. He's a great ambassador to the game and is someone who should be admired for all that they do for the game that they love.
It's not my job to tell you where to find time to do all of this. I just posed a scenario to an open discussion you started. Quite frankly, I don't know who you are, I don't care who you are, and I don't care if you have the ability or desire to take your game to the next level. I only see your passive aggressive rants complaining about what you can't do, and taking every chance to pat yourself on the back about the little that you can do.
As far as trying to pick a fight... miss me with the passive aggressive BS. Your post and it's topic is meant to stir up controversy. To me this is hilarious, for someone with two jobs, kids, on your city board, (...etc), that you can't resist starting some type of drama daily on a message board to elicit some attention. Like you're some type of "working man's hero" or martyr to the game of bowling.
As far as "showing you where these tournaments are", there's a website
http://www.google.com that will give you the answer to any question about anything that you may have.
As far as my first post, it was a general blanket statement for anyone wondering "what's left?" with the sport of bowling. The fact that you took offense directly, tells me that it cut a little bit deep and that it holds some truth to you. Anyways, you're a big boy, you should be able to take some backlash. That will be my last and only direct response to you, ever.
-DJ Marshall
