Hey guys and gals, someone posted on this site a link a site that had a book of mental toughness with Chris Barnes on the cover.  Anyways I searched the site found a couple interesting things and ordered a book and a DVD.  I wanted to share the Introduction to the book I bought "Bowling:  How to Master the Game" by PBIII.

This was written by Drew Carey and it made me laugh:

If you're reading this in the book store wondering if you need a book on bowling or not, then yeah, you probably do.  Nobody thinks about buying a bowling book if they're already good at it.

Now, if you were like me, you wouldn't need this book.  I'm already good.  How good?  I once bowled a 250.  Since you're obviously new to the game, trust me when I tell you that 250 is a very, very good score.  It's the kind of scores that makes women weak in the knees.  I know, I've seen it.

I don't need Parker Bohn telling me what a good approach is, and how to do a proper release.  I've got that down.  250 baby.  You don't get a score like that without a good release.

My average?  Well, not to brag, but it's in the low-to-mid hundred-something range.  That's hundred, as in lots.  Like I said, I'm beyond books.  And I've got the style baby- the shoes, the shirts, the cool looking bag.  I mean, I'm telling you, I scare people when I stroll into the Family Fun Center.  Who needs a book when you can beat people with your style?  Not me, man.

I wish I was writing a bowling book.  I could give you some advice you could use.  Here check this out:

1.  Bowling balls weigh a ton.  You can't believe the effort it takes just to get them in and out of the trunk of your car.  Jeez-oh-man, they're a pain.  BUT!  You should never put them in a bag with wheels on it.  NEVER!  It shows weakness and will all but ensure your defeat if anyone sees you "rolling your balls in."

2.  Bowling pins have stickum on the bottoms of them.  Especially the 7 and 10 pins.  Honest.  The PBA and ABC don't want you to know this, but I'm not afraid to tell you the truth.  Anyway, what can you do about it?  Nothing.  Just realize that everytime you leave a corner pin, The Man is out to get you.

3.  The more bowling gloves and resin bags and other miscellaneous junk you buy, the better you'll bowl.

There is more, but I won't get into all of it.  At the end he signs it:

Maybe someday you'll get a "250" ring just like mine.

-Drew Carey
"Mr. 250"

III Bohn, Parker  Bowling:  How to Master the Game, 2000.
   Universe Publishing, New York, NY.

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