We have a situation in our handicap "fun" league. I say "fun" league, because it is handicap, and we go to Vegas for sweepers at the end of the season, but in my book, any league that pays money based on where you finish in the league may be "fun" but there's a competitive aspect to it as well. Our team isn't liked too well, mainly because we won last year, and take it more seriously than most in the league. We are respectful of the other teams, and always are polite at the end of the night, but teams are making it more obvious that they don't care for us. Two weeks ago, the other team was deliberately taking forever to bowl to throw us off of our rhythm (our 4th bowler shot 734 which was sweeter than anything), and this past week, the team currently in 1st was being very loud, and yelling as we bowled the entire night. I love competition as much as the next bowler, but the questionable, and borderline unsportsmanlike tactics are getting to be a bit much. We have talked to the secretary about the situation, the week bowling the slow bowling team in particular (we had all night to discuss it with her between their shots), but she has shown little interest in taking any action against them, refusing to go down to our pair and witness the situation for herself. Guess what I'm getting at is are there any strategies for dealing with this, other than just trying to ignore it, and bowl our game, and has anyone else seen things similar to this in their leagues?
