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Scolai

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Is it just me or is it the lanes?
« on: May 01, 2004, 08:25:48 AM »
Last 2 weeks:

741, 667, 466, 710.

Anyone notice a discrepancy?  I didn't say anything about the pair I was on the night I shot the 467 for fear of sounding like a whiner who couldn't adjust, but I think it would be safe to say that there was a problem with the pattern.  We were on the transition pair (where the machine is refilled with oil for putting the oil down on the last 20 lanes of the house), so the pattern was spotty with lots of wet/dry.

One other thing that may have affected my bowling that night:  I ate a basket of fries before I bowled.  Afterwards, it seemed that I couldn't get out of the ball as cleanly as I had in warm-up.  I believe with the salt, my fingers swelled up and started sticking in the thumbhole.

Anyone else have any similar experiences, or am I the only one who goes +141 one week, then -134 the next?
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JOE FALCO

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Re: Is it just me or is it the lanes?
« Reply #1 on: May 01, 2004, 11:51:07 PM »
I bowl in one SENIOR league where we start at 1 PM and the last time the lanes were oiled was the NIGHT before at 5:30 PM. After the OILING the night before there's a league that bowls!

Now the league would be BAD ENOUGH but they have OPEN BOWLING after that league .. then on the day we bowl they have OPEN BOWLING before our 1 pm start. When we get on the lanes you have POT LUCK .. did someone bowl on the lanes after LAST NIGHTS league? Did the lanes get used before we started? Based on USEAGE the shot will VARY!

You may catch them DRY/BURNT/or MED OIL! Blows my mind .. and I keep going back to the league because it's SO INTERESTING! Always get my LOW AVERAGE from that CENTER! THE SCORES WILL FLUCTUATE FROM WEEK TO WEEK!

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Re: Is it just me or is it the lanes?
« Reply #2 on: May 02, 2004, 10:15:04 AM »
You find this all the time now.  Just when you think you've got everything working, you have a night where you can't find the right line, you can't make the right adjustments, and every change you make just makes things worse.

Been there, done that.
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