I bowled a PBA league last winter(30 weeks), and after about 10 I was ready to quit. My THS average didn't improve, and my scores at the USBC nationals didn't improve, so what did bowling on that condition do for me? All it did was get me frustrated. I'm not going to bowl regionals or megabucks, so please tell me what the purpose is to make people realize they aren't as good as the guys they see on TV. Plus it got irritating watching the left-hander play the first arrow ON EACH OF THE PATTERNS. WHAT A JOKE.
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Me stupid. Me believe anything. Please tell me what to do.

Damn Mike, I forgot you were on here. Yes yes, we did win, but all three of us got REAL lucky playoff night and you guys didn't. I didn't mean to say it was a bad league, it was a very good league with good people, it's just tiring mentally to bowl on that stuff.

I hope you get a good turnout this year, but only Rob is coming back from our team. For me it was a money issue too, but I wish the best of luck this year.
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Me stupid. Me believe anything. Please tell me what to do.

Whose ego are we talking about here? The 90% who work hard all week and when they go to league want to have a couple of beers, shoot some decent scores and relax from the grind of the day. Or the 10% who think bowling should be a difficult grind it out sport all the time. When you say Bowler A isn't as good as he/she thinks they are because they bowl on easier conditions, isn't that your ego and not theirs saying it?

At the house I bowl at the most, the back wall was full of 300's, so many that they started hanging them from the ceiling. Personally I have never heard any one in the building mention a pbax, although there is a sweeper every tuesday and a t.o.c. at the end of the year for all the winners of the sweepers during the year.
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No more excuses, Just
Shut your mouth and "F"ing BOWL

I bowled in PBA X the last two summers and found that we were able to get a half season fall league with 16 singles together pretty easy. The center helped us give some incentive by allowing free anytime-practice from the first night until the last of the league. We went $15 for 2 2-Game matches worth 5 points each. Myself and a friend split the spot with him bowling the final week which was the mini-tournament described below (I was the league secretary and handled the payouts the last night). One other guy split with a buddy of his since he bowled three other nights and his wife was testy about the fourth.

We also did a sweeper the final night with it's own prize fund that we funded by charging a $25 franchise fee. The center did not charge us lineage for the final night so the full $400 went into the prize fund. We ran the sweeper as a 3 game qualifier and took 6 people into the bracket seeding the top two qualifiers right into the final four. One of the ladies who bowled and was near the bottom ran through the bracket that night as the pattern was one of the patterns she bowled well on.

It can be done with some creativeness.
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Mike Craig-Columbus, OH