Our annual city tournament is finally coming around again. They take the top ten city averages for seniors (10 men, 10 women for each division), adults, and youth, and we have a tournament. The seniors have to have a minimum of 70 games bowled, and so do the youth, but the adults have to have a composite average of 70 games apiece in at least two different houses.
This year, the prebowling scum that I'm sure some of you have heard about qualified first with a 218. He prebowled for 80 of the 132 games in the league that his average came from (if the youth bowl in more than one league, they just take the league they averaged highest in). The league I qualified from I prebowled 6 of 96 (because of tournaments). I averaged 216. There was talk of compositing the youth averages, but they didn't do it, BUT announced in the paper that the averages represented for the youth WERE composite. I bowled two leagues, averaged 216 in one, 211 in the other. This guy averaged 218 in the league he prebowled for, and the league he couldn't find any decent explaination to excuse himself from, he averaged 205. I'd have been at a little over 213, and he'd have been at 212.
In any case, he's going to be getting the recognition for being the top qualifier from people that have no clue about what went on this season. I fought and fought through the broken down conditions we had at my 211 house from the peewees. I was second high in the league to mr. prebowler. At the other house, my 216 house, I was fifth in average in the entire house, adults and everybody, and the next closest youth was mr. prebowler at 205. I'm not trying to make this a bragging session, but I just don't feel like I'm receiving my dues. I'm not saying I have to have the attention, but don't you just hate when you do all the work for something and somebody else slides right in and gets the reward? I'm not looking for attention, and I already get respect from a lot of the adults, I'd just like my efforts to earn me the reward I should have received, just for myself. I'm the kind of bowler that always bowls against themself, I love seeing other people bowl great, even if they're bowling against me. I'm kinda the way Danny Wiseman is, I'm intense about my own bowling, but I can smile and still be cool about it if somebody beats me.
I realize it's just a bunch of youth bowlers, but nearly all of them are going adult, and I've been bowling with a couple this summer in the adult leagues, so it's not like it's a super huge deal. It really just irks me when mr. prebowler and his girlfriend have inflated averages and then have the nerve to say "You're just jealous of our averages," when anybody makes a comment to them about the prebowling. They had to rewrite an entire set of league rules for next year because of these two. Rant off, phew.
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Forget Kung Fu, I know Ron Bahr!!!
The only difference between youth and adult leagues are that the big boys are allowed to whine. They're more entertaining anyway.
