Author Topic: Sportsmanship (Read 2612 times)

barcar · « **on:** April 01, 2011, 09:30:37 AM »

So I am bowling against a guy who is giving me 7pins and he rolls a 259 and I bowl a 255 so I end up winning that game by 3 pins.
I tell the guy great game and he is all yeah for you.
That is the last I talk to the guy, yeah it sucks to lose by handicap but come on be a man and say thanks.
Any one else run across poor sports?
By the way he won the other 2 games and total

mainzer · « **Reply #1 on:** April 01, 2011, 06:16:42 PM »

I am afraid I would be considered a bad sportsman right now. I am slumping and havent been very good about being quiet about it.

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TDC57 · « **Reply #2 on:** April 01, 2011, 07:33:16 PM »

Guys like the one you described are everywhere. Yes, you needed handicap to beat him but for god's sake you shot 255! If you shot 165 and knocked him off, I could understand him being unhappy. Let it go. You were the bigger man. I had one of my best series of the year against a guy who had an average 20 pins less than I and was not able to win a point. I congratulated him for having his best series of the year and I meant it. I just can't feel that bad about losing when I bowled great myself!

BKloss · « **Reply #3 on:** April 01, 2011, 07:41:55 PM »

No matter hwo you look at it, you did the right thing. For every couple pin win you have, you have just as many losses, it all equals out in the end.

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LookingForALeftyWall · « **Reply #4 on:** April 03, 2011, 08:41:03 AM »

There's this one guy in my league that's a real jerk, just a crotchety guy. A couple weeks back we housed his team because everyone on my team bowled well and our lowest avg guy, a 175 bowler shot 640 - his best series of the season. At the end of the night the jerk was telling our low avg guy to "go buy a lottery ticket, cause you got all the luck tonight". How classless is that?

So we ended up bowling his team again in position round a couple of weeks later and the jerk went on a nice run of 12 in a row between games. I pointed this out to him and he said "What? You're counting my strikes now? Do you need Excel? Do you need spreadsheets to print it out?" At that point I had had it with him and told him "LOTTERY TICKET, GET ONE!!!!" I also asked him if he'd like to bowl some action since he was such a big man, to which he quietly went into his corner and I didn't hear from him the rest of the night. He shut up real quick...

He's the only guy in league that I can't stand because he's sort a bad sport. I really can't stand that guy.

trash heap · « **Reply #5 on:** April 04, 2011, 07:08:54 AM »

barcar,

Sometimes not saying anything is the best choice. There are a lot of sensitive bowlers out there. I don't why its so bad but I think all this high scoring has turned many bowlers into a bunch of spoiled little brats. Some really think that they are the only ones that can score and when someone beats them like you did...they can't handle it.

I can hear his side of the story. "I throw a 259 and I lose!" (He will not mention your score, your handicap, or his handicap in the story)

tommyboy74 · « **Reply #6 on:** April 13, 2011, 03:25:00 PM »

Thats when us as the good guys just need to bite our tongue and be the bigger man.

Before leaving bowling 12 years ago, there was 1 team that I absolutely could not stand to bowl against. The 3 men on that team had no concept of sportsmanship. They would be up on the approach trying to start their approach at the same time I would, obscene gestures, the PDW chops (before PDW did them), basically acting like idiots. Luckily, I only had to bowl that team a few times each year since it was a big league. If one of them had a good game, I would say congratulations but it never worked whatsoever.

However, there were other teams that were very good with sportsmanship. I remember 1 night when I was 14, I had a great day on the lanes (264, 225, 190) throwing a Columbia Cuda/C in a 3 game set. The lanes were just perfect for my game, being medium and having a nice dry area where I could swing it from 15 to 5. I couldn't do anything wrong that day. During and after the set, other team definitely shared their congratulations even though my team destroyed them (all 3 of us had a strong day on the lanes.) That good sportsmanship continued to the end of year banquet when I took honors for the highest scratch game in that league and my team finished 3rd overall.

So, there is the share of both good and bad sportsmanship. I would just say be yourself and continue to be the good sport. If the other person doesn't, then just be the better man and don't say anything. You're much better off in the long run.

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