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Title: Thanks ESPN
Post by: kev3inp on September 07, 2008, 05:04:54 AM
I tuned in to watch the women bowl and instead there's some neck-car race.  Thanks, ESPN.  Oooo, a left turn!  Oooo, another left turn!  Don't know if I can stand the excitement.
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Title: Re: Thanks ESPN
Post by: pro shop guy on September 07, 2008, 01:06:07 PM
left turn,.....left turn.......left turn.....lol
Title: Re: Thanks ESPN
Post by: charlest on September 07, 2008, 01:31:44 PM
The USBC website says the US Open will follow the current "show", whatever that is.

ESPN screws bowling yet again!
Where's Chris Schenkel and Beau Burton when you really need them.

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Title: Re: Thanks ESPN
Post by: srlunatic on September 07, 2008, 01:39:59 PM
Man....watching bowling on the first weekend of the NFL??

That should be an automatic loss of the Man Card right there..:-)

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Title: Re: Thanks ESPN
Post by: Russell on September 07, 2008, 02:06:51 PM
How dare ESPN push a sport back with a few thousand viewers for one that will draw in millions.

What are they thinking /sarcasm

and I agree with luny....man card forfeit.
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Title: Re: Thanks ESPN
Post by: charlest on September 07, 2008, 02:14:31 PM
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Man....watching bowling on the first weekend of the NFL??

That should be an automatic loss of the Man Card right there..:-)

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If you were participating, I'd understand. You're watching it. Any thrill you get is just vicarious - might as well be watching NASCAR and wait for the deaths to happen.

Watching the PWBA women bowl is appreciating an athlete executing prime athletic skills.
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Edited on 9/7/2008 2:16 PM
Title: Re: Thanks ESPN
Post by: charlest on September 07, 2008, 02:16:17 PM
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How dare ESPN push a sport back with a few thousand viewers for one that will draw in millions.

What are they thinking /sarcasm

and I agree with luny....man card forfeit.
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Pardon, you're making a minor mistake: 87 cars driving around in a circle for hours on a Sunday is not, AND NEVER WILL BE, a "sport". It's called mall shopping.
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Title: Re: Thanks ESPN
Post by: tvphotog on September 07, 2008, 02:18:25 PM
Due to weather issues the race was pushed back to Sunday. Live events will always trump tape delayed events. NASCAR brings in a heck of alot more money then women's bowling also.
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Title: Re: Thanks ESPN
Post by: srlunatic on September 07, 2008, 02:18:46 PM
Um...

Charlest...

Can I have some of those brownies you must be inhaling over there..-)

Who need woman's bowling when you have internet porn??.-)
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Title: Re: Thanks ESPN
Post by: kev3inp on September 07, 2008, 02:19:01 PM
I really don't give a rats behind about the NFL.  What, I can watch the Dolphins?  Puh-leeeese!  I don't need to conform to Neanderthal views of so called "manhood" to be confident in my masculinity. I guess you guys do.  Awww, too bad for you.  They never show my team down here, so I don't care. I guess nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public, so ESPN panders to lowlife inbreds that 20 of them would make a whole set of teeth.  Enjoy your race.  I'm off to the bookstore to do something intelligent with my time. Go brush your tooth.
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Title: Re: Thanks ESPN
Post by: Russell on September 07, 2008, 02:20:53 PM
quote:
quote:
How dare ESPN push a sport back with a few thousand viewers for one that will draw in millions.

What are they thinking /sarcasm

and I agree with luny....man card forfeit.
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Pardon, you're making a minor mistake: 87 cars driving around in a circle for hours on a Sunday is not, AND NEVER WILL BE, a "sport". It's called mall shopping.
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True charlest....however let's see the Traber brothers handle the heat of a car for four hours.  That argument goes both ways
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Title: Re: Thanks ESPN
Post by: charlest on September 07, 2008, 02:56:55 PM
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Um...

Charlest...

Can I have some of those brownies you must be inhaling over there..-)

Who need woman's bowling when you have internet porn??.-)
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Hmmm, I think we're talking about 2 different things. I'm finishing off a ball rack while I'm watching the Jets beat the Dolphins yet again. boring. Why is Don Shula making diet commercials?
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Title: Re: Thanks ESPN
Post by: charlest on September 07, 2008, 02:58:54 PM
quote:
quote:
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How dare ESPN push a sport back with a few thousand viewers for one that will draw in millions.

What are they thinking /sarcasm

and I agree with luny....man card forfeit.
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Pardon, you're making a minor mistake: 87 cars driving around in a circle for hours on a Sunday is not, AND NEVER WILL BE, a "sport". It's called mall shopping.
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True charlest....however let's see the Traber brothers handle the heat of a car for four hours.  That argument goes both ways
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No one ever said or ever will say the Trabers were human, no less athletes! Heat endurance still doesn't make driving around in circles a sport.
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Title: Re: Thanks ESPN
Post by: charlest on September 07, 2008, 03:03:56 PM
Enough! It's a moot pointwhat's a sport and what's not. I don't really care enough to make a point by point comparison.

ESPN was supposed to show Bowling and it didn't. Even my online TV guide still shows bowling shows from 2 PM to 4:00 or so, Eastern time.

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Title: Re: Thanks ESPN
Post by: River700 on September 07, 2008, 03:46:22 PM
I know ESPN is soo messed up, I can't count the times that I was looking forward to watching a bowling show, then find that it was some stupid bull riding show or some dum nascar show that you go around in circles for 4 hours....Right now, I just looked at the tv guide and it shows a dum bull riding show, woopdy do.... Someone needs to do something, thats for sure.
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Title: Re: Thanks ESPN
Post by: cudaskater123 on September 07, 2008, 04:01:09 PM
Its about time bowling came on
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Title: Re: Thanks ESPN
Post by: sims_37s on September 07, 2008, 04:12:40 PM
Dumb red neck sport?

How many enigners are involved in Nascar, if you only knew the half of what goes into making a car go left at those speeds you'd have a little more respect for those of us that make a living at ohh another left turn, is bowling not the same thing. a ball making another left turn into the pocket opp look another pretty ball delivered by a pretty woman for another left turn to the pocket.
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Title: Re: Thanks ESPN
Post by: cudaskater123 on September 07, 2008, 04:16:05 PM
Unless theres a lefthander. Then its a right turn,

You don't see right turns much in Nascar
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Title: Re: Thanks ESPN
Post by: sims_37s on September 07, 2008, 04:24:27 PM
true. but my point is nascar is not just a red neck sport any more.

Just tired of hearing how one thing is better than the other and blah blah blah. Do what we do one weekend, and tell me that any red neck could come in set the car up, make adjustments, and be that smooth and precise for 4 hours. I know it's just a left turn, but behind the scenes is so much more than that and people take it for granted. A little respect, just like the pba not any one can just step in and drive the car. The foreign influx has proven that.
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Title: Re: Thanks ESPN
Post by: KennyRambo on September 07, 2008, 04:26:46 PM
Oh yeah, left turn left turn. Hey, it's just throwing a ball at pins.
Ball at pins. Ball at pins. Ball at pins.
Title: Re: Thanks ESPN
Post by: cudaskater123 on September 07, 2008, 04:27:28 PM
Yeah. I really don't agree that it's a redneck sport. Its just a coincidence that some of the people that watch nascar have mullets and look like the typical redneck. But I know many people that watch nascar that are not rednecks. And I know what you mean. And I agree,
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Title: Re: Thanks ESPN
Post by: tenpin477 on September 07, 2008, 06:16:22 PM
I wouldve sat and watched bowling if I could. The Packers have the monday night game, who wants to watch football today?
Title: Re: Thanks ESPN
Post by: SVstar34 on September 07, 2008, 06:26:51 PM
Packers??? Who the hell likes the Packers anymore besides their own Cheeseheads?? I'd tell Aaron Rodgers he could sit on the bench and learn from the best in Brett Favre or take a hike and learn from someone else not named Brett Favre, Tom Brady, or Peyton Manning
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Title: Re: Thanks ESPN
Post by: sdbowler on September 07, 2008, 07:21:11 PM
Why couldn't they have put bowling on ESPN Classic?
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Title: Re: Thanks ESPN
Post by: cudaskater123 on September 07, 2008, 07:25:57 PM
Then I wouldn't be able to watch it. Just recently, my family took channels off of our plan with Dish Network(To save money) and ESPN Classic just happened to be one of the channels,

I know nobody cares about just one person not be able to watch it, but I'm just sayin.
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Title: Re: Thanks ESPN
Post by: scotts33 on September 07, 2008, 07:31:47 PM
What did I do today?  No ladies bowling, no Nascar, no NFL....I went with 3 good friends and played 18.  70 deg. and sunny.   Great fun.

Boohoo to you guys!
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Title: Re: Thanks ESPN
Post by: Kid Jete on September 07, 2008, 07:33:21 PM
Yeah it would make sense for ESPN to lose money just to please a few bowling nuts... I'm being sarcastic if you didn't catch on.
Title: Re: Thanks ESPN
Post by: sevenpin63 on September 07, 2008, 07:36:37 PM
Bowling needs to get off ESPN, and go somewhere they are respected.
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Title: Re: Thanks ESPN
Post by: Dan Belcher on September 07, 2008, 07:47:08 PM
For what it's worth, pretty much anything other than the NFL would have been pre-empted for the NASCAR Sprint Cup race.  NASCAR is a huge draw, and ESPN has a big investment in them.  And in fact, they're pre-empting World Series of Poker coverage right now to show the NASCAR Nationwide Series race.  (Both events were delayed by rain and wind caused by the hurricanes and tropical storms off the coast)
Title: Re: Thanks ESPN
Post by: cudaskater123 on September 07, 2008, 08:06:07 PM
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Yeah it would make sense for ESPN to lose money just to please a few bowling nuts... I'm being sarcastic if you didn't catch on.



Yeah, I kind of figured
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Title: Re: Thanks ESPN
Post by: dicnic on September 08, 2008, 01:41:45 PM
Television management/executives only care about one thing: money! Higher ratings allows them to charge more for advertisements. Of course, we all know that!

What irks me is that the on-screen guide for DirecTV is even wrong, when broadcasting LIVE things. They showed IndyCar racing on the guide but Nascar on the screen. A whole bunch of things were screwed up, including not getting ANY bowling at all.

Oh well, at least one league starts tomorrow night.
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Title: Re: Thanks ESPN
Post by: Crankenstein300 on September 08, 2008, 03:30:16 PM
You can blame tropical storm Hanna for the problem. The NASCAR race was supposed to be on ABC Saturday night but it was delayed until Sunday ay 1 eastern due to the storm. And I don't care what insults you hurl about NASCAR, it draws WAY more viewers and sponsors than bowling or near anything other than the big time sports will so of course it will pre-empt anything that was there first. I managed to DVR it after the race and it was an OK show.

Blame ESPN all you want but any other network would have done the same thing.
Title: Re: Thanks ESPN
Post by: Kid Jete on September 08, 2008, 03:36:30 PM
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You can blame tropical storm Hanna for the problem. The NASCAR race was supposed to be on ABC Saturday night but it was delayed until Sunday ay 1 eastern due to the storm. And I don't care what insults you hurl about NASCAR, it draws WAY more viewers and sponsors than bowling or near anything other than the big time sports will so of course it will pre-empt anything that was there first. I managed to DVR it after the race and it was an OK show.

Blame ESPN all you want but any other network would have done the same thing.


What made me laugh was that those same insults people are hurling at NASCAR can be used to describe most league hacks as well.  But I guess this is a bowling forum so we can go around making fun of that crowd now can we?  
Title: Re: Thanks ESPN
Post by: mainzer on September 08, 2008, 03:45:32 PM
it was on at four pm after the race
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Title: Re: Thanks ESPN
Post by: KennyRambo on September 08, 2008, 04:49:00 PM
At least the nascar race didn't have Cathy Dorin-Lizzy's smoker voice yapping in every 5 minutes.
Title: Re: Thanks ESPN
Post by: 230-n-up-or-bust on September 08, 2008, 05:15:34 PM
70,000 metric tons of rain fall from Tropical Storm Hanna, forcing a scheduling change which creates the most inconvenient of all inconveniences(the preempting of women's bowling in favor of a sport that attracts 2340 times more viewers) and this cornhole's complaining?

Sorry about the exaggeration.

68,578 metric tons, not 70K.
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Title: Re: Thanks ESPN
Post by: kev3inp on September 08, 2008, 05:48:19 PM
Sorry, I'm just not interested in guys driving around in a circle. At least there could be a few crashes to liven things up.  That's all anybody watches for anyway.  I know there's tons of engineering that goes into it, but it doesn't impress me.  If engineering was fascinating we'd be watching the space program, or what's left of it.  Just because it's popular doesn't make it good.  Sorry if your intelligence has been insulted, or you feel you've been lumped in with a bunch of morons with a lack of dental hygiene. I'd rather watch drag racing or grand prix for motorsports.
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Title: Re: Thanks ESPN
Post by: 230-n-up-or-bust on September 08, 2008, 05:54:35 PM
What's most confusing to me is that you can't figure out that ESPN, like any other business entity, tries to make money.  When there's a waiting list for season tickets to attend men's, women's, youth, gorilla, giraffe, etc. bowling events, in addition to the 110,000 that attended the Richmond race on Sunday afternoon, ESPN might actually show NASCAR on ESPN Classic.  Besides, isn't a LOT more fun to find out who won an event, fail to place "spoiler" in the topic when the winner is congratulated because it's tape-delayed by three weeks, and then have a thread to flame about?
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Title: Re: Thanks ESPN
Post by: Dan Belcher on September 08, 2008, 06:26:20 PM
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Sorry, I'm just not interested in guys driving around in a circle.
... I'd rather watch drag racing or grand prix for motorsports.
And drag racing is just guys driving in a straight line and road racing is just guys driving in really convoluted twisty circles.  Oval racing is a hell of a lot more than "guys just driving in circles," but people like you will never get it, so it's a waste of time trying to explain it.  (And for what it's worth, I personally enjoy watching racing on ovals, road courses, street circuits, drag racing, etc.)
Title: Re: Thanks ESPN
Post by: KennyRambo on September 08, 2008, 07:52:30 PM
Hell, this could have been great for the Women's U.S. open, I mean they had 329249842824024 more viewers watching the show before them then they probably would have had if nascar wasn't put on.


And again, the going circles thing. Wow. Bowling has the same misconceptions, it's just throwing a ball down a lane, anybody can do it....
Title: Re: Thanks ESPN
Post by: lsf_21 on September 08, 2008, 10:00:46 PM
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Want to see a typical Nascar fan? Check it out!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iMd8Pm-2EE



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Title: Re: Thanks ESPN
Post by: kev3inp on September 09, 2008, 03:52:39 AM
What's confusing to me is you can't figure out that I know ESPN makes more money from the horde of bubbas who watch it, but I don't care about that. I'm not interested in it.  So 110,000 people show up.  Soccer is more popular worldwide than NASCAR, so since even more people watch it, I'm sure you're glued to ESPN Deportes.  No, not interested? But look at how much money it makes. Look at how many are into it. See, who cares?
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Title: Re: Thanks ESPN
Post by: BrunsBrent on September 09, 2008, 05:18:35 AM
theres a lot more nascar fans than bowling fans, so stop crying. or pick a more popular sport to watch... plus, watching womens bowling is like watching womens basketball...
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Title: Re: Thanks ESPN
Post by: EboHammer4ever on September 09, 2008, 06:42:55 AM
Thats ok by me.  I love NASCAR and bowling but I wasted an hour of my life listening to old Bo Burton and Marshall Holman and there outdated 1950's to 1980's bowling knowledge.  I mean are you kidding me?  If I heard one more time ask Shannon O'Keefe why did Diandra switch to her plastic ball for the ten pin, I was going to shot myself.  Geez!!!  Are you telling me they couldn't get Randy Peterson to do the play by play?  They know nothing of the modern game and modern bowling equipment.  They should be put on the shelf like thier ancient bowling equipment!!
Title: Re: Thanks ESPN
Post by: KennyRambo on September 09, 2008, 09:57:47 PM
The tv channels care, and concerning the decision as to what plays, they're the only ones who need to care.
Title: Re: Thanks ESPN
Post by: 9andaWiggle on September 10, 2008, 10:22:13 AM
Anyone else find all the redneck insults to NASCAR amusing?  Like bowling is such a high class, socially superior game.  LMFAO!  Right... go back to swilling your beer, smoking your stogie, and staring at those nudie cards while wiping the pizza grease on the wife-beater you've got stretched out over that big gut bowler boy!  HA HA HA!

A bowler making fun of rednecks?!  BWA HA HA HA! I'm laughing so hard I'm about to pass out!
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Title: Re: Thanks ESPN
Post by: scotts33 on September 10, 2008, 10:39:37 AM
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Anyone else find all the redneck insults to NASCAR amusing? Like bowling is such a high class, socially superior game. LMFAO! Right... go back to swilling your beer, smoking your stogie, and staring at those nudie cards while wiping the pizza grease on the wife-beater you've got stretched out over that big gut bowler boy! HA HA HA!

A bowler making fun of rednecks?! BWA HA HA HA! I'm laughing so hard I'm about to pass out!

 


Ain't that the truth!  Rednecks, White Socks and Blue Ribbon Beer ...

Nascar and bowling go together...hence the reason why we have had in the past Nascar leagues.  

I'll take any bowling Nascar redneck over the dunce minded TV viewer of reality based TV shows.  Now there's an idiot in my mind.
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Title: Re: Thanks ESPN
Post by: 9andaWiggle on September 10, 2008, 11:00:29 AM
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I'll take any bowling Nascar redneck over the dunce minded TV viewer of reality based TV shows.  Now there's an idiot in my mind.


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