Hey everyone.  Let me first give a little backround about myself.  I started bowling when I was 12 years old and bowled until I was 26 in the same center.  I bowled in the junior scratch traveling league when I was younger and the centers scratch league when I left juniors.  I have recently taken 5 years off and this is my first year back.  IT has been probably the most frustrating year of bowling of my life.  I realize that I can't expect miracles after taking that many years off.  Anyway I was always between 210 and 215 average wise when I was bowling very often.  This year I am currently 201 after 63 games.

   That is enough about me here is the real questions I have.  The shot for the first couple of months of the season was pretty good.  It stayed for about a game and a half and then you chased the pattern left which is pretty typical.  The last 10 weeks or so the shot has gotten progressively drier each week to start.  They have been the most inconsistent lanes I think I have ever bowled on from week to week.  It is not only me that is having the problems.  The league average has dropped about 6 pins per person over this time.  Take this past week for instant we had about 8 guys not even break 500 which is ridiculous for a scratch league.  Am I out of place wanting to go the owners and ask them why they have changed things??  Or is I am just not as competive as I used to be and just want a relatively consistant shot from week to week?  

  Also I feel like they just don't care about the business anymore.  There is so much grit and sand on the sett-tees and approaches it is like walking on a desert.  I asked them why there is so much garbage and one of the managers told me they sweep them twice a week.  I thought twice a week is crazy when there is leagues 7 nights a week.  This just proves to me that they don't care like they used to.
    Sorry about the long rant I felt really frustrated and just wanted a little feedback on how to handle it.  Thanks  

From your last paragraph, I think anything you say would be moot.  Sweep twice a week?  WTF?  Every center I've ever worked or bowled in would at least run a dust mop over the entire settee area/approaches at least once a day.  I've known a couple that would do it between open bowling and leagues while they were re-oiling the lanes.  Wet mop was usually twice a week at the places I worked (more often if necessary). Vacuum was run every day over any carpeted areas.

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Is it just me, or is this the most duplicated post ever?  I think every day or two someone is on here actually complaining about their house shots being too tough and wanting to call Jesse Jackson to come in and make a change.

Scratch league, guys not breaking 500, means, you guys aren't scratch bowlers.
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