Forget the left/right issue with Rhino, you can stop with this: If we packed the tour with everyone's favorites over the years, you would have a seniors/favorites tour and young guys would never get the chance to break through. There isn't enough room for them all and for better or worse, the exempt system is the way you separate the guys who are capable at that moment in time from the ones who aren't.
No one forced Voss or Monacelli to lose their exemptions. Monacelli's health took him away (happens to the best in all sports, eventually) and Voss didn't perform well enough (ditto). Simple as that.
If we're going to rap on the PBA for its exempt system, be prepared to curse golf because Jack Nicklaus isn't contending at Augusta or NASCAR because Richard Petty isn't still driving or baseball because Nolan Ryan is at home working on his dude ranch.
What bowling needs to fix this problem is a marketable senior tour, but no one has found a way to make it work financially on TV yet.
Jess
