I have to agree with easy10pin here...why would you high five someone when you throw it good and leave a 9 pin...I leave alot of 9 pins and my teammates laugh when i leave them but that hit could be the difference maker between a win or loss. everyone has ganged up on Jason and if you watch throughout the entire team shootout, belmo ALWAYS has a bottle of water. I drink water all the time and I will say, my bottle does randomly pop when it starts to empty. Its jus the shitty quality of the plastic bottle. I think Sean Rash is a piece and I lost alot of respect for Tommy Jones over the last 2 weekends. Im pretty sure tommy leaves a decent amount of 9 pins, I would love to see his reaction when someone treies to high five him after leaving one on a great shot.

WHile I believe Jason was not doing it initially with Brad Angelo, since Angelo made it a point to bring it to his attention several times, you'd think that Jason Belmonte would have gotten the point and made the effort NOT to use a water bottle.

 

After the TV incident with Rash, during the actual team bowling stepladder finals, you'll note in the background that every bowler was drinking from a glass!!

 

I'd also add that the incident with Rash seemed to have been spurred by the Storm team intentionally, as they were all laughing before Rash TWICE put the ball back on the rack, in order to re-start his approach. I think that Jason got the blame for the Storm team. I believe they would not have thought it was so funny if it happened to them, but they did not believe that Rash would be taking the whole incident so seriously.

 

 

I think it was a bad idea that steam-rolled out of proportion. 

 

 

The part that kills me is Belmonte calling Rash's reaction "clownish" and unprofessional, but he apparently feels that he has no culpability in this incident. Personally, I would have loved to see Rash put his ball on the return, and jump on his Aussie ass.

Sometimes you're the dog, and sometimes you're the hydrant.