Author Topic: Cell phone!!! (Read 5230 times)

serice · « **on:** January 28, 2007, 03:41:01 AM »

Oatman's up for the firsth throw of the match game and some person's cell phone goes off. He tried to shake it off, but you could see Billy's eyes look left just before he started his movement. The result -- nasty split.

I think if you make a violation like a cell phone ringing during a televised broadcast, you need to get escorted out of the center and banned from the next intown tournament. It's rude and completely avoidable!!

Edited on 1/28/2007 2:46 PM

janderson · « **Reply #16 on:** January 29, 2007, 01:17:54 PM »

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Who really cares if a cell phone goes off when you are bowling league? There are many other sounds going on around you, want them to go away too? In a tournament situation, sure, put the damn phone away unless you absolutely need it, but in league, come on, let it go.

Absolutely. Even run of the mill tournament settings don't compare to the silence of the PBA set as a competitor is on the approach getting ready to make a shot. That's not to defend the cell phone junkies, but their problem shouldn't bother your league bowling.
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Necromancer · « **Reply #17 on:** January 29, 2007, 01:27:35 PM »

I think the cell phone going off was messed up and cost Billy Oatman $12,000 ($25,000-$13,000). But Billy has now become the people's champ by the way he handled it and didn't act like a donkey butt like Randy Peterson did a year or so ago when he started talking trash. Oatman just smiled and bowled.

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jr_300 · « **Reply #18 on:** January 29, 2007, 02:34:31 PM »

every tournament ryan shafer bowls he has his cell at his side.. even the show in new york he has it next to him.. during qualifying the same thing.
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shelley · « **Reply #19 on:** January 29, 2007, 02:40:39 PM »

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every tournament ryan shafer bowls he has his cell at his side.. even the show in new york he has it next to him.. during qualifying the same thing.

You sure that's not his insulin pump? It was mentioned on the show last year.

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JessN16 · « **Reply #20 on:** January 29, 2007, 03:42:40 PM »

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For me I have to have my cell phone at all times. I am on call and if that call comes through I have to go, sorry but the military doesn't care if you are bowling or what not.

Does vibrate work? Wondering.
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Vibrate works if you keep it in your pocket; I can't. My arm swing is so tight to my side I'll knock if off if it's on my belt or on my pocket.

I typically keep mine in the bag under my seat behind the pit area, anyway. It's muffled in there and you have to be sitting right there to hear it. You can't hear it on the approach whatsoever.

At that point, I feel I've done enough in regards to courtesy, as it can only be heard outside the bowler's area.

Jess

Pat Patterson · « **Reply #21 on:** January 29, 2007, 03:49:23 PM »

I too was at the TV show and the guy whos cell phone went off was one of the crew members in charge of wiping the approach in front of the foul line during commercial breaks(short, stocky dude). He was sitting on a stool behind the ESPN crew between us and the TV Pair, the guy just shrunk in his chair as everybody in our bleachers just stared at him, then he had to walk out and wipe the aproach. Yes, he looked pretty small after that.
Also, a cell phone went off on Billy's down swing but he struck, and another time just before he stopped after a couple of steps into his approach the House desk phone went off. I guess people really don't take them seriously when they announce several times before the telecast to turn off all cell phones.

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serice · « **Reply #22 on:** January 29, 2007, 04:47:52 PM »

Nobody will take it seriously until they start fining people for having them on during the telecast.

League ... who cares. Everybody is noisy, just one more noise.
Bowling for $25,000 and the room is basically quiet... big deal!

shipper50 · « **Reply #23 on:** January 29, 2007, 07:57:49 PM »

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For me I have to have my cell phone at all times. I am on call and if that call comes through I have to go, sorry but the military doesn't care if you are bowling or what not.

Does vibrate work? Wondering.
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Vibrate works if you keep it in your pocket; I can't. My arm swing is so tight to my side I'll knock if off if it's on my belt or on my pocket.

I typically keep mine in the bag under my seat behind the pit area, anyway. It's muffled in there and you have to be sitting right there to hear it. You can't hear it on the approach whatsoever.

At that point, I feel I've done enough in regards to courtesy, as it can only be heard outside the bowler's area.

Jess

I am kinda old at 56 so you will have to bare with me here. Do you have another side you could wear you cell on vibrate and then feel it go off? I have never heard such BS in my life as you just said. That is the problem with today's world. No one gives any courtesy to anyone.

I pity the person that has their cell go off if and when I ever get the first 11 again and I am up trying for my first 300 after bowling off and on for 30 plus years.

Shipper

WSUstroker · « **Reply #24 on:** January 29, 2007, 08:23:17 PM »

Shipper, when you are going for your first 300, are you going to be able to hear anything? I would think the andrenaline would pretty much drown out everything else going on, atleast it did with me.
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scotts33 · « **Reply #25 on:** January 29, 2007, 10:28:26 PM »

Soooo, what did we do without cell phones?

? How did we survive???
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230-n-up-or-bust · « **Reply #26 on:** January 29, 2007, 10:29:38 PM »

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Soooo, what did we do without cell phones?? How did we survive???
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JessN16 · « **Reply #27 on:** January 29, 2007, 11:01:08 PM »

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For me I have to have my cell phone at all times. I am on call and if that call comes through I have to go, sorry but the military doesn't care if you are bowling or what not.

Does vibrate work? Wondering.
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Scott

Vibrate works if you keep it in your pocket; I can't. My arm swing is so tight to my side I'll knock if off if it's on my belt or on my pocket.

I typically keep mine in the bag under my seat behind the pit area, anyway. It's muffled in there and you have to be sitting right there to hear it. You can't hear it on the approach whatsoever.

At that point, I feel I've done enough in regards to courtesy, as it can only be heard outside the bowler's area.

Jess

I am kinda old at 56 so you will have to bare with me here. Do you have another side you could wear you cell on vibrate and then feel it go off? I have never heard such BS in my life as you just said. That is the problem with today's world. No one gives any courtesy to anyone.

I pity the person that has their cell go off if and when I ever get the first 11 again and I am up trying for my first 300 after bowling off and on for 30 plus years.

Shipper

Let me repeat what I just said: If you are sitting on top of my bag in the setee area behind the pit, you'll hear it.

If you're on the approach or in the pit, you will not.

At that point, I have taken the courtesy to not bother you with it in the pit or on the approach. What goes on in the setee area -- we're talking 20 feet behind the pit in my bowling center -- is no business of the bowler. That's where family members sit, and their phones aren't off, either.

If I couldn't carry my phone into the bowling center, I wouldn't be able to bowl. You guys can talk about what life was like before cell phones all you want. There was once life without cars, too. The point is we have them now, and some of us ARE ALWAYS ON CALL WITH OUR JOBS, DAY AND NIGHT, YEAR-ROUND.

To recap, I am doing my best to not have it bug other people. No one besides me has ever heard my phone ring but me.

And since that's true, it's really nobody's business but mine.

Jess

230-n-up-or-bust · « **Reply #28 on:** January 29, 2007, 11:07:28 PM »

Jess, if you've made efforts to try to keep the noise to a minimum, or in this case, all but non-existent, you're being very cordial. It's the ones that fail to even adjust their ringer volume, identifying their next woefully-unimportant conversation that could have been completely avoided, that should be publicly flogged and forced to view current nudes of Janet Reno.
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JessN16 · « **Reply #29 on:** January 29, 2007, 11:54:04 PM »

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Jess, if you've made efforts to try to keep the noise to a minimum, or in this case, all but non-existent, you're being very cordial. It's the ones that fail to even adjust their ringer volume, identifying their next woefully-unimportant conversation that could have been completely avoided, that should be publicly flogged and forced to view current nudes of Janet Reno.
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Edited on 1/30/2007 0:06 AM

I also don't take personal calls on it during league. I suspect I've answered a total of 10 calls over the last three years, total. All but two of them were from work. The two that weren't were when my wife's grandmother had a heart attack and was hospitalized, and a family emergency involving her brother last year. She knows league night is my "night out" and doesn't bother me unless we have an emergency.

There are people who leave their phones on, and lying on top of the computers in the middle of the pit, with a rap-rock ring tone and it drives me nuts. I had a teammate once about six years go answer the phone, carry it onto the approach, throw at a spare while talking on the phone -- while talking on the phone! -- and make it, a 3-6-10, and never once stop the conversation. I didn't know whether to laugh or throw up.

I run a smalltown newspaper for a living. At any moment, the press could break down, a gas main downtown could blow up or we could have a shootout. We have a staff of five people, so it's not like we really have much of a choice. I've gotten calls from the chief of police at 4 a.m. when I'm in bed at home to tell me about a bad wreck. I've also gotten called away from an anniversary dinner with my wife at a restaurant before -- she was real happy with that, let me tell you.

I do what I can, but there's a point at which another person has to learn to deal with the reality that cell phones are here to stay, and that their dislike for cell phones isn't my problem to deal with, but their own. I've done my part to compromise, but I won't apologize for having to have it to make a living.

Jess

Gunny · « **Reply #30 on:** January 30, 2007, 07:01:51 AM »

bravo jess.

i too am on call 24/7 and trust me with all the ambience noise on a league night, if your phone was in your bag not many people will hear it. i check mine periodically for important/emergency calls. but usually they all know that its my night out from work, wife, kids, that not too bother me unless a serious emergency. personally i cant stand cell phones, but it is part of society and i deal with it. and i agree with everyone else that people need to be banned for it if it goes off during a televised event. than again people dont have common sense like years ago. its almost nonexistent nowadays!

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