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General Category => PBA => Topic started by: Rantings on November 29, 2013, 01:30:53 PM
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I stopped monitoring couple of years ago after I put the ball up for good. This not to slam the PBA but was just wondering.
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I enjoy watching the PBA, but wish the broadcasts were live.
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I enjoy watching the PBA, but wish the broadcasts were live.
No question but looking forward to watching on Sunday.
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Watch and record every show. Looking forward to the blue oil even.
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Yes, I watch it every chance I get.
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Not much anymore, if at all, and I was probably once one of the biggest fans.
Bowling changed though. And not in a good way, at least for me.
Instead of going on some type of rant, I'll just say that too much change, crammed into such a short time span, removed much of bowling's allure for me.
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I'm usually out Sunday afternoons, so I record them to watch later.
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I still watch it when it's on and/or DVR it. The thing that would help the shows is to be consistent, find 1 format and stick with it.
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I record each show and those I miss I watch on youtube
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Never miss the shows on TV .. refuse to pay for them!!
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Not even a little. All of the results are posted and the events are over. It is as relevant as watching last years Super Bowl and you know the outcome.
Can't wait to see the last telecast with them using out dated equipment lol.
Just hard to get excited about it.
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Have been away from the PBA (and for that fact bowling all together) for nearly a decade. Excited to get back into it and have found the youtube is a great way to watch the PBA.
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I DVR and watch them. Look forward to this Sunday ;D
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yup always try to catch them when they're on...
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I watch when i can
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I do watch and may I say it was quite enjoyable today.
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Was pleasantly surprised to see it on and watched it. It's bowling on tv. Take it for what it is. I really don't know why people have to bitch about the format or the announcers or the camera angles or the players or the audience or the prizes or the time slot or the length of the show or the..............
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I agree with Long Gone Daddy on this one. I don't think the shows are as cool as they used to be back in the day when they were on all season long and were live, but it's still bowling on TV, so I watch them all. At this point, I'm just happy they are still doing telecasts at all. If nobody watches them, we're soon going to be to the point where Xtra Frame will be the only way to watch bowling. I think that Xtra Frame is a great product, but I still prefer watching it on a TV as opposed to a computer. So, even though I long for the days of yore, I still watch and/or record all of the shows.
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PBA at one point even just in the 00's was my favorite sport. I would literally watch match score plays on my computer at work just watching scores and not being able to watch anything, I was fully into it and the telecast I always was into.
It's hard to take this pro sport serious when there is no tour. They can call it a tour and a tour title but it's not. The events are in one city and do not tour and everything is pre taped. It's nice to watch it when you have time or care on a DVR but it's lost interest to me.
I used to record every event I could last decade since 2000. I have a huge collection and I used to do trades and have a bunch of older shows on VHS and DVD in a bookcase. Now all you have to do is go to Youtube.
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I watch about 12 to 16 hours of bowling a week, but I hardly ever watch the espn telecasts. I am an extra frame subscriber and enjoy watching matches from the eighties and nineties on youtube. So you ask why I seldom watch the espn shows?
Heres a few reasons;
1. Opposite NFL games
2. Usually only 3 matches
3. The announcers suck
4. Usually taped
5. Curtained off lanes
6. Sideshow added events like bowling under a curtain, throwing over chairs,etc
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I still watch(of course after taping on my DVR). Usually at 630 AM the next morning! Don't want to bother the family!
This past week with Wes going for a 300, Clara looking good and not swinging her arm so viciously back and forth(great), and getting to watch Pete and Parker!
Wow some of the bowling form in the world all displayed in one show! Loved it!
Wished the tour traveled.
The senior tour is some some super hot bowling also! Ameletto Monacelli is throwing the ball like he is 27!
Great bowling, just no or not enough money! Tiny Tiny trophies.
Regards,
Luckylefty
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What's that ?
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I always DVR the PBA because of NFL football. It also allows me to fastforward past all the crap like stupid obstacle challenges with Terrell Owens. WTF?
My only other complaint with the PBA telecast is that the director seems to insist on showing the camera angle from either behind the pins or fromt he pins looking back at the bowler on every 3rd shot. I hate that. I want to see the line these pros are playing on every shot. I dont mind if you need to show the stupid angles on replay, but not on the initial view of the shot. Gimme the same point of view every time for the "live" shot.
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me too....record it and watch it after football
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I never miss it.
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I watch it but i hate:
-Taped shows. the WSOB happened MONTHS ago. everyone already knows who wins well before the show airs.
- Unedited shows, Cut the show down and edit out all of Sean Rash's balks. I don't care if he is fined. I don't need to watch 4 frames, then see the same 4 commercials for all of the major bowling brands.
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Looks like another good cast for this Sunday: Sean Rash, Tommy Lee Jones, Chris Barnes, Osku Paalerma, and Martin Larsen.
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I watch it but i hate:
-Taped shows. the WSOB happened MONTHS ago. everyone already knows who wins well before the show airs.
- Unedited shows, Cut the show down and edit out all of Sean Rash's balks. I don't care if he is fined. I don't need to watch 4 frames, then see the same 4 commercials for all of the major bowling brands.
You do bring up something interesting here.
Does anyone know if any clips of a full tournament in say, Japan, are up on youtube? I'm not talking the Japan Cup here, though that may work. Even the JPBA. In other words, we know how our shows are broadcast here, including commercials.
How do telecasts in other countries compare?
BL.
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I watch all of them, however rarely at the time they're broadcast. It's usually later on the DVR, or on the youtube channel that posts them all the morning after. No they're not as interesting as they used to be, but for the die hards, it's still enjoyable.
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Sure. 90% of the people on here watch so they can bitch about it on here the next day. Hated the bowlers, shot was too easy, shot was too hard, announcers suck. Blah, blah, blah.
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...and the other 10% come here to bitch about the 90% who are bitching about the PBA.
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Nah, the other 10% are just sick and tired of it. Week after week, year after year breathlessly waiting for Chris Schenkel to come ghost riding out of the grave carrying with him a new ABC contract for Saturday afternoons in one hand and a AC Delco sponsorship in the other. But thanks for your input anyway.
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Every time its on and record as well. Record and watch any bowling on TV as well.
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No I do not. Just do not find it entertaining. From what I have heard the webcast available during the touraments is far better.
If I could change anything it would simply be to make it an actual tour again. Increases the fans chances of going to see these events in person.
Similar to this
http://www.pba.com/Tournaments/Season/51
vs this
http://www.pba.com/Tournaments/Seasons/80?showAll=True
That's where the sport is missing its chances to grow the sport. Especially with high school bowling catching on it would be great for them to see the best of the sport like a proam event.
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Nah, the other 10% are just sick and tired of it. Week after week, year after year breathlessly waiting for Chris Schenkel to come ghost riding out of the grave carrying with him a new ABC contract for Saturday afternoons in one hand and a AC Delco sponsorship in the other. But thanks for your input anyway.
Yea, your right, it's not the other 10%. It's pretty much just you.
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If they were live like last weekend, I love it -- tapped -- I tape it. But it will never be like it was when it was live on abc.
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If they were live like last weekend, I love it -- tapped -- I tape it. But it will never be like it was when it was live on abc.
Agreed. And that is one of the biggest regrets I have; not having been able to make it to a live broadcast of the PBA on ABC. Closest to me was Wichita or St. Louis, both of which were a 5 hour drive then (speed limit was 55 on the shortest route there). I was overseas the last 2 years it was on ABC, so I totally missed those. But to have been at one of those would have been great.. like seeing Route 66 and the neon signs back in its heyday.
BL.
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Nah, the other 10% are just sick and tired of it. Week after week, year after year breathlessly waiting for Chris Schenkel to come ghost riding out of the grave carrying with him a new ABC contract for Saturday afternoons in one hand and a AC Delco sponsorship in the other. But thanks for your input anyway.
Yea, your right, it's not the other 10%. It's pretty much just you.
So glad to see the othe OCD twin make an appearance. Not.
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Nah, the other 10% are just sick and tired of it. Week after week, year after year breathlessly waiting for Chris Schenkel to come ghost riding out of the grave carrying with him a new ABC contract for Saturday afternoons in one hand and a AC Delco sponsorship in the other. But thanks for your input anyway.
Yea, your right, it's not the other 10%. It's pretty much just you.
So glad to see the othe OCD twin make an appearance. Not.
OCD translates to accurate portal of the provable truth, even if it means having to drive the point home several times. :o On that note, you're aware of a few outstanding homework assignments….
Really, bitching about a segment of folks you don't agree with isn't going to change how the telecasts are viewed. Unlike technical topics that are slam dunk right/wrong, this is subjective. Save your energy.
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Like clockwork. NEVER fails.