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Rantings

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Does anyone watch the PBA?
« on: November 29, 2013, 01:30:53 PM »
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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Re: Does anyone watch the PBA?
« Reply #16 on: December 01, 2013, 08:50:24 PM »
I do watch and may I say it was quite enjoyable today.
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Re: Does anyone watch the PBA?
« Reply #17 on: December 01, 2013, 10:42:24 PM »
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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Re: Does anyone watch the PBA?
« Reply #18 on: December 02, 2013, 03:51:03 PM »
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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Re: Does anyone watch the PBA?
« Reply #19 on: December 06, 2013, 12:41:13 AM »
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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Re: Does anyone watch the PBA?
« Reply #20 on: December 06, 2013, 05:07:42 PM »
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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Re: Does anyone watch the PBA?
« Reply #21 on: December 07, 2013, 08:02:25 AM »
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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Re: Does anyone watch the PBA?
« Reply #22 on: December 07, 2013, 09:55:56 PM »
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Re: Does anyone watch the PBA?
« Reply #23 on: January 10, 2014, 01:20:46 PM »
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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Re: Does anyone watch the PBA?
« Reply #24 on: January 10, 2014, 01:27:25 PM »
me too....record it and watch it after football
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Re: Does anyone watch the PBA?
« Reply #25 on: January 10, 2014, 02:01:31 PM »
I never miss it.
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Re: Does anyone watch the PBA?
« Reply #26 on: January 10, 2014, 02:26:25 PM »
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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Re: Does anyone watch the PBA?
« Reply #27 on: January 10, 2014, 02:28:08 PM »
Looks like another good cast for this Sunday: Sean Rash, Tommy Lee Jones, Chris Barnes, Osku Paalerma, and Martin Larsen.
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Re: Does anyone watch the PBA?
« Reply #28 on: January 10, 2014, 03:02:58 PM »
Quote from: NHLfan88 on January 10, 2014, 02:26:25 PM
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?

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Re: Does anyone watch the PBA?
« Reply #29 on: January 28, 2014, 02:37:29 PM »
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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Long Gone Daddy

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Re: Does anyone watch the PBA?
« Reply #30 on: January 28, 2014, 04:29:46 PM »
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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