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Let It Bleed

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Final Exemptions for WSOB...
« on: June 16, 2009, 10:27:03 AM »
There ya go...

http://www.pba.com/news/feature.asp?ID=1379
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Re: Final Exemptions for WSOB...
« Reply #1 on: June 17, 2009, 08:59:15 AM »
It's cool that Brian Voss and Amleto Monacelli are back on the tour.  This would definitely be a dream matchup to see these two meet up in the finals of an event.
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JessN16

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Re: Final Exemptions for WSOB...
« Reply #2 on: June 17, 2009, 01:17:30 PM »
Heh heh...did I call this or what? http://www.ballreviews.com/Forum/Replies.asp?TopicID=237038&ForumID=86&CategoryID=5

They've been looking for a way to get Voss back out there ever since he fell out of the rankings. They might as well have called this one the "Golden Voss" exemption from the start.

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Re: Final Exemptions for WSOB...
« Reply #3 on: June 17, 2009, 01:44:31 PM »
PBA Struck out on this one yet again.. Not a surprise though. Had a chance to bring some real exciting youth onto the tour and didn't pull the trigger. Let the US people show what the rest of the worlds bowlers have to offer.

Brian Voss I can understand somewhat
Amleto wouldn't of been a top 10 choice of mine, but ok
BUT... Tae-Hwa Jeong.. REALLY?!?! I am sure he is excitement just waiting to happen!!

Way to go PBA, way to pass up on so much young raw talent!

Dominick Barrett
Remy Ong
Martin Larsen
Ryan Lalisang
Khaled Al-Dubyyan
Paul Moor
Mads Sandbakken
Wu Siu Hong

I am not sure which of these bowlers applied, but I know some of them did.. All of them fairly young players that would bring alot to the table! I guess all the PBA cares about now is Golden Child Voss.
I will vote for the 2 handers to wreck the tour this year!!
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Re: Final Exemptions for WSOB...
« Reply #4 on: June 17, 2009, 08:53:44 PM »
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PBA Struck out on this one yet again.. Not a surprise though. Had a chance to bring some real exciting youth onto the tour and didn't pull the trigger. Let the US people show what the rest of the worlds bowlers have to offer.

Brian Voss I can understand somewhat
Amleto wouldn't of been a top 10 choice of mine, but ok
BUT... Tae-Hwa Jeong.. REALLY?!?! I am sure he is excitement just waiting to happen!!

Way to go PBA, way to pass up on so much young raw talent!

Dominick Barrett
Remy Ong
Martin Larsen
Ryan Lalisang
Khaled Al-Dubyyan
Paul Moor
Mads Sandbakken
Wu Siu Hong

I am not sure which of these bowlers applied, but I know some of them did.. All of them fairly young players that would bring alot to the table! I guess all the PBA cares about now is Golden Child Voss.
I will vote for the 2 handers to wreck the tour this year!!
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George, I agree. If you are going to add Brian and Amletto, then Randy Pederson or Del Ballard are better choices than the Korean Players who have no connection or relevance here at all. I can understand the European players, but Japanese and Korean players who do not even speak the language? How is that post interview going to go?

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Re: Final Exemptions for WSOB...
« Reply #5 on: June 17, 2009, 09:10:43 PM »
Can we just get rid of the damn exempt tour deal? It was stupid to start with and now you're giving exemptions to guys like Voss that can't hang anymore? That is not me saying I'm better than him or that he isn't a good bowler, but by their own rules he didn't make the cut.

What's next? If Voss has this much pull it won't be long before they "BAN SANDED BOWLING BALLS!"
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JessN16

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Re: Final Exemptions for WSOB...
« Reply #6 on: June 17, 2009, 11:00:13 PM »
I think Voss' allure is more due to the fact that he has a big fan following. I disagree with just about everything he has to say regarding ball tech but you can't deny that he has a big groupie club. Maybe it's the Hasselhoff-like hair. (g)

The international thing, IMO, was probably conceived back before Belmonte made himself exempt, and then they just decided to go ahead and run with it.

If it works, it could increase the PBA's audience worldwide, similar to the way the PGA draws golfers from all across the globe. Perhaps that will increase international sponsor interest which will in turn increase the prize fund. This is reverse-engineering at work, but hey, what other choices do they have?

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Re: Final Exemptions for WSOB...
« Reply #7 on: June 17, 2009, 11:25:18 PM »
We'll see what happens.  As for the choices, I don't give a damn.  I just want to see good shows this year.
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Re: Final Exemptions for WSOB...
« Reply #8 on: June 18, 2009, 12:41:56 AM »
LMAO.  he said Brian Voss "can't hang anymore".  Silly rabbit.
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Re: Final Exemptions for WSOB...
« Reply #9 on: June 18, 2009, 01:01:40 AM »
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LMAO.  he said Brian Voss "can't hang anymore".  Silly rabbit.
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As long as he can't wrap his mind around the fact that it's okay to carve up the shot to your advantage with a dull ball, he's at a mental disadvantage...
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Re: Final Exemptions for WSOB...
« Reply #10 on: June 18, 2009, 01:27:43 AM »
Voss isn't that stupid.  That was a one time fryout of a blown shot at 100k and a major title.
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Re: Final Exemptions for WSOB...
« Reply #11 on: June 18, 2009, 01:54:53 AM »
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Voss isn't that stupid.  That was a one time fryout of a blown shot at 100k and a major title.


Then why has he tried to promote the "single ball" tour in the past?
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JessN16

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Re: Final Exemptions for WSOB...
« Reply #12 on: June 18, 2009, 02:47:30 AM »
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The PBA dropped the ball many years ago when they didn't actively promote Brian Voss to every single sponsor or advertising opportunity.  Brian Voss could of easily been the Tiger Woods of bowling in the 80s, simply because the guy was good, women thought he was a good looking man and he had a very good personality.

The sport of bowling missed out but it's nice to see Brian back.


I'm not denying he shouldn't have been promoted more but bowling's Tiger Woods? Really?

Voss is a top 50 PBA pro. He is not No. 1 or No. 2 of all time, which is where Woods is going to eventually land if he's not already there.

I'm struggling to think of a good comparison for Voss in the game of golf. He's better at bowling than Sergio Garcia is at golf but that's probably the closest I can come to in terms of charisma.

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Re: Final Exemptions for WSOB...
« Reply #13 on: June 18, 2009, 10:26:13 AM »
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Voss isn't that stupid.  That was a one time fryout of a blown shot at 100k and a major title.


Then why has he tried to promote the "single ball" tour in the past?


Maybe to offer another challenge to keep the game interesting perhaps?  smh.
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Re: Final Exemptions for WSOB...
« Reply #14 on: June 19, 2009, 12:30:19 AM »
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He would have been the Tiger Woods of bowling simply because of his appeal to potential sponsorship deals and the money that comes from that.  It has nothing to do with comparing their own achievements in the sports they chose.

With the right PR machine Voss would have been all over the place.  If any of you remember the 80's he was the perfect fit for that era.  Women were all over this guy, he was what the women in the 80's were looking for.  The problem was that nobody outside of the bowling world knew this guy existed.

Voss was 80's sex appeal, and there wasn't a good enough PR system in place to take advantage of it.  

It only takes a few players to transform a sport at the right time and the right era to get it going in the correct direction.


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I think you undersell the reason Woods is popular. Woods is not popular because of his looks. He's an average-looking guy at best.

He's popular because (a) he does impossible things with a golf ball, and (b) the fact he broke barriers as the first non-white golfer to really dominate a sport that had all kind of closet racism problems when he came along.

There are a lot of golfers more attractive and stylish than Woods, many guys on tour right now who are what "women are looking for" in a 21st Century man. But none of them are ALWAYS on TV like Woods is.

That's part of the problem with the bowling format. We get four or five guys a week, tops, and on one day of the week. Golf telecasts routinely show 40 guys over the course of four days.

But back to the marketing, I know the PBA took some heat for its heavy push of Belmonte last year, but to be honest, he's the first real potential Tiger Woods the sport has had. He plays a game with which most are not familiar, to borrow from a famous golf quote. The two-handed style, the fact he's one of the first foreign players to really have a chance to break through, and he's a decent enough looking guy that there's potential there for some real marketing. But if it wasn't for the fact that he can do things with the ball most of his peers cannot, it would mostly be moot.

There was never a time Voss could do things his peers couldn't do with a ball. He was just better at a wider range of skills than most, but his game didn't possess any kind of "wow factor."

Jess
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