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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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JessN16

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Re: Final Exemptions for WSOB...
« Reply #16 on: June 19, 2009, 03:06:45 AM »
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You simply do not understand who Brian Voss was in the 80's- early 90's and how big his following was of not only bowlers, but women of all walks of life that found him "Beefcake".   You also don't understand how good this guy really was on the lanes during that time period.  In the 80's there were great players, this guy was a legend on and off the lanes.  Alot of people think he is pompous, full of himself etc... He has every right to be, he simply without any shadow of a doubt was a legend in the 80's+.   His career body of work might not be impressive for you, but there was a time frame where the guy could of been all over the place in the marketing world.

His game didn't need a wow factor, his wow factor was how attractive women thought he was, his attitude, his personality....etc.  In the 80's+ his game was wow.



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I'm very aware of how solid he was back then. My dad started me off watching bowling on ABC back in the 70s and I haven't missed a telecast in a decade or more. I bowl with a guy right now who used to bowl league with Voss about 30 years ago.

Here's my point about Voss' game compared to Tiger's golf game. When Tiger first got his card, John Daly was still (reasonably) sober and those two guys were considered to be the only guys who could "average 300" (the veracity of that claim notwithstanding). Plenty of guys could bomb drives, but regularly hitting 300+ on the tour back then and hitting the fairway also was pretty much unheard of.

Not only could Tiger do that, he could putt better than 99.x percent of touring pros and he also had the charisma factor and the breaking-racial-boundaries factor going for him. But what made him was not that he was a minority, it was that he came out on tour hitting regularly 20-30 yards past even the longest hitters of the day, and looking effortless in the process. And while driving distance is not the most important stat in golf, to the casual fan it is the home run stat.

Voss was never that guy. He was never the biggest hooker, the hardest thrower. He was a very accurate guy with above-average speed and revs. And if you want to be Tiger, you've got to have Tiger somewhere in your game. He didn't have that.

To put it another way, when people talk about watching old PBA shows, who's the first person that at least a plurality of people want to see? Mark Roth, because of the way he played the lanes. It's also the answer to the question of why Rudy Kasimakis drew such a huge following every time he got on TV. Those guys were freaks, in a good way, the same way Tiger is a freak. Voss is not a freak.

I don't discount he had a helluva run in the 80s, but that's not what we're talking about. We're talking about someone you not only wanted to look at, but wanted to watch because they were clearly doing something no one else could do. That's what separates a Tiger Woods from a Padraig Harrington, for instance.

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AdrianS

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Re: Final Exemptions for WSOB...
« Reply #17 on: June 19, 2009, 03:52:34 AM »
If Eddie Elias was his agent he would have got a push..........
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Re: Final Exemptions for WSOB...
« Reply #18 on: June 19, 2009, 05:24:35 PM »
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LMAO.  he said Brian Voss "can't hang anymore".  Silly rabbit.
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Yes, I said that and explained it in the next line.
He didn't make the exempt cut line,correct?
But, he's so valuable to the tour that it doesn't matter?
My issue is with the stupid rules and that he is getting a pass even though we didn't make the cut.
Double standard in my eyes.
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Re: Final Exemptions for WSOB...
« Reply #19 on: June 20, 2009, 02:25:45 PM »
Voss was the only one given the golden parachute, not Amletto.  Amletto was given the exemption to fill the final spot of international exemptions, and with his experience on the tour and his recent success at the US Open it was a no brainer. Same with Voss.  Two tournaments this year and two top 10s, he can obviously still compete.  Randy Pederson doesn't have the resume or the competitiveness Voss still does.  Del was just exempt, did nothing, but still had a good claim to get the exemption, but Voss just had the edge with titles and recent success I think.  As far as the Korean bowler, he may not be a huge success here, or popular, but I think the PBA did the right thing by mixing it up, getting bowlers from varying parts of the world, and trying to grow the sport worldwide.
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