Traumabill wrote on 3/5/2011 9:26 AM:

Jeff,

Not sure if its a balance of the ledger per se, but affirmation that it's not just balls that affect scoring pace on tour, or anywhere for that matter.  My belief is that due to the balls being equal (or at least very close as Mo figured out last year how to make a plastic ball hook, and the only ones who used that were Z-man and WRW), that now the breakdown of the lanes from right and left are the reason that the left side seemingly has the nut this week.

There's less lefties to break down, carry down and the pattern stays longer for them, and the righties are more than likely running into carry down and are having to play straighter than they'd like.

I saw Jay last week at Carolier, he's throwing it really good regardless, and he grew up on the plastic era. Same with PBIII, and others.  Should be an interesting show.

Bill

Better Bowling Concepts

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The Curmudgeon wrote on 3/5/2011 5:37 PM:

You had "no intention to" and yet you brought it up.  Get outta here already.  The lefty bowler who posted is right.  Every once in a while the righties are shut out and everybody starts screaming PBA conspiracy.  You people are ridiculous.
 

JustRico wrote on 3/5/2011 9:26 PM:

The problems are with the lane maintence procedure. The lanes were conditioned to protect the surface, not to correct a potential imbalance between right & left handers or controlling the scoring pace.

As the game has evolved, oiling procedures became a way to control these factors, but at least the lane characteristics were taken to consideration.

Along came Kegel with there 'patterns'. This created 'how to play the lanes' and took away bowler's ability to show up and bowling....not needing the right equipment for the alledged patterns. Patterns then evolved into asymmetrical patterns which alledgedly brought nuetrality between both sides, which brought lane pattern mutation.

The PBA's theory in regards to right side to left side fairness is that if 7% of the field is left handed and that at the end of the tournament 7% of the money goes to left handers or a left hander...they do not care about fairness.

It is rather humorous that ALL the left handers bowled well this week. It is also humorous that after the US Open a left hander, Stephen Hardy, posted a thread on the PBA forum in regards to the chances of a left hander winning a major...it had many valid points. Then the following week, a tourney with plastic equipment, the left handers bowl well.

Anyways, it will always be that if a right handed bowler bowls well, they bowl well. If a left hander bowls well, the lanes were easy. If a right hander bowls bad, the lanes suck. If a left hander bowls bad, they suck.

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