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bowlerdawg

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PBA is sucking IMO
« on: November 23, 2009, 09:07:50 AM »
I don't know about you guys, but watching these broadcast that are almost 4 months old just aint working for me.

All the other stuff going on w/ format changes and blah, blah, blah is one thing, but I just can't get up for these shows that aren't live.

kinda like kissing your sister imo


 LAME plus they are canceling stops, because proprietors can't pay the PBA the 80 thousand dollars for the " opportunity " to " host "

WTF get over yourselves PBA
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bowlerdawg

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Re: PBA is sucking IMO
« Reply #31 on: November 24, 2009, 02:18:49 PM »
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Just a few thoughts on the subject:

1) Quit screwing around with the patterns. The majority of bowlers, league or open play, or otherwise, don't care about the patterns. You can explain until you are blue in the face about why a pro shot 140....they don't get it and don't care. All they know is that they shot better than that in the thursday late drinking league.

2) Get the telecast off of Sundays against the most popular sport that we have in this country. Also, try  and see if there is interest from another network. Try finding anything of consequence about bowling on the ESPN website.

3) Instead of trick shots, how about being more technical. Tell the viewer what ball they are using and why. Which drill pattern and why. Give them knowledge.

4) Open the playing field back to whoever wants to try an qualify. I feel that this is a major reason that the prize has gone down....crying shame that the money was better in the 70's than the 2000's.

Just a few thoughts.....go ahead and hack away at them!
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Re: PBA is sucking IMO
« Reply #32 on: November 24, 2009, 02:30:44 PM »
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Re: PBA is sucking IMO
« Reply #33 on: November 24, 2009, 03:04:05 PM »
to the people that are saying who cares if it isn''t live.. it is more than not live.. it is cut up and editted..

Can someone confirm this? I read on the PBA site that Rash studdered and stammered and balked on his shots in the 10th.. I don''t recall seeing this on the telecast.. did I just miss it or was it cut from what they showed on TV?
If it was indeed cut that sucks.. It is moments like that that makes the show..
even though I do agree with how they showed the Amelleto match.. no need to show a guy in agony just trying to get through a match...
I think if the shows are going to be taped and editted that they might as well go with the documentary style and do little breakaways with the players, drillers, and manufacturers going into the technical side of the sport..


I was at the Patrick Allen vs WRW match in Reno last year.. was there with my girlfriend... she knows nothing about professional bowling or sports for the mostpart... but she said it was one of the most exciting and dramatic things she has ever seen... not even just the ending.. Every match all the way through..

If you have never been to a live final , you need to go..it is something special

That is what the PBA needs to capture and translate to the viewers watching on tv
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Re: PBA is sucking IMO
« Reply #34 on: November 24, 2009, 04:22:24 PM »
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so your saying the PBA is financially strapped ?


That would be the understatement of the decade...

HINT: They ain't rakin' it in hand over fist.
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Re: PBA is sucking IMO
« Reply #35 on: November 24, 2009, 04:30:50 PM »
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so your saying the PBA is financially strapped ?


That would be the understatement of the decade...

HINT: They ain't rakin' it in hand over fist.


see the section called " piss poor management "
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Re: PBA is sucking IMO
« Reply #36 on: November 24, 2009, 04:32:58 PM »
just let it happen live and let me be the judge. When I am left to the editors taste then I don't have that option. I like to see rash mumble and balk, but I did not get to see that, but if it were a live event then I could have confirmed this for you.


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Re: PBA is sucking IMO
« Reply #37 on: November 24, 2009, 05:02:03 PM »
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Can someone confirm this? I read on the PBA site that Rash studdered and stammered and balked on his shots in the 10th.. I don''t recall seeing this on the telecast.. did I just miss it or was it cut from what they showed on TV?
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It showed him balking (just not halfway into his approach like normal) before his shots in the 10th. Randy commented that he looked uncomfortable before one of Rash's shots in the 10th.
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Re: PBA is sucking IMO
« Reply #38 on: November 24, 2009, 05:23:16 PM »
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Can someone confirm this? I read on the PBA site that Rash studdered and stammered and balked on his shots in the 10th.. I don''t recall seeing this on the telecast.. did I just miss it or was it cut from what they showed on TV?
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It showed him balking (just not halfway into his approach like normal) before his shots in the 10th. Randy commented that he looked uncomfortable before one of Rash's shots in the 10th.
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The PBA site made it sound like he stopped and started a few times.
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Re: PBA is sucking IMO
« Reply #39 on: November 25, 2009, 05:55:01 PM »
a hack like me can beat a tour pro on any given day and any given "house" pattern.
  Yeah, in a ONE GAME match that is....
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Re: PBA is sucking IMO
« Reply #40 on: November 25, 2009, 06:52:15 PM »
I so HATE that argument that low scores translate to what people think about pro bowlers. If no one on the telecast can't translate it for you what the lanes are doing then you don't get it and never will. If there was high scores every week then people would be complaining on how the PBA shots are too easy. Most people on message boards have never bowled in a professional tournament and you would never understand what it takes to get on a telecast.
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Re: PBA is sucking IMO
« Reply #41 on: November 25, 2009, 07:06:49 PM »
The PBA reminds me of the old adage "A drowning man grasping at straws", with the PBA starring as the drowning man and the new formats as the straws.

 They're trying anything and everything to save themselves, but nothing seems to be working.
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Re: PBA is sucking IMO
« Reply #42 on: November 25, 2009, 07:33:06 PM »
I think the shows stink.

I do like XTRA frame and the coverage of the quakifying rounds better.

Maybe, the PBA is much better off staying with the internet
and forgetting about ESPN?

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Re: PBA is sucking IMO
« Reply #43 on: November 25, 2009, 07:54:52 PM »
I know in my local newspaper in the listings in the sports section for Weekend televised sports bowling wasn't listed but....

Pool was listed...Poker was listed....Girl's volleyball was listed.  I swear their was a Ping Pong tournament listed.  High school state championship swimming was listed but Professional bowling on ESPN for the afternoon...Nyet!

Dropping to the bottom of the sports pool!  Sad!  I know and you know what a great sport it is!

REgards,

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PS all these years spent "educating" the public and too little spent "entertaining".  Everyone knows the educating people on what they SHOULD like...usually doesn't sell!
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Re: PBA is sucking IMO
« Reply #44 on: November 26, 2009, 03:15:12 AM »
I believe the time slot to be irrelevant as almost everyone has the ability
to tape it for more convenient watching.  The rest of the criticisms are true.
As for the shows being months old, and from only one venue, that is absolutely
inexcuseable.

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Cobrawolf

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Re: PBA is sucking IMO
« Reply #45 on: November 27, 2009, 09:53:08 AM »
i would have to say for me there is no pba season until after new years. with every show until then taped i have no interest to watch. i am one that either dvrs or watches it on sunday but because of the shows all taped delayed there is no interest in it for me.
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