I can believe what I just did: Fell asleep during the title match between Connor Pickford and Mika Koivuniemi. I woke up as Koivuniemi threw his fill ball in the 12th.

What does it mean to me?

ESPN bowling telecasts are BORING even with a faster one-game eliminator among three bowlers and a one-game title match format. It's been that way for me since the late 1990s whenever I have tuned in to them.

I'm better off waiting for them on Xtra Frame or YouTube.

And yet the camera's used on xtra frame are a joke. Throw backs to the 80's.That with bad angles, makes for more nap time !

I just watched the show.

Personally, if these were the finalists,
I would rather have watched matches between Mika and Barret
and then between Ronny and Mika and then between Ronny and Barrett
with the winner playing Conner, who has a freaking lot of revs, not all to the good.
God, but he has a lot of ball speed.'

Odd that the stroker, Mika, won. NOT!

Except Connor beat Mika up and down the lanes for 14 games before the tv finals. That would be a much better judge of how they bowled than a one game bowl off, wouldn't it?

It had nothing to do with him being a stroker, and everything to do with experience.

lanes looked tricky, Mika made the better shots when he had to.
Norm is the same way, when the lanes get tougher, those experienced guys seem to rise above

Quote from: HankScorpio on December 21, 2014, 09:25:28 PM

Quote from: charlest on December 21, 2014, 09:06:12 PM

I just watched the show.

Personally, if these were the finalists,
I would rather have watched matches between Mika and Barret
and then between Ronny and Mika and then between Ronny and Barrett
with the winner playing Conner, who has a freaking lot of revs, not all to the good.
God, but he has a lot of ball speed.'

Odd that the stroker, Mika, won. NOT!

Except Connor beat Mika up and down the lanes for 14 games before the tv finals. That would be a much better judge of how they bowled than a one game bowl off, wouldn't it?

But that's not how the finals of a PBA tournament work, is it?

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It had nothing to do with him being a stroker, and everything to do with experience.

I disagree.

The TV finals are one game of the 15 he bowled. How exactly does a one game roll off prove Mika won because he's a stroker, when the other 14 games say otherwise?

Mika won DESPITE being a stroker, because he's a very very very very good stroker. No other stroker even sniffed the show.