I don't know everyone else's feelings on this, but this is about the worst thing I have ever seen on television.  How f'ing difficult would it be to eliminate this garbage and shut Dave Ryan up with all this human interest stuff and just bring back the wild card match?  I would imagine part of Brian Voss' problem was that he was embarrassed to be a part of this abomination, I know I would be.
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I agree about the extra match but folks you aren't getting it.  The PBA when bought by the new ownership has been trying to appeal to the masses.  That's why they want the trick shot stuff, the bust your buddy stuff, etc.

What the PBA needs to do is find an appealing bowling thingy to appeal to the masses and the purists would find interesting also.  It would be hard to do but worth trying to find an area where both could meld.  The part where Norm and Randy compared the THS vs. the PBA condition is a step in the right direction.

BTW.....Dave Ryan is just some flunky ESPN foisted off on the telecast.  Gawd they had Jim Kelly also an ESPN analyst doing it for awhile he sucked also.  ESPN could take Andy North off of golf and he could do a better job.  At least he understands the game.  Andy makes more $$$ doing golf though.


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THS vs. PBA pattern.
Maybe they are on to something.
How bout a Pro's vs. Joe's segment?
Ok, that's dumb, but I think they need to keep steering towards that. They need to show the general public that the people who are on these shows are the real deal. Most people can see someone strike out on any given day at their local alley. Keeping pushing how talented these guys are over the house hacks and maybe that will help.
They could also go more into what the players are throwing. That may produce more ball sales. Actually say the name of the ball and the manufacturer instead of showing close ups. Of course, the ball companies would have to agree.
I'm not in marketing so I don't know what it would take to actually pull this stuff off, but it's just a thought.

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Can't sleep, pins are laughing
Can't sleep, pins are laughing...

From a marketing perspective it is working great.  Here we are talking about it.  Doesn't matter if we like it or hate it as long as we are talking about it.  You are in the center talking about this new whatever on the show last week, someone else hears you and asks a buddy about it, they may or may not know what your talking about but now they are going to tune in next week to see what all the talk is about.  Success....another new viewer.  You and I are going to watch reguardless, we love bowling.  The average joe is going to tune in because of the commotion.  Marketing worked again.

For what it's worth...I didn't care for the format/premise.  I did like the Norm/Randy PBA vs. House shot section idea.

Edited on 12/11/2006 4:26 PM