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General Category => PBA => Topic started by: Impending Doom on May 18, 2013, 09:49:33 AM
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Live TV finals.
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10 Pins? ;)
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For me, it's more like spares in general. :(
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My mind?
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I miss Ball "A" vs Ball "B" vs Ball "C" comparison threads. Oh wait they still exist.
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A good hot pastrami on rye!
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I miss Ball "A" vs Ball "B" vs Ball "C" comparison threads. Oh wait they still exist.
Yes!
Good to see you sir as well
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The Tour on Tour in the U.S.
2002 Tour schedule
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PBA_Bowling_Tour:_2002%E2%80%9303_season
2011 (Las Vegas) Schedule
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PBA_Bowling_Tour:_2011%E2%80%9312_season
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Twinkies and Drake's Apple Pies...the good ole' days.
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People who except things as they come and don't complain or whine about things that really are out of their control.....
A 10 pin is a10 pin, a off hit for a strike, it's a short life, move on....
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I miss "HAMBONE" :'(
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Live TV finals.
How can the PBA get away with tape delay in this modern age where every thing goes around the world at the speed of twitter. (Aren't the owners computer guys?) That's why the PBA called it the Summer Series -- it's filmed in the spring but airs in the summer. Wow. Imagine the NFL tape-delaying live games? I'd have to look it up and do the math, but the WSOB airs some of it's shows something like 12 weeks after taping live. Unreal. Someone should let the PBA know it's 2013.
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I miss Anthony, Roth, Holman.....late in the match with Nelson Burton Jr kicking up the climax with his whispering mid west voice....
Cav
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I miss Anthony, Roth, Holman.....late in the match with Nelson Burton Jr kicking up the climax with his whispering mid west voice....
Cav
I agree,especially Holman.You never knew what he was going to do.Marshall Holman made for great television any time he made the show.
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Exactly. Most of those places probably have not seen the PBA since those days...A tour that actually means travel to more than two or three places...Who'da thunk it?
The Tour on Tour in the U.S.
2002 Tour schedule
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PBA_Bowling_Tour:_2002%E2%80%9303_season
2011 (Las Vegas) Schedule
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PBA_Bowling_Tour:_2011%E2%80%9312_season
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Live TV finals.
How can the PBA get away with tape delay in this modern age where every thing goes around the world at the speed of twitter. (Aren't the owners computer guys?) That's why the PBA called it the Summer Series -- it's filmed in the spring but airs in the summer. Wow. Imagine the NFL tape-delaying live games? I'd have to look it up and do the math, but the WSOB airs some of it's shows something like 12 weeks after taping live. Unreal. Someone should let the PBA know it's 2013.
Really, comparing the PBA to the NFL when talking about the ridiculousness of taped games is a little lopsided. It would be more of an equal comparison if you used, say...college softball, or curling. Something generally considered kinda, almost a sport, and if you don't happen to have the tv on at the right time you might not think of for 10 years at a time unless you are personally involved with the sport. The PBA wants to be taken more seriously than that, but it just doesn't have the bankroll to do things "right".
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I miss a tour stops with purses bigger than amateurs could make in Vegas mega buck tourneys. Oh wait, you can't miss something you never had.
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I miss a tour stops with purses bigger than amateurs could make in Vegas mega buck tourneys. Oh wait, you can't miss something you never had.
The PBA didn't have that 20 - 40 years anyway.
In the mid 1990s, top prize in the High Roller was $50,000.
Top Prize in the Mini-Eliminator was $100,000.
Top Prize in the International Eliminator was $1,000,000.
Top prize in the True Amateur Challenge when it started in 2002, was $35,000.
The PBA did match let alone exceed that of the TAC, High Roller, and Mini Eliminator. Nowadays you are right, but but to say that they never have beaten the amateur tournaments isn't right.
Plus you aren't taking into account that those are just for one tournament alone. Of course people are going to come out in droves for the amateur tournaments because of the requirements for the tournament field and the payout. Otherwise you'd have another PBA.
Oh.. don't forget about them also changing the rules in 1999, forcing the Pat Healeys and Tim Macks and the like to go to the PBA or overseas for the big money.
My point: there was more going on behind the scenes than was realized for the payouts.
BL.
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In the late 90's Brian Kretzer made the most money in one year of any bowler in the country, and he wasn't on tour.
You can quibble about the details, but PBA money has always sucked. In 1979 the number 20 money winner on tour barely made 30K. Not sure anyone has ever exceeded about 500K, about 1/3 of what a PGA pro gets for winning one tourney.
In the best years of the tour there were never more than about 25 guys making a decent living out there when you consider expenses