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iTimmy

Terrible week for me, my high was 189 What's most depressing is on my last game of this week we did a no tap game, and I scored a dismal 158, I kept leaving multi-pin spares. I rolled 15 or 16 games this week and on Monday the lanes were as dry as I've ever seen, I couldn't keep the ball on target to save my life. Kept going Brooklyn and as I adjusted I couldn't create enough angle into the pocket so I was leaving odd spares and TONS of splits. Day two(different bowling alley) the lanes were good but I was physically exhausted from the previous days games, I did 11 or 12 games on Monday and the balance on Tuesday and despite good lane conditions I kept pulling the ball which seems like a typical problem for me when I am tired. The only good news is on Tuesday I was 9 for 9 on ten pins, actually single pin spares as a whole I was probably shooting 95% or better, for some reason I was leaving more 7 pins then usual and having problems picking them up.

CLtotheTL32

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^Ouch man that's a bummer.

It seems like a lot of people struggle at no-tap, but I'm pretty consistent with it. When I was 14 or 15, I shot 820 something with 9-pin no tap.

It drives me crazy when I feel like I'm throwing the ball well and I'm leaving multi-pin spares. Well it's not just leaving them, but missing the spare afterwards really gets me going. It's stupid mistakes like that, that can kill your game.

Shoofin

Took 2 games and the wood tonight (5pts total)

My average entering this week is 172. First game we lost, and it was mostly my fault, as I bowled a measly 148. We lost by 41 pins. Had I bowled a little over my average we would have put up a good fight, but I sucked bad. The lanes and my head weren't cooperating with each other. I was looking to throw it between the 2-3 marker, and I was throwing it between the 3-4 marker. I couldn't adjust my shot quick enough to do better than I did. I fkn guttered it twice on the opening shot That crap hasn't happened to me in a LONG time. Fortunately I closed the first one with a 9(off a spare ), and the second one closed with a spare (off a strike ) Game 2 I bowled 171, which is better (not great, but better), and we took the game by 54 pins. Last game I promised my team mates a 200 score, fortunately I bowled 212 and we took the last game by 55 pins. One of my team mates bowled pretty consistent, his average is 204, he bowled if I recall, 187, 246 and 210. My other team mate did ok too, but dropped off at the end. His average is about 184, the first game he bowled 187, second 210 and third he bombed at 154.

We entered this week in 3rd. At the end of the night we stay in 3rd (we played the 4th place team, which last week we also played them and nearly got swept but took 1 game, good for 2 points), and the 1st place team bumped to 2nd place (they played the 2nd place team), and the 2nd place team bumped up to first. We are 1 point behind 2nd place now. The standings are close, as the first 4 positions are within 10 points of each other. This is week 11 of 36, BTW..

CLtotheTL32

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^Dang man, rough beginning game, but you pulled it off at the end! Sometimes those nights are sorta bittersweet.

Like you, I threw it in the gutter about two weeks ago. I honestly can't remember the last time I did that in competition.

Here's a shot of our league standings:



Still first place average

We are in 3rd, but just barely. Hopefully we bowl well next week and keep that spot.

Shoofin

^

I wish I can post that stuff...Unfortunately our standings are nowhere to be found online anywhere...Only taped on the counter by the front desk...

CLtotheTL32

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^Bummer

My bowling alley is somewhat new, built in 1999, so I guess that's one of the perks. Those are the actual league sheets that we get on our tables every week. There are two more sheets with each team and team member's stats, but that's boring

Well, since I can, I'll post the page with my team (we are team 6):



Damn I need to shoot 680 next week to raise my average 1 point

Rounder

you guys have 5 man teams? ^

Practiced sunday, our teammate came by to say hi. He had a full leg brace on from his upper knee down to the ankle, and he was on crutches. He had an MRI friday so he should know this week what the problem is. This sucks for us. I don't know if the league will allow a sub and when he heals, he can come back, or what. We will know this week however.

Last year a dude got hit by a car, and they allowed a sub, but that was because he was out for the year. If our teammate plans to come back in a few weeks or more, then I doubt we can get a sub, and will just have a vacant score.

So yea, don't let people tell you that you can't get injured from bowling.

CLtotheTL32

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Yea I love the 5 man teams, but it takes forever to finish a set.

And damn that's crazy to hear about your teammate! And why wouldn't your league allow a sub? It sounds like your league rules are quite a bit different than mine, we can have a sub whenever we want, they just can't bowl every single week and still be considered a sub, they would have to pay the dues and become a permanent member of the team.

Rounder

Just the way that league is set up. The other leagues allow subs. I duno. Hope they grant an obvious injury exception.

Rounder

Teammate has a torn meniscus. He will know today if he needs surgery, and how long he will be out. We already have a "Vacant" 150 score in for him.

If he is out 3-4 weeks we will keep the vacant. If he is out 3-4 months, we are getting a permanent sub and it's see ya next season.

Hard to win with 3 people. We took 7/11 last night, and I bowled horrible, but "good enough to win" 170-201-203. Too many mental mistakes, missed a few 1-pin spares including the 2-pin, ugh.

Average is 203 (2nd in league) and the highest is 208... I can catch him, but he doesn't think so. He's been high average forever (like multiple seasons) and his one teammate said "if you lose high average I will die laughing"... so that kinda makes me hungrier to beat him. We play them next week, should be interesting.

CLtotheTL32

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^Ouch man that's serious stuff about your teammate. I hope that situation is dealt with quickly!

That isn't a terrible set, but it's not helping your average. If I miss a single pin spare, it's either the 4 or 7 pin. Shit drives me nuts. Either I put too much on the ball and it goes infront of the pin, or I don't put enough and it just slides past it.

And you should be able to get him, 208 isn't that high for being 1/3 done with the season. Sounds like he's a bit cocky. Show him how to do it

Rounder

hahaha, a *bit* cocky is an understatement. He throws like a 4 bagger and yells "ohhh myyy gooooooodness!" and does this little like twirl thing with his arm. So I had a clutch shot last night, (he said woah look out! as the ball was thrown [it looked like almost a gutter]), comes in from nowhere for a strike, I turn around and imitate his twirl thing. The 4 lanes surrounding me were cracking up, and it shut him up for a few minutes And we weren't even playing him, he was on the pair next to us and still talked smack, albeit joking, but it did light a fire

Rounder

And the one thing I'm worried about with my teammate, he will try and come back too soon and hurt himself again. He has a history of rushing back from injuries, altho this one seems to be the worst of his "career".

He was all like "yea this won't keep me down, I'll be back as soon as I can, etc. etc." But he better take it easy. I think he has a manual labor job as well, so even if not for bowling, he should make sure he's ok for work.

CLtotheTL32

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^Oh god I can't stand people like that. That's a funny ass story too. There was a kid I bowled with years ago that did that all of the time. First game he shot a 300 and thought he was hot shit. He made some sort of dance and I made fun of him the rest of the set. Let's just say that even though he shot 300 first game, he was so upset that I was making fun of him, that he didn't shoot a 600 set

A lot of people looked down on me when I started in this league. I hadn't bowled in the league before and I was the youngest one by at least 7 or 8 years. They all changed their minds when I came out and shot 720 that first week. Now I have high average by about 10 points and everybody loves me. You really need to take high average from the guy.

And I agree that your teammate needs to just chill for a while. As much as I'm sure you want him back on the team for the extra points, it's just not worth it. One of the couples on my team, the guy lost his mom a few weeks ago and needed to go to Canada. He told me over and over that he was so sorry that he wouldn't be here and we would miss out on points. I'm not selfish, or at least I try not to be, so of course I didn't care. I told him I would rather him get everything situated up north before returning back to the league. It's just bowling, I'm not in the PBA and doing this doesn't pay my bills. It's for fun and to get out of the house for a while.

mantis23

how do you scan that in so cleanly?

CLtotheTL32

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^It's not a scan, it's from my local bowling alley's website. They upload the screen shot of the league sheets online so you can check them out and see who and where you are bowling before coming in that Thurday.

Here is the link: http://www.buffaloelanes.com/Cary%20...n_Comfort.html

I just right click on it, copy the image address, and then insert it using the picture tool above the text box

Whiskers

I sucked up a storm today

CLtotheTL32

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What's wrong with that? Just because it isn't the most expensive ball out right now doesn't mean it's shitty

How long have you been bowling? Are you in a league now?

Whiskers

CLtotheTL32

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You don't have to average 200 to post in this thread. Read my first post! People always looked at me funny when I said I bowl, so I posted it to see if there was anybody else that enjoyed it like I do.

Rounder

Talked to the teammate yesterday. He's going for surgery in 2 weeks, arthroscopy. He decided to be out for the year, and give us a sub, than risk us losing with 3 players...

I did a little research on recovery time, etc. It says ~ 8 weeks post op you can start playing sports again, but he seems to want to ease back into it, so maybe it's better we get a sub (guy on thursday nights will bowl with us on tuesday).

I had a so-so series. 227-179-201... first game should have been higher, I got tapped 4 times, so frustrating. 2nd game left two splits, blah. 3rd game I lost my match point, was on a double going into the 10th and threw a split, lost the point by 8 and we lost the game by ~ 20 because one guy threw 50 under. ugh.

CLtotheTL32

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There's no need for him to rush back into it. He just needs to take his time.

And DAMN last night was frustrating. I couldn't pick up a spare to save my life. 212, 238, 174. The last game I missed the damn 4 pins FOUR DIFFERENT TIMES

Also because I shot 50 under my average that last game, we lost by 8. Fml.

Shoofin

I'm so embarrased with how I bowled last week I don't even want to post my scores...I will say we took 1 game and my highest score was 154. The lanes were F-ed up, my shoes kept sticking to the floor and I couldn't get a good shot at all.

BUT I did see my first 837 series...Dude in the next lane bowled a 269-268-300. It was quite entertaining...

iTimmy

^^^ That is impressive!

I had a disappointing week last week, was working on a good series for me, 201-221 and then our lanes died and they moved us and I rolled a shitty 165 on the new lane, though I did a ball change after the 4th frame of the third game and the remainder of the game was clean. I'm convinced had there been a few practice frames I would have made the ball change before the game started and had a game more inline with what I was rolling.

CLtotheTL32

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Your highest score was a 154? Holy hell! What happened man? Were you drunk? Bowling blindfolded, backwards, and left handed at the same time?

All kidding aside though, for real what happened? Lanes? Were you just not throwing the ball well? That's been my problem for the last few weeks, it just hasn't been coming off of my hand right.

And it's always awesome seeing people shoot those high sets. I saw a 878 a few years back at a tournament. 300, 300, 278. It was amazing. He came in a tad high on the 11th ball of the last game and left the 4-7

iTimmy

The guy who works at one of my local allies rolled a 845 a few months ago, it's a shame he has some sort of social disorder because it would be cool to bowl with him sometime. Most bowlers are pretty cool, willing to talk to others, I would rather insert needles in my cock then deal with this guy.

At the other end of the spectrum I saw some drunk do a Machuga Flop last week, I'd be lying if I didn't find it funny. I've never seen that happen in real life before.

CLtotheTL32

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I'm sorry but anytime somebody falls down, I laugh, especially if they are cocky or annoying. Shit is hilarious.

Shoofin

Apparently the floors (not the lanes, the floors) were polished and were not as slippery as I'm used to...So when i'm taking my steps before throwing the shot, instead of sliding, I'm trying to stop myself from falling face first because the sticky floors were stopping me in my tracks. Everyone complained about it, but I seemed to have been affected by it more than anything. Not to mention, the leather under my shoe is quickly wearing away (shoes are about 7 y/o), and I have to get new shoes, that just made it worse

As for the first game and bowling 154, I didn't beat myself up for that performance, because 9 out of 10 times I get there after practice is done and they already started 1-2 frames, it takes me the first game to get comfortable, so a low scoring first game isn't unusual for me. The second game I got 6 splits that I couldn't close (most 7-10), and the third game I don't know wtf happened to me. I bowled so bad the last game I didn't even look to see what I finished with. the 2nd game was I think 124 (again i was so annoyed I didn't pay attention), and the 3rd might have been somewhere around there too.

CLtotheTL32

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^Ouch man that's depressing. The team I was playing against decided to put Slide-Rite on the bottom of their shoes so they slid better. Not only is it illegal in league play, it makes the approach crazy slippery. That's primarily the reason why I kept missing spares; I would be perfectly lined up for my shot and I would slide like crazy and over compensate, therefore losing my train of thought.

I think that's the worst you've bowled since you started posting in this thread. You should ask Santa for some new bowling shoes

Shoofin

In 3rd place currently..

Sooo Last night we took 1 game. We bowled a team that was supposedly weaker than us, but 2 of the 3 guys bowled between 50-80 pins higher than their average. I got comfortable pretty quickly, but for some reason my teammates couldn't. Even with my 201 the first game, we lost by about 70 pins. Both of my teammates bowled about 30-50 pins under their average. Second game was f-ed up. The fockin alley thought it would be nice to give everyone a free drink on the house as a little something for the holidays. Naturally everyone got a beer. That means more liquid to spill everywhere. Just as I finished my frame I walked back up to where i sit and didn't realize someone spilled 3/4 of a bottle on the floor and I walked right into it. I tried to dry it off my shoe as much as I could but it didn't work. I tried the next frame but it was bad-real bad. I changed to the alley's shoes for 2 frames after that and couldn't deal with it. Went back to my shoes and slowly got it dry enough to be back to normal, relatively. to make things even more annoying, my brand spankin' new jacket that I wore all of twice got beer spilled all over too (that was the third time that night someone spilled a bottle by my lane), so aside from now reeking of beer (and having to drive home smelling that way too), my shoes were f'ed, and now I was irritated.. I bowled 154 the 2nd game, my team mates started back into it, but we still lost by about 60 pins (other team, 2 of the 3 still bowled way over their average again). Last game my team was all in sync, I bowled 193, my team mates were around if not a bit over their averages, we took the game by 13 pins. Other team, once again 2 of the 3 bowled well, but we were finally able to keep up..

Hopefully things are better next week.

CLtotheTL32

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^Ouch man. You did okay, but it sounds like a lot of shit was going on. Unlike most bowling alleys, mine is smoke free and alcohol free. Weird I know, but it's nice leaving and not being drenched in smoke considering I don't smoke. I wouldn't mind a beer while bowling, but like you experienced, I'm sure people would keep more on the floor than in the bottle.

I did fairly well tonight. 248-186-242...676. The second game I left the 4-6 in the 2nd frame and I didn't have a double the whole game, just a shit ton of spares. I'm averaging right at 220, so I'm pleased with how tonight came out. My team was 3-4, but oh well.

Rounder

I bowled like dog shit this week. Didn't crack 190 in 6 games.

Tuesday I shot ~ 525 and thursday I shot ~ 475 (149-179-145).

Nothing was working. I changed balls, changed lines, just nothing. Ugh.

Average dropped from 203 > 201 and from 199 > 196.

Shoofin

Well, in NY, you can't smoke indoors just about anywhere you go, so there is no smoking in the building. It's when you walk out of the alley that the smoke addicts are hanging out by the entrance and you get the waft of smoke in your face when going in/coming out.

iTimmy

Cold weather is tough on me, I'm one of those always cold people and my fingers are freaking freezing most of the way through the first game this time of year, which impacts my game. What pisses me off the most is my terrible 9-pin no tap performance, we ended this week with another no tap game and it was my low game of the night! Not one single no tap strike Rolled a 156

The lanes at my alley were weird this week lots of patchy carry down, definitely a night where straighter is greater but everyone was leaving splits due to poor entry angle or being a board off target. I've never seen more 4-10, 4-6-7-10, 7-10, 6-7 and other similar huge splits, we even saw three 5-7-10's I've always wanted a shot at picking that up but I've just never left it

Considering my cold hand in game one and the lane conditions I was pretty happy with my games 158-178-205 and then the no tap 156. If I had a warmup game it would have been a good series for me. I don't get upset when I bowl poorly because of an outside factor or poor pin carry, if I am putting the ball where I want it to go with good rotation regardless of the score I'm pleased. I'd rather roll a 178 that was a great game with poor pin carry then something in the mid-200's with a lot of sloppy strikes - going brooklyn and hammering the headpin, etc...

CLtotheTL32

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Damn rough week for you man

What happened? I bowled surprisingly well considering I've been up late studying for finals and such.

Yea same here, but there are only about 15 or 20 in the whole place that smoke, so there's usually only 5 out there at a time. As long as I don't have to wallow in it while bowling, I don't mind.

I know what you mean with the splits. I left some nasty ones last night despite my above average set. I went front 4 and then came in a little behind the headpin and left the 4-6. I almost picked up the 4-6-10, the 6 rolled over and gave the 4 a nudge, but it wouldn't fall

The lanes were really oily last night, therefore I had to throw it outside a little to catch the lighter oil and also had to throw it slower with more revs to compensate. Last night I didn't bowl how I usually do, when it comes to form and such, but I bowled pretty well.

And damn 156 no-tap? I would probably kill myself. Not really, but I would be pissed.

Rounder

Just weird lanes this week. Nobody on my team bowled well at all. Very dry on the outside and oily in the middle, a lot of splits all over the place.

CLtotheTL32

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^Ouch. I've noticed since it's starting getting cold here that the lanes seem to be drenched in oil. Thank god for indoor heat, but it's fucking up my lanes

Rounder

Practiced sunday, got some confidence back. 129 (shit, half asleep LOL), 213, 218. 2nd game I had either a 9/ or strike. Hope I can bowl well tuesday league.

CLtotheTL32

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Haha the first game is always the warm up game for me, so that's totally understandable. Nice 2nd and 3rd game though! Were the lanes any different from when you bowled in league?

I officially have high average for the first part of the league.