Thursday - June 16, 2011

2nd Place and holding

We had the bye this week in our tiny little summer bowling league. My wife had to visit her sister in the hospital (who is just fine now, thanks) so she wasn’t there. The other 2 guys on our team are fairly new to the sport, and both are monkey bowlers. That’s what I call the cranker style of bent wrist, thumbless bowling where the bowler palms the ball against the inside of his wrist. The approach reminds me of these little plastic guys from my childhood

So anyway, we had the bye, and had to “earn the points” by rolling better than our team average minus 40 pins. So I used the opportunity to explain tactical bowling to these new guys; we could win the games with ease, but bowling just enough would keep our averages low, which would give us an advantage when bowling against other teams in future weeks. They understood, but decided to just bowl as well as they could anyway. That’s cool. Nothing wrong with doing your best.

So I went tactical the first game and rolled low with a 176. We won. I rolled a 205 in the second game, and explained how this would allow them to roll low if they wanted, to spread the “tactical” approach evenly amongst each of us. They threw their best; Bill rolled a 224. We won that game with almost 100 pins more than needed. We’re a loud and raucous group, which is fun, and Bill was all in your face! at me, the experienced bowler, after his 224 game, which beat my 205. So I threw “tactical” to the winds and bowled seriously the 3rd game, pulling a 178 on a strike in the 9th. I started off the 10th with two strikes, X X, then covered my eyes and just chucked the last ball and got a 6, giving me a 224 just like Bill’s. Didn’t want to take away his moment, but I did want to show that I could match his score just by screwing around. In your face! We won that game by more than 100. That gave me a 605 for the night, but because the USBC considers summer season to be an extension of winter season, where I bowled several 600+ series, there won’t be another “wonderful” refrigerator magnet award for me. You only get one of each per season / calender year.

Since this was only week 5 of league, next week I expect our averages to go up 9 or 10 pins each. Which is the antithesis of tactical, so I’ll remind them of that then if we find ourselves up against the wall. Whatever, we had fun, and since it was just the 3 of us, we were done with all 3 games in just over an hour. Sweet.

Our team is in 2nd place. The first place team had a forfeit, which is just like a bye, so I expect they took all 7 too. So we’ll stay in 2nd, and both teams will open the margin from the 3rd place team.

Posted by Drew458     on 06/16/2011 at 03:43 PM   
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