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calendar   Monday - April 20, 2009

7th, maybe 6th

Phew. That one was too close.

We finished off Monday League tonight, bowling the 7th place team again. And we beat them 5-2, again. That means we fought our way up out of 8th place, into at least 7th. But if the 5th place team laid a 7-0 smackdown on the 6th place team, our 5 points will be enough to float us up to 6th. Either place is fine with us. This is only our first year together as a team, and we’ve really hit it off. Next year maybe we’ll be more competitive. Too bad that league’s Secretary had to go away for a wedding, so it will be several weeks until we get together again to pass out the awards and money.

I screwed the pooch in game one. We lost that one by 115, and at least 50 pins of that was my fault. I just couldn’t focus, because just being in the alley made me think about Saturday league, and I’m really pissed off about that. No, not my teammates. I’m pretty much used to their level of major suckage. One beer after getting home and I’m over their weekly fiascos. What’s got me cranked is that the way the rules in that league are written, an imbalanced situation exists, and that such a thing might be entirely legal. And that raises my Porcupine Quills Of Injustice into Slash Position. Seriously. I got into a very short and loud argument with the league VP last week, and was within a step of clobbering him. Real RCOB moment for me. Tables were knocked over, chairs kicked. That’s bad. I have an explosive temper. I’m usually the most easy going guy, but tell me something asinine and insist it’s the truth and interrupt me every two words without even listening when I try to give my opinion, “none of us like it but that’s the way it is” ... that’s pushing several of my big red buttons all at the same time.

I have contacted the USBC looking for clarification. See, this is the issue. This league’s rules consider a vacant position to be a regular team member. Because of that, they feel that a team that has one or more vacancies can never forfeit by absence. I think that’s a lot of hooie. If you don’t show up, screw you. You don’t win anything. The other team doesn’t automatically win, they have to earn their points by bowling against their own averages. That part at least is standard USBC policy. But under this league’s current rules, a team that has no vacancies can forfeit by not showing up. So one team can forfeit, but another team can’t? That ain’t right. But the rule is written “A legal lineup shall consist of two regular bowlers. A vacancy is considered a regular bowler.” “Aha!” I hear you saying, “that means that one person still has to show up anyway!” Ordinarily yes. But our team, the notoriously unreliable Team 5, has TWO vacancies. Actually at this point they have THREE, since the one guy hasn’t been seen or heard from in 5 weeks. So if vacancies are considered regular bowlers, then the first vacancy is one regular bowler, the next vacancy is another regular bowler ... and, ta da!, you have a nearly empty team that can never forfeit by not showing up, since the vacancy bowlers are “always there”. It’s total crap. And I debated against it back in August at our start up meeting. And it was the vice president who insisted that’s the way it had to be, or else he and his wife were quitting right then and there. So he got his way. And now 35 weeks later he’s telling me “none of us like it but that’s the way it is”? You ... you Democrat. You’re the one who absolutely insisted that the rule be written that way. Just you. And you wouldn’t listen to reason then either.

Since I’m the Secretary for this group, the keeper of all the scores AND the keeper of the rules, I realized the error early on, and I’ve run the whole season my way. I didn’t ignore their stupid rule, I just interpreted differently. Which is: no wins for no-shows. But I’ve been very flexible: if even one actual humanoid person on the team shows up, or pre-bowls, or even calls and says “I can’t make it, can I bowl later?"[nobody has ever done that one] then I don’t treat it as a forfeit. Many, if not most, leagues have rules about what they call a “starting lineup”: 2 out of 4, or 3 out of 5 of your team members had better either show up or pre-bowl, or else your team forfeits. Period. I set the bar as low to the ground as possible: one person. But I guess that wasn’t low enough. And I guess I’m a bit touchy at this point, having fronted this league $300 worth of software and supplies over the course of the season, having asked at least 10 times for some reimbursement and gotten none, having been called a “lyin cheatin mothafucka” to my face by one team because I was decent enough to point out their math errors because they couldn’t add 3 single digit numbers properly ... etc. It’s been a lot of work, since August, without any thanks at all. And now I’ve got some ornery drunk telling me I’m doing it all wrong, he who hasn’t done one single thing the entire year [tits on a shovel are more useful, and better looking, than a vice president of a bowling league. It’s not a paying job, and there is no work at all]. Bad move.

Even more aggravating is that he might be right. Well, too late now. I made the decision, that’s how I ran things, and they can do it their way next year. Even if I go back and change the rules in the software, I doubt if it will make a big enough difference to change who is in what place. But I don’t care. Even if I did the wrong thing. I’m the one doing every last bit of work here, above and beyond any expectation. So shut up and stay the hell out of my way. Now pay me my money, pay me my prize winnings, and I’m out of there. Find some other sucker next year, if you losers even have a next year.

So that’s what I had to get past tonight, and when I did I bowled Ok. Not great, but not awful. And that was good enough.

Woo hoo, summer league starts soon. And no Air Doug this year, because he’s too poor to spare the $13 per week. Good. And good riddance.


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