Friday - February 10, 2012

Almost A Clean Sweep

Another great week for my teams in bowling league.


We won 5-2 in Greed League, in yet another position round against Team X and my nemesis Andy. I covered him in the first game, but then he got hot and blew me away in games 2 and 3, bowling in the 250s and 260s. Good for him. Lucky us in game 2, that no matter how many strikes he threw his team didn’t seem to be opening any kind of a lead. That’s because our guy J was busy throwing strikes of his own, rolling a 289. Awesome. So we won the first two. I rallied in the third game with a 215 but that wasn’t quite enough, and we lost it by 3 pins. Oh well. The wins keep us solidly in 3rd place, and open a pretty large margin (18 points) between 3rd and 4th. With 10 weeks left and 2nd place just 5 ahead of us, let’s see if we can claw our way into the really big money.


We won 7-0 in Cheap League, making this our 3rd or 4th week in a row that we took all 7. We are in 2nd by another fat margin, and only 10 behind the killer 1st place team. We had fun hanging out with our opponents this week, although only half their team could make it. There was a Valentine’s candy goody bag up for grabs (M&M Mars has a factory in the next town over, and they have promotional handouts for some of the employees, and I guess one of them is on our league. Sure seems to be a lot of M&Ms around all the time) for the 4 highest survivors of an elimination bracket. With her new all-of-a-sudden improvement in bowling, she’s been throwing a weekly series 100+ over, so with the low average handicap she still carries she was able to take high total score and win the biggest bag. Unfortunately the Skittles Card Box and the giant bag of Peanut Butter M&Ms seem to have gone to work with her today. We won the beer frame in game 2 without realizing it, and that was also the Strike Ball frame for last week’s highest over average series for men and women. Which was our guy J, but not my wife this week. She had it last week, and with this week’s 112 over series she’ll probably have it next week. And he got the strike, so he got a handful of cash and we got a free round of beers. And since he used to date the alley’s beer girl and they’re still on good terms, we got Blue Moons instead of Bud Lights. With orange slices, classy. So overall, pretty darn good. Cheap League is the antithesis of Greed League. It’s the lowest cost league, and has the smallest end-of-year prize pot. Instead they have a couple of little prizes every week, along with all the side games (brackets, poker, etc) that most leagues do on the side. It’s a fun league, and they make a real effort to keep it fun.

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