Friday - December 16, 2011

A Bad Case Of Glue Ball

Our team went 7-0 last night at Cheap League. We are in 5th place in a league of 12 teams. Last night’s win will not move us up, but it will bring us closer to the lead teams and widen the gap between us and the teams below us. Last night’s win puts us over the 50% win line. Yay us!



Happy happy joy joy. We only gave out 4 pins in handicap so it was pretty much a heads up match. We were on the lanes up against the wall, which had been used for open bowling before our league started. Conditions were absolutely rancid last night, but this time my team sucked less on them than the other team. There were no awesome games. The lanes were like glue, the back end was dead, the edges were wet, and the pins seemed to be Velcroed on. We won because we left easier spares and made them more often than the other team did. I threw a 548 for the series, a whacking great 8 pins over average. 185, 172, 191. We got the wood because we won the first game by a huge amount; our opponent’s team relies too heavily on their one awesome bowler, and he was 100 pins down that game.

And that’s about it. Sure, you get to be a great bowler with a really high average by stringing lots of strikes together all the time. But when the foo hits the shan, you win by being able to hit the 10 pin or the 7 pin almost all the time to make the spares, by rolling 8 or 9 when your first ball doesn’t strike, and by throwing a moderate line that doesn’t give you strange and impossible leaves and splits when the strikes won’t come. And that’s what we did.

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   Wednesday - December 14, 2011

The Battle of the Andrews

What, you thought I forgot to make a bowling post? Ha!

Once, at band camp, Last night, at Greed League, we went 5-2. With our guy Bob back in Texas for his business, we had to get Andy from last’s years angry team in to sub. Actually he subs for us quite a bit, and with the better mix of guys we have this season it turns out that both he and his itsy bitsy girlfriend are Ok folks. That’s good. So anyway, there was me, there was Andy subbing for us, and there was Andy on the team we played. Three Andrews, oy vey.

It wasn’t heads up bowling. We got a 47 pin handicap, but their guys are usually much better bowlers than we are. Lucky for us we had a good night, even though Joe was absent because of traffic. We have a very diverse team; one guy is rich, one guy is so poor he can’t hardly afford soap, one guy works his tail off driving a truck, one guy has a cushy job being the IT dude for the local high school, and then there’s me. Not that any of that matters because we’re all in it to bowl. But Joe drives a local big rig for a living, and he was hours behind because of traffic. So he was out for the night. His absence cut our handicap down to about 28 pins. Not quite heads up bowling, but it wasn’t a whole lot of handicap.

So we went at it. Our team has fallen into 3rd place, and we want to get back into 2nd in the worst way. I don’t know what place their team is in, but it’s lower than 4th. Their Andy and I don’t get along too well; we were officers together on some dying league a few years back, and we had some strong differences of opinion ... long story, not germane to this one. But it was kind of a grudge match, at least him vs me, and we’re both the lead-off bowlers for our teams.

We won the first game by 27. I rolled a 208, which was good enough to cover my man, beating Andy. Haha. Our Andy, nominally a 205 average bowler, threw in the 180s. We were in the lead for every frame. Nice, but that made the other team wake up for Game 2.

We won the second game by just a little. 13 or 14. I threw a 206, but I got 5 strikes in a row to rally us. The lead changed places about 4 times, but in the end we squeaked one out. Their Andy was way off, throwing down in the 140s. Neener neener neener!

Game 3 was a nail biter. We were ahead, then behind, then ahead, then tied, then behind ... they opened with a barrage of strikes while we threw soft the first two frames. We never really rallied, but threw steadily the whole game. And our Andy was suddenly hot, throwing strikes almost the whole game. As late as the fourth bowler in the 10th frame it was anybody’s game, but even with our Andy chucking a 251 they hammered a bunch of Xs onto the end of the scoreboard and pulled ahead to win by 11. Their Andy rolled a 224, and all I could manage was a 185. Still, that’s over my average, so I’m not complaining, though I blew it in the 10th, missed my spare, and dropped what could have been a 200+ game. So I rolled a 599 for the night, once again just shy of the 600 series hurdle. Not that I’m complaining, but I really would like to roll 600+ all the time. I was the only bowler with a score under 200, so it was a big scoring game for both teams, a really good game, and they absolutely earned that win. Lucky for us we were up in total points from the first two games, so we got the wood.

Going 5-2 is better than 4-3, and far better than 3-4. But I think that we’ll need to do that well or better again next week to get out of 3rd. Maybe for the next few weeks. The 1st place team? Phooey. They’re so damn far ahead of everyone else that it makes my idea of a split season make sense.  And it’s been that way for at least 4 weeks now.  This league runs until May, but I doubt that we’ll be able to catch them even then, nor will anyone else. Those guys have only lost 6 or so points, and we’re in week 16. Untouchable.

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   Friday - December 09, 2011

Under Pressure

We lost 3-4 in Cheap League. That really bugs me.

We played the half team in a position round. Instead of 4, they have just a father and his son and 2 vacancies. Vacancy scores never help your team any when things go right, but they’re a blessing when things go wrong. A steady 130 pins each per game, no matter what.

So we gave that team a big fat handicap, something like 108 pins. So they got 36 or 37 pins per frame for free. That can make a psychological barrier that’s hard to surmount, but I don’t think it did. I think my team just had a crappy night. I threw Ok in the first game, going a few points over average, and we won that one handily. I threw great in Game 2, scoring a 210, and earning myself $8 in strike ball which I qualified for from last weeks 258 ( highest over average game each week bowls for a prize next week. For a chosen frame, a strike gets you $20, or else $1 per pin. I threw an 8 ). But the rest of my team didn’t rise to the occasion and we lost.  At that point lane conditions went south, and Game 3 became a nightmare. I could not find the right adjustment, so even though I was throwing the lines I was trying for, and hooking the ball right into the pocket time after time after time, I wasn’t getting any strikes. Worse, I was getting nasty splits and odd single leaves. This turn it was the 10, next time the 4, then the 9 the turn after that, followed by a 2-9 split. I made most of them, whoopee, but it was most vexing. And this was happening for everyone. Once again the other team muddled through better than we did, so they won that one. The best we could fight back was to limit their lead so that we wound up taking the wood by a mere 17. Arrgh. Rotten night.

I don’t know how to beat the lanes when this kind of thing happens, and that’s quite frustrating. Damnation! I was putting the ball right into the pocket every friggin’ throw, with a good angle and with a decent amount of turn on the ball. And crap was the result every time!! GRRRR!!!!  And it is difficult to slough off that frustration, because I’m highly competitive. But I did my best to do so. If I can manage it I’ll try to get up there today for a bit of practice, and maybe I can find somebody to show me the way if it exists. Maybe I should just bite the bullet and use my spare ball to throw a straight ball game in those conditions. I’d hate that, but you do what you have to do.

After league we played a quick game on another lane that hadn’t been burned up for the leagues. We all threw great. So it’s a matter of our team learning how to bowl more effectively when the lanes are stale. 

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   Wednesday - December 07, 2011

Stable as a table

Another boring bowling blog post.

We split 4-3 last night on Greed League. Our opponents were the team full of ringers, 3/5 of whom work for the bowling alley and thus practice constantly. We took the first game by 11, and took the second game by about 30. Then they really pulled the stops out while two of our guys slumped, and beat us by 160 in the third game, so they got the win and the wood. But to get that win they had to bowl their best, and that’s going to hurt their averages. Oh boo hoo.

I didn’t throw anything spectacular but I was fairly consistent and over average, so I was definitely contributing. I threw a 594 series, just missing the 600 mark. 218, 192, 184, so I was about +/- 16. Not too shabby seeing as I’m carrying a 166 average in this league. I only muffed two throws the whole night, one of which was a spaz ball in the 9th of the third game, a 5-4 open that cost me the 600. Rats. But my 10 pin corner throws were 100% for the night. I didn’t miss a single 6-10 or a 10 pin shot. I’m happy with that. My other flubbed shot came in the second game, when whatever the heck I threw left a really strange leave, the 1-2-6-8-10. Weird. That’s a dogleg of pins on the left with a pair of pins off on the right with a big hole in the middle. Never saw that one before, so I had no idea what to throw to make it. But I remembered the old advice that if you’ve still got the headpin it’s a strike ball, so that’s what I threw; the ball turned into what was left of the pocket, pins went flying, and I made it. Cool.

I think we’re still in 2nd place. I didn’t check the standings sheet. We need to do better than split 4-3 to keep that. Some 7-0s and 5-2s would be better.

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   Friday - December 02, 2011

Tough Night

We were up against the 2nd place team last night at Cheap League. Out of a dozen or so teams, we’re somewhere down around 10th place. It was pretty much straight up bowling; we got a whacking great 9 pins worth of handicap. This makes for a highly competitive night.

I did OK the first game, rolling in the mid 180s. We won that game by about 30. The other team poured it on in the second game, but we answered the challenge. Or at least I did; I rolled a 257. Yay me!! So we won that game by about 11. Lane conditions just went to Hell in a hand basket in Game 3. What little oil was out there was gathered into 2 clumps, and the back end was breaking evilly and early. This made for some awful bowling from everyone, with splits and strange leaves all over the place. All over the alley actually, up and down all the lanes. Nasty. Their team adapted to this better than ours did, so they took that game by 50 or so, which gave them wood. I threw 20 or so under average, so what coulda/shoulda/woulda been a 700 night didn’t even break 600. Close, but no Monica. Rats. On the other hand, I figured out the right adjustment midway through the game, so I recovered from throwing utter crap to making 5 in a row from the 7th frame, which brought our team’s total really close to theirs at the top of the 10th. I thought we had a chance, but my squad just didn’t have their game face on so they plooped out while our opponents rallied. Damn. So we split the night 4-3. I don’t know if that will bring us up, bring them down, or just leave us both in the same place in the standings.

I’ve said it many times before and I’ll say it again: I swear you win or lose because of your attitude. My guys had a bad case of the “I can’ts” ... and they couldn’t. I wasn’t exactly thrilled with my performance in the first half of Game 3 either, but instead of sulking and hating on myself I set out to find the fix. When I threw a squirt ball in the 5th after having guttered in the 4th, I figured out that my inserts were oily and I couldn’t hold onto the ball. So I went and washed my hands, and took a rag to the finger holes. Then I held the ball with a bit more authority. This caused me to hold onto it a touch longer, which gave my throw a bit of extra loft and speed, so it went deeper. Right past the quagmire zone in the back end, and right into the pocket at a good angle. Strike. Strike. Strike. Strike. Strike. 3. Drat. That 3 in end of the 10th was because I was cracking up from overhearing some really dirty funny comments the other team was making to each other. Some kind of Navy joke about some sailor called Seaman Stains. Cracking wise is a better way to deal with the stress and frustration than having a sulk or a hissy fit. And that’s probably why they won the third game.

Next week is a position round. This league has lots of them; 6 I think for the year. It’s not up to me, but if it were I wouldn’t have any. I think position rounds tend to glue the teams into the standings slots they’re already in, and in this league the first place team is already up 13 points.

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   Wednesday - November 30, 2011

Nice Try Drew

Not a winning night at Greed League. We won the first game by a huge amount, then lost the second, then lost the third badly, so we didn’t even take wood. 2 - 5 for the night.

I threw 24 over the first game, then rolled a 254 in the second and we lost that one anyway. By the third game I was exhausted, and all the aches and pains from the past couple of days ganged up on me, so my approach was short on the last lunge step. Which means that my line was fine but the ball was going short about a foot and coming in way too high, so my score really suffered. What should have been an easy 600 series wound up being in the mid 500s. Meh. But hey, I earned another refrigerator magnet award for the 250+ game. Whoopee!

We’re still holding on in second place, but we’d better start posting some wins if we’re going to keep it.

OK, and I’m off to work. The 2 day job on that house is stretching into 2 1/2 days because of the season. The rain is over, and it’s still pretty mild out for late November, but there just isn’t any darn usable daylight at this time of the year. 7 hours instead of the 10+ you get in the summer.

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   Friday - October 28, 2011

Rough Week Bowling

Bah, humbug.

We split Tuesday on Greed League, 3-4. Good thing we won big the first game, because we lost the next two by just a few points each. Our team is in 2nd place, but I don’t know if we’ll hold onto that after this week. Still, I was bowling mostly well. I’m getting a lot more on the ball lately, and getting it further out to the dry so that it comes back sharply. Unfortunately I don’t have the line quite right yet, so my scores are only a bit over average even though I’m hammering the pocket almost every frame. Something needs a minor adjustment, and then I’ll start getting lots more strikes. Right now I’m getting way too many nine counts, but at least the leave isn’t always the 10 pin. I hate the 10 pin.

We lost pretty bad Thursday on Cheap League, 2-5. Conditions were just plain weird. Worse, one of the lanes had been bowled on before our league started, so the two lanes were very different. I know it’s unreasonable to expect the bowling alley to clean the lanes and then lose sales by setting them aside for several hours because leagues are coming in, but it would be nice if they could refresh the lanes used for open bowling. Thursday night is a big league night for them, with 2 6:30pm leagues, a 7:30pm league, and then a 9pm league. The kid usually runs the lane machine at about 4:30, and that’s the dead part of the day; probably only half a dozen people at most come bowling between 4:30 and 7:30. So you’d think it wouldn’t be much trouble to set 4 or 6 lanes aside, and then clean and oil them at about 7. That’s only about 5 minutes work. This house is all synthetic, so the oil doesn’t need a chance to settle in like it used to with the old wooden lanes.  Whatever; half the challenge is adapting to varying conditions. Once again I was hooking right into the pocket, but getting more 9s than strikes. But my spares game was pretty good, so I wound up rolling 10-15 over average each game. We bowled the low average team, a group of beginners we gave a 138 pin handicap to. And naturally they had their best night ever! One woman on their team threw a 191 followed by a 179, which is outstanding given her 113 average. They were getting headpin strikes with their wimpy straight ball throws, while we were all hooking in powerfully and leaving pins. Go figure. That’s how it goes sometimes. So our Thursday team will sink even lower in the standings, probably down to last place after this week. Funny thing is, we have the highest average and the greatest number of scratch pins of any team on the league.

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   Friday - October 21, 2011

Random Chance

Sorry to have not bored you to tears with my bowling blogging lately. I’ve been in a slump, but my teams have been doing Ok. Mostly.

We won all 7 on Tuesday at Greed League. The other team had an off night, and we weren’t quite so off, so we slaughtered them. Took the first game by 214, the second one by 190, and the third game by 78, which gave us the wood by more than 480 pins. Slam! My bowling was pretty awful though; all or nothing. I could not hardly make a spare to save my life, but my series total for the night was only 4 pins below average. Talk about a slump: I started the first game with 5 opens in a row. Egad. But then I threw 5 strikes in a row and a spare to finish up just a bit over average! The other team was leaving evil splits all over the place and blaming the oil patterns.

Last night at Cheap League we all bowled well but lost all 7. My ball was pretty much dead, so I had it resurfaced and run through the rejuvenator to steam the oil out. The thing was a sponge and had to go through twice to get clean. So now the ball is hooking again, and I put new fingertip inserts in so I can get some rev on the ball, and my slump is over. I threw a 575 series, which is back up where I usually bowl. Not that it did any good. The other team just flat out out-bowled us. I even came up with a 214 in the third game, which helped our team tie our opponents’ scratch score, but they had a 10 pin handicap so we lost that one by 10. We’re in 9th place on this 12 team league, but we have the highest team average. That means we’re always giving handicap points to everyone else. The whole league was having a hard time adapting to the new conditions last night. The oil pattern was pretty easy, but the alley had just sanded the approaches (finally! it’s been 3 years, and the approaches were almost as sticky as fly paper), so we were all sliding around as if we were on ice. Lucky me that I have fancy bowling shoes that have replaceable soles, so I could switch to a less slippery toe slide and a stronger heel brake.

Sometimes you can bowl poorly and win. Sometimes you can bowl quite well and lose. It almost seems like it’s random chance. 

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   Friday - September 16, 2011

Rolling Right Along

My team on the Tuesday night Greed League took all 7 points. That’s a small miracle. We didn’t win it so much as the other team lost it; we bowled pretty much on average but the other team bowled well under average. Not sure if this was a tactical move on their part to keep their averages down, or if it was just an off night for them. I’ll take the wins, thanks.

We were cracking jokes, and new team member Bob tells the one about NASA and the pen. It’s an old urban legend at this point, but the truth is that the Space Pen is real, it’s still made by the Fisher Pen Company, and a plain old pencil can actually be dangerous in a space capsule. I’m not sure if they quite believed me when I mentioned all of that, but you can still buy either the original Fisher AG-7 which is still in use today by all the space agencies, or the slightly cooler, better looking, and less expensive bullet version which comes in a neato box where the foam lining looks like a lunar landscape.  The story behind proprietor Paul Fisher is interesting reading too. Radical, Libertarian, engineer, and successful mass marketeer. Learning a bit about thixotropic non-Newtonian pseudoplastic fluids is also interesting; the ink in Fisher’s pens have this property, as does a large amount of the fluids in the human body.

So anyway, back to bowling. We took 5 out of 7 in my Thursday night Cheap League, and had a blast. We lost the first game by less than 10, and then rallied for an absolute slaughter in the second game, winning by more than 180. The 10th frame was a dream come true for me; I’ve spent years being on teams that just sputter to a dull finish in the 10th, but in this game my team was on fire. Out of 12 possible balls we got 9 strikes and a spare. It was stunning. Awesome. We got the third game too, proving to ourselves that we could overcome the psychological challenge of the massive automatic scores generated by the other teams 2 absentee bowlers, both of whom are great rollers. Plus the 29 pin handicap we gave them. Their lead bowler would throw one ball, and suddenly about 58 points would show up on the scoreboard. Yikes. But we did it.

I call the one group Greed League because they charge $22 a week, pay the league officers quite well, and give out a 1st Prize award to the winning bowlers that is $130 more than the year’s dues, and that’s for a men’s league of only 8 teams. It’s a money league and the competition is ferocious. I call the other one Cheap League because they keep costs to a minimum. This one is only $14 a week even though they pay the same alley fees as the first league. Their officers get paid less than half as much, and the prizes for the winners are really small. With 12 teams, it’s a mixed league that emphasizes the social over the competitive. So it’s my team’s plan to win this one while also being Miss Congeniality and making friends with everyone. And really, the bottom line isn’t all that different: my whiz-bang spreadsheet shows me that a $100 prize in this league gives you the same net expenditure as a $394 prize in Greed League, so why spend the money in the first place?

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   Wednesday - August 31, 2011

test

Damn, I lost another post! I wrote 8 good paragraphs this morning, and they’re gone. I must be hitting the wrong button, and shouldn’t blog before my first two cups of coffee are working.

It was all about how I found out that this Tuesday bowling league I’m on is Shark Central, and how they deserve their black reputation and haven’t learned a thing since half the league quit in disgust a few years ago. Whatever. I needed to rant, and did so through my keyboard. Consider yourselves fortunate that all that vitriol went off into the digital ether somewhere.

But just for fun I think I will build a Shark-o-Meter into my little bowling spreadsheet tool, with settings from 0 to 11 reflecting top weighting the award money, the range from “happy shiny people” to “screw you, winner take all”. This league would probably rate about an 8 or a 9. Very sharky. We’re gonna need a bigger boat.

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   Thursday - August 25, 2011

Yay Us !

Winter league starts next week.

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   Thursday - August 18, 2011

Big Mistake

We had an off night at league, and managed to win only 1 game last night. This was the first week of position rounds, and we played the 2nd place team who was trailing us by 7 points. Now they are only trailing us by 4 points, which means we will have to face them again next week. If they win all 3 games they get the championship. If we win just 1 game then we get it. Yikes. Too much drama.

I went to the kick off meeting for the Tuesday night league. The motion was made to raise the weekly dues by $2, with the reason given that all the other Big Money leagues charge at least that much and that this league hasn’t raised it’s dues in several years. Funny thing is, this league is not advertised as a Big Money league, and it may not be working as one either.

So I made a serious mistake. I sat down and tried to figure out what the goals of this league are, and how they can be accomplished by the prize fund. Which means I started playing with spreadsheets. Big Mistake. Excel is a dangerous toy to give to an obsessive/compulsive like me. I’ve spent 2 days now running numbers, but the truth is “you can’t get there from here”. At the meeting it was said that this league historically tries to award the 1st place team enough cash so that they wind up bowling for free for the year. That’s great, but what about everyone else? Are we “big money"-ish in that the top places are awarded as best as possible at the expense of the bottom places? Or do the winners bowl free, and everybody else splits the remaining money as closely as possible?

I’ve been running those scenarios, which means I’m plugging away at a 70 page long spreadsheet. And honestly, it looks to me like “winners bowl free” can be done for $5/wk LESS than the current cost. Sure, sure, the more money everybody puts in, the more we can all get out. But it also turns out that the less we put in, the less we get out while at the same time having more in our pockets every week!  And then I realized I really am a Tea Party person at heart, because what I’m doing is no different than what Congress does, just in miniature. Give them enough tax money to fund the most important goals, and leave the rest in my wallet.

Now I want to run the “winners bowl free, but everyone else gets a really tight split on what’s left” scenario. Spreadsheets are dangerous.

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   Thursday - August 11, 2011

I need one

Link sent in by Vilmar - How to get ahead in bowling. Oh, wait, sorry, that was a head. These would be perfect for a Halloween bowling party. Or for totally freaking out your opponents. Truly sick!

Yes, it’s a bowling ball. It just looks like the head of a zombie! Artist Oliver Paass painted a set of these balls that were then placed in German bowling alleys to advertise a TV channel specializing in horror films.

In bowling, intimidation is half the game. I wonder if you can get these made to order? Sneak photos of the folks on the other teams and get them made up. Seriously frightening. If they were made on slightly under-size balls, then given a clear plastic coat to bring it up to proper diameter, like the famous Viz-A-Balls, they’d even be legal. Gross, but legal.

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   Wednesday - August 10, 2011

Good, but not Good Enough

We bowled against the X family team tonight. We beat them soundly (by 128) in the first game, and by 63 in the second, but lost the 3rd game by 38. So we took 5 out of 7.

We were 4 points over the 2nd place team going into this week, but they won 2 tonight. With tonight’s 5, that puts us 7 over them. Which is one full week’s worth of points. Problem is, the last two weeks of league are position rounds, which means the 1st place team plays the 2nd place team both weeks unless we can put a total lock on it. So we need to win 4 next week at least, which will open our lead to 8 and clinch us the win. Problem is, they’re better bowlers than we are. So what we really need to do is to not buckle under pressure. We can win this. We can. But it isn’t going to be easy.

Should we win 5 or 7 next week, that will put us out of reach even if we lose all 7 the week after. So instead we’ll bowl the last place team the last week, and the 2nd place team will bowl the 3rd place team, which happens to be the X family, who are right on their heels points-wise.

Never a dull moment.

And Winter league starts the week after Summer league ends.

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