Tuesday - August 11, 2009
Movin’ On Up, finally
We took all 7 points again tonight in bowling league. We won all 7 last week too, and 5 out of 7 the week before that I think. So my team is slowly floating up from nearly last place into the top ranks.
Tonight we gave the other team 20 in handicap, and one of their guys didn’t show. So 10 off his average for the absentee score. Then we bowled pretty well in games 1 and 2, winning by 60 or more each time. Then, to our amazement, 2 of the 3 people on the other team suddenly had a “family emergency” and they were gone. Huh? Whatever. So that left them just one active bowler, and 2 is the minimum legal lineup in this league. Or “one bowler and a vacancy; a vacancy will count as a valid bowler” - but let’s not go into that nonsense again. We checked with the alley staff, they checked the bylaws, and it was a forfeit. So I explained it properly to everyone: “Your team does not have a legal lineup for this game, so a forfeit situation exists. That means your team has given up the opportunity to win both the game and total wood. Our team still has the opportunity, but to do so we have to bowl at least as well as our team average minus 10 pins per bowler.” And we did. The guy on the other team stayed, and bowled his game anyway. It will count towards his running average, but that’s it.
This was the last week of scheduled bowling. Now we enter into the last 2 weeks, which are position rounds. Which seems a bit silly, given that their are only 8 teams on the league, but that’s how the rules are written. So winning all 7 tonight will move us up, perhaps as high as 3rd place. Which means we’ll play the 4th place team, and depending on how everyone bowls next week, may get us a shot at first place.
It would be nice to win a league, even a dinky one. But it doesn’t matter. Even the prize money is tiny; I think the purse for first is $72 per person or something silly like that. It’s just for fun.
I think I’ll put my balls out in the car tomorrow, to toast up in the sun and burn the oil out of them.
I think winter league starts the last Monday of this month. Yikes, where has the summer gone?
Posted by Drew458
on 08/11/2009 at 08:36 PM
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