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.
Posted by Drew458
on 10/21/2011 at 09:22 AM
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