Tuesday - August 04, 2009

Strike!

President Obama turns 48 years old on Tuesday, and although Press Secretary Robert Gibbs would not give details on any plans for the event, he did suggest the First Family may have had some early celebrations at Camp David last weekend.

“I know the president spent a little time with some friends over the weekend at Camp David,” said Gibbs, “playing basketball and having dinner and bowling.”

Secretary Gibbs reports Mr. Obama bowled a 144 with three strikes and a nine in the last four throws.

“I told the president, ‘Look, if you’d have done this in Pennsylvania, my life would have been a little easier last spring,’” Gibbs joked of Obama’s bowling game in the lead up to the Pennsylvania primary. Then-Senator Obama’s score last April, a whopping 37, provided teasing for a candidate trying to project the common-man image.

Bowling has been somewhat of a thorn in the side of the President since taking office as well.

Joking about his now famous bad bowl, he said it was “like watching the Special Olympics” during an appearance on “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.” The President since apologized for his remarks.

M’kay! Seems like Fearless Reader is getting the hang of the game? Um, maybe, maybe not. Going X XX9 in the last 2 frames is worth 59 points. Which means, with a 144 total, he had an 85 in the 8th. Which means ... he still sucks. 85 in the 8th implies TWO MARKS in EIGHT FRAMES. Which is random chance, not skill.

9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 = 72

9 X 9 9 9 9 9 9 = 82

/ 9 9 9 9 9 / 9 = 90

9 / 9 9 X 9 X 9 = 102 (I’m assuming 9-0 for each frame following a spare. That’s Best Case.)

And this is not being reported as his average, just what he managed to score in one game. Ok, he’s a beginner, but golly gosh a roni, don’t you think the White House could have Norm Duke, or Walter Ray Williams Jr, or even Parker Bohn III stop by for a bit of a visit and a lesson or two? Personally I’d prefer to get lessons from Carolyn Dorin Ballard, who recently threw 20 strikes in a row at a tournament, but I’m sure Michelle would pitch a fit, even if her husband Daryl Ballard came along.

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We got beat tonight, badly. Ok, we managed to win the 3rd game, but I think that the team full of sandbaggers we played threw it on purpose to keep their averages down. They’re out in front by quite a number of points, so they can afford to go soft in game 3. Mofos were chuckin 235s and 228s with 185 and 194 running averages? As if. And 2 out of 4 of them work, live, and grew up in that bowling alley? Puh-lease. I’ve bowled with little Ricky’s dad for years, and I’ve seen little Ricky throw at least 3 300 games in the past year alone. NO WAY this kid has a 196 average. Unless by a regular miracle he can go to league and bowl 238, 245, 122 all the time.

But I guess it isn’t impossible. The oil pattern tonight was whack. WTF kind of pattern can you lay down for non-PBA Experience league that gives just about no hook for anything other than a deep, super revvy throw to the 2 board, for games 1 and 2, but for game 3 it hooks like Sunday afternoon no matter where you throw the ball? I wound up standing 7 boards to the left in game 3 and the ball was still going Brooklyn and beyond. Huh? What the Eff? And that was my long ball. My short ball? I put it away. By game 3 I could not roll it to hit to the right of the 4 pin. COULD NOT.  Throwing it straight at the 10 would still break to the headpin. It was Suddenly Sunday. [ for non-bowlers, Sunday afternoon lane conditions are as “burnt” and “toasty” as they get. 8 million children have been throwing balls down the alleys all weekend, and there is no oil left anywhere. Even the carry down oil has been carried right off the lanes. It’s almost impossible to throw a ball with a controlled hook. The thing gets traction right off the foul line, and hooks insanely before even the middle of the lane. If you bowl in leagues, you don’t bother trying to practice on Sunday afternoon. It’s a waste of time. ] So these kids, power hookers, crankers all, were overhooking badly. And their only recourse was to throw more and more to the outside ... and there’s a hungry gutter out there, just waiting.

Still, we rather sucked. And I’m getting tired of rather sucking. I’d like to be in a league with a stable oil pattern, just so I could learn to bowl properly. I don’t want to have to make such an enormous adjustment every week that it feels like a whole new method of throwing the ball.

But ... my worst game was still better than Obama’s best ever. Big whup. Maybe I can coin a new bowling phrase. Something that’s even worse than the “shit house” 111 score. A really, really bad game ... would be Presidential.

Posted by Drew458     on 08/04/2009 at 10:09 PM   
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