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.

Posted by Drew458     on 12/14/2011 at 03:30 PM   
Filed Under: • Bowling Blogging •  
• Comments (0) • Trackbacks(0)  Permalink •  

DISCLAIMER

THE SERVICES AND MATERIALS ON THIS WEBSITE ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" AND THE HOSTS OF THIS SITE EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS ANY AND ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO WARRANTIES OF SATISFACTORY QUALITY, MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, WITH RESPECT TO THE SERVICE OR ANY MATERIALS.

Not that very many people ever read this far down, but this blog was the creation of Allan Kelly and his friend Vilmar. Vilmar moved on to his own blog some time ago, and Allan ran this place alone until his sudden and unexpected death partway through 2006. We all miss him. A lot. Even though he is gone this site will always still be more than a little bit his. We who are left to carry on the BMEWS tradition owe him a great debt of gratitude, and we hope to be able to pay that back by following his last advice to us all:

1. Keep a firm grasp of Right and Wrong
2. Stay involved with government on every level and don't let those bastards get away with a thing
3. Use every legal means to defend yourself in the event of real internal trouble, and, most importantly:
4. Keep talking to each other, whether here or elsewhere

It's been a long strange trip without you Skipper, but thanks for pointing us in the right direction and giving us a swift kick in the behind to get us going. Keep lookin' down on us, will ya? Thanks.

THE INFORMATION AND OTHER CONTENTS OF THIS WEBSITE ARE DESIGNED TO COMPLY WITH THE LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. THIS WEBSITE SHALL BE GOVERNED BY AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND ALL PARTIES IRREVOCABLY SUBMIT TO THE JURISDICTION OF THE AMERICAN COURTS. IF ANYTHING ON THIS WEBSITE IS CONSTRUED AS BEING CONTRARY TO THE LAWS APPLICABLE IN ANY OTHER COUNTRY, THEN THIS WEBSITE IS NOT INTENDED TO BE ACCESSED BY PERSONS FROM THAT COUNTRY AND ANY PERSONS WHO ARE SUBJECT TO SUCH LAWS SHALL NOT BE ENTITLED TO USE OUR SERVICES UNLESS THEY CAN SATISFY US THAT SUCH USE WOULD BE LAWFUL.

Copyright © 2004-2008 Domain Owner