Tuesday - February 03, 2009

We Lost By Winning

Another bowling post.

Hey look, I’m still alive. Sorry I haven’t posted over the past couple of days. I even missed out on Groundhog Day, and Rancino sent me a decent recipe for woodchuck stew.

Anyway, we got skunked last week in both leagues.

In the Monday league we were up against our least favorite team, and they beat us like a rented mule. For the first two games at any rate. They have one guy on that team who is just too damned good; he grew up in that alley and works there. So far this season, just past the halfway mark, and he’s up to 9 perfect 300 games. He usually throws about 13-15 per season. Thank goodness he didn’t throw one against us this time, merely tossing in the 270s. (for non-bowlers, a 300 is a perfect game; 12 strikes in a row. A 279 is nearly perfect at 11 strikes and a spare. But that spare takes down 9 pins on the first ball, so a 279 can be thought of as 1 pin shy of perfect). But we managed to eke out a little win in the last game, haha. That took us from our seasonal high of 5th place down to 6th.

In the Saturday league we were up against another hard core team. They won the league last year and the year before, but they’ve been dragging a bit so far this season. Not last week. They trampled us but good in all 3 games. We lost the series by something like 400 pins. Ouch. That brought them up in the standings. Meanwhile the 2nd place team took all 7 in their own match up, so now we’ve lost 1st place by 2 in that league. We aren’t that cohesive a team, and I think that hurts us. One member is always off getting some food, or stewing in his own juices over his failures. Another member sits there and does her puzzle books, or plays her GameBoy. Ok, I accept that people need to relax and unwind, and that this is a fun league. But I think they should be a bit more actively involved in the event. Be part of the team and all that. And actually try. It does irk me a bit when all they do is talk about their physical shortcomings, and it irks me more when they seem to give up after rolling a score equal to their (really low) average and acting like that’s enough. Strive a little folks. It won’t kill you.

This Monday we did the stomping. Mostly. We took the first game by well over 150 pins. Maybe 200. I was rolling really well, 9/ XXXX 9/ for the first 6, but I couldn’t keep that throw going, so I wound up with a 178. The second game we also won, by a large amount, but not quite as much as the first. I didn’t have any hot streak, but kept the little marks coming and managed a 180. Oooh, Mr. Consistent! Game 3 we lost. We were down a lot throughout the whole game, and the other team was really lit up. We closed the gap a bit by the 8th frame, but my scores were in the trash at that point, though I somehow tossed a strike in that frame. My timing was way off, I don’t know why. I was bringing the ball in so late I nearly knocked myself off my feet several times. Grrr. And when my timing is off I have trouble with my release too. Focus focus focus ... and I threw another strike in the 9th. The 10th frame wasn’t good for the rest of my team. Ok, but not “marky” enough to matter, and the other team finished on a high note with at least 6 marks in the 10th. It was over, and we couldn’t win anyhow. I’m the anchor on that team. Don’t ask me why. So after chatting for another couple minutes I just got up and threw my spaz-ball. And made all 3 strikes. So I pulled a 162 out of that game by finishing the last frames off with 5 X in a row. Which shows you just how awful the earlier frames were for me. Yeah we lost that one, but I closed the gap to about 12 pins. We wound up taking 5 points for the match, out of 7. You would think that was a pretty good take for the night, but we actually went down another place in the standings. So now we’re in 7th again, go figure. But we bowl the last place team next week, and if we don’t totally screw the pooch we should beat them handily, even after giving them 108 pins worth of handicap. That probably won’t help out our position either, since 4 out of the top 6 teams above us are playing lesser teams. But you never know.

Posted by Drew458     on 02/03/2009 at 08:53 AM   
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