Post by: Ace on August 19, 2007, 10:09:38 AM
I bowled at Rinaldi's today with some friends; and let me say, alot of interesting things happened (mainly involving me) today.
Here goes nothing:
These ones happened on a pair with 5 other bowlers I bowled with. There were alot of Brooklyns, washouts, and nasty splits on this pair (reverse block).
* One of the 5 other bowlers I bowled with on this pair left a stone 5-pin... TWICE in the same game. The strange thing is that his ball hit the pocket dead on both times. That is the strangest thing I've ever seen. How the heck do you leave a pocket stone 5?
* I left the 1-3-4-6-7 twice, and picked up one of them. The other one got chopped...
* I picked up a 1-10 split.
* I got a strike without hitting the pocket. lol. The ball went head on into the 4-pin, and the domino effect took out the rest.
* I knocked off the 4-6-8-9 off a full rack. I picked up the spare though.
* I won a dollar off a small bet.
I left a 6-count split (3-7-9-10), and one of the bowlers said that she would give me a dollar if I could hit three of the four pins left. Being a lefty, I obviously went for and picked the 3-9-10. 
The following ones happened on a different pair. I bowled these ones by myself, after the others left.
* I picked up the 2-6-7-10 split.
* I left a Greek church AND a 4-count split in the same game. High hits. =/
I've had other interesting days on the lanes, such as:
* One game about 5 months ago: Left a pocket 7-10, both pins ringing. How insulting.
* One game about 3 months ago: Leaving pocket 6-7's three consecutive times in the same game.
* One game about 2 months ago: One game in which every open frame I had was a split (five splits, everything else was strikes).
...but today takes the cake. Has anybody else had days like this?
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Edited on 8/20/2007 8:52 AM
Post by: someguyintucson on August 19, 2007, 11:40:51 PM
Post by: J_Mac on August 19, 2007, 11:47:40 PM
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Post by: c-hop on August 20, 2007, 02:18:01 AM
me leaving back to back pocket 7-9 splits coming in so high flush lol
seeing my friend leave a pocket 5-7-10
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Post by: cgilyeat on August 20, 2007, 10:32:40 AM
quote:Gotta question that one also. I've taken the 6-9 (I'm right handed) out of a full rack a number of times, but I've never had either pin bounce out of the pit and take other pins out. Since you are a lefty, I'm guessing that you took the 4-8 out with the ball, how did the 6-9 fall?quote:
* I knocked off the 4-6-8-9 off a full rack. I picked up the spare though.
I call BS on that one.
Post by: johns811 on August 20, 2007, 10:46:48 AM
Post by: Ace on August 20, 2007, 11:34:45 AM
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I'll guess a pin bounced off the back and tapped the 9 pin forward and fell into the 6 pin. Not to unbelievable.
Hit it on the head.
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Post by: scotts33 on August 20, 2007, 11:48:00 AM
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Scott
Post by: scotts33 on August 20, 2007, 11:52:25 AM
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Huh? If you take 2 pins out of a full rack on the last ball, it is a 292. What are you talkin about?
Sorry, 292........I've been drinking too much at work. You caught me.
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Scott
Post by: scotts33 on August 20, 2007, 11:59:11 AM
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Post by: Hook on August 20, 2007, 12:00:44 PM
Post by: scotts33 on August 20, 2007, 12:02:00 PM
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Post by: Ace on August 20, 2007, 12:56:51 PM
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Sorry...still call BS on it. And yesterday he said he picked up the 7-9-10 out of the 3-7-9-10 and changed it today to 3-9-10. This guy is just too unbelievable with his amazing feats of picking up these hard azz spares and can't carry a decent strike or shot on his first ball?
It was a typo. I didn't notice it until today. Stop trolling my thread, thank you very much.
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Post by: Oskuposer on August 20, 2007, 01:04:23 PM
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Post by: splendorlex on August 20, 2007, 02:49:58 PM
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Mr. Lebowski, this is Bill Salnicker with the Southern Cal Bowling League, and I just got a, an informal report, that a member of your team, uh, Walter Sobchak, drew a firearm during league play. If this is true of course, it contravenes a number of the league's by-laws, and article 27 of the league...
Post by: Ace on August 20, 2007, 02:59:08 PM
splendorlex: Unfortunately, Rinaldi's lanes don't get oiled after cosmic bowling. I think they oil their lanes only for leagues... I may be wrong though. However, their lanes are synthetic, so the remaining shot doesn't break down very fast.
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Post by: Aristotle on August 20, 2007, 03:10:35 PM
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I'm surprised no one called BS on the two STONE 5-pins. A perfect pocket shot, but the ball passes the 5-pin on the right side?!? Riiiiight. My guess is that the shots were anything but flush in the pocket, and therefore not stone 5-pins. They were probably light in the pocket with little or no entry angle.
No drive, no 5.
Actually, I remember back in the olden days of plastic/urethane, you would see this on occasion.. Nothing too usual, just no drive on the back part of the lane. If the conditions were as jacked up as described, I could see rolled out equipment causing something like this to happen.
Post by: splendorlex on August 20, 2007, 03:27:08 PM
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MrTrollMeister: Wanna bet?
splendorlex: Unfortunately, Rinaldi's lanes don't get oiled after cosmic bowling. I think they oil their lanes only for leagues... I may be wrong though. However, their lanes are synthetic, so the remaining shot doesn't break down very fast.
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Ace--
That doesn't make it a reverse block, it just makes it a mess.
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Mr. Lebowski, this is Bill Salnicker with the Southern Cal Bowling League, and I just got a, an informal report, that a member of your team, uh, Walter Sobchak, drew a firearm during league play. If this is true of course, it contravenes a number of the league's by-laws, and article 27 of the league...
Post by: lsf_21 on August 20, 2007, 04:41:58 PM
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Post by: Ace on August 20, 2007, 04:51:23 PM
quote:quote:
MrTrollMeister: Wanna bet?
splendorlex: Unfortunately, Rinaldi's lanes don't get oiled after cosmic bowling. I think they oil their lanes only for leagues... I may be wrong though. However, their lanes are synthetic, so the remaining shot doesn't break down very fast.
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Give me oil or give me death!
Ace--
That doesn't make it a reverse block, it just makes it a mess.
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Mr. Lebowski, this is Bill Salnicker with the Southern Cal Bowling League, and I just got a, an informal report, that a member of your team, uh, Walter Sobchak, drew a firearm during league play. If this is true of course, it contravenes a number of the league's by-laws, and article 27 of the league...
Well, the lanes sure played like one, heh.
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Post by: Nails on August 20, 2007, 06:31:21 PM
Just because you hit some carry down and/or some oil got pushed out to the Sahara Desert know as "outside of 10 on a THS", doesn't make it a reverse block.
Everyone has some strange leaves over time, but I thought it was odd that he had some many over a short period of time as well. It isn't really worth arguing over, so I'm out.
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Telling it like it is.