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baccala8872

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Are these guys in your league?
« on: April 06, 2007, 01:28:22 AM »
And you know what, I wouldn't trade them for anything........!!!!

--The old dude who has memorized the schedule about 6 weeks in advance, and tells you what lanes he is on when he is standing in front of you as you are handing out the lane assignments for the night.

--The guy who, at the end of the night, gives you the entire blow-by-blow account of every shot he threw of every frame.  The series amounts to 512 (which we re-named our team "512" 5 years ago--the guy still has no idea that it's a playful rib at him) or something in that ballpark.

--The drunk team and stoner team.  Best nights are when they play each other.  It's like a substance-abuse fest.  Nothing but empty beer bottles and bags of Cool Ranch Doritos laying around.

--The team that refuses to move.  These are the guys still using the BUD II, or on the other end of the spectrum, Angular One's, and will be damned if they move even 1/4 of a board to the left as they whiff the head pin time and time again.  Their saving grace is the crossover light mixer strike, which convinces them that they are lined in.

--The Human Rain Delay team.  We have a guy who picks up his ball, curls it to his bicep, closes his eyes to visualize his shot, hyperextends his bowling arm to hold the ball dead straight out, and only then begins his approach.  If he ever won a PBA telecast, he would take home about $45.00.  This team has the obligatory old dude that stands there pondering his 6-pin conversion, only to throw a shot that would convert the 7-pin.

--The No Business Using That team.  You know this team.  The four guys collectively averaging 660, but all using Total NV's, and absolutely abusing the head pin by bashing it in the face all night.  See also:  Refuse To Move Team (above)

--The 100-mph Team.  The team of Plastic Fireballers whizzing the ball at the head pin at Mach 3, hitting the 1-3 and not understanding why they aren't carrying, and becoming more furious by the minute.

--The Team That Announces Everything.  "Congratulations to XXXXX, with a 203 game."  

--The Scoreboard Creepers.  These guys become more prevalent as the season winds down.  They hawk the back of your pair to see how you are doing against your opponents.  They are usually rosin bag target practice for us.  Playfully, of course.

--The Team with the Kiddy.  They have so many rules and fines, that Stephen Hawking is the only other guy that could possibly understand how much you or your teammates pay on a turkey, or an open, or a beer frame, or a washout conversion, or not getting the wood on a split, or not quacking and flapping your arms on a double, etc.  Their pair usually sounds like a generous slot machine in Atlantic City.

--The Owner's Team.  Usually stacked, with the absolute biggest cake shot ever on that pair for the night.

And because of these guys is the reason why I've been in this league for 1/3 of my entire life.

 

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Re: Are these guys in your league?
« Reply #91 on: April 09, 2007, 05:11:16 PM »
lol at Reggie Rulebook.  We have one on my relaxed mixed league and he is just brutal.  Even though it is sanctioned most people there go to just drink and have fun and only a hand full of us are actually any good but he treats it like he is in the championship match at the US Open.   One time my friend was in town from the military and we wanted to come up and watch me bowl so I figured since this was such a laid back league nobody would care if he just paced.  Of course nobody on the pair had a problem with it except this guy.  Mind you both of our teams were near the bottom and this series practically meant nothing.  He's just a guy on the league that likes to tick everybody off.

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Re: Are these guys in your league?
« Reply #92 on: April 10, 2007, 08:01:24 AM »
Do you know the guy who makes the following comment after you have shown some deception after a match:" You shot close to your average, you should be happy" Now, I've been bowling for only 5 years and I am improving from year to year. Also usually at the end of the season, people will shoot higher than their cumulative average. But no, this guy thinks that god or a supreme being determines everybody's average and nobody should try to improve it. Of course, this guy has been bowling for 20+ years and he can't improve. I wonder if I'll still like bowling when I reach an average I can't improve on. Now, I have joined an elite league where nobody makes such a stupid comment because it is normal to improve. This guy will never bowl in an elite league because he's happy with mediocrity.

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Re: Are these guys in your league?
« Reply #93 on: April 10, 2007, 08:31:21 AM »
You forgot about the guy who sails the ball halfway down the lane. That one is classic!

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Re: Are these guys in your league?
« Reply #94 on: April 10, 2007, 08:54:02 AM »
"The Jenny Craig Team"- I used to bowl on a mixed league that had one team that had a little problem with the weight. It was interesting because all 4 of them came in the same minivan, and when they got out, the van raised up about 2 feet. I swear you could hear the vehicle give out a sigh of relief. Of course then they would all order diet cokes with the large curly fries for each one.


Now we have a guy on the league we have nicknamed "Man Mountain". who probably puts more revs on the ball than anyone in the league, except he can't get his arms to move past his waist!!!!!!
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Re: Are these guys in your league?
« Reply #95 on: April 10, 2007, 02:28:09 PM »
I think that the following two specimens were left out:
1- Mr. "Know it all": This mediocre bowler who does not know the square root of F***all about the bowling technique, gives advice  to low average and high average bowlers alike.
2-The "Talker": This guy just talks all the time on any subject bowling and non bowling related. But you don't really mind him, he's part of the ambient noise.

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Re: Are these guys in your league?
« Reply #96 on: April 10, 2007, 02:37:55 PM »
You forgot about the "I'm switching balls every frame" guy. He makes a bad shot and without even thinking about it, on a ten pin, picks up another strike ball and dumps it in the gutter. On the next frame he then picks up another strike ball throws it and gets a 3 count. Picks up his spare ball and throws it at the ten pin. You ask him why he's changing balls and he says it's him and not the ball......had me scratching my head. Oh this is my teammate by the way. Not only does he change balls every frame, he changes his approach every frame too. One frame he has 5 steps, next frame he takes 3. Sometimes he sprints to the foul line and other times he takes 5 EXTREMELY deliberate steps, ends on the wrong foot and throws it in the gutter. Sometimes he has the juke 'n jive steps goin on and other times he lofts it about 15 feet in the air to pick up splits. Gotta love him.
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Re: Are these guys in your league?
« Reply #97 on: April 10, 2007, 11:31:21 PM »
bluetooth guy- always talking, on approach off approach, in setee, but never to anyone in person. looks like robo cop with that ear piece.

shoot for the set of pins in the middle guy- the guy so drunk he sees 3 racks of pins

pinch the waitress team- the team in the league that gets the fastest bar service because they are flirting with the waitress the whole night(though shes probably getting very good tips)
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Re: Are these guys in your league?
« Reply #98 on: April 08, 2008, 12:51:45 PM »
Your throwing it to hard team- Team of old foggies and one or two young guys that get upset when I throw the ball to hard and the spedometer stops showing the ball speed.

Hi average bowlers in a handicap league team getting killed- this was my team this year won a total of only 21 points the whole second half
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Re: Are these guys in your league?
« Reply #99 on: April 08, 2008, 01:10:56 PM »
Most importantly you forgot the Bowling Ball Police.  The one team who will let you know when there is more than 8 balls on the rack and there is only 8 people, and the fact that there is too many balls on the rack they cant concentrate.
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Re: Are these guys in your league?
« Reply #100 on: April 08, 2008, 01:16:58 PM »
The lucky team - you know exactly the ones im talking about. Usually you run across this team when you are having possibly the worst night as far as carry. While you are over here crushing the pocket leaving 7-10s and ringing back row pins, mr.lucky is over there crossing over carrying high strikes, hitting the head pin head on and carrying those to.

Don't try to play smart and cross over and get lucky as well because it doesn't work like that, no not against these lucky guys. Nope you cross over hit the face of the head pin and your looking at a nice fat split.

Just venting...sorry. lol
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Re: Are these guys in your league?
« Reply #101 on: April 08, 2008, 01:26:29 PM »
How about the slow rollers. No disrespect.When your league is over around 8:45 pm and everyone is finish and getting ready to leave. You're just started your 3rd game.

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Re: Are these guys in your league?
« Reply #102 on: April 08, 2008, 01:28:27 PM »
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How about the slow rollers. No disrespect.When your league is over around 8:45 pm and everyone is finish and getting ready to leave. You're just started your 3rd game.

LOL yeah cause sometimes they are the team with the A-hole that thinks he needs to go to the bar every frame and hang out or something while everyone is looking in circles around the lanes trying to find the guy...man that really grinds my gears..lol
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Re: Are these guys in your league?
« Reply #103 on: April 08, 2008, 02:04:45 PM »
HA! You must bowl in my league...
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Re: Are these guys in your league?
« Reply #104 on: April 08, 2008, 02:11:22 PM »
What about the team that thinks they are the best thing that ever happened to bowling.  The ones that get upset about leaving a 4 pin and complain if you send a messenger into the 10.  I had one of those teams bowl next to me last night.

Also, this is the same team that accuses everyone of sandbagging, but fail to see it when they do it.

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Re: Are these guys in your league?
« Reply #105 on: April 08, 2008, 02:12:35 PM »
I got sidetracked with a couple of meetings, but I wanted to add these entries from my league(s) this year:

--The team that can barely make practice on time because of their jobs.  Most of the time, they don't have time to change.  So, they come dressed in scrubs, mechanic uniform, etc.  We call them "The Village People".

--The team that's bowled together for years, yet the two factions of two guys each on the team can't stand each other.

--From older WWF fame, there is a team that we call "The Oddities".  Triple striped tube socks pulled up to the knee, tucked in t-shirt with holes and fading [t-shirt circa the Reagan era],  another two little slovenly guys, and the kid who is the carbon copy of his tube socked dad.

--The Too-Talented for Their Own Good Team.  This is the team of young 20-somethings that have so much talent that it's disgusting, yet are more interested in cutting up and drinking like fish and being buffoons instead of bowling.  This is one of the more aggravating teams because they have more talent in their pinkies than I have in my entire body and just won't use it.

--The All-Cliche Team.  No matter the shot, they have a way-overused saying.  "The X looks good up there", "Better to be lucky than good", and "Line drive in the scorebook" are the highlight lines.  This team makes you physically ill.

--The Cleavers.  This team rules.  No matter if they win 25-3 or lose 27-1, they cheerfully walk their sheets over to you at the end of the night and wish you good night.  


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