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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 #106 on: April 08, 2008, 02:15:20 PM »
we also have the "Forty Bracket Guys"----Guys who get in umpteen brackets and go around asking all 40 of their opponents each frame how they're shooting.
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Re: Are these guys in your league?
« Reply #107 on: April 08, 2008, 08:44:49 PM »
"Walk Around the Center Telling Everyone He Would Never Come Back to Bowling Because the Shot is Too Easy"

Hell yeah. I met him last week. High rev player who can hook 1/2 the lane spraying pins while loudly telling the world lanes are too easy and they should return to old style with lacquer and urethane balls. And I am sitting there alternately wanting to barf my dinner and feeling oddly envious as the only time I spray anything is when someone tells a dirty joke while I am drinking my Jack and Diet Coke....

Oh, and don't forget the leave towel, rosin bag, wrist support, etc on the ball return guy. I like to use the air dryer on ball return (when it is working) and I have to dig for gold just to find it when I am bowling him. I swear I am going to glue a cup holder onto ball return one day to accomodate him.

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Re: Are these guys in your league?
« Reply #108 on: April 08, 2008, 08:54:07 PM »
And what about the guys who do not understand what entry angle is and have a fit when they hit the pocket but leave a flat ten or an 8 - 10 and you attempt to explain how the pins fall. You suggest they watch the slow motion videos on the Internet and they just look at you.

Then they bury one and leave a stone 8 and do not understand where the ball went.
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Re: Are these guys in your league?
« Reply #109 on: April 08, 2008, 09:27:20 PM »
how about the team of young punks who think they know everything about bowling but can't prove it by how they bowl: like shhoting the 7 pin by standing in the left gutter and sending the ball all the way to the one board and hoping it gets back to get the 7 pin. they all carry bags full of the latest equipment but each piece is the same( several companies biggest hooking equipment, all drilled max, all highly polished ).

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Re: Are these guys in your league?
« Reply #110 on: April 08, 2008, 09:34:05 PM »
sounds like some of the teams in my league

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Re: Are these guys in your league?
« Reply #111 on: April 14, 2008, 01:55:44 AM »
Don't know I'd trade several of those teams, shot by shot guys get on my last nerve along with the how could that not strike crappy pocket hit guys.

The It can't possibly be me team - all of them bring 6 balls each week, shooting on the same lanes as the team beating them. Yet it's always wrong equipment or crappy lanes or a mixture of both with "I brought the wrong equpment for these lanes".


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Re: Are these guys in your league?
« Reply #112 on: April 14, 2008, 03:23:32 AM »
Seen them all, dont see at as much in my singles leauge now. Although there is the guy who swears hes getting hosed when he leaves flat 10's or 4 pins or smacks the nose or leaves 2-10's. He swears all those shots should have gone flush. Theres a few 'between 10 and 15 guys' there too!!! There is life left of the 3rd arrow guys!!
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Re: Are these guys in your league?
« Reply #113 on: April 14, 2008, 04:37:17 AM »
How about the classic guy who can't stand how there is no shot after break down. He moves and moves and nothing yet. He can't see what we all see. He moves to 24 but he walks back to his normal spot and plays his normal line. Sometimes this is a righty but it is normally the typical lefty. AkA the guy who would get a noise bleed if he really went right or left of 15 with his laydown.
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Re: Are these guys in your league?
« Reply #114 on: April 14, 2008, 05:39:41 AM »
we have some hybrids...

take two... merge them together... and you have it..

but you forget one team:

- The "we go to smoke break in frame 5 and don't tell anyone" team
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Re: Are these guys in your league?
« Reply #115 on: April 14, 2008, 08:06:41 AM »
LOL, this is a great thread!!
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Re: Are these guys in your league?
« Reply #116 on: April 14, 2008, 08:15:39 AM »
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Mr. I'm Out of a Slump Guy:

I bowl with one guy who says the same routine over and over again before league about how he is bowling his 220's again....only to shoot a 470 in league.


Sadly, I'm that guy right now. Killingit in practice and league, eh... not so much.
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Re: Are these guys in your league?
« Reply #117 on: April 14, 2008, 08:31:42 AM »
Had them all in one league i bowled in.
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Re: Are these guys in your league?
« Reply #118 on: April 14, 2008, 08:43:22 AM »
The guy who is either mad at the lanes for not carrying or mad at himself for a poor shot & sometimes you can't tell which any more.  Then he does get good carry or throw good ball but is still mad.  Then instead of just putting the ball in his bag at the end, he has to bounce it on the floor.  Not once but twice & the guy averages 150s-160s.
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Re: Are these guys in your league?
« Reply #119 on: April 14, 2008, 11:42:17 AM »
The team I HATE to bowl:
We're Only Here for the Beer team - they are so busy consuming multiple pitchers of beer that they:
a. are never up on time.
b. don't notice when they dribble beer on the floor
c. don't understand when you get irritated because they're falling all over themselves
d. are so drunk that they have no idea how loud they are - and they're disturbing bowlers for 3 pair on either side.
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Re: Are these guys in your league?
« Reply #120 on: April 14, 2008, 11:44:49 AM »
Oh yeah - the slowest team in the league because:

"I'm only bowling this league because the PBA kicked me out for constant shot clock violations"
This person in my league takes 45-50 seconds from the time they step on the approach. This to average 204 with usually no more than 4 spares a night. Lefty. Can strike all night - but can't spare...

This team also has the "I guess I should really do something about that" bowler, who's husband stands behind her every shot - she'll drop the ball behind her an average of 4 times a night.
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