BallReviews
General Category => Miscellaneous => Topic started by: DP3 on June 11, 2013, 03:39:02 AM
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Looking at a brand new ball drilled "stack leverage"
..your turn.....GO!!!
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-"I want a ball with good backend"
-People who tell me about buying a ball for core numbers and have no clue what they mean.
-People who have 2 iphones, an ipad, an ipod, drive huge SUV's, spend huge amounts of money in pots, but "Vulture" my bag for any balls Im not throwing.
-"Drill it to hook at my feet!".... 5 mins later, " The Ball doesnt hook"
-Assumptions that because the ball doesnt cover 39 boards, it doesnt hook and the ball is garbage.
-PBA card holders with 200 avgs.
-"I want MAX HOOK with no weight hole"
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HAHA you guys and your words, I guess mine is: "I didn't strike" (curse the bowling gods, the bowling center, the bowling pins, the bowling ball, and everyone around)
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People who are not ready to bowl when it's their turn.
Or, people who are ready to bowl, in their stance, and their lane hasn't finished cycling yet when my lane (next to them) has cycled and I can't bowl because they're already on the approach in their stance. >:(
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" This pattern/house/place in general is some sh*t!"
Meanwhile, one pair over,several bowlers are stringing strikes like there's no tomorrow!
I heard this whining, just this past weekend! LOL!
People with a two-stage approach and delivery! You never really know when they have actually finished their walk to the foul line. :-\
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- Guys who need four lane courtesy
- Throwing two consecutive balls during practice instead of just throwing one shot and keeping the line flowing
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People who are bowling crappy and yell, 'ONE BAGGER!', when they get a strike. Yes, you're bowling bad, I don't care.
People who claim to have given up, but then bowl a good game. They self handicap themselves, so that if they bowl bad, they have an excuse. If they bowl good, they somehow overcame adversity.
When I grab a different ball and someone sarcastically says, 'oh, that must be the problem'.
This one guy always used to ask me how heavy that ball was. He insisted on throwing 16 (I throw 15), but he almost fell over at the line every time.
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I'm only 25 and look sort of young, so getting eyeballed for just about everything probably gets me the most. ::)
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People who continually give me 2 lane courtesy "because I average 220+ and am one of the 'better' bowlers in the league" (seriously was told that once). What a stupid reason. Technically it has even been voted on as a 1 lane courtesy league to speed up play (as it is notoriously slow).....sure enough.....once everyone left that captains meeting, the same people kept doing it. Amazing.
I must reiterate, I DO. NOT. NEED. IT. !
If it is a regional and is by rule....ok. A tourney w/some decent money on the line? MAYBE.......but it is freaking Wednesday night league.....
JUST STOP DOING IT!
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"Is this ball drilled for a lefty?"
"I want all of my balls drilled to hook as much as possible."
"Why do you want to take the forward out of my fingers?"
"The ball should look like this. *Shows me the drill sheet*"
"Can you make my ball hook like his?"
"I like to grab it and hit it as hard as I can."
"Drill me something for when everything else is hooking too much. *Goes and throws it on the fresh* This ball is garbage. It doesn't hook as much as my other stuff!"
"I need you to put more side weight into the ball. I can feel the side weight when it's on my hand, and I need as much as possible."
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" This pattern/house/place in general is some sh*t!"
Meanwhile, one pair over,several bowlers are stringing strikes like there's no tomorrow!
The two are not necessarily incompatible...through my years, I bowled in some dumps (some because it was where I lived and some because that was the site of a weekend tourney). The fact that one could string strikes blindfolded while hopping on one foot, backwards would not have changed the fact that the house was a dump and that their maintenance procedures were for s*it...
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" This pattern/house/place in general is some sh*t!"
Meanwhile, one pair over,several bowlers are stringing strikes like there's no tomorrow!
The two are not necessarily incompatible...through my years, I bowled in some dumps (some because it was where I lived and some because that was the site of a weekend tourney). The fact that one could string strikes blindfolded while hopping on one foot, backwards would not have changed the fact that the house was a dump and that their maintenance procedures were for s*it...
I'll redouble that in SPADE!!!
My house shot league on Tuesdays is a major lottery, as to what amount AND pattern, if any, you will see as you go from pair to pair. I need to bring a wide variety of balls from a Tropical Breeze to a polished Theory. The house mechanics don't know how to maintain their new Kegel machine and adjacent pairs vary insanely, with people throwing 300s on one pair and on the next, the lanes act like they oiled every other board, with a few 200+ avg. bowlers barley breaking 500.
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When people walk in for league and its raining outside and they walk down to the approach to put there ball on the return while still wearing there wet shoes. And then when I give them the what the hell are you doing look, they give the out most dumbfounded look like WHAT?
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giving someone "5" after every frame is stupid. Then there is always the guy that gives "5" to someone on the pair next to them. Or the guy that throws a strike and comes back and stands at your table with his hand out waiting for you to acknowledge him and give him "5" even though you are not paying attention to what he did nor do you really care.
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Gee, with threads like this, no wonder there aren't any new bowlers.
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@Michelle & Charlest: Wow! Your experiences, without a doubt are duly noted, however, the house we were bowling in had just upgraded all their resources. I don't know if they had brand new pins, but I do know they had new, clean approaches; new synthetic lanes; new monitors and controls, and improved air conditioning! The pattern was different then from previous years as well.
I based my original opinion on the fact that, that when I went to my "C" game, I suddenly began striking at will.
That to me says......inability to adjust, or just plain refusal to adjust.
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@Michelle & Charlest: Wow! Your experiences, without a doubt are duly noted, however, the house we were bowling in had just upgraded all their resources. I don't know if they had brand new pins, but I do know they had new, clean approaches; new synthetic lanes; new monitors and controls, and improved air conditioning! The pattern was different then from previous years as well.
I based my original opinion on the fact that, that when I went to my "C" game, I suddenly began striking at will.
That to me says......inability to adjust, or just plain refusal to adjust.
Oh, I surely understood where you were coming from.
Unfortunately, here in NJ, the condition I described is not only a "disease" at my current home house, it seems to be endemic to many other NJ centers. In the 90% case, I would agree with you: on any relatively new lane surface and with a well maintained oil machine with good computer-run programs, every pair should be able to be played, at the start anyway, virtually identically by any decent bowler. I wish this were the case in 100% of the situations.
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When I make a ball change and hear "Geez, how many balls do you have?"
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-Anyone who bowls with a hat on.
-Anyone who bowls with a towel hanging from their backpocket.
-Anyone who smokes and holds his pair hostage while everyone waits for him. (Ive started leaving the league session due to peoples total disregard of other peoples time)
-Anyone who reracks during shadow balls\warmups\practice.
-Anyone who "runs out" or "slaps out" shots in practice.
-Anyone who brings 6 balls to a 3 game league session
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-Anyone who smokes and holds his pair hostage while everyone waits for him. (Ive started leaving the league session due to peoples total disregard of other peoples time)
+1,000,000
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-Anyone who smokes and holds his pair hostage while everyone waits for him. (Ive started leaving the league session due to peoples total disregard of other peoples time)
+1,000,000
I don't get why people do this. I'm a smoker but i'm always there before it's my turn. Hell I even walked down stairs at nationals during the team event and was back way before my turn. A little courtesy would be nice from the i'll take my time smokers.
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-Anyone who smokes and holds his pair hostage while everyone waits for him. (Ive started leaving the league session due to peoples total disregard of other peoples time)
+1,000,000
I don't get why people do this. I'm a smoker but i'm always there before it's my turn. Hell I even walked down stairs at nationals during the team event and was back way before my turn. A little courtesy would be nice from the i'll take my time smokers.
Because they (the j/o and selfish-type smokers) simply do not care what others think. NOTHING is more important than that cigarette that they are slave to....
It is unfortunate.
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I based my original opinion on the fact that, that when I went to my "C" game, I suddenly began striking at will.
That to me says......inability to adjust, or just plain refusal to adjust.
That to me says...additional facts entered into evidence after the opening statements ;)
And certainly it alters some of the opinion previously proffered...and yes, there are people who think an adjustment is nothing more than a ball change and listening to them can get quite frustrating.
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The teams that have to keep the lineup even with the other team no matter what. Meaning 2nd bowler will not bowl unless 2nd bowler is up on the other team and so on. I understand doing this in the tenth, but the whole game...will be there all night!
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bowlers with a 4 ball roller and a 160 avg in a THS league, and need to have all their balls on the ball return... just in case.
people taking forever to leave the approach after their shot.
the overly friendly team that have to high 5 EVERYTHING and make friendly jokes about EVERYTHING.
bowlers doing their best Goku charging a spirit bomb impression in their stance (I'm talking 20-30 seconds. stationary on the approach)
But most of all, my lack of mental strength and ability to block out aforementioned trivial annoyances. :(
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More than two follow through swings.
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People who want you to help them with something but don't want to change anything they're doing. They want a certain thing to work whether it should or not, and it's your job all the sudden to make something impossible happen. "Well I bought this Raptor Talon because it's supposed to hook, so make it work on this 35 ft dry house shot I bought it for. I paid you $250 for this thing so it better do what it's supposed to do." Or "I'm having trouble releasing the ball, so could you add more reverse? What? Stop gripping it? Well I want to grip it, just add more reverse. What? 5/8ths reverse and 1/4 left is already a lot for a 4 1/2 inch span? Well, I'm paying you for it, so just go ahead and do it." And when it doesn't work out? Yeah, that's right . .
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During open play I get this question a bunch. It usually comes from a guy much younger and bigger than me too. "Do you have any 10 or 12 pound balls with bigger holes in them?"
I respond with "no those are drilled for women. The ones that might fit your hand have a 15 on them..."
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People who are not ready to bowl when it's their turn.
Or, people who are ready to bowl, in their stance, and their lane hasn't finished cycling yet when my lane (next to them) has cycled and I can't bowl because they're already on the approach in their stance. >:(
I agree with both of these.
I was at a tournament recently and a guy got up on the approach as the pinsetter just began to cycle while my lane was ready and waiting. To top it off he's SLOW. Once his lane finished cycling he then got in his position, then waits, waits, waits, waits, then finally starts his painstakingly slow approach. THEN posts his shot (which is good technique, just more waiting for me), and his ball goes through the nose leaving a split and he stands there with his hands on his head talking to himself trying to figure out what went wrong...
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Slow bowlers. We have a guy in our sport league who takes generally at least 90 seconds from the time he gets up on the approach to the actual release. He is constantly fussing with his hand and looking up and down several times at his target. Whenever we bowl his team, you can count on a 3+ hour league session. That is with 4 person teams ::)
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People who ask if I can coach them and when you tell them to "do this or do that" and they say they cannot do it.
People who walk up on you just when you're ready to go.
At the start of the first game of league, the first bowler on the opposing team is walking around to play pots and making everyone wait. Sometimes my whole team goes and the first guy on the other team didn't even go yet.
Long smoke break in between games.
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Guess I got to add beside simple ass 1 lane courtesy is the stupid league bowler next to you that tries to "double dips" on you next to you when he or she leaves a spare and picks up another ball thinking he or she is entitled to shoot when it's your obvious turn to bowl is a big pet peeve of mine. Now I've learned to adjust by much deserved cock blocking and taking extra time on the approach just to piss them off.
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I hate the people who think every pocket hit should carry, or that any hit on brooklyn is supposed to be a guaranteed strike.
I also strongly dislike the people that need a two pair courtesy for a league, or small scale tournament. If you can't handle a person moving near you, don't bowl. I practice around kids for that reason.
Second being said, I HATE the fun bowler that brings their kids in, and then lets them run wild.
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Being the last team done.
Not bowling because of a split next to their lane. Seriously if that were the case id only bowl if both lanes struck.
Any person over 16 that thinks bowling is cool.
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Not bowling because of a split next to their lane
Haha, I remember when I was still bowling, most of my Wednesday night league would do that. It was hilarious, and I'd do it too if i was on a run.
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when someone is bowling bad and they blame the lanes!! if your a good bowler you should be able to MAKE THE ADJUSTMENT.
bringing 6,7,8 or more bowling balls to a house shot league!especially when your not even good
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-That bowler that hits every chair, table, ball return, etc.. when HE misses. No matter how good you are, you probably will have a miss once or twice, learn from it and move on, don't make it completely uncomfortable for anyone within three lanes to bowl.
- After hitting the light side of the pocket three shots in a row by design cause whatever you do dead center you leave something, the rack doesn't "explode" but certainly is a strike. Then people keep saying "Man you carry a ton of crap". Dude....did you see me getting hosed with 10's, 9's, 8's, and 4's...? I'm hitting where it carries, they are good shots.
- Teammates that can't adjust themselves off 10(7's for lefties) that after not paying attention to what you've been doing in any way, asking you snidely if they need to adjust you after a start of flat 10, ringing 10, stone 7, obviously trying every minute adjustment possible to start striking.
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Got to agree with your first point. I think everyone of us have hit something in aggravation. But people that hit the ball return or kick it is overly distracting/