A couple of notes if I may -
- I know noodlejester; he was NOT complaining, just bringing up a topic of conversation.
- it is the "States", where everyone is allowed to bowl; there are no PBA or professional exceptions. (It's the local equivalnet of Nationals: team, sgls, dbls.)
- it is mainly a handicap event; the scratch portion and its awards are smaller than the handicap awards, in general.
- Parker could have gotten in 40 brackets, instead of just 10. But that would not be Parker.
- The event is being held at Howell Lanes; it is Parker's home house. He probably does it more as a favor to Neil, the owner.
- I watched him sub for Johnny Petraglia 2 weeks ago just after the (very painful) US OPen, which was held just up the road a piece. Parker shot around 660 that night, just trying to relax a bit. I was watching and said hello, mentioning how much less stressed he appeared bowling on the house shot compared to the Ulcer-causing Open shot pattern. He laughed a lot over that.
- Many of the good scratch bowler in the area often have their own side bets as to high series and high all events in the many tournaments like this around the state. Their averages are so high, they rarely stand a chance against the handicap bowlers. Most times, anyway.
- even our own (ballreviews) Krumpy300 shot a 206x in all events, and it was his first time bowling at Howell.
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