Post by: 9andaWiggle on May 15, 2008, 04:15:31 AM
I want Sean to know that it's OK to talk smack. It's OK to get in your opponents face and tell him about the whoopin' you just handed him. It's OK to have testicles. It's OK because it's not BORING. It creates friction, drama, and excitement. It shows emotion and passion for the game. Best of all, it drives the PC crowd nuts!
Good for you Sean! Keep knocking them down and telling your opponents how it is!
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Post by: SKIDSNAP on May 15, 2008, 12:34:10 PM
WOW what a great role model he is for the youth!!!! What a great representative he is for the PBA. "Join the PBA so you can competet with bungholios like this guy." That is professionalism???
How would my employees, who he would be representing feel, when our company's spokesman goes off like someone mental patient off of his meds.
Rash showed no respect for his opponent.
Rash showed no respect for the organization that he is a member of.
The real heroes on Saturday were Jenny Brown and Liz Johnson.
Both ladies let their bowling balls do the talking for them. Compared to Jenny Brown Rash looked like an infant wanting a change of his messy diaper.
Post by: MAJM on May 15, 2008, 12:36:06 PM
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Okay so let's say I run an national cutting edge tech company. Why would I want to spend my marketing dollars on a guy who when throwing a strike for NO MONEY against the national youth champion acts like a flaming moron.
The point many people, like 9, are forgetting. They're confusing emotion and passion with acting like a complete and utter azz.
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Post by: lilmike2782 on May 15, 2008, 12:46:22 PM
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It's so nice to see an athlete that's not afraid to talk smack and let everyone know just how good he is! It's been too long since someone has stood out from the neutered PC crowd and displayed some personality! When you win you have earned the right to stand up and scream "HELL YEAH!", you don't have to fall to your knees and bawl like a little girl.
I want Sean to know that it's OK to talk smack. It's OK to get in your opponents face and tell him about the whoopin' you just handed him. It's OK to have testicles. It's OK because it's not BORING. It creates friction, drama, and excitement. It shows emotion and passion for the game. Best of all, it drives the PC crowd nuts!
Good for you Sean! Keep knocking them down and telling your opponents how it is!
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now i am quite quiet when it comes to me personally bowling, but i get amped up when the team is doing great. but i agree with 9~, get fired up, get loud, get proud. let him embarass himself if thats how you feel he did, but if you are going to bowl competitively on the same level, then get ready for the same treatment the pros give other pros.
as for lynda barnes beating rash, so what. it was great for lynda barnes, but i can bet that all you 220+ house averages would meet the same maker facing her or half of the ladies top bowlers, just as easy or worse. nothing wrong with a woman beating a guy, no matter how arrogant you think he is. wes lost to liz johnson in grand rapids, was sitting front row that day. and i stood up and cheered her and wes on both the same.
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Post by: Gene J Kanak on May 15, 2008, 01:04:43 PM
The crux of this arguement comes down to the split between two very polar views. Some people feel that it's all or nothing. If you're stomping your feet, crotch-chopping, and jumping into the front row of the stands after a four-bagger, you're having fun and getting into it. Anything less means you're boring, PC, unemotional, etc, etc, etc. Personally, I feel there's a great deal more ground to be found between those two poles, but I've gotten into this argument enough times to know that I'll never be able to convince people like 9. I guess I'll just have to go on leading my neutered, PC, sack-less existence. It will be tough, but I'm sure I'll get through.
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Post by: JessN16 on May 15, 2008, 01:31:06 PM
You don't have to apologize for anything nor do you have to soften your words. Brash behavior is not acceptable in society. It's legal, but not acceptable.
People who think it is usually have too narrow a view of the consequences. About the only way you can get away with it is if you're your own boss, which Rash is to a great extent. The PBA may be his boss on paper but he's not going to get fired for having a bad tournament.
However, if you think it's "cool" or "exciting" to exhibit this kind of behavior, try it at your job sometime. Do it enough and you won't be able to afford groceries after awhile because most reasonable people won't tolerate that kind of junk.
Class is always preferable to in-your-face behavior. And, as a more immediate concern, I've never seen anyone tote a beatdown for being classy. But I've seen people get invited to the parking lot for a lot less than Rash did. I'm not saying a physical response to a verbal outburst is justified, but I am saying it's often a reality, because I've seen it happen.
If you want to live your life being looked down upon, be brash and intolerable. Just don't complain when people have a problem with your behavior.
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Post by: Gene J Kanak on May 15, 2008, 01:41:24 PM
Your words are especially poignant when you consider that many of the guys on Tour aren't exactly intimidating phsyical specimens. I mean, yeah, you have Big Wes and a couple of other bigger guys, but there really isn't anyone out there who strikes fear into the hearts of the tiny, but that's beside the point.
I just don't like it when people equate trash talking or moronic behavior with whether or not a person cares about what they are doing. I once had a person in another thread tell me that I must never have competed in my life because I thought it was wrong for a pro bowler to act in the manner we're discussing. Again, unfortunately, some people just think that the two go hand in hand. I disagree.
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Post by: mainzer on May 15, 2008, 01:55:46 PM
On the other hand I DO NOT tear up the local youth bowlers and rub their faces in crap after I do it. That display was senseless and disrespectful. If he beat some one like Pete Weber at say the U.S. Open I wouldn't have a problem but a Youth bowler give me a break
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Post by: JessN16 on May 15, 2008, 02:14:29 PM
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Your words are especially poignant when you consider that many of the guys on Tour aren't exactly intimidating phsyical specimens. I mean, yeah, you have Big Wes and a couple of other bigger guys, but there really isn't anyone out there who strikes fear into the hearts of the tiny, but that's beside the point.
I just don't like it when people equate trash talking or moronic behavior with whether or not a person cares about what they are doing. I once had a person in another thread tell me that I must never have competed in my life because I thought it was wrong for a pro bowler to act in the manner we're discussing. Again, unfortunately, some people just think that the two go hand in hand. I disagree.
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And let me say I don't think it's bad to show emotion. Tiger Woods shows a lot of emotion but I never feel like it's artificial in any way or that he's trying to show someone up -- or even showing them up by accident.
There's always a right and a wrong way to do something. Where some people in sports have gone wrong is that at one time, people cared about how they were perceived and would work on the nuances of their personality to ensure that even if they were being intense and emotional, they weren't coming across the wrong way. Now, you don't see that as much.
It's the inexperience of youth, in most cases. Some just haven't learned how to achieve balance yet. But others don't care to, and *those* are the ones that truly have an inner problem. Time will tell whether Rash is in Group A or Group B.
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Post by: JessN16 on May 15, 2008, 02:15:18 PM
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in all actuallity sean isnt the first man to loose to a women didnt liz johnson make it to the finals on tv a couple years ago
Yep, went through Mallott, didn't she? Whoever it was fouled two or three times in the game, really weird stuff.
I think Tommy Jones beat her in the finals.
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Post by: JoshY on May 15, 2008, 02:26:52 PM
COME ON!!!
WHERE YOU AT!!!
That was some of the most fabricated emotion I have ever witnessed. It might as well have been a robot yelling cliches. Not exciting,not manly, not even real. If that is exciting to you then you need to get out more.
Post by: Joeyd on May 15, 2008, 02:43:00 PM
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YOU WANT SOME OF THIS!!!
COME ON!!!
WHERE YOU AT!!!
That was some of the most fabricated emotion I have ever witnessed. It might as well have been a robot yelling cliches. Not exciting,not manly, not even real. If that is exciting to you then you need to get out more.
a) How many times are you going to type the same quote?
b) Why are you leaving some of it out?
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Post by: BowlingWolf on May 15, 2008, 02:54:48 PM
It seems he likes to play head games. Even in the match against Lynda, at one point when he threw a strike that wasn't exactly solid, he said to Lynda as she was up on the approach, one for you and one for me, referring to a fortunate strike Lynda had also thrown in the match before him, obviously trying to rattle her a little. Didn't quite work, as she proceeded to throw more strikes.
As for losing to Lynda, it wasn't exactly as if he was lost, he made a pretty good first shot in the tenth frame, only not to carry the 10 pin had he carried it, who knows what woulda happened. In a one game match, when 2 really good bowlers face each other, anything can happen. No shame in such a loss. Kudos to Lynda for punching out.
Sean's young, and hopefully he'll adjust his attitude a little so that more people will enjoy watching his eye-pleasing game.
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Post by: Spartan on May 15, 2008, 03:14:09 PM
also, trying to rattle your opponent isn't really a bad thing, is it? he said it way before Lynda took her shot. now if he had said what he did during her approach/release, then we'd have some trouble.
Post by: BowlingWolf on May 15, 2008, 03:21:01 PM
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there is quite a thin line between getting amped up and acting like trash. tiger stays just shy of the line. rash just so happens to be a habitual line stepper. i mean, it's great to see someone have that burning desire to win. but class, class, class. i think sean will mature in the next few years, then he'll really be a force.
also, trying to rattle your opponent isn't really a bad thing, is it? he said it way before Lynda took her shot. now if he had said what he did during her approach/release, then we'd have some trouble.
Trying to rattle an opponent can have an adverse effect. That is, your opponent may get amped up, and you might end up getting flustered. Letting one's bowling do the talking is the way to go.
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Post by: trash heap on May 15, 2008, 03:35:15 PM
If they are going to talk smack then start it up before the match! Telling your opposition you are going to crush them and then do it!! That's having balls NOT....I just won or I am going to win...NOW I can act like an AZZ!!!
Post by: Djarum on May 15, 2008, 04:08:14 PM
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Okay so let's say I run an national cutting edge tech company. Why would I want to spend my marketing dollars on a guy who when throwing a strike for NO MONEY against the national youth champion acts like a flaming moron.
The point many people, like 9, are forgetting. They're confusing emotion and passion with acting like a complete and utter azz.
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Cmon. Kinda crap is this. Look at how many professional atheletes act like azzes on TV or have criminal histories and are still getting huge sponsorships. As long as the audience likes the athelete, it doesn't matter. I agree with 9~ on this, its good to see something different than a bunch of bowlers with tampons up their butt. The reason I quit watching pro bowling is because it was always too "professional".
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Post by: nutsforbowling on May 15, 2008, 04:18:12 PM
All they know is ME ME ME ME ME. Some people need to learn some respect.
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Post by: strikealot on May 15, 2008, 06:03:56 PM
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COME ON!!!
WHERE YOU AT!!!
rash is a piece of sheit..and 9 is just trying to stir the pot...
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Post by: Krakken on May 15, 2008, 06:25:07 PM
Look at Parker and WRW and learn a little bit of class.
Need excitement, but not like that. Hell TJ pumps the crowd up but doesn't act like a idiot.
Post by: MAJM on May 15, 2008, 06:28:03 PM
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Cmon. Kinda crap is this. Look at how many professional athletes act like azzes on TV or have criminal histories and are still getting huge sponsorships. As long as the audience likes the athlete, it doesn't matter. I agree with 9~ on this, its good to see something different than a bunch of bowlers with tampons up their butt. The reason I quit watching pro bowling is because it was always too "professional".
I think Sean Rash went overboard. He looked stupid. I'm not a fan of Sean Rash but this is the only time I had a problem with him doing something like this.
Don't change the subject. This isn't about the other athletes that act like an azz. This is about Rash. What he did was the equivalent to a CB tackling a WR short of the first down and jumping up and acting crazy while his team is 20 points down.
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Post by: fins4ever88 on May 15, 2008, 06:43:34 PM
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Don't change the subject. This isn't about the other athletes that act like an azz. This is about Rash. What he did was the equivalent to a CB tackling a WR short of the first down and jumping up and acting crazy while his team is 20 points down.
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Really? That's a horrible analogy. Now I didn't watch the Clash, but to my understanding Rash won and was celebrating his win (or his strike that moved him on).
If anything, it's more like a CB landing a huge hit on a WR at the end of the game when their team was 20 points up.
This reminds me of everyone making a big fuss of Joba Chamberlain striking out David Delucci and "over-celebrating". Big freaking deal. They accomplished something and celebrated it the way they know how.
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Post by: ccrider on May 15, 2008, 07:16:04 PM
And for all of you wussess that do'nt understand why there is a problem with Barnes, a woman, beating the dog pp out Rash, your man card is hereby REVOKED!
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Post by: fins4ever88 on May 15, 2008, 07:19:26 PM
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Post by: Fluff E Bunnie on May 15, 2008, 07:32:30 PM
I thought it was a great show however and I don't see what the big deal is about Rash losing to Barnes. I guess revoke my man card.
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Post by: ccrider on May 15, 2008, 09:00:43 PM
I thought it was a great show however and I don't see what the big deal is about Rash losing to Barnes. I guess revoke my man card.
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Post by: BowlingWolf on May 16, 2008, 11:06:14 AM
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I thought it was cool because they mentioned the "advantage" of the revs but then her ball looked like it was hitting plenty hard enough.
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Your "man card" is intact. Those that have a problem with seeing things as they are and have a problem admitting to the truth are the ones that never had a man card to begin with.
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Post by: MAJM on May 16, 2008, 11:14:01 AM
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Don't change the subject. This isn't about the other athletes that act like an azz. This is about Rash. What he did was the equivalent to a CB tackling a WR short of the first down and jumping up and acting crazy while his team is 20 points down.
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Really? That's a horrible analogy. Now I didn't watch the Clash, but to my understanding Rash won and was celebrating his win (or his strike that moved him on).
If anything, it's more like a CB landing a huge hit on a WR at the end of the game when their team was 20 points up.
This reminds me of everyone making a big fuss of Joba Chamberlain striking out David Delucci and "over-celebrating". Big freaking deal. They accomplished something and celebrated it the way they know how.
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Post by: Danes07 on May 16, 2008, 11:18:59 AM
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Nice to see him cuss the lane guy out when he comes off of a bad set too. Witnessed that one personally. Class act he is....NOT!!!!!
Look at Parker and WRW and learn a little bit of class.
Need excitement, but not like that. Hell TJ pumps the crowd up but doesn't act like a idiot.
What a whiny little azz. I really hope the laneman gave it right back to him. He's a professional and has no one to blame but himself if he didn't score well.
Personally I don't like Rash's attitude. I have absolutely no problem getting pumpled up when you win a match or a title. Do it in a respectful way. There are lots of other guys out there that get pumped when they win and don't make themselves look completely classless the way Rash does. Even Pete Weber, who we all know can get pretty jacked up, is also one of the classiest competitors whether he wins or loses. Anyone ever listen to the things he says to a guy he just finished bowling against? In that respect, he is a true professional in every sense of the word.
If Rash would just watch some of the guys around him like Norm Duke, Parker Bohn, Wes Malott, Mika and many others....they show emotion and get pumped up when they win but they still manage to be completely professional and respectful about it.
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Post by: baccala8872 on May 16, 2008, 11:22:06 AM
If you wouldn't act like that, congratulations, that's wonderful for you. But, I'm not going to hold raw emotion over someone's head. Whether it's Joba, Tiger, Rash, etc., it really doesn't matter. If there's reaction after an "accomplishment", then that's what it is, a reaction.
You, as the opponent [if the case should so happen], have to opportunity to react. So, go out and beat his big mouth!! If at the end you don't, then shut up, pack your bag and leave the spotlight to the better person who went out and beat you.
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Post by: ccrider on May 16, 2008, 11:32:15 AM
Well stated.
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Post by: Djarum on May 16, 2008, 12:36:39 PM
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Cmon. Kinda crap is this. Look at how many professional athletes act like azzes on TV or have criminal histories and are still getting huge sponsorships. As long as the audience likes the athlete, it doesn't matter. I agree with 9~ on this, its good to see something different than a bunch of bowlers with tampons up their butt. The reason I quit watching pro bowling is because it was always too "professional".
I think Sean Rash went overboard. He looked stupid. I'm not a fan of Sean Rash but this is the only time I had a problem with him doing something like this.
Don't change the subject. This isn't about the other athletes that act like an azz. This is about Rash. What he did was the equivalent to a CB tackling a WR short of the first down and jumping up and acting crazy while his team is 20 points down.
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I disagree. I've seen other atheletes act much, much worse on tv. Why should bowling be held to some holy standard? I've seen PDW act worse on tv.
Again, too many people with items shoved up their rearend to have a little fun.
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Post by: Gene J Kanak on May 16, 2008, 12:48:00 PM
I have plenty of fun while bowling, but I don't act like a knob-job. Tommy Jones gets pumped up on TV he slaps his hands together, pumps up the crowd, etc, but he doesn't look like a putz. When you look at it, most of the guys who make the show are somewhat demonstrative. The difference here is that there are some lines that shouldn't be crossed, and it seems obvious that Brash Rash just doesn't always know how to keep from crossing them.
If you think that's fun to watch, good for you have fun watching it. Personally, I don't need to see THAT kind of emotion in order for the telecast to be interesting, just like I don't need to see stupid endzone celebrations or poses in order to enjoy watching football.
In the end, it really doesn't matter what any of us think anyhow. It is how his peers react that makes the differene because they are the ones who he's going to hear it from.
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Post by: Danes07 on May 16, 2008, 12:55:33 PM
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I have plenty of fun while bowling, but I don't act like a knob-job. Tommy Jones gets pumped up on TV he slaps his hands together, pumps up the crowd, etc, but he doesn't look like a putz. When you look at it, most of the guys who make the show are somewhat demonstrative. The difference here is that there are some lines that shouldn't be crossed, and it seems obvious that Brash Rash just doesn't always know how to keep from crossing them.
If you think that's fun to watch, good for you have fun watching it. Personally, I don't need to see THAT kind of emotion in order for the telecast to be interesting, just like I don't need to see stupid endzone celebrations or poses in order to enjoy watching football.
In the end, it really doesn't matter what any of us think anyhow. It is how his peers react that makes the differene because they are the ones who he's going to hear it from.
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Gene, you just said exactly what I was saying above, but you said it a whole lot better! Could not agree with you more man. I enjoy seeing emotion, but emotion without making yourself look like a complete knucklehead. Tommy Jones does get pumped up and gets the crowd going, but he doesn't do it when he is beating up on his opponent. He's also polite to a fault and very courteous to those he bowls against. Very enjoyable guy to watch.
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Post by: BowlingWolf on May 16, 2008, 01:17:11 PM
I’m sure Sean has received some flaming from his competition peers through the years, and he has probably toned down his reactions some.
To say that the kid is a jerk because he’s fiery, well that’s just more inflammatory that his demonstrative ways, since those making such remarks have had the time to think about what they are saying, as opposed to Sean’s impromptu reactions, and still don’t mince words, but rather vent much disapproval.
I’m sure you’ve all also seen Sean cry on television. Should he try to suppress that emotion as well, which clearly shows that he’s a very sensitive person???
As far as I know, the kid hasn’t directly hurt any one in any way either verbally or physically, unlike some other sports superstars out there that are still being adored for their playing.
Sean displays many different emotions at the highest level on television.
This fact doesn’t make him a bad guy.
And it also doesn’t make him a contrived robot.
Give the kid a break.
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Post by: 9andaWiggle on May 16, 2008, 02:00:45 PM
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I’m sure you’ve all also seen Sean cry on television.
This disturbs me. Here I thought Sean was a man, only to find out his man card should have been revoked a long time ago! I just lost a little respect for this "guy".
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Post by: Djarum on May 16, 2008, 03:09:08 PM
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DJ,
I have plenty of fun while bowling, but I don't act like a knob-job. Tommy Jones gets pumped up on TV he slaps his hands together, pumps up the crowd, etc, but he doesn't look like a putz. When you look at it, most of the guys who make the show are somewhat demonstrative. The difference here is that there are some lines that shouldn't be crossed, and it seems obvious that Brash Rash just doesn't always know how to keep from crossing them.
If you think that's fun to watch, good for you have fun watching it. Personally, I don't need to see THAT kind of emotion in order for the telecast to be interesting, just like I don't need to see stupid endzone celebrations or poses in order to enjoy watching football.
In the end, it really doesn't matter what any of us think anyhow. It is how his peers react that makes the differene because they are the ones who he's going to hear it from.
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Gene, you just said exactly what I was saying above, but you said it a whole lot better! Could not agree with you more man. I enjoy seeing emotion, but emotion without making yourself look like a complete knucklehead. Tommy Jones does get pumped up and gets the crowd going, but he doesn't do it when he is beating up on his opponent. He's also polite to a fault and very courteous to those he bowls against. Very enjoyable guy to watch.
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Post by: D-Hammer on May 16, 2008, 03:21:21 PM
besides anybody could have lost to barnes.
these guys just need to shut up.
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Post by: ccrider on May 16, 2008, 06:14:15 PM
He never claimed to be your children's role model. What he did is no worse than Weber's crotch chop which I also found entertaining.
Quit complaining, you bunch of whining sissys.
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Post by: BrianCRX90 on May 16, 2008, 07:01:15 PM
Post by: MAJM on May 16, 2008, 07:14:32 PM
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Cmon. Kinda crap is this. Look at how many professional athletes act like azzes on TV or have criminal histories and are still getting huge sponsorships. As long as the audience likes the athlete, it doesn't matter. I agree with 9~ on this, its good to see something different than a bunch of bowlers with tampons up their butt. The reason I quit watching pro bowling is because it was always too "professional".
I think Sean Rash went overboard. He looked stupid. I'm not a fan of Sean Rash but this is the only time I had a problem with him doing something like this.
Don't change the subject. This isn't about the other athletes that act like an azz. This is about Rash. What he did was the equivalent to a CB tackling a WR short of the first down and jumping up and acting crazy while his team is 20 points down.
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I disagree. I've seen other athletes act much, much worse on tv. Why should bowling be held to some holy standard? I've seen PDW act worse on tv.
Again, too many people with items shoved up their rearend to have a little fun.
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I agree about PDW. I have said about Rash that I didn't have a problem with what he did at first, but then he crossed a line where emotion and having fun turned into him acting like an azz. There was a point where it went from "real emotion" to "contrived emotion". Again, I didn't have a problem with him at first but he crossed a line to where he looked stupid. Have all the emotion you want but couple that with the "act like you've been there before" mentality.
Rash has stated he wants to be the "Tiger Woods" of bowling. Tiger displays that type of emotion winning a tournament not make a 35 ft putt on hole #5 of the first round. If Rash acted like that after winning the gimmick show, I don't have a problem. Because he won something.
(On a side not I should be able to type azz with 2 s)
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Post by: MAJM on May 16, 2008, 07:16:42 PM
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I’m sure you’ve all also seen Sean cry on television.
This disturbs me. Here I thought Sean was a man, only to find out his man card should have been revoked a long time ago! I just lost a little respect for this "guy".
Only Women and Children Cry over games.
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