1.  If you can't play anywhere from the gutter to 4th arrow, having a big arsenal won't help you

2.  If you can't hit the pocket with every ball in your bag on most conditions, balance holes aren't going to help you

3.  Taking 4 or 5 balls to league on a house shot is like taking 14 clubs to a pitch and putt

So sad when some players always have the same shot in their home house. The house I bowl in never has the same condition every night is different.So different balls are needed by me. House shot or not it is never the same. Why does any player care how many balls I bring in I can only use one at a time. How many I own is only my business. Just bowl your best when you bowl and forget the other players personal equipment. 
 

Also, I promise I'm not trying to sound like a jerk. Most cases, I only throw 2 balls anyways. But there have been times when I needed something a bit quicker than my usual transition ball and others when I needed my cliff killer for the transition because nothing hooked unless it hit right of 4 downlane, the insides were super tight resulting in most balls not carrying from too long of a skid phase, and hitting right of 4 was only possible if you could hit the one board every time while still managing the moves. Anyone that didn't have a cliff killer that day shot under 175 in game 3.

  Really? 
I'm sure you are great bowler but speaking in generalities and what you believe is fine for you but why talk down to other bowlers who do things you don't? I bowl to have a good time and hope every who bowls has a good time. I like to win pots, win games, etc. and I don't want to lose because I left a ball home that could have given me a better shape to carry the corner. I bowl with the nicest old timers (great bowlers for their ages) who break chops on me when I bring my "arsenal" all in fun and every time I answer why "because I bought them" and then offer to carry their balls too!

Never won a PBA event, never been a member

The league I bowled the past two years just ran a 15-20ft head shot on whatever was leftover from the morning's senior leagues and open play. With it being a 60 lane center, 60 teams, depending on your lane assignments you got one of the following shots:

1- Pairs that haven't been bowled on for a day. So they have twice the load in the front and the normal house shot after that so it plays extremely slick with not much help if you miss right.

2- The 16 lanes that the senior leaguers bowl on at the high end of the house that is a 15 ft flood in the heads with normally a dry track area from the older guys throwing surface, and a lot of hold inside from their wives throwing plastic up the middle. The teams that bowl on these pairs always shoot the lights out from benefit of the extra hold in the middle and extra burn between 1st-2nd arrow

3- The middle of the house pairs where the center places all of the open play bowlers throwing plastic everywhere. After they flood the heads prior to league these pairs often have a very squirrely reaction. Not to mention actually hitting the pins and watching them slide around upright due to all of the oil carrying down to the pin deck. Makes for lots of flat 7s (for righties), flat 10s (for lefties), 8-10, 7-9, & 7-10 combinations period.

4- A mix of any of the above. I've had weeks where I was literally standing 40 with an old Puma on the left lane and standing 16 with 1000-2000 grit assymetricals on the right lane to keep pocket.

The "look" you had in this league was strictly dependent on your lane assignment or if anyone touched your pair within the past 12 hours since they only strip the lanes at 7am. I never had a gripe with guys bringing 6-8 balls in this league mainly because

1- What they choose to do with their own money & equipment doesn't affect me.
and
2- If you want to be competitive in the brackets, high game, survival boards you needed to have options as lane to lane there can be drastic differences.

Not every house shot has a perfect shim in the middle and unlimited miss room right. Some can actually be hell. Last time I checked, Mike Fagan was 2nd high average in that league of 60 teams around 211 ish. Hardly your typical house shot.

Come on now, just reread #3. Just use a house ball and move your feet.

Otherwise, your taking bowling balls to a golf tournament.

We all understand your opinion. Ok we get it ! What I want to know is why you care so much how many balls some brings ? I bowl on mixed leagues men's leagues, senior leagues and travel leagues some on wood and some on synthetic lanes. And guess what I have lots of different bowling balls. And it is because I can !!

Ever since I've REDUCED my arsenal and primarly focuses mostly on all of the Dynamics of the game first, and understand how to use all of what I have to compliment my game, it's easy sailing.

Doesn't matter if I bring 1, 2, or 8, all about versatility and adjustments first, but again to each their iwn.