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charlest

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Rash vs Belmonte
« on: March 31, 2013, 09:40:18 PM »
I do not know why this happened, but ever since the bottle incidents, I had this bad feeling about Belmonte. I didn't like him; I thought what he did was bad. I thought he did it intentionally no matter what he said to the contrary.

Lately, I'm not sure why but the more I see him, the less I feel positive about Rash.

It reached a culmination today when I watched the TOC. I don't know why but today Rash seemed the ultimate sack of sh*t and Belmonte seemed more like a human being with feelings who was trying to  .. do the right thing?

Probably just an emotion, with no real truth to the matter.
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charlest

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Re: Rash vs Belmonte
« Reply #16 on: April 01, 2013, 08:31:54 AM »
Quote from: dmonroe814 on April 01, 2013, 06:24:43 AM
Quote from: Strider on April 01, 2013, 06:07:11 AM
Belmo did say a few weeks ago that he bowls much better when he's relaxed and having fun.  Maybe his "smirk" was just a way to reinforce positive thoughts or keep him relaxed?
  I agree with Strider, and Belmo stated in his post game interview, that he was just trying to have fun and to relieve the stress by thinking of hiw wife and daughter.  This way he was able to keep the negative demons out of his mind while he was bowling.  While there is no love lost between Belmo and Rash, I think they both showed a great deal of professionalism, especially the polite handshake at the end of the match.  On a side note, I was very proud of Weber this match.  His only ire was directed at the pins and he showed great sportsmanship when Belmo picked up the 4-10 split.  He was humble and grateful in his post game interview.  He did it all right this time.

Good points made. I agree with you.
I almost wish Belmonte had a better ball reaction from that Wrecker, to have enabled him to make a better match of the game. I think Weber would have still won. His ball reaction was as perfect as I've ever seen.
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Re: Rash vs Belmonte
« Reply #17 on: April 01, 2013, 09:13:49 AM »
Maybe he was smirking because he knew that he was in Rash's dome. Maybe he knows that Rash is a head case, and he's got the upper hand because Belmo doesn't exhibit any outward aggression towards Rash. I used to find the guys that it was easy to get in their head, and mess with them. It makes it fun, and actually relaxes you. Jerk move, but whatever.
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Re: Rash vs Belmonte
« Reply #18 on: April 01, 2013, 09:24:50 AM »
Quote from: TWOHAND834 on April 01, 2013, 08:29:14 AM
I am not a huge Belmo fan even though I am a fellow 2 hander.  That being said; I think the negative comments about him are a little ridiculous.  The guy made a mistake a couple years ago.  Big whoop!!!  He hasnt repeated it since.  He does all this great work off the lanes with Diandra and helping kids with promoting the sport of bowling.  He has really tried to personify a positive attitude on the telecasts and yet just because some of us cant get over our personal feelings about what happened with bottlegate, we cant let it go.  Who are we to judge about some stupid smirk when half of us have done 10 times worse in a measly $20/week league?  At some point we need to get over it.  How many of us would have had the attitude he had after losing in the title match of a major?  So far he is the only person I have seen that has really acted like that after losing.  Personally I think we should give the guy some credit.  He smirked in the match against P-Dub.  But we only seem to mention the smirking in the match against Rash.  Makes no sense.

Yeah, I gotta agree with this post most... & to some point, Doom's. 

I think "the smirk" started after Belmonte struck a few & Rash was struggling, Rash decided to "clean the approach" with his foot...  I think Belmonte felt that Rash was making an excuse, as I did as well, & maybe was also trying to get into Belmonte's head because that was the same area Belmo was sliding...  Just my opion watching it live.  Then again, I was looking for anything that looked like "drama" between the 2, LoL!!
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Re: Rash vs Belmonte
« Reply #19 on: April 01, 2013, 10:24:40 AM »
The smirk started with the first ball of the match against rash and yes he also did it vs weber.  I already stated that he said he tries to have fun on tv now, which he thinks will help him bowl better.  But I just felt it didn't come off as someone having fun.  It just made him look like a cocky jerk IMO. 

And its more than just the 1 bottle incident vs Angelo.  You have the bottle incident vs Rash as well, plus the problem recently w/ Machuga.  And there was the other incident vs rash where Rash was on the approach needing a X to make TV and Belmonte stood up and let his chair crash back into the table.  Rash stepped off the approach, and when he stepped back up, belmonte was hopping up and down for no apparant reason, other than to possibly distract Rash.  This video was on youtube, posted by one of the PBA guys, but it was recently taken down.

So to say it was 1 incident is completely false.  Once or twice could be a coincidence.  But 4 incidents?
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Re: Rash vs Belmonte
« Reply #20 on: April 01, 2013, 10:50:21 AM »
Hey bowlalltime, are you Sean Rash...?   :D  :P
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Re: Rash vs Belmonte
« Reply #21 on: April 01, 2013, 11:09:52 AM »
Quote from: Monster Pike on April 01, 2013, 10:50:21 AM
Hey bowlalltime, are you Sean Rash...?   :D  :P

haha, no.  Not a fan of either.  I just see it like it is. 
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Re: Rash vs Belmonte
« Reply #22 on: April 01, 2013, 12:10:07 PM »
Quote from: bowlallthetime on April 01, 2013, 11:09:52 AM
Quote from: Monster Pike on April 01, 2013, 10:50:21 AM
Hey bowlalltime, are you Sean Rash...?   :D  :P

haha, no.  Not a fan of either.  I just see it like it is. 

I'm not either, though I lean to Storm...  And I see it like it is too... guess we don't see the same things... LoL!!
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Re: Rash vs Belmonte
« Reply #23 on: April 01, 2013, 03:31:00 PM »
A smirk?  No, doesn't anyone remember the Masters?  It wasn't that long ago.  Belmo said "I'm going to smile at the world and hope it smiles back"  He was just doing everything he did when he won the Masters. 

Jeez, the guy is happy and smiling and people look all kinds of ways into it.

I attended an IAB Bootcamp and got a chance to sit down and talk to him, he's a very down to earth guy.
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Re: Rash vs Belmonte
« Reply #24 on: April 01, 2013, 09:43:22 PM »
I can't believe this. You guys are whining because of the way Belmo looked after throwing shots. You guys are a bunch of Wuuusssies.

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Re: Rash vs Belmonte
« Reply #25 on: April 01, 2013, 09:55:27 PM »
I don't know about you guys, but I'd be smiling pretty big if I made it on T.V. Iunno, I'm a glass half full kinda guy, though.
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Re: Rash vs Belmonte
« Reply #26 on: April 01, 2013, 10:56:32 PM »
I saw it as a smirk too, but he started to smirk more when Rash kept cutting in front of him after his 2nd shots; Belmo stayed back and let Rash do that. Reminded me of the outrage when A-Fraud cut across the mound and Dallas Braden called him out on it. I took the smile on Belmo's face after that to mean he knew he was living rent free in Rash's head. That smile was much less evident in the title match, partly due to PDW getting ahead quick, partly due to the stakes being higher I'm sure.
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Re: Rash vs Belmonte
« Reply #27 on: April 02, 2013, 09:30:42 AM »
If someone called me a bitch on national TV, I'd smile in his face every time I destroyed him on the lanes too.  Passive aggressiveness won again.
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Re: Rash vs Belmonte
« Reply #28 on: April 02, 2013, 11:21:41 AM »
Quote from: DP3 on April 02, 2013, 09:30:42 AM
If someone called me a bitch on national TV, I'd smile in his face every time I destroyed him on the lanes too.  Passive aggressiveness won again.

LoL!!  Well said, DP3.
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Re: Rash vs Belmonte
« Reply #29 on: April 02, 2013, 11:43:05 AM »
he kept smiling cuz he was having fun waxing the floor with rash i mean this rivalry is one sided rash hates and wants to beats belmo so bad he tries to hard and ends up bowling like shit and thats what has happened everytime since there little incident it is clearly affecting rash and not belmo
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Re: Rash vs Belmonte
« Reply #30 on: April 02, 2013, 03:27:03 PM »
You guys go ahead and jump behind Belmo and believe every word he says  in the interview....I mean if Belmo was being a complete douche do you think he would admit to it in an interview.

Interesting that Sara Rash had a very different take on Belmo's words on Facebook today....remember there are 2 sides.
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