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Title: scroggins remark???
Post by: Brian362 on November 26, 2006, 11:48:30 PM
I've seen this referenced and I didn't want to thread jack....so could someone elaborate on this??? I'm assuming it happened last season....Thanks.
Title: Re: scroggins remark???
Post by: Phoneman on November 27, 2006, 08:06:20 AM
he made a comment on TV after he threw a shot "threw that like a league bowler"  it was a bad shot.
Title: Re: scroggins remark???
Post by: shelley on November 27, 2006, 08:06:26 AM
It was during the 2005 USBC Masters, which he won.  He was in the middle of a big string of strikes and threw a really bad shot.  He got lucky and it carried, but then says "I threw that one like a league bowler."  The implication being that league bowlers can't throw the ball well.  Since then, he's had terrible luck on TV.

SH
Title: Re: scroggins remark???
Post by: Fluff E Bunnie on November 27, 2006, 08:24:39 AM
Ouch.  Way to offend the viewing audience.  The only way to correct this would be to throw a 300 game on TV and say:

Yes!  I threw that like a league bowler!


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Title: Re: scroggins remark???
Post by: J_Mac on November 27, 2006, 04:32:06 PM
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Ouch.  Way to offend the viewing audience.  The only way to correct this would be to throw a 300 game on TV and say:

Yes!  I threw that like a league bowler!


I don't even think that would really smooth things over much...  Sometimes it's better just to keep your mouth shut rather than opening it and removing all doubt of your idiocy.
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Title: Re: scroggins remark???
Post by: Tweener92 on November 27, 2006, 06:02:19 PM
I still think the whole thing was blown out of proportion.
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Title: Re: scroggins remark???
Post by: Rileybowler on November 27, 2006, 06:05:07 PM
He laughed when he said it no big deal
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Title: Re: scroggins remark???
Post by: J_Mac on November 27, 2006, 06:12:28 PM
These guys are good... but why does the PBA choose to trim a couple inches off the ends of their buffing tubes?  Maybe that's why bowlers like Norm Duke and WRW Jr. migrate to the "twig".
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Title: Re: scroggins remark???
Post by: Scolai on November 27, 2006, 06:18:42 PM
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What makes this sad is it's probably true. Pro's don't (or at least not suppose to) throw bad shots, but they still do.

PBIII, threw a horrible shot and left a split that cost him the match. He certainly threw that like a league bowler..

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But unlike a league bowler, PBIII converted the split.  Granted he still lost the match, but the conversion is something I rarely see by league bowlers.
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Title: Re: scroggins remark???
Post by: Fluff E Bunnie on November 28, 2006, 09:24:52 AM
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But unlike a league bowler, PBIII converted the split.  Granted he still lost the match, but the conversion is something I rarely see by league bowlers.


That conversion was very hot.

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Title: Re: scroggins remark???
Post by: KDawg77 on November 28, 2006, 09:28:30 AM
Well, Scroggs may be on tour, but he still looks and rolls like a league bowler. That being said, there are no style points in bowling.
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Title: Re: scroggins remark???
Post by: DP3 on November 28, 2006, 09:34:52 AM
Scroggs can say whatever he wants.  He did have the nationwide high league average record at one point in time with like a 256.  So I think he knows all about how a league bowler would throw it lol.  Some nights, I'm so bad I wish I could throw it like a league bowler.
Title: Re: scroggins remark???
Post by: Mike Austin on November 29, 2006, 11:02:03 AM
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It was during the 2005 USBC Masters, which he won.  He was in the middle of a big string of strikes and threw a really bad shot.  He got lucky and it carried, but then says "I threw that one like a league bowler."  The implication being that league bowlers can't throw the ball well.  Since then, he's had terrible luck on TV.

SH



He says that he threw it like a league bowler, he missed his target, the ball was probably a good 5 boards outside his intended target and it came back and struck high flush.  Wasn't any luck and carry.  He did what we all do in league, what I'm gonna do in my league tonight, miss by a bunch and strike alot.  The difference is he knows when he misses, many league bowlers think they still made a good shot.

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Title: Re: scroggins remark???
Post by: janderson on November 29, 2006, 04:03:11 PM
If it makes you feel better, the next time you flag a 7-pin, say "I threw that like Mike Scroggins"
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Title: Re: scroggins remark???
Post by: no300tj on November 29, 2006, 04:59:45 PM
A few years ago, a friend and I were practicing and talking about posting the shot. He says " Just pretend you are bowling on TV. You don't want to look like a jackass bowling on TV." We still get some good laughs on that one.
Title: Re: scroggins remark???
Post by: scotts33 on November 29, 2006, 11:52:04 PM
If, we ONLY could hear what PGA players say in a tournament.  

I have been close to many tour players.  Ya'll would be flabbergasted if these icons of pro sports were mic'ed.  It wouldn't be pretty and the PGA knows this and doesn't allow it.


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Title: Re: scroggins remark???
Post by: Walking E on November 30, 2006, 07:06:52 PM
It looked to me like Scroggins' ball was DOA on a lot of shots, and the results proved it (the weak 7-10, weak 7's). Still, I liked the way the Storm equipment reacted for him, but I think he needed to try and get more oopmh on the ball and not just let it do all the work for him. It works for him a lot to let the ball do all the work (some would call it fluffing), so I'm not second guessing his usual approach (he's done quite well to get on TV so many times), but sometimes you gotta crank it up a notch and Sunday was one of those days, from what I could see.
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