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General Category => PBA => Topic started by: spencerwatts on December 21, 2014, 01:08:47 PM
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I can believe what I just did: Fell asleep during the title match between Connor Pickford and Mika Koivuniemi. I woke up as Koivuniemi threw his fill ball in the 12th.
What does it mean to me?
ESPN bowling telecasts are BORING even with a faster one-game eliminator among three bowlers and a one-game title match format. It's been that way for me since the late 1990s whenever I have tuned in to them.
I'm better off waiting for them on Xtra Frame or YouTube.
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PERHAPS that's what the PBA is trying to do .. get more bowlers to join XFRAMES .. instead of paying to show they can get paid to show .. PERHAPS!
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And yet the camera's used on xtra frame are a joke. Throw backs to the 80's.That with bad angles, makes for more nap time !
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I just watched the show.
Personally, if these were the finalists,
I would rather have watched matches between Mika and Barret
and then between Ronny and Mika and then between Ronny and Barrett
with the winner playing Conner, who has a freaking lot of revs, not all to the good.
God, but he has a lot of ball speed.'
Odd that the stroker, Mika, won. NOT!
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I just watched the show.
Personally, if these were the finalists,
I would rather have watched matches between Mika and Barret
and then between Ronny and Mika and then between Ronny and Barrett
with the winner playing Conner, who has a freaking lot of revs, not all to the good.
God, but he has a lot of ball speed.'
Odd that the stroker, Mika, won. NOT!
Except Connor beat Mika up and down the lanes for 14 games before the tv finals. That would be a much better judge of how they bowled than a one game bowl off, wouldn't it?
It had nothing to do with him being a stroker, and everything to do with experience.
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I just watched the show.
Personally, if these were the finalists,
I would rather have watched matches between Mika and Barret
and then between Ronny and Mika and then between Ronny and Barrett
with the winner playing Conner, who has a freaking lot of revs, not all to the good.
God, but he has a lot of ball speed.'
Odd that the stroker, Mika, won. NOT!
Except Connor beat Mika up and down the lanes for 14 games before the tv finals. That would be a much better judge of how they bowled than a one game bowl off, wouldn't it?
But that's not how the finals of a PBA tournament work, is it?
It had nothing to do with him being a stroker, and everything to do with experience.
I disagree.
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lanes looked tricky, Mika made the better shots when he had to.
Norm is the same way, when the lanes get tougher, those experienced guys seem to rise above
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Mika kept it in play, broke up 3 possible splits including the strike that was flush in the 1-5 pocket. Then he threw it perfect in the 10th when he had to. Parlaying your breaks into good shots later usually wins it in a 1 game format. Connor Pickford was very impressive though.
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I just watched the show.
Personally, if these were the finalists,
I would rather have watched matches between Mika and Barret
and then between Ronny and Mika and then between Ronny and Barrett
with the winner playing Conner, who has a freaking lot of revs, not all to the good.
God, but he has a lot of ball speed.'
Odd that the stroker, Mika, won. NOT!
Except Connor beat Mika up and down the lanes for 14 games before the tv finals. That would be a much better judge of how they bowled than a one game bowl off, wouldn't it?
But that's not how the finals of a PBA tournament work, is it?
It had nothing to do with him being a stroker, and everything to do with experience.
I disagree.
The TV finals are one game of the 15 he bowled. How exactly does a one game roll off prove Mika won because he's a stroker, when the other 14 games say otherwise?
Mika won DESPITE being a stroker, because he's a very very very very good stroker. No other stroker even sniffed the show.