I'm late to the party it seems. But let me add this:
Re-oiling after every game is stupid. Adjusting to the changing shot is a big part of bowling and should not be lost. Plus, it takes away from the "fairness" some of you are looking for. Every house has it's own topography. From when the lanes were built and how they have changed from years (or decades in some cases) of play. This factors into how the ball reacts. If you reoil, you could give one side, or the other an even greater advantage. And let's not even discuss the cost of oil needed to do that. Let's just agree this is something to forget.
Practice time before a show. It has always amazed me the amount of practice time the PBA bowlers received on the TV pair prior to the start of competition. In the past, the bowling balls would not make that much of an impact on the pattern, even with time. But today's balls can blow open a pattern in a matter of minutes. Add in the TV lights and the heat they generate and you can easily destroy a pattern. Limiting this time, as has been mentioned here a few times is a good thing. But it won't stop them from changing the shot based on today's balls and the added help the lights give. It's going to happen. The people who deal with it best will win.
What you saw here goes back to a topic in the USBC section around working together. When you have bowlers with different styles all trying to do their own thing, you wind up making the pattern play harder than it should. That is what happened on the right side here. If the 3 right handers would have worked together, they could have broken the lanes down in a more controlled fashion and perhaps given themselves a better look. There have been many times where Randy has spoken about how the righties talked before the show and tried to work together in order to not make it so easy on the one or two lefties on the show. They want to work together so they don't interfere with each other and create an incredibly hard scoring pattern. The bowler, no matter which hand they throw with, still need to execute and make good shots, but they aren't hindering themselves from the start.
Lastly, how many people remember a few years ago, when the lefties were dominating. PA, Jason Couch, Parker Bohn seemed to be on TV every week. The next year, I think there was only 1 lefty that made a TV show. Since then, the PBA has done a good job of putting out as fair a shot as possible when it comes to right vs. left. If the PBA was trying to make anything happen, it would be to have Belmo on every single show, as he is the bowler they are trying to make the face of the PBA. So those of you who think there is really some conspiracy going on here, I have got one thing to say to you......get real, grow up, and stop whining about something you obviously know nothing about.
Now back to your regularly scheduled insanity
