Beat a guy in a cash match, then he tried to fight me.

[MisterSinister]

So there is a guy in my league that is very outspoken, and hates my style. I am a two finger bowler, and he says we have no idea what we are doing. He calls us idiots, and is generaly insulting. So I told him to bowl me for cash, and we will see who knows what they are doing. He has a higher average that me, but at this point I beleived I was better. Well I was correct. I laid the smack down on him. It was a 3 game match, scratch, total wood wins $50. I beat him by 20 or more all three games. During the last game he was cursing at me, trying to distract me. I kept my cool, but when time came to pay up, he just threw the money in my bag and told me to "F off." He said just because I won doesn't prove anything. I said it proves I have his $50, and I'm gonna go get some beer, and I offered to buy a round for him as well. That set him off, and he came up to me and got chest to chest and said I was a punk. He tried to provoke me into hitting him, told me to come out the parking lot. I wasn't afraid of him, I've beaten down guys bigger than him, recently in fact, but I didn't want to fight him at the bowling alley. Eventualy the staff came over and got between us. He is now banned from the league, and the bowling alley for at least a month. Talk about a poor sport. I've never seen anything like it before. Why hate on someone else's style, especially to the point you want to fight them? I love bowling, and I love all styles. I love to see guys with a huge backswing, and smooth delivery. I love the raw power of the two handers. I love my style, a little mix of the two styles. This guy picked on me just because of my style, it's so sad what's going on with all the crybabies in bowling these days.

[Davec13]

When alcohol, testosterone, and cash get involved all at once bad things tend to happen. You did the right thing by staying calm, but in the future you should think twice about putting money on a game. There are a few people on various nights that i can bet a buck a strike or lowest pin count buys a drink and that's about the extent of it. No need to up the ante and cause a fuss over a game.

[Demoman]

I run into this type of behavior all of the time bowling because I throw a backup ball. Two weeks ago I was having a good night in league and this jerk was talking crap about how I throw the ball and giving me the finger and waving his hands behind my back on approach. I did not say a word to him and just finished off the night with our team winning all 4 games. I'm 6'2 and a former vigilante ( hells angles under mc) and could have broken this guys knees without blinking but I wouldn't even give him the time of day. There are many poor sportsman in every sport with big mouths and crappy lives. You did the right thing keeping your cool and for that I applaud you even more then beating his butt at bowling.

[AZBowla]

Wow, what a complete tool that guy was. Good for you for lightening his wallet by $50. If I were to have bowled you for cash and you won, I'd not only pay up with a handshake and a smile but I'd be the one offering to buy the first round. Bowling is supposed to be fun, after all.

[MisterSinister]

I've challenged a few guys who talked crap about my style before. No of them acted quite like this guy though. Some guys still had comments, especially the one who beat me, but in the end we were all cool. All the other guys, when I won I did on fact buy them a beer afterward. Of course, becuase they were humans, when I offered them a beer they didn't get insulted.

[billf]

You did the right thing. Some people just don't get it and never will. Others eventually see the light. Sounds like this jerk will always be in the dark.

[Derrick1183]

Getting upset like that just makes him look like an even bigger idiot. Great job on keeping cool. I dont know what i would have done.

[MisterSinister]

Like I said I can take care of myself if need be, but it's easy to relax when you have a friend who trains MMA sitting at the table watching.

[TheSheibs]

Wow. What an ***. Sorry for such a poor sportsmanship experience. If I had lost to you and you offered to buy me a drink, I would make it more than one drink to make you use that money you just won on my drinks. I would have ordered the most expensive drink they had. Haha...Would have been funny too. But I would have still talked **** just to mess with you. hahaha...

[Ball99999]

I'm thankful I have patience. I want to smack people everywhere I go lol.

[MICHAEL]

Now You know Why I don't drink!! Being a retired Ironworker, I had my share of guys that thought they could whip Godzilla when they were drunk. I do not go to any sporting event that has alcohol anymore! Went to a Chiefs game many years ago with my Son, and on the way out of the stadium there was a group of 3 drunks that were upset because of the loss. They thought that my son and me might be a good way to take their frustration out on someone! MISTAKE! It really didn’t even take that long before it was all over,, less than a minute! ( at that time I was early 30’s)

It makes me sick, that anymore, going to a football game, bowling there are people that can’t handle their liquor! I don’t drink, but I don’t mind others drinking if that’s what makes them happy! It’s the ones that get violent that are the problem! Those types can destroy a perfectly great evening at any sporting event! It’s funny how we have this ( DRUG WAR), but by far the most dangerous drug of all is alcohol! It kills more people each year, than all the others combined!

And no one drinks for the taste,, regardless of what they say in my opinion. They have Near Beer, without the alcohol,,, it’s the buzzzzzzzzz,…. Be honest!! Lol My Dad had a drinking problem, maybe that’s why I don’t drink at all, and my 3 boys don’t drink either! I get my buzzzzzzz many other ways,,, family, friends, and BOWLING!!! LOL

[MisterSinister]

There was no drinking involved in this match at all, well not until it was over. He wasn't all drunked up, and became a mean drunk. He was just a tool, sober.

[billf]

The one thing people need to remember, you don't know the other guy's background. He may know how to fight better than you and finding that out can literally, be deadly.
The local paper ran an article a few years ago listing all the residents that served in Spec Ops so those that read it know I was a Green Beret. They don't really know what that entailed. I was changing my shirt in the rest room one night (being a mechanic I get dirty) and a guy asked my daughter about my tattoos. She said the left side was for memorials and the right side military tats. He asked for more detail. She told him, the lower one was his call sign, the upper one (skulls tearing from the skin) is a skull for each country with a confirmed kill. That dude has not joked with me since. Before that I took his trash talk as just that, joking around. He never crossed the line to where I had to warn him. We get along fine but he is more careful now. But that was a lifetime ago. I wouldn't, unless I had to, do any of the things now that I did then. Now I spend my time trying to be a better person and repent for the sins I committed as a team sargeant. Just don't mistake kindness for weakness :O

[MisterSinister]

I agree, you never know who you are stepping to. You could be stepping to a guy who has had to fight his whole life for one reason or another. A guy who had knocked out countless guys who tough they were tough just cause thy are big. A guy who has sent guys to the hospital for messing with them. Or a guy who's best friend is a trained fighter, and police officer who is watching his back. You never know.

Same hold true for bowling. Don't judge someone because they don't use they're thumb, or they throw a backup ball. Just because you don't like it, or think it's funny looking, doesn't mean that person doesn't know how to bowl. This guy joined a list of 5 others who learned this lesson the hard way. Even the guy who beat me admitted I was better than he thought. He only won by 10 pins. He gave me my respect, and now he's been helping me get better. I told him I want a rematch soon, but instead we are going to team up to take money off of his other friends next week.

[vgw]

he's a loser, good job on taking his cash and showing him how to act with class.

[75lockwood]

I have to agree with bill, you must never assume you know who your dealing with, just because you think you could hold your own against somebody doesn't make it so, people with anger issue's can be dangerous. In the world we live in, physical state is meaningless, if you anger the wrong lunatic you could end up with a gun in your face.

[MisterSinister]

Or they may end up with a gun in thier face.

[billf]

Been shot a couple of times. I didn't like it.
When I was dating my current wife I told her that I have been shot. Then one day she points to one of the scars and asked, "what's that from?"
"I told you I was shot there."
"and it left a scar?" she said HERE'S YOUR SIGN
"umm, yeah" I said surprised at how naive she was

[75lockwood]

Been shot a couple of times. I didn't like it.

You mean you actually didn't enjoy being shot? and all these years i thought it would be fun. lol

[MisterSinister]

I consider myself lucky that in all my years I've never been shot of stabbed. I've been in too many fights in my life, in bars, clubs, the streets. When I turned 30 last year, I made a vow to myself that my fighting days are behind me. I have not been in a fight since then. Guys like this test my patience, and my dedication to my vow. It's like you guys saif, you never know who is going to pull a gun, or knife. About the worst I experienced was a few years ago. I got into a fight ay a bar near my house. The guy I fought was nothing, and he left a little bloody. He knew me a little, and knew I would be at the same bar the next day. Well, he showed up with two of his boys looking for a little payback. Thankfully, I had two of my boys with me, and they knew these guys that were coming after me. They managed to talk them out of there intentions. Never saw that guy again.

[americantrotter]

Good job in keeping out of a fight. It has no place in bowling.

Also nice to hear of someone learning the hard way that 2 finger bowling is a valid style. I don't do it anymore, but I will always root for those that do.

[MisterSinister]

So the league officials came to me last night and strongly recommend that I stop bowling people in my league for cash after our league night is over. They can't stop me, but would like it if I didn't do it anymore. I understand, and I probably will stop.

[75lockwood]

So the league officials came to me last night and strongly recommend that I stop bowling people in my league for cash after our league night is over. They can't stop me, but would like it if I didn't do it anymore. I understand, and I probably will stop.

I'd have to agree with this, yes i know how you felt and finally wanted to make him shut up but nothing good really can come from challenging a hothead to a cash match, either you loose and give him more to fuel to insult you or you win and annoy him leading to this outcome. a friendly wager that winner buys first round etc can be fine but high stakes to settle a score not so much.

(hindsight is 20/20) lol

[Rdmonster]

You're lucky he isn't a priest...you coulda pulled a real Munson there.

Tell me no one used that line yet...didnt read the whole thread.

[billf]

Why do your league officers even care? I'm really curious about this.

[MisterSinister]

Why do your league officers even care? I'm really curious about this.

That was my first thought. What I do after the games are over shouldn't matter to them in any way. It's probably because one of the officials, it was his teammate that I had this issue with. So he lost a teammate, and felt the need to take it out on me.

[billf]

We have a guy with a bad attitude. Always complaining, yelling and the like. The last time we bowled he was on the pair next to me. He bowled a 121 his first game and was all over his team for bad shots. He didn't even bowl the third game. Said he quit. I looked at him and said "Don't let the door hit you in the *** on your way out." Then I thought it was wrong for the league president to do that. After I had at least 8 people thank me for speaking up. Tomorrow night I will find out how serious he was. I had a replacement for him before the game was over.

There's a guy I have bowled with who now works at the center. I have been setting him up for weeks to bowl for cash. Dollar a pin, three game series. I figure I should win $100. He isn't that good but does get on some pretty good streaks. His goal is to try out for Team USA which makes everyone that knows him laugh. Nice goal but he is so far from being able to achieve it.