Greenday
07-03-2013, 11:57 AM
Last night, had my Tuesday Trios league. I got to our pair of lanes before my teammates did so I decided to chat with one of the guys we'd be bowling against. Immediately he started bitching about handicaps and how unfair handicaps are for good bowlers (We do 85% of 220). That I'll understand what he's talking about if I ever become a good bowler (Dick). How you shouldn't win games if you can't win it scratch. Etc. etc.. Really pissed me off. I was telling him how I keep going up against subs who then bowl a bunch of 260s, 270s and there's little I can do about it. So what does he do? He purposely puts his sub in against me to try to get in my head. Well screw him, we get to change our lineup second since we were on the right lane first. We change our lineup so I bowl anchor against him. (We also get points for individual games and series)
First game, I bowl a 214, he bowls a 204.
Second game, I bowl a 214, he bowls a 197.
Third game, I bowl a 193, he bowls a 230.
Fourth game, I bowled a 205, he bowled a 201.
So in the end, we took a total of 21 of 26 points and I beat him scratch three out of four games. He was furious. He then backtracked and said I was a good bowler and definitely had the potential to become great, but the other guys on my team aren't any good. This made me super pissed off. He said it right in front of one of my teammates (Who has a 209 average). So I laid into him. Our third came into the league with a 155 average. His average is up to 187 right now and he's been holding up his end of the team. The guy with a 209 average (Highest on our team) really knows his stuff, he just needs some minor tweaks and to gain more confidence in playing different lines. And I told him clearly he's not the great bowler he thinks he is because he just got beat scratch by some bowler with a 193 average when he has a 219 average and I haven't even been bowling seriously for a year.
He just shut up at that point and left. Felt good. Go join a scratch league at a different house if you hate bowling against people of varying ability so much.
First game, I bowl a 214, he bowls a 204.
Second game, I bowl a 214, he bowls a 197.
Third game, I bowl a 193, he bowls a 230.
Fourth game, I bowled a 205, he bowled a 201.
So in the end, we took a total of 21 of 26 points and I beat him scratch three out of four games. He was furious. He then backtracked and said I was a good bowler and definitely had the potential to become great, but the other guys on my team aren't any good. This made me super pissed off. He said it right in front of one of my teammates (Who has a 209 average). So I laid into him. Our third came into the league with a 155 average. His average is up to 187 right now and he's been holding up his end of the team. The guy with a 209 average (Highest on our team) really knows his stuff, he just needs some minor tweaks and to gain more confidence in playing different lines. And I told him clearly he's not the great bowler he thinks he is because he just got beat scratch by some bowler with a 193 average when he has a 219 average and I haven't even been bowling seriously for a year.
He just shut up at that point and left. Felt good. Go join a scratch league at a different house if you hate bowling against people of varying ability so much.