Timmyb's scores

[Timmyb]

Another typical week at Lucky Lanes, where we play "what did they put down this week"....

169/211/161 = 541. Another 8 10-pins (missed 4, dammit), bring the 10 week long season total to 60. Also looked at 6 4-pins as well. The general consensus across the league this week was "WTF". It wears on you when you hit shot after shot, with little reward. One guy 2 pairs over left 14 10-pins. The staff has taken to hiding in the back, only coming out to the counter if they need to fix something. I'm hearing the grumbling is taking place in all the other leagues as well. These people just bought the place 2 years ago. Not how you want to run a bowling alley. Average drops back to 207.

[J Anderson]

At the clinic I attended a week and a half ago one of the other attendees was showing a print out of the oil pattern his local center puts down for one of his leagues to all of the pros. the reaction of all 6 of them, from Packy Hanrahan to Kris Prather was 'WTF is the owner of the lanes trying to do?' I think they all suggested an area where to play it, but thought it was insane to use for a non sport league.

[Timmyb]

I think they all suggested an area where to play it, but thought it was insane to use for a non sport league.

If they are changing the shot every week, and treating this like a sport league, that would be news to all of us. We thought we signed up for a Monday 3-man scratch. Even the league secretary, who's been an absolute apologist for the house, has been bitching. Monday's shot felt more like they just pushed around the shot from the previous league. I had a lot of smears that were super hard to clean off, almost gummy, but not black.

[Timmyb]

Another crap night at The House of Crap.

183/188/193 = 564. 4 opens on the night (2-5 chop, 7 pin, 4-5-7, and a 6-7-10). Last game was clean. 8 strikes the entire night, with only 2 in that last game. Constantly hitting the pocket, with little to no reward, really wears on you. But hey, only 22 weeks of league left.....Average drops again to 205. But, only 2 10 pins this week.....

[boatman37]

Same. rough night here

[Timmyb]

Monday night on the worst pair at Lucky, 15 & 16. Better night. Not great, but better.

207/180/228 = 615. Let's start with only 7 10-pins tonight (made all). Last time on this pair it was 11. Games 1 & 3 were clean. Game 2 got marred by a 4-9 (not deserved), and a Big 4 (richly deserved). Longest string on the night was 4. Again, it wears on you when you keep hitting your marks, with little to no reward. Even the secretary on the other team, who's been the biggest supporter of the house so far, is saying he's not likely to come back next year. Apparently him and the manager had words after last week's ****show. He's not giving an inch, saying he likes the shot, and it's staying. We'll see how that works when you're not filling the league. Average stays 205.

[boatman37]

sounds similar to my night. 7 pin mania

[Timmyb]

A lot to unload here, so let's start with the disappointing parts. Final scores were finally posted for the Milwaukee area seniors singles/doubles tournament. I took 2nd place in both the scratch and handicap singles divisions, 50-59. Got beat in scratch 740-736. That one I'll take, once I looked at the guy's stats on bowl.com, and realized he's nearly a legend. The harder one to swallow is the handicap division. Guy comes in the last week of the tournament, shoots a 672 (roughly 130 pins over his lifetime average). Couple that with 137 pins of handicap, and beats me 809-776 (I had 40 total handicap). I get that it's handicap, but sometimes you just wanna call bull****....

Monday's league scores--

226/205/266 = 697. Strikes make the difference. I had the same amount of opens (2) as last week, but shot 82 higher in series. Whiffed one 10-pin, and left a well-deserved 6-7-10, which may have been my only bad shot of the night. Still leaving waaaaaay too many 10-pin leaves (7 on the night). Most of us are starting to feel that the side walls are dead in this place, especially when we watch high flush hits that would normally obliterate a 10-pin just fall off. It's obviously not something they're going to fix mid-season, and that's possibly going to cost them some teams to other houses with better maintenance programs. That's their loss. Average ticks up to 207.

[Aslan]

Still leaving waaaaaay too many 10-pin leaves (7 on the night).

Jeezus H. Kriste!!
If I left that many 10-pins...with my abysmal spare shooting...I'd be lucky to break 500.

And its frustrating. Because the difference between a 520 series and 720 series can sometimes just be a matter of that 10-pin falling over or not.

Not to mention you hit the pocket flush...leave a 10-pin...then some numbskull with a 148 average goes through nose and they all fall down.

[Timmyb]

Jeezus H. Kriste!!
If I left that many 10-pins...with my abysmal spare shooting...I'd be lucky to break 500.

I'm 64/77 on 10 pins so far this year. Would like that to be better.