Dumping sandbagging whatever

[Ball99999]

15 a week is cheap compared to here most leagues are 20-30 a week....whats your prize fund?

I figure ~20 people * 30 weeks * $3.40 for the prize fund = probably around $2000.

[billf]

15 a week is cheap compared to here most leagues are 20-30 a week....whats your prize fund?

My three leagues are $13, $12 & $12. $8.50 each for lineage. $30 each a week I wouldn't be able to bowl so much. Prize fund for second place last year was $90. It sucks but worth not having to take a loan out to bowl lol

[billf]

I sandbagged a league five years ago. Since then I've broken my bowling thumb two straight years, broke my bowling wrist and was blind for 14 months. Hopefully the bowling Gods consider us even and will finally let me bowl a season without a major injury.
Yes, I learned my sandbagging lesson. I've struggled the last five years to get my average back to where it was then. What I sandbagged down to become the norm.

[MICHAEL]

I sandbagged a league five years ago. Since then I've broken my bowling thumb two straight years, broke my bowling wrist and was blind for 14 months. Hopefully the bowling Gods consider us even and will finally let me bowl a season without a major injury.
Yes, I learned my sandbagging lesson. I've struggled the last five years to get my average back to where it was then. What I sandbagged down to become the norm.

Wow Wild Bill blind for 14 months!!!! What caused that!! I have had my share of broken bones, including my right thumb, but BLIND!! What happened!!
(if you don't mind me asking)

[AngeloPD]

Those league fee are hella cheap Bill! my tueday night league is $20 a week!

[edpup316]

My three leagues are $13, $12 & $12. $8.50 each for lineage. $30 each a week I wouldn't be able to bowl so much. Prize fund for second place last year was $90. It sucks but worth not having to take a loan out to bowl lol

I wish my league fees looked like that. I bowl three nights a week at $23, $24 and $17. almost ended up bowling a fourth but realized my arm would fall off and my wallet would be empty.

[billf]

Our lineage fees have been the same for the last three years along with the league fees. County unemployment is currently as 18% and sure to keep climbing as manufacturing jobs continue to dry up. Other than factories and farms there isn't much else out here. Luckily the Honda plant and Honda transmission plant are back to full schedules. That Tsunami that hit Japan really hurt the local economy in West Central Ohio. The local company that makes the turbines for turbos is down to working 2 1/2 days a week. I don't see them staying open much longer.
Here's one that will really make you guys cry. I live in a big, old, farm house. I mow 5 acres with 165 acres of farmland. I pay $900 a month in rent and that includes electric and heat! Now that's damn cheap. When I moved here from South of Boston I couldn't believe how low the cost of living was here. But the pay is lower too, for most jobs.

[billf]

Mike, are you getting that old that you don't remember asking me about my eye several months ago? Metal tore through my right eye at work, born blind in the left. Ring a bell?

[MICHAEL]

Mike, are you getting that old that you don't remember asking me about my eye several months ago? Metal tore through my right eye at work, born blind in the left. Ring a bell?

Yes, Bill I am getting old!! By the day!! To answer your question, NO I don't remember! Add dementia to the list! Bill if you were born blind in the left eye, and metal tore through your right eye, how in the hell do you see??? Do you use a sonar device inplanted in your forehead?? Wow!!
I grew up in the country myself during my early years! In fact, my realitives ran with the James gang here in Kearney Mo. One was hung, for helping Jesse excape from a local farm here in town. The rope broke the first attempt, didn't upon second one! Our family farm was just across the way from the James Farm. ( Just a little history)!! My uncle Cleave, had a dairy farm, Fresh milk every day that he would deliver. Top 1/4 of the glass bottles was cream!! Great stuff!! Good Old Days!!

[chrono00]

i remembered the metal through the eye story (work injury right), but didn't know you were born blind in the left. is that permanent, or did you ever recover any sight in the left?

and mike, he doesn't need the eyes to bowl. if you forget the blind story, you probably forgot the story of how he still bowled while blind. a friend would lead him up to the correct spot on the approach and he would go from there.

you did pretty good too right?