I Hate Pre-bowling

[vdubtx]

Our teams just prefer to bowl the missing as a blind, but more often than not we just get a sub. Too many peoples' schedules to consider moving our "entire" league night to satisfy one bowler. Not gonna happen.

[MICHAEL]

Our teams just prefer to bowl the missing as a blind, but more often than not we just get a sub. Too many peoples' schedules to consider moving our "entire" league night to satisfy one bowler. Not gonna happen.

you are absolutely right on with your thoughts in regards to too many people have many different schedules, and other things that come up!


I think the reason they DO allow it in the league rules is to satisfy some bowlers that might not bowl on league do to cercimstanceses they have no control over! Work, Kids, School Functions, ect ect.

Biker Larry that I bowled with last year, had A work Issue every other week, so he had to prebowl, he usually did it the same day we had our regularly scheduled Thursday night meeting, he would just stick around and do it after our league. A lot of leagues around here are very flexible, do in part to the huge decline in bowlers compared to years gone by!!

I personally don't have a problem with Pre-bowling,,, its an honor system, and most people are fair about the cheating they do when not supervised!

O,, I kid the Pre bowlers, they are the reason Hell was created by the lord! ( The cheating ONES)!!



"O lord, says the guy in the back with his arms out stretched to the heavens,,, PLEASE Forgive me for Pre-bowling that day back in November of 1999!! I had no idea that it would get me here!!
Hell, if I had it all to do over again,,, I would have added even more points to my score, for I am a sinner lord,,,, PLEASE FORGIVE ME! Was it really my fault,,, Lucifer made me do it!!

[Aslan]

I personally don't have a problem with Pre-bowling,,, its an honor system, and most people are fair about the cheating they do when not supervised!

That is in direct conflict with your feelings about the VBT.

[Mike White]

That is in direct conflict with your feelings about the VBT.

His original complaint was the handicap.

Then he was worried about cheating.

Tomorrow it will be because we aren't bowling on wood each month.

[ALazySavage]

My main problem is that pre-bowling can very easily turn into a lottery ticket of what condition the pre-bowling team gets to bowl on. If the center does not regulate the pre-bowl you can get a multitude of conditions to bowl on. In my limited pre-bowling experience I have seen both sides of this; I have had a session that I got stuck with heavy carrydown and the entire mess that follows a group of people all using house balls (a shot that ended up being much more difficult than a typical house shot) and shot terrible, but on the other end I have also seen a shot that I felt I had the most obscene wall to bump my shot off of (and pretty much knew we were sweeping that week).

[rv driver]

The leagues I've been on didn't have "pre-bowling" and "post-bowling." If you had to miss league, you missed.

[Blacksox1]

post bowling > pre-bowling.

[circlecity]

I'm not a fan of pre bowling. Last night in league the opposing team pre bowled. There are more negatives than positives for the team that showed up in my opinion.

[MICHAEL]

That is in direct conflict with your feelings about the VBT.

NO its not!! Read what I typed closely,,, FAIR about their cheating!! ICEMAN never cheats, but non-super-hero's, but mere mortals do! I see it all the time on the highways... People passing me like I am standing still, while I am going the speed limit! Law abiding citizens cheating on the highways of life! If you do it on the highway, well its just a short leap to pre-bowling!!!

[Mike White]

NO its not!! Read what I typed closely,,, FAIR about their cheating!! ICEMAN never cheats, but non-super-hero's, but mere mortals do! I see it all the time on the highways... People passing me like I am standing still, while I am going the speed limit! Law abiding citizens cheating on the highways of life! If you do it on the highway, well its just a short leap to pre-bowling!!!

Well in a way you could say that non-sport condition bowling is cheating.

If the BPAA hadn't pressured the ABC (now USBC) into relaxing the oil pattern rules, any 300 score shot on a THS would be declared illegal.

When is the last time ANY score has been tossed due to oil?

The wall of oil can make bowlers appear more accurate, and reactive bowling balls can make the bowler appear to throw the ball more fundamentally sound than they do.

The integrity of the game as gone out the window.

To use your highway analogy, people are no longer speeding, because they removed the speed limits.