Verbal Irony: I love Senior Leagues!

[RobLV1]

One of the most wonderful things about modern bowling is the attitude that any ball that enters the one-three pocket (for right-handers) "DESERVES" to strike. This is rediculous! It's bad enough that most any modern bowling ball can get to the one-three pocket on a house shot, but to expect a strike is just out of control. Today in a trios league we bowled against a team where two of the three would b*tch and complain about any ball that didn't carry. One bowler in particular was using a very aggressive bowling ball and playing the second arrow for all four games. There was a flaming rooster tail following the ball for every weak ten he left. At one point he gave the finger to the ten pin that was left standing. What did the pin do, jump out of the way?

[rv driver]

That thought seems to go along with the growing sense of entitlement in this country in all other aspects of life. Everybody's due; everybody gets gipped.

[Amyers]

One of the most wonderful things about modern bowling is the attitude that any ball that enters the one-three pocket (for right-handers) "DESERVES" to strike. This is rediculous! It's bad enough that most any modern bowling ball can get to the one-three pocket on a house shot, but to expect a strike is just our of control. Today in a trios league we bowled against a team where two of the three would b*tch and complain about any ball that didn't carry. One bowler in particular was using a very aggressive bowling ball and playing the second arrow for all four games. There was a flaming rooster tail following the ball for every weak ten he left. At one point he gave the finger to the ten pin that was left standing. What did the pin do, jump out of the way?

That isn't just senior leagues I get that from my 8-12 year olds in junior league that I work with. Why that's what they see from thier parents.

[Mike White]

One of the most wonderful things about modern bowling is the attitude that any ball that enters the one-three pocket (for right-handers) "DESERVES" to strike. This is rediculous! It's bad enough that most any modern bowling ball can get to the one-three pocket on a house shot, but to expect a strike is just out of control. Today in a trios league we bowled against a team where two of the three would b*tch and complain about any ball that didn't carry. One bowler in particular was using a very aggressive bowling ball and playing the second arrow for all four games. There was a flaming rooster tail following the ball for every weak ten he left. At one point he gave the finger to the ten pin that was left standing. What did the pin do, jump out of the way?

It just shows that for some, "With age, comes wisdom" isn't true.

I have a friend who is fairly new to the game, and one day he was struggling with not carrying his "pocket hits".

I asked him to define what the pocket was.

He said, when the ball hits both the head pin, and the 3 pin.

I asked him when he goes thru the nose, and leaves the 4-6-7-10, was that a pocket shot, because the ball hit the 1 and the 3.

While he agrees that simply hitting the 1 and 3 isn't exactly the pocket, he still has a very broad idea of what is the pocket.

[Aslan]

While he agrees that simply hitting the 1 and 3 isn't exactly the pocket, he still has a very broad idea of what is the pocket.

When I used to keep track of pocket hits...it was difficult to decide on some shots whether it really hit "the pocket". At first I was very conservative about it and if it left anything or anything more than a corner pin...I figured it wasn't truly "pocket". But as time went on...I expanded it to anything that makes initial contact with the 1-pin and/or 3-pin (righty)...but I'd try to exclude shots too far left and through the nose...and I'd try to exclude shots that went into the 3-pin where the headpin barely got touched and knocked over (but did fall).

Pocket % is harder to measure than people think. You're 60ft away and in addition to trying to bowl well and stay focused on your effort...you gotta try to squint your eyes and figure out if you left the 6-10 on a pocket hit or a non-pocket hit.

[Mike White]

When I used to keep track of pocket hits...it was difficult to decide on some shots whether it really hit "the pocket". At first I was very conservative about it and if it left anything or anything more than a corner pin...I figured it wasn't truly "pocket". But as time went on...I expanded it to anything that makes initial contact with the 1-pin and/or 3-pin (righty)...but I'd try to exclude shots too far left and through the nose...and I'd try to exclude shots that went into the 3-pin where the headpin barely got touched and knocked over (but did fall).

Pocket % is harder to measure than people think. You're 60ft away and in addition to trying to bowl well and stay focused on your effort...you gotta try to squint your eyes and figure out if you left the 6-10 on a pocket hit or a non-pocket hit.

A loose definition of the pocket still requires the head pin to drive into the 2 pin, and the 3 pin to drive into the 6 pin.

So simply the fact that you left the 6-10 eliminates any need to squint.