I raise a s**t storm if someone even thinks about moving or making a noise while I'm on the approach. And let there be hell if other people even think about bowling on any of the other 31 lanes when I am up.
How much trash talking is present in your leagues.
I bowl in a couple of leagues, both are handicap and both have a higher than average league average for this area.
In the wed night league there is a little trash talk, but not a great deal of it.
The fri morning league is another story, there are even more high avg bowlers in the league and it's smaller with 3 man teams and there is considerable good natured trash talk going on all the time, I don't mind it as it's pretty entertaining.
I've noticed it even softens up some of the super high strung guys who seem to easily get pissed off to get them involved in the talk.
How much trash talk goes on in your leagues and how is it viewed.
I raise a s**t storm if someone even thinks about moving or making a noise while I'm on the approach. And let there be hell if other people even think about bowling on any of the other 31 lanes when I am up.
Two different scratch leagues that I've bowled are both very different. I think size has a big impact on the amount of trash talking. One has 24 teams and has limited trash talking. With 24 teams you don't get to know everyone super well so you don't know how certain people will react.
The other is a 12 team league that has a ton of good natured trash talking. It makes the league a lot of fun and definitely does soften up some people who are typically high strung, just don't ever miss a 5 pin.
Trash talk in my day was handled with action or pot games after the league. I used to bowl action in many neighborhood houses, that was back in the wood and plastic era when a 185+ average was a good bowler. I think in the old PBA 190 for 2 years qualified you for pro.
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As long as you don't really mean it you can say anything. Don't be a PDW unless you smile when you get back to the table or your little turd *** might get flushed down the toilet.
Tons of trash talk in my league. From my teammates and other teams. Nothing terrible but it's constant. I don't mind it. I won't start it but I'll sling it back when it's called for
It varies depending on which team we are bowling against. My team is full of talkers, but who we are talking too and about can vary quite a bit. One week, against a team that we don't know as well, we will spend most of our time trash talking each other. The next week, against a team that we are pretty good buddies with, we will be trash talking them. The talk never stops, we just make sure that we are always trying to direct it towards people who appreciate being a part of it.
Peter David Weber or Pi ss Drinking Whore ?Originally Posted by fordman1
No matter, it's all in fun, and you can mean it, as long as you act like you don't !
I generally play off someone else's comment or refer to something besides bowling skill related items, I'm not a good enough bowler to go there very often.....
I once threw off a much higher average bowler and beat him all 4 games when he inquired / touched my ball and I accused him of putting a chip in it and curse on it....nicely of course...the way it worked he was laughing so hard he couldn't bowl and every time he looked over at me it started again.
Most of the time it's good natured, and a decent amount in my competitive league. Next to none in mixed.
I say most is good natured, the exception being last night when the other team's captain (big, hulking guy) didn't want to start OR blind his absent bowlers, instead saying "we're all going to wait"... to which our captain said no, blind them and we can unblind when they get here - they have 4 frames to come. The other guy got loud and heated and started talking about fighting (literally, like outside). Worth it to note that about 15 years ago the same guy apparently got kicked out of the league for starting a fight. Some people never get past age 12 mentally I guess. It was just really odd, situation was defused pretty quickly and the night went fine but yeesh.
I assume this is all tongue-in-cheek because this is not what I think of as "trash talking". Insisting on complete silence and 31 lane courtesy is just plain ridiculous.
John
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